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“Chicago Fire” (2.13) recap: “Ladies Night”

Previously on Chicago Fire, Casey can’t remember his locker combination or huge chunks of time, Shay saved Molly’s, Mills made Squad so he and Clarke can do take your boyfriend to work days properly. Boden had a date with a pretty lady. Otis finally worked up the courage to ask Severide for his permission to date Katie (the girl he’s been making out with over boardgames for a while now).

Casey is staring at himself in the mirror. Dude, it’s OK that Dawson’s prettier than you. You have other lovely traits, like Hulk rage and lying. Severide pops in for a piss and a chat. He asks Casey how the old noggin is doing and Casey lies like the lying liar that he is and says he feels wonderful.

Katie is waiting outside Severide’s office to tell him that she has an opportunity to go to New York to help her boss set up a new restaurant. Severide is happy for her and tells her it’s a great opportunity. She’s worried that leaving is a bad idea since she and Severide are working on how to be brother and sister and Otis is so good at wizard chess. Nope, New York is the right answer.

I’d like to report a crime in progress. Gabriela Dawson is wearing a sweat suit and it’s a tragedy. She chats with Mills, Capp, and Tony who are playing poker and complaining about the shift being slow. Oh good grief, you all are doomed. Cruz is cooking something nasty. Dawson takes a bite and spits it out in Otis’s Lucky Charms. Herrmann says now is the time to make improvements to Molly’s and each of the three knuckleheads has an idea of how to do it. They ask Shay, their new partner, what she thinks. Before she can tell them the alarm goes and they are off.

Dawson rides along because she just can’t get enough of Shay in the back of the ambulance. The call is a car that hit a little girl before crashing into a telephone pole. A guy says the driver is Jimmy Boylan and he’s drunk as a skunk. The light pole comes crashing down and takes the power to half the city with it. Dawson tells Rafferty what to do with the drunk driver and Shay and Rafferty both give Dawson a look. It’s the sweats Gaby, you lose all credibility in the sweats. Well, the sweats and being bossy and overstepping the boundaries of a ride along.

With the power out and temps in the single digits the Chief invites everyone back to 51 to stay warm. But back at 51 the furnace doesn’t seem to be working right so Casey and Severide head down to the basement to check it out. Casey is having some word retrieval issues. He can’t remember where he put his tool box or what that doohickey thingamabob is called that you use to fix things. Severide says he should talk to Dawson and Casey says, “Dawson? Is that the name of this tool?” Oh good grief. Get your head checked Casey!

Dawson and Mills help an adorable older couple find a spot to relax inside. They are so darn cute you just know someone is going to die. Dawson bitches about Rafferty to Mills and he’s like, I know you’re jealous that Shay has a new lady friend but your jealousy (like your sweats) is absurd and unattractive. Mills spots two shady dudes being shady and tells them to take their murderous scheming elsewhere, perhaps into the common room where there are more potential victims.

Cruz is in the deep weeds. The Chief invited about a hundred guests over when it was supposed to be an intimate dinner party. Thankfully Katie shows up with two grocery bags full of potato chips? Otis is mostly thrilled that she read his text (surely written in elvish). Cruz forgot to go to the store but luckily the other shifts have plenty of food socked away. Katie tells Otis they need to talk before he beetles off to find some bolt cutters.

Rafferty and Shay are repacking the rig when the Chief walks up with a cup of coffee for each of them. Boden you big softie. He asks how the little girl is doing and in the HIPAA free land of Firehouse 51, they say she coded twice on the way to the hospital and probably won’t make it but that the drunk driver is going to be fine.

Vince, the creepy murder plotting dude, is skulking around the rig and heads inside to find the drunk driver’s brother. Ladies this is why it might be a good plan to keep patient information private. Severide sees Katie and asks if she’s broken Otis’s heart yet. Not yet, but she’s working up to it. Casey plops his tool box down on his desk and asks Dawson what he’s still doing at 51. Seriously, he can’t remember. He asks her for an aspirin because he’s 97 and that’s what old people use for headaches. She panics and he’s like “simmer down, it’s just a headache. Well I think it is. Hmm, I forget. Squirrel!”

Cruz is rolling around in a pile of groceries when Clarke stops his little corner of crazy. Cruz tells Clarke to go to the corner grocery and bang on the door until the owner opens up so they can get some more food. Clarke agrees because Cruz has got the crazy eyes and Clarke’s not sure he can handle a Mills and Cruz triple swirl, swirl.

Hot Donna arrives to offer the Chief some blankets. He’s thrilled to see her and asks her to stay at 51 for the night. While they flirt, Vince walks into the common area and slams a guy’s head into the table. Severide jumps in and fights the guy. Vince grabs a knife but Severide disarms him and throws him out of the firehouse. Vince leaves but only after telling Severide that he’s a dead man. Inside everyone, including Katie, is shaken up by all the MMA action.

Clarke is on his solo beef and beans mission (not a euphemism). The proprietor lets Clarke in and tells him he can go get some bean in the back of the store while he wraps up the meat. Back at 51, Dawson is pouring soup from a thermos when Severide asks her about her training. She hasn’t gotten to the cutoff time of the smoke test yet and he warns her if she misses it she has to wait a whole cycle before testing again. She hops up and runs after Severide. “Have you noticed anything weird about Casey?” Severide looks at her. “Other than the fact that he called me ‘crescent wrench’ this morning? No, he’s totally fine.” The adorable older couple calls Dawson over. The wife is concerned that her husband doesn’t sound right. Dawson and Mills check him out and he sounds OK for a guy with emphysema.

What’s this? What’s this look on Shay’s face? Is that a smile? She’s walking down the hall texting and smiling like her new girlfriend has a tongue ring when Herrmann scampers up and starts bugging her. Not now, Herrmann! He yammers on about how much he loves her hair and her cash and how he really just wants Molly’s to stay the same, never going to make it, totally in the red, neighborhood bar it’s always been. She nods and smiles and he leaves with the impression that she’ll vote his way. Moron!

Exit Herrmann, enter the glorious, swaggering Detective Erin Lindsay. Hairporn asks to see Boden and Shay does better than I would have and actually nods (while staring at the fine Detective’s lips) and leads her to the office without fainting. The good Detective breaks it down for Severide, Casey, and Boden. Vince is a bad dude, who likes to kill people but not get sent away for it. He is ready to kill Severide. Severide says bring it on and she smiles and pats him on the head. OK tough guy, we’ll still have a car out front just in cases. Next they head out to talk to the guy Vince tried to beat up.

Severide walks her out and she warns him off of trying to take Vince on by himself. She says I know I just met you, and Vince is crazy, but here’s my number call me, maybe. You wouldn’t have to ask me twice.

At the grocery store a couple guys come in and start grabbing stuff. They stab the proprietor before Clarke comes out of the back and starts kicking ass. Clarke tries to call 911 but his phone isn’t working. Some ladies of the night saunter past the Chief and ask where the food is. He tells them that they are welcome to spend the night and to eat as long as this is not a business trip. In the kitchen Otis scurries up to Katie and they dork around until he asks what she wanted to talk about. She panics and says, “Tonight’s the night.” You guys, Otis is losing his virginity. I’m so proud.

Everyone gets called out and Dawson hops her butt in the back of the ambulance and Rafferty gives her the stink eye as she climbs into the cab. The call is to a house where no one appears to be moving. The place is filled with carbon monoxide. Dawson barks at Rafferty for not moving fast enough and about how to treat the victims. Rafferty tells her to back off. “She doesn’t even go here!” The parents don’t make it but Rafferty and Shay take the kids to the hospital while Dawson gets a ride with Casey.

At the grocery store, Clarke is doing what he can for a knife wound with a pack of ziplocks, a roll of tape, and some frat party vodka. Firehouse 51 is a mess of kids running around, Otis getting sex tips from Cruz, and the Chief and Hot Donna having crazy sexual tension. Mouch tries to entertain kids with terrible card tricks, followed by Cruz making a mess of his balloon animal routine. This feels like one of those middle school retreat/sleepovers where no one sleeps, everyone goes bananas, the grown-ups are totally overwhelmed, and you wake up feeling all grimy in the morning.

Dawson trots up to Rafferty and says she’s sorry. Rafferty tells her that the only thing people love more than Dawson is Pouch. She’s in an impossible position trying to fill Dawson’s spot in the rig (although, from the look on Shay’s face, she’s doing a much better job filling the spot in Shay’s pants). Dawson gets it and says she’ll back off. Dawson looks a little wistful at the memory of being adored instead of not good enough.

On the heels of the conversation someone calls Dawson over to help. The older lady has collapsed. Dawson sprints through the house to get the monitor and sends Rafferty to the lady. I can’t be the only one who expected she would catch Otis and Katie in the back of the rig can I? Rafferty takes the lead and Dawson does what she’s told. Rafferty must be a wizard or something because Dawson has never done what she was told. They get the lady back and Shay wanders into see her girlfriends working nicely? What? At the hospital Maggie is fine and her husband tries to thank Dawson who deflects credit to Rafferty. Oh look, your ex can get along with your girlfriend if they just try hard enough.

Dawson takes the opportunity to bug Shay about Molly’s and how Dawson’s plans are clearly the best. Shay nods and smiles and Dawson is sure she has the vote in the bag. You’d be closer if you spent a little more quality time with Shay, if you know what I mean.

Back at 51, Severide and Casey head out to fix the generator and Casey’s tool box is no longer closed (hmm, you think something went missing?). They discover that the filter is clogged and the crescent wrench is missing. Well, Casey says it’s missing but Severide is more convinced Casey might just be missing a piece of his memory.

Boden sees one of the prostitutes leaving the bathroom and get suspicious. Upon further investigation he finds Otis and Katie going at it in one of the showers. Awkward. Otis is mortified. He runs into Shay as he’s leaving the bathroom and talks to her about his brilliant plan to at karaoke to Molly’s. Unless Paige is bringing Emily over for a little P!nk singalong, let’s just shuts this idea down now. Katie walks out of the bathroom, Otis blushes, and Shay can do that math.

Back at Guts ‘N More Grocery, Clarke is telling the guy he’s out of danger when a whole boatload of dudes roll up with bats and guns. Clarke tells them to leave but he’s got a bat and that’s about it. Lucky for Clarke a cop car rolls up and saves his butt.

Back at 51, we are treated the sight of Detective Hairporn in a henley. God is a lesbian, folks and she loves us so hard. She talks about Vince having sent someone to kill Kelly and I am very concerned for him. So concerned, in fact, that I listened to her say this speech over and over and over. They walk through the house looking for the guy. Casey finds him walking with a crescent wrench shoved up his sleeve and tackles him from behind. Casey gets his head knocked against the wall and the guy winds up to crack his skull with the wrench but then Detective Lindsay saves the day. I hate guns but man she makes that shit look good.

The power comes back on and Detective Lindsay tells Kelly to come down to the station with her until they can arrest Vince. Otis goes to apologize to Boden but finds him in the tight embrace of Hot Donna. Whoopsie. Dawson and Casey are bickering about his memory loss but mostly him lying to her about his memory loss. The Molly’s braintrust is all convinced they have Shay onboard with each of their dumbass ideas. She says she has an idea of her own: “Lesbian night.” Pink drinks are on me ladies.

Casey’s washing his face when blood starts dripping out of his ear. It’s time to talk to Dawson, buddy. Katie is walking down the street when Vince and another dude pop a bag over her head and chuck her in a van. Yikes, Severide. Looks like they found a way to get back you after all.

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