Chicago Fire season 7, episode 16 recap: Fault In Him
Chicago Fire put Matthew Casey and Kelly Severide to the test this week. Find out what happened in our Chicago Fire season 7, episode 16 recap.
This week’s Chicago Fire turned an enemy into a friend, kind of, and turned a boyfriend into an ex in pretty short order. Talk about role reversals!
Wednesday’s installment “Fault In Him” saw Carl Grissom (Gary Cole) return to Firehouse 51 with a surprising piece of information: his new job as Fire Commissioner was already on the rocks, and he needed them to make him look good. Would they take advantage of his weakness to overthrow him?
Meanwhile, Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer) had another brush with death. And this time, while he was okay, the side effect was the demise of somebody else’s relationship. Heartbreak seems to be a constant around this firehouse.
Click through this slideshow to find out what happened in the latest Chicago Fire episode for each of your favorite characters, starting with:
Severide and Grissom
Kelly Severide’s (Taylor Kinney) morning got off to a weird start when Grissom paid him a visit at home. Grissom started pouring his heart out to Severide, talking about his “agenda” and how the mayor’s office is “coming after me.”
To that end, he revealed that the mayor’s office had put together a performance review task force, and he wanted Firehouse 51 to impress that task force – which Severide knew would also make Grissom look good. Chief Boden (Eamonn Walker) confirmed the news, while surprisingly agreeing that Grissom had been trying for “positive change.” Wait, what?
Later on, Grissom apparently sent several thousand dollars’ worth of new equipment to the firehouse, which got Severide calling him to tell him not to “buy praise,” but it turned out Boden had really made the order. It was just Grissom who’d signed off on it. Whoops. It was clear that Grissom really did need a win.
While Severide investigated the possibility that Grissom was being pushed out as Fire Commissioner (already), the task force’s arrival was interrupted by a call. They followed the team, so they got to see Grissom help Boden and Severide pull off a daring rescue. The task force was impressed, especially when Severide came to his frenemy’s defense with an impromptu speech.
Severide dropped by Grissom’s place later that night, where he found out that the task force had saved the other man’s job. The two decided to have a drink together, so Chicago Fire seemed to have turned Grissom from antagonist back to being an ally of the firehouse. Who’d have thought?