The Chance to Forgive is the fifteenth episode of the sixth season and the 129th overall episode of Chicago Fire.
Summary[]
In response to a call involving a residential fire, Otis and Kidd's lives are suddenly put in jeopardy when gunfire goes off inside the house. Dawson comforts Brett during an especially trying time. Meanwhile, Casey begins to notice that romance might be going on within the firehouse.
Plot[]
Sylvie and Dawson wait for the results of Brett's pregnancy test. It is negative, but Brett seems to have mixed feelings about it.
Kidd invites Severide to join her on a tour of Milwaukee so she can show him some bars.
Truck responds to a house fire, but Otis is shot in the neck and Kidd is stuck in the same room because of the gunfire. Stella's radio takes a bullet. Severide disobey's Boden's direct order and runs back into the fire for Kidd and Otis. Cruz attempts to follow him but Boden manages to stop him. The resident admits that he has some guns and ammunition up in his room, and some of them are loaded, which means that there isn't an active shooter. Otis is removed from the upstairs window via ladder and cradle and the paramedics have to shock him to get his heart rate back up before transporting him to Chicago Med. Cruz rides along in the back of the ambulance.
Lily joins the firefighters at the hospital. Though he is still unconscious, Lily invites Cruz to join her as one of his two alloted visitors. Ethan Choi tells Boden that Otis's medical disorder complicates things and he will probably need a platelet transfer. Stella enters the waiting room after being cleared and Herrmann suggests that she get her radio framed. Stella and Severide make eye contact and begin to approach each other but Boden steps and pulls Severide aside to reprimand him for insubordination. Boden asks him what he was thinking, and Severide admits that he was thinking that he can't go through it again, meaning that he already lost Leslie Shay and he can't lose Stella, too.
Their argument is interrupted by shouting from the waiting room. The firefighters are arguing with the cops because they are letting the man who owned the guns go. The guns checked out so they can't charge him with anything. As he is led out of the hospital by officers, Cruz sees that he is being let go and yells after him that he has blood on his hands, but he is held back by his fellow firefighters.
Otis wakes up the next day and Cruz calls him "Brian," saying that he will call him whatever he wants. Cruz says that Brian is his best friend in the world and he can't lose him. Lily returns with coffee and hugs Brian.
Stella covers the bar while they host a fundraiser for Brian. Severide comes by and Stella tries to reschedule their Milwaukee trip, but he blows her off as Casey watches from a few seats down.
Gaby and Sylvie discuss the pregnancy scare and Gaby tells her that she needs to talk to Antonio about it. Antonio and Sylvie pass each other at Molly's, and he admits that his friend set him up on a blind date.
Cruz visits the hospital chapel. A patient there tells him that he believes that he saved his life and that he feels awful about what happened and that he didn't know what his son had been doing.
Boden is told by his chief that he can no longer keep his Truck Co. understaffed for more than a shift or two and that he will be sent a list of floaters. He updates the firehouse on Otis's condition: he's awake, but he's going back into surgery. The female victim from the fire has also died from her wounds. Another call comes from the house where Otis was shot.
A neighbor says that he saw smoke from the window and wonders if it started burning again. Squad approaches the garage and sees through the window that it is an attempted suicide via exhaust in the car. The garage has been chained shut, so Cruz offers to go inside and try to help the patient. It is the teenage boy, Patrick, who had been stockpiling the guns. The paramedics work on intubating and shocking him back to life. Cruz tells Patrick that his dad needs him and that he can't bail on him now. Cruz gets a call and learns that Brian is getting out of surgery any minute and wants to know if he can be there for him when he wakes. The rest of the firehouse meets them there and visit Brian.
Casey reminds Severide that his feelings for Kidd won't go away just because he doesn't want them to be there.
Dr. Choi conducts an exam on Brian and finds that he has lost feeling in his toes.
Sylvie cleans out her locker and talks to Gabby about how she needs to get over Antonio.
At Molly's, Severide visits Stella, who is doing inventory. She asks him what's been going on with him lately because he's been dodging her. She wants him to tell her what he's feeling for once. He kisses her and they make out on the bar.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Jesse Spencer as Captain Matthew Casey
- Taylor Kinney as Lieutenant Kelly Severide
- Monica Raymund as Paramedic Gabriela Dawson
- Kara Killmer as Paramedic Sylvie Brett
- David Eigenberg as Firefighter Christopher Herrmann
- Joe Minoso as Firefighter Joe Cruz
- Yuri Sardarov as Firefighter Brian "Otis" Zvonecek
- Christian Stolte as Firefighter Randy "Mouch" McHolland
- Miranda Rae Mayo as Firefighter Stella Kidd
- Eamonn Walker as Battalion Chief Wallace Boden
Recurring Cast[]
- Randy Flagler as Firefighter Harold Capp
- Gary Cole as Deputy District Chief Carl Grissom
- Steve "Chik" Chikerotis as Deputy District Chief Steve Walker
- Ariane Rinehart as Lily
- DuShon Monique Brown as Connie
- Jon Seda as Antonio Dawson
- Lorena Diaz as Nurse Doris
- Brian Tee as Ethan Choi
Guest Cast[]
- Ed Amatrudo as Roger Norwood
- Adam Shalzi as Patrick Norwood
- Christopher R Ellis as Officer
- Tanya Thai McBride as ICU Nurse
- Ron Ware as Neighbor
Notes and Trivia[]
- Cruz is the one who says the title name in this episode.
Quotes[]
- Joe Cruz: I'm glad to hear your voice, Brian. You really scared me.
- Brian Zvonecek: Brian?
- Joe Cruz: Yeah, feels weird to say, but hell, I'll call you whatever you want. You just stay with us. You're my best friend in the world. I need you around.
- Brian Zvonecek: Same, man. Same.
- Joe Cruz: "Tomorrow's never for sure. That's something we learn, doing what we do."