Chicago Fire season 8, episode 16 recap: The Tendency of a Drowning Victim
Chicago Fire saw Casey and Severide throw down in The Tendency of a Drowning Victim. Find out what happened in our Chicago Fire season 8, episode 16 recap.
This week’s Chicago Fire felt like a throwback to Chicago Fire season 1, with Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer) and Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) butting heads about the best course of action on a typically dangerous rescue call.
Wednesday’s episode “The Tendency of a Drowning Victim” involved Severide and Casey of two different minds over a car crash that turned out to be a whole lot more than an accident.
Meanwhile, Lily (Ariane Rinehart) returned to Firehouse 51 seeking help for her latest business opportunity as she continued trying to move on post-Otis.
Click through this slideshow to find out what happened in the latest Chicago Fire episode for each of your favorite characters, starting with:
Casey’s tough call
It’s morning in the combined Casey/Stella/Severide household, and after the former ducks out early Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) points out that she and Severide now have the place to themselves so they can fool around without making too much noise. What does this add to the plot? Uh, we’ll get back to you.
Elsewhere, Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer) is meeting with her birth mother Julie again. The woman apologizes again for her clueless husband and starts asking Sylvie a bunch of random questions. That slightly awkward conversation happens before Firehouse 51 has its morning briefing, where Chief Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker) is cranky as heck and it doesn’t go unnoticed. After questioning, he admits that Donna has him on a new diet, which immediately has Mouch (Christian Stolte) insisting that they’re all dead.
So it’s going to be kind of a weird episode, obviously, but Chicago Fire pushes past all that to show us our rescue of the week: a car that’s plunged almost completely into freezing waters. The team eventually gets the car out of the water, but there’s no driver inside! Joe Cruz (Joe Minoso) theorizes whoever was inside may have escaped through a broken window.
Severide decides he’s going into the water, but Casey tells him no…in the least convincing way possible. It’s like the same tone in which he orders coffee. “This isn’t a rescue, it’s a recovery,” he says, and then finally orders Severide to stand down. Severide believes the person could still be alive, but with everyone else watching, he tells the team to pack up his diving gear.
Lily surprises everyone by visiting Firehouse 51 and is welcomed with literally open arms. She asks to see Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg). Lily misses running a business and wants to open a bakery, and she wants Herrmann’s advice. He readily agrees to help her. We should have more scenes of these two together just so Lily’s cheeriness can offset Herrmann’s crankiness.