Chicago Med (2015) s11e13 Episode Script
Reckoning, Part II
1
There's been a chemical
weapon attack in Chicago.
Terrorism likely.
Set up for decon.
Your heart rate's elevated.
Do you feel lightheaded at all?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I got a survivor!
Wait, she's pregnant.
I need you to stay in your vehicle.
I don't get what kind of chemical agent
would elicit such an extreme response.
Hey, easy. You're in an ambulance.
[GROANS]
Novak, you've got blood on your face.
You gotta decon yourself.
♪
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
We were tracking
a suspected narco courier.
So is it just a coincidence
that your mule was on that same flight?
I don't think so.
My gut's telling me
something else is going on.
Excuse me, sir.
[SMASHING, WHOOSHING]
[ALARMS BLARING]
[YELPS, GRUNTS]
Drop that weapon!
[ALARM WAILING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[COUGHS, SHOUTS] [GUNSHOTS]
Move! Move! Get out of the way!
Get out of the way. Stop!
Whoa.
- Hailey, easy. Take it easy.
- Go.
- Stop!
- You gotta go!
Hailey! Hailey, you got a head wound.
- I'm not going anywhere.
- Jay, he's getting away.
- You gotta
- Hailey, stop! Stop.
I'm fine.
I just need a second.
It's good to see you.
[TRUCK HORN HONKING]
What's the matter?
Chest feels tight. It's like a
it's like I can't get a full breath.
You know?
Pull over.
I'll I'll take the wheel.
[GRUNTING]
Capp?
Capp, wh what
[GRUNTING]
[GASPING]
♪
[GASPING]
[GASPING]
And you're sure they weren't the gloves
- he was wearing in the morgue?
- No.
These were flesh-colored,
more like a second skin.
They had a logo on them.
Two diamonds with a word underneath.
Uh, I think it started
with an A and an E.
- Wait, Aepix?
- I don't know.
It could be. What's Aepix?
Aepix Biomedical Technologies.
Do these look like the gloves?
Yes, exactly.
- What are they?
- They're compression gloves.
They're prescribed and custom-fitted
to manage symptoms from
connective tissue disorders, burns.
Prescribed means traceable.
Yeah, I'll have my team contact Aepix,
pull every order filled in Chicago.
I just don't get it.
Why was he digging around
inside of what's his name?
Omar Bengoa.
Bengoa specialized in body packing.
Are you familiar?
Uh, yeah, we've had
some cases in the ED.
Uh, mules ingesting pellets of drugs
to avoid detection at the border.
He was paid triple
his normal amount to have
two capsules implanted.
Implanted? Surgically?
It lowers the risk of rupture.
Maybe that's it.
Burst inside of him,
killing everyone on board,
A cabin pressure change could
have compromised the seal.
So the plane wasn't an attack.
It was an accident.
I mean, he came here
looking for the capsules
to see if one of them survived.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
- What's her status?
- 72 now.
[ALARM BEEPING]
She's brady. 48 and falling.
Baby's got a strong heartbeat.
Hey, you've got a fighter in there.
- What's her blood pressure?
- I can't get a read.
- Weak radial.
- Ambo 61 to Main.
Our patient is crashing.
We have to get her inside the hospital.
Uh, try moving her on her left side
to relieve aortocaval compression.
Copy, 61. The message is being relayed.
Continue to stand by.
[SUSTAINED TONE]
She's down!
No pulse!
Push epi and mark time of arrest.
11:41.
We've only got four minutes.
If we don't get ROSC
The baby needs to come out.
It's our only shot at saving them both.
Ambo 61 to Main, our patient
is in cardiac arrest.
If you won't let us inside,
we need an OB to the ambo now!
♪
Ma'am, return to your vehicle.
We've got a woman in the back
who's gonna die without my help!
Ma'am, hold.
Let me radio our incident
command for clearance.
Ma'am!
Every cadaver was X-rayed upon intake.
I just had Omar Bengoa's scans uploaded.
These white specks are
fragments of the capsule
that's expected to have ruptured.
And here's the second capsule intact.
- Were you able to see if he
- Yes.
One of our pathologists
just did a full sweep
of Bengoa's abdominal cavity.
The second capsule is gone.
He got out with it.
If this guy's willing to risk
getting apprehended, then
Knowing he's facing almost
200 counts of homicide
if he's caught,
then whatever he's planning,
it's already in motion.
Yeah, he needed his chemical weapon now.
My gut's been telling me from
the beginning this is local.
He had it transported
where he's gonna use it.
♪
Man, am I glad to see you, Dr. Asher!
How long has she been down?
Uh, 3 minutes and 49 seconds.
Okay, don't stop compressions.
Once baby's out, Mom's circulation
should hopefully improve.
Four minutes.
Do you have Pitocin on board?
No, but we've got TXA. I'll prep it.
Good.
[SUSTAINED TONE]
Uterus exposed.
Uterine incision.
Okay, here baby comes.
[BABY CRYING]
Hi, baby girl.
It's okay.
You are okay.
Yes, you are.
Okay, try to remove as much
amniotic fluid as possible,
and check for signs of exposure.
Copy.
Here you go.
All right. Airway's clear.
Pupils equal and reactive.
Good, strong cry. Good tone.
No immediate signs of exposure.
She's hemorrhaging.
Give her a gram of TXA.
TXA is on board.
♪
Pupils fixed and dilated.
Come on. [PANTING]
Come on.
Come on.
She's gone, Lizzie.
[SNIFFLES, SIGHS]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
Right, use sealant tape
on all the seams.
We can't have any cracks.
Hey, Crystal, as soon as you're done,
I need some arrows on the ground.
One-way flow only.
In through donning, out through doffing.
No crossover.
Make sure we have enough
O2 masks and cannulas.
Hey, be sure to stock extra
filters for the pappers, okay?
Come on, people, let's pick up the pace!
We got folks waiting to come in.
All patients in ICU have been
transferred to other floors.
The rooms are being converted
to negative pressure
- as we speak.
- Decon flow?
Established.
Separate ingress and egress.
Good. Anyone who was in that ambulance
goes through secondary decon
before they step foot anywhere
You let Hannah go out there?
You let Hannah go out there?
Well, the situation escalated, Dean.
- Yeah?
- A C-section was required.
- And Dr. Asher was adamant.
- Yeah, I don't care, Sharon!
Your job is to protect your doctors,
especially the ones who are
not protecting themselves!
Dean, nobody was gonna
keep Hannah out of that ambo.
Nobody, not even you.
- You know that, right?
- [SIGHS]
It's a terrible situation.
Everybody's doing their best.
Maybe just take a breath, pal.
Yes, sir.
I'll contact the Northern District AUSA
and have them fast-track the paperwork.
Yep.
Conway signed off on Intelligence
being deputized as TFOs,
so Intelligence is gonna take the lead
on the local investigation.
Well, I'd really like
to check you out at Med
- and rule out a concussion.
- I'm good.
[SIGHS]
If you develop a headache
or start vomiting
I'll make sure
to bring her in right away.
I'm okay. Thank you.
Uh, I found a picture
of you and Omar Bengoa
in his apartment,
the two of you together.
It looked like it was taken
from surveillance footage.
For insurance, I imagine,
in case I didn't play ball.
- Is he your CI?
- Yeah.
Do you know anything
about who hired him?
We had just started working together.
I don't think he trusted me yet,
hence the photo.
My team was working with
Canadian counternarcotics.
We were interdicting
border meth traffic,
and Omar thought he was moving
a new precursor for
Methyl-propiophenoxide.
How do you know?
Title 3s.
I heard chatter on one of the lines.
Military operative
got burned in Bolivia.
Pulled threads.
They all led back to Omar.
You were trying to protect me.
Hailey,
there were so many times
that I wanted to reach out
- I
- No. No, not here.
Later.
Doris said you might need some help.
Yeah, organizing PPE.
We have surgical masks
and N95s in this bin
and face shields laid flat
so they don't crack.
Goggles are separate from face shields?
- Correct.
- Okay.
I heard Novak, Violet, and Hannah
are in isolation?
What happened in the ambo?
I don't know the details yet,
but since they don't know
what this chemical is,
let alone how it spreads, it's
Well, have you talked to Novak?
Uh, no.
Oh, I just thought
you might have checked in.
Oh, we, uh,
were just kind of a passing fling,
so we ended things a few days ago.
Oh. I'm really sorry.
It's okay.
I'm gonna get these upstairs.
Chief! Overhaul's done.
- 81's heading back.
- Copy that.
Any idea where Squad's posted?
I haven't seen them, actually.
I don't know.
Lots of companies cycling through,
but they weren't reassigned or diverted.
- Squad, what's your location?
- What's going on?
They were just a few minutes behind.
Squad, come in!
Battalion 25 to Main, requesting status
and most recent on Squad 3.
Squad 3's AVL last pinged
at Kingsbury Street
between Evergreen and Halstead.
That's en route to the morgue.
Yeah. All right.
We'll start heading that way. Let's go.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Dr. Lenox!
We could use your help!
Emergency! Emergency!
Truck 81 responding to Kingsbury Street
for a wellness check on Squad 3.
Send ambo and CPD to that location now!
Copy, Battalion 25.
Emergency traffic acknowledged.
Ambulance and CPD en route.
[HORN HONKING, SIRENS WAILING]
[PHONE BUZZING]
- It's Briggs.
This is Kidd.
What? When?
What? What is it?
Macy and Holt are showing
signs of respiratory distress.
- They're being taken to Med.
- Secondary exposure.
Cruz and Capp, Holt, and Macy,
they were the first ones in the airplane
before we knew it was a hazmat.
Truck 81 to Main,
tell the responding ambo
to prep for hazmat.
Hey, wait, wait. Hold up.
You see that? There.
Truck 81 to Main, we've located Squad 3.
They are not moving.
Checking on them now.
Let Dr. Lenox run point.
♪
Unconscious but still breathing.
Hey! [THUMPING]
We got two firefighters down!
- They don't have much time.
- Whoa!
- Wait for the paramedics.
- Those are my guys in there!
Kelly, if that agent is still off
gassing, we're not protected.
What we can confirm is devastating.
187 people are dead,
making this the deadliest
188 now.
Wait, the pregnant passenger?
Didn't survive.
Macy and Holt are through decon.
Cruz and Capp just hit the bay.
Oh, God.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Capp.
You have to let us in!
You have to let us in!
[WHEEZES] Capp.
[ECHOING] Hey, Capp's right behind us.
Just breathe. We're almost there.
[VOICES SHOUTING]
Capp's through decon. Trini's got him.
All right, it's go time. You're on Capp.
- Howard and I will take Cruz.
- Got it.
He was found down at the scene,
loaded with atropine and 2-PAM.
Regained consciousness in the ambo.
Heart rate, BP improving.
Okay, that's what we wanna see, Capp.
♪
Well, when are we gonna hear something?
Hey, listen.
Soon, okay?
They're not gonna keep us hanging.
Look, I just don't
I don't get how they were exposed.
They were in full bunker gear.
SCBA protects your lungs, not your skin.
I need to take a walk.
You want me to come with you?
No, I just I need some fresh air.
Text me when we get an update,
all right?
Of course.
It should have been me on that plane.
Then what?
I don't know.
Feels wrong to be out here.
Capp and Cruz back there.
Herrmann, how's Joe doing?
Hey, Chloe.
Doc said she'll be out soon.
You know, give us an update, okay, guys?
Hey.
I tried to drop the boys off
at the neighbors,
but no one was home, and I just
didn't wanna wait.
Of course.
Is my dad gonna be okay?
Of course, honey.
- Your pop's tough as nails.
- Yeah.
Hey, your dad's gonna be okay.
He's a big, strong guy.
Okay. It's gonna be all right.
Hey.
That's Macy's mom.
Hey, Pamela. Hi.
How's Macy?
We should be getting
an update any minute now.
I don't understand.
Why was she on that plane
without proper gear?
Pamela, I am so sorry.
I can't I can't imagine how scared
you must be feeling right now. I
No. You can't.
[MONITOR BEEPING]
Laura, let's call R
and get him some racemic epi.
No, Joe, keep that on for now, okay?
[HOARSELY] Please, tell Chloe
and the boys how much I love them.
Yeah, cut it out.
You're not going anywhere.
[BREATHING HOARSELY]
All right, give atropine
every two hours,
and keep an eye on
his respiratory status.
Hannah's gonna be fine.
That woman she was treating
went through decon at the scene,
and Hannah was in full hazmat.
Here, let me just
There you go.
That should help you breathe
a little easier.
Are you gonna have to intubate me?
Only if your oxygen
saturation drops below 85.
Is my mom here yet?
Yeah, I'm told she's just arrived.
She's not happy about me
being a firefighter.
This is not gonna help my case.
I'm sure she's just gonna
be glad you're okay.
All right, folks, this is our guy.
Male, white, 30s to 40s,
about 5'8", medium build.
May be wearing compression gloves.
All right, Kim, where are
we at with the supplier?
Aepix Biomedical Technology lawyered up.
HIPAA wall.
They won't release patient
records without a warrant.
All right, so we'll get one.
Anyone in our system
tied to these gloves?
No, sir, these gloves are prescribed
for all kinds of conditions,
so we're working
- with a big pool.
- Well, keep digging.
Prioritize violent offenders
recently released.
Look, any prick out there
with a documented
vendetta against
a large group of people.
This chemical is built for density.
Took out 188 people
in a matter of minutes.
What's the status on Bengoa's phone?
He was supposed to get
a location when he landed
to have the capsules removed.
FBI CART's cracking it now.
I'll press them for a timeline.
Well, this isn't the reunion
any of us hoped for,
but it's good to have you two back.
Thanks, Detective.
Doctor Charles.
Appreciate you guys' patience, Chief.
Thanks.
So I've just been updated
by the medical team,
and I'm happy to report
that everybody is stable
and, dare I say, even improving.
Still a lot we don't know,
and the next couple hours
are crucial, but needless to say,
it's an encouraging trend.
What about Novak and Violet
and Dr. Asher?
Everybody's under close observation,
and as of yet,
there's no signs of exposure.
Can I please see my daughter?
Yes, can we see Joe?
I hope you can understand that,
out of an abundance of caution,
the doctors just aren't comfortable
letting anybody back there,
but I'm happy to take messages.
Thank you, Doctor.
Of course.
Excuse me.
Macy's baby blanket.
She'd hate me showing this to anyone,
especially around her colleagues,
but it always makes her feel better.
I am going to make sure she gets this.
I promise you that.
Thank you.
Where was Bengoa supposed to land?
Coordinates put him here, right smack
in the middle of the parking lot.
Maybe this is just a grab-and-go spot
and they were gonna take him
somewhere nearby
to have the capsules removed.
Don't some pet stores
offer vet services?
Yeah, which means exam rooms,
instruments, anesthesia.
Basically everything
you'd need to remove
a foreign object from someone's body?
Sure.
Hey. Detective Burgess, Chicago PD.
We're gonna need to speak to everybody
- who's working here today.
- Let me grab my boss.
- Just one second.
- Thank you.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Hey, I'm gonna need to talk to
♪
[ENGINE TURNS OVER]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
5021 Eddie, we got a silver Lexus
heading southbound on Clybourn!
Illinois plates. Victor 36
- Young 0-4-7.
- Young 0-4-7.
We're en route!
[HORNS HONKING, TIRES SQUEALING]
Maintaining southbound on Franklin.
Offender's headed to the bridge.
10-4, 5021 Eddie.
[TENSE MUSIC]
- Hailey, your nine o'clock.
- I see it.
- You wanna drive?
- You're good.
Still southbound on Franklin.
Offender is driving erratic,
high rate of speed.
This guy's gonna kill someone.
♪
Get ahead of this guy. Leapfrog him.
You okay for a PIT? You got room.
- Yep.
- 1820 requesting PIT.
- PIT denied.
- Damn it!
All units, hold your position.
Spike units, deploy.
Offender avoided the spike strip.
Turning left into a corridor at 18th!
[ENGINES RUMBLING]
Offender crashed! Vehicle overturned.
Roll an ambo to the railyard off 18th.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
He may be armed.
I'll get these people back
and hold the perimeter.
FBI! Let me see your hands!
Chicago PD! Back up! Back up now!
Stay still! Let me see those hands now!
- Let's cut him out.
- Wait, wait, wait. Hold on.
Answer some questions first.
- Who hired you?
- I'm not saying anything.
Hailey, you know this thing's
gonna blow any second, right?
- Huh.
- Here's the deal.
You want answers? You get me out.
You're in no position
to be making deals.
Oh, you think the dude told me his name?
- How'd he contact you?
- Telegram. It's all encrypted.
You're not giving me anything
I can use here, man.
Don't look at me. It's her call.
You know what happens
if this line hits a vapor?
All right, it's fine.
When he dropped the cash,
I saw his face.
Describe it.
Scars, deep ones, like
like someone tried to peel him open.
You want more?
- Get me the hell out of here!
- All right.
- We actually gotta move now.
- All right.
[GRUNTING]
♪
Hey, he's here.
Hey.
Okay.
Observation window is complete.
We're moving you out of isolation.
Is there any news on the case?
Have they found the guy
that escaped the morgue?
I haven't heard anything.
Ready?
You'll exit through decon,
and we'll give you
clean scrubs to change into.
Can we see Cruz and Capp first?
Unfortunately, only medical personnel
are allowed in treatment rooms
for right now.
How are they doing?
They're holding steady. No change.
You coming?
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
♪
[ECHOING]
Okay, when you untie the gowns,
make sure to pull them away
from your body inside out.
Slippers stay on.
Okay.
Whoa, Lizzie?
- Lizzie?
- Hey. Hey, hey. Hey.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God, Lizzie.
- Oh, my God. Lizzie.
- Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Lizzie.
Hey, stabilize her head.
Go grab whoever you can.
Tell them to bring me atropine,
2-PAM, and Ativan,
- all right?
- Yeah.
Lizzie, hey, it's okay. I got you.
I got you. I got you.
What's going on out there?
You know, I'm not quite sure.
Macy, I'm Dr. Charles.
And your mom,
she wanted you to have this.
I can't believe
she brought my baby blanket.
Hey, you know, when our kids are hurting
and we can't be with them,
the kind of move we make, right?
Is she really worried?
She's your mom, you know?
Occupational hazard.
It's the joy and the curse of parenting.
Dr. Charles, do you know what
happened to the pregnant woman
they pulled from the plane?
Evy White was her name.
- Was.
- Yeah.
I'm afraid that she didn't make it.
I thought I heard something.
On the plane
I thought I heard a noise.
I froze.
I couldn't move.
You must have been terrified.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
You all right?
I can't swallow.
What's going on?
[ALARM BEEPING]
A little help in here!
A little help in L2! Little help?
I need help in L2, stat!
[GAGGING]
Dr. Ripley is on his way.
He's just suiting back up.
Can't wait for him. Gotta intubate her.
- 20 etomidate, 50 of roc.
- On it.
♪
What happened?
How did her sats tank so fast?
Her jaw is clenched, Mitch.
I can't get in.
I got it. I got it.
Sats down to 50. Heart rate's 30.
- 10 blade. I gotta cric her.
- Copy.
Hey. Uh
Trini told me I could help myself.
- Of course you can.
- Okay.
I just
[SIGHS]
What?
What is it?
Macy didn't make it.
What?
[SOMBER MUSIC]
But I thought
- I thought she was improving.
- She was.
All of a sudden, she seemed to be having
a little difficulty breathing.
And I swear to you,
not 20 seconds later,
she was gone.
I mean, whatever this stuff is,
when it decides to make its move,
it moves very, very quickly.
She was my
my first girl from Girls on Fire
to graduate from the Fire Academy.
She wouldn't be a firefighter
if it weren't for me.
You know that that doesn't
make you responsible
for what happened, right?
Oh, you try to tell her mom that.
There is no way her mother
would be blaming you for this.
She does.
I know she does.
Yeah, well, guess what?
That doesn't make it true.
♪
[SOBS]
Oh.
Ms. Goodwin, we're hearing reports
that a first responder has already died.
- Can you confirm?
- No comment at this time.
There he is.
But Ms. Goodwin,
if there is an ongoing concern,
the public needs to know.
We'll issue a statement shortly.
Right now, we're actively
treating patients.
- Well, but
- Excuse us. Excuse us.
Paramedic Novak's exposure
is confounding,
but I suspect it resulted
from the blood spray
in the ambulance.
Has there been any change
in Paramedic Mikami
- or Dr. Asher's status?
- No, still asymptomatic.
We've extended their observation window
and are keeping them in isolation.
We also ran repeat labs on
the infant delivered in the ambo.
- Still negative.
- Good.
But we need to reassess
our treatment protocol.
I mean, the atropine and
2-PAM just aren't enough.
Macy's death made that painfully clear.
This chemical's toxidrome
appears to have
a dangerous and deadly tipping point.
Is there any way to prevent
anyone else from
reaching that tipping point?
Well, I was hopeful that
the mass spectrometry
results would give us
something actionable,
but all they told us is
what we already know.
We're dealing with some kind
of novel organophosphate.
We could try something like
a catalytic bioscavenger.
What's the hesitation?
If there's a mismatch between
the enzyme and the toxin,
it could make things worse.
But staying the course
is no longer an option.
We don't have the luxury of certainty.
Not anymore.
It's time for a Hail Mary.
Based on Mr. Russo's description,
it sounds like burn scars.
- Recent?
- No.
With recent burns,
you'd see active inflammation
and pigment changes.
These sound mature, adapted.
And the compression gloves track.
Severe burns often leave
peripheral neuropathy
- and edema.
- You got what you wanted.
I told you about the scars.
I was cooperative.
You ran from federal agents,
put civilians in the ICU!
And what you were about to do,
remove a lethal chemical weapon
Don't try to pin that on me!
I thought I was just
cutting out drugs
I don't care what you thought!
Neither does the law. We're done here.
Did the FBI recover
Russo's communication
- with the suspect from Telegram?
- Dead end.
Messages were set to auto-delete.
Data's irretrievable.
Okay, you're not giving
a guy like Russo,
someone you've never met before,
30k unless you did your homework.
- Vetted him first.
- Background checks.
- Who's got ears?
- I'm here, Sarge.
All right, Kev, see who's been
sniffing around Nick Russo.
Not his rap sheet, like who ran him
NCIC hits, DMV queries,
financial database pulls.
Somebody kicked the tires on this guy
before they hired him.
We need that trail.
On it.
So what exactly are you giving me?
It's called a catalytic bioscavenger.
And Cruz, Capp, and Holt
have all gotten their doses?
That's right.
How are they doing?
No adverse side effects
or reactions so far.
So it's working?
Too soon to tell.
But we'll watch for clinical signs
and then run hourly labs to recheck
the cholinesterase levels.
Hey, is there anybody
you want us to call?
- Family maybe?
- Oh, no.
That's okay.
Um, the only family I have in Chicago
is my sister, Heidi,
and my brother, Will,
and I
I don't wanna worry them.
I didn't know you had any siblings.
Surprise.
We don't keep in touch that often,
and in Will's case, not at all lately.
Can I ask why?
Well
You don't have to if it's
No, it's okay.
We lost our mom when Heidi and Will
were in elementary school.
I'm sorry.
I kind of became
the de facto mom figure,
which led to some friction.
Heidi and I reconnected
over the last couple of months,
but I haven't talked to Will in a while.
The last time we spoke,
we did not leave things on good terms.
Well, as a wise woman once told me,
wherever you left things,
that's where they stay.
How dare you use my words against me.
[CHUCKLES]
I'm just saying.
Maybe it's time to give 'em a call.
Yeah, maybe.
Like I said, I don't
I don't wanna worry them.
They've been through enough trauma.
I'll give them a call
if I make it out of here.
Mm-mm.
When you make it out of here, okay?
Right, but I I feel fine.
I'm asymptomatic.
I know, but given
the possibility of exposure
What possibility? I was in full PPE.
So was Novak.
She got sprayed in the face
with blood, Dean.
Listen, it is completely your decision,
but we could give you atropine
and benzos prophylactically.
Atropine and benzos cross the placenta.
I'm not going to expose my baby
to a known risk for a theoretical one.
You know what else
will put the baby at risk?
You going into respiratory failure.
- It's not gonna happen.
- You don't know that, Hannah!
We have no idea what
this chemical is capable of.
None of us do!
Something you might have
thought about bef
[TENSE MUSIC]
Before?
Oh, before I was so so reckless.
- Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
Where was your concern
for our child then?
[SIGHS]
I'm declining atropine and benzos.
Understood.
Hey.
You okay, man?
I just found out that Lizzie
has family here in Chicago.
But she won't call them
because she doesn't wanna worry them.
Call them.
- It's not my place
- Doesn't matter.
- Mitch, you don't
- Trust me.
If Lizzie gets mad at you, great.
That means the bioscavenger worked
and she is still here.
I just watched a young woman
die in less than 60 seconds.
There is no "I'll do it later" in this.
Call them.
Bingo.
Went through LexisNexis, Sarge.
Nick's plates were ran two weeks ago.
By who?
Some civilian account, fictitious name.
But the login pings back to an IP
that's attached to
a coffee shop in the West Loop.
Contact CPIC.
Give them our guy's descriptors.
I want a full dump on all PODs,
security cams
near that coffee shop
for the last 30 days.
It's a long shot, but maybe
somebody who works there
will remember seeing him.
- Worth checking out.
- Yeah.
- What's the address?
- 1634 Racine.
1634 Racine?
1634 Racine, yes, sir.
Sarge, you know it?
I did once, but it wasn't
a coffee shop back then.
How you doing, Joe?
Better, I think.
Maybe it's just, um
what's that term? Psycho
Psychosomatic?
That.
Labs come in yet?
No. No, not yet. Not yet.
Were you able to video chat
with your family?
- Yeah.
- Good.
Okay, uh, I'll be right out there
if you need anything, all right?
My youngest, Otis,
he keeps asking if I'm gonna be home
for his party on Saturday.
Oh, yeah. Birthday?
No, it's end-of-season party
for his basketball team.
Chloe and I are having
the kids and the parents
over to our house.
Good incentive for you
to get the hell out of here.
I promised to bring the squad by,
let the kids take a ride.
I've always accepted the risks
that come with this job,
and it never scared me,
but then you have a family.
[SIGHS]
It's not just your sacrifice anymore.
Something happens to me
It happens to them.
[PEOPLE CLAMORING]
All right, okay. Okay.
Hold on. Hold on a second, please.
- One at a time, please.
- Just tell us what's happening.
Our family members died on that plane
we deserve answers.
- Who did this?
- Ma'am,
I understand your frustration,
but this is an active investigation.
Details are still being verified,
but I can promise you that we
are doing everything possible
- to find the people responsible.
- This is Tyler.
My son.
And now he's gone and I wanna know why.
They won't let me see him.
I just I just
just I just need to
I just need to see my boy
one more time
Sir, sir, I am very sorry,
but we just don't have
all the answers right now.
But I can promise you,
Tyler is not just a case number.
None of your family members are.
We are carrying every
single one of them with us.
I promise.
So Macy played a significant role
in saving that baby's life today.
Yeah.
Macy always had this
overwhelming need to serve.
Even as a kid
she'd organize bake sales and
donate the money to shelters,
give away her toys every Christmas.
When I would question why
she had to be a firefighter,
why she couldn't find
some other way to help people,
she'd say, "Mom,
this is my calling."
You know, a lot of people spend
their entire lives searching
for that kind of clarity.
And to find it
at the age of 24 and then live it,
I mean, that's pretty rare.
Oh, yeah.
[SOFT MUSIC]
Would you like to meet her?
♪
[BABY FUSSING]
Shh.
Yeah, actually, I think I
know who you're talking about.
I don't know his name, but he
comes in here pretty regularly.
He stands out 'cause of
the scars and the gloves.
Does he usually pay cash or credit card?
We're cash-only.
Does he ever come in with anyone else?
Not that I remember.
Have you ever talked to him?
Small talk even?
Not really.
He's polite,
but he's not exactly chatty.
There was this one time
I asked if he lived in the neighborhood.
He said he grew up right here.
W-what'd he mean "right here"?
He said his family lived in an
apartment building on this lot.
You said you knew the address.
You know when
the building was torn down?
It wasn't torn down.
It burned down in '01.
The Heart of Chicago Fire.
That's how he got the scars.
He would have been a kid
at the time 10, maybe 11.
- All right, thank you.
- Sure thing.
We need to get a resident list
for the building for that year.
CFD will have every injury documented.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
You good?
Yeah, I just gotta make a quick stop.
I'll meet you back at the unit.
♪
The death toll has risen to 188,
with the sole survivor
of Dominion Airlines Flight 63
having passed away just
hours ago, we're learning.
While the deaths have been attributed
to acute chemical intoxication,
the nature of that chemical
has still not been determined.
I'm sorry to pull you away.
I know you just lost one of your own.
What's happening? Sounded urgent.
There's evidence
suggesting that our suspect
was a victim of the Heart of
Chicago Fire when he was a boy.
What?
I mean, that article dragging the fire
back into the headlines?
The timing of it?
- Can't be a coincidence.
- No way.
So you're saying
we created this monster?
♪
[SIGHS]
Look, whoever he is, we gotta find him.
Hey, please give me
a call back when you can.
I don't mean to alarm you,
but it is urgent.
Not yet, but even if they were,
Macy Vesia was stable until she wasn't.
I'm not gonna sugarcoat it.
I thought we'd be seeing
improvement by now.
Hey, Dr. Archer, you okay?
I'm fine, Kacy. Thanks.
Heart of Chicago fire,
that inspection
we didn't do anything illegal.
He created this, not us.
Dominic, it could come out.
If you need to get
ahead of this thing
- I need you to find this guy.
- What's going on?
Voight, we got something.
Come.
So we ran all the
Heart of Chicago Fire victims
against the known stats
of the offender
height, weight, compression gloves.
One guy fits Thomas Marr. He's 36.
He lost his whole family in the fire.
Grew up in foster care.
When he was 16, he was arrested
for assaulting
one of his foster parents.
Diagnosed with intermittent
explosive disorder and PTSI.
You got a picture of this guy?
Yeah.
All we know is, this guy was a
day trader and a cyber consultant.
Other than that, we got nothing.
LKAs, associates, finances
this guy's a ghost.
That's the last known photo of him.
It's his mugshot from when
he was arrested at 16.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Hank, what is it?
♪
I saved him from that fire.
♪
There's been a chemical
weapon attack in Chicago.
Terrorism likely.
Set up for decon.
Your heart rate's elevated.
Do you feel lightheaded at all?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I got a survivor!
Wait, she's pregnant.
I need you to stay in your vehicle.
I don't get what kind of chemical agent
would elicit such an extreme response.
Hey, easy. You're in an ambulance.
[GROANS]
Novak, you've got blood on your face.
You gotta decon yourself.
♪
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
We were tracking
a suspected narco courier.
So is it just a coincidence
that your mule was on that same flight?
I don't think so.
My gut's telling me
something else is going on.
Excuse me, sir.
[SMASHING, WHOOSHING]
[ALARMS BLARING]
[YELPS, GRUNTS]
Drop that weapon!
[ALARM WAILING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[COUGHS, SHOUTS] [GUNSHOTS]
Move! Move! Get out of the way!
Get out of the way. Stop!
Whoa.
- Hailey, easy. Take it easy.
- Go.
- Stop!
- You gotta go!
Hailey! Hailey, you got a head wound.
- I'm not going anywhere.
- Jay, he's getting away.
- You gotta
- Hailey, stop! Stop.
I'm fine.
I just need a second.
It's good to see you.
[TRUCK HORN HONKING]
What's the matter?
Chest feels tight. It's like a
it's like I can't get a full breath.
You know?
Pull over.
I'll I'll take the wheel.
[GRUNTING]
Capp?
Capp, wh what
[GRUNTING]
[GASPING]
♪
[GASPING]
[GASPING]
And you're sure they weren't the gloves
- he was wearing in the morgue?
- No.
These were flesh-colored,
more like a second skin.
They had a logo on them.
Two diamonds with a word underneath.
Uh, I think it started
with an A and an E.
- Wait, Aepix?
- I don't know.
It could be. What's Aepix?
Aepix Biomedical Technologies.
Do these look like the gloves?
Yes, exactly.
- What are they?
- They're compression gloves.
They're prescribed and custom-fitted
to manage symptoms from
connective tissue disorders, burns.
Prescribed means traceable.
Yeah, I'll have my team contact Aepix,
pull every order filled in Chicago.
I just don't get it.
Why was he digging around
inside of what's his name?
Omar Bengoa.
Bengoa specialized in body packing.
Are you familiar?
Uh, yeah, we've had
some cases in the ED.
Uh, mules ingesting pellets of drugs
to avoid detection at the border.
He was paid triple
his normal amount to have
two capsules implanted.
Implanted? Surgically?
It lowers the risk of rupture.
Maybe that's it.
Burst inside of him,
killing everyone on board,
A cabin pressure change could
have compromised the seal.
So the plane wasn't an attack.
It was an accident.
I mean, he came here
looking for the capsules
to see if one of them survived.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
- What's her status?
- 72 now.
[ALARM BEEPING]
She's brady. 48 and falling.
Baby's got a strong heartbeat.
Hey, you've got a fighter in there.
- What's her blood pressure?
- I can't get a read.
- Weak radial.
- Ambo 61 to Main.
Our patient is crashing.
We have to get her inside the hospital.
Uh, try moving her on her left side
to relieve aortocaval compression.
Copy, 61. The message is being relayed.
Continue to stand by.
[SUSTAINED TONE]
She's down!
No pulse!
Push epi and mark time of arrest.
11:41.
We've only got four minutes.
If we don't get ROSC
The baby needs to come out.
It's our only shot at saving them both.
Ambo 61 to Main, our patient
is in cardiac arrest.
If you won't let us inside,
we need an OB to the ambo now!
♪
Ma'am, return to your vehicle.
We've got a woman in the back
who's gonna die without my help!
Ma'am, hold.
Let me radio our incident
command for clearance.
Ma'am!
Every cadaver was X-rayed upon intake.
I just had Omar Bengoa's scans uploaded.
These white specks are
fragments of the capsule
that's expected to have ruptured.
And here's the second capsule intact.
- Were you able to see if he
- Yes.
One of our pathologists
just did a full sweep
of Bengoa's abdominal cavity.
The second capsule is gone.
He got out with it.
If this guy's willing to risk
getting apprehended, then
Knowing he's facing almost
200 counts of homicide
if he's caught,
then whatever he's planning,
it's already in motion.
Yeah, he needed his chemical weapon now.
My gut's been telling me from
the beginning this is local.
He had it transported
where he's gonna use it.
♪
Man, am I glad to see you, Dr. Asher!
How long has she been down?
Uh, 3 minutes and 49 seconds.
Okay, don't stop compressions.
Once baby's out, Mom's circulation
should hopefully improve.
Four minutes.
Do you have Pitocin on board?
No, but we've got TXA. I'll prep it.
Good.
[SUSTAINED TONE]
Uterus exposed.
Uterine incision.
Okay, here baby comes.
[BABY CRYING]
Hi, baby girl.
It's okay.
You are okay.
Yes, you are.
Okay, try to remove as much
amniotic fluid as possible,
and check for signs of exposure.
Copy.
Here you go.
All right. Airway's clear.
Pupils equal and reactive.
Good, strong cry. Good tone.
No immediate signs of exposure.
She's hemorrhaging.
Give her a gram of TXA.
TXA is on board.
♪
Pupils fixed and dilated.
Come on. [PANTING]
Come on.
Come on.
She's gone, Lizzie.
[SNIFFLES, SIGHS]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
Right, use sealant tape
on all the seams.
We can't have any cracks.
Hey, Crystal, as soon as you're done,
I need some arrows on the ground.
One-way flow only.
In through donning, out through doffing.
No crossover.
Make sure we have enough
O2 masks and cannulas.
Hey, be sure to stock extra
filters for the pappers, okay?
Come on, people, let's pick up the pace!
We got folks waiting to come in.
All patients in ICU have been
transferred to other floors.
The rooms are being converted
to negative pressure
- as we speak.
- Decon flow?
Established.
Separate ingress and egress.
Good. Anyone who was in that ambulance
goes through secondary decon
before they step foot anywhere
You let Hannah go out there?
You let Hannah go out there?
Well, the situation escalated, Dean.
- Yeah?
- A C-section was required.
- And Dr. Asher was adamant.
- Yeah, I don't care, Sharon!
Your job is to protect your doctors,
especially the ones who are
not protecting themselves!
Dean, nobody was gonna
keep Hannah out of that ambo.
Nobody, not even you.
- You know that, right?
- [SIGHS]
It's a terrible situation.
Everybody's doing their best.
Maybe just take a breath, pal.
Yes, sir.
I'll contact the Northern District AUSA
and have them fast-track the paperwork.
Yep.
Conway signed off on Intelligence
being deputized as TFOs,
so Intelligence is gonna take the lead
on the local investigation.
Well, I'd really like
to check you out at Med
- and rule out a concussion.
- I'm good.
[SIGHS]
If you develop a headache
or start vomiting
I'll make sure
to bring her in right away.
I'm okay. Thank you.
Uh, I found a picture
of you and Omar Bengoa
in his apartment,
the two of you together.
It looked like it was taken
from surveillance footage.
For insurance, I imagine,
in case I didn't play ball.
- Is he your CI?
- Yeah.
Do you know anything
about who hired him?
We had just started working together.
I don't think he trusted me yet,
hence the photo.
My team was working with
Canadian counternarcotics.
We were interdicting
border meth traffic,
and Omar thought he was moving
a new precursor for
Methyl-propiophenoxide.
How do you know?
Title 3s.
I heard chatter on one of the lines.
Military operative
got burned in Bolivia.
Pulled threads.
They all led back to Omar.
You were trying to protect me.
Hailey,
there were so many times
that I wanted to reach out
- I
- No. No, not here.
Later.
Doris said you might need some help.
Yeah, organizing PPE.
We have surgical masks
and N95s in this bin
and face shields laid flat
so they don't crack.
Goggles are separate from face shields?
- Correct.
- Okay.
I heard Novak, Violet, and Hannah
are in isolation?
What happened in the ambo?
I don't know the details yet,
but since they don't know
what this chemical is,
let alone how it spreads, it's
Well, have you talked to Novak?
Uh, no.
Oh, I just thought
you might have checked in.
Oh, we, uh,
were just kind of a passing fling,
so we ended things a few days ago.
Oh. I'm really sorry.
It's okay.
I'm gonna get these upstairs.
Chief! Overhaul's done.
- 81's heading back.
- Copy that.
Any idea where Squad's posted?
I haven't seen them, actually.
I don't know.
Lots of companies cycling through,
but they weren't reassigned or diverted.
- Squad, what's your location?
- What's going on?
They were just a few minutes behind.
Squad, come in!
Battalion 25 to Main, requesting status
and most recent on Squad 3.
Squad 3's AVL last pinged
at Kingsbury Street
between Evergreen and Halstead.
That's en route to the morgue.
Yeah. All right.
We'll start heading that way. Let's go.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Dr. Lenox!
We could use your help!
Emergency! Emergency!
Truck 81 responding to Kingsbury Street
for a wellness check on Squad 3.
Send ambo and CPD to that location now!
Copy, Battalion 25.
Emergency traffic acknowledged.
Ambulance and CPD en route.
[HORN HONKING, SIRENS WAILING]
[PHONE BUZZING]
- It's Briggs.
This is Kidd.
What? When?
What? What is it?
Macy and Holt are showing
signs of respiratory distress.
- They're being taken to Med.
- Secondary exposure.
Cruz and Capp, Holt, and Macy,
they were the first ones in the airplane
before we knew it was a hazmat.
Truck 81 to Main,
tell the responding ambo
to prep for hazmat.
Hey, wait, wait. Hold up.
You see that? There.
Truck 81 to Main, we've located Squad 3.
They are not moving.
Checking on them now.
Let Dr. Lenox run point.
♪
Unconscious but still breathing.
Hey! [THUMPING]
We got two firefighters down!
- They don't have much time.
- Whoa!
- Wait for the paramedics.
- Those are my guys in there!
Kelly, if that agent is still off
gassing, we're not protected.
What we can confirm is devastating.
187 people are dead,
making this the deadliest
188 now.
Wait, the pregnant passenger?
Didn't survive.
Macy and Holt are through decon.
Cruz and Capp just hit the bay.
Oh, God.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Capp.
You have to let us in!
You have to let us in!
[WHEEZES] Capp.
[ECHOING] Hey, Capp's right behind us.
Just breathe. We're almost there.
[VOICES SHOUTING]
Capp's through decon. Trini's got him.
All right, it's go time. You're on Capp.
- Howard and I will take Cruz.
- Got it.
He was found down at the scene,
loaded with atropine and 2-PAM.
Regained consciousness in the ambo.
Heart rate, BP improving.
Okay, that's what we wanna see, Capp.
♪
Well, when are we gonna hear something?
Hey, listen.
Soon, okay?
They're not gonna keep us hanging.
Look, I just don't
I don't get how they were exposed.
They were in full bunker gear.
SCBA protects your lungs, not your skin.
I need to take a walk.
You want me to come with you?
No, I just I need some fresh air.
Text me when we get an update,
all right?
Of course.
It should have been me on that plane.
Then what?
I don't know.
Feels wrong to be out here.
Capp and Cruz back there.
Herrmann, how's Joe doing?
Hey, Chloe.
Doc said she'll be out soon.
You know, give us an update, okay, guys?
Hey.
I tried to drop the boys off
at the neighbors,
but no one was home, and I just
didn't wanna wait.
Of course.
Is my dad gonna be okay?
Of course, honey.
- Your pop's tough as nails.
- Yeah.
Hey, your dad's gonna be okay.
He's a big, strong guy.
Okay. It's gonna be all right.
Hey.
That's Macy's mom.
Hey, Pamela. Hi.
How's Macy?
We should be getting
an update any minute now.
I don't understand.
Why was she on that plane
without proper gear?
Pamela, I am so sorry.
I can't I can't imagine how scared
you must be feeling right now. I
No. You can't.
[MONITOR BEEPING]
Laura, let's call R
and get him some racemic epi.
No, Joe, keep that on for now, okay?
[HOARSELY] Please, tell Chloe
and the boys how much I love them.
Yeah, cut it out.
You're not going anywhere.
[BREATHING HOARSELY]
All right, give atropine
every two hours,
and keep an eye on
his respiratory status.
Hannah's gonna be fine.
That woman she was treating
went through decon at the scene,
and Hannah was in full hazmat.
Here, let me just
There you go.
That should help you breathe
a little easier.
Are you gonna have to intubate me?
Only if your oxygen
saturation drops below 85.
Is my mom here yet?
Yeah, I'm told she's just arrived.
She's not happy about me
being a firefighter.
This is not gonna help my case.
I'm sure she's just gonna
be glad you're okay.
All right, folks, this is our guy.
Male, white, 30s to 40s,
about 5'8", medium build.
May be wearing compression gloves.
All right, Kim, where are
we at with the supplier?
Aepix Biomedical Technology lawyered up.
HIPAA wall.
They won't release patient
records without a warrant.
All right, so we'll get one.
Anyone in our system
tied to these gloves?
No, sir, these gloves are prescribed
for all kinds of conditions,
so we're working
- with a big pool.
- Well, keep digging.
Prioritize violent offenders
recently released.
Look, any prick out there
with a documented
vendetta against
a large group of people.
This chemical is built for density.
Took out 188 people
in a matter of minutes.
What's the status on Bengoa's phone?
He was supposed to get
a location when he landed
to have the capsules removed.
FBI CART's cracking it now.
I'll press them for a timeline.
Well, this isn't the reunion
any of us hoped for,
but it's good to have you two back.
Thanks, Detective.
Doctor Charles.
Appreciate you guys' patience, Chief.
Thanks.
So I've just been updated
by the medical team,
and I'm happy to report
that everybody is stable
and, dare I say, even improving.
Still a lot we don't know,
and the next couple hours
are crucial, but needless to say,
it's an encouraging trend.
What about Novak and Violet
and Dr. Asher?
Everybody's under close observation,
and as of yet,
there's no signs of exposure.
Can I please see my daughter?
Yes, can we see Joe?
I hope you can understand that,
out of an abundance of caution,
the doctors just aren't comfortable
letting anybody back there,
but I'm happy to take messages.
Thank you, Doctor.
Of course.
Excuse me.
Macy's baby blanket.
She'd hate me showing this to anyone,
especially around her colleagues,
but it always makes her feel better.
I am going to make sure she gets this.
I promise you that.
Thank you.
Where was Bengoa supposed to land?
Coordinates put him here, right smack
in the middle of the parking lot.
Maybe this is just a grab-and-go spot
and they were gonna take him
somewhere nearby
to have the capsules removed.
Don't some pet stores
offer vet services?
Yeah, which means exam rooms,
instruments, anesthesia.
Basically everything
you'd need to remove
a foreign object from someone's body?
Sure.
Hey. Detective Burgess, Chicago PD.
We're gonna need to speak to everybody
- who's working here today.
- Let me grab my boss.
- Just one second.
- Thank you.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Hey, I'm gonna need to talk to
♪
[ENGINE TURNS OVER]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
5021 Eddie, we got a silver Lexus
heading southbound on Clybourn!
Illinois plates. Victor 36
- Young 0-4-7.
- Young 0-4-7.
We're en route!
[HORNS HONKING, TIRES SQUEALING]
Maintaining southbound on Franklin.
Offender's headed to the bridge.
10-4, 5021 Eddie.
[TENSE MUSIC]
- Hailey, your nine o'clock.
- I see it.
- You wanna drive?
- You're good.
Still southbound on Franklin.
Offender is driving erratic,
high rate of speed.
This guy's gonna kill someone.
♪
Get ahead of this guy. Leapfrog him.
You okay for a PIT? You got room.
- Yep.
- 1820 requesting PIT.
- PIT denied.
- Damn it!
All units, hold your position.
Spike units, deploy.
Offender avoided the spike strip.
Turning left into a corridor at 18th!
[ENGINES RUMBLING]
Offender crashed! Vehicle overturned.
Roll an ambo to the railyard off 18th.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
He may be armed.
I'll get these people back
and hold the perimeter.
FBI! Let me see your hands!
Chicago PD! Back up! Back up now!
Stay still! Let me see those hands now!
- Let's cut him out.
- Wait, wait, wait. Hold on.
Answer some questions first.
- Who hired you?
- I'm not saying anything.
Hailey, you know this thing's
gonna blow any second, right?
- Huh.
- Here's the deal.
You want answers? You get me out.
You're in no position
to be making deals.
Oh, you think the dude told me his name?
- How'd he contact you?
- Telegram. It's all encrypted.
You're not giving me anything
I can use here, man.
Don't look at me. It's her call.
You know what happens
if this line hits a vapor?
All right, it's fine.
When he dropped the cash,
I saw his face.
Describe it.
Scars, deep ones, like
like someone tried to peel him open.
You want more?
- Get me the hell out of here!
- All right.
- We actually gotta move now.
- All right.
[GRUNTING]
♪
Hey, he's here.
Hey.
Okay.
Observation window is complete.
We're moving you out of isolation.
Is there any news on the case?
Have they found the guy
that escaped the morgue?
I haven't heard anything.
Ready?
You'll exit through decon,
and we'll give you
clean scrubs to change into.
Can we see Cruz and Capp first?
Unfortunately, only medical personnel
are allowed in treatment rooms
for right now.
How are they doing?
They're holding steady. No change.
You coming?
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
♪
[ECHOING]
Okay, when you untie the gowns,
make sure to pull them away
from your body inside out.
Slippers stay on.
Okay.
Whoa, Lizzie?
- Lizzie?
- Hey. Hey, hey. Hey.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God, Lizzie.
- Oh, my God. Lizzie.
- Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Lizzie.
Hey, stabilize her head.
Go grab whoever you can.
Tell them to bring me atropine,
2-PAM, and Ativan,
- all right?
- Yeah.
Lizzie, hey, it's okay. I got you.
I got you. I got you.
What's going on out there?
You know, I'm not quite sure.
Macy, I'm Dr. Charles.
And your mom,
she wanted you to have this.
I can't believe
she brought my baby blanket.
Hey, you know, when our kids are hurting
and we can't be with them,
the kind of move we make, right?
Is she really worried?
She's your mom, you know?
Occupational hazard.
It's the joy and the curse of parenting.
Dr. Charles, do you know what
happened to the pregnant woman
they pulled from the plane?
Evy White was her name.
- Was.
- Yeah.
I'm afraid that she didn't make it.
I thought I heard something.
On the plane
I thought I heard a noise.
I froze.
I couldn't move.
You must have been terrified.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
You all right?
I can't swallow.
What's going on?
[ALARM BEEPING]
A little help in here!
A little help in L2! Little help?
I need help in L2, stat!
[GAGGING]
Dr. Ripley is on his way.
He's just suiting back up.
Can't wait for him. Gotta intubate her.
- 20 etomidate, 50 of roc.
- On it.
♪
What happened?
How did her sats tank so fast?
Her jaw is clenched, Mitch.
I can't get in.
I got it. I got it.
Sats down to 50. Heart rate's 30.
- 10 blade. I gotta cric her.
- Copy.
Hey. Uh
Trini told me I could help myself.
- Of course you can.
- Okay.
I just
[SIGHS]
What?
What is it?
Macy didn't make it.
What?
[SOMBER MUSIC]
But I thought
- I thought she was improving.
- She was.
All of a sudden, she seemed to be having
a little difficulty breathing.
And I swear to you,
not 20 seconds later,
she was gone.
I mean, whatever this stuff is,
when it decides to make its move,
it moves very, very quickly.
She was my
my first girl from Girls on Fire
to graduate from the Fire Academy.
She wouldn't be a firefighter
if it weren't for me.
You know that that doesn't
make you responsible
for what happened, right?
Oh, you try to tell her mom that.
There is no way her mother
would be blaming you for this.
She does.
I know she does.
Yeah, well, guess what?
That doesn't make it true.
♪
[SOBS]
Oh.
Ms. Goodwin, we're hearing reports
that a first responder has already died.
- Can you confirm?
- No comment at this time.
There he is.
But Ms. Goodwin,
if there is an ongoing concern,
the public needs to know.
We'll issue a statement shortly.
Right now, we're actively
treating patients.
- Well, but
- Excuse us. Excuse us.
Paramedic Novak's exposure
is confounding,
but I suspect it resulted
from the blood spray
in the ambulance.
Has there been any change
in Paramedic Mikami
- or Dr. Asher's status?
- No, still asymptomatic.
We've extended their observation window
and are keeping them in isolation.
We also ran repeat labs on
the infant delivered in the ambo.
- Still negative.
- Good.
But we need to reassess
our treatment protocol.
I mean, the atropine and
2-PAM just aren't enough.
Macy's death made that painfully clear.
This chemical's toxidrome
appears to have
a dangerous and deadly tipping point.
Is there any way to prevent
anyone else from
reaching that tipping point?
Well, I was hopeful that
the mass spectrometry
results would give us
something actionable,
but all they told us is
what we already know.
We're dealing with some kind
of novel organophosphate.
We could try something like
a catalytic bioscavenger.
What's the hesitation?
If there's a mismatch between
the enzyme and the toxin,
it could make things worse.
But staying the course
is no longer an option.
We don't have the luxury of certainty.
Not anymore.
It's time for a Hail Mary.
Based on Mr. Russo's description,
it sounds like burn scars.
- Recent?
- No.
With recent burns,
you'd see active inflammation
and pigment changes.
These sound mature, adapted.
And the compression gloves track.
Severe burns often leave
peripheral neuropathy
- and edema.
- You got what you wanted.
I told you about the scars.
I was cooperative.
You ran from federal agents,
put civilians in the ICU!
And what you were about to do,
remove a lethal chemical weapon
Don't try to pin that on me!
I thought I was just
cutting out drugs
I don't care what you thought!
Neither does the law. We're done here.
Did the FBI recover
Russo's communication
- with the suspect from Telegram?
- Dead end.
Messages were set to auto-delete.
Data's irretrievable.
Okay, you're not giving
a guy like Russo,
someone you've never met before,
30k unless you did your homework.
- Vetted him first.
- Background checks.
- Who's got ears?
- I'm here, Sarge.
All right, Kev, see who's been
sniffing around Nick Russo.
Not his rap sheet, like who ran him
NCIC hits, DMV queries,
financial database pulls.
Somebody kicked the tires on this guy
before they hired him.
We need that trail.
On it.
So what exactly are you giving me?
It's called a catalytic bioscavenger.
And Cruz, Capp, and Holt
have all gotten their doses?
That's right.
How are they doing?
No adverse side effects
or reactions so far.
So it's working?
Too soon to tell.
But we'll watch for clinical signs
and then run hourly labs to recheck
the cholinesterase levels.
Hey, is there anybody
you want us to call?
- Family maybe?
- Oh, no.
That's okay.
Um, the only family I have in Chicago
is my sister, Heidi,
and my brother, Will,
and I
I don't wanna worry them.
I didn't know you had any siblings.
Surprise.
We don't keep in touch that often,
and in Will's case, not at all lately.
Can I ask why?
Well
You don't have to if it's
No, it's okay.
We lost our mom when Heidi and Will
were in elementary school.
I'm sorry.
I kind of became
the de facto mom figure,
which led to some friction.
Heidi and I reconnected
over the last couple of months,
but I haven't talked to Will in a while.
The last time we spoke,
we did not leave things on good terms.
Well, as a wise woman once told me,
wherever you left things,
that's where they stay.
How dare you use my words against me.
[CHUCKLES]
I'm just saying.
Maybe it's time to give 'em a call.
Yeah, maybe.
Like I said, I don't
I don't wanna worry them.
They've been through enough trauma.
I'll give them a call
if I make it out of here.
Mm-mm.
When you make it out of here, okay?
Right, but I I feel fine.
I'm asymptomatic.
I know, but given
the possibility of exposure
What possibility? I was in full PPE.
So was Novak.
She got sprayed in the face
with blood, Dean.
Listen, it is completely your decision,
but we could give you atropine
and benzos prophylactically.
Atropine and benzos cross the placenta.
I'm not going to expose my baby
to a known risk for a theoretical one.
You know what else
will put the baby at risk?
You going into respiratory failure.
- It's not gonna happen.
- You don't know that, Hannah!
We have no idea what
this chemical is capable of.
None of us do!
Something you might have
thought about bef
[TENSE MUSIC]
Before?
Oh, before I was so so reckless.
- Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
Where was your concern
for our child then?
[SIGHS]
I'm declining atropine and benzos.
Understood.
Hey.
You okay, man?
I just found out that Lizzie
has family here in Chicago.
But she won't call them
because she doesn't wanna worry them.
Call them.
- It's not my place
- Doesn't matter.
- Mitch, you don't
- Trust me.
If Lizzie gets mad at you, great.
That means the bioscavenger worked
and she is still here.
I just watched a young woman
die in less than 60 seconds.
There is no "I'll do it later" in this.
Call them.
Bingo.
Went through LexisNexis, Sarge.
Nick's plates were ran two weeks ago.
By who?
Some civilian account, fictitious name.
But the login pings back to an IP
that's attached to
a coffee shop in the West Loop.
Contact CPIC.
Give them our guy's descriptors.
I want a full dump on all PODs,
security cams
near that coffee shop
for the last 30 days.
It's a long shot, but maybe
somebody who works there
will remember seeing him.
- Worth checking out.
- Yeah.
- What's the address?
- 1634 Racine.
1634 Racine?
1634 Racine, yes, sir.
Sarge, you know it?
I did once, but it wasn't
a coffee shop back then.
How you doing, Joe?
Better, I think.
Maybe it's just, um
what's that term? Psycho
Psychosomatic?
That.
Labs come in yet?
No. No, not yet. Not yet.
Were you able to video chat
with your family?
- Yeah.
- Good.
Okay, uh, I'll be right out there
if you need anything, all right?
My youngest, Otis,
he keeps asking if I'm gonna be home
for his party on Saturday.
Oh, yeah. Birthday?
No, it's end-of-season party
for his basketball team.
Chloe and I are having
the kids and the parents
over to our house.
Good incentive for you
to get the hell out of here.
I promised to bring the squad by,
let the kids take a ride.
I've always accepted the risks
that come with this job,
and it never scared me,
but then you have a family.
[SIGHS]
It's not just your sacrifice anymore.
Something happens to me
It happens to them.
[PEOPLE CLAMORING]
All right, okay. Okay.
Hold on. Hold on a second, please.
- One at a time, please.
- Just tell us what's happening.
Our family members died on that plane
we deserve answers.
- Who did this?
- Ma'am,
I understand your frustration,
but this is an active investigation.
Details are still being verified,
but I can promise you that we
are doing everything possible
- to find the people responsible.
- This is Tyler.
My son.
And now he's gone and I wanna know why.
They won't let me see him.
I just I just
just I just need to
I just need to see my boy
one more time
Sir, sir, I am very sorry,
but we just don't have
all the answers right now.
But I can promise you,
Tyler is not just a case number.
None of your family members are.
We are carrying every
single one of them with us.
I promise.
So Macy played a significant role
in saving that baby's life today.
Yeah.
Macy always had this
overwhelming need to serve.
Even as a kid
she'd organize bake sales and
donate the money to shelters,
give away her toys every Christmas.
When I would question why
she had to be a firefighter,
why she couldn't find
some other way to help people,
she'd say, "Mom,
this is my calling."
You know, a lot of people spend
their entire lives searching
for that kind of clarity.
And to find it
at the age of 24 and then live it,
I mean, that's pretty rare.
Oh, yeah.
[SOFT MUSIC]
Would you like to meet her?
♪
[BABY FUSSING]
Shh.
Yeah, actually, I think I
know who you're talking about.
I don't know his name, but he
comes in here pretty regularly.
He stands out 'cause of
the scars and the gloves.
Does he usually pay cash or credit card?
We're cash-only.
Does he ever come in with anyone else?
Not that I remember.
Have you ever talked to him?
Small talk even?
Not really.
He's polite,
but he's not exactly chatty.
There was this one time
I asked if he lived in the neighborhood.
He said he grew up right here.
W-what'd he mean "right here"?
He said his family lived in an
apartment building on this lot.
You said you knew the address.
You know when
the building was torn down?
It wasn't torn down.
It burned down in '01.
The Heart of Chicago Fire.
That's how he got the scars.
He would have been a kid
at the time 10, maybe 11.
- All right, thank you.
- Sure thing.
We need to get a resident list
for the building for that year.
CFD will have every injury documented.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
You good?
Yeah, I just gotta make a quick stop.
I'll meet you back at the unit.
♪
The death toll has risen to 188,
with the sole survivor
of Dominion Airlines Flight 63
having passed away just
hours ago, we're learning.
While the deaths have been attributed
to acute chemical intoxication,
the nature of that chemical
has still not been determined.
I'm sorry to pull you away.
I know you just lost one of your own.
What's happening? Sounded urgent.
There's evidence
suggesting that our suspect
was a victim of the Heart of
Chicago Fire when he was a boy.
What?
I mean, that article dragging the fire
back into the headlines?
The timing of it?
- Can't be a coincidence.
- No way.
So you're saying
we created this monster?
♪
[SIGHS]
Look, whoever he is, we gotta find him.
Hey, please give me
a call back when you can.
I don't mean to alarm you,
but it is urgent.
Not yet, but even if they were,
Macy Vesia was stable until she wasn't.
I'm not gonna sugarcoat it.
I thought we'd be seeing
improvement by now.
Hey, Dr. Archer, you okay?
I'm fine, Kacy. Thanks.
Heart of Chicago fire,
that inspection
we didn't do anything illegal.
He created this, not us.
Dominic, it could come out.
If you need to get
ahead of this thing
- I need you to find this guy.
- What's going on?
Voight, we got something.
Come.
So we ran all the
Heart of Chicago Fire victims
against the known stats
of the offender
height, weight, compression gloves.
One guy fits Thomas Marr. He's 36.
He lost his whole family in the fire.
Grew up in foster care.
When he was 16, he was arrested
for assaulting
one of his foster parents.
Diagnosed with intermittent
explosive disorder and PTSI.
You got a picture of this guy?
Yeah.
All we know is, this guy was a
day trader and a cyber consultant.
Other than that, we got nothing.
LKAs, associates, finances
this guy's a ghost.
That's the last known photo of him.
It's his mugshot from when
he was arrested at 16.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Hank, what is it?
♪
I saved him from that fire.
♪