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“Chicago Fire” recap (2.7): “Lovers quarrel”

Previously on Chicago Fire, Casey played Mr. Mom, Gail McLeod wanted to close 51 but relented when Boden offered her the consolation prize of his head on a pike. Dawson broke up with Jay so he could go back to Chicago PD, Mouch lost the election because he has morals, and Benny Severide is going to be the new Chief of 51 because he doesn’t. Shay saw a guy kill himself in front of her, Dawson blamed Shay for the suicide, and now that they are broken up Shay is on a long downward spiral that involves a lot of sex with Devon.

Boden is getting an MRI on his lungs which may or may not be filled with cancer courtesy of asbestos exposure. Meanwhile, Casey is playing football in the house with the Darden boys. He breaks a glass when he tries out his best Megatron impression. Dawson walks in on this circus in time to see Casey whip the ball at the little Darden and break his collector’s edition G.I. Joe. Casey tells the boys to go clean the kitchen while Super Dawson uses her paramedic skills to glue a toy together. You’re under-appreciated here, Dawson. Also, you know Casey’s using that super glue for his Dungeons and Dragons figures.

Severide is sitting in his car like a creeper waiting for the woman he saw with Benny. When he spots her, he hops out of the car and asks her if she’s okay with breaking up a family. She says, “Dumbass, I’m not dating him, I’m his daughter.” Kelly you can’t just ask people if they’re boning your dad. Apparently, being hot runs in the family. Severide meet your sister, Katie.

Back at the trauma center located on Casey’s dining room table, Dawson is working some superglue magic on G.I. Joe while Casey tells her all about the fishing trip he has planned for the boys. As he finishes Heather Darden calls with the good news that killing someone just isn’t what it used to be and she’s getting out after spending about forty minutes in jail. The boys are excited and Casey puts away his fishing brochure. Maybe it’s time to make some grown-up friends, Matt.

Severide has one more awkward family conversation before he wins a free ice cream so he’s waiting in the lobby of Benny’s hotel. Kelly tells his dad he had a lovely conversation with Beth, Benny’s wife, the other day. Benny starts a song and dance about how she’s difficult. Kelly is not having any of it. He says it was nice to meet Katie who seems to have been born right around the time Benny ditched Kelly and his mother. Wow, Severide can do gestational math! Benny gets huffy and says he’s coming out of a happy retirement of being a hobo to save Kelly’s firehouse. Kelly tell Benny he’s running from another family he fucked up and leaving the kids to be the ones to clean it up.

At 51, Capp is giving Herrmann shit for failing the lieutenant’s exam three times. If it’s anything like the bar exam, you can’t make fun of people who don’t pass. Stop being a dick, Capp. In walks Mama Mills with baby Mills and a heaping vat of porridge. She brings smiles and groceries and gets kisses from all the guys. Except Boden who scuffs his feet on the ground and generally looks as uncomfortable as I am around a pretty girl.

Boden is crossing names off in a book when Herrmann walks in and wants to know if the Chief has him on the “naughty” or “nice” list this year. Boden says that three of the men who responded to a fire in 1985 with him are dead.

Dawson is helping carry in groceries and asks Severide where the hell his lesbian sidekick is. He channels Shay in the last episode and says he doesn’t know, he’s not her babysitter. Dawson mumbles that someone should be. Are you volunteering, Gabriela, because I am sure Shay wouldn’t mind you sitting on her. Ahem. Casey notices that the truck has a leak because he’s a detective and also there’s a swimming pool under it.

A lady shows up saying she’s Clarke’s wife. He’s less than friendly since she left him a month after he got back from the Middle East. She wants to say she’s sorry and start over but he’s not having any of it. As he walks away Devon’s shaggin’ wagon pulls up. Shay kisses Devon and jumps out. She swaggers in, her face lit from within by the magic known as the multiple female orgasm. She tells Dawson to stop with all the heavy breathing and that she knows she’s late. Dawson takes a look at the rainbow of wristbands and handstamps Shay is sporting and offers to get a replacement. Dawson, you of all people should know there is no replacing Shay. So will you two just kiss and make up already?

The Chief walks into the meeting room and congratulates everyone on how well they have handled the turmoil. He puts on the kind of smile you give when you find out that girl you have a crush on is seeing someone else. It’s polite, and masks his true feelings. Anyone watching closely enough can see the places where the hurt leaks through. The good news is the house is staying open, but from behind it Boden tells the house he’s retiring from the CFD. Before they can all process their disbelief they are called out.

They head out and Otis jinxes it all by hoping for a quick resolution. The call is to a derailed commuter train that plowed into a warehouse. The scene is a mess of injured people, a tanker truck filled with propane, and a couple of cars on fire. The truck’s pump is a little iffy and the relief trucks are coming from across town. While Severide clears the warehouse Clarke uses his big tool to impress Mills to open the train doors.

Shay and Dawson are doing triage on the injured passengers. In the middle of bandaging a leg, Shay is overcome by a flashback. She fights it as Dawson talks to her but runs off to find more supplies. Guys, can someone please step in and help this girl before she starts cheating on Dawson in an on-call room?

Shay walks back with more triage tags and hands them to Dawson. She gives one to Marcus, a dad with a metal rod in his leg and a missing daughter. He wants to know what the colors mean and Shay tells him, “just be glad you’re not wearing a black one.” She disappears to help more people and Dawson can’t believe what Shay said. Maybe if you didn’t go around blaming her for traumatic events Gaby!

Inside the train car, Clarke finds a guy testing out the corkscrew on his Swiss Army knife on a lady’s skull. Clarke is horrified until he realizes that this guy might know what he’s doing. The guy, Weston, heads back to help more people. That knife has twelve attachments, might as well try them all. Outside a lone cop car shows up instead of the ambulances they actually need. The cop recognizes Mills from his CPD ride-alongs. It seems Mills, channeling his inner pre-schooler who can’t decide on a Halloween costume, hasn’t decided if he wants to be a cop or a firefighter.

Clarke finds Weston helping another injured rider and notices Weston is wearing dog tags. He’s a combat medic home for a week. He tells Clarke that he can “smell jarhead from a mile away.” I think there’s an ointment for that, bro. Marcus is hobbling around looking for his daughter and being a pain in the ass. If Casey didn’t have to keep propping you up, man, he might be able to actually find your daughter. He asks Casey if he’s a father and he says yes. Casey, that’s just a lie, dude. If Severide said he was a dad, we’d believe that but dude, you’ve got zero game. He trots off to look for the kid right as the propane tanker catches fire. Casey asks Peeta and Katniss to start dousing it with water.

A car pulls up and Dawson tells the guy to beat it but he’s the cavalry. He’s the chief of trauma surgery at Lakeshore and he’s wearing his standard issue, surgeon, bossypants. He starts telling everyone what to do. The tanker vents and Boden saves Herrmann from a giant fireball. Tick, tock everyone, that thing is going to blow. Inside the train, Weston passes out and Clarke finds out that he has a massive, black bruise indicating internal bleeding.

Shay is tending to a wounded passenger and muttering that the person has to be okay. Dawson is watching her from the next tarp over. Dr. Bossy asks if there’s a problem. Yes, dude, these two are in love and Dawson can’t keep her eyes off of Shay. She denies there’s anything wrong (she leaves out the PTSD and the fact that she was awful) and he tells her to put her head down and focus on the task at hand. Apparently, he doesn’t know that the task at hand is making sure Shay isn’t about to have a complete breakdown. The treatment, obviously, is sweet lady kisses.

The pumper seal blows and they have to improvise with the aerial to try to keep water on the propane tank. Dawson takes over taking care of Weston. Dr. Bossy tries to send Weston to the black tarp but Dawson won’t have it. She overrules him because she’s bad ass like that. Severide stops by the tarp to ask Shay is she’s OK. She says no and he tells her she only has to get through today.

There are a couple of workers missing so the Chief and Mills rush in to find them. The ceiling collapses on them. While in there the water runs out and the pressure release valve on the tanker melts. The Chief tells everyone to evacuate because the thing is going to blow up but they won’t do it. Instead Severide rushes toward the tank and they rig a line to vent the propane. Herrmann and a crew run around to try to get the Chief and Mills out. Casey is still playing a one sided game of Marco Polo with that little girl.

Shay rushes over to help Weston but Dr. Bossy stops her. He says he’ll take care of Weston instead. Shay is holding it together with chicken wire and bubblegum this episode and it’s heartbreaking to watch her struggle to keep going. Doctor Death rips off Weston’s red tag and makes him a black tag. So long, Weston.

Mills and Boden are having a heart to heart in the rubble, as is typical. They play truth or dare, which is really just truth because what can they do under a ton of debris? Boden wants to have a little chat about Peter Mills and the PD. Petey at the PD sounds like the name of a picture book. Mills tells Boden that he went to the PD because he heard about Boden banging his mom. Before they can continue this episode of Jerry Springer, Herrmann arrives.

Casey races back to find Marcus who it turns out sent his daughter to get him some lunch right before the crash. Mills and the Chief get out while Severide is trying to open the relief valve. He needs a set of vice grips so Mills comes running with his tiny tool (not sure this is the way to impress Clarke, Pete). Severide hands Mills a flare and Mills chucks it at the end of the hose for a perfect strike. Baseball sure would be more exciting if a third strike was accompanied by a fireball.

Casey finally finds Anna, who asks where her dad is. Clarke runs over to Weston. Doctor Death says that he couldn’t save him even if he had an ambulance. Clarke holds Weston’s hand while he dies. Later, Dr. Bossy remembers Dawson from when she shadowed Hallie. He gives them his card and tells them that he’s always willing to help good people. It’s a nice moment punctuated by Shay giving Dawson the greatest “I still fucking hate you” face.

McLeod is waiting at the house when everyone returns. She sneers about how the system obviously works because the house improvised their way to saving lives. I have expected her to say, “Tut-tut it sounded like you were questioning me and to question me is to question the Minister of Magic.” Where is a pack of centaurs when you need a good Umbridge beat down? She tells the Chief to bring his badge to his exit interview the next day.

Heather Darden shows up to tell Casey that she’s out of prison and is taking the boys and heading to Florida. There are too many ghosts of dead husbands and friends she killed in Chicago so she’s starting over. Casey’s the good guy who only wishes her the best but man it sucks she taking his fake kids with her.

In the garage Dawson is trying to talk to Shay. She asks for a minute but Shay says, “Not now” and assures Dawson that she’s fine. Dawson notices that Shay has crumpled the doctor’s card and left it on the floor. Shay hops into Devon’s sweet ride. Devon asks about Shay’s “lover’s quarrel.” Shay, even your girlfriend ships Shawson. Dawson gazes longingly as Shay rides away. Oh, will you two just do it already!

Boden slips his badge in his pocket before listening to a HIPAA approved message from his doctor saying that his tests were negative. Mills comes by to tell Boden that he spent so much of his time being pissed. He’s watched how Boden puts himself on the line for everyone in the house and regrets that he lost that time to being angry.

Benny is waiting at Kelly’s car to tell him that he’s sorry for being a shitty dad. He knows he cuts and runs when things don’t go his way but he’s going to be there for his boys. He rides off to a bumblebee soccer game to make up for all the time he missed with Kelly and Katie. But because he’s Benny he asks Severide to tell Boden the house is his and to look out for his sister. Why do the hard stuff when you have kids to do it for you?

Boden’s exit interview with Viola Swamp is intercut with scenes of Clarke returning to his wife. He apologizes, lip quivering, face contorted against his tears, and she lets him in. Herrmann is studying for the lieutenant’s exam, unsure if he can take another defeat. The crew meets at Molly’s for a drink while Severide shows up at Katie’s restaurant at the end of her shift to have dinner with her. Looks to me like Katie is a soup chef, so maybe Shay has a shot with a Severide after all. Boden speaks of how each person has seen things that will rock him or her to the core and that each time they get up again. He isn’t going to give up on his house, on the firefighters who risked their necks to save him. I like the looks of a Boden vs. McLeod rematch.

The Dardens are getting out of Dodge. Casey offers Griffin a replica he made of his dad’s badge. Griffin, that greedy bugger, asks if he can have Casey’s, too. Casey says sure. Ben bounds out and offers his G.I. Joe to Casey so he won’t forget them. Ben you are by far the better brother. The all hug before the Dardens head out. Let’s hope they don’t kill anyone on the drive.

Whew! That was a heck of an episode. What were your favorite parts?

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