Chicago Fire season 7, episode 12 recap: Make This Right
Mouch and Otis
Chicago Fire fans know that one thing you don’t do is mess with the firehouse TV. That put Mouch (Christian Stolte) in a bad mood, which prompted Otis (Yuri Sardarov) to crack jokes about his age, which made Mouch’s mood worse.
But at least it got Trudy Platt (Amy Morton) to also visit from Chicago PD, revealing that the couple has a spare TV at home! And their spare TV is bigger than some people’s primary TV’s. But Otis had to keep joking about Mouch being older, leading Mouch to snap on him and call him “barely a man at all.” Yeowch.
Mouch didn’t want to go to Molly’s with the crew, and he even approached Chief Boden (Eamonn Walker) about transferring to another shift! This concerned Ritter (recurring guest star Daniel Kyri) but the rest of the team didn’t seem as bothered, telling the new guy that Mouch and Otis had to work things out between themselves.
Trudy, for her part, reminded Mouch that they’d had the retirement discussion several times, and reassured him that he was “in your prime.” That simple reassurance lifted Mouch’s spirits, though it wasn’t enough to make him want to stay for poker night with Trudy’s friends. (Having met one of Trudy’s friends last week, no one can blame him!)
The next day, Ritter ignored everyone’s advice and tried to talk to Mouch, who explained that this was something that had been happening between him and Otis for a long time. He was over it by now and wanted an apology from Otis. However, Otis wanted an apology from Mouch, because he thought humor was “the cornerstone of firehouse life.” Ritter got a headache.
The two even started bickering when responding to the next rescue call where everybody had to go pry an idiot teenager out of an art sculpture. The museum’s curator was not happy about the team having to cut up the art, but it was a no-brainer. Like that scene out of Shipping Wars, the team sliced the sculpture, freed the kid, and then tried to put it back together.
Finally, Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg) told the two of them to make up already, and they literally hugged it out. Good old Herrmann, keeping people’s relationships in line since forever.