Novak and Violet are called out to a patient in a park. It turns out he ran full pelt into a water fountain, leading to some serious abdominal and chest injuries. Once again, Violet proves how damn good she is at her job. After that, Violet talks to the doc, who isn’t recruiting Violet to be an expert witness. Instead, it’s to recruit her for a medical program, but that’s not someting Violet is interested in. Does Flynn know that? It sounds like he expect Violet to be someone she isn’t, which isn’t all too surprising.
Meanwhile, Severide heads to prison to talk to the man with a grudge. Finally, everything in Miami starts to come up, something that was mentioned at the start of Chicago Fire season 13. It turns out that Pascal isn’t as squeaky clean as he allows people to believe, but I think we all knew that, didn’t we? There is certainly plenty of damning evidence in reports.
On the road trip, Natalie thinks back to the fire when she and Kidd met. All Natalie remembers is the smoke, grabbing a picture, and running to the closet to get away from the smoke. Kidd saved her, and that’s what drew Natalie to Kidd to the firehouse again. If Kidd saved her once, she’ll do it again.
After Kidd pulls up to the apartment, Natalie makes it clear she doesn’t want Kidd to come in with her. Naturally, Kidd is worried. Natalie texts Kidd to say that she got in, but if you ask me, that text came way too quickly. Yet, Kidd believes it and drives off. This is sure to come up again.
Violet questions Flynn’s actions in setting up the interview, and that’s when it all comes out. He thinks she would make an amazing doctor, and while that’s certainly true, Violet has never wanted that. She’s always been pushed into the doctor route, but she wants to be a paramedic. The minute Flynn said he thought Violet could be so much more, Violet realizes who he is. He doesn’t see her for who she really is, and she ends things. As Flynn leaves, she also admits that she’s in love with someone else. I get a sense that Flynn is going to turn into the bad guy he doesn’t want to be viewed as.
At Pascal’s place, Severide pays his chief a visit. It turns out that Hendricks, who Pascal used to work for, had been fixing things for the mob. Pascal knew all about it, and all he can say is “I did it all for Monica.” What exactly happened in Miami? We’re about to get some answers.
It turns out that Pascal bailed on his investigation, because Monica was terrified of Hendricks and what he would do. With someone working with the mob, that’s not surprising, and of course Monica was going to move back to Chicago. We get a great flashback, which brings Monica back to the story, as she finds out that Pascal was trying to bring Hendricks down. The problem now is that it looks like Pascal worked with Hendricks, and that makes him a risk in this case. There may be one person who could tell the same story.
It turns out Lieutenant Vale may have the information. He still says that his relationship with Monica was just a friendship, and she did confide in him about what happened in Miami. Well, Vale is honest and praises Pascal. He didn’t do anything fishy.
The end of the episode sees Kidd still in St. Louis, as she couldn’t quite leave. it’s a good thing, too. Natalie comes out of the apartment building crying. Kidd doesn’t need to talk about it right now. All she wants to know is that Natalie is safe. Well, Natalie shares what happened. Her mom doesn’t live there, with the neighbors saying she may have moved to Florida. Now Natalie has nobody.
Or does she? I still think Kidd and Severide should take her in during the Chicago Fire season 13 finale.
Back at the firehouse, Pascal is being taken in by the police. Van Meter is clearly not happy that Severide kept information from him, but will this take Severide down as well? And what will happen ot Firehouse 51 with all this? What a way to go into the Chicago Fire season 13 finale!
