Previously on Chicago Fire – oh who cares? It’s all leading to the Shawson cliffhanger. Let’s just hold hands as we get through it together and try to relax until January is here.
The episode opens with Cruz walking into an empty warehouse in his turnouts to meet with Flaco, the head of Leon’s gang. When Cruz doesn’t have the ten thousand dollars Flaco wants to let Leon out of the gang Flaco shoots Leon. Thankfully, it’s a dream and Cruz wakes up in the firehouse.
Swagger alert: It’s the lovely Shawson ladies sauntering into the firehouse. Shay tells Peter Mills that the Christmas lights blew off the house and he says he’ll fix it. Shay cracks “oh, it’s the firefighter who saved Christmas,” and I fall in love with her a little more. Peter Mills scurries off with a simple “as you wish.” Dawson talks to Shay about who she should invite to her cousin’s party. Shay skips the obvious answer in which she puts up her hand, hops up and down, and says “pick me, pick me. I look amazing in a dress.” Dawson is worried that if she asks Mills he’ll get the wrong idea. Shay, ever the voice of reason, wonders why Dawson won’t ask Casey since family parties are usually reserved for “serious suitors.” Dawson hems and haws about who to ask to the Sadie Hawkins dance and Shay asks if she’s worried that Casey will say no. Dawson rolls her eyes and actually says “bitch, please.” Apparently Dawson’s mirror does work and she knows she fiiiiiine. Leon drops by the fire house and Cruz warns him that the daily police report says that there is supposed to be increased gang violence so that Leon will stay away. Leon gets a touch mouthy for someone who had his ass kicked in the last episode and tells Cruz to just pay Flaco the money if he wants Leon to leave the gang. Woah, now. That’s some kind of crappy talk from a guy riding the same bike I had when I was eight.
Everyone is called out to a fire in a fancy house. The lady of the house was cooking something that caught on fire. While the ladies fix up her burnt hand the gents head inside to put the fire out with a fire extinguisher and notice that the house is filled with art and fanciness. Everyone is immediately called away and as they leave Mrs. Fancy-Pants runs out and tells the Chief that her $50,000 diamond necklace is missing. In the immortal words of Gabriela Dawson, “bitch, please.”
Internal Affairs is at the fire house to greet our heroes and Casey gets all cranky with a guy who looks to be the love child of Percy Weasley and Draco Malfoy. He’s been sent by the Ministry to be a condescending prick and is doing a bang-up job of it. Severide has the squad truck make a quick stop so he can drop off flowers for Renee, who is working from home. She makes a crack about him expecting to find her checking emails in her underwear. Let’s all take a moment to ponder that tableau. Anyway, Severide calls her “Royce” as he asks her to dinner. It is weird and really gay. Show of hand from everyone who ever dated someone who you called by her last name for a while until your friends told you it was weird and made you stop? No? Just me? Fine. Moving on. Dawson and Shay are sitting in the principal’s office and Dawson wants to know what Shay has against Mills. Shay just thinks he’s kind of like a puppy dog, and we all know her tastes are more feline *ahem.* Dawson says something about him being a puppy with some wolf and I feel a little queasy. Thankfully the Chief rescues us all from more of Dawson’s lupine thoughts about Mills. He tells our ladies that four vials of Toradol were reported missing from their rig. Dawson is surprised but Shay looks guilty as hell. She knows just where they went, right into the shoulder of one Kelly Severide. Because Dawson is in charge the loss of the meds is her problem. Shay gets twitchy, which the Chief absolutely notices and tells them to get their story straight before they come back to him. Otis has decided that the necklace theft is actually an insurance scam and tells Casey who brushes him off.
Shay tries to talk to Severide about the missing vials and he is a class “A” jerk about it. He is all “it’s not my problem that you risked your job to give me drugs so my I could keep my job.” Shay, being the bad ass that she is says “yeah you got what you needed so I guess it’s not your problem,” and walks away. Severide, I am invoking the bro code and taking your card back. Lesbro status DENIED. Everyone is called out to a drive-by shooting. Two people are dead and another who was caught in the crossfire is injured. Cruz looks frantically for his brother before seeing Flaco roll through the scene in a car that the show is borrowing from a Dr. Dre video. Cruz immediately calls his brother and offers to help if Leon will just get away from Flaco.
This episode had so much Shawson in it made me really nervous. I mean, it’s kind of like when everything was going so well for Cat and Frankie and Sam and then – oh right. Anyway.
Shay tells Dawson she should ask Casey because, ok there is no good reason because the best chemistry on the show is between Dawson and Shay. I’m not just saying that because they are two hot ladies who should make out in every episode. Fine, maybe I am. These two characters have more chemistry than Dawson and Casey, which is not a knock on the actors, it’s just not the same crackle. So Chicago Fire, stop trying to make “fetch” happen, OK?
Shay tells Dawson to ask Casey and then she tells Dawson where she should go to buy a new dress. Yes, here she is Leslie Shay, tough little lesbian who knows where to buy a lady a dress. How is she single?
Dawson walks into the fire house and heads toward to Mills, who drops his tennis ball at her feet and waits to have his ears scratched like the golden retriever that he is, before Dawson turns away and sits next to Casey. Dawson makes a cock-up of asking Casey on the date and tries to play it off like they will just be going as friends. He suggests if it’s a friend she wants she should take Mouch but if it’s a date he’ll be happy to pick her up. Dawson books it out of the room with Shay and says she’ll definitely need a new dress.
Percy is asking everyone to turn out their pockets before he searches their lockers for the stolen necklace. He makes a crack about Casey’s mom, which is apparently just the sort of thing that made Casey knock him out when they were classmates in the academy.
More Shawson and my level of dread is reaching record levels. I haven’t felt this nervous since Callie and Arizona were taking that car trip together – oh, right.
Shay’s lounging in a chair like a teenage boy who has been dragged shopping until Dawson steps out of the fitting room. Shay puts her eyeballs back in her head and says “Damn girl, if you wear that dress, I’ll be your date.” Dawson says “no, I feel naked” and Shay says, “It’s perfect.” Shay tells the dress shop lady that Dawson will take it, but Dawson says no and the two of them are called out before they can argue about whether she’ll get the dress or not.
The call is to a building that was involved in a gang shooting before the gang members torched the place. Someone shoots through the door as Casey tries to get in. Cruz tries to talk to the shooter down and rushes into the building. He finds himself in the dark building with a gun pointed at him. He explains who his brother is, the shooter runs out and gets tackled by Herrmann. They search the building, pulling several people out. In the midst of this Cruz makes his way alone to the third floor where he finds Flaco hurt and trapped in a room. Instead of saving him, Cruz looks at him, walks out, and says the apartments are clear. Good-bye Flaco!
Back at the station, Cruz is guilt ridden in the bathroom and the Chief tells him that he did a good job and that its not his fault that they didn’t find the last guy. Cruz looks like he might vomit.
Otis is back with a background check on the fancy lady and her husband, who are in debt to their eyeballs and have been investigated for fraud. Casey tells Percy who doesn’t care and continues searching Casey’s office/palace of afternoon delight.
More Shawson. This is so great, almost like that time Quinn was late to stop Rachel’s wedding to her beard – oh, crap. They’re busy telling the Chief that they don’t know how it happened but they left a bag on the curb when they got called out to that college and that’s when the vials went missing. The Chief can tell they are lying and calls Shay back. He just looks at her for a minute and she channels Arizona Robbins and looks like she’s going to cry. But he doesn’t say anything, he just gives the worst “I’m so disappointed in you” face and tells her to go. Severide and Renee are getting busy at her gigantic apartment. Afterward they are having martinis and we learn that she’s an international law lawyer and that he likes to fix boats in his spare time. He tells her that he’ll take her to the lake any time she likes but she’s ready to call his bluff. She asks who she was, the girl who ruined her name for him. He goes right to his default tough guy mode before admitting that his fiancée was named Renee. And now we know why he’s been talking to her like they are playing noon hoops instead making sweet, sweet love.
Casey’s channeling Dawson and knocking on the door of a victim’s house. He haven’t even kissed yet and you’re merging. You big lesbos! He tells Madame Diamond Necklace that during the fire his men all had thermal imaging video recorders that taped everything and that they are taking the tapes to the cops. She blusters about how he should leave but looks a bit rattled.
Ta-da! In the middle of checking lockers Percy gets a call that the lady found the necklace in a heat register. Oh, gee whiz, how did that happen?
Casey’s sister shows up at the firehouse to give Casey a gift. She tells him that her daughter wants to know why they don’t see her uncle. It has something to do with Casey’s mom, on whom he refuses to turn his back in spite of his sister asking him if he misses their dad. Hmm, what did Mommy Dearest do?
And now we’re at the party and Dawson’s not in the dress from the store but looks amazing anyway. She sneaks Casey off to the ridiculous library in the house. It has a spiral staircase in the middle of the room. We now have confirmation that “perusing a novel” is Shawson code for sexy times. They flirt and it looks like they are going to kiss and then Casey kisses her cheek and says he can’t and that if they are going to do this it’s worth doing right. Buddy, when a gorgeous woman wants to kiss you in an endearingly nerdy, extremely romantic, library you go for it instead of embarrassing the pretty lady. Shay would have kissed her. Cruz is walking with his brother and starts to freak out. He calls Casey who doesn’t answer because he is walking through security. He sits down and waits in the prison visitor’s room until his mom comes and sits across from him. Seriously mom, what did you do?
Severide is foraging in the apartment refrigerator when Shay clomps down the stairs with a duffel bag on one arm. She starts by saying that she loves him and the big lug is confused. She tells him that she was just trying to help him get over the hump with his shoulder and that she found the pill packet in the trash. She knows that they had a deal that they wouldn’t get into each other’s business and that she can’t do that anymore because she knows what he’s doing to himself. She says she knows that he would stick his neck out for her the way she has for him. He’s like yeah sure as long as it doesn’t involve me taking responsibility for the drugs I scored from the ambulance. She’s on the verge of tears and her eyes get red as she tells him that she perjured herself for him. She has to leave. She’ll come back for the rest of her stuff, she says as she walks out the door. The next time we see her it’s Shawson time, again and I am filled with that wonderful feeling – oh cut the crap. Grab someone’s hand to hold this part is going to hurt. They are patching someone up I the middle of an intersection. Dawson tells Shay that she can stay with her and that Antonio will help move the rest of Shay’s stuff out later. Because when you’re girlfriend moves in your brother is obligated to help her move, right? Shay tries to get Dawson to tell her about the date with Casey but Dawson’s not sharing much. They agree that they are going to need several pitchers of margaritas to help with this. We don’t get much time to enjoy this U-Haul moment though because while they are standing in the back of the rig, putting their gear away when a truck comes barreling in and smashes the ambulance, throwing our heroines around in the back of the ambulance like a couple of rag dolls. Not our lesbian, you bitch!
That’s it. The previews show Severide trying to get to see Shay in the Emergency Room, Dawson talking to an unconscious Shay in the back of the rig, and Dawson bawling in the hospital as the Chief tells them all to pray for Shay. We’ll have to wait until January 2 to find out what happens. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I’ll see you back here in 2013. For the love of god, please watch out for cars!
