Chicago Fire season 7, episode 2 recap: Going To War

This week’s episode of Chicago Fire set the stakes incredibly high. Here’s what happened in Chicago Fire season 7, episode 2.

Every One Chicago crossover has to be a huge event, and this week’s Chicago Fire episode was no exception. It started off this season’s first crossover in a very big (or is that tall?) way.

Wednesday’s episode is entitled “Going To War,” and starts with Chicago Fire‘s new addition Emily Foster (Annie Ilonzeh) still getting used to life at Firehouse 51.

But Foster quickly realizes things aren’t as professional as they’re cracked up to be—around one corner is her partner Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer) looking skittish, while in the other direction Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) and Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) are openly making out.

Oh, and let’s not forget Jerry Gorsch (recurring guest star Stephen Boyer) and whatever he’s up to now. Probably continuing his pathological dislike of doors.

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Luckily, literally everyone is called out to one of the biggest fire scenes yet: a downtown high-rise is up in flames. Seeing the size of the task in front of them, Chief Boden (Eamonn Walker) tells his women and men that they’re “going to war.”

There are all kinds of problems: the fire is on the 20th floor; one of the elevators is jammed; and there is a guy who looks mighty suspicious hanging around the stairwell until Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg) tells him to move along.

We’re sure that guy has nothing to do with it.

Oh, hey, one of the other paramedics recognizes Foster and is unenthused to see her! No, Chicago Fire isn’t dropping hints about her past at all.

But this is not the time for that, because Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) from Chicago PD has arrived to inform Boden that his father Pat lives on the 23rd floor. And the crews can’t even get onto 20.

After a few more scenes of evacuations, Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer) makes his way to Pat’s apartment only to find it empty. While Jay and his brother Will (Nick Gehlfuss) continue to worry, Otis (Yuri Sardarov) realizes that they’re missing a woman and her baby, too.

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Apparently, she was dumb enough to get into the broken elevator. Did this woman never see The Towering Inferno?

Patients begin arriving at Chicago Med, which allows Brett to question Foster about her past as a doctor. Foster says that she was a resident, but then cheated on her boards and was kicked out of medical school. Why does that sound like she’s not telling the entire truth?

While Stella questions Herrmann’s physical fitness, Mouch (Christian Stolte) rips into a rookie who seems to be completely dazed and confused. And Jay realizes his father is still in the building, gone back to help another, wheelchair-bound resident on floor 25.

"Mouch: The difference is civilians panic, firefighters react. And you are a firefighter. Get your ass off that ground, and let’s go."

Otis finds the woman and her baby dead in the now-fixed elevator. That’s right, Chicago Fire had to show us a completely immolated baby, still in his mother’s arms. It’s an image viewers did not need, but Yuri Sardarov plays Otis’s shock and grief so perfectly.

That leaves Pat Halstead and his neighbor as the two unaccounted for. Casey finds both of them alive, and personally pulls Pat out of the building. But he couldn’t do it without Mouch and the new kid, whom Mouch does his best to cheer up once they’re out of harm’s way.

Just as the coast seems clear, though, Joe Cruz (Joe Minoso) hears a voice from the 20th floor and realizes there’s a kid still trapped inside. But how? Where are this kid’s parents?

Back outside the building, Brett decides this is the appropriate time to question Casey about his breakup with Dawson, which is public knowledge now. Casey retorts that he’s angrier than she is and that neither of them could’ve stopped it.

He also gives Brett a goodbye gift from her now ex-partner: a photo of the pair together, on the back of which is written a note: “Love you, partner, and always will.”

Everyone else’s attention is focused on rescuing Josh. They find an unconscious woman who’s still alive, before Severide locates the boy. But with the fire getting too close, Severide decides he and the kid are going out the window—20 floors in the air. He has no idea that Stella has just passed out, so no one is coming to help him.

Severide finally breaks another window to get himself and Josh back on solid ground, but then it’s time to pull out an unconscious Stella. Herrmann is particularly affected, since he just lost a friend in a fire a few episodes ago. Will Stella make it? Well, that’s a question for Chicago Med.

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