Chicago Fire
Chicago Fire Review: Whom Shall I Fear? (10×07)
Kelly Severide’s arson case continued on tonight’s brand new episode, and a brand new lieutenant takes charge at Firehouse 51.
With golden boy Casey gone, a new lieutenant was assigned to the Firehouse. This lieutenant, Jason Pelham (played by Agents of SHIELD‘s Brett Dalton), obviously works a lot different than Casey, because there still needs to be some drama at the end of the day. This was proven to be effective when Gallo and Pelham had a small standoff on a call already causing some tension with the change in leadership.
Boden is using Pelham to see if he would be a good fit to be the new permanent lieutenant, since Kidd is still gone. By the way, Stella has been in Boston for several weeks, which makes me wonder if she wasn’t cleared during filming of these episodes because of the pandemic.
Pelham looked into what made Casey so great, and tried to make amends with Gallo for the rest of the entire episode. It proved to be rather unsuccessful, because even Pelham showed a little bit of his superiority complex by enforcing his own rules to Gallo.
Boden told Mouch and Herrmann that Pelham has been floating between several firehouses over the last few years. While this seemed normal to Mouch, it raised suspicion in Herrmann, who thinks that there may be something deeper as to why Pelham would be floating around firehouses, rather than having one assignment at one house.
Severide continued his search for the arsonist responsible for the church fire, and together with Seager, investigated Sister Montclaire once again, and she revealed that Father Anthony had an accusation against him from a kid, but nothing came of the lawsuit. Their biggest lead, Father Anthony himself, died during complications in the hospital, which destroyed any possible leads to the arsonist.
While looking through possible patterns from the arsonist, Severide found a connection through a dumpster fire that was set two months prior to the blaze right by a Catholic church. At that church, the priest there said that some of the altar boys found defaced missals where someone drew pictures and wrote in them. In the missals, they noticed the same picture on top of the verse “the Lord is my light and my salvation.” This verse was on a picture that Sister Montclaire had on her wall, who said that the former groundskeeper, Muller gave it to her.
In the groundskeeper’s room, they found it completely cleaned out, but found a traces of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. At his house, they found the place covered wall to wall with plans, pictures, and writings about the church fires.
Muller sent a false alarm to a church to clear everyone out, only to set off a car bomb to hurt people Thankfully, everyone at 51 was already there, and managed to clear everyone out, but Muller killed himself in the blast. Boden saved a little girl before the explosion, and Pelham was right behind him to throw his coat over him, inspiring Boden to making him the new lieutenant for another month.
The only other crazy thing in the episode was showing that Sylvie was preparing to go see Casey in Oregon, but before she could go, he told her not to, since he’s doing a wildfire training course. The end of the Casey-Sylvie relationship is beginning, and Casey isn’t even around to see it all end.
Gallo is emerging as a big character in the growth of Chicago Fire. Casey was making him his protege right as he was leaving, and his standoff with Pelham was a big one in his future development. This, coupled with his mini-brewery business, is perfect headway to get this character growing to leading man status.
Those tensions with Pelham are going to stem into next week, as they teased another showdown between the two, where Gallo disobeys a direct order. And with the mystery of who Pelham is spanning over the next few weeks, it’ll be interesting to see what sorts of dominoes could fall, and possibly affect the firehouse as a whole.
What do you think of the new lieutenant? Leave a comment below!
Shocking news Firehouse 51—Taylor Kinney is exiting Chicago Fire.
Deadline reported the news on Friday, Jan. 20, revealing that the actor, who anchors the show as Kelly Severide, will be taking a break from the series.
Kinney has been a staple on the Dick Wolf drama since its inception in 2012 and is a huge reason why the series has retained such a dedicated viewership.
While an official reason was not provided, and a rep for the show did not offer a comment, sources close to production told the outlet that Kinney is taking a “leave of absence” to deal with a personal matter. No word on what the situation is.
The cast and crew were reportedly informed of the leave right before the news broke, with the writer’s room likely having to rewrite scripts to accommodate the change.
It’s unclear whether this will be a permanent leave, nor is there any info about how he will be written out for now.
Kinney has not addressed the news himself as of writing.
This is the latest shocking exit in the #OneChicago world as Jesse Lee Soffer, who plays Jay Halstead on Chicago PD, exited earlier this season, while Brian Tee hung up his coat earlier this season on Chicago Med after portraying Ethan Choi since 2015.
Firehouse 51 is gearing up for Halloween.
New photos were released from Chicago Fire’s Oct.19 episode titled “Haunted House,” and it looks like the squad will get to indulge in a little bit of mischief and mayhem before being called to save lives.
Check out the synopsis for Season 11 Episode 5: “Firehouse 51 hosts a Halloween open house; Kidd and Severide help a young girl after she gets kicked out of her home.”
And check out the photos below:
CHICAGO FIRE — “Haunted House” Episode 1105 — Pictured: (l-r) Joe Minoso as Joe Cruz, Miranda Rae Mayo as Stella Kidd, Taylor Kinney as Kelly Severide — (Photo by: Adrian S Burrows Sr/NBC)
CHICAGO FIRE — “Haunted House” Episode 1105 — Pictured: Eamonn Walker as Wallace Boden — (Photo by: Adrian S Burrows Sr/NBC)
CHICAGO FIRE — “Haunted House” Episode 1105 — Pictured: (l-r) David Eigenberg as Christopher Herrmann, Daniel Kyri as Darren Ritter, Eamonn Walker as Wallace Boden — (Photo by: Adrian S Burrows Sr/NBC)
CHICAGO FIRE — “Haunted House” Episode 1105 — Pictured: (l-r) Eamonn Walker as Wallace Boden, Christian Stolte as Randy “Mouch” McHolland, Sarah Dell’Amico as Denise — (Photo by: Adrian S Burrows Sr/NBC)
CHICAGO FIRE — “Haunted House” Episode 1105 — Pictured: (l-r) Joe Minoso as Joe Cruz, Eamonn Walker as Wallace Boden, Christian Stolte as Randy “Mouch” McHolland, Randy Flagler as Capp — (Photo by: Adrian S Burrows Sr/NBC)
CHICAGO FIRE — “Haunted House” Episode 1105 — Pictured: (l-r) Anthony Ferraris as Tony, Randy Flagler as Capp, Kara Killmer as Sylvie Brett, Joe Minoso as Joe Cruz — (Photo by: Adrian S Burrows Sr/NBC)
Wedding bells are ringing, and Casey makes his grand return for Chicago Fire’s epic season finale!
After Severide got jumped by a gang last week, it was time to plan a wedding! Herrmann gathered the entire firehouse together, and gave everyone (except Emma) jobs that will secure the quickest wedding setup in history. Stella even asked Boden to give her away at the altar. Despite the writing saying that Casey might not show up, Casey showed up! It was great to see Jesse Spencer back in the role we’ve gone so used to seeing him play for the last ten years.
With Sylvie back in the house, she threw Stella a surprise makeshift bachelorette party, which was freaking adorable. On the other hand, Casey and Severide had one of their old fashioned bro moments, since it is most likely going to be the last one we see of them.
Disaster struck as the venue they thought they had booked, had to go back on their word, as a previously cancelled wedding decided to be back on. Casey came to the rescue once again, as he bought out a tour boat for all the guests, and the captain of the ship will be able to marry Severide and Stella.
Severide started to meet with several officers who were looking to start a case against Thomas Campbell, who runs a narotic ring and organized the attack on Severide after the food truck case. While heading to talk to the investigators, Severide was attacked again, but shoved the henchman out a window in self-defense. Regardless, Severide still committed to testify to help the investigation.
The showdown between Emma and Violet came to a head as well. Sylvie returned to Chicago, and Violet filled her in on all of the blackmailing schemes that Emma has started up against her and Hawkins. Hawkins went to his higher ups and wanted to find a way for Violet to somehow escape this situation, even if he had to take the biggest hit for it.
A house fire brought some news to light about Emma. Violet, Stella, Gallo, and Emma were helping a pregnant woman next door neighbor who was hit with debris, when the fire started spreading to their location. Everyone else was calm, but Emma wanted to high-tail it out of the building without everyone. The fire stressed out Emma, and she bolted, abandoning the team inside. The team who had the guts to stay helped deliver the woman’s baby with flames all around them.
Hawkins, who arrived at the fire, saw the whole thing unfold, and discarded the blackmail, and fired Emma for abandoning her crew.
Casey gave Gallo his favorite axe, as he doesn’t use it a whole lot out in Oregon. This is quite literally the passing of the torch for the future of Firehouse 51, as Gallo is sure to grow as a firefighter in future seasons.
At the end, the wedding began, with John Legend’s “All of Me” playing, and I rolled my eyes since that was one of the most cliche things possible. They both had adorable wedding vows which I’m sure actors will use for future audition monologues.
Chief Boden danced during the party, and I think that’s the only important thing I’ll ever need to see on my screen the rest of the year. However, the door did close on Sylvie and Casey, as she decided to stay in Chicago, and he is going back to Oregon, where his life really is.
It wouldn’t be a finale without a cliffhanger! As Stella and Severide begin their honeymoon in a cabin, a mysterious truck silently arrives, assuming it might be someone hunting Severide.
This was a great finale! It tied up the loose ends of Emma’s situation (see, I told you there would be a loophole to get her out)! We also got Casey’s full conclusion, and even though it is the end of his time here, we at least get Sylvie back in Ambulance 61. Who knows, maybe they’ll continue to reference Casey in every episode like they did after he left. Season 11 is sure to be some great twists and stories, with Severide having to go against this narotics ring, and adjusting to married life. I think sparks are in the air for Violet and Gallo…again.
What did you think of tonight’s season 10 closer? Leave a comment below.
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