Headlong Toward Disaster pictures

Welch.

Brett talking to Celia.

Brett talking to Celia.

Severide trying to get Jerry out.

Brett checking is Jerry has a pulse.

Cap giving Severide the saw.

Otis falling.

Casey and Severide looking at Bridgen making fun of Otis.

Otis getting ready to put the fire out.

Severide and Welch saving Otis.

Dawson after Welch told her about Casey and Beth.

"Headlong Toward Disaster"

The episode started with Casey getting out of the girl from the luau's (Beth) bed. They start talking and she tells him that she is about to get a divorce, and her ex is going to be signing the paper tomorrow. 

At the firehouse Boden announces that his father passed away and he will be taking some time off from the firehouse. He introduces Bridgen and says that he will be covering for him as chief while he is away. After Boden leaves, Welch shows up with his gear and says that he has been assigned to their firehouse while Newhouse is away. Casey and Dawson go into the Chief's office and tell him that they can't work with him. They tell him about the accident that Welch caused. The chief says that Welch is a good firefighter. 

Severide then asks Casey where he has been because he hasn't been home since the luau. Casey tells him that he has been with Beth from the luau. 

Brett is surprised when the girl that she saved last week, Celia arrives at the firehouse. She thanks Brett for saving her and then gives her a bracelet that she made for her. Then a call comes in and Brett has to leave, so Celia asks her for her phone number, Brett gives it to her. 

The call was from a bowling alley and an employee explains that a man named Jerry was working on maintenance and he got his arm stuck in the pin setter. The only things they can see hanging down is his bloody arm. Cruz and Casey head to the back to start taking apart the machine, Severide lays down under the pin setter to talk to Jerry. Mills tells them to hurry because Jerry is going in to shock and he doesn't have a pulse in his arm. Severide uses a saw to cut Jerry free and they pull him out of the pin setter. While they are picking up their stuff, Otis slips on the waxed floor and can't get up, the new fire chief laughs at him and makes fun of him, which doesn't go over well with the other firefighters. 

Brett remembers Celia telling her that she lost her guitar while she was high and her mom is really mad at her. So Brett stops at a music store to buy a guitar for her.

Back at the firehouse Bridgen corners Severide and tells him that he did well at the bowling alley. Bridgen cracks more jokes about Otis and announces that his new name is "Gutter Ball." 

Casey returns and runs into Beth at the front desk, he's confused how she knew where he worked. Beth says she's not there to see him, that she is there to see her husband about the divorce papers. Casey and Severide are surprised when they realize that her husband is Bridgen. After Beth talks to Bridgen, Casey tells Beth that they can't see each other anymore. 

At home Brett rants to Dawson about Celia, she talked to the nurse at the hospital and learned that Celia's mom was more worried about her daughters medical bills than she was whether or not Celia was okay, so Brett bought her a guitar.

Herrmann stops by Boden's house to help him with his screaming baby and confesses that Welch is working at the firehouse. Boden is furious!

Casey heads home and Severide tells him that sleeping with Beth when he was supposed to be dumping her is a bad idea. Casey then gets a phone call from Dawson, the faucet isn't working at her and Brett's house. So Casey heads over to fix it for them. Dawson flirts with him and laughs at him when he gets sprayed with water.

Brett goes to Celia's house to give her the guitar. But Celia's mother Sharon isn't happy that Brett bought it for her. She tells Celia to give it back, that she worked two weeks of overtime to buy Celia her first guitar and she got high and left it on a street corner somewhere, so she doesn't get to have a new one. Sharon then slams the door in Brett's face.

Back at the firehouse Bridgen is making fun of Otis again, he got him a bowling shirt with "Gutter Ball" written on it. Cruz tells him to lay off, then he starts joking that Cruz wears triple XL shirts. 

Beth shows up at the firehouse to give Bridgen the divorce papers, she tries to kiss Casey again, he dumps her for real this time. Welch sees it all happening. 

Brett is devastated that Celia’s mom slammed the door in her face and wouldn’t let her keep the guitar. Cruz tries to comfort her, and Brett explains that she knows what it is like to be raised without a parent, when her dad was away her mom had a nervous break down and her Aunt stepped in and helped raise her. Cruz encourages her to help Celia, but says she needs to find a way to do it that is not so intrusive and doesn’t hurt her mothers pride.

Bridgen calls Severide in to his office and wants to know what Severide thinks of Casey, Severide says that Casey is one of the greatest firefighters here. Bridgen says that he disagrees, he thinks that Casey is insubordinate and keeps a messy company. Bridgen asks Severide to keep an eye on Casey and tries to bribe him and says it will be worth his while. Severide informs him that “scheming behind closed doors” is not how they conduct business at their firehouse.

A call comes in for a structure fire and they all rush to the house, Severide gets ready to go inside with his team but Bridgen stops him and says that he wants Casey to go inside instead with his squad. Casey is baffled but heads inside with Dawson and Otis. Dawson and Otis begin carrying out survivors and Mills and Brett rush them away on stretchers. Otis heads inside with the hose, and the door shuts behind him in the room where the source of the fire is. The door jams with the hose underneath it and Otis can’t get out, and the water is blocked so he can’t put the fire out. Severide and Welch rush inside when they hear Otis calling for “Mayday” on the radio. They work together to break down the door and drag Otis out of the blaze.

Back at the fire house Casey snaps at Bridgen that they all earned their right to be there and he had to treat them with respect. Bridgen is furious, and orders Severide and Casey in to his office. He sits them down and tells them they have no right to talk to him like that, and he is sick of both of their insubordination, he threatens to write them up and orders them to all go outside and wash the windows of the fire house. Severide argues that it is cold outside, but Bridgen doesn’t want to hear it and dismisses them.

Brett invites Celia to the fire house and tells her that she is going to keep the guitar there and Celia is welcome to come by whenever she wants and play. Celia thanks Brett and tells her how cool she is, and then sits down to play a song.

Outside Severide and Casey wash the windows and laugh at Bridgen, Casey watches through the windows and sees Welch talking to Dawson.

Inside, Welch warns Dawson that Casey was making out with Bridgen’s wife, Beth. Dawson is furious.

Call It Paradise pictures

Dawson and "Grace" 

Mills and Brett talking to one of the people in danger.

Brett looking for the missing woman.

Herrmann.

Boden and his father.

Severide.
I love that smile!

Cruz "tanning".

Severide watching the video of Shay.

The video of Shay.

"Call It Paradise"

It's a cold, icy day in Chicago and the city issues a weather emergency, which makes it all the more upsetting when Dawson steps outside the firehouse to find a crate, with an abandoned baby inside. She takes point in caring for the newborn, all the while worried for its future. But before the baby boards the ambulance, its proclaimed mother Toni arrives. She posits that the estranged father dropped the baby (Grace) off, yet Boden and Dawson remain skeptical and request that she return with evidence to prove she's the mother.

The intense cold interferes with radio frequencies and renders communication difficult at best, a problem exacerbated when Mills and Brett end up stranded on a call. As they deal with a pair of paranoid, drug addled teens in peril, Cruz identifies where they are and organizes a search team. The rescue squad arrives just in time to help save a teen from serious harm and returns the paramedics to the firehouse.

Back at 51, Boden manages to get his newborn son's pediatrician to come by the firehouse for an official examination of Grace. She quickly determines Grace is a preemie, a real survivor who will require extra care. Later, when Toni returns with paperwork, she had a picture straight from the internet... also she describes Grace as a perfect, healthy baby. This sets off a signal for Dawson, but before she can get Boden, Toni pulls out a gun and demands Dawson turn over Grace. When the rest of the fire fighters arrive from a call, Toni panics and rushes out. It looked like Casey was about to go after her, the lady did hold his ex girlfriend hostage after all. It seemed like Casey and Dawson were making some progress when he saw how attached Dawson was to Grace.

Later, Dawson finally accompanies Grace to Chicago Med and witnesses her reunion with her actual parents from Indiana, no doubt worried sick about their daughter's disappearance. Dawson's connection to Grace, causes some mixed emotions.

Meanwhile, Captain Cunningham from Arson visits 51 looking for Severide, she wants his take on a recent arson case. He resists, still stinging from her inability to help corral Shay's killer, but he studies photographs from the scenes and returns to Cunningham's office with an alternate theory that impresses the captain. In fact, she offers him a position in Arson, confident his skills would save lives. Although Severide declines, her offer leaves him in a good mood. He returns home to his apartment and drops in a home DVD, one of the many he and Shay filmed for posterity. For the first time in a long while, he smiles, finally at peace with her death.

Boden struggles to make peace with his father when Wallace Sr. expresses a waning desire to fight his cancer, despite Boden's offer to provide information on an experimental drug. Wallace Sr. turns him down. So, with Herrmann's help, he resurrects the semi-annual Winter Luau at Molly's. The party's a huge success, and afterwards Boden and his dad enjoy a drink in private, happy to share each other's company. But later, after Boden puts Terrance to bed, he returns to the living room and discovers his father in the chair, unresponsive, deceased with a family photo album in his hands.

Casey finds himself in a unique situation after the luau, too, he joins a girl at her apartment. He explains his recent breakup and she responds with her own. It's a mutual invitation, and they make out in her kitchen.....

A Little Devil Complex pictures

Voight, Gabriela, Antonio, and Meghan listening to the plan.

"Gish" ordering pizza.

A fire Gish started.

Roman and Burgess staring at the squad car.

The squad car on fire.

Dawson trapped in the elevator.

"Gish" looking at Dawson from the top of the elevator.

Antonio running to save his sister.

Antonio aiming at "Gish".

Boden telling Mills that they got the man that killed his father.

"A Little Devil Complex"

Dawson dragged her brother Antonio into a case involving her late friend’s passing. Dawson has been carrying out her own investigation into the fire that killed her friend Shay and even though she would go on to find evidence of arson along with a perp that matches the description of such a crime, the case still ended up getting dismissed by her superiors.

So, with no other avenues to turn to inside her own department, Dawson went to her brother Antonio. If the Fire Department wasn’t going to act then she was hoping the Police would be a different story.

All Antonio needed from Gabriela was her assurance that she had the right guy and after that he quickly brought in Adrian Gish for a “special” form of questioning. One that only Voight could carry out. And while Voight got a read off of Gish, he wasn’t able to crack him before he lawyered up.

Afterwards, Voight opened a formal investigation into the fires and Shay’s murder and that ended up revealing a huge blunder the arson investigators missed. Because, as it turns out, Gish’s wasn’t who he said he was. The real Gish died tragically in a fire some years ago and ever since someone had been impersonating him.

Though, Gish’s lawyer managed to find an excuse for that, he said his client had legally changed his name and that technically he wasn’t committing fraud. But Gish was just too weird for Intelligence to ignore so they started surveillance. And hoped they would catch him tripping up.

Gish knew right off he was being followed and so he arranged a display to teach the Chicago PD a lesson, he bombed a squad car, Roman and Burgess’s squad car. And in any other situation they would have gotten some ball busting from their Desk Sgt. Platt. Yet, recently Platt has been acting super nice to them.

So Burgess eventually sought Platt out on her own and found out what was going on. And according to Platt, she’s being monitored after someone had complained about her people’s skills. If they find fault with her then she could get demoted and just fired all together.

But, besides possibly losing a Desk Sgt., Intelligence is still trying to figure out Gish’s real identity. Before he was Gish, it seems he had stolen the identity of a firefighter that had died some twenty years ago in a fire. So, whoever he is, has been at this for a pretty long time.

And some people just want him stopped. Dawson told Antonio that maybe he should let Voight “handle” Gish when they bring him in. She said she preferred his methods yet Antonio couldn’t help pointing her abrupt about face on Voight.

Before, she didn’t like the way he blatantly crossed the line but now that her friend is dead she couldn’t wait to use someone like Voight.

Though, as much as she’s bent on targeting Gish, the detectives found out he’s just as committed to taking her down. Subsequently, after they learned about his real identity, they found his hideaway where he had tons and tons of pictures featuring only one person, Dawson. It seems he’s been following her for a while and he had even sent her a fake text message from Brett to trap her.

Gish had lured Dawson to an office building and he trapped her elevator leaving her nowhere to go. It was part of Gish’s plan to burn her alive but before he could follow through on it, Antonio showed up.

Antonio took Gish down with one bullet and he saved his sister in the process.

It was a good day for the detectives but because they almost lost so much, not all of them were cheerful to say the least. And then Burgess found out Platt had used her.

The “monitor” was actually a reporter and after Burgess had told him only good things about Platt, he wrote it all up for his article honoring her. So now Platt is considered one of the finest Desk Sgts. around. And Burgess is mad at her.

As for Lindsey, things have been good since she came back and so far she’s enjoying her secretive relationship with Jay. But then her mother called and ruined it like she generally does.

It seems Lindsey’s mother might know a murderer.

Three Bells pictures

Dawson, Brett and Meghan.

Brett when the man pulled a knife on her.

Meghan worrying about Brett.

Mills taking down the man.

The man getting arrested.

Herrmann walking Meghan out to the ceremony. 

The firefighters at the ceremony.

Dawson and Casey.

Severide.

Boden and Dawson.

Dawson and Casey talking.

"Three Bells"

Severide and Dawson are still out to prove the fire that killed their dear friend was due to arson. Last episode we saw, Severide found a fuse at the scene of Shay's death. But when they present their evidence to Captain Cunningham, she is not impressed. She promises to do her best with what they have, but Severide and Dawson will have to sit tight for now.

At Cruz and Otis's apartment, Otis's grandma shows up and Cruz is shocked to hear that she will be staying with them, he obviously isn't happy.

This isn't the best news to welcome Shay's sister Meghan with, who Dawson called to come to town to get more information on the death of her sister. Severide has no answers for her, until Boden calls him into his office to tell him he a phone call from Hadley in prison. Hadley tells Severide that he knows the fire that killed Shay was arson. 

Kevin Hadley is back and still psychotic! He has Severide come pay him a visit in lockup and shows him a piece of anonymous mail he recently received; a newspaper clipping of Shay's death, with a message written on it: "They shouldn't have used the word accident. -An admirer." Hadley also has the envelope with a return address on it, but threatens to hold the integral piece of evidence unless Severide could get the warden to give him a special mattress for his chronic pain.

Brett arrives at the firehouse and Dawson introduces her to Meghan. Meghan's hotel reservations fall through, Shay and Dawson invite her to stay with them. Meghan then asks Dawson why she isn't with Casey anymore.  

A call comes in and the team rushes to the fire at an office building. Inside there is a security booth with bulletproof windows and the door is locked, they see a man passed out inside and the room is full of smoke. They get to work trying to drill holes in the bulletproof glass so they can get the man out. They get enough of the glass out so that Casey can get inside. He finds the victim and drags him to the door, the ceiling caves in and Severide has to set the man down and try to make a hole in the rubble. He finally gets through, and the man is dragged outside and put on a stretcher. Brett tends to Casey, and checks his breathing. Dawson walks past him and says, "Damn baby don't scare me like that." Casey is obviously confused, seeing as how they are broken up.

At work Cruz corner Otis and wants to know when his grandma is leaving because he wants to have Brett come over. Otis breaks the news to him that his grandma is not leaving, she is actually moving in with them. A delivery man drops off an envelope at the fire house for Severide, says it is from the warden. Severide looks up the address, and it is just a vacant lot. He tells Boden he thinks that Hadley is messing with them and shows him the envelope. When Boden takes a look at the envelope, he notices the vacant lot is the same site as the fire that killed Henry Mills and where Boden got burnt himself! Meaning the arsonist has been on the loose for 20 years and has killed multiple firefighters.

While Severide is on the case, Boden takes Mills aside and fills him in on his father's involvement.

Later, when out on an ambulance call with Brett and Megan, who tagged along to see what Shay did for a living, Mills takes that aggression out on an unstable victim, not hurt but shouting for the police, saying that someone should call the police before he hurts someone. But when Brett goes to talk to him, he pulls a knife on her. Mills called the police then tackles him to the ground.

Megan is upset, realizing what her sister went through on a daily basis, and feeling guilty for not knowing her better. Mills is reassuring, pointing out that Shay never wanted people to worry about her; that's just who she was. 

Meanwhile, Severide and Cunningham are making major progress in the hunt for the arsonist. They've narrowed their search down to one suspect: Adrian Gish. The two head to Gish's last place of employment in hopes of asking him to come in for some questioning. But Gish finds them first. He goads Severide with questions about firefighters, dropping enough hints so that it's clear he is the arsonist they're after, but not enough so they could do something about it. When Gish says Shay's name, it takes every ounce of restraint Severide has not to go after him. Gish takes off, and Cunningham promises to take their findings to her superiors. 

At the fire house, they surprise Meghan with a ceremony outside honoring Shay. Boden speaks about Leslie Shay, and says there are no words that could fill the hole that she left in their hearts. Dawson joins Boden and says a few words about Shay. Afterwards the crew heads out for drinks, and Dawson and Casey sit down to discuss their relationship. Dawson explains that she wanted to be a candidate so badly, and apologizes for the way things turned out. Casey says that he is happy she is on his team, so that they can look out for each other. Dawson says she wants them to put things on hold for a while, and down the road they can see where they stand, Casey agrees. Brett heads over to Cruz’s apartment for their date night, and she brought along a bottle of tequila. Brett and Cruz start making out on the couch, and then they realize that Otis’s grandmother is sitting in the chair knitting and watching them.

The arson inspector arrives at the bar and she has bad news. The department has decided not to press charges against Adrian Gish because they don’t have enough evidence. But, the case is still open and Gish is on their radar, Boden and his team are disgusted that Adrian is just going to walk.
The episode ends with Dawson calling her brother asking for his help.