Chicago Fire season 6 episode 13 recap: Hiding Not Seeking

Thursday night’s tense episode of Chicago Fire brought the year’s first One Chicago crossover event with Chicago PD to an exciting close.

The second half of the Chicago PD/Chicago Fire crossover event picked up right where it left off and then kicked right into high gear! At the conclusion of Wednesday night’s Chicago PD episode, Detective Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) had just convinced Firehouse 51 to take a very big risk and become key players in the hunt for a serial bombing suspect.

By the end of Chicago PD, the likely serial bomber had been identified as a vengeful former journalist, Sheppard, whose life had been destroyed by a fake news story falsely accusing him of a murder and the resultant social media storm around it. He was now methodically carrying out his revenge against the media he held responsible.

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The Intelligence Unit knew who their prime suspect was but he was in the wind and they needed help from Firehouse 51 to pick up the trail. Under the pretense of performing wellness checks to follow-up on all their patients, paramedics Gabriela Dawson (Monica Raymund) and Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer) gained entrance into a reluctant, anxious, and potentially violent George Lair’s home and distracted him while Detective Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) snuck into the house and cloned the hard drive.

While Intelligence combed through the computer files, Firehouse 51’s Lt. Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) and Chief Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker) followed their own hunch looking for a possible “practice location” that Sheppard may have used in preparing for the ultimate bombing plan. Assuming a high likelihood that things would have gone wrong during the planning phase, thus causing a need for a fire response at the practice location, they combed over the records of old fire calls in the vicinity of the suspect’s home and were able to provide Intelligence with the key to finding Sheppard. The prep location contained not only bomb making materials, but also photographs of the previous victims and his likely next victim: his former boss at the newspaper, the editor who had fired him.

PD raced to the newspaper offices only to learn that the editor routinely came in late on that day of the week, always taking the train. Realizing that the train station was likely the final standoff, PD radioed to have the train station evacuated and Firehouse 51 jumped into action. Before Intelligence and CPD could arrive, Casey (Jesse Spencer) and Severide spotted Sheppard as he approached his former boss with explosives strapped to his chest. It was our firefighters who saved the day, tackling Sheppard to the ground before he could detonate the vest and keeping him down until Voight arrived to cuff him.

Although catching the serial bomber was the dramatic focus of the event, we were also treated to some of the personal storylines of Firehouse 51 heating up while others slammed on the brakes.

Joe Cruz (Joe Minoso) was a bit too upset that his former girlfriend and current roommate Sylvie Brett was taking part in the sting operation. His obsessive worrying was so obnoxious that Brett actually hid out in Casey’s office to avoid him. That didn’t stop the on again, off again romance between Brett and Antonio Dawson (Jon Seda) from catching a spark again at the end of the event, with a jealous Cruz looking on from across Molly’s. What will be Cruz’ reaction when he discovers that things progressed from Molly’s and “Brettonio” ended the night fully ignited in Antonio’s car?

Meanwhile, the budding romance between Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) and firefighter Zach (guest star Daniel Di Tomasso) came to a full stop after a very astute Zach interrupted an innocent, yet slightly too connected, moment between Stella and Severide which elicited a very nervous response from Stella. Although Stella was a bit stunned, she got over it quickly and the long simmering romance between her and roommate Severide began to seem more likely as they ended the evening together on the couch at home watching old romantic movies and both looking very happy to be doing so.

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This first Chicago crossover for 2018 gave us an event that differed from those we’ve experienced in the past. While previous crossovers have given us district episodes of each separate show sprinkled with guest appearances to tie them together, this PD/Fire crossover was truly a seamless coming together of the casts and storyline.

Showrunners Derek Haas (Fire) and Rick Eid (PD) created a crossover that was more like a two-hour movie and hopefully that is an approach to the One Chicago crossovers we’ll see again. Pairing it with the original Chicago show that started it all, Chicago Fire, was a unique and satisfying way to celebrate the 100th episode of Chicago PD.

What did you think of the latest in the One Chicago crossover events? Let us know in the comments below and be sure to tune in for new episodes of all the One Chicago shows next week on NBC.

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