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I'm Joe. What's your name? Chloe.

We got a clear shot out of here, Chloe.

Hey. | don't know if you remember me.

| had to bring these over to say, you know,

thank you for saving my life.

The department is having a charity picnic.

Yes. I'd love to.

NEWSCASTER: Welcome to the Windy City,

where the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers

meet in the next chapter of a rivalry that goes back almost a century.

soldier Field is always such a special place to visit

where probably the only thing Chicagoans

are more passionate about than football is, of course, food.

Tailgaters arrived long in advance to get their sausages on the grill.

All right, let's talk about this match up today.

The Bears were shaky in the season opener,

but now are beginning to look like the team we thought they would be.

Their offense has been balanced and efficient...

HALSTEAD: INAUSTRALIAN ACCENT Nice throw, mate.

STELLA: When are we gonna eat?

LAUGHTER

It's been... It's been too long.

SEVERIDE: Yeah. | know. I Know.

You know what, just hold on.

STELLA: All right. Okay.

BURGESS: What's up with the TV, Kev?

GRUNTS IN FRUSTRATION

Listen, the input should... We're missing pre-game.

| know we're missing the pre-game. It's gonna be on soon.

Did you bring the right cable?

Did | bring...

Of course | brought the right cable.

If you just be quiet, | don't need any help.

But we're missing pre-game. Burgess...

MAMA GARCIA: Number forty-four. Forty-four?

That's me. Two dozen sweet corn tamales.

Thanks, Mama Garcia. Detective Hailey,

| didn't recognize you in your gear. I'm undercover.

VMimm.

You tell Hank Voight to come have lunch at the hacienda, huh?

| will, thank you. You're welcome.

Okay, what would you like?

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Two dozen sweet corn tamales from Garcia's.

Oh, my God.

What! Get it!

Yes. Thank you.

These are so good. Yes.

Hey! Wait till we eat the sausage.

Mmm-hmm, mmm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah, right, yeah.

Do what Kelly said.

You gonna get that working before we gotta go in?

Jay, if you don't leave me alone, okay?

lf | hear another damn word about this pre-game.

WOMAN: Oh, my God. What's wrong with him?

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Wait, there's something wrong with him.

GASPS

WOMEN SCREAMING

CASEY: Back up! Back up!

Get back! CASEY: Chicago firefighters coming through.

Back up! Ma'am, move back!

Back up. SEVERIDE: Make way.

sir? Can you hear me? SEVERIDE: Back up.

MUTTERS

What... What's he saying? MAN: BRT.

BRIT.

He's seizing...

There's blood on his leg.

Here.

NATALIE: Sir, I'm gonna look at your leg.

Ugh.

What is that? | have no idea.

GASPING VIOLENTLY

Nat, what is it? Guy from the tailgate. Seizure.

Severe lesion on his leg. Odd presentation.

| could use a second pair of eyes.

All right. Let's take him to Baghdad.

I'll alert them. I'm here. Let's take a look.

Okay.

You know this guy? No.

He was just walking toward the stadium. No one claimed him.

He kept saying "BRT."

"BRI"? His initials?

NATALIE: It's getting worse.

Do we know anything about John Doe?

BRETT: No, sorry.

He didn't have a wallet on him.

And his phone is locked.

All he said was "BRT."

NATALIE: He has a severely infected leg.

SO, we're running a culture to see if we can pinpoint the pathogen.

WILL: Although seizure isn't normally a symptom,

the visual presentation

and the speed with which the infection's spreading

indicates this bug is causing necrotizing fasciitis.

Flesh-eating bacteria.

NATALIE: Don't worry, it's not contagious

and only about four in a million people get it every year.

How do you get...

Necrotizing fasciitis. It enters through a break in the skin,

and just destroys the tissue under the epidermis.

It would really help us treat this guy if we knew who he was.

| can't open a case file without a crime,

but I'll see if | can run prints and check traffic cam footage.

Maybe make out some kind of an ID.

We appreciate it. Thanks. HALSTEAD: Okay. See you guys.

Hey, how was the game?

What game?

Which leads me to the next shift. Oktoberfest.

BRETT: We will not be seeing any of you

because we'll be picking up drunks all day.

Over-under on vomit in the back of the ambo is three buckets worth.

Gimme the over. Put me down for 20.

That's a hard thing to measure. INDISTINCT CHATTER

Okay, enough.

The reason why | mention it is because Firehouse 51

has drawn parade duty that day.

All of us? BODEN: All of us.

And we will be assisting with crowd control.

As long as we dont have to do any... And marching.

ALL GROAN

FIREFIGHTER: Chief! Come on... Chief.

lf there are any grievances,

you can all take it up with my new assistant.

Didn't think so. Dismissed.

Hey. What's up, Detective?

I'm still trying to identify our John Doe from Soldier Field.

| just want to make sure I'm not missing something.

He's not talking?

He's still In a coma.

Do you guys remember anything from the tailgate?

| was the last guy getting over to him.

| just started running when | saw him. He collapsed before | got there.

Did anybody see that there were his friends...

No, | talked to people as the ambulance pulled up. No one knew him.

He went to the game alone?

Maybe his friends were in the stadium.

You know, he had a ticket on him.

But it was a third-party purchase through the NFL app.

Can you identify him with fingerprints or dental records or...

He's not in our system and he wouldn't be unless he had a criminal history.

And nothing off his phone?

We borrowed it, but we haven't gotten past the password.

Sorry. You saw what we saw. Yeah, thanks, guys.

How come you never cook breakfast for me?

| only know how to cook for two dozen people.

Have you seen me eat pancakes?

Now | want to. CHUCKLES

Hey. Hello.

What, uh, brings you by?

50, my office is getting a group together

to go to the Oktoberfest hullabaloo downtown.

Yeah, | heard about that.

Yeah, | was checking to see if you wanted to go with us.

The reason | heard about it is 'cause 51 has to work it.

Hey, Chloe. Ah. Hi, Sylvie.

Yep. You know, otherwise, | would love to go with you.

You know, | love spending time with you.

| would spend all of my time with you if it wasn't for...

| get it. It's okay.

| just mean, it's like we're always working during the good stuff,

and maybe | should just put in for furlough.

Hey, that's what I'll do.

il put in for furlough because you deserve some...

Joe. Why are you acting weird?

Weird? What weird?

Who's weird? I'm not acting weird.

Okay.

Uh... | gotta get to work before Schneidermann arrives.

He's been watching me like a hawk.

Ah. | get it. | mean,

of course he wants to watch you.

| mean, | love to watch you. Who wouldn't?

CLEARS THROAT

Okay, goodbye, Joe.

What was that?

You've been dating her for a year,

and suddenly you're acting like you're asking her to the seventh-grade dance.

What? SCOFFS No, | wasn't.

Mmm... ALARM BUZZING

DISPATCHER OVER PA: Ambulance 67,

Person in Distress, 2543 North 18th Street.

SIREN WAILING

Did you call for an ambulance?

| called for the police. FOSTER: Okay.

What's up?

This is the Pullman house. Real nice couple.

Always give me a $20 gift card at Christmas. Uh-huh.

Anyways, | had to wedge some magazines through that slot a few days ago.

These haven't been touched and there's a bad smell coming from inside.

DOORBELL RINGS

GROANS, GAGS

Oh, wow.

No, no, no, no, don't touch them.

FLIES BUZZING

Dispatch, we need a hazmat unit to 2543 North 18th Street.

Happy Halloween, Chicago.

If we didn't find them on dry land,

I'd say those people were attacked by a shark.

It's the same thing that guy had at Soldier Field. Necrotizing fasciitis.

FOSTER: Chicago Med said the chances of infection in this bacteria

are four in one million per year.

BRETT: And that it's not contagious.

FOSTER: Now, we've got three cases in the same city, in the same week?

HALSTEAD: So, | was able to identify our first patient from Soldier Field.

His name's Stuart Anderson.

He's a student at Central Chicago University

and he was in the Peace Corps.

Well, could he have traveled somewhere and contracted it?

He spent last summer in Botswana,

but the doctors that we spoke to said it would be unlikely

for the bacteria to be dormant in his system this long before erupting.

Maybe some new strain?

I'm just a copper. That's above my pay grade.

When | was in med school, we had a unit on bacterial infections.

The only thing that stopped me from wearing those hazmat suits all day

was these things weren't contagious.

If this thing has spread on contact or...

Even worse, airborne,

this entire city is going to drop like flies.

Casey, Severide. What's up, Chief?

61 are on their way back.

Foster and Brett, they caught a call that was similar

to your Soldier Field victim. Another infection?

They called in hazmat, two bodies, husband and wife.

CASEY: Hey. You guys all right? | told them.

It was gruesome. They were dead before we arrived.

Did you come into contact with any of the bodies?

Good. No, Chief. We followed hazmat protocol.

CELL PHONE BUZZES Ah.

The Mayor's rep is on his way up here.

He wants an update on our parade plans.

| think | need to check something.

Um, will you get me your incident report as soon as possible?

| need to make sure headquarters is aware of this.

BRETT: Yes, Chief.

| don't Know how you do it. What?

Just not freak out in these situations because I'm a little freaked out.

Well, we all deal with stress in different ways.

Do you have that medicated antibacterial soap that you guys use

after chemical fires?

It's in my locker. And | have some too.

Yeah, | don't care that we didn't touch anybody.

lam going to scrub my arms up to my shoulders.

I'm gonna raid the candy cabinet. See, different ways.

SIGHS

SOFTLY Brett. You gotta see this.

What's up with him?

He's been like this fora week.

What's going on, Cruz?

What? Nothing.

Okay, look, but this does not leave the room.

I'm gonna ask Chloe to marry me.

GASPS Really? CHUCKLES

Oh, that's so great. Congratulations.

Yeah, you know, | just figured I'm not getting any younger... Mmm.

_..and life's too short.

And she's amazing. When are you gonna pop the question?

Tomorrow night. After shift. | got big plans.

Oh, | cannot wait to hear all about it.

You're so right for each other, Joe.

Thank you, guys, | really appreciate it.

SIGHS Even with two busted engagements, | can't help it.

I'm a romantic.

| mean, just, you know, when they're so good together.

Trudy was afraid she'd always be a spinster too.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

MAN: It was really weird. I'm telling you, Officer, you gotta go over there,

and look at it for yourself. Tell her.

| was at the pump over there and this woman just pulled up

and cut her engine, but she didn't get out.

She just sat there, she looked, | don't Know, sick.

It's like that dude was saying,

she just parked there and didn't move.

She's dead.

Is it that thing they're talking about on the news, some kind of outbreak.

Do | need to get shots or something? | didn't touch her.

| don't know. Let me have someone look at you.

Forget it, I'm not going near there.

MAN 2: Oh, man, barely a pulse. BABY FUSSING

WOMAN: Same bacterial infection as the mother.

MAN 2: Don't touch her. Yeah.

GASPS

She's alive! She's alive over here.

Hold on, okay, hold on.

NATALIE: Hey. Hey.

We got the test results for the mother and the baby,

both have the same infection.

The culture indicates a strain of Staphylococcus,

which is the same as the first patient,

but it's not a strain that we're familiar with.

It's not in our database.

Where are the patients?

The baby passed away at 1:35, the mother, two hours later.

But these are cases four and five.

The odds of five cases of necrotizing fasciitis

in one week in the same city are astronomical.

SHARON: I've called the CDC.

If this is an outbreak of a new and virulent strain of staph,

were going to be playing catch up.

| thought it wasn't contagious.

The victims must have had some break in the skin to allow the bacteria in.

The thing is, we don't know where they could have been exposed.

Maybe a gym, nail salon. All right.

"Il get the rest of Intelligence up to speed.

That's a good idea. Thanks.

NATALIE: Thanks.

Ritter, you're on lunch and no more pimento cheese.

Beggars can't be choosers.

WOMAN ON TV: Evidence of a rare flesh-eating bacteria right here in Chicago.

There are now five confirmed cases within the city in the last 48 hours.

Yeah, we were getting ready for the Bears-Packers

when this dude just started screaming his head off.

| heard the same thing.

Guy yelling, Help, at the top of his lungs.

Then a bunch of first responders ran over there.

s this patient zero, and some sort of horrifying new disease?

Don't go away. When we come back,

we re talking to the medical experts who will tell us

what we need to do to keep our families safe.

That's terrifying. The news wants you scared.

It's how they boost their ratings.

Uh, yeah, well, Okay, it's working.

This kind of tone stirs up the city.

Yeah, well, I'm gonna call Cindy 'cause she watches The Walking Dead

like it's a documentary.

She sees this, she's gonna lose her mind.

| saw what this infection does to skin, up close, Chief.

Flesh-eating is an understatement. If anything, people aren't scared enough.

Chief Boden? Yeah?

John Sorenstein with the mayor's office.

Ah, yes. Regarding the parade.

We're expecting a bigger-than-usual turnout.

This way.

There's a wine and spirits convention at McCormick Place

the same time that the Cowboys are in town.

Okay.

You throw the word "Oktoberfest" into the mix and...

Things get rowdy. Exactly.

Uh, the reason | wanted to stop by today

is to see how many vehicles we have lining the parade route.

Studies show that people who see red and blue flashing lights

are less inclined to misbehave.

Well, uh, we're gonna have our engine, truck,

squad rig, ambulance,

and my Battalion Chief SUV down there.

Is that everything?

Well, if the city wants to pay more overtime,

| can call our neighboring houses, make sure they're represented.

Would you? That'd be great.

We just want to counter some of the negative press the city's receiving,

throw a great parade. Excuse me. CELL PHONE VIBRATING

Hi, John Sorenstein.

Well, Carol, | already told you that. Okay. ALARM BUZZING

DISPATCHER OVER PA: Squad 3, Truck 87, Ambulance 67...

Structure fire. Gotta go.

Sure.

SIREN WAILING

HORN HONKING

STUDENTS COUGHING

SEVERIDE: What happened?

There are people COUGHS trapped in the basement. How many?

| don't Know. Paramedics will get you oxygen.

Okay. This is the science building.

There's about a billion dollars-worth of research on the second floor.

Are there people up there? | don't know.

Uh, folks reportedly trapped in the basement, Chief.

Anything you can do to preserve the second floor.

Okay, Severide, find a safe way

into the basement and start getting people out.

Casey. CASEY: Yeah.

Have Truck evacuate the second floor.

Herrmann, drop two lines to cover them.

Squad 3, in the basement. CASEY: Let's go.

81, we're leading engine.

You heard him! Jesse, Ritter, two lines, tie in to the stand pipe.

We're behind Truck, let's go!

Capp, Cruz, Tony, downstairs.

Copy that.

Engine, with me. Second floor.

ALARM BLARING

STUDENTS COUGHING

Let's go!

Let's go, move to the exit.

Calm down, we'll get you out.

Hey! Come on, keep moving, buddy. Come on, let's go.

HAMMERING

Nothing? Nothing.

Lieutenant! No go on the door. We'll smash through the glass.

Get back!

GLASS THUDDING Again!

BOTH GRUNTING

CASEY: Chief, we're on the second floor. Fire's cooking.

COUGHS

Hey! Come on!

| tried to stop it, but the extinguisher elameleia

ALARM CONTINUES BLARING

Chief. Sprinklers aren't working up here.

Well, they did, but just fora moment and then nothing.

We have research up here that is worth...

Yeah, a billion dollars. We heard.

Professor, you gotta clear out of here and get checked out by our paramedics.

Go, go, go!

Hey! This way, let's go!

Hey! Let's go!

BOTH GRUNTING

SEVERIDE: Again!

GLASS THUDDING

Head for the exits. Herrmann!

Hit it, Lieutenant!

Hey, give me the pipe. Get behind me.

Check out the fire!

We don't Know what research iS going on up here.

Listen, we don't Knock it down now, we're gonna lose this wing.

We gotta treat it like a hazmat situation.

| don't know, Captain!

FIRE WHOOSHING

Engine 17, back up 51 on the second floor.

Truck 46, floor rear.

see if there's any classrooms still occupied.

Ambos 7/7 and 95, help 61 triage the victims.

Come on, let's go. Bring me up to speed, Wallace.

We got Squad 3 in the basement,

trying to breach a reinforced laboratory

with civilians trapped inside.

Truck 81 is on the second floor where the fire has spread.

91 Is in Support. Civilians upstairs?

Unclear. I'll direct new arrivals.

You continue to execute your fire plan.

You got it, Chief.

62, two lines into the snorkel.

COUGHS BODEN: Everyone please head over to the triage area.

FOSTER: Okay. BODEN: Come on.

Come on, sir. Yeah.

Let's get you some oxygen. Come on, let's go.

FOSTER: This way. This way.

BODEN: Casey, what's your status?

Think we're in a hazmat situation, Chief.

FIREFIGHTER: There's people in here.

COUGHS

Okay, Herrmann, give us a lane.

All right, you heard him! Let's knock it down.

Hey! Get down! Go!

Mouch, go!

BOTH CONTINUE GRUNTING

GRUNTS

It's not working.

ALARM BLARING

Cruz, Capp, Tony. Help me get this thing out.

We can use it as a battering ram.

GRUNTING

SEVERIDE: Ready, one, two, three.

Come with me! My friends.

They'll get them! Come on!

GLASS THUDDING

SEVERIDE: Again!

Again, come on.

Okay, set her down.

Let's get the first piece of glass.

GRUNTING

PEOPLE COUGHING

Copy that. We're good to go.

On the ram again.

All right, ready. One, two...

Gallo, with me. Let's get these victims out.

Hey! If you can walk, now's the time to do it.

Come on, follow me.

Hang on. We'll get you out.

Give me a hand with this guy.

Kidd! | got you. | got you.

GRUNTS

Okay. You're good.

Let's get out of here.

Let's go.

Come on, let's go!

Let's go, come on! Everybody move. Come on!

Hit it, guys.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

FIREFIGHTER: We're all clear, Chief.

HERRMANN OVER RADIO: Fire is out on the second floor.

SEVERIDE: Basement is under control too, Chief. FOSTER: Come with me.

SEVERIDE: The fire's knocked out.

Chief, we had a chemical fire on the second floor.

Blue and green flames.

Must've been some kind of copper sulfate or copper chloride.

SEVERIDE: Casey.

There's a sign downstairs that said

that the laboratory was paid for by BRT Health Industries.

What's this now? The victim at Soldier Field

kept chanting those initials, "BRT."

Maybe he was trying to lead us here.

Okay. I'm gonna let hazmat do the overhaul.

| don't want anyone touching anybody or anything

until we get the all-clear.

All right, you guys know the drill.

We're setting up mobile decontamination tents by the truck.

Get in, scrub down, scrub your pants, your coats, your boots, too. Let's go.

You heard the man. Everybody gets scrubbed.

HAZMAT MEMBER: If anyone was in the building,

we'd ask that you please walk to our mobile decontamination tents

to get evaluated. Thank you.

COUGHS

Hey.

Are you a teacher here, an administrator?

No, I'm a research fellow with the university.

Okay, so, what goes on in here?

What goes on?

Yes, you got labs inside set up like Fort Knox.

You got all kinds of chemicals.

| need to Know what the hell my people were exposed to.

Uh, well, we conduct biological research.

Yeah, it's primarily microbiology. But also, cell biology.

That's diseases, right? Bacteria?

Oh, yes. All of the above, of course.

MAN COUGHS

Uh... When the medics check you out,

you make sure you go by that decontamination tent.

Yeah.

Hello? This is Chief Wallace Boden.

| need to talk to Sergeant Hank Voight right now.

ENGINE REVS

EXHALES

ocary stuff.

Like, | keep looking at my skin for discoloration,

but | don't even know what I'm looking for.

This...

Hey. I'm not worried.

Oh, well, I'm glad to see one of us isn't terrified by this thing.

It's not how I'm gonna go.

Yeah? You know that for certain?

All right, how are you gonna go?

An old man.

In bed.

With our kids and grandkids and you surrounding me.

When did you get so good at knowing what to say? Hmm?

CHUCKLES Severide. Boden wants to see US.

BREATHES DEEPLY

BODEN: Gentlemen.

Your Chief says you think this fire has something to do

with the bacterial outbreak?

Well, the first guy to get it was a student here.

Me and Casey were on the scene

at the tailgate when he collapsed.

He kept saying BRT, right? Uh-huh.

The laboratory burning in the basement

was paid for by something called BRT Health Industries.

And the sprinkler system was down.

My gut tells me that this fire was deliberately set.

Somebody covering his tracks.

If it was arson, we'll find a timing device.

The Office of Fire Investigation are on their way.

Hmm.

Can | help you? Do you work here?

Yes, I'm a paramedic.

Did you respond to the fire at CCU?

Yeah, | was one of the...

GASPS Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.

My daughter was in a classroom on the second floor.

How is she? Safe, unharmed, grateful.

Her friend Kristy said that if you hadn't responded when you did...

The fire destroyed that whole side of the building.

Well, here's who you should be thanking.

These are the firefighters who went in.

You saved my daughter's life.

Ah, well, just doing our job.

Team effort.

Well, you make this city proud.

Can | ask, uh... Some reporters have been calling students,

asking questions and saying that there may be a connection

between this fire and that flesh-eating bacteria.

| can tell you, as of now, that's a rumor.

There's no proof of any connection.

And all the kids that were in that building,

they went through hazmat protocol, just to be safe.

Well, it's just So scary out there, all those rumors.

Thank you, again, very much for everything.

Chloe!

| didn't know you were coming by.

| got your email. CHUCKLES Oh, yeah?

Great, right?

Why'd you make a reservation at the most expensive restaurant in Chicago?

| just thought that you deserved a special occasion,

night out, you know?

SUCKS TEETH

I'm having second thougNts. About dinner?

About us.

STUTTERS | don't understand.

It's just...

I've thought about it a lot and it's just...

We rushed into this. Into everything.

| just think we need to take some time and think about it.

CLEARS THROAT

I'm sorry.

SIGHING

This makes no sense.

Yeah. I'm really, really sorry, Joe.

Chloe?

Chloe, just give me five minutes, okay?

We can talk about this. I'm sorry.

What's all this? Stuart Anderson's personal effects.

Patient zero from Soldier Field.

We got to find anything that's gonna help us connect him to the other victims.

Well, | got another box for you.

What's that? Is that soot on there?

Yeah, don't touch it. This stuff was in the hazmat fire

at the University lab. OFI released it to us.

Better glove up.

Is it contagious? | don't know. But we gotta go through it.

MONITOR BEEPING

Hmm.

The guy keeps his pin number in his checkbook.

| thought grad students were supposed to be smart.

You know what?

|! wonder if he's like Burgess and uses the same password for everything.

Yeah, you still have his phone?

Yeah, right here. Okay.

All right. Good.

GASPS

COUGHS

Dr. Marcel? Yeah?

What's the matter? The infection has spread.

BREATHES WEAKLY

Ready? Yeah.

4-/-9-2.

4-/-9-2.

Oh, my God, we're in.

Go through contacts, recent exchanges.

Mr. Anderson, can you hear me? NURSE: Oh, my God.

It's too late.

Mr. Anderson, do you understand what I'm saying?

He's getting tachycardic.

You cant stop it.

Come on.

His pressure’s spiked. All right, give me point five of Ativan.

GRUNTING

Whoa.

What the hell?

CONTINUES GRUNTING

All right, he's starting to seize.

Let's get that Ativan now.

MONITOR BEEPING

What do we got?

HALSTEAD: You're not gonna believe this.

Stuart Anderson just went from victim to suspect.

When we pulled his Internet history,

this dirtbag, he's been sending threatening messages

anonymously on the University server.

Threatening who? Professors in the science building.

He's been saying that there's gonna be some sort of apocalyptic event in Chicago.

Like Four Horsemen type stuff.

All right, so this is Anderson,

and these are the four other infection victims.

How they're connected yet? We don't know.

She wasn't even nine months old.

All right. Upton and Burgess,

| want you to get over to Med, check on this patient zero.

If he's even remotely able to talk,

|! want to Know where he's been the last 30 days, what was he planning?

Was he gonna just take out the whole damn stadium?

Just didn't know how sick he was?

All right, Atwater, you're with Rojas,

| want you at CCU talking to students, teachers, administrators,

anybody who had access to that lab.

How do they know Stuart Anderson?

Because my experience,

these sons-of-bitches like to leave little breadcrumbs about their plans.

Listen, till we get some answers,

this is the only case. You understand?

So, let's move.

Miss Goodwin, we were looking for an update on Stuart Anderson.

Hoping to talk to him if he's out of the coma.

Turns out he's a suspect now.

He might be deliberately spreading this stuff.

Stuart Anderson died 30 minutes ago.

The one guy with all the answers

and we didn't get to ask him a single question.

Maybe it's a good thing, the disease died with him.

No way, Hailey. We already know this guy rigged a lab fire

to start after he was in the coma.

So, this apocalyptic event that he was ranting about in his emails,

think it's already in motion?

Yeah, we have to assume the worst.

Okay, then we need to figure out what he was targeting

and how he planned to spread the bacteria.

We have to do it fast.

ATWATER: Severide.

It was arson. Really?

Yeah, the fire was set in the basement laboratory

using an accelerant and a timing device.

It traveled up the ventilation system to the first floor

and then worked its way into the upstairs research center.

That seems more accidental than deliberate.

He wanted the lab to burn, not necessarily the whole building.

ATWATER: Right. It's unbelievable.

Who are you? Director of Bio-Sciences, Bruno Geller.

ATWATER: Officer Atwater, she's Officer Rojas.

So, the University is doing research on whatever this, flesh-eating...

Necrotizing fasciitis. Actually, it can be caused by 30 different bacteria.

But yes. We work to develop antibiotics for all of them.

What's the connection to BRT Health Industries?

I'm sorry. Their name keeps coming up.

They're our largest donor and partner.

How does that work? The partner part.

CHUCKLES Every major science university has corporate partners.

We concentrate on theoretical contributions to science,

they focus on profit-driven applied research. It's mutually beneficial.

Uh-huh.

We're gonna need a contact at BRT.

Okay, we're alSo gonna need

a list of anybody who's worked in that lab

over the past six months.

Especially anybody who's worked with a lab assistant,

Stuart Anderson.

Right.

Let me walk you to the administration building.

ATWATER: Thank you.

Thank you for your time.

If you think of anything else, call this number day or night.

Okay. CELL PHONE VIBRATING

What's up, Jay? Hey.

Youre interviewing lab workers from the CCU fire, right?

Yeah, two down, but nothing's jumped out at me yet.

All right. There's a name at 63 West Quincy,

apartment 2C, Veronica Song.

| checked the logs and she worked in the lab

the same time as patient zero, Stuart Anderson.

The last two weeks, their schedules matched exactly.

Now check this, she was supposed to be in the lab during the fire.

She didn't show up to work that day. That's interesting.

Yeah, | know she's 19, she doesn't fit the type.

But | just think we should move her up the interview list.

Yeah. I'm on it. Okay.

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Veronica Song?

Chicago P.D., open up, please.

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Chicago P.D.

Hello. Veronica?

Can | come in and ask you some questions?

SOFTLY Yeah.

WEAKLY Can I... Can |... Can...

Can | get you...

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

9021 Henry, roll an ambo to 63 West Quincy, apartment 2C.

DISPATCHER OVER RADIO: Copy that, 5021 Henry. Ambo en route.

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Incoming! Mimi, talk to me.

This is a 19-year-old with severe bacterial infection.

She's breathing on her own, but she's unresponsive.

All right, take her to T-4.

Hold on. Hold on. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Crockett? MARCEL: Yeah.

Look.

MARCEL: How's it spreading so fast?

We need to get her into Surgery.

All right. Let's go to Hybrid OR.

Hailey?

Uh, | was...

Jay had me check up on her. She's a lab assistant

who was working with Stuart Anderson, the original patient.

she collapsed on me.

Is that her blood on you?

Did you get any in your mouth or your eyes?

Do you have any cuts or breaks

in your skin anywhere?

| don't know. | don't think so.

All right, stay right there.

Don't touch your mouth, eyes, don't touch anything.

Yeah.

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