After last week’s dramatic change in form, Chicago Fire returned to its usual format by having a few storylines at once, juggling them all, with its regular twists and turns. This week, we saw Gallo disobeying a direct order, Casey’s new relationship, the strain of Severide and Kidd’s relationship, Herrmann and Cruz having a “Mouch mystery,” and Sylvie and Gianna working together to uncover some mysterious calls.

At the beginning of the episode, we see the station called to a gas station that collapsed and gasoline leaking everywhere. Casey ordered everyone to not go in in the case that there’s an explosion, and demands Gallo go find the shut off switch for the fuel. As he searches, he sees a woman unconscious laying in a puddle of fuel, and dives in to save her as the gas station explodes. After the explosion subsides, Gallo brings the unconscious woman out to safety. Upon realizing that Gallo disobeyed this direct order, he sends him home for the day, saying that it was complete disrespect.

After learning that Cruz’s wife is pregnant, Herrmann keeps asking him about the baby, while trying to keep it secret. Mouch, eavesdropping, tries to join the conversation, which makes the two shut up instantly, leaving Mouch suspicious that they’re talking about him and “seeing his secret.” This leaves Herrmann and Cruz suspicious that Mouch is now hiding something, and recruit Ritter to investigate.

Paramedics Sylvie and Gianna are called out to an incident where a woman is having a seizure in a park. As they rush to her aid, the woman is almost instantly better, and doesn’t want to go to the hospital, and her and her boyfriend get up and run away. Later on, the two are called to an incident where a man almost sawed his leg off while working in his garage. Sylvie gives the man fetanol, which doesn’t seem to affect the man, even after giving him the maximum dose. This brings in Chief Paramedic Colson to arrive to Firehouse 51, and informs Sylvie that no fetanol was in the man’s system at the hospital, and becomes suspicious that Gianna might be stealing the drug and replacing it with a placebo. Boden assures him that Gianna would never do something like that, but Colson still has to open an investigation.

Earlier in the season, Casey rescued a woman named Sydney, and has started seeing her to try and get over his feelings for Sylvie. Severide even catches her leaving their apartment early in the morning, thinking that Casey has fully moved on. Casey, however, is still stuck on Sylvie, and while out on a date with Sydney tells her that he still has feelings for Sylvie, to which Sydney shockingly is okay with it, and says that it’s okay.

Kidd, who is still upset that Severide is giving her the cold shoulder about the lieutenant’s test, tells Chief Boden that she wants to take a break from studying and focus on her Girls on Fire program, saying that she thinks her time would be better spent there. When Kidd’s protégé Kylie tells Severide that she’s doing this, he (finally) discovers that his behavior is preventing Kidd from pursuing her dreams.

Meanwhile, Gianna and Sylvie ask the 9-1-1 operator who made the call about the woman with the seizure, and that it was a bystander. Upon further investigation from Chicago Med, as well as another call to a scene, they find out that the woman is faking seizures, and while paramedics are “caring” for her, the boyfriend steals the paramedics fetanol and replaces it, so they have the drug. Sylvie and Gianna catch the two in the act, and they are arrested and Gianna’s name is cleared.

Gianna goes to Gallo’s apartment, asking how he’s doing since Casey sent him home. He said that he wanted to do the rescue of the woman and acted in the moment. He knew that he should have approached it better, but he doesn’t regret doing it. Gianna and Gallo finally share a kiss (as well as a whole evening together), but Gallo is hesitant to tell Cruz. Upon arriving to his next shift, Casey tells Gallo that what he did was wrong, but at the end of the day, the rescue was made, and that no one got hurt. He also warns him to be careful next time a situation like that is to occur.

While Herrmann and Cruz continue to talk about Cruz’s baby, Mouch reveals that he lost a bet with his wife Trudy, and he had to get her name tattooed on his butt (and shows them), closing the Mouch mystery case. Gallo then admits to Cruz that he and Gianna shared a night together and didn’t want to hide it from him.

Severide goes to Kidd and explains his situation to her, and she said that all she ever wanted as she goes to become a lieutenant is his support, no matter what. Severide explains that he was scared that she would feel like she didn’t really earn the job, to which she says otherwise. She said that she climbed up the ranks of the Chicago Fire Department herself, without anyone’s help. He assures her that her determination is how he knows that he screwed up, and plans to stick by her side. They finally make up as this weeks episode comes to a close.

Since the show has come back to form, I think the show has done a better job with juggling its many storylines. I personally am happy that they aren’t having Casey’s new relationship a long-time arc, and that he knows that he still has feelings for Sylvie. The Kidd/Severide storyline is also closing, meaning that the show is going to start shifting to something else, and not drowning that out. I personally like that this is happening because the show has had a habit of really stretching out the main plotlines to their full extent, almost to the point of over exercising them and it gets a little stale. The only storyline that seems to be sticking around now is the one between Casey and Sylvie, which I’m sure will come to a head in the coming weeks.

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