Original subtitles

This is a Randall McColland original.

A memoir?

I send it out, see if any publishers are interested.

He put me under review.

You think this is about your dad suspending him?

You go dig him for info now, you're interfering with an active

investigation. This isn't just about me, Stella, it's about protecting 51.

Let's you and me do this together.

Lieutenant Kidd does not have access to the files she requested.

Right. When I see her next shift, I will let her know.

Hey, come in.

So how much did Hargrave tell you?

She said she offered to hand you the reins at OFI.

Yeah, that was only to get me out of the Hopkins situation.

Hargrave thinks that it might help squash the internal review you ordered.

Where's Stella?

Stella had to take off late last night to Cleveland to go see Isaiah.

Everything all right there? Yeah, his mother had a little setback in her

recovery. Sorry to hear that. Doc thinks she's going to be okay, but Isaiah was a

little freaked out.

Before Stella left, she showed me this.

That was dropped off here anonymously yesterday.

Turns out Hopkins and some other firefighter, Williams, were accused of

stealing some high-end watch and a structure fire back in 1997.

IAD eventually cleared them of any wrongdoing, but Benny still suspended

them for conduct unbecoming and had them transferred out of 66.

This explains why Hopkins is coming after you.

It's retaliation. More like revenge, and he's willing to break up 51 to get it.

Then there's no way in hell I'm going to let that happen. Take it to IAD.

I got to comb through this file first. I got to make sure I understand everything

and everything that happened before I make a retaliation case to IAD.

Whatever you do, you got to do it fast.

You don't have much time before IAD issues their finding in your case.

How much time are we talking about?

A couple of days at most.

Chief. Lieutenant.

My office.

What is going on, boss?

Lots happened in the past week that I haven't been able to read you in on, but

with Stella gone, I could really use your help.

Absolutely, whatever you need.

Shut the door. Come on in.

Hey, Lucy.

I got a bone to pick with you.

What did I do?

You've been here a month, and I have yet to see you over at Molly's.

Okay, well, I didn't know I was invited.

Oh, yeah.

It's 51's bar. It makes it your bar, too.

Thanks very much.

It means a lot. Two drink minimum, because I got three kids. I got to put

their calories. Okay, all right, all right.

Hey, Marge, you getting a jump on a cab inspection?

No, I'm stashing my phone in there. I have to get it off my person.

I'm just going to keep checking it.

You know, I got to do the same thing with Annabelle's phone.

Oh, did she send a memoir out to publishers too?

So I take it that you haven't heard anything yet?

50 query letters and not one reply.

It's a book, Marge. You got to give the publishers some time. Not everybody

reads as fast as I do.

Didn't it take you two years to read the Da Vinci Code?

I was savoring it.

No, don't get me wrong. I love to see Molly's killing it, especially since the

Herman family is starting their rebuild soon.

But last night was insane. I know, right? It was popping off, as the kids

say. And yet, no Vasquez again.

Yeah.

Speak of the devil.

Hey, Serpico.

We missed you at Molly's last night. Where were you? At Mike's cop bar?

Something like that.

Squad 3, engine 51, truck 81, ammo 61.

Motor vehicle accident.

427, bring scene after.

Hey.

Hey, I saw the whole thing. This truck, it swerved to avoid a pedestrian and

then bounced off the curb. Slow down. What truck?

It's down there.

Hey, back up.

Hey, make some room.

Hey, back up. Everybody back up. Let's see.

Hang on, bud. We'll get you out.

Hey, we got a fuel spread.

It's coming from the truck.

Copy that.

Doherty, let's drop two lines.

Help, please. Please, please, please help.

Please get me out.

Hey, Herbert, we got two victims, one in each vehicle.

Squads, charts and cribbing now. Copy.

Guys, grab the cutters and charge.

Copy.

Just hang on, all right? We gotta stabilize this truck, and then we'll get

you out. Okay.

Let's go! Let's go! We gotta move!

Hey, Erwin. Yeah?

You get the victim out of the sedan once I give you the all set.

Copy that.

All right, anyone's ready to go.

30 seconds, Arlen.

All right, charge both lines and stand at the ready. Koki, stay on the fuel.

Cups. Trunks are set.

All right, Herman, you're good to go. All right, guys. Spread that door open.

Hey, bud. Do you hear me?

Sit tight. We'll get you out. Who's getting a C collar and a half scale?

I'll be back. Cap? I'm on it.

There we go. We got it.

Ballard? Got it.

Thank you for your help.

How you doing, miss?

We're gonna get you out of here, okay? Just nice and easy.

Nice and easy.

It's good.

Thank you.

Here you go, Lieutenant.

Seat collar, please. Thank you.

Novak, for your help.

You got it?

Hang on.

There you go.

Hi, Cruz. You guys coming in?

I got it.

There you go. Got you.

Watch your head. Let me grab her head. Got it.

Ready? Three, two, one.

Good job. All right, we're gonna pull you up and out of here. It's gonna hurt

a bit, okay?

Ready? Yeah, ready.

Got a battery on. Wash it down!

Wait! No!

March!

Hold! Hey!

Wait till everybody's clear.

The water's gonna spread on the gas vapors.

One, two, three, go!

Got it, bud? A little lower.

We got it, Bill. All right. Get him to the medics.

All right.

Let's grab some oil, dry mop all this up, keep it out of the drains.

Hey, listen. Mouch?

Nice job.

Mouch!

Five companies responded to a fire at a shoe store in Bridgeport. Two truck, two

engine, one ambo. And Benny was the incident commander.

Right. And at some point, he ordered both Hopkins and Williams into the

jewelry shop next door to check for victims and fire extension.

Once the operation was over, the owner of the jewelry store discovered that a

watch valued at approximately $50,000 was missing from his back office.

Well, how did they rule out insurance fraud? That seems like the obvious

explanation.

Well, it looks like the security footage put the watch on top of a work table

right up to the point where the firefighters got there and cut the power

to the building. Cameras went dark after that.

Huh. And according to this, Hopkins and Williams were the only two firefighters

who ever went in the jewelry store.

Uh, wait.

Well, that means it had to be one of them. There's no other possibility.

But you said that IED cleared them. What was their defense?

I don't know. The official findings said insufficient evidence.

Do you have Hopkins and Williams form twos over there? Uh, Hopkins.

And, uh, Williams.

Wait.

This is Williams?

Yeah, why?

This woman came to the firehouse looking for Hopkins last week, right before the

charges came down against you.

She has to be in on it with him.

It makes perfect sense. She's got all the same reasons as Hopkins.

Same beef against Benny.

I have to go talk to her. You sure that's a good idea?

She's not going to admit to anything.

From what I know about Hopkins, he's obviously willing to steamroll anyone to

get what he wants.

Maybe that includes Williams.

Hey, I guess we need to talk about the car.

Just writing it up now.

Look, I did not mean to undermine you in front of your company in what you were

setting up to do, you know, throwing water down. That is usually the right

move, but in this case... You spent years on Engine. You know your stuff.

It's no problem.

You're not acting like it's no problem.

It's this book.

I guess. I suppose I just don't like the waiting.

Okay, well, maybe stashing your phone away is making it worse. You want me to

go get it? No, no, just leave it.

I'm trying to keep myself occupied.

Okay, well, don't let me stop you.

Captain

Williams?

Kelly Severi? Yeah, I know who you are, Lieutenant. I have no intention of

discussing an ongoing investigation with you.

So I suggest you stop whatever it is you're doing before you make your

situation any worse.

I'm just trying to understand this massive grudge that Hopkins has against

my father.

I've read the full disciplinary file, and from what I can see... If you've

read the file, then you know IAD cleared us.

They never found the watch. They never found a single shred of physical

evidence against us.

And yet, your father still took it upon himself to try to derail our careers.

Because you and Hopkins were the only ones who ever went in that store. Ever.

It may not have been enough to bring on criminal charges, but if I'm in my

father's shoes, I'm sure I would have come to the same conclusion.

Okay. That's enough, Lieutenant.

If I'm wrong, you tell me what I'm missing.

All I know is what I saw with my own eyes.

Hopkins was next to me the whole time. That's how I know he didn't do it and

how he knows I didn't do it.

As for who else may or may not have been inside that store in zero visibility

smoke conditions, I can't speak to that.

Wait a sec. Are you saying that there was someone else in there?

Who? The reports said every other firefighter on scene was accounted for.

That's right.

But who accounted for the incident commander?

You saying my father did it?

This meeting is over, Lieutenant. I have work to do.

How the hell did Severod get his hands on that file? It was definitely pulled

from my department. I'll find out by who.

Severhead's trying to connect the dots between his IAD review and what Benny

did to us back in the day.

That's why he came to see me.

He's gonna argue the charges against him are retaliatory.

He was.

I think he's on a whole different track now that he knows there's more to the

story than what's in the official report.

Did you tell him it was Benny who stole the watch?

Not exactly, but he put it together.

Getting rid of Severide and his kind is obviously the goal here.

But Benny's dead, Gene.

And now we've set up his son to take him down?

It feels more, I don't know, personal somehow.

And what good will it do anyway?

The case has been cold for 30 years.

You really think that Severide's gonna magically solve it now? I wouldn't worry

about it, Andre.

But if he's off chasing ghosts, that just means he's not building a

retaliation case against us. And that's a good thing for the whole CFD, right?

Benny takes command outside of Urban Soul, that's the shoe store, at, uh, 6

.01.28.

He orders Hopkins and Williams to force the jewelry store security gate at 6.04

.14. And then Hopkins.

Two inside, Chief.

Working our way through the showroom. Moderate smoke.

No hot spots on the Delta side yet.

Then 60618.

Hopkins says, I got a locked door back here.

Bravo Charlie Corner.

I'm guessing it's an office. Forcing it now.

Hopkins, office is clear, Chief. We're moving back to the showroom. And that's

at 60944.

Okay, Williams got a bunch of smoke coming in from somewhere.

Still negative on the Delta side.

Fire sprinklers just triggered, cooling things down.

And then Benny issued the order for them to pick up and secure the doors at 6-14

-44.

And then Hopkins.

Two out, Chief.

Doors are secure at 6-16-59.

16-59.

That's more than ten minutes.

They had all the time in the world. And nobody else goes inside until after the

owner showed up.

Let's track Benny.

Benny, he was out front asking for progress reports, calling out smoke

conditions every couple of seconds, and at 6.04.31, they pull a victim out of

the shoe store. 6.04.31.

There's a bunch of back and forth between the medics and the main for the

next few minutes. Male victim, 50, severe smoke inhalation.

Yep, Benny reported the paramedics were departing for Lakeshore.

At 6-11-28.

And, um... Let's see here, we... What happened next?

What is it, Cruz?

Um... Benny was off radio for, uh, 98 seconds?

I mean, the statement says that he was outside the whole time, but he was alone

for those 98 seconds.

No one could corroborate his whereabouts.

Well, that doesn't prove anything. We just have to comb through the files and

find another way to nail down where he was for those 98 seconds.

Why?

I'm sorry.

Maybe I'm not sure what it is we're doing here exactly.

If there's something else you want to say here, Cruz, I just... I keep

thinking what Kid would say if she was here and how...

Maybe she'd be trying to keep you from digging into Benny's past like this

I'm so sorry. I just I thought this was about saving your job. It's all

connected Cruz. I got to see it through You

know what I don't get huh smash burgers when did that become a thing

You don't like smash burgers? Okay, what do we do? We're scraping the griddle and

putting all that fried gunk on the patty? Ew, no thank you. That's it. We

are getting cashies for dinner. Evo 61, we got a person down of unknown causes,

512 Kenwood Avenue. Truck 81 is en route to assist.

Copy that. On our way.

A girl passed out upstairs.

We tried to wake her up, but she's really out of it. Okay. All right, pass

the stair chair.

Yep. Show us the way.

What's this girl's name?

I'm not sure. I never met her before. She came with this girl Becca, but Becca

just took off. Did they do any drugs, do you know? I don't know. I heard some

people were doing X, but this doesn't seem like what that is.

Okay, let's grab naloxone and the nasal atomizer.

Heidi? Oh my god, Heidi!

Heidi, Heidi!

Oh god, it's your sister.

Hey.

Come on, Heidi, it's me.

It's Lizzie, come on.

Heidi!

Hey, hey, Heidi, Heidi.

Hey, Heidi. Heidi, wake up. Come on.

Hey, come on. Wake up, wake up. Yep, you got it.

Novak, Novak, steer away.

Come on.

Come on. Right now, lock someone coming in.

She's still unresponsive.

Okay, but rhythm is steady.

Pulse is strong. Stats are coming up. Okay, just keep bagging. I'll start an

IV, and we'll give her another dose.

Lizzie, you want me to take over?

Okay. Second dose coming in.

Here we go.

She should be waking up.

Just give it a couple seconds, okay?

Okay, let's get her on the stair chair. You got it. Back up. It's okay, it's

okay.

Found unresponsive, no respiration pupils pinpoint.

Gave two milligrams of naloxone intranasal, no response. Gave another

two IV.

Sat for 95 on 15 liters of oxygen.

It's okay, you're gonna be all right, okay? Let's put her on the monitor,

check her SpO2, and get more naloxone.

You go to a party, somebody offers you something, these days there's no way of

knowing whether it's safe or not.

I can't imagine seeing your sister like that. I hope Heidi's okay.

Yeah. Narcan sure did its job.

Yeah.

Is that music?

No, it's a ringtone.

Holy hell.

Mouch!

Hey, Mouch!

Publisher's calling.

Send it to voicemail. What?

No, hey, this could be the call.

What are you doing? All you've been talking about is wanting to hear from

me. Didn't I tell you to keep the phone in the rig?

Okay, so now you don't want to sell the book? I don't know.

Herman, okay? I don't know. Is that all right with you? Hey, you saw the book.

Don't saw the book. I don't care.

I got your back either way, but don't go yelling at me just because I was trying

to help you.

This is the only camera that was able to catch the entire frontal.

That rig there is blocking most of the view.

You can see Benny pop up in a bunch of the frames.

There. There.

There. But not during the 98 seconds.

Maybe we missed something in one of the Form 2 statements.

Hey.

You see this one?

I didn't realize how deep the building went.

Benny had a 98-second window, right?

Well, do we know for sure that that was enough time for him to go inside, grab

the watch, and come back out? Between the front door and the back office, it's

50 feet at least.

It's not just the distance. He would have been crossing in zero visibility

and have to navigate through all sorts of obstacles, the jewelry cases,

countertops, and God knows what else.

Maybe we can reconstruct the exact path from the insurance photos.

This counter's on both sides, but it looks like it's a straight shot to the

back of the store.

Maybe this display thing could have slowed them down a bit, but...

What time

did Benny report Engine 24 landing?

Um... 6-14-41.

What time did the sprinkler system at the jewelry store go on?

6-14-38.

We're looking at the wrong time window.

Yes, yes, ma'am. We're still waiting on a medical update.

So with your permission, I would like to take 61 out of service for the duration.

Understood. Okay, thank you.

Yeah, I'll let her know.

Hey. How is she?

We don't know yet.

but someone should be out any minute with an update.

How the hell did this happen, Lizzie?

Did someone slip something in her drink?

She wouldn't take that stuff intentionally, right?

Novak family?

That's us. What's going on?

Your sister's awake and stable.

She's still a little foggy, but doctor says you can go in and see her now.

We've got to stop meeting like this.

I'm sorry, Lucy.

What are you thinking?

I don't know.

It wasn't...

You cannot keep going down this road, Heidi. This has to stop.

What are you guys talking about?

This isn't the first time.

This has happened before.

I'm sorry, well, I... How could you guys not tell me?

We weren't really talking, remember?

And you've been off doing your own thing.

Living way the hell out in Aurora with that girl and your dogs.

Her name's Jolene, Heidi.

And that's your explanation?

That's not what this is.

We just, we didn't want to worry you. Like you didn't want to worry me when

you were here?

They thought you might die.

What the hell is wrong with this family?

Night Chief, I'll upload all these requisitions for you before I go.

I noticed something.

Highly sensitive files were pulled from personnel recently.

So I looked into who requested them.

Well, I'm sure you can imagine my surprise when I discovered it was me.

I wasn't... I know how it looks. I just... It doesn't matter, Lucy.

I'm sure you had your reasons.

The only thing that matters is I can't trust you anymore.

Chief. I have to let you go.

You're done here, 51.

You know how I found out about what really happened to mom?

Some girl at school told me.

Isla Daniels.

She was the worst.

I'm so sorry, Will, that... I'm not saying that's on you.

You were just a kid, too.

I guess sometimes you think you're protecting someone,

but you don't realize you're just pushing them away.

You're still here.

Worse.

Yeah, we wouldn't leave without making sure you're okay, Heidi.

You know that, right?

I am... so not okay.

It's just, uh... I don't know how to stop.

I need help or something, I guess.

It's okay.

We can do that. Whatever you need, Heidi, we can figure it out together.

Right, Will?

You better have a damn good reason for coming to my home, Lieutenant.

I do, Chief.

I assume Captain Williams told you I got my hands on your disciplinary file.

I've gone over every inch of the case. There's only three people who could have

stolen that watch.

My father, Captain Williams, and you.

Listen here, Lieutenant.

What if I told you I had clear photographic evidence that definitively

ruled out at least one of those people?

Hey. Hey.

How's Heidi?

She's okay. They are keeping her overnight so she can detox and so they

can all figure out next steps. But supposedly she's breathing well and all

of her vitals are stable.

Oh, good.

Good. And Novak's in there with her?

Yeah.

I'm sure she'll be really glad that you came.

Yeah. I mean, geez, after everything she's been through. Now this.

Yeah.

But she's tough as nails, you know? She can handle a lot.

Oh, yeah. You're right, you're right. Yeah.

What? What?

Nothing.

I was just thinking that, um... Lizzie is a really amazing person.

Hmm.

Yeah, she is.

Sorry to make you wait, Andre. That was my son's school.

What's going on?

Severod came to see me at home.

Damn, the guy is relentless.

He showed me something I thought you'd find interesting.

This is an insurance photo, I take it?

See that right there?

The missing watch box left the residue on the table from when the sprinklers

activated and doused the whole space.

And? That means it was still there when the sprinklers turned on.

Right, I'm still not following.

The watch was stolen after the sprinklers were triggered.

Benny was MIA for 98 seconds.

Plenty of time for him to have done it, right?

Except that 98-second window was before the sprinklers went on.

By the time they went on, he was out front calling out Engine 24's arrival.

Benny Severide couldn't have done it.

I'm not sure what you're implying, but... You said you were right behind me

the whole time. I was. You know I was, Andre. You said you dropped to your

knees because you maxed the malfunction after the sprinklers went on.

That's why I lost track of you for a minute.

And I believed you.

Because we were partners.

After all they put the two of us through at Benny's firehouse, the hazing, the

freezing us out, I guess I thought I deserved something for it.

But I never meant for it to fall on you.

But it did, Jean.

You hung me out to dry.

You derailed my career.

You did that.

Not Benny Severide.

Williams, cop to it.

I have requested your internal review be terminated immediately.

Knowing what I know now should have never been started in the first place.

All due respect, Chief, the facts of a 30-year-old case should have never been

relevant, no matter what they were.

You're not wrong.

But I meant what I know about you now, Captain.

I made some big assumptions about you, about who you were.

My judgment was clouded.

And that's on me.

My father may have never been a thief, but he was a difficult person.

No one knows that better than me.

A man could put people through hell.

True.

But he also made me tougher.

Showed me how bad I wanted this life.

I suspect he did the same for you.

I'll be back at working out of my old office at 20 next shift.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Hey, how's she doing? Hey, she's okay.

Yeah? They're keeping her another night, so I was going to head home to shower

and change and catch a nap before coming back to pick her up.

Will's going to come too.

Really? Yeah, he's going to stay in the city for a couple of days.

Oh, good.

How long have you been here?

Oh, not long.

Nice try. I don't know if you can tell from his little trash pile, but he's

been loitering here for hours.

Well, thank you for being here.

Yeah. Both of you.

Of course.

Hey, I'm gonna clean that up.

Oh, thanks. Bye.

Yeah.

Hey, you really didn't have to come.

I know.

Y'all ready?

Uh, yeah.

I don't know. I said that Hopkins is still running the house. He's just not

working out at 51 anymore.

Well, hopefully that means that things will finally get back to normal around

here. You think Lucy goes with him?

I'd say ask her yourself, but I'm not sure she's coming in.

Now that you mention it, I didn't see her when I clocked out this morning.

Excuse me.

What's with the sidebar here?

Keeping a secret? Nah.

I just don't want them hearing me apologize.

Oh, come on, Marge. You don't have to do this.

I was pushing. No, you were trying to help.

As per usual.

After that crash yesterday when you saved our asses, I walked away feeling

something wasn't right.

Couldn't put my finger on it until you stormed off.

That's when it hit me.

You were wrong.

Is this you still being sorry?

You said the problem with my book was it needs more mouch, but that's

not all it was missing.

This book, it shouldn't be a memoir because I didn't get here alone.

Someone's always had my back.

Brothers in Arms, the story of a friendship forged in fire.

I wouldn't be lieutenant if it weren't for your sacrifice.

Hell, I'd probably be home pining for the good old days. The point is,

this isn't my story.

It's ours.

Come on, Mouch. You don't have to do that.

I do.

And don't worry.

I'll make sure you look good.

Oh, yeah. Well, that's the easy part, see? Honestly, what I'm worried about is

you having to, you know, share the spotlight with a natural hero type like

me.

I think I'll manage.

How's Isaiah's mom doing?

Better. Sounds like things are moving in the right direction.

Stella's heading back tomorrow.

Well... You two will have a lot to catch up on, I bet.

I have to admit, I wasn't sure how this whole Hopkins thing was going to play

out. I figured the odds of you digging up something useful out of that dusty

old file were pretty slim.

Thanks for keeping that to yourself the other day. Yeah, well, after all these

years, I should have known you'd go ahead and solve the whole damn thing.

Well, I had plenty of help from Cruz.

I'm just glad 51's no longer in anyone's crosshairs.

Listen, Kelly.

I know this is a complicated subject for reasons that go way back, which is why

I've never pushed you on it.

What?

Hargrave's idea for you to take over OFI.

That wasn't just about your internal review.

She's leaving.

That office is yours if you want it.

If you'd asked me a few years ago, I might have felt differently.

I mean, I've always known that you were meant to be at OFI. It's in your blood.

That much is obvious.

But it's more than that.

The last couple years, the leader you've become, the leadership you've shown

through this Hopkins thing, the way I've seen you fight, not just for yourself,

for your whole firehouse, that's just the kind of leadership that OFI needs

right now.

And I really hope you'll consider it.