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?
Casey and Brett
After being surprised to see Grissom at his front door, Casey’s first call of the episode was almost as weird. He and Truck 81 had to help the police gain entry to a hoarder’s home. But when the cops said the building was clear, it really wasn’t; the presumed suicide was actually a murder, and the perpetrator tackled Casey.
Luckily, the cops came back to help get the gunman off of him, but it was still a rough start to the morning. At least Chicago Fire made a joke about the number of times Casey had nearly been killed. Even so, the incident still left him shaken. Enter Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer), the team’s sort of unofficial morale officer! She called Kyle Sheffield (guest star Teddy Sears), hoping that Kyle would be able to provide a shoulder for Casey to lean on.
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Kyle likewise showed up at the loft, but Casey rebuffed him and also sounded annoyed that Brett had told her boyfriend. He thought about calling his ex-wife Gabriela Dawson (Monica Raymund), but Chicago Fire was just teasing us with the promise of a Dawsey moment.
Casey eventually decided the person he’d talk to would be Boden, and admitted that the reason why he was so distraught was that he would’ve been killed except for that the gun had jammed the first time the murderer had tried to fire it. He was desperate to figure out why he had survived. Boden told him that he just had to keep moving.
But the situation also prompted Kyle to pull off a Chicago Fire shocker: he broke up with Brett! He thought their relationship was getting in the way of his job, because people like Casey couldn’t trust him if he was dating one of their co-workers. Though Brett said she understood, she still had a good cry in the hallway.
Otis
Of course, this Chicago Fire episode needed a comedic subplot, and One Chicago fans know who the show turns to for those stories! Mouch (Christian Stolte) had the results of a recent raffle, which included some good news for Otis (Yuri Sardarov). He’d won a mysterious “sports package.”
That turned out to be the chance to win $10,000 at an upcoming Chicago Blackhawks game if he could make a goal. One problem: Otis didn’t know how to play hockey. He didn’t even know how to skate. So the rest of Firehouse 51 rallied to teach him what he needed to know, in order to cash that check.
Brett and Emily Foster (Annie Ilonzeh) treated a hockey player bitten by a spider, and Foster used that to get professional help for Otis. (The fact that Foster bet money on Otis being able to make the shot also had something to do with it.) After some work with Frank, it was time for Otis to take the ice.
And so “Fault In Him” ended with Otis’s big moment. He missed his first shot, and barely missed the second. In true TV fashion, it all came down to his last attempt, which was clean through the center target. Everyone had a major freakout at the fact that Otis had just won $10,000—and a few of his friends had made some money betting on him besides.
He could use that money to get a few drinks, because after everything else that happened in this episode, a few are certainly in order.
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