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- If you don't stop messing around,

you're gonna end up in the floater pool.

- I had to bust my ass to get here.

- 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.

- 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.

- I got the MRI results.

There's, like, a sliver of healthy tissue.

- You gotta stay positive.

- There's nothing to be positive about, Herrmann.

- Everybody move to the back wall!

[crumbling]

- [grunts]

What are you doing?

- It's a beautiful day. [grunts]

Let's go to Mindy's, get a bagel.

You want to?

I've been craving the-- the smoked salt with

the giardiniera cream cheese. Oh.

- Wait, you wanna go right now?

- They'll run out if we don't. - [groans]

- Come on, babe.

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

A little fresh air will do you good.

For me, too.

- [sighs] You go.

Bring me back one.

- You sure? - [groans]

[grunts]

I really didn't sleep.

I'm sorry.

- Wait, it's called a guillotine choke hold?

- 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. - OK, I believe you.

- I like that he's a little afraid of me.

- He is not the only one.

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

- Yeah, I think we just needed to air

some things out a little bit. - OK, good.

You can actually be friends again.

- Yeah, we'll see.

- Hey, Severide, 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, you know?

You talk to him lately? - No, not in a minute.

Why?

- You think we should be worried?

- I'm sure rehab's taken a lot out of him.

He probably just needs some space.

[phone buzzing] - Oh, yeah.

I'm sure you're right.

- I gotta take this. - Yeah, go.

- [grunting] Line up.

Burke, 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.

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--

Vasquez? - Yep.

- Live together, die together. - Yeah, I know.

- We're gonna let you play with one of our favorite toys,

the K-12 saw. - Nice.

- OK, we're gonna cover forcible entry,

roof ventilation.

[alarm blares] - Squad 3, Truck 81...

- Let's move. - Ambo 61, chemical leak.

35th and Ashland...

[sirens blaring]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- What happened?

- An ammonia pipe blew in the engine room.

- Where's the emergency shut-off?

- My foreman would know, but he'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 about 14 minutes.

- 14 out, 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 a 100-foot perimeter.

Get ready to start decon.

Ambo, prep for triage behind the rigs.

- Copy. - All right, Truck 81,

we're gonna 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 shut-off 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-- Capp, try the Delta side,

see if you can find the leak.

I'm gonna try and find that cold storage.

- Copy that. - Copy.

♪ ♪

- 81, let's get those doors opened up

and the smoke ejectors going.

- Copy that.

- Fire Department! Call out!

Fire Department! Call out!

- Fire department! Call out!

- Bring in the extension hose for the ejectors

on the Delta side.

- Copy. - Confirming visual scan--

- Hey!

Found the leak!

♪ ♪

Tony, check this out!

- Hole's not that big.

I think I can plug it. - Do it!

♪ ♪

- Hey! - Hey!

- Hey, just hang tight.

We're working on stopping that leak,

but for now, you're safer in there.

- Everybody stay calm.

[indistinct chatter]

- Kidd, I got victims in the storage room,

Charlie-Bravo side,

totaling about 13 people.

One of the victims is in respiratory distress.

- Copy. - Hey, squad,

how's that leak going?

- We're working on it!

[gas hissing]

♪ ♪

- The hell is that?

Ah!

- Emergency! Tony's down!

Tony!

Tony's down!

Emergency! Tony's down!

♪ ♪

- The pressure spiked! Tony got a blast of ammonia!

- My neck's burning!

- The blast pulled his hood back from the face piece!

- Forget the leak! Just get Tony out of there now!

- Copy that! Let's go!

[gas hissing]

- All right, Kidd,

we're not gonna be able to stop the leak in time.

We gotta find a different way to get these people out.

- Copy.

[suspenseful music]

- Hey, Kidd, there's a cooling unit on the Bravo side.

See if you can pull it. - On it.

81, I need all hands on deck on the Bravo side, now!

- Guys, over here. Go, go, go!

♪ ♪

- Tony! Right this way.

We'll finish decon over here.

How you doing?

You have any trouble breathing?

- I'm good. - OK.

- What's your name? - Carmen.

- Carmen?

See that cooling unit back there?

- Uh-huh.

- You're gonna go out through there.

- The gas.

It's seeping in the room.

[people coughing]

- All right, just stay calm.

Get everybody together.

Get them away from that side of the room.

- OK.

[saw whirring]

♪ ♪

- Let's go!

- Go up there!

OK!

- All right, we're through the wall.

Send 'em! - Pull it out! Go!

[thudding]

- Go now! We're running out of time.

- OK. Come on, everyone, let's go.

- Easy. OK, get it down.

- Come on.

- Come on, come on! Let's go, let's go!

- OK, easy. Put it down!

- We got you. You're good.

Nice and easy.

You're gonna be OK. Watch the grate.

- Come on, come on!

Come on, feet first. I got you.

♪ ♪

- 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.

- Still gotta get you to Med, Tony.

- Is he OK? - He's--he's doing OK.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

- Hey, Capp. Saw a 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 of crispy bread crumbs.

- 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.

Why, you need medical attention?

- No. I, uh--I actually was--

Do you guys work with her? - 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 her.

- Thanks, man.

- Bryan with a Y?

Kind of pretentious.

- It looks like a shut-off 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've doubled or even tripled the pressure.

That's probably how Tony got blasted.

- Look at this rust.

See how it stripped off the stem like that?

Somebody just turned this.

- Almost got Tony killed.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- How's Tony doing?

- Uh, Med is gonna keep him overnight,

but just as a precaution.

He's gonna be fine.

- That's good.

Uh,

you got a minute?

- Yeah, what's up?

- Well, I just got off the phone with Chloe,

and she 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.

- Yeah, 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, Herrmann.

That kind of PT is really grueling.

And I--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 gotta be

some way to help him get back on track.

- You all know what happened on the call today,

so I'm only gonna 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 gonna 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.

Kidd's giving all of us one evaluation.

If nobody steps up, we're all screwed.

- That's what I'm saying.

- [sighs]

Does anyone know how Tony's doing?

- No.

Just that he's still at Med.

- You're pretty quiet over there, Burke.

I'm not saying anything 'cause 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 Kidd's pretty pissed.

- Whoa. Is that how Tony got injured?

- Yeah, I think so.

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

- [chuckles] - No.

He did not.

- Some guy left you his number. - Yeah.

- Really? Ha!

Was he cute?

- He looked like a young Mark-Paul Gosselaar.

- Oh.

- Sorry, I'm gonna need a little bit more.

- Tall, dirty blond hair, stubble.

- [gasps] Wait, I know who you're talking about.

He was, like, really hot.

Where's the number?

- Hey.

Just give me a sec.

- Ha. There we go.

The number's 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.

- OK. - OK.

You know, it really was an accident.

- Mm-hmm. Yeah, you said that already.

[whispers] 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 probies didn't do it?

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

And all our guys were accounted for.

- OK, could there have been something else

that caused the pressure to spike, some kind of glitch?

- A pressure surge couldn't have spun

that handwheel three turns.

And the rust shavings prove that it was turned.

Someone had to have physically done it.

- Yeah.

There is one way to figure out who it was,

if it's not too late.

[knocking]

- Hi. - Hey, Chloe.

- Herrmann's here. - Hey.

- Oh, here, let me grab some of that.

- Oh, thank you. - Aw.

You didn't have to bring anything.

- Oh, what? No, it's nothing.

It's just some stuff for the kids and some treats.

- Uh, thanks for coming by.

- Yeah.

- OK, uh, come on. He's in here.

- Hey.

- Hey, why didn't you tell me you were coming?

- Oh, you know, it 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, OK?

- [sighs]

- 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--

- All right, thanks.

OK.

OK, talk to me, Joe.

What's going on?

- I, um--I can't explain it to you, Herrmann.

- Try me.

- [exhales deeply]

- 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 gives up.

- Hmm, yep.

You don't understand.

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

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 Herrmann!

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.

[scoffs]

Look, man. Look, I know, all right?

I know. You're just--

I--

[sighs heavily]

[soft dramatic music]

I get these really bad headaches, man,

so I really need to rest.

- Of course.

All right.

♪ ♪

[clears throat]

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.

- Hmm.

♪ ♪

[exhales sharply]

- You can go in if you'd like.

- Oh, no, it's OK.

I don't wanna crowd him.

But he's-- he's all right?

- He'll be discharged in a few hours.

- That's good.

- You're in luck.

These were just about to be processed for decon.

- Thanks. [phone buzzing]

Tony's cleared for work.

- So he's back next shift? - Thank God.

I couldn't afford to lose another man

on the squad right now.

[plastic bags rustling]

- By the way, when we were on the call,

I heard you on the radio.

You called for Cruz.

- Force of habit.

♪ ♪

- Damn. You were right.

Rust still on the gloves.

Whose are they?

♪ ♪

- There he is!

- Hey! - Bounced right back.

- Too soon.

I was enjoying the peace and quiet.

- Yeah, yeah. - Oh, yeah, right.

He was moping around like a lost puppy.

- Not true.

Come on, let's sit down.

You look great. - Thanks, bud.

- How you feeling? - Good.

- Bryan's number.

- Wow.

How did you pull that off?

- Oh, it wasn't that hard.

I know the guy's first name was Bryan with a Y.

So I knew he was holding a public library bag,

and I just had Girardi put some--

- Wait, wait, wait. You called PD in on this?

- I mean, I didn't call in PD.

I just pulled the 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?

- Bryans with a Y.

- I gotta go check on the probies.

- Hey! You got my gift.

- Otis's cane?

What the hell are you trying to tell me,

that I should be grateful I'm still alive?

- No, Joe, I was just--

- No, 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.

Uh, I just, uh, had to drop something off.

I can't stay.

- Come on, you gotta stick around for breakfast at least.

- Yeah, everyone's gonna wanna see you.

- Yeah. Yeah, OK, yeah, for sure.

I--just real quick. - All right, all right.

- It's so good to see you, man. - Good to see you guys, too.

I'm good. I'm good. - 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.

OK, we need to figure out what we're gonna do with you, so go.

We're done here.

[door shuts]

- What do you wanna 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 don't 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.

[phone clacking]

Yo, McCaffrey, what the hell happened, bro?

- Not now, man, all right?

- Wait, did you--do they think you did it or what?

- I said back off!

- OK, so-- so what now?

[send message tone whooshes]

- It's gonna be fine.

I-I'm gonna fix it.

- Cruz.

- Hey!

- I didn't know you were dropping by.

- Yeah, I 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've been MIA.

You know, it's just--

- No, you don't owe me an explanation.

- Well, still, you know, I-- I feel bad.

Everybody's done so much for me.

- You know what?

You wanna make it up to me?

I could use your take on something.

It's important.

- That's a tough one.

This one time, uh, 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 ding in the fender,

and I act all surprised.

Like, well, clearly that happened when the car

was parked on the street.

[both chuckle]

- Did he believe you?

- Ah, yeah, he acted like he did.

And 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?

- Uh, 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?

I mean, 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.

- Ooh, is this hot bystander's number?

- Vasquez tracked it down for me off shift.

- Oh, really? - Yeah.

- You gonna to 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.

[alarm blaring]

- Ambo 61. Person down.

348 Cermak Road.

- Guy was in the middle of "Sweet Home Alabama"

and just collapsed.

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

- OK.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

Can't get a pulse.

- OK, might be in cardiac arrest.

♪ ♪

- Yep, he is in V-fib.

I'm gonna start compressions.

Charge to 200. - OK. Charging.

And clear.

♪ ♪

- All right, get IV access. I'll continue compressions.

♪ ♪

- OK, IV's in.

OK, charging.

And clear.

♪ ♪

- Hey, buddy. Welcome back.

Pulse is back, rhythm's steady.

All right, let's get him on a stretcher.

- Violet, are these contact burns?

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

Hey, where's the mic he was holding?

- Wait, no! - No!

[man yelps]

- Don't touch him. Cut the breakers.

You got this guy? - Yep.

- Excuse me.

OK.

OK.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

Great.

♪ ♪

Wow. Good pulse.

He's breathing.

- Man, you really know your way around a bar.

- Yeah, I was a cocktail waitress in college.

All right, Ambo 61 to Main.

We've got two patients here.

Need another ambo en route. Thanks.

- Copy, Ambo 61. - Let me just check your eyes.

- Second ambo en route.

- Leaving already? - Yeah.

Chloe's gonna be here soon.

Oh, what the hell did you guys do now?

- Mr. Bean here dropped a grinder,

knocked it out of alignment.

- Here, let me take a look.

Pass me that screwdriver.

- It was making that sound before I dropped it.

It's a motor issue.

- We all know how aggressive Tony is as a sawer.

- That's not a thing, and we just got

that new diamond blade, too.

- Yeah, I think it was just a rotor bearing problem,

because someone dropped it. - Hmm.

Aggressive sawer, huh?

How about you take care of our stuff?

- OK, you should be good.

[saw whirring]

- Boom!

- Still got it.

Let me take this thing for a spin.

[saw whirring]

- Like a hot knife through butter!

- Can you feel the diamonds?

- Hell yeah!

- Oh, hey, Burke.

I saw you leaving Med the other day.

Is everything OK? - Oh, yeah.

No, I just stopped by to check on Tony.

- And you didn't go in and say hi?

- I--I didn't want to bother him.

I just wanted to make sure he was good.

- Well, next time, stop in.

I think Tony would appreciate it.

- Hi, Chief.

Good to see you.

- Come on in. Have a seat.

- Thanks.

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?

- Actually, I came to see if there's

anything I could 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 is--

is--it's different now.

Their values, their priorities,

their--their sense of right and wrong, it's--

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 walked by his picture down at headquarters

a thousand times.

And his dad, Allen, 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.

[tense music]

- 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.

- Uh, 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 wanna see how it plays out?

- Uh, yeah.

How else would I want to spend my Friday night?

- [chuckles]

- You sure about this?

- Yeah.

- Take a seat.

[door shuts]

Last shift, you defied a direct order

which put a fellow firefighters' life at risk,

and then you lied about it. - I know, but I--

- I am not done.

After you got caught in your lie,

you had a choice to make.

You could've 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 wait a minute.

Hold on, you-- - It's done.

We've already made our recommendation

to the deputy commissioner.

- You--you don't have the power to do this.

- Oh, we do. - You're just a--

♪ ♪

[sighs]

♪ ♪

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

This isn't over.

♪ ♪

[door shuts]

- No way. Dude, you're out?

- No, they can't make that decision on their own,

all right? There's no way.

What?

- Dude, why didn't you just come clean?

- Oh, now you're a saint?

- I'm not the one who lied.

- Not this time, maybe.

- The hell are you trying to say?

- Everyone knows you're the shadiest dude here, Burke.

- Man, get out of my face. - No, 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?

- I just told her to come back later.

- So you could do busy work?

Hey. - [sighs deeply]

- You looking for this?

- Hey, you wanna 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, and I'm thinking about Chloe

and the boys, and--

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.

- [chuckles] - I'm serious.

All I could think was, oh, Severide

is going to be so pissed.

- We would've put it on your gravestone.

- Literally!

[laughter]

- Beloved husband, father--

- Yeah, lazy-ass who didn't fix the squeaky door.

[laughter]

[gentle music]

♪ ♪

- Joe.

♪ ♪

- Make yourself useful. - Yeah.

- Y'all, let's give it up for Kayla!

[cheers and applause]

All right.

We're gonna take a little break,

but we'll be back in 10 with more karaoke jams.

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

- Yeah, I'm glad it worked out.

- Yeah, it must've 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, or else I'd never hear the end of it.

- How many Bryans were there anyway?

Come on. [chuckles]

- 285.

- Wow.

OK, yeah, that's a lot of Bryans to sift through

just to prove that you don't care.

- Hmm. [clears throat]

- Oh.

You know you had your chance, right, Vasquez?

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

If you felt the same way, you should've said something.

- I tried.

- What do you mean?

- [sighs] Nothing, OK?

Just...

[soft dramatic music]

Whatever. It doesn't matter anymore, OK?

I'm gonna--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.

- It must've 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.

[gentle music]

♪ ♪

- I don't know, bro.

I'm trying to do the right thing, but...

Sometimes I don't know what that is.

[soft dramatic music]

♪ ♪

I just wish you were--

I wish you could tell me what to do.

♪ ♪

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[wolf howls]