BODEN: We do a dangerous job.
We all knew that when we signed up.
I'm sorry.
I love you, you know?
BODEN: You reach out to each other.
Gabriela Dawson, will you marry me?
BODEN: You be there for each other.
DISPATCH OVER RADIO: Truck 81. Squad Three. Ambulance 61.
BODEN: Always.
House 51. Anyone. Report.
Truck 81, Squad Three, report!
Anyone from House 51, report!
BODEN: Report!
Severide, report!
Casey, report! Ambo 61, come in!
Truck 81, Squad Three, report!
Mayday! Mayday emergency!
Mayday emergency! Anyone from House 51, report! Report!
Chief! Severide here. Roof collapsed.
We'll need assistance.
CAPP: What the hell happened?
SEVERIDE: Propane tanks on the top floor.
Squatters cooking on an open flame.
I jumped for the stairwell. Yeah, me, too.
All right, spread out, get eyes on everyone.
Hey, Casey, you copy?
Yeah. Down here.
You okay?
I think so.
All right, we're coming down.
All right. Take it down slow.
You okay?
Yeah. (GROANS)
HERRMANN: Over here! Man down!
God! Mills!
Easy, easy.
Come on.
Easy, Mills. Easy.
Got it? Yeah.
My leg!
Calm down, Mills. Just breathe. (SCREAMS)
Let's make him a splint.
Dawson, Shay, come in.
Hey, Chief, Mills might have a fractured leg.
BODEN: We got more of everything coming.
Can you get him out of there?
I think so. Just breathe.
BODEN: Any eyes on Dawson or Shay?
I can't reach them.
Shay! Call out!
Dawson! Shay!
Let's get you outta here.
All right? You ready? Yeah.
On three. One. Two. Three, go!
(GRUNTING)
Dawson! Shay!
Come on, Shay.
Come on.
One, two, three, four, five six, seven... Shay! Shay! Shay!
Blow to the head. Compressions.
Switch on three with me. Ready? One, two, three.
Come on, Shay.
Come on, Shay!
(PANTING)
No, no, no, no, no.
No. No. Come on.
Let's get her to the ambulance.
Gab, Gabby! Let go of me!
Hang on! Hold on! Shay.
Gabby! No! Shay!
Shay!
(CRYING)
CRUZ: I am telling you that you are wasting your money. OTIS: Nah.
Nobody, and by nobody I specifically mean women,
care about dumb outer space props.
OTIS: But this is an original Viper worn by Dirk Benedict.
At 300 bucks, trust me, it's a steal.
Listen to yourself.
Hey.
Hello.
Hi. I'm looking for Dawson?
Ow. Oh, right.
Hey, hey, Darden, you seen Dawson yet?
Yeah, let me grab her.
So, where'd you come from?
Oh, originally, Saint Louis.
Ah. I meant what firehouse.
Oh, right. Logan Square. 87.
Yeah, I was there a couple of years.
Cool. DAWSON: Hey.
Leslie Shay. Yeah.
Dawson, Gabriela. Hey.
Hi. I've heard, like,
a million good things about you.
All lies. Come on, I'll show you around. Okay.
So that's Cruz and Otis.
They're totally harmless, trust me.
I mean, they're gonna ask you out, but...
Oh, no, no, I'm... This is Vargas, Herrmann, and Lieutenant Casey.
Hi. Hi.
Oh, this is Leslie Shay, the new paramedic.
Great to meet you, Leslie.
You can call me Shay. Hey.
Welcome to 51, Shay. Thank you.
The only advice I can give you is
don't let Dawson drive the rig.
Hey! Hey!
Seriously.
So you and Casey are...
What? No. No, jeez.
Oh, really? You should be.
...left stuff out and, I don't know, it's was just a thing.
End of story,
Manfredi ended up moving out and I need a new roommate.
Hopefully by, you know, before next month's rent's due.
I've been looking for a roommate.
I'm serious. I just went through a break-up thing,
and we could barely afford the place, so I don't know.
Yeah? Whoa!
Put it back in your pants, Lieutenant.
You're not my type.
You never know.
Do you have a vagina?
I'm gay. Fully gay, yeah.
And my drink's tequila. (CHUCKLES)
Kelly Severide. Leslie Shay.
HERRMANN: Hey, Otis, can I get you to do the bank run tomorrow?
I got a doohickey at the in-laws.
Yeah, Herrmann, one thing you'll never have to
worry about is asking me to take money to the bank for Molly's.
From your lips to God's ears.
Oh-ho! Look who's here!
Peter Mills!
Ah!
I have never been so happy to see so many ugly faces. (LAUGHTER)
Oh, yeah. I'm surprised to see you.
Yeah. Cast came off, they cleared me.
Hinted I should wait another week,
but I am done staring at ceilings.
Well, maybe you should listen to 'em.
I'm 100%, Chief.
I'm good as new.
Great to have you back.
Any word from Severide?
Hey, sorry, Chief. Had an appointment that ran long.
Peter Mills! Hey, Gabby.
Hey.
You good?
Good as new.
Cool. Well, uh, welcome back.
How is she?
MOUCH: If I have special dietary concerns, does the
kitchen take that into account?
Like, I don't like mushrooms.
Okay, I see. We will see you then.
Some of these fancier places
get offended so I like to get it out in the open.
What?
Nothing.
Gabriela Dawson?
Yeah, that's me.
Sylvie Brett. I'm your new paramedic on 61.
I'm sorry.
I've been partnered with Chout.
I thought that he was gonna be assigned here permanently.
I just go where they tell me.
Yeah, well, welcome.
Sylvie.
Take a seat.
Again, I'm sorry I was late, Chief.
Don't worry about it.
I want to thank you,
sincerely,
for giving me these last six weeks on the ambulance.
I know you could've taken your firefighter assignment
and started at 105, but this house
needed stability, and you,
meant the world to me.
Of course, Chief. Always.
So, I'm letting you know
I am putting through your paperwork
so you can resume your placement at 105.
Oh, okay.
Okay, good. Thank you, Chief.
Hmm.
How are you doing, Gabby?
I want you to know you can talk to me.
Hey there, Wallace.
Chief.
Hey, Chief, thank you. I'm gonna get back to it.
Yeah.
Just letting you know, we are wheels up for dinner at 7:30.
Great.
You and Donna wanna carpool over with Trudy and me?
No, we, we'll meet you there.
Groovy.
One more thing.
Just so it doesn't get uncomfortable when the bill comes,
can we agree we'll go Dutch on this one?
You invited us, Mouch. You made a big to-do about taking us out.
I know, I know, but this is one of those fancy,
valet parking...
You know what?
Dutch.
Excellent.
CAPP: Well, Wallace had them, so.
Yeah, but Capp, it's your turn, so.
Hey. You heard from Severide? Nada.
Didn't he have furlough stored up?
A month, maybe. That ran out a week ago.
We've all left messages, but nothing.
Yeah, same.
Lieutenant, we need fuel. Yeah?
Load everyone up. Your move.
HERRMANN: I've been thinking.
Uh-oh. You know Chili's?
Where the blossoms are awesome?
Shay kept telling me that they started with just
one restaurant in Dallas in an old post office building.
And she'd say the only thing that was holding Molly's back was small thinking.
And I didn't want to listen 'cause
I believed that we had all the time in the world.
So...
Wait, you've been researching this?
Yeah. I have.
Do you know how many restaurants Chili's has now?
Are you talking about expansion?
Darn right!
Oh, boy, here comes Welch.
I hate that guy.
Their whole truck stinks to high heaven.
Hey. Can it, guys.
CASEY: Welch.
What's up, Matt?
You guys come from the Walnut Street fire?
WELCH: Yep.
CASET: Heard the call on the radio. How was it?
It was rolling.
Good.
Hey, how's what's-her-name doing?
Dawson?
You be sure to send her our love.
DISPATCHER OVER RADIO: Truck 81, Truck 66, Squad Three,
Ambo 61, house fire, 5056,
West Maypole Avenue. First truck on the scene is in charge!
Go! Go!
Cruz, I do not want to get there behind these guys.
On it.
First on scene. You're on RIT and handle traffic control.
We'll check things out.
(WOMAN COUGHING)
Bruno! Bruno. My son Bruno! Where is he?
He's in the basement! I couldn't get to him!
Is there, is there anyone else in there? No, it's just the two of us!
Here. Get her out of here!
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
We got him, we got him. Go, go, go!
Fire department! Call out!
(MAN COUGHING)
Help me!
Bruno! Bruno!
Can you move?
Help me! Hold on! Hold on.
(BRUNO COUGHING)
Need assistance in the basement!
I've got a victim down here...
Help me! Hey! Hey!
I can't breathe!
You're gonna be okay!
Welch, over here!
Let's get you outta here, big boy.
Take him up!
(COUGHING)
OTIS: One, two, three, lift.
Step coming up, guys.
You got it? HERRMANN: Yeah, I got it, I got it.
Yeah, switch. DAWSON: Bring him on the stretcher!
OTIS: One, two, three, lift!
One, two, three, lift!
Good. Good.
He's struggling to breathe.
Sir, I'm gonna need you to calm down, okay?
I need you to try and relax.
All right, I need you to take slow, deep breaths.
All right, pass me the kit.
You know how to intubate a burn victim?
I do. We just didn't have a ton of...
Watch. For fire victims,
they get a lot of swelling in the trachea.
So we knock them out with Midazolam to help secure the airway.
Pushing.
(WHEEZING)
Okay, tube.
Push past the swollen vocal cords, can't be gentle, can't be afraid.
Let's bag him.
Check for lung sounds.
You're in. Let's go.
Can I drive? You gotta earn that.
Listen,
thanks.
That was good work.
Yeah, thanks for roping in when you were dumb
enough to go into a basement by yourself?
No problem.
You know I came over here to say...
Hey, Molina, I got a question for you.
You sleeping with Casey here so I gotta be nice to you, too?
That's it! Hey!
Enough! Yeah?
Hey!
You. Pack up your truck, leave the area.
Let's go!
You, too.
Pack up!
I tried.
Tommy Welch is not my problem.
You are a lieutenant in my house,
I expect better of you.
I have one lieutenant who's out AWOL and
another one who can't keep his temper in check!
I need leaders in this house, Casey.
Now more than ever.
I hear you. Loud and clear.
I'll go find Kelly.
Appreciate that.
CASEY: Got a victim on the first floor, fell down some stairs.
Possible spinal injury.
We're on it.
Looks like a fall. He's still breathing.
Hey, Chief, can you bring a backboard in?
Looks like his neck might be broken.
Chief?
Give me a C-collar.
How's his airway? Respirations are shallow.
Okay, so, what do you think? We intubate?
Shay, come on. You're gonna have
to do this without me starting next shift.
No. Not yet. We'll start with some rescue breaths.
Good, and be my guest.
You know, I'll never get used...
(EXPLOSION)
BRETT: Dawson?
Yo.
I'm sorry, what?
I was just asking you about the chief situation here.
In Fowlerton, the chief weighed 400 pounds
and never left the firehouse.
Oh, um...
Yeah, no, Boden's great.
He'll be the first to dive in and, and help out.
Good to know.
Hey,
I understand you were close with Leslie Shay.
I just want you to know I'm not trying to wear her shoes.
Yeah.
Of course.
Be right back.
Hey. Hey, there.
Ask me again. Ask you what?
To marry you. Ask me. Right here. Right now.
You should have answered the first time.
And have that be a memory of that day? No!
No, thanks. I did us both a favor.
Hey.
You said Shay told you we'd be great together.
I choose to have that memory of that day.
The answer's yes. The answer is always yes.
I know. But I'm going to do it right.
Okay.
Come here.
I love you.
I love you too.
You're always here for me.
Hey! Hey.
How you doing? Great.
Fish been biting?
Jumping in the boat.
Can I grab one? Yeah, sure.
So...
You coming back to 51?
(SIGHS)
That house is cursed, Casey.
Nothing but misery and heartbreak there.
There's a guy out near Grayslake who does boat repairs,
he said he'll sell me a piece of his business, so...
Pretty quiet up at Grayslake.
All figured out, then.
Yep.
Well,
thanks for the beer.
Yeah. Come anytime.
Hey, one more thing.
Boden still writes down all the calls we go on by hand.
The date, the call itself, what we did.
And you know what he writes in the column on the far left?
The lives we save.
The ones that made it out alive.
That we rescued.
The badges on the wall
at the Academy.
Andy's,
Shay's,
don't represent death.
They represent the lives we save.
See you later.
What?
Oh, is that is what we're doing?
Are we being quiet? Are we being serious?
What?
Fine. You want me to say it?
That girl is bad news.
Front page, big headline, bad news.
It's the only kind I know.
It's part of the fun of it, you know. (LAUGHS)
Who wants to go through life without some heartbreak?
(SIGHING) Whatever.
I wasn't going to say anything. I want that on the record.
Fine. Let's make a record.
A contract. On video, so there will be no confusion.
(CLEARS THROAT)
(LAUGHING) Do you even know how to work that thing?
I am the master of working this thing.
Fine, let's do it.
All right. The Contract.
So how did you end up here, Brett?
Did you ever see that movie Runaway Bride?
Mmm-hmm.
I was engaged to the number one
regional sod seller in all of mid-central Indiana.
Get out of here.
Yes, it was that exciting.
I knew Harrison forever.
We went to elementary school together.
Our families knew each other.
We were supposed to get married exactly three months ago today.
I stared at that abyss and I just
couldn't pull the trigger.
You left him at the altar?
No, a couple of weeks before.
Cold feet that ran right up the I-65 to Chicago.
So here I am.
Hey, Mills.
I didn't want to bother you while you were rehabbing,
but now that you're back... Yeah, of course.
Look, I got a lead on your paternal grandfather.
He's living outside of Chicago.
Um, wow.
Okay.
You didn't know he was alive.
No, my, my mother told me that his side
of the family moved to Seattle.
So... Wow.
Yeah, well, look. I got a family tree.
It's your dad's family.
Joliet? Yeah.
Oh. Thank you. I appreciate this.
What happened to your lip?
Uh...
It's unrelated.
Can we, uh, just not order dessert.
Let's keep it short.
Why?
I'm not in the mood.
Wallace, you need to start reengaging outside of work.
I know that what happened on that day was crushing,
but, you know, we really need to just...
MOUCH: ...put a guy on the week...
(LAUGHING)
Hello! Oh! Look at this power couple!
Hey, Donna, how you feeling?
Ugh, like I've got two stomachs. This kid's gonna be an eater.
Well, hopefully he'll have your bone structure.
WAITRESS: Who would like to see the wine list?
Ah! Thank you. Oh, I... (CLEARS THROAT)
So, guess what?
I got us
four tickets to Led Zeppagain.
Led Zeppelin?
No, not Zeppelin. Led Zeppagain. It's a cover band.
But they kill it, seriously. Saturday night, what do you say?
I don't know...
Sounds fun!
(WHISPERING) Sounds fun.
I gotta hit the head. Hon, would you get us the Barolo?
Oh! Well that, that's a little bit out of our...
She's eating for two and drinking for zero.
And you know how I get on red wine.
Dinner's on us. No arguments.
Mouch.
You sure one bottle is going to be enough?
(LAUGHING)
Hey, fellas.
Cruz and I couldn't help
but overhear that you might be looking to
franchise Molly's.
I believe the name "Molly's Two" was mentioned.
Look, I might have been a bit hasty to brush you aside
when you were looking for initial funding.
You laughed in my face.
Oh! That's a bit of a... Okay, look,
all that Mouch is trying to say is,
if there's gonna be a second round of investments, we want in.
Let me get my emotional ducks in a row here.
Can we reschedule that get-together with your sister on Friday?
Yeah, I suppose so.
What's up?
Antonio wants to take me to lunch.
Sure, no problem.
Oh, um...
Boden's getting my transfer paperwork started.
This place will never be the same.
Yeah, I know.
(ALARM BUZZING)
DISPATCHER OVER PA: Truck 81, Squad Three, Ambulance 61.
Single car accident.
(SIRENS BLARING)
Mills, check the front. Okay.
Newhouse, check the driver's side. Got it.
Please! My wife...
NEWHOUSE: Look, we got it under control. We're gonna get you out of here!
Yo! Hey, I got her!
She's trapped under the water line!
Hey, Mills, go take out the back window.
I got it!
Hey, Capp, hand me your ax.
Good?
Yo! It's not enough.
Help me pull it!
Come on.
Her leg is pinched! It's on a grill!
How we doin' on that hydrant, Chief?
They're locating the main right now.
We gotta move the vehicle off the hydrant.
Go! Herrmann,
get the jaws. You got it!
(SIREN BLARING)
All right. Everybody line up.
On my mark, we're gonna roll this thing upright off the hydrant.
On three. One! Two! Three!
(ALL GRUNTING)
BODEN: Main is shutting down the water flow!
Too much trauma to the mouth. We can't intubate.
There's no cric kit!
Hand me that tubing. And a pair of scissors.
I haven't seen that one before.
I'll take that as a compliment.
Where'd you learn to do that?
Fowlerton, Indiana is right along the Interstate.
Lots of car accidents and not a lot of support.
Huh.
Hey! Fastest way through the loop is lower Wacker.
You and Antonio have been seeing a lot of each other.
Yeah, it's, It's been a rough patch for him, too.
I know. I'm glad.
Hey.
He's your brother,
but if you need someone to talk to, you can always talk to me.
Yeah. Of course.
You know, I'm, I'm,
I'm fine. Truly.
I'll see you back at the house later.
CRUZ: What're you doing, Mouch?
Waiting on Chief.
We're supposed to double date tonight.
I think he's been taking what happened with Shay
harder than he lets on.
I've been going the extra mile to just cheer him up,
keep him busy...
I just saw him heading away on the other side.
Really?
Huh.
BODEN: Donna, I can't do this.
Yes, I have it, I feel like an idiot.
A Zeppelin cover band with Mouch and Platt?
Take my life, please.
Well, right now I don't care if it's the happiest they've ever been.
Yeah, you're right.
BODEN: Mouch!
What time do you want us to pick you and Trudy up?
Really?
You know,
you've been coming to see me for five straight weeks.
And for five straight weeks you've sat on that couch and said nothing.
Nobody is making you come here.
Which means that you want to be here.
Every counseling theory I know
says that I should wait for you to make the first move.
That you'll tell me what you want to tell me
when you're ready to tell me.
But I also know first responders,
and we're a different breed.
We have to do things
whether we're ready or not.
It's okay.
I can wait. We traded places.
(VOICE BREAKING) We traded places.
I told her to
(SOBBING)
I told her to switch with me.
And she ended up right where I was standing...
Where I should have been
when the beam came down.
(CRYING)
Hey.
Good to have you back.
Yeah.
Come on. Let's do it.
Her family would definitely want some of this stuff.
I can't stay here, man.
Why don't you stay with us for a while?
I got a spare bedroom.
I don't know. I don't want to...
It's done. As long as you want.
Thanks.
SEVERIDE: Is it on? SHAY: It's on.
SEVERIDE: Did you turn it on? Are you...
SHAY: (LAUGHING) Okay, shut... Shut up, shut up,
you idiot, this is serious! Concentrate!
All right? The Contract. Rule number one.
We promise to never get in each other's business.
SHAY: Oh! Okay, I have, I have that recorded.
I know. That's why I just said it.
SHAY: All right.
SEVERIDE: Rule number two.
No matter how much work gets to us,
we never bring it home.
SHAY: Good, very good.
SEVERIDE: Thank you. You know what?
That thing? Here. Give it here. Your turn. SHAY: Yeah?
Okay? Give it here.
All right. Here, here. You want some?
Take some. Sure. All right.
We should also say that...
No matter how much life gets to us,
that we shouldn't bring it to work.
Because what we do, it's so much more important than all this.
SEVERIDE: Fair enough. SHAY: An addendum.
SEVERIDE: Got it.
Yeah.
SEVERIDE: Is that it? Any other rules? SHAY: Uh...
Just one.
That we...
That we promise to be there for each other,
always,
no matter what.
Always. Always.
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)