Chicago Fire s13e05 Episode Script
Down the Rabbit Hole
1
Ever since
he filled in for Mouch,
I knew Truck is where
Ritter wanted to be.
If you'll have me.
Herrmann!
What are you going to do about Engine?
I got an idea for that, too.
Friends?
I know you're still
carrying a torch for Sam,
but texting him sweet nothings
at midnight?
I am not cool with that.
I know it's hard for a
tough guy like you to admit it,
but I think you need me.
And I need you.
[LAUGHS]
I gotta shower
and get out of here quick.
I'll whip you up an espresso.
Mm.
Ugh, I feel like my head's
gonna explode.
How am I gonna get through this shift?
You just need something
to look forward to.
Sleep.
We can sleep when we're dead.
[CHUCKLES]
I got something better.
Is that right?
Mm-hmm.
How about a little Texas in Chicago?
I got us tickets to see
Tripp at the Vic.
They got back together?
Mm-hmm.
[CHUCKLES]
We can have some beers,
sing our hearts out, forget
about the rest of the world.
Mm-hmm.
What do you think?
I like it.
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[MOANING]
Took 45 minutes to get all dressed up,
and we didn't even make it out the door.
We were still going to be early anyway.
Yeah, Pascal likes it when
his lieutenants are early.
I just talked myself out of leaving.
Mm.
Good morning.
Oh, looks like I took the last of it.
Hey, uh, what are you doing after shift?
Uh, it's Violet's birthday,
and we're all going to
Molly's to celebrate.
Just didn't know if you'd heard.
- Uh
- No, no pressure.
But, uh, it'll be fun.
- Well, thanks for the invite.
- I'll check with my wife.
[SIGHS]
That's twice now I've seen
you alone with Pascal.
- Yeah? So?
- So I'm jealous.
It feels like everyone around here
has gotten face time with
the new boss, except me.
Every time I try, it gets interrupted.
He knows what
a good firefighter you are.
It's not about that.
I just like to, you know, have
a little rapport with the guy.
A rapport?
I'm making it happen today.
Yeah, and I got
the perfect icebreaker, too.
- Are you ready?
- Yep.
We're both grasshoppers.
- Excuse me?
- Well, that was our mascot.
It turns out Pascal and I went
to the same elementary school.
[LAUGHS] It's perfect, right?
OK, Ritter, um, I say this with love
- it's terrible.
- It
Carmen, your new recruit's here.
- Hey!
- Hey.
- Hey, whoo.
- Kylie.
- There she is.
- Happy to be here, as always.
- All right.
- Well, I would get up,
but Cindy made me play
pickleball this weekend
and I pulled every muscle in my body.
- How does this work, actually?
- Who's going where?
- Ritter's going to Truck.
- Kylie's subbing on the Engine.
- Not that complicated.
- Nope.
[ALARM BLARES]
All units,
multi-vehicle accident.
- East Broad Street and Trade.
- Go without me.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SIRENS WAILING]
♪
Help, please.
The other driver, he needs help.
- Is he still in the cab?
- Not the truck.
Hurry.
I don't know what happened.
I I guess I didn't see
the brake lights.
- Squad, extricate the driver.
- Copy that.
Squad, cutters, jaws now.
- Engine, run a hose line.
- Get one ready.
Truck, I want you standing by
with extinguishers
- and a stretcher.
- Copy that.
You heard the man. Let's move.
- On it.
- Hey, ma'am.
Ma'am, we need you
back behind the trucks.
I I promised I'd stay with him.
You gotta let us work, all right?
This is Violet. She'll take care of you.
OK, let's take a look at that
cut above your eye, ma'am.
Right here.
- All right, we're gonna get you out.
- Stay still.
[GROANS]
All right, let's clean this up.
♪
Chief, it's raining gas in there.
Fuel tank must have ruptured
and landed on top of him.
- Can you pull him free?
- Uh, it's pretty tight.
[FLAMES WHOOSH]
Chief, we got a flare-up.
- Run another hose line.
- Ready? Let's go.
Put out that engine fire.
Let's stay ready.
- Copy that.
- I'll get the engine at half.
Copy.
OK, one spark hits this gas,
and this guy gets incinerated.
Copy that, Chief.
[INDISTINCT].
Hey, Cruz, I can slip
through the passenger side.
- Are you sure?
- Just cover me.
Yeah, copy that.
[TOOLS WHIRRING]
Come on!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[GRUNTS]
[SAW WHIRRING]
[METAL CREAKING]
- Can you move your legs?
- I think so.
Flare-up!
We're clear, Lieutenant.
- All right, we gotta move!
- Coming out!
Backward. Let's go.
♪
Easy.
All right, look, I got you.
- Ready? One, two, three.
- Yep.
[GRUNTS]
[CREAKING]
[FLAMES WHOOSH]
♪
All right, Engine, hit it!
Knock that down and
overhaul the scene, people!
♪
[TIRES SCREECHING]
Damn it!
- Hey, buddy.
- You need to get back.
That's my trailer.
I said, get back!
Look, I'm on the clock here.
Sir!
We need you to clear the area.
I got a new cab coming
to finish that haul.
Not until we're done here.
Till then, you can stand by your truck.
Come on, let's go.
I'll send Richie to pick up the trailer.
Come on, let's go!
That logo, that look familiar to you?
It does.
- Violet
- Hmm?
do you like fish?
To eat?
No, as a pet.
For your birthday gift.
All I want is a promise
that you won't sing
"Happy Birthday" at the bar.
And that goes for everyone. OK?
Thank you.
I, uh, wanted to mention
I'm not going to be able to make it.
Sorry. Got some stuff I gotta do.
- It's all good.
- I have a birthday every year.
You can catch the next one.
Sorry. Thank you very much.
[BLOWS]
Now he's using his pickleball pain
as an excuse to sit at our table?
- Son of a bitch.
- [RADIO STATIC]
You trying to hear the ocean?
What? There is water
in the damn housing again.
Aren't the radios was
supposed to be waterproof?
Oh, don't get him started.
Hey, it's not funny, all right?
These things are so damn old,
they're practically prehistoric.
So take it to Facilities.
Oh, yeah.
And why don't I just go wish
on a shooting star
- and get the same results?
- Yeah, yeah.
They're pretty stingy when it
comes to replacing equipment.
Yeah, and it's a bunch of crap.
All right? You know,
why do we keep on ending up with
all of Squad's hand-me-downs?
- Why are you yelling at me?
- I don't make the rules.
You're right.
I'm going down to Facilities,
and I am gonna demand some new radios.
- Yes, you do that.
- You get those new radios.
- I will.
- Yeah.
- He ain't getting those radios.
- No.
Hey.
There's a reason we recognize that logo.
Hmm.
So that is an MVA
we responded to six months ago.
Semi flipped, landed on a minivan.
Look at the truck.
J.R. Maddox Trucking.
Mm-hmm.
And then there's this.
Two months ago, truck ran
a red, T-boned a sedan.
Oh, I remember this.
OFI investigated.
Engine fire went through
the vents, lit up the cab.
Trucker died.
That's a crazy amount of
accidents for one company.
These trucks, they're on our streets,
in our neighborhoods, right now.
Each one of them
is a rolling death trap.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
For a trucking company
the size of Maddox,
one accident per year would be a lot.
And they've had three
in the past six months.
- Any idea why?
- It could be bad training,
labor violations, faulty trucks.
But someone's gotta know to look.
And I'm not sure anyone realizes
that these accidents are connected.
Take it to the
Department of Transportation.
They can move the needle on this.
- Copy.
- [PHONE DINGS]
Thank you.
[KNOCKING]
Got a sec?
Well, the CFD Facilities
Committee just got here.
Oh.
Well, I'll come back later then.
- No, this'll be pretty quick.
- Just hang tight.
Great.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
Oh.
♪
Oh.
[LAUGHS]
What?
- What are you doing?
- [GASPS]
- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God.
[GASPS]
- Oh, my God.
- You decapitated it.
Oh, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no. This is not good.
- OK, here, give
- give it to me.
Now
♪
There. Problem solved.
No, we can't leave it like that.
- "We"?
- Yes, we.
I wouldn't have dropped it
if you hadn't yelled at me.
Why were you holding it
in the first place?
I was admiring it.
Admire with your eyes
like a normal person.
Ritter, this is taking longer
than I thought.
Can we, um can we meet later?
No problem.
[SIGHS]
OK.
Tomorrow, we will
come in early for shift
and glue it back together.
Then we will never speak of this again.
Deal.
So I hear that Herrmann is
making you a special cocktail
- for your birthday.
- Oh.
And I'm going to make it even
more special by wearing a tux.
Fancy.
Yeah, Trudy made me rent one
for her cousin's wedding,
and I have two more days with it.
- Best birthday ever.
- I can feel it.
[CHUCKLES]
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]
[ENGINE TURNS OFF]
Hi.
Look what I found in the glove box.
It's got all the live bootlegs on it.
We can listen on the way.
What's going on?
Uh, I got assigned O.T.
I just found out,
or I would have called.
- Are you serious?
- Mm-hmm.
- You can't get out of it?
- I can't.
But you should still go.
Seriously. Take someone from work.
That won't bother you?
One of us should be having fun.
[LAUGHS]
OK, I'll send you lots of videos.
Good.
And, uh, I'm sorry.
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[ENGINE REVVING]
You the CFD guys?
Yes. Hi.
Uh, Lieutenant Kidd.
This is Lieutenant Severide.
You should have told me on the
phone this was about Maddox Trucking.
I would have saved you the trip.
You did you take a look
at what we emailed?
I did.
Look, there's nothing we can do here.
It's three accidents
in the last six months.
You don't think
that's worth investigating?
We did investigate after their last MVA.
We checked qualifications,
driver logs, inspections.
Everything came back clean.
And that's not a red flag to you?
Can't shut someone down
for following all the rules.
Sorry.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
She was helpful.
We're talking to the wrong people.
We need somebody on
the inside of the company.
The trouble is finding
someone willing to talk.
Maybe we already have.
All right, here's to our birthday girl.
I present the "Violet."
- Mmm.
- What's in it?
Ah, vodka and tonic.
I think I'm just too sore
to be creative.
Sorry.
Drink up. Cheers!
[TOGETHER] Cheers!
Happy birthday.
- Thank you.
- Thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
- So, October birthday
- what is that?
Libra?
- Scorpio.
- Hmm.
And now you make sense to me.
- [DOOR SLAMS]
- Yeah.
- Hey.
- Hey!
- [LAUGHS]
- Happy birthday.
Thank you so much.
And how did it go with the DOT?
[SCOFFS]
About as well as you would expect.
Bureaucrats!
They're all useless.
He's trying to convince
Facilities to fork up new radios.
Oh, I see.
- Need another one?
- Hey.
Oh, no.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Yeah.
Oh, hi.
I thought you said you couldn't make it.
Some stuff got shifted around,
- so I thought I'd pop by.
- Oh.
No Tori?
- No.
- She has to work.
Nice tiara.
Thank you. Thank you.
[CHUCKLES]
So, hey.
Mm, what's this?
It's our manifesto.
It's every reason
we deserve a radio upgrade.
All right, what do you think?
OK, poor battery,
bad signal, unreliable.
Don't always work.
The last two are the same.
Aside from that,
I think it's pretty good.
- Oh, no, no, no.
- That's for you to keep, all right?
Come on. I want you to memorize it.
We are going to go to
Facilities next shift,
and we are not going to
take no for an answer.
- Copy that.
- It's all good.
[MUMBLES]
Hey, uh, I think I know
what just happened there.
Herrmann recruited you for
one of his righteous crusades.
Seems like it.
OK, as someone who's worked
with Herrmann a long time,
let me give you a little advice.
Just draw a line in the sand.
Otherwise, one day,
you might end up with him
smelling strange men to find a cologne
that rubbed off on him during a call.
That's so specific, it has to be real.
Like I said, draw a line.
- Are you waiting for someone?
- You keep looking at the door.
No, I'm not.
OK, I invited Pascal,
so, uh, I'm just
keeping an eye out for him.
OK.
- Hmm.
- [DOOR CLICKS OPENS]
Oh, hey, I thought
Tori couldn't make it.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
Tori, wait.
Tori, come on!
Hold up. Tori, stop.
Is that what counts as overtime now?
You know, I showed up to the
firehouse with food for you,
and some stranger had to
tell me that my boyfriend lied.
Look, it was a work thing
I couldn't miss.
What work thing happens at Molly's, Sam?
Every work thing, actually.
It's a birthday party for Violet.
[SCOFFS] I guess she got
exactly what she wanted.
You know she's messing
with your head, right?
You know that. She's manipulating you.
That is not true.
It's not?
Then how'd you end up here?
♪
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Can I help you?
I'm Stella, and I am looking for Lisa.
Is she home?
Uh, Mom, someone's here for you.
Are you one of the firefighters
that helped her?
- I am.
- Yeah.
It's, uh just here to check on her.
Hi.
Hi.
Michael, go pack your bag.
And don't forget your toothbrush.
Dad's not gonna have extra.
Nice to meet you.
You, too.
You know how the driver's doing?
Hospital wouldn't tell me.
Yeah, he's going to be OK.
But you were lucky,
because other drivers at Maddox weren't.
Why does this keep happening?
I can't help you.
Because you don't know
or because you won't say?
Because I have bills to pay
and a son to raise.
And the only help I get from his father
is a place for Michael to sleep
when I'm on a haul,
which I'm now late for.
Hey, Lisa.
One of the drivers died.
I don't want that to happen
to you or anybody else.
- I'm sorry.
- I can't save the world.
I can barely take care of my son.
Lisa, hey.
Listen, here is my number.
If you change your mind,
I will do everything I can to help you.
Come on, Michael.
Let's go.
She's a ghost.
Here.
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
And I wasn't sure what
the kid meant by "ghost."
I thought it was just about
how his mom is barely around.
Then I did some digging.
And?
There is something called ghost drivers.
It's a pretty common practice
with sketchy trucking companies.
This is how Maddox skirts
driving regulations?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, if you look at the driving logs,
it looks like two different
drivers doing two shifts.
But in reality,
one driver does both shifts.
The other driver doesn't exist.
It's a ghost.
And Lisa won't come forward?
She's scared of losing her job.
Maybe we could help her find another.
If Lisa is involved in this,
the first thing the DOT is going to do
is revoke her commercial license.
That's the only way
that she can make a living.
Yeah.
So, then, where does that leave us?
I don't know.
[PHONE RINGING]
It's the 21st district.
Hello?
- [GASPS]
- Sh
We can't fix the statue.
What? Why not?
- It's too late.
- Pascal moved it.
He knows it's broken.
Maybe he's trying to taunt the culprit.
Taunt the culprit?
Pascal is smart.
Maybe he's trying to send a message
that he knows what the person did.
And the longer that they wait
to come forward,
the worse the punishment will be.
I don't know.
But maybe I should confess,
just in case.
[SIGHS]
OK, wait.
[SIGHS]
Let me take the fall for you.
No.
I can't let you do that.
Yeah, you can.
None of this would have happened
if I hadn't scared you.
And like you said,
at least I've had the chance
to talk to him a little.
- I don't know.
- Well, I do.
Just promise me
that when you finally get
your face time with Pascal,
you won't waste it.
[SIGHS]
They seem to be working fine.
We just told you, they're not broken.
They're ancient.
Do we have to read you the note again?
I can't just invent money to use.
Your firehouse has to
have the budget for it.
I'm sorry.
You know, I used to help with the budget
when I worked for Boden.
Maybe there's money there?
You know what?
That's a really nice thought.
But if there were thousands
of bucks just laying around,
somebody would have taken them by now.
We're done.
[SIGHS]
- Hey.
- Hey.
Everything OK?
Tori didn't seem too happy last night.
It's complicated.
[SIGHS]
Yeah, well, uh, I might know why.
I think Tori might still be mad
about a text that I sent.
You sent Tori a text?
No, I sent you a text, and Tori saw it.
I don't remember
getting a text from you.
[ALARM BLARES]
Ambo 61, person down.
124 East Highgrove Street.
Hey, look, all I'm trying to say is,
I don't blame Tori for being pissed.
[SIRENS WAILING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
OK. Thank you.
There we go.
- Hey.
- Guys, this way.
Do you know what happened?
Maybe 10 minutes ago,
I'm walking back from lunch,
and I see a guy on a bike
ram right into this food cart.
Vendor starts yelling at him about it.
And all of a sudden,
the biker starts attacking him.
So by the time I got there,
the biker was gone,
and I found the vendor like this.
[GRUNTING, PANTING]
- I'm Violet.
- I'm here to help you.
Lift your head. What's your name?
- Ali.
- Ali?
- Yeah.
- Hang in there, OK?
Get an IV access point and push
2 grams of tranexamic acid.
I'll stabilize the skewer.
Saw he's bleeding
from his leg pretty bad.
So I used my shirt
to try and tie it off.
I know the carotid artery's
around there somewhere.
Yeah. Yeah, that was
a pretty smart move.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[WHIMPERS]
Almost there, Ali.
[GROANS]
Almost there.
All right.
Let's get him on the stretcher.
You're doing good, Ali.
Here, let me let me help.
- Thank you.
- Let's lift him up.
Ready? 3, 2, 1, lift.
- [GROANS]
- All right.
[GASPING]
[STRETCHER WHIRS]
You slice an artery,
you can bleed out real quick.
He's lucky you were here.
I wasn't exactly sure
what the right move was,
but no one else stepped in, so
It's crazy how many people
just walk past, you know?
Well, you didn't.
And you probably saved his life.
All right, we're gonna take you
to the hospital now, Ali, OK?
Here we go.
- Lift a little.
- Ready, lift.
[GROANS]
Thank you. Thank you.
Of course.
You're gonna be all right.
We're going to debrief later
about how hot he was, right?
So I saw you talking to Carver earlier.
Oh, no catheters.
[DOOR CREAKS, CLICKS]
Look, if you don't
wanna talk about it
I told Carver about
that text that I sent.
I thought maybe it would
help things with Tori,
but I think I just made it worse.
Are you sure that's not what you wanted?
Not judging.
Just asking.
I'm not trying to cause problems.
Seriously, I
yeah, I wouldn't do that.
[SIGHS] But Carver and I made a pact
to tell each other the truth,
and it didn't feel right
not saying something.
I get that.
But from what I've found,
sometimes it's better not to know.
That's when the truth gets tricky.
Yeah.
Hey, Trudy.
Oh.
Thank you for calling.
Yeah, I figured you'd want to know.
- Just one second.
- Mm-hmm.
- [GRUNTS]
- You know what that is?
- No.
- Should I?
Uh, we got a call from a landlord saying
someone had broken into
one of his empty apartments.
And there was no damage,
but they left behind a couple of things,
including this bag and your card.
Oh.
The police have an eye out for him.
When I talked to Lisa,
she said his phone is dead.
But she's on a haul.
She said she's turning around,
and she'll be here in a couple of hours.
She have any idea what that
kid was doing in the apartment?
When I gave her the address,
she got confused
because that's
Michael's dad's address
or where it used to be.
What's this kid up to?
All I know is that he was
really worried about his mom.
Hey, uh, do you have a sec?
Take a seat.
I think I'd better stand for this.
Um [CLEARS THROAT]
I have something that I need to confess.
Mm-hmm.
I'm the one who broke your statue.
I'm sorry.
Do you know what that statue is?
It's an award of valor.
Of course it is.
It's probably the most
valuable thing in this office.
- I totally get that.
- And I am I am very sorry.
You didn't have to
come forward, but you did.
That shows character.
Excuse me?
Keep at it.
[LIGHT MUSIC]
♪
OK.
- OK.
- How bad was it?
Why are you smiling?
He says I have character.
Oh.
- That worked out for you.
- Right?
Such a relief. [CHUCKLES]
Wow.
I have character, too, you know.
[SNIFFS]
What is that smell?
It's the glue.
Trying to waterproof these radios.
- Oh, yeah?
- Well, if that doesn't work out,
you can always tie a string
between two tin cans.
[ALL SNICKERING]
Ah, damn it.
I keep gluing my fingers together.
- I found it.
- You found what?
I've spent all day
going over the budget,
and I discovered we're way above
the mandated redundancies
on a couple non-essentials.
- Yeah?
- If we make those cuts,
we might have enough for the radios.
What do you think?
You spent all day on this?
You didn't have to do that.
- Sure I did.
- We're in this together.
- All right, Wall Street.
- Come on.
Let's start moving some money around.
Hey, Ritter.
Ritter.
Is there any way to get back
deleted text messages?
Uh, as long as it's less than 30 days.
Show me?
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[SIGHS]
[ALARM BLARES]
Truck 81, Ambulance 61,
person injured.
9298 South Paulina.
♪
[SIRENS WAILING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[TIRES SCREECHING]
It's Maddox.
We need medics over here.
Violet, Novak, this way.
Carver, Ritter, get the stretcher.
- Copy. OK, people, step back.
- Give 'em some room.
Michael, what happened?
[GROANS]
What happened?
This lunatic took a crowbar
to my building.
That's what happened.
Laceration must be from
the broken window glass.
Let's wrap this arm
and stop the bleeding.
Hey, Michael, can you sit up for us?
[GROANING]
I got you.
I I got the wind knocked
out of me when I fell.
[PANTING]
- All right, give me your arm.
- That's what you get.
He got what he deserved.
Did you touch him?
When I pulled up, he was
hammering away at my sign.
I yelled. He wouldn't stop.
Owner says he feared for his property,
so he shoved the kid away.
- Do you know the boy?
- Yeah.
Yeah, he and his mom
are friends of mine.
I was just mad, OK?
I wasn't gonna hurt anyone.
I just want them to leave my mom alone.
Hey, I know.
All right, let's get him to Med.
- Here we go.
- [GRUNTS]
Hey, Michael.
I'm gonna call your mom.
I'm gonna tell her
where you're going, OK?
Yeah.
[GROANS]
- What are you doing?
- Where's he going?
You you're not gonna
put him in custody?
Look what he did to my storefront!
He needs to go to the hospital.
You are the one that's gonna
get charged with assault.
He's a kid.
The boy needs medical attention.
I'll take your statement. Come on.
[RADIO CHATTER]
Because he's a juvie with no priors,
I can get him into a program
that'll keep his record clean
and make sure he doesn't take a crowbar
to another person's building again.
That sounds a little ominous.
- Well, I mean, it
- it's not summer camp,
but he'll survive it just fine.
- Michael?
- Where's Michael?
My 14-year-old son.
Lisa.
It's OK. He's fine.
He just needed a couple stitches.
- [EXHALES]
- He's in Trauma 1.
He's good.
[EXHALES]
It's OK.
- None of this is
- is like him.
He's never been destructive in his life.
I think he was just scared.
He was angry, and he
didn't know who to talk to.
So, uh, his father just abandoned him.
[SIGHS]
Michael said that
his dad went to Flagstaff
with his new girlfriend,
but Michael still had
a key to the place.
He didn't wanna worry you about work.
He was trying to protect you.
- I'm his mother.
- I should protect him.
[SNIFFLES]
- You're good. You're good.
- [SNIFFLES]
[SNIFFLES AND SIGHS]
Uh,
whatever you need from me, I'll do it.
I'm not going back to that company.
Michael.
♪
You're OK.
There she is. Aw.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Hey.
Attention, people!
Wow.
Look.
Take a look at that.
- Wait, is that the
- Apex 8000?
Yes, it is.
[LAUGHS] And this baby has
the IP68 water rating,
programmable buttons,
and advanced noise cancellation.
- It's beautiful.
- [SMOOCHES]
Yeah, yeah.
Maybe one day, Squad will
get our hand-me-downs.
You didn't draw a line, did you?
- [SIGHS]
- Nope.
I followed him straight down
the rabbit hole.
I always did, too.
Herrmann's the kind of boss
you'd follow anywhere.
Lisa is going to talk, so the
Department of Transportation
is willing to waive her violations.
She'll still be able to work
for other trucking companies?
- Yes, sir.
- Legit ones.
And Maddox Trucking's rigs
are all off the road?
That's right.
[CHUCKLES]
Lieutenant Kidd can be
a hell of a pain in the ass.
But she doesn't back down, does she?
No, sir, she does not.
- Any circumstance.
- [LAUGHS]
Hi.
Hey.
Do you guys remember me?
I was shirtless and
a little panicked at the time.
- [LAUGHS]
- That rings a bell.
Do you have a sec?
- She does.
- I was just leaving.
OK.
- [MOUTHING WORDS]
- How's Ali doing?
Uh, good.
He should be back to his cart
in a couple of weeks, I think.
- Good.
- Good.
- I expect free kebabs for life.
- [LAUGHS]
I'm Flynn, by the way.
Violet.
I just wanted to say thank you
for not embarrassing me.
Embarrassing you?
I was telling everyone at
my office about my big save
and how smart I was for tying
off the carotid artery and
- Oh.
- they pointed out
the carotid's in your neck,
not your leg.
That's something I guess everybody
in the world knows, except me.
No, you know, what matters is
you put the tourniquet
in the right place.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Well, I just started thinking
I should be better prepared
in case of another emergency.
I mean, next week, if someone
goes after the hot dog vendor,
I need to be ready.
- Right.
- [CHUCKLES]
So are you looking for
first aid classes?
If you know any.
OK, yeah, there's actually one I teach.
I can send you the link.
And you already know
that I won't be
embarrassing you in class.
- [LAUGHS]
- That's that's true.
Mm-hmm.
There's also a great bar nearby
if you maybe wanted
to grab a drink after.
Ah.
No maybe about it.
I'm in.
All right, cool.
- Yeah.
- Give me your phone.
- OK.
- [LAUGHS]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[CLEARS THROAT]
I decided I'm not gonna be mad
about what you did.
I know Violet was only trying
to mess with your head.
And what were you doing when
you deleted texts off my phone?
Hmm?
I was trying to protect us.
Sam,
I only deleted that text because I knew
what it was going to do to your head.
And now, honestly,
I'm glad that you saw it
because now you know I'm right.
She's just trying to get between us.
Sam,
I swear I'm gonna do
whatever it takes
to protect what we have.
I promise.
Because I know you better
than anyone else.
I always will.
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]
Ever since
he filled in for Mouch,
I knew Truck is where
Ritter wanted to be.
If you'll have me.
Herrmann!
What are you going to do about Engine?
I got an idea for that, too.
Friends?
I know you're still
carrying a torch for Sam,
but texting him sweet nothings
at midnight?
I am not cool with that.
I know it's hard for a
tough guy like you to admit it,
but I think you need me.
And I need you.
[LAUGHS]
I gotta shower
and get out of here quick.
I'll whip you up an espresso.
Mm.
Ugh, I feel like my head's
gonna explode.
How am I gonna get through this shift?
You just need something
to look forward to.
Sleep.
We can sleep when we're dead.
[CHUCKLES]
I got something better.
Is that right?
Mm-hmm.
How about a little Texas in Chicago?
I got us tickets to see
Tripp at the Vic.
They got back together?
Mm-hmm.
[CHUCKLES]
We can have some beers,
sing our hearts out, forget
about the rest of the world.
Mm-hmm.
What do you think?
I like it.
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[MOANING]
Took 45 minutes to get all dressed up,
and we didn't even make it out the door.
We were still going to be early anyway.
Yeah, Pascal likes it when
his lieutenants are early.
I just talked myself out of leaving.
Mm.
Good morning.
Oh, looks like I took the last of it.
Hey, uh, what are you doing after shift?
Uh, it's Violet's birthday,
and we're all going to
Molly's to celebrate.
Just didn't know if you'd heard.
- Uh
- No, no pressure.
But, uh, it'll be fun.
- Well, thanks for the invite.
- I'll check with my wife.
[SIGHS]
That's twice now I've seen
you alone with Pascal.
- Yeah? So?
- So I'm jealous.
It feels like everyone around here
has gotten face time with
the new boss, except me.
Every time I try, it gets interrupted.
He knows what
a good firefighter you are.
It's not about that.
I just like to, you know, have
a little rapport with the guy.
A rapport?
I'm making it happen today.
Yeah, and I got
the perfect icebreaker, too.
- Are you ready?
- Yep.
We're both grasshoppers.
- Excuse me?
- Well, that was our mascot.
It turns out Pascal and I went
to the same elementary school.
[LAUGHS] It's perfect, right?
OK, Ritter, um, I say this with love
- it's terrible.
- It
Carmen, your new recruit's here.
- Hey!
- Hey.
- Hey, whoo.
- Kylie.
- There she is.
- Happy to be here, as always.
- All right.
- Well, I would get up,
but Cindy made me play
pickleball this weekend
and I pulled every muscle in my body.
- How does this work, actually?
- Who's going where?
- Ritter's going to Truck.
- Kylie's subbing on the Engine.
- Not that complicated.
- Nope.
[ALARM BLARES]
All units,
multi-vehicle accident.
- East Broad Street and Trade.
- Go without me.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SIRENS WAILING]
♪
Help, please.
The other driver, he needs help.
- Is he still in the cab?
- Not the truck.
Hurry.
I don't know what happened.
I I guess I didn't see
the brake lights.
- Squad, extricate the driver.
- Copy that.
Squad, cutters, jaws now.
- Engine, run a hose line.
- Get one ready.
Truck, I want you standing by
with extinguishers
- and a stretcher.
- Copy that.
You heard the man. Let's move.
- On it.
- Hey, ma'am.
Ma'am, we need you
back behind the trucks.
I I promised I'd stay with him.
You gotta let us work, all right?
This is Violet. She'll take care of you.
OK, let's take a look at that
cut above your eye, ma'am.
Right here.
- All right, we're gonna get you out.
- Stay still.
[GROANS]
All right, let's clean this up.
♪
Chief, it's raining gas in there.
Fuel tank must have ruptured
and landed on top of him.
- Can you pull him free?
- Uh, it's pretty tight.
[FLAMES WHOOSH]
Chief, we got a flare-up.
- Run another hose line.
- Ready? Let's go.
Put out that engine fire.
Let's stay ready.
- Copy that.
- I'll get the engine at half.
Copy.
OK, one spark hits this gas,
and this guy gets incinerated.
Copy that, Chief.
[INDISTINCT].
Hey, Cruz, I can slip
through the passenger side.
- Are you sure?
- Just cover me.
Yeah, copy that.
[TOOLS WHIRRING]
Come on!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[GRUNTS]
[SAW WHIRRING]
[METAL CREAKING]
- Can you move your legs?
- I think so.
Flare-up!
We're clear, Lieutenant.
- All right, we gotta move!
- Coming out!
Backward. Let's go.
♪
Easy.
All right, look, I got you.
- Ready? One, two, three.
- Yep.
[GRUNTS]
[CREAKING]
[FLAMES WHOOSH]
♪
All right, Engine, hit it!
Knock that down and
overhaul the scene, people!
♪
[TIRES SCREECHING]
Damn it!
- Hey, buddy.
- You need to get back.
That's my trailer.
I said, get back!
Look, I'm on the clock here.
Sir!
We need you to clear the area.
I got a new cab coming
to finish that haul.
Not until we're done here.
Till then, you can stand by your truck.
Come on, let's go.
I'll send Richie to pick up the trailer.
Come on, let's go!
That logo, that look familiar to you?
It does.
- Violet
- Hmm?
do you like fish?
To eat?
No, as a pet.
For your birthday gift.
All I want is a promise
that you won't sing
"Happy Birthday" at the bar.
And that goes for everyone. OK?
Thank you.
I, uh, wanted to mention
I'm not going to be able to make it.
Sorry. Got some stuff I gotta do.
- It's all good.
- I have a birthday every year.
You can catch the next one.
Sorry. Thank you very much.
[BLOWS]
Now he's using his pickleball pain
as an excuse to sit at our table?
- Son of a bitch.
- [RADIO STATIC]
You trying to hear the ocean?
What? There is water
in the damn housing again.
Aren't the radios was
supposed to be waterproof?
Oh, don't get him started.
Hey, it's not funny, all right?
These things are so damn old,
they're practically prehistoric.
So take it to Facilities.
Oh, yeah.
And why don't I just go wish
on a shooting star
- and get the same results?
- Yeah, yeah.
They're pretty stingy when it
comes to replacing equipment.
Yeah, and it's a bunch of crap.
All right? You know,
why do we keep on ending up with
all of Squad's hand-me-downs?
- Why are you yelling at me?
- I don't make the rules.
You're right.
I'm going down to Facilities,
and I am gonna demand some new radios.
- Yes, you do that.
- You get those new radios.
- I will.
- Yeah.
- He ain't getting those radios.
- No.
Hey.
There's a reason we recognize that logo.
Hmm.
So that is an MVA
we responded to six months ago.
Semi flipped, landed on a minivan.
Look at the truck.
J.R. Maddox Trucking.
Mm-hmm.
And then there's this.
Two months ago, truck ran
a red, T-boned a sedan.
Oh, I remember this.
OFI investigated.
Engine fire went through
the vents, lit up the cab.
Trucker died.
That's a crazy amount of
accidents for one company.
These trucks, they're on our streets,
in our neighborhoods, right now.
Each one of them
is a rolling death trap.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
For a trucking company
the size of Maddox,
one accident per year would be a lot.
And they've had three
in the past six months.
- Any idea why?
- It could be bad training,
labor violations, faulty trucks.
But someone's gotta know to look.
And I'm not sure anyone realizes
that these accidents are connected.
Take it to the
Department of Transportation.
They can move the needle on this.
- Copy.
- [PHONE DINGS]
Thank you.
[KNOCKING]
Got a sec?
Well, the CFD Facilities
Committee just got here.
Oh.
Well, I'll come back later then.
- No, this'll be pretty quick.
- Just hang tight.
Great.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
Oh.
♪
Oh.
[LAUGHS]
What?
- What are you doing?
- [GASPS]
- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God.
[GASPS]
- Oh, my God.
- You decapitated it.
Oh, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no. This is not good.
- OK, here, give
- give it to me.
Now
♪
There. Problem solved.
No, we can't leave it like that.
- "We"?
- Yes, we.
I wouldn't have dropped it
if you hadn't yelled at me.
Why were you holding it
in the first place?
I was admiring it.
Admire with your eyes
like a normal person.
Ritter, this is taking longer
than I thought.
Can we, um can we meet later?
No problem.
[SIGHS]
OK.
Tomorrow, we will
come in early for shift
and glue it back together.
Then we will never speak of this again.
Deal.
So I hear that Herrmann is
making you a special cocktail
- for your birthday.
- Oh.
And I'm going to make it even
more special by wearing a tux.
Fancy.
Yeah, Trudy made me rent one
for her cousin's wedding,
and I have two more days with it.
- Best birthday ever.
- I can feel it.
[CHUCKLES]
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]
[ENGINE TURNS OFF]
Hi.
Look what I found in the glove box.
It's got all the live bootlegs on it.
We can listen on the way.
What's going on?
Uh, I got assigned O.T.
I just found out,
or I would have called.
- Are you serious?
- Mm-hmm.
- You can't get out of it?
- I can't.
But you should still go.
Seriously. Take someone from work.
That won't bother you?
One of us should be having fun.
[LAUGHS]
OK, I'll send you lots of videos.
Good.
And, uh, I'm sorry.
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[ENGINE REVVING]
You the CFD guys?
Yes. Hi.
Uh, Lieutenant Kidd.
This is Lieutenant Severide.
You should have told me on the
phone this was about Maddox Trucking.
I would have saved you the trip.
You did you take a look
at what we emailed?
I did.
Look, there's nothing we can do here.
It's three accidents
in the last six months.
You don't think
that's worth investigating?
We did investigate after their last MVA.
We checked qualifications,
driver logs, inspections.
Everything came back clean.
And that's not a red flag to you?
Can't shut someone down
for following all the rules.
Sorry.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
She was helpful.
We're talking to the wrong people.
We need somebody on
the inside of the company.
The trouble is finding
someone willing to talk.
Maybe we already have.
All right, here's to our birthday girl.
I present the "Violet."
- Mmm.
- What's in it?
Ah, vodka and tonic.
I think I'm just too sore
to be creative.
Sorry.
Drink up. Cheers!
[TOGETHER] Cheers!
Happy birthday.
- Thank you.
- Thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
- So, October birthday
- what is that?
Libra?
- Scorpio.
- Hmm.
And now you make sense to me.
- [DOOR SLAMS]
- Yeah.
- Hey.
- Hey!
- [LAUGHS]
- Happy birthday.
Thank you so much.
And how did it go with the DOT?
[SCOFFS]
About as well as you would expect.
Bureaucrats!
They're all useless.
He's trying to convince
Facilities to fork up new radios.
Oh, I see.
- Need another one?
- Hey.
Oh, no.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Yeah.
Oh, hi.
I thought you said you couldn't make it.
Some stuff got shifted around,
- so I thought I'd pop by.
- Oh.
No Tori?
- No.
- She has to work.
Nice tiara.
Thank you. Thank you.
[CHUCKLES]
So, hey.
Mm, what's this?
It's our manifesto.
It's every reason
we deserve a radio upgrade.
All right, what do you think?
OK, poor battery,
bad signal, unreliable.
Don't always work.
The last two are the same.
Aside from that,
I think it's pretty good.
- Oh, no, no, no.
- That's for you to keep, all right?
Come on. I want you to memorize it.
We are going to go to
Facilities next shift,
and we are not going to
take no for an answer.
- Copy that.
- It's all good.
[MUMBLES]
Hey, uh, I think I know
what just happened there.
Herrmann recruited you for
one of his righteous crusades.
Seems like it.
OK, as someone who's worked
with Herrmann a long time,
let me give you a little advice.
Just draw a line in the sand.
Otherwise, one day,
you might end up with him
smelling strange men to find a cologne
that rubbed off on him during a call.
That's so specific, it has to be real.
Like I said, draw a line.
- Are you waiting for someone?
- You keep looking at the door.
No, I'm not.
OK, I invited Pascal,
so, uh, I'm just
keeping an eye out for him.
OK.
- Hmm.
- [DOOR CLICKS OPENS]
Oh, hey, I thought
Tori couldn't make it.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
Tori, wait.
Tori, come on!
Hold up. Tori, stop.
Is that what counts as overtime now?
You know, I showed up to the
firehouse with food for you,
and some stranger had to
tell me that my boyfriend lied.
Look, it was a work thing
I couldn't miss.
What work thing happens at Molly's, Sam?
Every work thing, actually.
It's a birthday party for Violet.
[SCOFFS] I guess she got
exactly what she wanted.
You know she's messing
with your head, right?
You know that. She's manipulating you.
That is not true.
It's not?
Then how'd you end up here?
♪
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Can I help you?
I'm Stella, and I am looking for Lisa.
Is she home?
Uh, Mom, someone's here for you.
Are you one of the firefighters
that helped her?
- I am.
- Yeah.
It's, uh just here to check on her.
Hi.
Hi.
Michael, go pack your bag.
And don't forget your toothbrush.
Dad's not gonna have extra.
Nice to meet you.
You, too.
You know how the driver's doing?
Hospital wouldn't tell me.
Yeah, he's going to be OK.
But you were lucky,
because other drivers at Maddox weren't.
Why does this keep happening?
I can't help you.
Because you don't know
or because you won't say?
Because I have bills to pay
and a son to raise.
And the only help I get from his father
is a place for Michael to sleep
when I'm on a haul,
which I'm now late for.
Hey, Lisa.
One of the drivers died.
I don't want that to happen
to you or anybody else.
- I'm sorry.
- I can't save the world.
I can barely take care of my son.
Lisa, hey.
Listen, here is my number.
If you change your mind,
I will do everything I can to help you.
Come on, Michael.
Let's go.
She's a ghost.
Here.
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
And I wasn't sure what
the kid meant by "ghost."
I thought it was just about
how his mom is barely around.
Then I did some digging.
And?
There is something called ghost drivers.
It's a pretty common practice
with sketchy trucking companies.
This is how Maddox skirts
driving regulations?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, if you look at the driving logs,
it looks like two different
drivers doing two shifts.
But in reality,
one driver does both shifts.
The other driver doesn't exist.
It's a ghost.
And Lisa won't come forward?
She's scared of losing her job.
Maybe we could help her find another.
If Lisa is involved in this,
the first thing the DOT is going to do
is revoke her commercial license.
That's the only way
that she can make a living.
Yeah.
So, then, where does that leave us?
I don't know.
[PHONE RINGING]
It's the 21st district.
Hello?
- [GASPS]
- Sh
We can't fix the statue.
What? Why not?
- It's too late.
- Pascal moved it.
He knows it's broken.
Maybe he's trying to taunt the culprit.
Taunt the culprit?
Pascal is smart.
Maybe he's trying to send a message
that he knows what the person did.
And the longer that they wait
to come forward,
the worse the punishment will be.
I don't know.
But maybe I should confess,
just in case.
[SIGHS]
OK, wait.
[SIGHS]
Let me take the fall for you.
No.
I can't let you do that.
Yeah, you can.
None of this would have happened
if I hadn't scared you.
And like you said,
at least I've had the chance
to talk to him a little.
- I don't know.
- Well, I do.
Just promise me
that when you finally get
your face time with Pascal,
you won't waste it.
[SIGHS]
They seem to be working fine.
We just told you, they're not broken.
They're ancient.
Do we have to read you the note again?
I can't just invent money to use.
Your firehouse has to
have the budget for it.
I'm sorry.
You know, I used to help with the budget
when I worked for Boden.
Maybe there's money there?
You know what?
That's a really nice thought.
But if there were thousands
of bucks just laying around,
somebody would have taken them by now.
We're done.
[SIGHS]
- Hey.
- Hey.
Everything OK?
Tori didn't seem too happy last night.
It's complicated.
[SIGHS]
Yeah, well, uh, I might know why.
I think Tori might still be mad
about a text that I sent.
You sent Tori a text?
No, I sent you a text, and Tori saw it.
I don't remember
getting a text from you.
[ALARM BLARES]
Ambo 61, person down.
124 East Highgrove Street.
Hey, look, all I'm trying to say is,
I don't blame Tori for being pissed.
[SIRENS WAILING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
OK. Thank you.
There we go.
- Hey.
- Guys, this way.
Do you know what happened?
Maybe 10 minutes ago,
I'm walking back from lunch,
and I see a guy on a bike
ram right into this food cart.
Vendor starts yelling at him about it.
And all of a sudden,
the biker starts attacking him.
So by the time I got there,
the biker was gone,
and I found the vendor like this.
[GRUNTING, PANTING]
- I'm Violet.
- I'm here to help you.
Lift your head. What's your name?
- Ali.
- Ali?
- Yeah.
- Hang in there, OK?
Get an IV access point and push
2 grams of tranexamic acid.
I'll stabilize the skewer.
Saw he's bleeding
from his leg pretty bad.
So I used my shirt
to try and tie it off.
I know the carotid artery's
around there somewhere.
Yeah. Yeah, that was
a pretty smart move.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[WHIMPERS]
Almost there, Ali.
[GROANS]
Almost there.
All right.
Let's get him on the stretcher.
You're doing good, Ali.
Here, let me let me help.
- Thank you.
- Let's lift him up.
Ready? 3, 2, 1, lift.
- [GROANS]
- All right.
[GASPING]
[STRETCHER WHIRS]
You slice an artery,
you can bleed out real quick.
He's lucky you were here.
I wasn't exactly sure
what the right move was,
but no one else stepped in, so
It's crazy how many people
just walk past, you know?
Well, you didn't.
And you probably saved his life.
All right, we're gonna take you
to the hospital now, Ali, OK?
Here we go.
- Lift a little.
- Ready, lift.
[GROANS]
Thank you. Thank you.
Of course.
You're gonna be all right.
We're going to debrief later
about how hot he was, right?
So I saw you talking to Carver earlier.
Oh, no catheters.
[DOOR CREAKS, CLICKS]
Look, if you don't
wanna talk about it
I told Carver about
that text that I sent.
I thought maybe it would
help things with Tori,
but I think I just made it worse.
Are you sure that's not what you wanted?
Not judging.
Just asking.
I'm not trying to cause problems.
Seriously, I
yeah, I wouldn't do that.
[SIGHS] But Carver and I made a pact
to tell each other the truth,
and it didn't feel right
not saying something.
I get that.
But from what I've found,
sometimes it's better not to know.
That's when the truth gets tricky.
Yeah.
Hey, Trudy.
Oh.
Thank you for calling.
Yeah, I figured you'd want to know.
- Just one second.
- Mm-hmm.
- [GRUNTS]
- You know what that is?
- No.
- Should I?
Uh, we got a call from a landlord saying
someone had broken into
one of his empty apartments.
And there was no damage,
but they left behind a couple of things,
including this bag and your card.
Oh.
The police have an eye out for him.
When I talked to Lisa,
she said his phone is dead.
But she's on a haul.
She said she's turning around,
and she'll be here in a couple of hours.
She have any idea what that
kid was doing in the apartment?
When I gave her the address,
she got confused
because that's
Michael's dad's address
or where it used to be.
What's this kid up to?
All I know is that he was
really worried about his mom.
Hey, uh, do you have a sec?
Take a seat.
I think I'd better stand for this.
Um [CLEARS THROAT]
I have something that I need to confess.
Mm-hmm.
I'm the one who broke your statue.
I'm sorry.
Do you know what that statue is?
It's an award of valor.
Of course it is.
It's probably the most
valuable thing in this office.
- I totally get that.
- And I am I am very sorry.
You didn't have to
come forward, but you did.
That shows character.
Excuse me?
Keep at it.
[LIGHT MUSIC]
♪
OK.
- OK.
- How bad was it?
Why are you smiling?
He says I have character.
Oh.
- That worked out for you.
- Right?
Such a relief. [CHUCKLES]
Wow.
I have character, too, you know.
[SNIFFS]
What is that smell?
It's the glue.
Trying to waterproof these radios.
- Oh, yeah?
- Well, if that doesn't work out,
you can always tie a string
between two tin cans.
[ALL SNICKERING]
Ah, damn it.
I keep gluing my fingers together.
- I found it.
- You found what?
I've spent all day
going over the budget,
and I discovered we're way above
the mandated redundancies
on a couple non-essentials.
- Yeah?
- If we make those cuts,
we might have enough for the radios.
What do you think?
You spent all day on this?
You didn't have to do that.
- Sure I did.
- We're in this together.
- All right, Wall Street.
- Come on.
Let's start moving some money around.
Hey, Ritter.
Ritter.
Is there any way to get back
deleted text messages?
Uh, as long as it's less than 30 days.
Show me?
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[SIGHS]
[ALARM BLARES]
Truck 81, Ambulance 61,
person injured.
9298 South Paulina.
♪
[SIRENS WAILING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[TIRES SCREECHING]
It's Maddox.
We need medics over here.
Violet, Novak, this way.
Carver, Ritter, get the stretcher.
- Copy. OK, people, step back.
- Give 'em some room.
Michael, what happened?
[GROANS]
What happened?
This lunatic took a crowbar
to my building.
That's what happened.
Laceration must be from
the broken window glass.
Let's wrap this arm
and stop the bleeding.
Hey, Michael, can you sit up for us?
[GROANING]
I got you.
I I got the wind knocked
out of me when I fell.
[PANTING]
- All right, give me your arm.
- That's what you get.
He got what he deserved.
Did you touch him?
When I pulled up, he was
hammering away at my sign.
I yelled. He wouldn't stop.
Owner says he feared for his property,
so he shoved the kid away.
- Do you know the boy?
- Yeah.
Yeah, he and his mom
are friends of mine.
I was just mad, OK?
I wasn't gonna hurt anyone.
I just want them to leave my mom alone.
Hey, I know.
All right, let's get him to Med.
- Here we go.
- [GRUNTS]
Hey, Michael.
I'm gonna call your mom.
I'm gonna tell her
where you're going, OK?
Yeah.
[GROANS]
- What are you doing?
- Where's he going?
You you're not gonna
put him in custody?
Look what he did to my storefront!
He needs to go to the hospital.
You are the one that's gonna
get charged with assault.
He's a kid.
The boy needs medical attention.
I'll take your statement. Come on.
[RADIO CHATTER]
Because he's a juvie with no priors,
I can get him into a program
that'll keep his record clean
and make sure he doesn't take a crowbar
to another person's building again.
That sounds a little ominous.
- Well, I mean, it
- it's not summer camp,
but he'll survive it just fine.
- Michael?
- Where's Michael?
My 14-year-old son.
Lisa.
It's OK. He's fine.
He just needed a couple stitches.
- [EXHALES]
- He's in Trauma 1.
He's good.
[EXHALES]
It's OK.
- None of this is
- is like him.
He's never been destructive in his life.
I think he was just scared.
He was angry, and he
didn't know who to talk to.
So, uh, his father just abandoned him.
[SIGHS]
Michael said that
his dad went to Flagstaff
with his new girlfriend,
but Michael still had
a key to the place.
He didn't wanna worry you about work.
He was trying to protect you.
- I'm his mother.
- I should protect him.
[SNIFFLES]
- You're good. You're good.
- [SNIFFLES]
[SNIFFLES AND SIGHS]
Uh,
whatever you need from me, I'll do it.
I'm not going back to that company.
Michael.
♪
You're OK.
There she is. Aw.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Hey.
Attention, people!
Wow.
Look.
Take a look at that.
- Wait, is that the
- Apex 8000?
Yes, it is.
[LAUGHS] And this baby has
the IP68 water rating,
programmable buttons,
and advanced noise cancellation.
- It's beautiful.
- [SMOOCHES]
Yeah, yeah.
Maybe one day, Squad will
get our hand-me-downs.
You didn't draw a line, did you?
- [SIGHS]
- Nope.
I followed him straight down
the rabbit hole.
I always did, too.
Herrmann's the kind of boss
you'd follow anywhere.
Lisa is going to talk, so the
Department of Transportation
is willing to waive her violations.
She'll still be able to work
for other trucking companies?
- Yes, sir.
- Legit ones.
And Maddox Trucking's rigs
are all off the road?
That's right.
[CHUCKLES]
Lieutenant Kidd can be
a hell of a pain in the ass.
But she doesn't back down, does she?
No, sir, she does not.
- Any circumstance.
- [LAUGHS]
Hi.
Hey.
Do you guys remember me?
I was shirtless and
a little panicked at the time.
- [LAUGHS]
- That rings a bell.
Do you have a sec?
- She does.
- I was just leaving.
OK.
- [MOUTHING WORDS]
- How's Ali doing?
Uh, good.
He should be back to his cart
in a couple of weeks, I think.
- Good.
- Good.
- I expect free kebabs for life.
- [LAUGHS]
I'm Flynn, by the way.
Violet.
I just wanted to say thank you
for not embarrassing me.
Embarrassing you?
I was telling everyone at
my office about my big save
and how smart I was for tying
off the carotid artery and
- Oh.
- they pointed out
the carotid's in your neck,
not your leg.
That's something I guess everybody
in the world knows, except me.
No, you know, what matters is
you put the tourniquet
in the right place.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Well, I just started thinking
I should be better prepared
in case of another emergency.
I mean, next week, if someone
goes after the hot dog vendor,
I need to be ready.
- Right.
- [CHUCKLES]
So are you looking for
first aid classes?
If you know any.
OK, yeah, there's actually one I teach.
I can send you the link.
And you already know
that I won't be
embarrassing you in class.
- [LAUGHS]
- That's that's true.
Mm-hmm.
There's also a great bar nearby
if you maybe wanted
to grab a drink after.
Ah.
No maybe about it.
I'm in.
All right, cool.
- Yeah.
- Give me your phone.
- OK.
- [LAUGHS]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[CLEARS THROAT]
I decided I'm not gonna be mad
about what you did.
I know Violet was only trying
to mess with your head.
And what were you doing when
you deleted texts off my phone?
Hmm?
I was trying to protect us.
Sam,
I only deleted that text because I knew
what it was going to do to your head.
And now, honestly,
I'm glad that you saw it
because now you know I'm right.
She's just trying to get between us.
Sam,
I swear I'm gonna do
whatever it takes
to protect what we have.
I promise.
Because I know you better
than anyone else.
I always will.
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]