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If you don't stop messing around, you're gonna end up in a floater pool.

I had to bust my ass again.

We all did.

Come on, dude.

You're a third-generation CFD?

Your daddy's a damn senator?

At the end of your rotation, you will receive one assessment as a group.

You live or die together.

I put something out there, and you never said anything.

No, you're right.

Can't we just be normal?

I can if you can.

Cruz could use the company with everything that's hanging over him. They

got the MRI results.

That's like a sliver of healthy tissue.

You gotta stay positive.

There's nothing to be positive about, Herman.

What are you doing?

That's a beautiful day.

Let's go to Mindy's. Get a bagel. You wanna?

I've been craving the smoked salt with giardiniera cream cheese.

You want to go right now?

We'll run out if we don't.

Come on, babe.

You don't want to stay cooped up in here all day.

A little fresh air will do you good.

For me, too.

Hugo, bring me back one.

You sure?

I really didn't sleep.

I'm sorry.

Wait, it's called a guillotine chokehold? I know, cool name, right? I

made my training partner tap out, and not to brag, but he was giving serious

Jack Reacher. Ooh, Tom Cruise, Jack Reacher, or the one from the show? Does

it matter? Yes. No.

I could take either one.

Hey, we could take it to the mat after shift if you don't believe me. Okay, I

believe you.

I like that he's a little afraid of me. He is not the only one.

Hey, it's good to see you two in a better place.

Yeah, I think we just need to air some things out a little bit.

Okay, good.

Maybe you can actually be friends again.

Yeah, I think... Hey, Sebrae, wait up.

Yeah, what's up?

Listen, I've been trying to get in touch with Cruz for like a week. It's been

nothing but radio silence.

Did you talk to him lately?

No, not in a minute. Why?

You think we should be worrying?

I'm sure rehab's taking a lot out on him. He probably just needs some space.

Yeah, I'm sure you're right.

I gotta take this. Yeah, go.

what did they teach you at the academy early is on time and on time is late and

late is unacceptable yes lieutenant i'm sorry it won't happen again

burke's tardiness aside you guys have been kicking ass these

past couple weeks so i thought as a fun reward that's guess yep love to yell and

die together yeah i know we're gonna let you play with one of our favorite toys

the k-12 saw nice right we're gonna cover forcible entry roof ventilation

Let's move.

An ammonia pipe blew in the engine room.

Is the emergency shut off? My foreman would know.

It's still in there.

Squad 3 to Main. We have an anhydrous ammonia leak. Victims possibly trapped

inside. What's the ETA on hazmat?

Stand by for an update, Squad 3. How many people are inside?

Most of us got out, but like 10 or 12 people work in the freezer room all the

way in the back of the building.

Main to Squad 3.

ETA on hazmat is 14 minutes.

14 now. Copy that. You and your guys start mechanical ventilation.

Yep. Squad, let's suit up. We got people trapped inside.

Copy. Engine 77, give me 100-foot perimeter to get ready to start decon.

Ambo, prep for triage behind the rigs. Copy. All right, truck 81, we're going

to ventilate the building, so let's prep the smoke ejectors. I want everybody on

air. Let's go.

You four, get ready to mask up.

I want you to search the perimeter of the building. You are looking for

victims and signs of life inside the building. Do not go inside.

If you see anything, you hear anything, you radio it in. If you find the shutoff

valve, let me know right away. Do not touch it. And masks on at all times.

Anhydrous ammonia is highly toxic and explosive.

Let's go, let's go, let's go!

Fire department, call out!

Fire department, call out!

Hey, I got a victim over here!

Black tag him!

Tony, Cruz, Cap, try the Delta side, see if you can find the leak. I'm going to

try and find that cold storage.

Copy that.

Copy.

hole's not that big i think i could block it do it

hey

just hang tight we're working on stopping that leak for now you're safer

in there everybody stay calm kid i got victims in the storage room

charlie bravo's side

Totally about 13 people one of the victims is in respiratory distress Hey

squad, how's that leaf going?

Hey kid, there's a cooling unit on the Bravo side. See if you can pull it.

How you doing? You have any trouble breathing?

I'm good. Okay.

What's your name?

Carmen. Carmen?

See that cooling unit back there?

Uh-huh. We're going to go out through there.

The gas.

It's sleeping in the room.

All right. Just stay calm.

Get everybody together. Get them away from that side of the room.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

We're through the wall. Pull it out. Go.

Go now. We're running out of time.

How's he doing?

Uh, blistering and vesicant burns on his skin, but it could have been a lot

worse. It's nothing. We got out pretty quick.

So, gotta get you to med, Tony.

Yeah.

Is he okay?

He's still okay. Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Hey, Cap.

Saw Hazmat clamp that leak. What the hell happened in there? No clue. We

heard a growling sound and the pressure just blew right in Tony's face.

Severide, I found something on the Bravo side. You gotta come see this.

On my way.

I know this company.

They make this frozen mac and cheese dinner with bacon bits and crispy

breadcrumbs. Man, you eat that stuff?

That meal's got me through some hard times.

Hey. Sorry to bother you. Do you guys know if that blonde medic is still here

somewhere? No, she's gone.

What, any medical attention?

No. I, uh, actually... Do you guys work together?

Yeah. Would you mind doing me a huge favor and give that to her?

It's my number.

I know it's a long shot, but we made eye contact, and who knows, right?

Yeah, yeah, I'll give it to her. Thanks, man.

Brian with a lot.

Kind of pretentious.

It looks like a shutoff valve, but it's not.

It's a distribution valve.

Yeah, so we know that the leak came from a ruptured line inside, but something

else caused the pressure to spike.

So if someone turned this, it would have rerouted all of the ammonia into a

single line, right?

Yeah, it could have doubled or even tripled the pressure. That's probably

how Tony got blasted. Look at this rust.

See how it's stripped off the stem like that?

Somebody just turned this.

Almost got Tony killed.

How's Tony doing?

Uh, med is gonna keep him overnight, but just as a precaution. He's gonna be

fine. Yeah.

That's good.

Uh... You got a minute?

Yeah, what's up?

Well, I just got off the phone with Chloe, and it sounds like Cruz is really

going through it.

He hasn't left the house in over a week.

He's not even going to his physical therapy.

Oh, no. That's not good.

And the docs are telling Chloe the longer he's out of PT, the harder it's

gonna be for him to make a full recovery.

Yeah, I believe it.

So what do we do?

I mean, do we try one of those, like, intervention-type things?

Oh, I don't know, Herman. That kind of PT is really grueling. And I just worry

that if he feels like other people are trying to tell him what to do, I mean,

that could backfire. But we can't do nothing. I mean, there's got to be some

way to help him get back on track.

You all know what happened on the call today, so I'm only going to ask this

once.

Who turned the valve on the Bravo side?

You were supposed to radio in if you saw anything. You remember that?

Whoever did it, I know you probably thought you were shutting the gas off.

What you did was you spiked the gas pressure and you put one of my guys in

the hospital.

We talked to everybody else.

We know that it was one of you four.

And the sooner that you cop to it, the better it's going to be for everybody.

Whichever one of you guys did it, you better come forward by the end of shift.

You heard the captain, we only got till end of shift.

If you did it, just take the hit.

Come on, guys. Kids giving all of us one evaluation.

If nobody steps up, we're all screwed.

That's what I'm saying.

I don't know how Tony's doing.

No? Just that I still haven't met him.

You're pretty quiet over there, Burke.

I'm not saying anything because I don't know anything, except that I didn't do

it.

Well, I didn't work my ass off just to go down for someone else's screw-up.

Do you guys know what's going on with the probies right now?

Yeah, they're all huddled around the locker room like they're planning some

sort of bank heist. Yeah, one of them screwed up on the call, turned a valve

they shouldn't have, and apparently Kit's pretty pissed.

Whoa, is that how Tony got injured?

Yeah, I think so.

Hey, Novak, Vasquez tell you what happened after that call?

No, he did not.

Some guy left you his number.

Really?

Huh. Was he cute?

He looked like a young Mark Paul Gosselaar.

Oh. Okay, sorry, I'm gonna need a little bit more.

Tall, dirty blonde hair, stubble.

Wait, I know who you're talking about. He was, like, really hot.

Where's the number?

Jeez.

Hey.

Stay, sir.

Sir? Oh, there you go.

The numbers totally washed off.

I'm sorry. It was an accident.

I mean, I guess it wasn't meant to be, right?

Huh.

Huh, what?

Nothing. No, no, no.

What are you saying?

I was saying... whatever.

Accidents happen.

Apology accepted.

Okay. Okay.

You know, it really was an accident. Mm-hmm. Yeah, you said that already.

Why are you being so weird?

It's almost end of shift.

Unbelievable. I know.

Which makes me wonder, is it possible that we are wrong?

Could there be any other explanation?

What if one of the probes didn't do it?

Any plant worker who got that close would have passed out.

And all our guys were accounted for. Okay, could there have been something

else that caused the pressure to spike? Some kind of glitch?

A pressure surge couldn't have spun that hand wheel three turns.

And the rush savings proved that it was turned.

Someone had to have physically done it.

There is one way to figure out who it was.

If it's not too late.

Hi. Hey, Chloe. Herman's here.

Hey. Here, let me grab some of that. Thank you.

Aw. You didn't have to bring anything.

Oh, wait. No, it's not dinner. It's just some stuff for the kids and some treats.

Uh, thanks for coming by.

Yeah.

Okay, uh, come on.

He's in here.

Why didn't you tell me you were coming?

Oh, you know, I was just, uh, spur of the moment, I brought you a sugar moon

bakery. Mm-hmm.

What did you tell him?

Hey, look, this was my idea, okay?

You know, nobody's talked to you for a while, and I just figured I'd, you know,

do a little wellness check.

I'll just, I'll leave you two to it. All right, thanks.

Okay, talk to me, Joe. What's going on?

I can't explain it to you, Herman.

Try me.

All right, look.

I know you stopped going to PT.

All right.

Chloe's worried.

Your docs are worried. I'm not getting better.

That's what's going on.

I hit a wall.

A wall?

Or a rough patch?

Hey, I'm just saying, the Joe Cruz that I know, he never gets up.

Hmm. Joe, you don't understand.

I feel like I'm buried up to my waist in sand here, Herman.

And trying to fight through that every day, it's exhausting.

I should be getting better, it should be getting easier, but it's not.

So why keep torturing myself?

Because your family needs you. Oh, my God!

I know that, Herman!

You think I don't know that? You think it's not killing me that I can't... I

can't... I can't do anything.

And trying to accept that is not the same thing as giving up.

Look, man... I know, all right? I know. You just, I... Oh.

I get these really bad headaches, man, so I really need to rest.

Of course.

All right.

Hey.

Just so you know, your 51 family needs you, too.

I'm sure you'll be fine.

I brought you something.

It's on the coffee table in the living room.

You can go in if you'd like.

Oh, no, it's okay.

I don't want to crowd him.

But he's all right?

He'll be discharged in a few hours.

That's good.

Here, and look.

These were just about to be processed for decon. Thanks.

Joanie's cleared for work.

So he's back next shift?

Thank God.

I can't afford to lose another man on the squad right now.

By the way, when we were on the call, I heard you on the radio.

You called for Cruz.

Of course I have it.

Damn, you were right.

Rust still on the gloves.

Whose are they?

There he is! Hey!

Bounce right back.

Too soon, I was enjoying the peace and quiet.

Oh, yeah, right. He was moping around like a lost puppy.

Not true. Come on, let's sit down.

You look great. Thanks, buddy. Good feeling.

Brian's number.

Wow. How did you pull that off? It wasn't that hard. The other guy's first

name was Brian with a Y, so I knew he was holding a public library bag, and I

just had Girardi pull some... Wait, wait, wait. You called PD in on this?

I mean, I didn't call in PD. I just pulled a cardholder list.

Well, and then I cross-checked it against socials, and, uh, yeah, there

you go.

Well, thanks.

You're welcome.

How many were there?

Hmm? Brian's with a Y.

I gotta go check on the probies.

Hey! You got my gift. Otis, Kane, what the hell are you trying to tell me?

That I should be grateful I'm still alive?

No, Joe, I was just trying... I don't need your advice, and I don't need you

to inspire me. You have no goddamn idea what I'm going through. Put it back.

Joe, I was... I said put it back!

Cruz! What are you doing here?

Hey, guys.

I just had to drop something off.

I can't stay. Come on, you gotta stick around for breakfast at least. Yeah,

everyone's gonna want to see you.

Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, for sure. Just real quick.

All right, all right. Dude, it's so good to see you, man. Good to see you guys.

All right, all right.

Your bunker glove.

And that's rust from the distribution valve that you turned on the scene.

You got anything to say?

I screwed up.

Big time.

I know I should have called it in. I just thought that... Nothing.

There's no excuse.

And all I can say is, this will never happen again.

I swear to God.

Everybody makes mistakes.

The problem is, you lied about it. I know. And you were willing to let your

fellow firefighters go down along with you.

I know, yeah. Do you?

Because this is serious.

Okay, we need to figure out what we're gonna do with you, so... Go.

We're done here.

What do you want to do?

What would you do?

If it were one of your guys?

Oh, they'd be out on their asses, but... McCaffrey's still a probie, and you're a

first-time training officer.

Which is why I gotta be damn sure I am not sending an unfit firefighter into

the world.

The question is, can we turn him around?

I think I'll ever get the smell of bleach off my hands.

Hey, you know if there's any more of this? Check in the back.

Yo, McCaffrey, what the hell happened, bro? No, no, no, no. Wait, do they think

you did it or what? I said back off!

Okay, so what now?

It's gonna be fine.

I'm gonna fix it.

Cruz.

Hey. I didn't know you were driving by. Yeah, just had an errand to run. I'm

actually on my way out. I'm glad I caught you then. Hey, I'm sorry that I

bent my A.

No, no, you don't owe me an explanation. Well, still, you know, I feel bad.

Everybody's done so much for me.

You know what?

You want to make it up to me? I could use your take on something.

It's important.

That's a tough one.

This one time, I was 16, and I borrowed my dad's car, backed it into a tree.

Of course, I didn't tell him about it.

But the next day, he sees the thing in the fender, and I act all surprised.

Like, well, clearly that happened when the car was parked on the street.

Did he believe you?

Yeah, he acted like he did. He didn't get mad or anything. He just... looked

at me and said, accidents happen, mijo.

And that killed me.

Did he ever find out?

I held out for about a week before I couldn't take it anymore.

You think McCaffrey might have ever come clean about it?

Who knows?

Maybe, maybe not.

I don't know the kid, obviously, but, you know, maybe the best thing to do is

just keep a close eye on him.

And you know what they say, once is a mistake.

Twice.

That's a pattern.

Check it out.

Oh, is this hot bystander's number?

Vasquez tracked it down from the off shift.

Really? No. You gonna text him? Oh, I already did.

Oh, spicy.

Yeah, I gotta get his attention somehow.

Yeah. Let's hope that Vasquez found the right number.

348 Cermak Road.

Guy was in the middle of Sweet Home Alabama and just collapsed.

I thought he fainted, but I don't think he's breathing. Okay.

Can't get a pulse.

Okay, might be in cardiac arrest.

Yep, he is in V-fit. I'm going to start compressions.

Charge 200.

Charging and clear.

All right, get IV access. Continue compressions.

Okay, IV's in.

Okay, charging and clear.

Hey, buddy. Welcome back. Pulse is back.

Rhythm's steady.

All right, let's get him on the stair chair. Violet, are these contact bars?

His heart didn't give out. He was electrocuted.

Hey, where's the mic he was holding?

Wake up!

Don't touch him! Cut the breakers.

You got this guy? Yep.

Excuse me.

Okay. Great.

Wow, good pulse. He's breathing.

And you really know your way around a bar.

Yeah, I was a cocktail waitress in college.

All right, Ambo 61 to me. We've got two patients here. I need another Ambo en

route. Thanks.

Copy, Ambo 51. Second Ambo en route.

You leaving already?

Yeah, fluid's gonna be here soon.

What the hell did you guys do now?

Mr. Bean here dropped a grinder and knocked it out of alignment. Here, let

me take a look. Pass me that screwdriver.

He was making that sound before I dropped it. It's a motor issue.

We all know how aggressive Tony is as a sawyer.

That's not a thing. We just got that new diamond blade, too. Yeah, I think it was

just a rotor bearing problem because someone dropped it.

Aggressive sawyer, huh? How about you take care of our stuff?

Okay. We should be good.

Boom. Still got it. Let me take this thing for a spin.

Like a hot doctor of butter.

Can you feel the diamond?

Hell yeah.

Oh, hey, Bert.

I saw you were getting mad the other day.

Everything okay?

Oh, yeah. No, I just stopped by to check on him.

And you didn't go on and say hi?

I didn't want to bother him. I just wanted to make sure he was good.

Well, next time, stop that. I think Tony would appreciate it.

Hey, Chief.

Good to see you.

Come on in.

Have a seat.

You have got some big shoes to fill here, Captain.

God, leading 51.

It's a big job.

Big responsibility, especially with four candidates under your watch.

What can I do for you, Chief?

Well, actually, I came to see if there's anything I can do for you. Oh, me? I'm

good. I'm sure you are.

I'm sure you are.

But I just thought it could be helpful to, you know, get an old-timer's

perspective on things.

What things?

Yeah, like managing your candidates.

I mean, these kids.

The world they're growing up in, it's...

It is different now.

Their values, their priorities, their sense of right and wrong, it's all

gotten a little out of whack.

And I'm not saying that we should lower our standards or give anybody a pass.

What are you saying, Chief?

Just that they require a little extra guidance, a little more patience.

But I know we can still make great firefighters out of them. Out of

McCaffrey, you mean?

I know.

The kid screwed up.

But he comes from a good family.

His grandfather, Bill McCaffrey.

You walk by his picture down at headquarters a thousand times, and his

dad, Alan, hell of a smoke eater himself before his injury. I take it he's a

friend of yours.

He's currently a state senator.

Ranking member on the Pensions Committee, in fact. So, not a bad friend

to have.

And in a job like this one, you can't have too many friends.

Didn't Michael Jackson get electrocuted on stage?

No, actually, Michael Jackson's hair caught fire. Keith Richards got

electrocuted on stage.

Oh, you guys caught a stage electrocution? At a karaoke bar. The

manager said that he would comp our drinks for life, so we are going

tomorrow night so that Novak can meet hot bystander guy.

Oh, you connected already. That's great.

Yeah, you should come with us.

I'm not really a karaoke guy. Neither am I, but we can judge people's horrible

song choices.

Plus, you're the one who made the love connection, so you want to see how it

plays out?

Uh, yeah.

I also don't want to spend my Friday night.

You sure about this?

Yeah.

Take a seat.

Last shift.

You defied a direct order, which put a fellow firefighter's life at risk, and

then you lied about it. I am not done.

After you got caught in your lie, you had a choice to make. You could have

shown us that you understood your mistake, that you were willing to learn

and grow from it. Please, Lieutenant. And instead, what you did was you went

over our heads.

and you called in your family connections to bail you out.

That's not a mistake.

That's who you are, apparently.

And knowing that, I cannot in good conscience put people's lives in your

hands, McCaffrey.

What are you saying?

We gotta cut you loose.

But this is my last rotation.

Now where am I supposed to go if you kick me out of 51?

Not 51.

Out of the CFD.

Whoa. Whoa. Just, just, just... Wait a minute. Hold on.

It's done.

We've already made our recommendation to the deputy commissioner.

You don't have the power to do this. Oh, we do.

You're just a...

You have no idea what the hell you're dealing with.

This isn't over.

No way dude, you're out. No, they can't make that decision on their own. All

right, there's no way What

See why didn't you just come clean?

Well now you're a saint.

I'm not the one who lie Not this time maybe

Tell you John to say everyone knows you're the shadiest dude here, but then

get out of my no, no You're always jabbering. You don't say anything about

anything. I don't know the first thing about you. I don't know where you live.

I don't know where you're from.

You didn't have a single person at graduation.

What does that say about you, huh?

All you need to know about me is that I'm still here and you're not.

You never went home?

What happened?

Did Chloe get tied up? Just told her to come back later.

So you could do busy work?

Hey. You looking for this?

Hey.

You want to hear something crazy?

Yeah. So, um...

At the warehouse, after the collapse, I'm buried in that rubble.

I can't feel anything except for my heart pounding.

My mind starts racing, thinking about Chloe and the boys, and the last thing

that comes to my mind, at least the last thing I remember anyway, was,

damn it, I never fixed that compartment door.

I'm serious.

All I could think was, oh, Severide is going to be so pissed. We would have put

it on your grave.

Literally.

Beloved husband, father.

Lazy ass was going to fix the squeaky door.

Make yourself useful. Yeah.

Yo, let's give it up for Kayla!

All right, we're going to take a little break, but we'll be back in ten with

more karaoke jams.

Seems like they're really hitting it off, huh?

Yeah, I'm glad it worked out.

Yeah, must have taken some pretty serious digging to find that guy.

No.

I mean, you went pretty far out of your way. I kind of had to. I never hit the

end of it.

How many Bryans were there anyway?

Come on.

285.

Wow.

Okay, yeah, that's a lot of Bryans to sift through just to prove that you

don't care.

Wow.

You know you had your chance, right, Vasquez?

Novak told you how she felt at the Herman's vow renewal.

If you felt the same way, you should have said something. I tried.

What do you mean?

Nothing. Okay, this... Whatever, it doesn't matter anymore, okay? I'm gonna

get a beer. You want a beer?

That absolutely tracks.

Excuse me.

So that's it, then.

The kid is out.

DC took our recommendation, so yeah.

It's done.

That must have been a tough decision.

Yeah, but you know the saying, when someone shows you who they are, believe

them.

Hey, you made the right call.

I hope so.

I don't know, bro.

I'm trying to do the right thing, but... sometimes I don't know what

that is.

I just wish you were.

I wish you could tell me what to do.