Chicago Fire season 7, episode 20 recap: Try Like Hell
Blind date awkwardness
The show then cut back to Boden, who asked Severide and Casey to give statements because the salon fire appeared to be arson. Severide was arguing against arson for once, even though the investigator Captain Hubble (guest star Erin Breen) said the place was losing money, and invited himself along on the investigation.
It was jarring to go from that to see Cruz gushing over how he was getting to take home Benny Severide’s George Foreman grill, and not a huge shocker to see Otis (Yuri Sardarov) uncover the nozzle that the whole team swore up and down that they had returned. It had been left behind a storage crate, leaving our team looking for a way to avoid being caught in a lie.
Severide and Hubble interviewed the salon owner while she was visiting the fall victim at Chicago Med. She claimed the building was on fire when she got there, and showed security camera footage that abruptly ended a half hour before the blaze broke out. When she realized she was being accused of arson, she got indignant and insisted that they find the real culprit.
Meanwhile, Casey and Brett shippers got a scene where Casey found a mopey Brett hiding in a corner of the bunk room. She told him how weird it was seeing her ex, and about how Kyle never came around the firehouse anymore. Casey said he felt responsible for their break-up, since it was Casey’s reaction to Kyle that prompted Kyle to dump Brett. Brett, however, called it “a bad idea from the start” and said it was “time for me to move on.” Possibly with him, as she handed him the flowers she’d gotten for the common room?
Ambulance 61 rolled up to Brett’s gym, where they found a girl fallen off an exercise bike with a terrible head wound. After they treated her and got her into an ambulance without any help from the man nearby, Brett had a brief conversation with one of the other women there about the lack of “real men in Chicago.”
Where was the rest of the crew? Trying to use corny codenames and walkie-talkies to sneak into the other house and return that nozzle. Of course, they got caught, thanks to their inability to shut up and Mouch’s cold. Herrmann and Stella left their colleagues to bribe the firefighter who’d caught them to keep his mouth shut—Klinginpill, the guy who’d briefly filled in for Ritter. His price? A job at Firehouse 51.
At Molly’s that night, Brett told Casey “we should totally be dating,” which threw him and Chicago Fire fans for a loop. She clarified that she wanted to set him up on a blind date with the woman from her gym. Meanwhile, Stella continued to worry about Severide, who was poking around in the ruins of the burned salon along with Boden and Hubble.