Chicago Fire (2012–…): Season 4, Episode 11 - The Path of Destruction - full transcript
The city of Chicago braces for a tornado.
- Chili, you were
late this shift.
- Like, five minutes.
- Chili! That's strike one.
- Chili's on edge or something.
- Off the rails is more like it.
Whatever's going on with her,
I don't think
it's about us right now.
- Oh, my God.
- Herrmann!
Freddie knifed me.
- I brought Freddie to
the fire house.
This is on me.
- Hey.
I'm not ready
to forgive that kid,
but I sure as hell don't blame
you for what happened, okay?
- [crying]
- All right.
- You sure you're
ready for this?
Maybe you should
give it a few more days.
- Cindy.
The doc said I'm ready.
You were there.
- I know.
But Wallace told you to
take as long as you need.
You don't have
to rush right back.
- I'm not rushing back.
I just...
Want to feel
like myself again.
Come here.
I love you.
- Love you.
- Hey, guys!
So I'm back.
I passed my physical.
It's no big deal.
It's just...
Not like
I was on death's door--
[all yelling and cheering]
- Aw, you guys.
You didn't have to.
- Oh, please.
I saw your face just now.
Come here.
I'm happy to have you home.
- Good to be here.
- You were missed.
Welcome back, buddy.
- Chief, it's good
to be here.
- Good to have
you back, Herrmann.
- Hey, thanks, Lieutenant.
Hey.
- Buddy.
- So, hey.
When's your big day, buddy?
- Oh, well, we haven't
exactly set a date yet.
We don't want to
rush into anything.
- Yeah, of course, man.
You're young.
You got your whole life
ahead of you.
Why rush?
- I see your sense of
humor's still intact.
That's too bad.
- [laughs]
- Hey.
- Hey!
Look, I just, uh--I wanted
to say I'm sorry again,
you know, for what happened,
and bringing Freddie here
in the first place.
- Listen, what I told you
in the hospital, I meant it.
You and me,
we're good.
- Thanks.
- All right.
- Oh, just so you know.
I talked to Kot,
and he's gonna
push for the maximum
sentence for Freddie, all right?
Listen, Cindy, she's had me
on decaf the last few weeks,
so I'm gonna get myself a cup of
the real stuff before it's gone.
- Uh, yeah!
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Hey, I'll let you know
if anything else comes up.
- What is it, Chief?
- I assume you two have heard
about the weather down south?
- Yeah, I got an aunt
down in Carbondale.
She said a tornado hit
couple hours ago.
- Well, I've just had an update
from the district chief.
They have no idea where
the storm is headed,
but the city's gonna be
on tornado watch
- They think a tornado
might hit here?
- We have to be prepared,
just in case.
So make sure all
tools are checked,
fuel is topped off,
batteries fully charged.
- Yeah, we're on it.
- Good.
- Hey.
- So.
Pretending like nothing
ever happened between us?
- It's not weird for me.
- Okay, well, I know this is
gonna sound like a line,
but I hope that
we can still be friends.
- Yeah, sure.
Actually, no.
- Why would I want
to be friends with you?
Just so you can feel better?
- That's not what I meant.
- I can't believe
that you actually
broke up with me
just because your
lieutenant told you to.
He just snaps his fingers and
you do whatever he says,
like a little puppy?
- All right. You said what
you needed to say.
- [scoffs]
So the conversation
is just over, then?
- Yeah. Yeah, it is.
- You're not even worth it.
- Uh, you left your radio
in the common room.
- Thanks.
- Everything okay?
- Yeah. All good.
- All personnel report
to the common room immediately.
- Meteorologists and
the National Weather Service
is confirming that the tornado
that touched down here
at Naperville
had sustained winds--
- What's going on?
- Another tornado.
In Naperville.
- That's like 30 miles away.
the surrounding community has
been utterly devastated,
and at least three people
are confirmed dead so far.
- And we now have breaking word
that the storm cell
responsible for
these deadly tornadoes
is now headed directly
for Chicago.
The National Weather Service
has upgraded the city
from a tornado watch
to a tornado warning.
Conditions for severe weather
have gone from favorable
to imminent.
Again, Chicago is now
under a tornado warning.
Residents are advised
to seek shelter immediately.
- Okay, everybody,
gather round.
As you've heard, we have a
potential tornado on our hands.
We're gonna take every
precaution to keep safe.
- Actually, there's this YouTube
video of a tornado in Kansas;
sunshine in the west,
funnel clouds in the east.
Pretty crazy, you guys.
- Thank you, Otis.
Orders are orders, people.
No one leaves the house
except on a call.
- Perfect. Jimmy's got his
famous meat loaf on the menu.
- Actually, I didn't
get a chance
to pick up the groceries yet.
[all complaining at once]
- Okay, everybody
stay on your toes.
This thing comes for us,
we're gonna be ready.
Dismissed.
- I'm gonna call Trudy,
make sure she's okay.
- Yeah.
[phone ringing]
- Hey, Austin.
Uh, yeah, we're fine.
Just on lockdown
till this thing passes.
I know.
Okay.
Yeah, I'll talk
to you later.
- Whoa.
Hey, you okay?
- Yeah, yeah.
I'm fine.
I'm from Indiana, so been
through my share of tornados.
- Right.
[grunting]
- Looking good, Otis.
- Am I?
Did you know that Brett was
still seeing that Austin guy?
- Ah, he's picked her up from
the apartment a few times.
I don't know what
she sees in him.
You're still hung up on her.
- No, I'm not.
That's just it.
It's not even about Brett.
Every girl does
the same thing.
I'm a nice guy.
I got a good job.
I can bench 200 pounds.
- Otis.
- Okay, 150, regardless.
Without fail, the girl always
picks the other guy, always.
- So shake things up.
Make a change.
- You want to help?
- Huh?
- Give me some advice.
Tell me what I need to do
to make women pick me.
- [chuckles]
- Come on, Dawson.
You're my only female friend.
- [sighs]
On one condition.
- Name it.
- What I say, goes.
No back talk.
And I hate whiners.
Deal?
- Yeah!
- Yeah, take the kids
down to the basement.
Tell them that it's an indoor
picnic, you know?
They love that crap.
You got bottled water?
- Yes.
- Supplies?
- Yes.
- Okay.
- And if they figure out
what's really going on?
- Then you tell them
everything's gonna be fine,
because it is.
- They'd rather hear it
from you.
- I'll be home in the morning,
okay?
- I love you.
- I love you too.
[phone beeps]
Hey, Lieutenant.
- Herrmann. How you feeling?
- Good as new.
- It's awful soon
to be back,
after everything
you went through.
- Hey, listen, you know,
this line of work,
we face death every day.
I'm not gonna let some little--
- Stab wound?
- I'm fine.
[alarm blares]
- Ambulance 61,
woman collapsed,
121 South LaSalle Street.
- All right.
- Be safe, ladies.
[siren wails]
- God, it's like
everyone vanished.
You know, I had this
boyfriend in high school
for, like, five minutes, and he
was obsessed with zombie movies,
like, Romero stuff.
Scared the crap out of me;
it was just the thought.
You can
just wake up one morning
and the world as you
know it is just...
over.
- Hello?
Fire department!
- Back here!
- Call for an ambulance?
- Yeah. Come on.
- Everybody back.
Come on, give us some space.
- [gagging, convulsing]
- How long has this
been going on?
- Uh, on and off
for about ten minutes.
- Was anybody with her, know her
medical history, anything?
- No, no, she was alone.
The news said to take shelter,
so we all just came back here.
- All right, she doesn't have
a medical alert bracelet,
I'll start the IV,
you drop the Valium.
- Got it.
All right, ready?
Pushing.
- She's not breathing.
How much did you drop?
- 10 milligrams.
- Is this what you gave her?
- Yes.
- It's morphine.
[dramatic music]
♪
- She's still not breathing.
- The morphine suppressed
her respiratory drive.
Chili.
Pushing Narcan.
[tense music]
♪
- [inhales]
Okay.
- Respiration's up to 14;
let's get her out of here
before she starts
seizing again.
- Is she gonna be okay?
- She'll be fine.
What the hell just happened?
- I swear I grabbed the valium.
I always put it
in the right place.
- You check the label.
You always check the label.
- Relax.
Everything turned
out fine.
- Are you sure you're ready?
- Let's do this!
Good-bye, friend zone.
Hello, end zone!
- That doesn't
make any sense.
- It's like a sports
metaphor...for sex.
- That's why you're
not getting any.
Okay.
- What's that?
- Little present
for you.
It's time for
a clean start.
- Hell, no.
I'm not getting rid
of my mustache.
- And that weird little
thing on your lip.
- Nope, no way.
Not doing it.
- Oh, okay, well, then,
I guess we're done here.
- Wait, wait, wait.
You can't just quit.
I still need your help.
Just not with this.
- This is exactly why
you're in a rut, Otis.
You can't even make
one tiny superficial change.
- How about a little
trim on the sides?
- [sighs]
Okay.
I've known you
for seven years, Otis,
and in all that time, you have
never changed your look.
Not once.
It's your call, Friend Zone.
- Ugh.
- Cruz, you're up.
- Oh, uh, I'm up.
- Hey, is that
the last bag of chips?
- You can thank
your boy Jimmy for that.
psychically predict when
we're gonna be on lockdown?
- I swear, if we run out of
food, I am eating you first.
- All right, hey, knuckleheads.
Let's triple-check
these ladders and equipment
and make sure everything's
in order, all right?
The storm's coming.
- Hey, Herrmann.
I just got a message
from Ruzek over at 21,
and he said that Freddie
is in no way gonna--
- Listen, whatever
you're gonna say,
I don't want to hear it.
- I'm just trying to help.
- I know you are,
but I got to put
this thing behind me,
so whatever news you got,
I don't care.
And I never want to hear
his name again, okay?
- Yeah.
- We need a restock request
for Ambulance 61.
- Okay.
- Morphine. Patient's paperwork
doesn't list that anywhere.
- We, uh--
- She was seizing
in the ambulance
ride over here,
and I was reaching for
the valium and I accidentally
knocked over the morphine
and broke the seal.
Why is everyone
so suspicious around here?
- Be back with these
in a minute.
- Thanks.
- Wow.
Tower duty, huh?
- Payback for running
out of food.
[phone ringing]
Firehouse 51. Candidate
Jimmy Borrelli speaking.
Can I help you?
Yes, sir, we will be.
- Tornado touched down
in our district.
West Lawn neighborhood.
What's wrong with him?
- That's Herrmann's
neighborhood.
[beeping]
- Damaged structure.
Must be the tornado.
- Let's go.
[alarm blaring]
- Truck 81, Squad 3,
Ambulance 61, Engine 51.
Damaged structure,
7439 South Whipple.
[sirens wailing]
[tense music]
♪
[siren wailing]
[indistinct radio chatter]
- Cruz, Severide,
360 that building for stability.
See if we can get inside.
The rest of you, sweep
the area for survivors.
Someone called 911.
[indistinct chatter]
- Fire department, call out!
Fire department, call out!
- Hello?
- Is anyone here?
- Fire department, call out!
[tense music]
♪
- I need a paramedic!
- Check his vitals.
Make sure.
- No good.
- Sir, sir,
are you in charge?
I called 911.
- You did good, kid.
Now let us do our job.
- My parents are in there.
I came as quick as I could.
- How'd you get here?
- My bike.
I rode it from school.
- Severide, any update?
We going in?
- Negative, Casey.
- My mother's in there,
- Okay, okay, listen.
We're gonna get everyone out.
Okay? Thank you.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Hold on.
Hold still.
I need a medical assist!
- All right, what's your name?
- Lucas.
- Okay, Lucas, you got to
hold still for me, okay?
Must've hit him
in the storm.
Broken window or something.
- Hey, I'm Chili.
What's your name?
- You have a piece of glass
in your back.
You're in shock--your body's
protecting you from the pain.
- I don't get it, I don't--
- Hey.
- Hey, you made it through
that storm to get here, yeah?
You can handle this.
- Kerlix and tape.
- I got it, relax.
- Chief!
Doorways, window frames
are all out of square.
There's plaster,
siding falling.
There's no sign of anyone, but
there's a basement downstairs.
Probably took shelter
in there.
Building's too unstable
to use the front door,
but I did find another
entrance back behind that.
- You move it with your
bare hands if you have to.
- Okay.
- Chief!
- Come on, squad,
let's get that door open now.
Jimmy, Otis,
get that aerial in place.
- Let's go.
- May be electrical.
Severed wires.
- Let's just hope that the gas
lines haven't been cut.
- Hey, guys,
give us a hand with this.
On my count, ready?
One, two, three!
[all grunting]
- Push!
[men grunting]
- One more!
[men grunting]
- Okay, okay, good!
Got it!
- Okay, come on out, guys.
You all right?
All right.
Walk nice and easy.
Get out to the street.
Watch your step.
- Come on, folks.
This way.
Away from the structure.
[machinery whirring]
- Get clear of that house,
folks.
Watch your step.
- Where's my husband?
I can't find my husband.
- There's more people
down there, just hold on.
- He wasn't with us!
He went back for the dog.
- Okay, well, they got to
be around here somewhere.
- He was wearing
a yellow raincoat.
- Ah...
I'm not sure, ma'am.
[sighs]
- Guys, please step back
over there.
- Hey.
You okay?
- Yeah.
- Hey.
Whatever you're feeling
right now,
I want you to put that energy
into this call.
Nothing else exists.
- Yes, sir.
- All right, guys,
let's move.
- I don't see
my parents anywhere.
- Okay, hold on.
- What if they're still
in there?
- Which one's
their apartment?
- That one.
- Okay.
Guys, we got
two possible victims
in the apartment upstairs.
This building's a collapse
waiting to happen.
I'm only taking
one of you with me.
Herrmann, let's do it.
[tense music]
♪
[respirators hissing]
Fire department!
Call out!
- Let me see your face.
Crawl on out!
Put your hand on it!
Compress it!
Crawl out!
To the window!
[oxygen hissing]
- Two, three.
- Three.
- Nice and easy.
There you go.
There you go, yeah.
Keep going, you got it.
I'm with you.
Go ahead.
We got you.
- Mom.
- Oh!
- Careful.
- Lucas.
- Hey.
Check out the husband's head.
It could be serious.
- Okay.
- I'm so glad you're okay.
- Nice work
up there, Herrmann.
You get ahold of Cindy?
- Nah. Not yet.
Hey, guys, mount up.
Let's take a ride.
Herrmann's house.
Turn on the siren.
They're gonna be fine.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
[siren wailing]
Hey, hey, hey.
It's okay.
All right,
all right, all right.
- Oh, I was so worried.
- I know. Me too.
- Annabelle flushed my damn
phone down the toilet.
- They said that thing touched
down less than a mile from here.
- Yeah.
- Were you?
- It's not good,
but I'm okay.
Hey, I'd better get back.
You all right?
- The National Weather Service
has lifted the tornado warning.
- Copy. Hey.
City gave the all-clear.
Warning's been lifted.
- All right.
- Some day.
- Hey.
- Thanks.
- Yeah. So...
Big plans after shift?
- Ah...
[laughs]
Hot date with Netflix.
[cell phone buzzing]
[sighs] You were right
about that Austin guy.
- Really?
- Won't leave me alone.
I told him I just wanted
to be friends,
and he keeps calling me.
- Ah, so, you're not--
you're not seeing him anymore?
- He's a boy,
not a man.
Wasn't going anywhere.
Some people are just
incapable of change.
- What happened
isn't your fault.
- You think I don't know that?
I wasn't the one with
the damn knife, was I?
I'm sorry, Lieutenant.
You didn't deserve that.
- No, forget it.
This isn't about me...
or Herrmann.
It's you I'm worried about.
- Excuse me.
I'm looking for Wallace Boden.
- You found him.
- Chief Boden, nice to meet you.
- And you are?
- Alex Ward.
Homeland Security.
[knocking on door]
- Come on in, shut the door.
Kelly Severide.
Agent Alex Ward.
- Department of
Homeland Security.
I was just asking your chief
for some assistance
on an ongoing investigation.
- What kind of investigation?
- It's a domestic threat assess.
We've been tracking a residence
here in Chicago for some time,
trying to gather enough
evidence for a warrant.
- What's that got to do
with the CFD?
- The residence is
less than a block from
the apartment building
you responded to today.
I asked your chief
if there was anyone
who'd be willing to go
down to the scene,
see if there's any structural
damage, a safety concern,
anything that could
get us inside the building,
under the radar.
- You want me to kick down
a door, I'll kick down a door.
- Hey, where's Chili?
- I wouldn't know.
- Everything okay
between you two?
- Yeah, yeah, sure.
Why?
- 'Cause you were staring
over her shoulder
on that tornado call today.
- You can't tell anyone else.
- Stays with me.
Back when I first started,
I had a kid with
a severe asthma attack.
I was so eager to help,
I didn't even look at
how much epi I drew up.
I ended up pushing
three times what he needed.
I cried in my chief's office
for half an hour afterwards.
Confessed everything.
- Was he okay?
- Yeah, yeah.
I was the wreck.
See, that's what scares me.
Everybody makes mistakes.
But if Chili doesn't
take this seriously,
she has bigger problems.
- She's been erratic,
emotional for weeks now.
Maybe it's the Jimmy stuff,
I don't know.
- You say anything
to Boden yet?
- No. Why?
- You two are out there
on the streets alone.
You don't think your
partner has your back,
you can't do your job.
- You got a second,
Lieutenant?
- Of course.
- Funny thing about tornadoes,
they just drop out of the sky,
like some random act
you got no control over.
- A lot of things
do that to us.
- Yeah,
they sure do.
Hey, um...
thank you for today.
Going into that home
and pulling that family out,
that's exactly what I needed.
- Herrmann, you're the heart
and soul of this house.
Men here look up to you as much
as any chief in the CFD.
Don't ever forget that.
No kid, no knife...
not even a tornado
can take that away.
None of us are the same
when you're not you, Herrmann.
[chuckles]
Hey, go home.
- All right.
- Kiss your wife and kids.
- Yeah, that's a great idea.
- Hey, uh,
what did you come in here for?
- Exactly what I got.
Good night, brother.
- Hey.
- Oh, hey.
Just one second.
- Um, do you want
to go get a sandwich?
The tornado warning's
been lifted,
and Jimmy's making meatloaf.
- No, I'm good.
- Chili, I'm trying
to talk to you.
- About what?
- That woman
almost died today.
- Yeah, but she didn't.
It was over in, like,
30 seconds.
- You put her life in danger,
and then you lied about it.
- It was a mistake,
and we handled it.
- I handled it.
You froze.
- Okay, if you want
the credit, it's all yours.
- [scoffs]
with a couple of guys
from River North.
You want to come?
One of them's
kind of your type.
- I'm good.
- [chuckles] Okay.
Your loss. Two-for-one
margaritas, just saying.
- Sure you got the right place?
- We don't believe this
was the primary residence.
More likely used for storage.
- For what?
- If what this guy's
planning goes off,
we're talking a lot more
casualties than a tornado.
[knocking on door]
- Fire Department.
Anyone home?
- These hinges look
bent to you?
That window, it's sagging.
- Makes this a public
safety concern.
[foreboding music]
♪
♪
Hey.
This paneling look off to you?
[ominous music]
♪
This is fertilizer.
It's the beginnings
of a binary explosive device.
- You study bomb tech?
- I know the basics.
- Hey, it's Alex.
We're here at the residence.
- What's up, Mouch?
- Eh, nothing much.
- What's going on?
- I blew it today.
- What do you mean?
- At the tornado call.
This woman...
She's looking for her husband,
who I knew was dead.
Just pretended I didn't know.
- It's not your job--
- The hell it isn't.
You know that.
I know that.
- Here's what I know.
We see heartbreak every day.
And we live our lives
imperfectly as a result of that.
You're a human being, Randy,
and there is no shame in that.
- I should've told her.
- Next time you will.
- Hey, Leon.
It's your big bro.
Just wanted to hear your voice,
man, see how you're doing.
- Hey, you guys.
How you doing?
Hey.
- Uh, anyway, call me.
Crazy days around here,
as usual.
- All right.
Come on.
Let's go,
get in the car.
Hurry up.
- I love you, brother.
- Lieutenant.
Need some help?
- Yeah, I had a call earlier.
Not supposed to do this, but--
- Right.
What's the name?
- Lucas Hicks.
- The kid got lucky.
Glass was inches from the spine,
missed the lungs.
He's gonna be fine.
- Okay. Good to hear.
- Dad...didn't make it, though.
Subdural hematoma.
Died in the OR.
I'm sorry.
- No, no.
Thanks.
- Sure.
[dramatic music]
♪
[buzzer blares]
- What's going on?
- I don't know.
I don't even know
why I'm here.
- Yeah, well, it's good
to see a familiar face.
You thought the old hood
was hard; this place is just--
- Don't talk to me
about the hood.
- What do you want?
- You and I are
not the same.
We're from the same streets,
but that's it.
I took a chance
on you, Freddie.
You know that?
I brought you into that house.
I vouched for you!
- Yeah, I know, man--
- I told Herrmann
that you were a good kid!
And now I'm the reason that
he was in that hospital!
I'm the reason!
- That's not what happened, man.
I'm the sick one.
I'm the one who messed up.
All you ever tried
to do was help me.
All you ever tried to
do was help me!
You came for an apology, Joe.
I'ma give it to you.
I'm sorry.
[gentle dramatic music]
♪
- What you saw today--
- I get it.
Don't worry.
- Thanks for your help.
You gave us a real advantage.
- Hey, you need anything else,
let me know.
- Thanks for the ride.
- You got this, buddy.
20 bucks says he bails.
- I'll take that action.
- Guy was impaled
by a stop sign?
You didn't tell me that.
That's messed up.
- Oh, yeah.
Stuff hanging from the trees.
- Said on the news hundreds
of people were displaced,
putting them in shelters
all over town.
all: Whoa!
- Yeah?
- Otis, yeah!
- Aah!
[laughter]
- Oh, my God,
you look great!
All grown up, yeah!
men: Whoo!
- You okay?
You seem a little off.
- Uh...
House drama.
I'm worried about Chili.
She's been acting
erratic lately.
I'm not sure how much longer
Boden's gonna put up with it.
- Really? Think he'd cut
her a little slack,
after all she's been through.
- What's that mean?
- Jelly Bean.
Chili's sister.
They found her body
a few weeks ago
in a flop house
in Kansas City.
- I'm--I'm not a rat.
- You did the right thing.
- Did I?
- I'll take it from here.
- I--I wasn't trying
to get Chili in trouble.
I just want to--
I just want to help her.
- Sometimes we have to bear
the consequences of our actions
to get the help we need.
- And what are
the consequences?
- That'll be all, Brett.
late this shift.
- Like, five minutes.
- Chili! That's strike one.
- Chili's on edge or something.
- Off the rails is more like it.
Whatever's going on with her,
I don't think
it's about us right now.
- Oh, my God.
- Herrmann!
Freddie knifed me.
- I brought Freddie to
the fire house.
This is on me.
- Hey.
I'm not ready
to forgive that kid,
but I sure as hell don't blame
you for what happened, okay?
- [crying]
- All right.
- You sure you're
ready for this?
Maybe you should
give it a few more days.
- Cindy.
The doc said I'm ready.
You were there.
- I know.
But Wallace told you to
take as long as you need.
You don't have
to rush right back.
- I'm not rushing back.
I just...
Want to feel
like myself again.
Come here.
I love you.
- Love you.
- Hey, guys!
So I'm back.
I passed my physical.
It's no big deal.
It's just...
Not like
I was on death's door--
[all yelling and cheering]
- Aw, you guys.
You didn't have to.
- Oh, please.
I saw your face just now.
Come here.
I'm happy to have you home.
- Good to be here.
- You were missed.
Welcome back, buddy.
- Chief, it's good
to be here.
- Good to have
you back, Herrmann.
- Hey, thanks, Lieutenant.
Hey.
- Buddy.
- So, hey.
When's your big day, buddy?
- Oh, well, we haven't
exactly set a date yet.
We don't want to
rush into anything.
- Yeah, of course, man.
You're young.
You got your whole life
ahead of you.
Why rush?
- I see your sense of
humor's still intact.
That's too bad.
- [laughs]
- Hey.
- Hey!
Look, I just, uh--I wanted
to say I'm sorry again,
you know, for what happened,
and bringing Freddie here
in the first place.
- Listen, what I told you
in the hospital, I meant it.
You and me,
we're good.
- Thanks.
- All right.
- Oh, just so you know.
I talked to Kot,
and he's gonna
push for the maximum
sentence for Freddie, all right?
Listen, Cindy, she's had me
on decaf the last few weeks,
so I'm gonna get myself a cup of
the real stuff before it's gone.
- Uh, yeah!
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Hey, I'll let you know
if anything else comes up.
- What is it, Chief?
- I assume you two have heard
about the weather down south?
- Yeah, I got an aunt
down in Carbondale.
She said a tornado hit
couple hours ago.
- Well, I've just had an update
from the district chief.
They have no idea where
the storm is headed,
but the city's gonna be
on tornado watch
- They think a tornado
might hit here?
- We have to be prepared,
just in case.
So make sure all
tools are checked,
fuel is topped off,
batteries fully charged.
- Yeah, we're on it.
- Good.
- Hey.
- So.
Pretending like nothing
ever happened between us?
- It's not weird for me.
- Okay, well, I know this is
gonna sound like a line,
but I hope that
we can still be friends.
- Yeah, sure.
Actually, no.
- Why would I want
to be friends with you?
Just so you can feel better?
- That's not what I meant.
- I can't believe
that you actually
broke up with me
just because your
lieutenant told you to.
He just snaps his fingers and
you do whatever he says,
like a little puppy?
- All right. You said what
you needed to say.
- [scoffs]
So the conversation
is just over, then?
- Yeah. Yeah, it is.
- You're not even worth it.
- Uh, you left your radio
in the common room.
- Thanks.
- Everything okay?
- Yeah. All good.
- All personnel report
to the common room immediately.
- Meteorologists and
the National Weather Service
is confirming that the tornado
that touched down here
at Naperville
had sustained winds--
- What's going on?
- Another tornado.
In Naperville.
- That's like 30 miles away.
the surrounding community has
been utterly devastated,
and at least three people
are confirmed dead so far.
- And we now have breaking word
that the storm cell
responsible for
these deadly tornadoes
is now headed directly
for Chicago.
The National Weather Service
has upgraded the city
from a tornado watch
to a tornado warning.
Conditions for severe weather
have gone from favorable
to imminent.
Again, Chicago is now
under a tornado warning.
Residents are advised
to seek shelter immediately.
- Okay, everybody,
gather round.
As you've heard, we have a
potential tornado on our hands.
We're gonna take every
precaution to keep safe.
- Actually, there's this YouTube
video of a tornado in Kansas;
sunshine in the west,
funnel clouds in the east.
Pretty crazy, you guys.
- Thank you, Otis.
Orders are orders, people.
No one leaves the house
except on a call.
- Perfect. Jimmy's got his
famous meat loaf on the menu.
- Actually, I didn't
get a chance
to pick up the groceries yet.
[all complaining at once]
- Okay, everybody
stay on your toes.
This thing comes for us,
we're gonna be ready.
Dismissed.
- I'm gonna call Trudy,
make sure she's okay.
- Yeah.
[phone ringing]
- Hey, Austin.
Uh, yeah, we're fine.
Just on lockdown
till this thing passes.
I know.
Okay.
Yeah, I'll talk
to you later.
- Whoa.
Hey, you okay?
- Yeah, yeah.
I'm fine.
I'm from Indiana, so been
through my share of tornados.
- Right.
[grunting]
- Looking good, Otis.
- Am I?
Did you know that Brett was
still seeing that Austin guy?
- Ah, he's picked her up from
the apartment a few times.
I don't know what
she sees in him.
You're still hung up on her.
- No, I'm not.
That's just it.
It's not even about Brett.
Every girl does
the same thing.
I'm a nice guy.
I got a good job.
I can bench 200 pounds.
- Otis.
- Okay, 150, regardless.
Without fail, the girl always
picks the other guy, always.
- So shake things up.
Make a change.
- You want to help?
- Huh?
- Give me some advice.
Tell me what I need to do
to make women pick me.
- [chuckles]
- Come on, Dawson.
You're my only female friend.
- [sighs]
On one condition.
- Name it.
- What I say, goes.
No back talk.
And I hate whiners.
Deal?
- Yeah!
- Yeah, take the kids
down to the basement.
Tell them that it's an indoor
picnic, you know?
They love that crap.
You got bottled water?
- Yes.
- Supplies?
- Yes.
- Okay.
- And if they figure out
what's really going on?
- Then you tell them
everything's gonna be fine,
because it is.
- They'd rather hear it
from you.
- I'll be home in the morning,
okay?
- I love you.
- I love you too.
[phone beeps]
Hey, Lieutenant.
- Herrmann. How you feeling?
- Good as new.
- It's awful soon
to be back,
after everything
you went through.
- Hey, listen, you know,
this line of work,
we face death every day.
I'm not gonna let some little--
- Stab wound?
- I'm fine.
[alarm blares]
- Ambulance 61,
woman collapsed,
121 South LaSalle Street.
- All right.
- Be safe, ladies.
[siren wails]
- God, it's like
everyone vanished.
You know, I had this
boyfriend in high school
for, like, five minutes, and he
was obsessed with zombie movies,
like, Romero stuff.
Scared the crap out of me;
it was just the thought.
You can
just wake up one morning
and the world as you
know it is just...
over.
- Hello?
Fire department!
- Back here!
- Call for an ambulance?
- Yeah. Come on.
- Everybody back.
Come on, give us some space.
- [gagging, convulsing]
- How long has this
been going on?
- Uh, on and off
for about ten minutes.
- Was anybody with her, know her
medical history, anything?
- No, no, she was alone.
The news said to take shelter,
so we all just came back here.
- All right, she doesn't have
a medical alert bracelet,
I'll start the IV,
you drop the Valium.
- Got it.
All right, ready?
Pushing.
- She's not breathing.
How much did you drop?
- 10 milligrams.
- Is this what you gave her?
- Yes.
- It's morphine.
[dramatic music]
♪
- She's still not breathing.
- The morphine suppressed
her respiratory drive.
Chili.
Pushing Narcan.
[tense music]
♪
- [inhales]
Okay.
- Respiration's up to 14;
let's get her out of here
before she starts
seizing again.
- Is she gonna be okay?
- She'll be fine.
What the hell just happened?
- I swear I grabbed the valium.
I always put it
in the right place.
- You check the label.
You always check the label.
- Relax.
Everything turned
out fine.
- Are you sure you're ready?
- Let's do this!
Good-bye, friend zone.
Hello, end zone!
- That doesn't
make any sense.
- It's like a sports
metaphor...for sex.
- That's why you're
not getting any.
Okay.
- What's that?
- Little present
for you.
It's time for
a clean start.
- Hell, no.
I'm not getting rid
of my mustache.
- And that weird little
thing on your lip.
- Nope, no way.
Not doing it.
- Oh, okay, well, then,
I guess we're done here.
- Wait, wait, wait.
You can't just quit.
I still need your help.
Just not with this.
- This is exactly why
you're in a rut, Otis.
You can't even make
one tiny superficial change.
- How about a little
trim on the sides?
- [sighs]
Okay.
I've known you
for seven years, Otis,
and in all that time, you have
never changed your look.
Not once.
It's your call, Friend Zone.
- Ugh.
- Cruz, you're up.
- Oh, uh, I'm up.
- Hey, is that
the last bag of chips?
- You can thank
your boy Jimmy for that.
psychically predict when
we're gonna be on lockdown?
- I swear, if we run out of
food, I am eating you first.
- All right, hey, knuckleheads.
Let's triple-check
these ladders and equipment
and make sure everything's
in order, all right?
The storm's coming.
- Hey, Herrmann.
I just got a message
from Ruzek over at 21,
and he said that Freddie
is in no way gonna--
- Listen, whatever
you're gonna say,
I don't want to hear it.
- I'm just trying to help.
- I know you are,
but I got to put
this thing behind me,
so whatever news you got,
I don't care.
And I never want to hear
his name again, okay?
- Yeah.
- We need a restock request
for Ambulance 61.
- Okay.
- Morphine. Patient's paperwork
doesn't list that anywhere.
- We, uh--
- She was seizing
in the ambulance
ride over here,
and I was reaching for
the valium and I accidentally
knocked over the morphine
and broke the seal.
Why is everyone
so suspicious around here?
- Be back with these
in a minute.
- Thanks.
- Wow.
Tower duty, huh?
- Payback for running
out of food.
[phone ringing]
Firehouse 51. Candidate
Jimmy Borrelli speaking.
Can I help you?
Yes, sir, we will be.
- Tornado touched down
in our district.
West Lawn neighborhood.
What's wrong with him?
- That's Herrmann's
neighborhood.
[beeping]
- Damaged structure.
Must be the tornado.
- Let's go.
[alarm blaring]
- Truck 81, Squad 3,
Ambulance 61, Engine 51.
Damaged structure,
7439 South Whipple.
[sirens wailing]
[tense music]
♪
[siren wailing]
[indistinct radio chatter]
- Cruz, Severide,
360 that building for stability.
See if we can get inside.
The rest of you, sweep
the area for survivors.
Someone called 911.
[indistinct chatter]
- Fire department, call out!
Fire department, call out!
- Hello?
- Is anyone here?
- Fire department, call out!
[tense music]
♪
- I need a paramedic!
- Check his vitals.
Make sure.
- No good.
- Sir, sir,
are you in charge?
I called 911.
- You did good, kid.
Now let us do our job.
- My parents are in there.
I came as quick as I could.
- How'd you get here?
- My bike.
I rode it from school.
- Severide, any update?
We going in?
- Negative, Casey.
- My mother's in there,
- Okay, okay, listen.
We're gonna get everyone out.
Okay? Thank you.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Hold on.
Hold still.
I need a medical assist!
- All right, what's your name?
- Lucas.
- Okay, Lucas, you got to
hold still for me, okay?
Must've hit him
in the storm.
Broken window or something.
- Hey, I'm Chili.
What's your name?
- You have a piece of glass
in your back.
You're in shock--your body's
protecting you from the pain.
- I don't get it, I don't--
- Hey.
- Hey, you made it through
that storm to get here, yeah?
You can handle this.
- Kerlix and tape.
- I got it, relax.
- Chief!
Doorways, window frames
are all out of square.
There's plaster,
siding falling.
There's no sign of anyone, but
there's a basement downstairs.
Probably took shelter
in there.
Building's too unstable
to use the front door,
but I did find another
entrance back behind that.
- You move it with your
bare hands if you have to.
- Okay.
- Chief!
- Come on, squad,
let's get that door open now.
Jimmy, Otis,
get that aerial in place.
- Let's go.
- May be electrical.
Severed wires.
- Let's just hope that the gas
lines haven't been cut.
- Hey, guys,
give us a hand with this.
On my count, ready?
One, two, three!
[all grunting]
- Push!
[men grunting]
- One more!
[men grunting]
- Okay, okay, good!
Got it!
- Okay, come on out, guys.
You all right?
All right.
Walk nice and easy.
Get out to the street.
Watch your step.
- Come on, folks.
This way.
Away from the structure.
[machinery whirring]
- Get clear of that house,
folks.
Watch your step.
- Where's my husband?
I can't find my husband.
- There's more people
down there, just hold on.
- He wasn't with us!
He went back for the dog.
- Okay, well, they got to
be around here somewhere.
- He was wearing
a yellow raincoat.
- Ah...
I'm not sure, ma'am.
[sighs]
- Guys, please step back
over there.
- Hey.
You okay?
- Yeah.
- Hey.
Whatever you're feeling
right now,
I want you to put that energy
into this call.
Nothing else exists.
- Yes, sir.
- All right, guys,
let's move.
- I don't see
my parents anywhere.
- Okay, hold on.
- What if they're still
in there?
- Which one's
their apartment?
- That one.
- Okay.
Guys, we got
two possible victims
in the apartment upstairs.
This building's a collapse
waiting to happen.
I'm only taking
one of you with me.
Herrmann, let's do it.
[tense music]
♪
[respirators hissing]
Fire department!
Call out!
- Let me see your face.
Crawl on out!
Put your hand on it!
Compress it!
Crawl out!
To the window!
[oxygen hissing]
- Two, three.
- Three.
- Nice and easy.
There you go.
There you go, yeah.
Keep going, you got it.
I'm with you.
Go ahead.
We got you.
- Mom.
- Oh!
- Careful.
- Lucas.
- Hey.
Check out the husband's head.
It could be serious.
- Okay.
- I'm so glad you're okay.
- Nice work
up there, Herrmann.
You get ahold of Cindy?
- Nah. Not yet.
Hey, guys, mount up.
Let's take a ride.
Herrmann's house.
Turn on the siren.
They're gonna be fine.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
[siren wailing]
Hey, hey, hey.
It's okay.
All right,
all right, all right.
- Oh, I was so worried.
- I know. Me too.
- Annabelle flushed my damn
phone down the toilet.
- They said that thing touched
down less than a mile from here.
- Yeah.
- Were you?
- It's not good,
but I'm okay.
Hey, I'd better get back.
You all right?
- The National Weather Service
has lifted the tornado warning.
- Copy. Hey.
City gave the all-clear.
Warning's been lifted.
- All right.
- Some day.
- Hey.
- Thanks.
- Yeah. So...
Big plans after shift?
- Ah...
[laughs]
Hot date with Netflix.
[cell phone buzzing]
[sighs] You were right
about that Austin guy.
- Really?
- Won't leave me alone.
I told him I just wanted
to be friends,
and he keeps calling me.
- Ah, so, you're not--
you're not seeing him anymore?
- He's a boy,
not a man.
Wasn't going anywhere.
Some people are just
incapable of change.
- What happened
isn't your fault.
- You think I don't know that?
I wasn't the one with
the damn knife, was I?
I'm sorry, Lieutenant.
You didn't deserve that.
- No, forget it.
This isn't about me...
or Herrmann.
It's you I'm worried about.
- Excuse me.
I'm looking for Wallace Boden.
- You found him.
- Chief Boden, nice to meet you.
- And you are?
- Alex Ward.
Homeland Security.
[knocking on door]
- Come on in, shut the door.
Kelly Severide.
Agent Alex Ward.
- Department of
Homeland Security.
I was just asking your chief
for some assistance
on an ongoing investigation.
- What kind of investigation?
- It's a domestic threat assess.
We've been tracking a residence
here in Chicago for some time,
trying to gather enough
evidence for a warrant.
- What's that got to do
with the CFD?
- The residence is
less than a block from
the apartment building
you responded to today.
I asked your chief
if there was anyone
who'd be willing to go
down to the scene,
see if there's any structural
damage, a safety concern,
anything that could
get us inside the building,
under the radar.
- You want me to kick down
a door, I'll kick down a door.
- Hey, where's Chili?
- I wouldn't know.
- Everything okay
between you two?
- Yeah, yeah, sure.
Why?
- 'Cause you were staring
over her shoulder
on that tornado call today.
- You can't tell anyone else.
- Stays with me.
Back when I first started,
I had a kid with
a severe asthma attack.
I was so eager to help,
I didn't even look at
how much epi I drew up.
I ended up pushing
three times what he needed.
I cried in my chief's office
for half an hour afterwards.
Confessed everything.
- Was he okay?
- Yeah, yeah.
I was the wreck.
See, that's what scares me.
Everybody makes mistakes.
But if Chili doesn't
take this seriously,
she has bigger problems.
- She's been erratic,
emotional for weeks now.
Maybe it's the Jimmy stuff,
I don't know.
- You say anything
to Boden yet?
- No. Why?
- You two are out there
on the streets alone.
You don't think your
partner has your back,
you can't do your job.
- You got a second,
Lieutenant?
- Of course.
- Funny thing about tornadoes,
they just drop out of the sky,
like some random act
you got no control over.
- A lot of things
do that to us.
- Yeah,
they sure do.
Hey, um...
thank you for today.
Going into that home
and pulling that family out,
that's exactly what I needed.
- Herrmann, you're the heart
and soul of this house.
Men here look up to you as much
as any chief in the CFD.
Don't ever forget that.
No kid, no knife...
not even a tornado
can take that away.
None of us are the same
when you're not you, Herrmann.
[chuckles]
Hey, go home.
- All right.
- Kiss your wife and kids.
- Yeah, that's a great idea.
- Hey, uh,
what did you come in here for?
- Exactly what I got.
Good night, brother.
- Hey.
- Oh, hey.
Just one second.
- Um, do you want
to go get a sandwich?
The tornado warning's
been lifted,
and Jimmy's making meatloaf.
- No, I'm good.
- Chili, I'm trying
to talk to you.
- About what?
- That woman
almost died today.
- Yeah, but she didn't.
It was over in, like,
30 seconds.
- You put her life in danger,
and then you lied about it.
- It was a mistake,
and we handled it.
- I handled it.
You froze.
- Okay, if you want
the credit, it's all yours.
- [scoffs]
with a couple of guys
from River North.
You want to come?
One of them's
kind of your type.
- I'm good.
- [chuckles] Okay.
Your loss. Two-for-one
margaritas, just saying.
- Sure you got the right place?
- We don't believe this
was the primary residence.
More likely used for storage.
- For what?
- If what this guy's
planning goes off,
we're talking a lot more
casualties than a tornado.
[knocking on door]
- Fire Department.
Anyone home?
- These hinges look
bent to you?
That window, it's sagging.
- Makes this a public
safety concern.
[foreboding music]
♪
♪
Hey.
This paneling look off to you?
[ominous music]
♪
This is fertilizer.
It's the beginnings
of a binary explosive device.
- You study bomb tech?
- I know the basics.
- Hey, it's Alex.
We're here at the residence.
- What's up, Mouch?
- Eh, nothing much.
- What's going on?
- I blew it today.
- What do you mean?
- At the tornado call.
This woman...
She's looking for her husband,
who I knew was dead.
Just pretended I didn't know.
- It's not your job--
- The hell it isn't.
You know that.
I know that.
- Here's what I know.
We see heartbreak every day.
And we live our lives
imperfectly as a result of that.
You're a human being, Randy,
and there is no shame in that.
- I should've told her.
- Next time you will.
- Hey, Leon.
It's your big bro.
Just wanted to hear your voice,
man, see how you're doing.
- Hey, you guys.
How you doing?
Hey.
- Uh, anyway, call me.
Crazy days around here,
as usual.
- All right.
Come on.
Let's go,
get in the car.
Hurry up.
- I love you, brother.
- Lieutenant.
Need some help?
- Yeah, I had a call earlier.
Not supposed to do this, but--
- Right.
What's the name?
- Lucas Hicks.
- The kid got lucky.
Glass was inches from the spine,
missed the lungs.
He's gonna be fine.
- Okay. Good to hear.
- Dad...didn't make it, though.
Subdural hematoma.
Died in the OR.
I'm sorry.
- No, no.
Thanks.
- Sure.
[dramatic music]
♪
[buzzer blares]
- What's going on?
- I don't know.
I don't even know
why I'm here.
- Yeah, well, it's good
to see a familiar face.
You thought the old hood
was hard; this place is just--
- Don't talk to me
about the hood.
- What do you want?
- You and I are
not the same.
We're from the same streets,
but that's it.
I took a chance
on you, Freddie.
You know that?
I brought you into that house.
I vouched for you!
- Yeah, I know, man--
- I told Herrmann
that you were a good kid!
And now I'm the reason that
he was in that hospital!
I'm the reason!
- That's not what happened, man.
I'm the sick one.
I'm the one who messed up.
All you ever tried
to do was help me.
All you ever tried to
do was help me!
You came for an apology, Joe.
I'ma give it to you.
I'm sorry.
[gentle dramatic music]
♪
- What you saw today--
- I get it.
Don't worry.
- Thanks for your help.
You gave us a real advantage.
- Hey, you need anything else,
let me know.
- Thanks for the ride.
- You got this, buddy.
20 bucks says he bails.
- I'll take that action.
- Guy was impaled
by a stop sign?
You didn't tell me that.
That's messed up.
- Oh, yeah.
Stuff hanging from the trees.
- Said on the news hundreds
of people were displaced,
putting them in shelters
all over town.
all: Whoa!
- Yeah?
- Otis, yeah!
- Aah!
[laughter]
- Oh, my God,
you look great!
All grown up, yeah!
men: Whoo!
- You okay?
You seem a little off.
- Uh...
House drama.
I'm worried about Chili.
She's been acting
erratic lately.
I'm not sure how much longer
Boden's gonna put up with it.
- Really? Think he'd cut
her a little slack,
after all she's been through.
- What's that mean?
- Jelly Bean.
Chili's sister.
They found her body
a few weeks ago
in a flop house
in Kansas City.
- I'm--I'm not a rat.
- You did the right thing.
- Did I?
- I'll take it from here.
- I--I wasn't trying
to get Chili in trouble.
I just want to--
I just want to help her.
- Sometimes we have to bear
the consequences of our actions
to get the help we need.
- And what are
the consequences?
- That'll be all, Brett.