Chicago Fire s06e12 Episode Script
The F Is For
1 This whole living situation with Severide, it's not a permanent thing.
I'm gonna start that apartment search again.
No rush.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Severide, we are running out of time for you to shut down those leaks.
Yeah, copy that, Chief.
Whoa! Wait, where are you going? I'm headed for the roof.
Where's Casey? He went to get Severide.
- Get ready! - This is insane.
One, two, three! [PIPES HISSING.]
Let's go round back! - Let's go! - To the river! [SIRENS WAILING.]
[RADIO CHATTER.]
Where are they? - [GROANS.]
- Casey! Severide! There! [PANTING.]
Where's Severide? Severide! I got Severide! Kelly! I'm gonna harness up and get him, Chief.
- Otis, extend the aerial.
- Yeah, copy.
Severide! Casey, come to shore.
Kidd will get him with the aerial.
Squad, get him out.
Get him out now.
Watch your back.
Okay, swing right.
Swing stop.
Show me what you do.
Take her up.
Stella, you got this.
[SOFTLY.]
Good.
Swing right.
Hey! You need to back up.
Let us do our work.
- Get out of here! - Okay.
All right, yeah.
You got it.
Go get your man.
Kelly! [GRUNTS.]
Kelly! Do it! Bring me down, bring me down! [YELLS.]
Bring us up! [SHUTTER CLICKS.]
[PANTING.]
Kelly Talk to me.
Kelly! Kelly! Kelly.
Can you hear me? [STRAINING.]
- Easy.
- Got him.
Got him, got him.
Nice and easy.
- Kelly! - Watch his head.
Severide, can you hear me? Kelly Come on, Lieutenant, talk to us.
[COUGHING.]
All right.
- Uh, Casey.
Where's Casey? - He's good.
- He's fine.
- Come on, come on.
We got you.
[COUGHING.]
What the hell were you two thinking? [COUGHING.]
We weren't.
That was incredible.
[LAUGHING.]
[SIGHS.]
Get over here.
You're not moving the rest of the day.
I'm good.
Didn't we have an understanding? No five-story jumps into the river.
I told you, I'm trying to qualify for Tokyo 2020.
High dive, gold medal.
I got to get my practice in where I can.
Well, you didn't stick the landing.
Oh, actually I think I did.
- Hm.
- Tens from all the judges.
Must have missed it.
I am happy to miss any and all of that.
Can I get you anything else? You want hot chocolate? Apple cider? You.
- You always have me.
- Well Then I don't need anything else.
What took you so long? Boden called over to Med.
Made Halstead's brother check me out for a concussion.
- Will? - Yeah, that's the one.
What'd he say? Uh, take some Tylenol.
- Seriously? - More or less.
Okay, look, I'm supposed to go into Molly's North to train some new bartender, but I'm gonna cancel and just make sure you're okay.
- Kelly? - Mm-hmm.
- Hey.
- Yeah.
I'm okay.
I'm just, uh can you walk me over to the couch? Yeah, of course.
Come here.
Here, come on.
- You good? - Yeah.
Man, just breathe.
What! [LAUGHING.]
- You - [GROANS, LAUGHS.]
- You think that's funny? - Yeah, it's funny.
I was kidding.
I'm fine.
- Get your ass to Molly's.
- Oh, gladly.
[CHUCKLES DRYLY.]
You're a terrible person.
[LAUGHS.]
I want a clear-eyed self-assessment.
I'm sore all over.
I'm not gonna lie.
- But good to go, Chief.
- And you? Went through the concussion protocol.
Flying colors.
Fine.
And if you weren't, you wouldn't tell me anyway.
- Chief Huffhines.
- Wallace, Matt.
- Kelly Severide, Chief.
- Kelly.
See the coverage in the "Sun-Times" last night? Yes, I did.
Very nice.
[CHUCKLING.]
Well, let me tell you, the office of public relations has heard from everyone.
The commissioner's office, mayor's office.
- Everyone is tickled pink.
- I'm glad.
So I reached out to the photographer who captured these amazing photographs.
Oh, I'm sorry.
This is, uh Nate Isaacs, professional photo journalist.
Right, and I said to Mr.
Isaacs, I said, "Would you be interested in doing a day-in-the-life pictorial spread, huh?" A real inside look at what we do here.
And I could not think of a better house than the one that produced this stellar shot.
Okay, so when are you thinking to, um Right now.
Today, this shift.
Chief, listen, if this is an intrusion at all, you just tell me and I'll take a big step back, just like at the scene.
You tell me to move back, and I do as I am told.
- Okay, why not.
- [LAUGHS.]
Great.
Nate, I'll leave you to it.
Thanks.
So how do you want to do this? Uh, go about your shift normally.
At the end of the day, we'll see what we have, huh? - Good.
- Okay.
I heard from Hope.
Oh, you did? Yeah, she sent me an email, said she's back in Fowlerton.
She wants to drive up and have lunch so she can mend fences.
What did you say? Delete.
Hey, so I am alerting you, ladies, we have a photographer in our midst.
- What does that mean? - It's some press guy.
He's doing a day-in-the-life photo shoot.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
Help.
Help, Dawson.
[RAGGED BREATHING.]
It hurts.
- [WHIMPERING.]
- Gerald? - It hurts.
- You know this guy? He's a frequent flyer.
He's harmless.
- What happened? - It's broke.
- Let me take a look, Gerald.
- [GROANING.]
Okay, well, I don't think it's broken, but we can get you to the hospital.
What happened? I I fell.
Where'd this happen? Home.
You walked all the way over here? Okay, listen, Gerald, we're gonna get you a sling for your arm so you won't keep cradling it.
We're gonna take an x-ray at the hospital just to make sure it's not broken, okay? - Come on.
- I got it.
Come on, buddy.
Let me help you up.
- There we go.
- [GROANING.]
That's the guy.
Do you want me to tell him to back off? No, no, it's fine.
Come on, Gerald.
Let's go.
Hey, close the blinds so we can hide from this photographer.
Psst, hey.
He's hiding in here.
- [CLEARS THROAT.]
- Oh.
- What do you need, Kidd? - Oh, uh.
Actually, it can wait.
Well, don't mind me.
Okay.
I just wanted to ask if I could swap next week with Grigsby on third shift.
I have a lead on an apartment and the building manager wants to meet with me.
Oh, yeah, uh, sure.
No problem.
Just write it down on a sticky note, put it in my office.
Okay.
Will do.
- Trouble at home? - Not on my end.
I told her she could stay as long as she wants.
Oh, my God.
She didn't.
- Who didn't? - Hope.
You know how I deleted her email? Now she's trashing me on Facebook.
Nah.
Hm.
These are mutual friends she's stirring up in Fowlerton.
Who knows what she's saying in real life.
Oh, you got to drag her.
You send out a blast, and you let everybody back home know the stunts that she pulled in Chicago.
Yeah, I saw these two celebrities brawling on Twitter and it was everything.
Do something like that.
[SIGHS.]
You know what, I'm just gonna go with my first instinct and ignore her.
Come on, girl, you got to stand up for yourself.
I stand up when it's something worth standing up to.
Hope isn't worth it.
[ALARM BLARING.]
Ambulance 61.
Man down from unknown causes.
8451 Racine.
Everything? It's hyperbole.
[SHUTTER CLICKING.]
Why a goat? Well there are many guesses about that.
The only plausible one I heard is that this house was built on an old goat farm.
Huh.
[SHUTTER CLICKING.]
No, no, no, just go about your business.
- Ignore me.
- No, what we were gonna do is smoke a couple cigars.
You know, I could put my camera down, and, uh, join you guys.
How do you get impaled on an iron fence? He was trying to kill himself.
- Jumped out a four-story window.
- Ouch.
SGBS isn't fixing that, huh? Super glue, baking soda.
Medics in the field, they swore by it.
Said it was better than gauze for packing a wound.
- Where were you embedded? - Afghanistan, five months.
Of course, Chicago can be its own war zone sometimes.
[SIGHS.]
Don't ask.
I'm gonna shower and change now.
Got a call, guy was face down on Racine.
Turned him over and [IMITATES RETCHING.]
All over Dawson.
50/50 chance it could have been me.
Listen, I'm gonna go get some coffee.
Anybody want anything? [SHUTTER CLICKS.]
Be right back.
Nobody touch my cigar.
Don't worry.
Captain, did you get a chance to look - over my furlough request? - Not yet.
Everybody wants Fourth of July off.
That's why I put in five months early.
Okay, I'll be sure to look at that pressing concern after I, uh I need to know.
[WATER RUNNING.]
[GROANS.]
Casey! [GROANS.]
Hey, take it easy, man.
Are you kidding me? Hey, what's going on? Found this scumbag lurking outside your shower.
I had no idea that these were co-ed bathrooms.
So you just decided to explore the bathroom you didn't know was co-ed? Right after I said I was going to take a shower? - Get out.
- Just hold on for a moment Get your camera and get out before I beat the hell out of you.
I mean it! That was freaky.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
- What happened? - The photographer you brought into my firehouse was playing peeping tom in the bathroom.
I, uh, I can't even It happened while I was in the shower.
Uh.
Okay, well, I'll, uh I'll call the paper.
And we'll call CPD.
You want him arrested? I want a formal complaint.
- On the record.
- If it happened here, it ain't the first time.
Someone needs to know.
Well You're right.
You're right, um.
I'm, uh I'm embarrassed this happened.
And I should have done a better job at vetting him before I proposed this.
[SIGHS.]
It's not your fault.
You just got caught up in the buzz.
You know what? Let me call the CPD, huh? - I should be the one.
- I'll do it.
Okay.
Again, uh I'm sorry.
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING.]
Okay, we are on the Blue Cobras.
- They'll announce it.
- Okay.
So you have done this before? - Oh, I'm in league.
- Mm.
And we happen to have a spot open for tonight - which you're filling.
- Mm.
Oh, I will bring it.
Don't you worry.
Uh, how's the apartment search coming? Ah, I got a lead.
- Yeah? - Yes.
Yeah.
You excited about living alone again? Oh, my God, you play WhirlyBall? - Hi.
- She is a first-timer.
- Hi, Stella.
- Lily.
Brian and I are thinking of going on the championship circuit.
I'm not gonna say we perfected the Malachi Crunch - but, uh - [BOTH SNAP FINGERS.]
- What team you guys on? - Uh, the, um Next up on Court 2, the Dig Dug Express - against the Blue Cobras.
- That's us.
- BOTH: Us too.
- Mm.
[LAUGHS.]
You guys are going so down.
Okay.
Ready for a refill, buddy? Sure.
Thanks.
Okay, look, I'm not one to pry, but as your bartender, I got responsibilities.
So, what's going on? Oh, come on, maybe I can help.
I've seen stuff.
It's my girlfriend, Alice.
She wants to move in, but I think it's too soon.
- Do you love her? - It's only been six months.
[CHUCKLES.]
What's your name, pal? - Kevin.
- Okay, Kevin.
Look at it like this, okay? - Life, it's like a fire.
- Oh, boy.
You go in too far too fast, you're gonna get burnt up, right? - I guess.
- Yeah.
But if you throw water on too soon, you know, you're in a rush to cool it down, then you are going to boil those firefighters like, you know, a bunch of lobsters.
- Okay.
- So, listen.
You and Alice, you got some heat, right? - I think so.
- Well, what you got to try to figure out is, is it the kind of heat that you want to run into - or you want to run out of? - Yeah, I don't think - that's a usefu - No, actually, - that makes total sense.
- Yeah.
See? Thanks, man.
I really appreciate it.
You got it.
That was pretty good, what you did over there.
Yeah? I'm just helping out where I can.
Oh.
"Mitchell Monroe, Life Coach Managers.
" - Whoo.
- I'm a talent manager for life coaches.
I help turn, you know, advice into a profitable business.
Okay.
Tell me more about profitable.
Well, my coaches charge $40 an hour to start.
I provide the training, I manage the paperwork and the invoices, I take 10% off the top.
- And it's my job to, what? - [CHUCKLES.]
Coach people's lives? Something you seem to be doing pretty naturally from what I just witnessed.
Your words of wisdom, they have value.
[LAUGHS.]
You give me a call when you're ready to take the next step.
[HUMMING.]
- Hey.
- Hey.
Have you played WhirlyBall before? Because it is not as easy as it looks.
Oh, yeah, well, I mean we should get a team together.
Otis and Lily are, like, regulars.
And then Zach knows the manager, so, you know, I mean we could go whenever we wanted.
Sounds interesting.
Are you, uh, - you staying up? - Nah, I'm gonna go to bed.
You sure? 'Cause it's me and you, I can, uh, I can rally.
Nah, it's okay.
Gonna get some shut-eye.
Okay.
[REFLECTIVE MUSIC.]
Could have been worse.
Oh, had he taken pictures of you? No, I mean for him.
Matt was about to rip his head off, and I was ready to help.
He's lucky to be alive.
Is that Gerald again? Gerald? Uh I I need medicine.
Gerald, what's going on? It hurts.
Okay, we're gonna get you something out of the back of the ambulance.
Just give us a second here.
What do you think? I think he's being messed with.
He walks all the way over here, twice? F.
I.
R.
E.
Fire! The reason why you are here is you need to get your life in order, and I am here to help you with that.
- What's the "F" stand for? - "F" stands for fire pole.
The thing that connects the two floors of a firehouse is a pole.
- Pole starts with a "P.
" - [LAUGHING.]
It's a fire pole.
Fire.
It is always there when you need it, and in an emergency, it will help you quickly get to the things that you need.
- Yes, Joseph? - Why are you doing this thing so formal? The thing that makes you unique is that you are not formal.
Clients are going to pay a lot of money for this.
- Uh-huh.
- You need to, um, "show them that you are a professional in dress and manner and in method.
" Well, continue then.
Thank you.
Mm-hmm.
Hello? Mm-hmm.
Hey, Lester.
- How's your foot? - It's a lot better, thanks.
You looking for Gerald? Uh, no, actually, we know where Gerald is.
Do you know if anyone's bothering him? Hey, it's okay.
You can tell us.
I don't want nothing to do with this.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
That's Gerald's tent right there.
[OBJECTS CLATTERING.]
Hey, whoever's in Gerald's tent needs to come out.
What do you want? That's Gerald's house.
- Not no more.
- Come on, let's go.
- No, Dawson, no.
- This is my house.
This is my street.
Go home, skanks.
No, this is not your street.
It's mine.
Along with his and his and theirs.
You know who else's streets these are? Every paramedic and firefighter in Chicago.
We've been on every block in this city and helped someone on every one of them.
And all those people we've helped, they're on our team, not yours.
You mess with Gerald again or anyone else in this camp, then you'll be picking a fight with us and everyone that's loyal to us, and then you'll find out whose streets these are.
[YELLS.]
[LAUGHS.]
She used to be my friend.
Are you sure you don't want to go to the shelter, Gerald? You call us if anybody messes with you again, okay? [SIGHS.]
I think I will email Hope back.
Tell her straight up I'm not interested in anything she has to say, just so there's no misunderstandings.
Hey! What's up? Just thought I'd drop in with some cookies.
Aw.
I swear you are an angel.
[SMOOCHES.]
- Good time for it.
- Hey! We're losing all faith in humanity around here.
- Rough call? - Worse.
Pervert came into the firehouse.
- Thanks.
- Oh, good.
All right, question for the group.
I am gonna need some help getting this life coach thing off the ground.
[CHUCKLES DRYLY.]
Why don't I be your first client? - Oh, no.
- Yeah, great! Done! You are not gonna be disappointed.
Okay, let's, uh, get you signed up, and then we'll get you started.
- Okay? - Now? - Why not? - Okay, oh, we gonna no? - Mm.
You said.
- No, okay, I didn't We'll just go on back here.
I got stuff to talk about.
What just happened? You see the "F" - is for you're - [BLENDER WHIRRING.]
[GROANS.]
How was it? Brett was awesome as always.
I just got off the phone with both the "Sun-Times" and "The Tribune.
" They said they're severing all ties with Nate Isaacs and will blast his name to all the press in the area.
They assured me they took it very seriously.
Good riddance.
Well, I thought you would like to know.
You thought right.
So, how was it? Really good actually.
- He's a very wise man.
- Really? - [CHUCKLING.]
- Really, really.
Yeah, I told him about my sister, and he said I should reach out to her which is what I've been thinking for a long time.
You have a sister? [BOTH LAUGH.]
Then we started to talk about Hawaii.
You know, how I wanted to go there after college but my parents put the kibosh on that particular dream.
He said, "Sometimes ladders don't reach the highest floor, but we have to hump up the stairs," which is really solid advice.
So, yeah, I'm gonna think about it.
About what? You know, moving to Hawaii.
Anyway, today was really fun.
I'll see you tomorrow at Molly's North? Yeah.
Definitely.
[UNDER BREATH.]
Right after I murder someone.
Hey.
Hey.
What's up? [SIGHS.]
I just think things are getting weird between us.
It's not weird for me.
Look, I'd like to say what I mean.
You know I'm not much for dancing around subjects.
Me either.
Um, it's just this Zach guy is really cool.
And we have a lot of fun together.
And it may get serious.
Who knows? It feels like it's heading in that direction.
But you are so special to me.
And, um so important.
And I just feel like it'll it'll clear up a lot of things once I move out.
Okay? All right, well, um, thank you for, uh, listening to that.
Do you want to hear my opinion? Yeah.
I don't want you to leave.
[ALARM BLARING.]
Truck 81, Ambulance 61.
Single vehicle accident.
500 block West Harrison Street Eastbound.
[SIRENS WAILING.]
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
Crowd control, block off the sidewalk.
Give us some room to work.
Otis, Mouch, with me.
Stand back, sir.
Excuse me.
Stand back, please.
Ma'am, can you tell us what happened? I don't know, I just looked down for a second.
And the car started spinning.
We're gonna have our medics take a look, okay? Back up.
Thank you.
Okay.
[SHUTTER CLICKING.]
Captain.
Hey! Get off the scene.
I got a right to be here.
I ain't asking.
Freedom of the press, buddy.
You can try to destroy my name but I can still sell photos of public employees wherever and whenever I want! Casey, don't.
He's not worth it.
- How you doing? You all right? - I'm okay.
Hey, you gonna give us the room to do our jobs? It's a public street, lady.
How you feeling, honey? - Okay, I guess.
- We can get her out as soon as we pop the door.
[CAR HORN BLARING.]
Call for a second ambo! Casey! [CAR HORN BLARING.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[CAR HORNS BLARING.]
Pulse is strong.
He's alert.
What happened? You stepped in the street and got hit by a car.
But the captain saved you.
[GROANS.]
[SIRENS WAILING.]
One hell of a call.
Could say that.
Herrmann says you didn't hesitate.
Not for a second.
Nope.
That's good.
You sure about that? 'Cause I'm not.
And what if the man you saved today is different from the one he was yesterday? You think he's magically reformed - because he got hit by a car? - No.
I think if we start wondering if one life has more value than another, we can't do our job.
Today you gave Isaacs the second half of his life back.
You can't control what he does with it.
[SOLEMN MUSIC.]
But a life saved That's one for the win column.
I will take that win any day, no matter who it is.
So I am proud of you, Captain.
Isaacs is stable.
Well, you know, physically anyway.
What, too soon? Yeah.
Well Thank you.
For what? For being the sort of man who will protect me from a creep.
And then run into traffic to save the creep.
[chuckles.]
I love you.
I love you too.
Two, three, and four.
- What's this? - 10%.
I had my first client.
And it went pretty damn well if I do say so myself.
We can settle up when you get a few more.
- All right.
- Speaking of which, I need a check from you for $800.
What for? Well, I added you to my gold roster which is for active life coaches who have completed the bronze workbook - which you did.
- What now? - You! - What? Me? I took your stupid advice.
I told Alice that moving in with her made me feel like I was being cooked alive.
Listen, I didn't say to say that.
I definitely didn't tell you to say that.
- She dumped me! - Look.
- I mean, you - [GRUNTS.]
- [CROWD GASPS.]
- Hey, hey, take it easy.
You ruined my life.
Okay, buddy.
So that was a setback.
I think that you need to leave.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
[EXHALES.]
Okay.
That's all right.
Excuse me.
What was all that? Listening to me for advice might be the dumbest thing that you could do.
No.
Lily was very appreciative.
- Really? - Yeah.
You gave her some excellent things to think about.
Well, you know what, you tell her that I don't think that I'm gonna be in, you know, life coaching business anymore.
I'm gonna stick with what I know.
Firefighting and running this bar.
You know what? Actually I might run over to Molly's North right now and let her know that before she decides.
- Cover for me.
- Yeah.
You got it, buddy.
Something to get you started.
- Thank you.
- Ooh.
Fancy.
Fancy.
Oh, my God, Severide would be completely busting my balls about eating in a place like this.
He's always like, "Lou Malnati's is all I need.
" And I'm like, "No, sometimes a girl's gotta be wined and dined.
" Mm.
I I didn't I was, uh that was rude.
Let's talk about you.
No, no, no sweat.
It's all good.
Actually, you know what? There is There is something I wanted to talk to you about.
I wasn't sure if it was too soon.
What what is it? Okay, well, my sister is gonna be in town next week.
And she's cool, and I think you'd like each other so I wanted to know if you want to meet her? Of course.
Yes.
Yes, I would love to.
- Good.
- Mm-hmm.
[KNOCKING AT DOOR.]
- Hey.
What's up? - I tried to text you.
My phone's on the charger.
Just seeing if you were around.
Yeah, come on in.
Uh-oh, did Kelly get stood up tonight? Nah, I just wanted to hang with the old married couple tonight.
[LAUGHING.]
Oh, so sweet.
- I'll grab the wine.
- Beer? - I will grab the beers.
- Yeah.
You all right? Yeah.
Thank you.
- Thanks, babe.
- Mm-hmm.
Cheers, guys.
[SOFT MUSIC.]
I'm gonna start that apartment search again.
No rush.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Severide, we are running out of time for you to shut down those leaks.
Yeah, copy that, Chief.
Whoa! Wait, where are you going? I'm headed for the roof.
Where's Casey? He went to get Severide.
- Get ready! - This is insane.
One, two, three! [PIPES HISSING.]
Let's go round back! - Let's go! - To the river! [SIRENS WAILING.]
[RADIO CHATTER.]
Where are they? - [GROANS.]
- Casey! Severide! There! [PANTING.]
Where's Severide? Severide! I got Severide! Kelly! I'm gonna harness up and get him, Chief.
- Otis, extend the aerial.
- Yeah, copy.
Severide! Casey, come to shore.
Kidd will get him with the aerial.
Squad, get him out.
Get him out now.
Watch your back.
Okay, swing right.
Swing stop.
Show me what you do.
Take her up.
Stella, you got this.
[SOFTLY.]
Good.
Swing right.
Hey! You need to back up.
Let us do our work.
- Get out of here! - Okay.
All right, yeah.
You got it.
Go get your man.
Kelly! [GRUNTS.]
Kelly! Do it! Bring me down, bring me down! [YELLS.]
Bring us up! [SHUTTER CLICKS.]
[PANTING.]
Kelly Talk to me.
Kelly! Kelly! Kelly.
Can you hear me? [STRAINING.]
- Easy.
- Got him.
Got him, got him.
Nice and easy.
- Kelly! - Watch his head.
Severide, can you hear me? Kelly Come on, Lieutenant, talk to us.
[COUGHING.]
All right.
- Uh, Casey.
Where's Casey? - He's good.
- He's fine.
- Come on, come on.
We got you.
[COUGHING.]
What the hell were you two thinking? [COUGHING.]
We weren't.
That was incredible.
[LAUGHING.]
[SIGHS.]
Get over here.
You're not moving the rest of the day.
I'm good.
Didn't we have an understanding? No five-story jumps into the river.
I told you, I'm trying to qualify for Tokyo 2020.
High dive, gold medal.
I got to get my practice in where I can.
Well, you didn't stick the landing.
Oh, actually I think I did.
- Hm.
- Tens from all the judges.
Must have missed it.
I am happy to miss any and all of that.
Can I get you anything else? You want hot chocolate? Apple cider? You.
- You always have me.
- Well Then I don't need anything else.
What took you so long? Boden called over to Med.
Made Halstead's brother check me out for a concussion.
- Will? - Yeah, that's the one.
What'd he say? Uh, take some Tylenol.
- Seriously? - More or less.
Okay, look, I'm supposed to go into Molly's North to train some new bartender, but I'm gonna cancel and just make sure you're okay.
- Kelly? - Mm-hmm.
- Hey.
- Yeah.
I'm okay.
I'm just, uh can you walk me over to the couch? Yeah, of course.
Come here.
Here, come on.
- You good? - Yeah.
Man, just breathe.
What! [LAUGHING.]
- You - [GROANS, LAUGHS.]
- You think that's funny? - Yeah, it's funny.
I was kidding.
I'm fine.
- Get your ass to Molly's.
- Oh, gladly.
[CHUCKLES DRYLY.]
You're a terrible person.
[LAUGHS.]
I want a clear-eyed self-assessment.
I'm sore all over.
I'm not gonna lie.
- But good to go, Chief.
- And you? Went through the concussion protocol.
Flying colors.
Fine.
And if you weren't, you wouldn't tell me anyway.
- Chief Huffhines.
- Wallace, Matt.
- Kelly Severide, Chief.
- Kelly.
See the coverage in the "Sun-Times" last night? Yes, I did.
Very nice.
[CHUCKLING.]
Well, let me tell you, the office of public relations has heard from everyone.
The commissioner's office, mayor's office.
- Everyone is tickled pink.
- I'm glad.
So I reached out to the photographer who captured these amazing photographs.
Oh, I'm sorry.
This is, uh Nate Isaacs, professional photo journalist.
Right, and I said to Mr.
Isaacs, I said, "Would you be interested in doing a day-in-the-life pictorial spread, huh?" A real inside look at what we do here.
And I could not think of a better house than the one that produced this stellar shot.
Okay, so when are you thinking to, um Right now.
Today, this shift.
Chief, listen, if this is an intrusion at all, you just tell me and I'll take a big step back, just like at the scene.
You tell me to move back, and I do as I am told.
- Okay, why not.
- [LAUGHS.]
Great.
Nate, I'll leave you to it.
Thanks.
So how do you want to do this? Uh, go about your shift normally.
At the end of the day, we'll see what we have, huh? - Good.
- Okay.
I heard from Hope.
Oh, you did? Yeah, she sent me an email, said she's back in Fowlerton.
She wants to drive up and have lunch so she can mend fences.
What did you say? Delete.
Hey, so I am alerting you, ladies, we have a photographer in our midst.
- What does that mean? - It's some press guy.
He's doing a day-in-the-life photo shoot.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
Help.
Help, Dawson.
[RAGGED BREATHING.]
It hurts.
- [WHIMPERING.]
- Gerald? - It hurts.
- You know this guy? He's a frequent flyer.
He's harmless.
- What happened? - It's broke.
- Let me take a look, Gerald.
- [GROANING.]
Okay, well, I don't think it's broken, but we can get you to the hospital.
What happened? I I fell.
Where'd this happen? Home.
You walked all the way over here? Okay, listen, Gerald, we're gonna get you a sling for your arm so you won't keep cradling it.
We're gonna take an x-ray at the hospital just to make sure it's not broken, okay? - Come on.
- I got it.
Come on, buddy.
Let me help you up.
- There we go.
- [GROANING.]
That's the guy.
Do you want me to tell him to back off? No, no, it's fine.
Come on, Gerald.
Let's go.
Hey, close the blinds so we can hide from this photographer.
Psst, hey.
He's hiding in here.
- [CLEARS THROAT.]
- Oh.
- What do you need, Kidd? - Oh, uh.
Actually, it can wait.
Well, don't mind me.
Okay.
I just wanted to ask if I could swap next week with Grigsby on third shift.
I have a lead on an apartment and the building manager wants to meet with me.
Oh, yeah, uh, sure.
No problem.
Just write it down on a sticky note, put it in my office.
Okay.
Will do.
- Trouble at home? - Not on my end.
I told her she could stay as long as she wants.
Oh, my God.
She didn't.
- Who didn't? - Hope.
You know how I deleted her email? Now she's trashing me on Facebook.
Nah.
Hm.
These are mutual friends she's stirring up in Fowlerton.
Who knows what she's saying in real life.
Oh, you got to drag her.
You send out a blast, and you let everybody back home know the stunts that she pulled in Chicago.
Yeah, I saw these two celebrities brawling on Twitter and it was everything.
Do something like that.
[SIGHS.]
You know what, I'm just gonna go with my first instinct and ignore her.
Come on, girl, you got to stand up for yourself.
I stand up when it's something worth standing up to.
Hope isn't worth it.
[ALARM BLARING.]
Ambulance 61.
Man down from unknown causes.
8451 Racine.
Everything? It's hyperbole.
[SHUTTER CLICKING.]
Why a goat? Well there are many guesses about that.
The only plausible one I heard is that this house was built on an old goat farm.
Huh.
[SHUTTER CLICKING.]
No, no, no, just go about your business.
- Ignore me.
- No, what we were gonna do is smoke a couple cigars.
You know, I could put my camera down, and, uh, join you guys.
How do you get impaled on an iron fence? He was trying to kill himself.
- Jumped out a four-story window.
- Ouch.
SGBS isn't fixing that, huh? Super glue, baking soda.
Medics in the field, they swore by it.
Said it was better than gauze for packing a wound.
- Where were you embedded? - Afghanistan, five months.
Of course, Chicago can be its own war zone sometimes.
[SIGHS.]
Don't ask.
I'm gonna shower and change now.
Got a call, guy was face down on Racine.
Turned him over and [IMITATES RETCHING.]
All over Dawson.
50/50 chance it could have been me.
Listen, I'm gonna go get some coffee.
Anybody want anything? [SHUTTER CLICKS.]
Be right back.
Nobody touch my cigar.
Don't worry.
Captain, did you get a chance to look - over my furlough request? - Not yet.
Everybody wants Fourth of July off.
That's why I put in five months early.
Okay, I'll be sure to look at that pressing concern after I, uh I need to know.
[WATER RUNNING.]
[GROANS.]
Casey! [GROANS.]
Hey, take it easy, man.
Are you kidding me? Hey, what's going on? Found this scumbag lurking outside your shower.
I had no idea that these were co-ed bathrooms.
So you just decided to explore the bathroom you didn't know was co-ed? Right after I said I was going to take a shower? - Get out.
- Just hold on for a moment Get your camera and get out before I beat the hell out of you.
I mean it! That was freaky.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
- What happened? - The photographer you brought into my firehouse was playing peeping tom in the bathroom.
I, uh, I can't even It happened while I was in the shower.
Uh.
Okay, well, I'll, uh I'll call the paper.
And we'll call CPD.
You want him arrested? I want a formal complaint.
- On the record.
- If it happened here, it ain't the first time.
Someone needs to know.
Well You're right.
You're right, um.
I'm, uh I'm embarrassed this happened.
And I should have done a better job at vetting him before I proposed this.
[SIGHS.]
It's not your fault.
You just got caught up in the buzz.
You know what? Let me call the CPD, huh? - I should be the one.
- I'll do it.
Okay.
Again, uh I'm sorry.
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING.]
Okay, we are on the Blue Cobras.
- They'll announce it.
- Okay.
So you have done this before? - Oh, I'm in league.
- Mm.
And we happen to have a spot open for tonight - which you're filling.
- Mm.
Oh, I will bring it.
Don't you worry.
Uh, how's the apartment search coming? Ah, I got a lead.
- Yeah? - Yes.
Yeah.
You excited about living alone again? Oh, my God, you play WhirlyBall? - Hi.
- She is a first-timer.
- Hi, Stella.
- Lily.
Brian and I are thinking of going on the championship circuit.
I'm not gonna say we perfected the Malachi Crunch - but, uh - [BOTH SNAP FINGERS.]
- What team you guys on? - Uh, the, um Next up on Court 2, the Dig Dug Express - against the Blue Cobras.
- That's us.
- BOTH: Us too.
- Mm.
[LAUGHS.]
You guys are going so down.
Okay.
Ready for a refill, buddy? Sure.
Thanks.
Okay, look, I'm not one to pry, but as your bartender, I got responsibilities.
So, what's going on? Oh, come on, maybe I can help.
I've seen stuff.
It's my girlfriend, Alice.
She wants to move in, but I think it's too soon.
- Do you love her? - It's only been six months.
[CHUCKLES.]
What's your name, pal? - Kevin.
- Okay, Kevin.
Look at it like this, okay? - Life, it's like a fire.
- Oh, boy.
You go in too far too fast, you're gonna get burnt up, right? - I guess.
- Yeah.
But if you throw water on too soon, you know, you're in a rush to cool it down, then you are going to boil those firefighters like, you know, a bunch of lobsters.
- Okay.
- So, listen.
You and Alice, you got some heat, right? - I think so.
- Well, what you got to try to figure out is, is it the kind of heat that you want to run into - or you want to run out of? - Yeah, I don't think - that's a usefu - No, actually, - that makes total sense.
- Yeah.
See? Thanks, man.
I really appreciate it.
You got it.
That was pretty good, what you did over there.
Yeah? I'm just helping out where I can.
Oh.
"Mitchell Monroe, Life Coach Managers.
" - Whoo.
- I'm a talent manager for life coaches.
I help turn, you know, advice into a profitable business.
Okay.
Tell me more about profitable.
Well, my coaches charge $40 an hour to start.
I provide the training, I manage the paperwork and the invoices, I take 10% off the top.
- And it's my job to, what? - [CHUCKLES.]
Coach people's lives? Something you seem to be doing pretty naturally from what I just witnessed.
Your words of wisdom, they have value.
[LAUGHS.]
You give me a call when you're ready to take the next step.
[HUMMING.]
- Hey.
- Hey.
Have you played WhirlyBall before? Because it is not as easy as it looks.
Oh, yeah, well, I mean we should get a team together.
Otis and Lily are, like, regulars.
And then Zach knows the manager, so, you know, I mean we could go whenever we wanted.
Sounds interesting.
Are you, uh, - you staying up? - Nah, I'm gonna go to bed.
You sure? 'Cause it's me and you, I can, uh, I can rally.
Nah, it's okay.
Gonna get some shut-eye.
Okay.
[REFLECTIVE MUSIC.]
Could have been worse.
Oh, had he taken pictures of you? No, I mean for him.
Matt was about to rip his head off, and I was ready to help.
He's lucky to be alive.
Is that Gerald again? Gerald? Uh I I need medicine.
Gerald, what's going on? It hurts.
Okay, we're gonna get you something out of the back of the ambulance.
Just give us a second here.
What do you think? I think he's being messed with.
He walks all the way over here, twice? F.
I.
R.
E.
Fire! The reason why you are here is you need to get your life in order, and I am here to help you with that.
- What's the "F" stand for? - "F" stands for fire pole.
The thing that connects the two floors of a firehouse is a pole.
- Pole starts with a "P.
" - [LAUGHING.]
It's a fire pole.
Fire.
It is always there when you need it, and in an emergency, it will help you quickly get to the things that you need.
- Yes, Joseph? - Why are you doing this thing so formal? The thing that makes you unique is that you are not formal.
Clients are going to pay a lot of money for this.
- Uh-huh.
- You need to, um, "show them that you are a professional in dress and manner and in method.
" Well, continue then.
Thank you.
Mm-hmm.
Hello? Mm-hmm.
Hey, Lester.
- How's your foot? - It's a lot better, thanks.
You looking for Gerald? Uh, no, actually, we know where Gerald is.
Do you know if anyone's bothering him? Hey, it's okay.
You can tell us.
I don't want nothing to do with this.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
That's Gerald's tent right there.
[OBJECTS CLATTERING.]
Hey, whoever's in Gerald's tent needs to come out.
What do you want? That's Gerald's house.
- Not no more.
- Come on, let's go.
- No, Dawson, no.
- This is my house.
This is my street.
Go home, skanks.
No, this is not your street.
It's mine.
Along with his and his and theirs.
You know who else's streets these are? Every paramedic and firefighter in Chicago.
We've been on every block in this city and helped someone on every one of them.
And all those people we've helped, they're on our team, not yours.
You mess with Gerald again or anyone else in this camp, then you'll be picking a fight with us and everyone that's loyal to us, and then you'll find out whose streets these are.
[YELLS.]
[LAUGHS.]
She used to be my friend.
Are you sure you don't want to go to the shelter, Gerald? You call us if anybody messes with you again, okay? [SIGHS.]
I think I will email Hope back.
Tell her straight up I'm not interested in anything she has to say, just so there's no misunderstandings.
Hey! What's up? Just thought I'd drop in with some cookies.
Aw.
I swear you are an angel.
[SMOOCHES.]
- Good time for it.
- Hey! We're losing all faith in humanity around here.
- Rough call? - Worse.
Pervert came into the firehouse.
- Thanks.
- Oh, good.
All right, question for the group.
I am gonna need some help getting this life coach thing off the ground.
[CHUCKLES DRYLY.]
Why don't I be your first client? - Oh, no.
- Yeah, great! Done! You are not gonna be disappointed.
Okay, let's, uh, get you signed up, and then we'll get you started.
- Okay? - Now? - Why not? - Okay, oh, we gonna no? - Mm.
You said.
- No, okay, I didn't We'll just go on back here.
I got stuff to talk about.
What just happened? You see the "F" - is for you're - [BLENDER WHIRRING.]
[GROANS.]
How was it? Brett was awesome as always.
I just got off the phone with both the "Sun-Times" and "The Tribune.
" They said they're severing all ties with Nate Isaacs and will blast his name to all the press in the area.
They assured me they took it very seriously.
Good riddance.
Well, I thought you would like to know.
You thought right.
So, how was it? Really good actually.
- He's a very wise man.
- Really? - [CHUCKLING.]
- Really, really.
Yeah, I told him about my sister, and he said I should reach out to her which is what I've been thinking for a long time.
You have a sister? [BOTH LAUGH.]
Then we started to talk about Hawaii.
You know, how I wanted to go there after college but my parents put the kibosh on that particular dream.
He said, "Sometimes ladders don't reach the highest floor, but we have to hump up the stairs," which is really solid advice.
So, yeah, I'm gonna think about it.
About what? You know, moving to Hawaii.
Anyway, today was really fun.
I'll see you tomorrow at Molly's North? Yeah.
Definitely.
[UNDER BREATH.]
Right after I murder someone.
Hey.
Hey.
What's up? [SIGHS.]
I just think things are getting weird between us.
It's not weird for me.
Look, I'd like to say what I mean.
You know I'm not much for dancing around subjects.
Me either.
Um, it's just this Zach guy is really cool.
And we have a lot of fun together.
And it may get serious.
Who knows? It feels like it's heading in that direction.
But you are so special to me.
And, um so important.
And I just feel like it'll it'll clear up a lot of things once I move out.
Okay? All right, well, um, thank you for, uh, listening to that.
Do you want to hear my opinion? Yeah.
I don't want you to leave.
[ALARM BLARING.]
Truck 81, Ambulance 61.
Single vehicle accident.
500 block West Harrison Street Eastbound.
[SIRENS WAILING.]
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
Crowd control, block off the sidewalk.
Give us some room to work.
Otis, Mouch, with me.
Stand back, sir.
Excuse me.
Stand back, please.
Ma'am, can you tell us what happened? I don't know, I just looked down for a second.
And the car started spinning.
We're gonna have our medics take a look, okay? Back up.
Thank you.
Okay.
[SHUTTER CLICKING.]
Captain.
Hey! Get off the scene.
I got a right to be here.
I ain't asking.
Freedom of the press, buddy.
You can try to destroy my name but I can still sell photos of public employees wherever and whenever I want! Casey, don't.
He's not worth it.
- How you doing? You all right? - I'm okay.
Hey, you gonna give us the room to do our jobs? It's a public street, lady.
How you feeling, honey? - Okay, I guess.
- We can get her out as soon as we pop the door.
[CAR HORN BLARING.]
Call for a second ambo! Casey! [CAR HORN BLARING.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[CAR HORNS BLARING.]
Pulse is strong.
He's alert.
What happened? You stepped in the street and got hit by a car.
But the captain saved you.
[GROANS.]
[SIRENS WAILING.]
One hell of a call.
Could say that.
Herrmann says you didn't hesitate.
Not for a second.
Nope.
That's good.
You sure about that? 'Cause I'm not.
And what if the man you saved today is different from the one he was yesterday? You think he's magically reformed - because he got hit by a car? - No.
I think if we start wondering if one life has more value than another, we can't do our job.
Today you gave Isaacs the second half of his life back.
You can't control what he does with it.
[SOLEMN MUSIC.]
But a life saved That's one for the win column.
I will take that win any day, no matter who it is.
So I am proud of you, Captain.
Isaacs is stable.
Well, you know, physically anyway.
What, too soon? Yeah.
Well Thank you.
For what? For being the sort of man who will protect me from a creep.
And then run into traffic to save the creep.
[chuckles.]
I love you.
I love you too.
Two, three, and four.
- What's this? - 10%.
I had my first client.
And it went pretty damn well if I do say so myself.
We can settle up when you get a few more.
- All right.
- Speaking of which, I need a check from you for $800.
What for? Well, I added you to my gold roster which is for active life coaches who have completed the bronze workbook - which you did.
- What now? - You! - What? Me? I took your stupid advice.
I told Alice that moving in with her made me feel like I was being cooked alive.
Listen, I didn't say to say that.
I definitely didn't tell you to say that.
- She dumped me! - Look.
- I mean, you - [GRUNTS.]
- [CROWD GASPS.]
- Hey, hey, take it easy.
You ruined my life.
Okay, buddy.
So that was a setback.
I think that you need to leave.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
[EXHALES.]
Okay.
That's all right.
Excuse me.
What was all that? Listening to me for advice might be the dumbest thing that you could do.
No.
Lily was very appreciative.
- Really? - Yeah.
You gave her some excellent things to think about.
Well, you know what, you tell her that I don't think that I'm gonna be in, you know, life coaching business anymore.
I'm gonna stick with what I know.
Firefighting and running this bar.
You know what? Actually I might run over to Molly's North right now and let her know that before she decides.
- Cover for me.
- Yeah.
You got it, buddy.
Something to get you started.
- Thank you.
- Ooh.
Fancy.
Fancy.
Oh, my God, Severide would be completely busting my balls about eating in a place like this.
He's always like, "Lou Malnati's is all I need.
" And I'm like, "No, sometimes a girl's gotta be wined and dined.
" Mm.
I I didn't I was, uh that was rude.
Let's talk about you.
No, no, no sweat.
It's all good.
Actually, you know what? There is There is something I wanted to talk to you about.
I wasn't sure if it was too soon.
What what is it? Okay, well, my sister is gonna be in town next week.
And she's cool, and I think you'd like each other so I wanted to know if you want to meet her? Of course.
Yes.
Yes, I would love to.
- Good.
- Mm-hmm.
[KNOCKING AT DOOR.]
- Hey.
What's up? - I tried to text you.
My phone's on the charger.
Just seeing if you were around.
Yeah, come on in.
Uh-oh, did Kelly get stood up tonight? Nah, I just wanted to hang with the old married couple tonight.
[LAUGHING.]
Oh, so sweet.
- I'll grab the wine.
- Beer? - I will grab the beers.
- Yeah.
You all right? Yeah.
Thank you.
- Thanks, babe.
- Mm-hmm.
Cheers, guys.
[SOFT MUSIC.]