Chicago Fire season 8, episode 19 recap: Light Things Up
Chicago Fire had a wedding and a mob scene in Light Things Up. Find out everything that happened in our Chicago Fire season 8, episode 19 recap.
This week’s Chicago Fire was the one where Joe Cruz (Joe Minoso) got married, but before that happened, there was plenty of typical One Chicago craziness.
Wednesday’s episode “Light Things Up” ended with the wedding, but it started with Firehouse 51 being besieged by protesters, and that protest quickly turning into a mob event made even worse by the fact that everything has to be on social media these days.
Meanwhile, Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer) got some shocking news in the wake of her birth mother’s death, and was faced with a potentially life-changing decision.
Click through this slideshow to find out what happened in the latest Chicago Fire episode for each of your favorite characters, starting with:
Mob mentality
“Light Things Up” begins the morning after Cruz’s bachelor party, with Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) still hung over when he and Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) arrive at work. He doesn’t even want to get out of the car. Inside the firehouse, Severide’s not the only one moaning about a long night. One person who isn’t is Blake Gallo (Alberto Rosende), who’s started an Instagram account for the firehouse and is starting it off on the right note by taking adorable pictures of Tuesday.
Elsewhere in the building, a still glum Brett gives Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer) an update on her situation. We’ve skipped over Julie’s funeral, which Brett’s adoptive parents attended. “It just doesn’t feel real somehow,” she admits. Casey assures her that she’s not crazy just before the alarm goes off…but they can’t get out of the building. A bunch of people chained the firehouse door shut.
(How did they do that, which presumably made a bunch of noise, without anyone hearing the chains rattle? Was everyone that hung over?)
Anyway, Emily Foster (Annie Ilonzeh) finds a back door that they didn’t get to, and everyone rushes out to find that these geniuses have also chained themselves to the rigs as “a formal protest” over the closing of Firehouse 87. Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg) is ready to drive off anyway and let them get torn to bits, but Chief Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker) won’t let him. Unfortunately. So now there’s a standoff, which is also ending up on social media as these guys hoot and holler like they’re on a game show.
Boden informs his team that headquarters has been apprised of their situation and to leave the protesters alone. “It’s a powder keg out there,” he says. “We can’t have it blow up in our face.” That means everyone has nothing to do for awhile. Stella tells Brett that she hasn’t heard back from Julie’s husband Scott, and wonders if she’s being too pushy. Stella and Casey both say that’s not the case.
In the office, Gallo and Darren Ritter (Daniel Kyri) think they can use their new Instagram account to defuse the situation. Boden shuts them down immediately. And Severide and some of the crew are trying to figure out ways to cut through the PVC pipe that the protesters have used, but Boden tells them not to do anything unless the cops ask them to.