Chicago Fire season 7, episode 6 recap: All The Proof

Chicago Fire serves up tremendous heartbreak and a few scares this week. Here’s what happened in Chicago Fire season 7, episode 6.

With everything going sideways at Firehouse 51, this week’s Chicago Fire decided that adding a personal tragedy was a great idea. It really wasn’t.

“All The Proof” starts as Jerry Gorsch (recurring guest star Steven Boyer) says that he’s taking the reins of the firehouse, and Chief Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker) can ride a desk. Boden points out that Gorsch is woefully unqualified for the position. Gorsch does not care, and takes over the morning briefing—which he fails at.

Luckily an alarm interrupts him. Our heroes are summoned to a hotel—where they find a couple deceased on the bed, having killed themselves by chemical inhalation. But enough chemical gas remains that it could also kill everyone else in the hotel.

Does Gorsch know how to call the Hazmat guys? Could one of them be Zach from last season? No and no, respectively. You almost have to feel for Steven Boyer, who has to deliver line after line as if he’s stumbling over the English language.

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During evacuation of the hotel, Joe Cruz (Joe Minoso) rescues a young boy so he gets to be a hero again! It also makes him decide the rest of the squad has to learn Spanish, since he was the only one able to help the kid.

But he’s cut off by Chaplain Orlovsky (guest star Gordon Clapp) announcing that not only is he retiring but he’s got a replacement on deck. That would be Kyle Sheffield (new recurring guest Teddy Sears).

He’s an old friend of Emily Foster (Annie Ilonzeh), and greets her with a big hug. But is there more to their story than poker games?

Gorsch isn’t handing out hugs, instead coming into Boden’s office and complaining about “reckless insubordination” because the rest of the team had to do his job for him.

He has a whole handful of write-ups he’s going to file, like the massive nitpicker that he is. And Boden realizes he can’t really back his men up, since he wasn’t at the hotel to see what happened. Uh, Wallace, now you see why Gorsch didn’t want you in the field, right?

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Boden goes into the bathroom to stare grimly in the mirror, and encounters Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney). Severide says he got a message from his father about possible help and is meeting him after shift.

Meanwhile, Chicago Fire re-introduces reporter Naomi Graham (Kate Villanova). She wants to get more advice from Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer), wanting to write more exposes. It sounds like she’s trying to build her career on him.

Then she asks him to dinner, which Casey says yes to. He even says “you remind me of someone I know.” Is Chicago Fire really comparing this woman who is obviously flirting with him to Gabriela Dawson (Monica Raymund)? That’s audacious.

Cruz is trying to teach everyone else Spanish through Post-It Notes, and Foster wants to set her partner up with Kyle. Neither of these things will go well. Time for another alarm to break up the so, so awkward!

Foster and Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer) are called to help a five-year-old who’s somehow high on drugs. Dad realizes that the kid got into his marijuana, which understandably infuriates Mom. She doesn’t want him coming with her to the hospital.

And then Foster admits that she has more history with Kyle—before he was a chaplain, he was a patient! Hearing Kyle’s story about multiple surgeries, rehab and finding his calling, Brett seems to reconsider her offer of his phone number.

After some advice from Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo), Cruz decides to get his friends to watch telenovelas so they’ll pick up Spanish that way. When they’re not looking at a scantily clad actress. Or Severide isn’t asking Casey about his dinner with Naomi.

But when he gets stood up for their planned meeting, Severide becomes suspicious of his father. And that’s when Chicago Fire starts the plot that punches us in the stomach.

Casey has dinner with Naomi—they’re even sharing the same huge piece of cake. Then she tries to kiss him, and finally Chicago Fire has him realize what’s happening here. He says he’s not sure if he and Dawson are separating or divorcing; she says to call her when he figures it out.

Um, Matt, Gabby took a permanent job in another country. How are you two not getting a divorce? Are you going to separate on the off chance she decides to come back to Chicago? But at least that ambiguity keeps the show from having him make out with a woman he just met an episode ago.

Let’s get back to what matters here, which is Severide. He finds out that his father had a stroke the night before, and has been admitted to Chicago Med. Dr. Ava Bekker (Norma Kuhling) is there and immediately apologizing; she tells him Benny died ten minutes earlier.

Yep, another One Chicago parent killed off for dramatic impact.

Boden breaks the news to Firehouse 51, taking them out of service so that they can go and help their friend. But then he finds out Gorsch is being pulled back to headquarters, vowing to have his revenge all the way out the door. What happened?

In the final minutes of “All The Proof” there’s a bittersweet Chicago Fire reveal. The last thing that Benny Severide did before he died was ask Carl Grissom to oust Jerry Gorsch. Kelly, regretting even more his last words to his father, realizes Benny came through for him in the end. Now where does he go from here?

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