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.
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