Spartacus pictures

Severide saving the lady at the gas leak.

Scottie Pippen stuck in the elevator. 

Chili showing Pippen Chileeze.

The whole team standing up for Cruz.

Cruz hugging Otis.

"Spartacus"

Picking up right where the last episode left off, Nesbitt's team inspects Casey's phone... and determines it's clean. It turns out Casey tossed the wire in the bathroom before the men frisked him. Either way, when he meets up with Chicago P.D., he regrets to inform them that Nesbitt and his associates didn't discuss anything of value. This case is far from over.

Back at 51, Rice apologizes for how he reacted to Severide's question on ducking, but still maintains his innocence in the matter. This does little to quell the firehouse tensions, which intensify after a gas leak call pushes both Truck and Squad to prove their mettle to each other, and in the process they almost botch a rescue. Animosity reaches a tipping point, exemplified by Otis leading the Truck team to make a show of sitting down at the Squad's table, and a war of words between Casey and Severide. Boden laments the station's situation to Donna and she provides excellent advice, lead through action, not words.

Meanwhile, Chili receives the prototype for Chileeze and it sparks a great idea from Herrmann, they need a celebrity spokesperson. This leads them to a hotel lobby, and with a great assist from Otis, they trap Chicago Bulls legend Scottie Pippen in the elevator. Chili gives him the Chileeze pitch, and Pippen agrees to participate. Everything appears to line up for an awesome business venture, until Herrmann and Chili make a devastating discovery later at Molly's, another competitor beat them to the market..

Still concerned about the situation at Stilletos, Casey comes clean to Boden about his undercover assignment with Chicago P.D.'s Intelligence unit and requests to take off his next shift. Voight and Antonio provide support for his cause, explaining how Stilletos acts as a criminal front... but the discussion occurs in plain sight, where a spying Nesbitt sees the whole thing. The next time Casey visits the club, Nesbitt suggests Casey's collusion with the police, and the lieutenant flat-out denies any association. Nesbitt plays dumb despite the lies and asks Casey to meet him later that night.

Another lie rises to the surface when Severide learns that Rice never took any equipment to the shop.

In Boden's office, Severide calls in Rice and removes his friend from Squad, effective immediately. Rice finally confesses to ducking calls in an effort to remain safe for his family, but the excuse fails to impress Boden or Severide. After all, risking their lives is part of the job. Rice's dismissal causes a shake-up at the firehouse.

Boden announces that Cruz will assume Rice's spot on Squad and Otis will drive the truck, Cruz's old responsibility. With Casey out, Boden takes over as interim lieutenant.

Before the team has time to react to the changes, a call sends them out to a fire in progress with a handful of fellow firefighters and civilians trapped inside. 

Severide and Dawson both rush to save the victims, but soon find themselves trapped, and with only one working oxygen mask. 

The fire rages on, and Boden demands that the rest of the team remain outside while he ventures in, determined to rescue Severide and Dawson. As time passes and no one emerges, another chief calls the rescue attempt over. Cruz, certain that they should wait longer, threatens the chief with physical harm unless he stands down the order. Other firefighters pull him away, and the squads spray water onto the building, ending any hope for those inside. But moments later Cruz is vindicated when Boden, Severide and Dawson emerge from the building, out of breath, overheated and unharmed.

Chief Tiberg awaits 51's return from the fire and asks to know the name of the culprit who threatened the other station chief with violence. But before Cruz can confess, Otis steps forward. And then Severide. And Mouch. Soon the whole team, both Squad and Truck, confesses to threatening the chief. Tiberg exits without a name and Boden suggests he stop asking. Regardless, this moment reunites the firehouse, and the whole gang heads to Molly's to celebrate. They're joined by Roman from Chicago P.D., who takes a shine to Brett... and at the end of the night the two wind up at Roman's apartment locking lips and shedding their clothes.

The end of Dawson's night takes a different spin. Feeling sick to her stomach all day, Dawson leaves her shift at Molly's early and winds up in the bathroom with a pregnancy test in her hand. She stares at the results and rushes to Casey's apartment... where she finds the door already open. Dawson enters and calls out his name, but no one responds. As she walks through the apartment, she notices signs of some kind of struggle, and soon finds the likely result, a woman on the floor, unmoving, next to a rug soaked in her blood. It's Katya from Stilletos. And she looks dead.

And Casey is nowhere to be found....

Category 5 pictures

Casey talking to Antonio and Voight.

Chili talking about her product chilleeze.

Severide taking a swing at Otis. 

Dawson giving squad a dirty look.

When the truck exploded.

When everyone realized the truck was rolling towards them.

Severide stoping the truck by pinning an air tank under the tire.

Boden moving Severide out of the way of the truck.

The team putting out the fire.

Dawson telling Casey she still worries about him.

Severide questioning Rice.

"Category 5"

What Otis began last week is now having dire consequences on this episode of “Chicago Fire”.

See, Otis never liked Rice and not once didn’t he ever try to hide that from anyone at the station. But by accusing the other man of being a coward, he’s made things difficult for both Rice and Severide. Severide being the one to vouch for Rice. And Severide being a good friend of Rice’s.

So Severide told Otis to stop. Just stop with all the petty grievances or else he’ll have a problem with him from now on. And the threat at first seemed to affect Otis. Yet, all the same, he still didn’t like Rice and Rice didn’t like him.

Otis went out of his way to be disrespectful to Rice. And he even refused help from the other man while they were all out on call. So when they returned to the station, Severide once again issued a warning. Only this time he did it in front of everyone.

And that caused Casey to question his men.

He took Otis and Cruz aside and he demanded to know what was going on. And the guys told him they believe Rice to be a “ducker”. If it wasn’t one thing with Rice then it was another. So the guys thought he was afraid of going into a burning building and as a firefighter that was the worst thing they could have said about Rice.

Hence Casey then had to be the one to tell them back down. They didn’t really have any proof to back up their claims and by insulting a member of Severide’s team, they’ve created an issue within the house.

And it’s not like Casey doesn’t have enough on his plate to deal with. Nesbitt keeps trying to make amends and Sgt. Voight has been reaching out to him. It seems the detective needs Casey’s help to open a proper investigation into Nesbitt’s work dealings. Yet Casey doesn’t want to involve himself with anything that Voight could possibly do in his “line of work”.

So Dawson got word from her brother and she chose to talk to Casey. Apparently, Nesbitt is accused of human trafficking. Police believe they bring over women from Eastern Europe to either work in his clubs or he prostitutes them. And so didn’t matter that Casey didn’t trust Voight, he knew he had to do something if the cops were right about Nesbitt.

And they wanted him to go back into business with Nesbitt. They said they needed someone on the inside.

Meanwhile things appear to be popping off at the Firehouse 51. Because even though they were warned, Otis and Cruz simply couldn’t stop themselves. They continued to joke around and call Rice names like “deadweight”. And for the most part, Rice tried to stay calm.

Occasionally, he would gripe to his lieutenant but he never said anything to Otis directly until after the other man confronted him.

They were putting away their equipment at the same time and Otis got lippy. He told Rice that he knew what he was. A Ducker. So Rice said that for now he wasn’t going to do anything. He was still the new guy and he was going through his probationary period. However, once that’s over, he told Otis that the two of them could take a walk.

And things only got worse later on. New girl Chili was convinced to hold a fundraiser to raise some money towards her new business venture but the event was ruined when Otis just kept on talking. So he and Severide came close to getting into a fight.

Severide took a swing at a man that used to be a friend and the other guys stepped in to stop things from going any further.

Chief Boden ended up hearing about what’s going on and he called in both Casey and Severide. He told them to keep their men under control. And, personally, he told Otis to stop running his mouth. Otis’s gut feeling didn’t suddenly turn him into Rice’s lieutenant. So he was advised to let Severide handle his own men.

51 is not in a good place as they’re called to an accident during their next shift. Truck 81 gathers to help a victim who was thrown from a truck that’s now in flames. The truck explodes and begins to roll down the street, on a collision course with our firefighters. Things look pretty grim until Severide runs head on at the truck and stops it by pinning an air tank under the tire. Before he gets steamrolled, Boden pulls him to safety.

Kelly Severide risked his life to save Truck 81.

As it dawns on Otis and Co. that Severide truly does have their backs, Severide, too, rethinks his position. He begins to have doubts about Rice’s mask malfunction story and he was finally asking the right questions. By this point he had to. And after he was asked about his equipment, Rice stayed with his story. He told Severide that everything was fine now. He said he got his equipment looked at and it was merely a faulty gage.

Then, when Severide specifically asked if anything was wrong like if Rice was having an issue, Rice assured him that not only was he not a ducker but Severide didn’t have to worry about being both his lieutenant and his friend anymore. From now on he can simply be his lieutenant.

And as for Casey, going in undercover sounded easier than it was.

Casey takes the Chicago P.D. cell phone-turned-wire into an extremely shady back room meeting at Stiletto’s, and, let’s be honest, he does not play it cool at all. Casey, you are good at so many things, being an informant in order to take down a human trafficking ring is not one of them. The thickly-accented man-in-charge orders Casey to a thorough pat down, and just when Casey thinks he’s passed the test, the man sternly requests to see Casey’s phone...

Crossover pictures.

Boden.

Rice switching out his "broken" mask.

Casey.

Dawson and Otis helping Billy Carson out of the fire. 

Brett and "Jelly Bean" with Victoria.

Jelly Bean and Brett.

Casey asking Rice about Nesbitt.

Dawson and Brett.

Severide and Dawson investigating. 

Antonio and Severide.

Voight and Benson. 

Yates getting questioned.

Lindsey. 

Yates.

Officers questioning a girl about Yates. 

The team at the second fire.

Yates fiancé getting questioned.

Chicago PD and SVU (part two and three of the crossover)

Part One of the “Chicago PD/Law & Order: SVU” crossover, a rape/attempted murder case has somehow managed to draw New York’s attention.

According to Sgt. Olivia Benson, this latest case involving a Chicago nurse sounded eerily familiar to a string of cases that she herself had dealt with back in the day. See, there were three victims and all had the same MO. A man in medical scrubs would get a hold of these women and they were all assaulted and strangely had their nails painted.

But, sadly, that’s where the case came to the close. There were not one that saw this man’s face, there wasn’t DNA, and since 2004 their prep has been dormant. And yet now it looks like something has changed.

The perp is back and Victoria’s nails weren’t painted. And while Victoria was lucky enough to survive the initial assault, she ultimately succumbed to her injuries and died in the hospital.

According to Halstead’s brother, prior to the incident, Victoria was actually really nice. That was one of the things you just immediately knew about her. So she never had a problem with anyone at the hospital and seeing as she was a maternity nurse most people didn’t have a reason to hold a grudge against her. Yet she was still attacked and the perp had tried to kill her by lighting her apartment on fire.

So in a few hours she had left, both Voight and Benson had to ride roughshod over common decency and grill their victim in her final moments.

And she didn’t have much to say. Before she died, Victoria told the police that she didn’t see the man’s face. She saw that he was wearing medical scrubs and she knew he was white. Other than that though she mostly guessed at his height. Thus they know he could be or close to six feet.

Unfortunately, what little description Victoria gave wasn’t much but it could be used to hold against a doctor. Practically any doctor but in particular Jay Halstead’s brother Will. After all Will admitted to knowing Victoria and some digging showed that he once questioned by Detective Stabler in New York in connection to another victim. So Benson asked Voight for the go-ahead and he gave her permission to question Will.

The actual conversation began just fine but once Halstead realized what the detectives were doing with his brother, he quickly pulled Will out of there.

Another suspect was eventually mentioned thanks to more evidence coming up but Jay still felt a certain way about how his brother had been brought in. So it wasn’t until Will was cleared that Halstead allowed him to come back and give testimony. Because, apparently, Will knows the new suspect.

Dr. Greg Yates was once a profressor at Columbia University. In fact he was once Will’s teacher. And Will can recall seeing him at a party, that one of the original victims had attended.

So Will can make a connection and he also said that Yates was simply one of those guys that always gave off a certain vibe.

He had students call him by his first name and later, when he got sloppy, he would rate the women around him. Including some of his students and one woman that died in 2004 three days after he saw her at a party. Thus the detectives felt they had the right guy. However they had to take him in by the book and so at first they let him go.

They needed more evidence to arrest him at the time and so Voight and his task were essentially stuck sitting on their hands. But then Yates reached out to Lindsey. He said he wanted to talk and later that’s exactly what they did.

They just talked.
And when the conversation was over (and Lindsey was safe), Yates drove away and the task force received a call about a young woman that had been set on fire in her own home. She was a brunette, young, and pretty. And now she’s dead.

So Lindsey was used as an alibi and while the team was searching for Yates, Yates snatched Nadia.

On Part Two of tonight’s crossover, it wasn’t long before Nadia’s absence was noticed and though the police were quickly put on alert, it was far too late for them to rescue a friend. Yates had dragged Nadia out of state kicking and screaming by time her people started looking for. And to make it difficult for them, Yates kept switching his license plates along the way. So, initially, the only way they could find him was to track each License Plate he had stolen.

And that showed that Yates was heading back to familiar territory, he was driving back to New York.

Thus, at this point in the investigation, New York detectives were back in charge and that meant Voight couldn’t just fly off the handle at the drop of a hat. And that goes for when he especially wanted to. Like when they found Lindsey’s car not long after Fin and Amaro returned with some of Chicago’s finest.

Luckily, Nadia’s body wasn’t found in the car. Nor was there any large amounts of blood at the scene but she did leave her scarf behind intentionally. It was way for Nadia to assure her friends that she was alive in the car. However there was no way they could know if she was still alive after leaving the car.

Yates is smart. He attacked a woman that had come close to identifying him back in Chicago and when the cops finally caught up to him in New York, he pretended to be as innocent as a newborn baby. As in he claimed Nadia came with him because she wanted to see the city and then he implied she ditched him to go to some random party.

And his fiancée, that no one knew about, backed him up.

The poor woman had no idea who she was involved with. And when the detectives tried to shake her out of her illusion, she still refused to believe them. How could her fiancée have kidnapped a woman when he said he spent the past few days at the beach?

Apparently, Yates had sand on him when he came home so he told his fiancée “everything”.

And that tip with the sand led the detectives to finding Nadia’s body. Unfortunately she had been killed hours earlier but up until the point they found her, Detective Lindsey had tried to be hopeful.

Nadia’s body had been found and two more women had been assaulted but at the end of the day there was no evidence against Yates. What they had was circumstantial at best. So when the ADA decided to go ahead with an arrest warrant, he knew he didn’t have the best of chances. Though he didn’t let that stop him.

Barba knew this was their only chance to put away Yates but what he wasn’t prepared for is Yates representing himself in court.

Yates is actually pretty brilliant. He’s disturbed all right but still brilliant. Hence he was able to defend himself very well. So well in fact that Barbra was losing the case.

Yates had made Lindsey appear to be a misguided friend and he also accused Voight of sexually assaulting Nadia months before her death. Meaning he knew how to work the jury. And they were eating up every lie he told.

But then Yates destroyed himself because once he began cross-examining the medical examiner, he got too worked up as she started to describe the torture Nadia had gone through prior to her death. It was like he was experiencing it all over again and everyone in the courtroom got to see how much torture excites him.

So Yates was convicted for the rape and murder of Nadia. Though if he thinks it’s going to be smooth sailing from here on out then that visit he received in his cell now means he knows differently.

See, Voight had promised him something. He said everything that happened to Nadia was going to happen to him.

"We Called Her Jellybean" (part one of the crossover)

Station 51 has seen its own share of ups and downs but something is different on this episode. And that has something to do with the new paramedic assigned to work alongside Brett.

Normally the squad would welcome new faces. However no one appears to be in the mood to do that with the girl that’s essentially replacing Mills. Mills, after all, was once part of the squad and in addition to that he was practically the very heart of the station. So there’s glum faces all around and eventually a girl realizes she’s not wanted.

Otis remains to be skeptic about Rice and now he’s even mentioning things he’s seen to Cruz. For instance, during their emergency call that morning, Otis mentioned to his best friend that he didn’t believe Rice was telling the truth when he said there was something wrong with his equipment. So Cruz, being the friend that he is, he went to go check out Otis’s theory.

And as for Brett, she was working with someone that was both professional and skilled. Yet she was giving the other woman a cold shoulder. As if it was her fault that Mills decided to do something else with his life.

Thus, the two women did actually get a chance to bond until their job forced them into leaning on each other.

Meanwhile, Casey is having some second thoughts about going into business with Nesbitt. Apparently, he had a few rumors that made it seem like Nesbitt was once dirty so before he could move forward with their partnership – he needed to talk to Rice. Rice, you see, worked with Nesbitt back in the day. So he has more insight on the firefighter turned businessmen than anyone else Casey might ask.

And what he found out was that Nesbitt was accused of being dirty but that there was no actual evidence against him. In other words it was all hearsay.

So Casey was going to continue being in business with Nesbitt but when he saw something fishy at the strip club – his inner alarm system went off. And even if there’s no evidence – Casey knew he couldn’t trust the other man nor did he want to.

And as for the problem Rice has (that he’s also unaware of), Cruz began to believe Otis when he said Rice ducked out of the emergency call. So he went on to tell Herrmann and Mouch. The older guys, though, knew what that accusation could do to a man’s career and they told Cruz to find proof before he says anything else.

If Rice really did abandon his men inside of a burning building then going half-cocked on this is not going to be doing anyone a favor.

Yet, regardless of what they had been told, Otis and Cruz must have been telling other people as well. Because, later, Severide heard the rumors and accused Otis of spreading them out of spite. And, by making threats, he could have turned an already big problem into something much worse.

The firehouse is called to a complex fire where they find a woman badly burned and left for dead inside. The case turns dark when Antonio tells his sister that the victim was raped before being left in the fire. The downstairs neighbor, Billy Carson, is immediately looked at as a suspect, but Dawson believes he had nothing to do with the fire or the girl’s rape. Knowing in her gut that this man is innocent but that something isn’t right, Dawson asks Severide to go with her to take a look at the wreckage.

Sure enough, the fire started in the room where the woman was being held, and it had help from an accelerant, a clear sign of arson. They run into a neighbor on their way out who saw a doctor in scrubs lurking around the complex before the fire, and from here, our crossover officially begins. Benson hears about the case through a specialized database, and when Voight tells her some of the particulars, she realizes there are too many similarities to a case she worked a decade earlier. Benson takes a flight out to Chicago and meets with Voight and Chief Boden to look at the details for herself. Benson examines the files and flashes back to ten years earlier; she’s certain that this is the man who got away once before.

With the clue about the doctor, Billy is cleared of any suspicion regarding the fire. Billy, however, doesn’t know that he is no longer considered a suspect. Dawson gets a bad feeling that this good man is going to do something drastic since he thinks no one will believe him. Her intuition is right. The house finds Billy about to jump from a bridge in a state of despair. Boden trusts Dawson to climb out to the ledge to talk Billy away from it, though I don’t think he expected her to unhook her harness and risk her own life in the process. Dawson is able to save Billy, and at least one part of this horrific story ends well.

And both Chicago PD and Sgt. Benson from New York SVU will be getting involved.

You Know Where to Find Me pictures

Boden.

Casey.

Herrmann telling Otis and Cruz to leave his bar.

Severide's note from April.

Mills.

Severide.

Casey saying goodbye to Mills.

Mills hugging Brett.

Group hug!

Mills and Dawson.

Mills leaving.

"You Know Where to Find Me"

The episode began with Cruz, Otis, Chaplain and Herrmann, who watched the final game before the PeeWee Hockey Championship game, in which Herrmann’s son tripped over his feet, and didn’t score, as Herrmann would like to think. However, their team managed to win, which meant that they were going to play for the championship that weekend.

As soon as everyone came to work, Boden informed Mills that he was back on squad for now as Rice was going to be acting lieutenant for that shift as Lieutenant Severide was still recovering from his injuries. Boden then told them that he had gotten a certain paramedic to ride with Brett, while Peter was with squad, but after hearing who it was, Dawson ended up riding with Brett for several shifts as they did not like the substitute paramedic.

They then went on their first call, in which Mills and Rice managed to bring down a man who had gotten impaled on a lamp post.

At the hospital, Severide insisted that he was ready to go back on shift in seventy two hours, and went over to April's place after discovering that she wasn’t on the schedule. He then learned that she was taking a short break to see the world, especially after the attack that happened on the hospital’s emergency room.

Meanwhile, Mills' mother and sister swung by, and told him all about the restaurant that their grandfather had left hem in North Carolina. He then got surprised as they announced that they wanted to give it a shot and were moving to North Carolina to do so. However, while they were on break, Mills agreed to help Rice out with his upcoming family dinner by volunteering to make him some TexMex Lasagna.

While this happened, after a call due to a rumble in a school cafeteria in which Dawson knocked down a kid who later got arrested by Officer Burgess as he was swinging a chair at Brett, the two learned that their impalement victim was an importer from Miami, who disappeared after taking a phone call during a client meeting.

The next day, during Rice’s party, Rice made Mills realize that family was indeed everything and it made him realize that he really did enjoy cooking.

Later that night, Cruz and Otis got thrown out of Molly’s after they asked Herrmann to bench his son in the upcoming game.

Meanwhile April visited Severide before she left, and the two slept together.

While this happened, Mills informed Boden that he was going to leave Firehouse 51 in order to be with his family. After announcing this to the entire house, Severide, Casey and Boden asked him to make his final decision after the end of his last shift.

After saving a man who had gotten involved in a car crash due to a sudden heart attack, Cruz wondered why Mills would give everything up for North Carolina. However, after discovering that their impalement victim had been trying to commit suicide due to the fact the woman that he loved and had been separated from for four years had died, he realized that he had made the right decision in leaving.

That Saturday morning, Herrmann decided to bench his son, and became surprised that his son had wanted to be benched all along.

Meanwhile, Casey swung by Stilettos and became uncomfortable when Jack Nesbitt informed him that he wanted him to talk to some shady looking men who wanted him to build the other new chains of the club.

He then went over to Molly’s where they celebrated the fact that Herrmann’s team had won the championship, and as it was Mills' farewell party, in which presents were given, and the entire firehouse group hugged him.

After Mills left, Dawson followed him as he had not gotten her present yet, and to her surprise, he kissed her! He then told her that she knew where to find him if ever she needed a change in scenery.

The next day, he cleaned out his locker, said goodbye to Pouch, and after one long look at the trucks, left for his new life in North Carolina.

I Am the Apocalypse pictures

Hannah and Will.

Amin with the grenade.

Will checking if April is okay.

Hannah trying to get into the hospital.

Casey talking to Otis.

Otis putting out a fire.

Dawson helping the man with a bone in his chest.

Severide unconscious.

Hannah checking Severide.

The crew watching as Hannah works on Severide.

Mills helping Hannah with Severide.

Boden telling this man to calm down.

Casey telling this man to calm down. (Its the same man Boden told to calm down.)

After April gave this man a shot to put him to sleep.

Herrmann thinking about if he will live or die.

The rest of the team going into the hospital.

Diane taking a sample of Herrmann's blood.

April kissing Severide's head after he recovers.

The whole team coming out of the hospital after being cleared!

Everyone celebrating at Molly's.

Mills and Brett talking.