Chicago Fire (2012–…): Season 3, Episode 11 - Let Him Die - full transcript

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- Kelly really brings out
the worst in you.

- What brings out the worst
in me is you telling mills

You don't know
if you want to be with me.

I'm trying to be a lieutenant
and your fiancé,

And you can't respect
either one.

- Request permission
to leave shift, lieutenant.

- Aah!

- I got a little boy!

- The baby's turning blue.

- Wallace, what's going on?



- Anthony lullo was waiting
for me outside this morning.

- I know you tried
to save my son.

I regret my behavior
the other day.

- What's that?

- Mills? Brett?

Halstead.

Thanks for coming.

Good to have someone
we can trust on this.

- Absolutely. Still no word
from your paramedics?

- No.
- Dumb question--

Anybody try their cells?
- Yeah. No answer.

- All right,
give me their numbers.

I'm gonna get an order
and start pinging them.

- Right.



- Were they dispatched
to this location?

- Yeah.

- This could have been a setup.

- Lullo's got to be behind this,
right?

- Yeah, i think we got
to start with that assumption.

What the hell happened here?

- He's passed out

From blood loss.

Let's get him to chicago med.

- What's that?

- Hey, guys, we've got
a medical emergency here.

We need you to move the vehicle.

- Hands in the air.
Keep your mouths shut.

- Whoa.

- Turn around!
- Keep it down.

Put your hands behind your back,
no one gets hurt.

- This guy needs to get
to the hospital.

- Brett. Brett.

- What is this?

- Don't hurt her, please.
- Doesn't have to be messy.

Just do what we say.

- Would you let her go?
I'm the one that he wants.

Come on.
- He? Who's he?

- Where are we going?

- Brett, don't get in that car.

- [grunts]

- I will blow
your head clean off.

Get in!

- Where are you taking us?

- Shut up.

- Where's your phone, hon?

- Left-hand jacket pocket.

- Turn around.

[tires screeching]

- Jason lullo--

He sustained fatal injuries long
before we arrived on the scene.

- I don't know
what you're talking about.

Just keep quiet now.

- At least let her go.

I was the one in the--
- shut your hole!

- You gonna kill us?

- You know everything,
is that it?

- Brett.
- Quiet.

- Brett, brace yourself.

- [grunts]

[tires screeching]

[both grunting]

- Aah!

.

- Okay, thanks.
Let us know.

They pulled footage
off some cpd pods

And id'd a black town car
that was following the ambo,

But the plate was obscured.

- Hey, guys.
Any sign of mills and brett?

- Cruz is giving us updates
on the search,

But nothing concrete yet.

- Cruz is with the cops?

- Yeah, he refused
to come back with us.

This whole thing
has gotten really spun out.

- How's baby boden doing?

- Eh...

- What does that mean?

- Um...Baby's still
not absorbing oxygen.

Doctors are working on him.

Bowden,
he's holding it together,

But you can tell he's--
he's worried.

- All right. I got to call him,
see what's going on.

- Does he know about mills
and brett?

- No. I didn't think he needed
to worry about that right now.

- All right. Good.
Let's keep it that way.

- All right.

[cell phone buzzes]

- Christopher.

[continues buzzing]

- Don't leave him hanging.

He'll be worried.

- Herrmann?

- How is everybody?

- Uh...

- Yeah, severide said
that there might be

Some kind of a...Problem?

- Little terrance...
His lungs ain't working right.

Doctors are all over it, so...

They don't seem too worried.

It's just...

It's hard waiting,
you know.

- Yeah, i get it.
Uh...

Listen, is there anybody
there with you?

- Not yet, but it's okay.

- All the same,
i'm gonna send cindy over there.

You hang in there, buddy.

- Yeah, thanks, herrmann.

Um...
How's everybody over there?

- Ah, good, you know.

Everybody's good.
Don't worry about us.

I'm gonna go.
Give my love to donna.

- Yeah, i will.

- Has anybody looped in dawson?

- No. No. I can.

- I got it.

[buzzing]

- Finally.

- Gabby, listen,
mills and brett are missing.

- What do you mean, missing?

- They went on a call hours ago
and never came back.

We found the ambo
and their victim,

But no paramedics.

It's looking
like a pretty scary situation.

- Lullo.

- We don't know anything yet.

I'll let you know as soon
as we do.

- Okay, thank you, matt.

- Okay.

- What the hell am i doing here?

- All we know is
about six hours ago,

Cameras caught a black town car

Driving like crazy
down fillmore.

They lost sight of it,
so we're searching for it now.

- Whoa.

What's this?

- Hey, otis, let me give you
a call back, okay?

- Oh, damn!

- Hey, hey, hey. Shh.

- This is detective halstead
of intelligence.

I need to run
an illinois passenger tag.

2-5-3-1-william-north-sam.

All right.
Hey, what do you got?

- Nothing. Car's empty.

Looks like everybody
made it out.

- Thank you.

The car
was reported stolen yesterday.

- This happened hours ago.

If lullo's got them,
they're dead.

- Don't assume anything.

- Well, where the hell
have they been all this time?

- [breathing hard]
- [man moans]

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- Hematoma's recollecting.
- I thought you fixed him.

- He needs medical attention.

- Isn't that your job?

- We're paramedics, not doctors.

You need to get him to an er.

- This is your fault anyway,
that smart-ass stunt.

Fix him, or i'll put a bullet
in your head.

- This lump on your buddy's neck
is due to internal bleeding.

As it grows
it presses on his trachea,

And that's what's causing
the difficulty in breathing.

It's only gonna get worse.
- So cut it open again.

- That's only a temporary fix.
Look...

You're gonna die unless
you get this bleed tied off.

You need to get to the hospital.

- We might as well
waltz into a police station.

- No hospitals.
[breathing hard]

[cell phone rings]

Don't answer it, not
if we're giving him bad news.

[ringing]

[chime]

- Can't you guys
tie off the bleed?

- No.
- Maybe.

- What?
Mills, that's surgery.

- Look, if we do this,
will you let us go?

- Okay. Deal.

- No, we are just paramedics.
All we have is a first aid kit.

- All we do is make an incision
and clamp the bleeding.

It's not gonna be pretty,
but it's gonna save his life.

[cell phone rings]

- Yeah.

We know.

It's under control.

- No way he lets us go.

- He's not in charge.

You are, right?

- I just want to get
out of here.

- Well, we have a deal?

- [whispers]
no.

- Yeah, yeah, we have a deal.

- Whoa.

[emergency radio chatter]

- Reporting for duty,
lieutenant.

- I actually took 81
out of service.

- Because i left you
shorthanded?

- It's not just you,
it's this whole mess.

Plus i sent herrmann to
the hospital to be with boden.

- Why? What's wrong with boden?

- Uh...Donna went into labor.

The baby's
in critical condition.

- Ah, no.

Well,
what about brett and mills?

- We think they were
inside this mess.

- Trunk's clear.

- Jay.
- Hey, gabby.

- You gotta find them.

- We're trying.

- Hey, guys,
i got some blood here.

- All right, at least one
occupant is injured.

Maybe they didn't get too far.

Come here. Come here.
Come here.

I want a tight perimeter,
i want a canine unit,

And i want a door to door search
of the entire neighborhood.

If you see anything
you think might be out of place,

I want to hear about it.

- All right,
let me have the knife.

Hey...Better
set the gun aside.

This is gonna hurt,
like, a lot, okay?

I'm gonna go quick.

- Uhh! Aah!

- Aah.
- Aaaahhhh...

- That was the easy part.

- Aaaahhhh!

- Hey, what happened?

What did you do?
- It's okay, he just passed out.

- Clamp it here.

- You do realize
what that will do?

- It's called
an ecmo machine.

It's drawing blood
from terrance's carotid artery,

Oxygenating it,
and then putting it back in

Through a vein in his leg.

- So basically
it's breathing for him?

- Exactly.

It's doing the work of his lungs
so they can heal.

- When can we see him?
- We're still pretty busy

In there adjusting
his anti-coagulant dosage.

- Don't let us hold you up.

- Look, i won't lie to you.

He's in a tough spot,

But we're doing everything
we can for him.

- Thank you, doctor.

- Sounds like he's got
a real good chance.

- My boy's a fighter.
That much i know.

- Hey, everything okay?

You keep looking at your phone

Every six seconds
since you got here.

You just got here.

- Oh, just keeping in touch
with the firehouse.

- Why, what's wrong?

- Chief, you need to worry
about one thing

And one thing only right now--
little terrance.

- Herrmann, don't keep anything
from me.

Not right now.

Because i will not
handle it well.

- We don't know
where mills and brett are.

We found the ambo abandoned
in an alley a few hours ago,

But the cops are on it.
So are casey and severide.

There's nothing for you to do,

So i didn't want
to say anything, all right?

- What exactly should we
be looking for?

- I don't know, anything--

Blood, broken glass maybe,
if they decide to steal a car.

- Hey.
- What's up?

- Alcohol prep pad.

- The same kind we use?

- Brett's crazy about these.

She stuffs them in her pockets
before every call.

Casey, we got something.

Casey: On our way.

- What's the holdup?
- We're getting there.

- Why so quiet?

- We're...We're just
clamping it off now.

All right, you need to find
someone to suture him up,

But he's gonna live.
- Good.

You, come here.
- No, hey, hey.

- Hey!
- I need her.

- What are you doing?
We have a deal.

- I got to make sure
he's okay first.

- [coughs]
- hey, yeah,

You're all right, right?

- There. He's okay.

- We'll see.

- Hey, got another one.

- Okay, shh.

I need you guys
to get back behind the door.

Get back behind the door.

- But the deal was,

We fix him up
and you let us leave.

- I know what the deal was.

- Then honor it.
- We got to go now.

Damn it.
They're inside.

The door's bolted.
Can you get us in?

- Severide, where are you guys?

Severide: On our way.

- Vic, you said
you'd rein in your partner,

So how about it?
- Will you shut up?

- I knew
we couldn't trust you two.

Drop the gun.

I said drop it.

- [grunts]
ah!

- [yells]

Yaah!

[thudding against door]

- We're trapped.

.

- Uhh!
[kicking door]

- Stay--

- Door.

- Ready?

Strike!

Strike!

- Chicago pd!
Don't move.

Drop your weapon!
Do it!

Do it now!
Get on the ground!

Put your hands up
over your head.

- Mills? Brett?

[metal clatters]

- Yeah, in here.

- Anyone hurt?
- No, we're okay.

- Sylvie.

- Boy, is it good
to see you two.

- Uh...I'll let boden know
we're here.

- Listen,
about the other night,

I really did have
to charge my phone.

Nothing happened.

- I know.

I mean, i believe you.

- So can we talk?

- We will.

- Hey, there he is,
big daddy boden.

- Hey.

Hey.

Where's mills and brett?

- Oh, they're tied up.

I mean, not literally,
of course.

Not anymore.
- They're at chicago pd.

What's the latest
with terrance?

- Uh...

Still on the machine.

- Okay.
- Yeah.

- Hey, uh...
You want to hear

How dawson
found brett and mills?

- Yeah, yeah i do.

- We have numerous witnesses
saying they saw you

Make a serious threat
against peter mills.

- My son was dead.

I was upset.

- Yeah, that certainly squares
with the eyewitness statements.

"mr. Lullo was livid.

"full of rage.

Frothing at the mouth."

- Look, i went over there

And i apologized to peter mills,
and he accepted my apology.

He's a good kid.

- So you no longer blame mills
for the death of your son?

- I don't understand
what's going on here.

I thought you caught the men
that took those paramedics.

- Yeah, we caught
two of them, yeah, so far.

- And you think it goes deeper.

- It always does, you know.

It's like an iceberg.

- You know, i don't want to tell
you how to do your job here,

But shouldn't you be talking
to the guys you caught

And find out what they know?

They're keeping their mouths
shut, aren't they?

- What is going on in there?
He's walking all over you.

- Maybe i should smack him
around a little bit?

Mills, he's here
on his own volition.

We don't have anything on him.
- Those guys had a cell phone.

They had to be calling somebody.
- Yeah, it was

A pay-as-you-go phone.
It was registered to johnny cash

In the middle
of the indiana sand dunes.

- If i could just talk
to the older guy, vic,

The guy that we saved,
i know--

- I already told you
he refuses to see you.

Now, if you visit that guy
in the lock-up,

He could get branded a snitch.

A guy like that,
he's gonna gladly do hard time

Before he rats on someone
of lullo's stature.

- So we can't do anything.
- We will handle it from here.

- Did they get him?
- No, son of a bitch

Is gonna walk.

Hey, brett, you okay?

- I'm fine.

- Hey, is everything okay
between you and mills?

What's that?

- During the helicopter crash,
i rescued this sketchy guy.

- Well, what is he,
like a handyman or something?

- No, he's no handyman.

He had a gun and a bunch
of fake ids and passports.

I'm gonna see if he can
help us take down lullo.

- This guy?
How's he supposed to help?

- Let's find out.

Can i borrow your phone?

Those guys threw mine
out the window.

- You are not calling this guy,
sylvia.

Let the cops do their thing.

- Cops can't do anything,
but maybe we can.

- Look, i get it
that you're upset,

But this is not the way
that you want to go about this.

- Those guys were gonna kill us.

I had a gun to my head
all that time, hours and hours,

Just waiting to die.

Anthony lullo is not going
to get away with that.

Now, can i borrow your phone
or not?

- You do not agree to see
this guy unless i'm there, okay?

- Thank you.

- I'd much rather
not make a connecting flight

With an infant.

Look, dad, i'm gonna
have to run.

No, no, no, we'll talk later.

I love you too.

- What are you,
booking a vacation?

- My dad.

He wants to fly us down
as soon as the baby can travel.

- You haven't told him
what's going on?

- Well, i guess
i haven't conveyed

The full gravity
of the situation.

I keep hoping things
will improve, you know.

I don't want to worry him.

Now he's gonna book us a trip
that we may never take.

- There is no question

That lullo is the one behind
this attempt on our lives,

But the cops have no way
of connecting him to it.

He's just gonna
get away scot-free.

- Sounds like it.

- Well, you know people, right?

Criminals?

So maybe you could ask around,

See if anybody heard anything

About lullo putting a price
on our head.

I don't know.

Look, i know lullo
is a powerful man,

But you said if i got
into any kind of trouble

That you could help me.

- So you're calling in
your chit.

- My--my what?

My...

Yeah, i am.

- I'll see what i can do.

- Anything new about the baby?

- No change.

- I can't imagine what donna
and boden are going through.

- I'm heading back
in the morning,

If you want to come with me.

- Matt...

- Gabby...

We can work it out.

- I don't know.

I shouldn't have walked
off shift like that.

That was crazy
and completely unprofessional.

And i abandoned two of our own
when they needed us the most.

- You didn't know that.

Besides,
i gave you permission to leave.

- You shouldn't have.

That's the point.
- It all worked out.

You came back.

Hell, you're the one
who found mills and brett.

- That doesn't change the fact

That the thing we swore
would never happen, happened.

Our relationship got in the way
of the job

And the job in the way
of the relationship.

I mean, we don't--we don't even
talk about stuff anymore,

And i feel like we can't.

- So you're leaving.

- I just think we need
some space from each other,

And maybe...That's the only way

We can figure
this whole thing out.

- Sounds like you've made up
your mind.

.

- I just thought,
as your friend and roomie,

You could have told me
you and brett were a thing.

- I didn't want
to speak too soon, okay?

We're still dipping our toes
in the water.

- And how's the water?

- I'm optimistic.

I mean, she finally moved
out of that pilsen hell-hole.

Found a sweet pad
in wicker park.

Plenty of room for us
to lay around

On lazy sundays,
drink coffee...

- Nice.

- Hey.

Can you believe
dawson and casey split up?

- Yeah, i don't know
how real that is.

- I think it's real.
I just offered to let dawson

Move in with me in the new
apartment, and she said yes.

- Hey.

- Hey, so guess what.

Vic, the goon,
is willing to see you.

- What?
How did you do that?

- You can see him
in the jail infirmary

First thing in the morning.

- Okay, yeah, yeah,
i'll be there.

Wait, really,
how did you do that?

- Really don't worry about it.

- It just sucks, you know.

But it's better
to pull the ripcord now

While we can still salvage
a professional relationship.

- Dawson, i don't like to get
in the middle of these things,

But you sound like someone
who's trying to convince herself

That she made the right call.

- I'm not deluding myself,
herrmann.

This is obviously
the right thing to do,

Otherwise wouldn't casey
have said something?

Wouldn't he have stopped me
from walking out the door?

It's just the way
it's got to be.

- Wow, what happened here?

- I had an accident.

- You need to talk to her.

- I did talk to her.
Right before she walked out.

- You need to put up
a fight, casey.

You could have stopped her.

- Yeah, i could have.

But our situation
was too hard on her,

And it couldn't have been easy
for her to make this decision.

It wouldn't be fair
for me to hold her back.

- And this is fair for you?

- How's everybody
hanging in there?

- Hey. We're getting by,
christopher.

We're getting by.

- I just came by
to pick up cindy.

- You two get some rest.

I'll come back again tomorrow.

- Thank you for everything.
- Thank you.

- Folks, we have started
to wean little terrance

Off the ecmo unit,

And it does look like his lungs
are improving.

- So he's out of the woods?

- Well, it means
his lungs are recovering,

But once he's off the machine
and no longer sedated,

We are gonna have to monitor him
for neurological deficits.

He was oxygen deprived
for quite a while.

- You're talking
about brain damage.

- We'll just have
to wait and see.

[buzzer]

- Right in there.
No contact, please.

- Sure. Thanks.

Not sure why you
changed your mind.

- Look, i agreed to talk to you,
but i'm not gonna help you.

I don't care
who your friends are.

- How's your neck?

- Doc says you did good work
given what you had.

He also says i'm very trusting.

One false move, you could have
given me a massive stroke.

- Yeah, well, that's my job...

To help people, not hurt them.

You know, i tried to help
anthony lullo's son,

But he was beyond help.

- I don't know anyone
named lullo.

- That's what the cops
are saying,

That you have
no prior connection to him.

Why would be willing
to pay hard time on his behalf?

- Look, kid,

Hypothetically speaking,

Let's say i talk
and lullo gets locked up.

You think that's the end of it?

You think he can't reach you
from behind bars,

A guy like that?

- So you do know him?

- You better leave.

- Look, if lullo shares
in the blame,

Why don't you let him
share in this punishment?

- Guard!

This man's bothering me.

- Okay, that's enough.

- You think this is honorable,
what you're doing?

It isn't.

Okay, i saved your life.
- Okay.

- What has lullo ever done
for you, huh?

- Oh, sorry. You go ahead.

- Please,
this is already my second cup.

- [clears throat]

What happened there?

- Oh, i had an accident.

- Did you see him?

- Yeah.
Not that it did any good.

- Sylvie, sweetheart,

A patrolman
dropped this off for you.

Found it searching
your ambulance the other day.

- Thanks.
- Totally forgot about that.

Never got a chance
to open it.

- Yeah.

- I got it for the dashboard.

- Why a hula dancing shark?

- I guess i thought
it would make you smile.

Look, i know that
you're mad at me

For saving that creep's life,
but i--

- I'm not.
I'm not mad at you.

- Then why can't you look me
in the eye?

- Because of what you
must think of me.

I asked you to let a man die.

That's messed up.

- Those guys were gonna kill us.
- Well, you knew that,

And you didn't let it
cloud your moral judgment.

I mean, i am a first responder.

A thought like that is never
supposed to enter my mind.

- You wouldn't be human
if it didn't.

I gave you the chance
to clamp off that carotid,

And you didn't take it.

That's all that matters.

[alarm blares]

- Engine 51.
Truck 81.

Squad 3.
- Cool shark.

- Ambulance 61.
Structure fire.

[siren wailing]

[horn blasting]

- Oh, brother.
Storage units are the pits.

- Because of all the locks?

- Yep, you got to bust
into each unit,

And worse, you got no idea

What you're gonna
find behind each door.

- There's smoke up
on the second floor.

I have no clue
where it's coming from.

- Let's knock this thing down
before it spreads.

- Cruz, get the saw.
- Right.

- Everyone else,
silver bullets.

Spread out and find the source.

- All right, check for heat.

Yow! All right, we found it.

- Cruz, get us in.

[saw engine revving]

- Whoa! Whoa, whoa!

[high-pitched whistling]

Hey, propane tank!

Get back!
[whistling increases]

.

- Hey, this place
could blow any second.

Get back, all of you!

- Everybody fall back.

- Wait, he's gonna need water.

Go.

- Go!

- You're a madman, severide.

- Nice work, everyone.
Hardly any damage.

- Hey, how'd that fire start?

- We'll find out
when we overhaul.

Good hustle in there.

- Thanks.

See, it's much simpler,
isn't it?

Lieutenant.
Candidate.

We know where
we stand with each other.

This is gonna work, matt.

Lieutenant.

- You think so?

- Don't you?

- I guess, yeah.

Okay, well,
gather up your tools.

- It's halstead.

Hey, what's up?

- What?

- Okay.

Vic agreed to talk.

Just arrested lullo.

How'd you do that?

- I just got you in the door.

You did the rest.

- Okay, who wants to be the
first to hold terrance boden?

- Ahh.
- Oh, my god.

Look at this sweetness.
Oh, my god.

- He's off the machine.
- And breathing normally.

And preliminary neurological
tests reveal no deficits.

- That's very welcome news.

- We're gonna have to monitor
him for a long time on that,

But i'm hopeful.

- Then so am i.

[baby fussing]
hey, little man.

Oh, boy.

[whispering]
hey, little man.

Hey,
little man.

[baby fussing]

Okay.

- You gonna share the baby?

[laughs]

Oh, oh, hi.

- There you go.
- Hi.

- There's your mama.

- Is that my beautiful grandson?

- Dad.

- Say hello.

- Looks like this pile of boxes
knocked this can over.

Vegetable oil
seeped into the rags.

Get how that works, dawson?

- If cotton or linen come
into contact with vegetable oil,

Bacteria decomposes the fabric,

And if the heat can't escape,
you get spontaneous combustion.

- Correct.

- Whole boxes of brake fluid,
a dozen bags of cat litter,

And chlorine powder.

That's not what most people
keep in their storage lockers.

This looks like the stockpile
of an arsonist.

- All right, we'll get ai
in here to have a look.

- Hey, guys.

- What the hell?