Chicago Fire season 7, episode 4 takeaways: This Isn’t Charity

What should fans take away from the latest Chicago Fire? Learn more about this week’s episode with our Chicago Fire season 7, episode 4 review.

What did One Chicago fans learn from this week’s Chicago Fire episode? Here’s what we took away from this week’s installment, “This Isn’t Charity.”

“This Isn’t Charity” involved Emily Foster (Annie Ilonzeh) once again defying the rules, this time trying to help a young girl, while Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer) played catch with a live grenade and the grenade won.

If you missed any of last night’s episode, or just want a refresher on the events that we’re going to discuss, you can catch up with our Chicago Fire recap.

Below are our takeaways from this week’s episode:

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1) Don’t play with grenades

The main storyline of this episode bordered on funny when it was revealed that the grenades being set off were the result of a confused woman putting them out in a garage sale.

Chicago Fire has done some odd plots, but this has to be up there. Even if you give the woman the benefit of the doubt and say she had some really good fake grenades, you’d think she’d have them checked first just to make sure they were replicas. That seems like common sense.

And it seemed like at least two of the three people who had said grenades, didn’t know they were real either! Why would the house fire victim be playing with a real grenade indoors, and obviously Kyle and his buddies had no idea while they were making their movie.

It seems like a stretch that so many people wouldn’t even suspect that they had live explosives in their hands.

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2) Mouch’s storyline feels familiar

Kudos to Mouch (Christian Stolte) for getting a firefighter a second chance, but is Ritter’s plotline making any Chicago Fire fans feel like they’ve seen this before?

After rookie firefighter Ritter froze during the high-rise fire two weeks ago, Mouch offered him a spot at Firehouse 51, thanks to Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg) transferring out one of the pranksters earlier in the episode.

However, remember the previous storyline where after Jason Kannell (Kamal Angelo Bolden) was involved in a tragic accident, Casey got him a position at Firehouse 51? What’s going to make this plotline different from that one? Kannell had a great comeback tale, only to be written out after a few episodes and never mentioned again. Ritter can’t just repeat that story.

3) Foster is kind of like Dawson

Over four episodes, Chicago Fire has given us more than one scene about how Foster compares to her predecessor Gabriela Dawson (Monica Raymund). Again here, Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer) made reference to her partnership with Dawson, while interacting with Foster.

While the show may be trying to explain how Foster is not Dawson, Emily certainly had a plotline that Dawson would’ve been proud of this week. “This Isn’t Charity” saw Emily not only come to the rescue of a 12-year-old girl, but wind up connecting with her personally as well, when she was at her hospital bedside at the end of the episode.

It’s no Dawson and Louie, or Dawson and Bria, but maybe these two aren’t as different as Chicago Fire has tried to get us to believe.

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