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Chicago Fire season 8, episode 4 takeaways: Infection, Part 1

By Brittany Frederick

CHICAGO FIRE -- "Infection, Part I" Episode 805 -- Pictured: (l-r) Miranda Rae Mayo as Stella Kidd, Torrey DeVitto as Dr. Natalie Manning, LaRoyce Hawkins as Officer Kevin Atwater, Jesse Lee Soffer as Det. Jay Halstead, Kara Killmer as Sylvie Brett, Tracy Spiridakos as Det. Hailey Upton, Taylor Kinney as Lt. Kelly Selly Severide, Jesse Spencer as Matthew Casey, Marina Squerciati as Officer Kim Burgess -- (Photo by: Sandy Morris/NBC)
CHICAGO FIRE -- "Infection, Part I" Episode 805 -- Pictured: (l-r) Miranda Rae Mayo as Stella Kidd, Torrey DeVitto as Dr. Natalie Manning, LaRoyce Hawkins as Officer Kevin Atwater, Jesse Lee Soffer as Det. Jay Halstead, Kara Killmer as Sylvie Brett, Tracy Spiridakos as Det. Hailey Upton, Taylor Kinney as Lt. Kelly Selly Severide, Jesse Spencer as Matthew Casey, Marina Squerciati as Officer Kim Burgess -- (Photo by: Sandy Morris/NBC) /
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What can Chicago Fire fans learn from Infection, Part 1? Look closer at this week’s episode with our Chicago Fire season 8, episode 4 takeaways.

What did One Chicago fans learn from the latest Chicago Fire episode? Here’s what we took away from this week’s installment, “Infection, Part 1.”

“Infection, Part 1” was the beginning of this season’s first One Chicago crossover, so it was responsible for all of the exposition while characters from all three shows discovered a fatal outbreak in the city. It also left us with so many questions. So many, many questions.

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) Do we need more “family” time?

The first two minutes of “Infection” were clearly meant to remind One Chicago fans how the three shows are supposed to be a family, as characters from everywhere mingled at a pre-football game tailgate.

But for us, it had the opposite effect: it spotlighted how the characters haven’t really socialized across shows like they used to. We’re seeing Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos) being chummy with Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) and just trying to remember if they’ve ever been in a scene together before.

Or, if you want to go further than that, how much time have we seen between Mouch (Christian Stolte) and Trudy Platt (Amy Morton), even though they’re married? In the last few seasons, we’ve been lucky if they get a handful of scenes together.

One Chicago is built on the concept of family; that’s why there are these crossovers, and why all the shows are on the same night together. But it’d be great to see more of that when it’s not a special event. Remember when characters from other shows would just turn up at Molly’s?

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2) Is Foster really germaphobic?

Once it became clear that there were multiple fatalities, Emily Foster (Annie Ilonzeh) developed a case of germaphobia. You certainly can’t blame her for wanting to take a very long shower since she had just come face to face with flesh-eating bacteria. But it does prompt the question—was Foster just spooked because of this grisly situation, or is she actually a germaphobe?

The former would make sense; this wasn’t just dangerous, it was gross (and all of the One Chicago series made sure to show it to us over the three shows). Yet if it’s the latter, that’s more than a bit odd, considering she’s a paramedic who deals with sick people all the time. And before that she’d been a med student working in a hospital. Given all that she must have dealt with by now, it was somewhat surprising to see her freak out.

3) How did Cruz get dumped?

The most random moment of this week’s Chicago Fire came when Joe Cruz (Joe Minoso) found himself dumped by his girlfriend Chloe (Kristen Gutoskie). She told him they were moving too fast in the relationship, and she may have had a point, since Cruz had been planning on asking her to marry him.

But this whole scene came out of nowhere. If Chloe felt that they rushed into dating, wouldn’t she have brought that up a long time ago? What made her come to this realization now? And she was just going to come down to the firehouse randomly to dump him? Why not do it in private? It felt weird, not to mention totally unfair to Joe, who’s only three episodes removed from the death of his best friend.

Maybe they’ll patch things up, but this came off as another case of a One Chicago show throwing in a plot twist purely to have one.

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