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Chicago Fire season 8, episode 2 takeaways: A Real Shot in the Arm

By Brittany Frederick

CHICAGO FIRE -- "A Real Shot in the Arm" Episode 802 -- Pictured: (l-r) Jesse Spencer as Matthew Casey, Christian Stolte as Randy "Mouch" McHolland, Taylor Kinney as Lt Kelly Severide, Eamonn Walker as Battalion Chief Wallace Boden, Joe Minoso as Joe Cruz, Alberto Rosende as Blake Gallo -- (Photo by: Adrian Burrows/NBC)
CHICAGO FIRE -- "A Real Shot in the Arm" Episode 802 -- Pictured: (l-r) Jesse Spencer as Matthew Casey, Christian Stolte as Randy "Mouch" McHolland, Taylor Kinney as Lt Kelly Severide, Eamonn Walker as Battalion Chief Wallace Boden, Joe Minoso as Joe Cruz, Alberto Rosende as Blake Gallo -- (Photo by: Adrian Burrows/NBC) /
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What can Chicago Fire fans learn from A Real Shot in the Arm? Look closer at this week’s episode with our Chicago Fire season 8, episode 2 takeaways.

What did One Chicago fans learn from the latest Chicago Fire episode? Here’s what we took away from this week’s installment, “A Real Shot in the Arm.”

“A Real Shot in the Arm” featured Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer) trying to poach a candidate from another firehouse to fill Otis’s now-vacant spot on Truck, while Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg) contemplated the future of Molly’s now that he was the sole partner.

If you missed any of this week’s episode or just want a refresher on the events that we’re about to discuss, you can catch up with our Chicago Fire recap.

Below are our takeaways from this week’s episode:

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1) Why was it Gallo?

This episode saw candidate Blake Gallo (recurring guest star Alberto Rosende) complete an insane rescue, after which Casey immediately declared that he deserved a spot at Firehouse 51. Did that seem quick to anybody else?

Yes, what Gallo did was both insane and a crazy success, and obviously Casey was impressed by it. But it’s a big leap to be impressed by one thing a guy does, and feel that this is someone you want to have around every day for hopefully years.

Casey did ask about Gallo, but why not slow roll him? Why not see if he wants to shadow a few shifts at 51 and find out what he’s like when he’s not doing daredevil stuff?

One big moment and other people’s opinions doesn’t seem like enough to offer him a job, though give Gallo credit—his final scene showed that he understands hiring him was a risk and that he wants to do well by the memory of the firefighter he’s replacing.

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2) Brett’s return

Everyone knew that Sylvie Brett would break her engagement, since Kara Killmer wasn’t leaving Chicago Fire. But the way that it ended, while funny, also felt kind of awkward.

Emily Foster (Annie Ilonzeh) and Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) just decide that they’re going to get Brett back in Chicago based largely on one phone conversation? The fans know how unhappy Brett is in Fowlerton, but Foster and Stella are just going off of their phone calls with Sylvie. And they’re talking about uprooting her whole life? That’s a pretty drastic action taken without actually asking Brett about it.

Of course, she was ready to leave just as much as they wanted her to leave, so it worked out. But it felt like they should have asked first. And we have to ask, after two broken engagements and her last two romantic subplots having ended in general disaster, what will it take for Chicago Fire to give Brett a decent boyfriend?

3) What’s next for Ritter?

With Blake Gallo being the new guy, that means Darren Ritter (Daniel Kyri) is no longer the new guy. So how is Chicago Fire going to use Ritter going forward? Hopefully there won’t be so much focus on Gallo and getting him introduced to the firehouse that the writers forget about the great new candidate they introduced just last season.

Ritter’s an interesting character who still has plenty left to reveal; heck, the show subtly told us that he’s gay this week, when he mentioned that he has a boyfriend! So while it’s fine to bring in another new character, hopefully that doesn’t sideline the one that was so well developed last season. Ritter still has a ton to offer Firehouse 51, and he deserves some mentoring and some action as much as Gallo does, if not more.

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