Just had a phone call from a Jack Nesbitt.
Looking for references for you.
- It's a construction gig. - They're renovating.
Here's my bid.
I like you, Matt, I trust you.
You got the job.
You scared me.
I don't remember any of it. Nothing?
Nothing.
A restaurant? In North Carolina?
Our grandfather left us this restaurant in his will.
What if we take a crack at opening it?
Twenty seconds left. Don't let up, Wolverines!
Hey, Luke, Luke! What are you doing over there?
Come on! Pay attention! Let's go, skate!
Luke! Get the puck, get the puck!
No, no! No, the other way! The other way!
Turn around! All right, there you go!
That's my boy!
Come on, tripping! Ref!
He tripped over his own feet.
Whoa!
What a move for the defense!
We're going to the championship!
Hey, that was great!
Champions!
Nice win, Wolverines.
See you next week for the cup.
Just make sure you get your boys ready for
the trouncing they're about to get.
Let 'em know it's okay to cry.
Put your money where your mouth is?
Whoa! You want to bet on a kids' hockey game?
Oh, suddenly you're not so cocky.
C'mon, 500 bucks.
It's on.
Chaplain.
See ya next week, sucker!
There's ten seconds left on the clock, when Luke gets the puck,
he's surrounded on all sides.
And he bobs, and he weaves, and he gives 'em the slip!
Oh, yeah! Go, Luke.
Yeah. Yeah, I've never been so proud.
He gets the puck to the center Milazzo, who goes in,
scores and wins!
With an assist courtesy of Luke Herrmann.
An assist?
Hey, morning, Chief! Morning.
Hey, Chief. Chief.
Peter Mills.
Are you ready to work Squad?
Uh, of course. Medical cleared me. So...
So, gear up, then.
Today? Yes, today.
With Severide out on medical,
Rice is stepping up into Acting Lieutenant.
Therefore I have a spot to fill.
Wow. Uh...
Wait, who's coming in to ride with Brett?
I have a relief medic. Are you in or you out?
Oh, I'm in. I am totally in.
You got your gear, Mills? Yeah.
Hey, bud.
Matt. Hey.
Your shirt. That you... That you lent me to, you know, wear home.
Um, I washed it.
You didn't have to do that.
Common courtesy.
We agreed that what happened wasn't gonna change anything between us,
that we were still just friends.
And, if a friend lent me a shirt, I would wash it.
Fair enough.
No special treatment, right?
Right.
Hey, uh...
Great night, though.
Yeah. It really was.
Hey, uh, what do you guys know about Erik McAuley?
McAuley, the paramedic, he's the worst. Mr. Doom-and-Gloom.
Total bummer. Why?
Since Mills is working Squad, McAuley is gonna relieve him on ambo.
Oh, God.
No. No, he's not.
Chief, are you bringing McAuley in?
Yes, I'm short a medic.
No. No way. I'll go work on ambo
before McAuley comes back here and brings the whole house down with his Eeyore routine.
Okay, good.
Casey, you willing to give up your candidate for a few shifts,
till I find myself somebody permanent?
Wait, what?
Sure.
Thank you, Dawson.
Yay! Great.
Help me with inventory.
Yeah. Okay. Great.
Hey, what's new, Mills?
Well, my mom and Elise are going down to North Carolina,
sell my grandfather's restaurant.
Ought to pay off a couple credit card bills, y'know.
What else? Oh, what else?
Oh, yeah.
I'm back on Squad, baby!
Truck 81, Squad 3, Ambulance 61.
Battalion 25. Person trapped. Washtenaw and 19th.
What the hell is this?
Rice, get up there, take his weight off that bracket.
Casey, give 'em an overhead anchor point.
Herrmann, Mouch, Otis, let's get a straight ladder up to him.
- Cruz, position the aerial. - Copy that!
Is he even alive?
He's alive. He's still breathing!
Let's get him down! I need a saw!
Got it.
Talk to me.
I can't get at the bracket from this angle.
Mills, I need you to get it from above.
Give me one second. Cap, let me grab the rope bag.
Good to go.
All right, I got him.
Got it? Yep. All right.
Okay, he's free.
- All right, got it? - Yep.
- Okay, easy. Easy. - There you go.
He's got a broken femur.
Looks like a dislocated shoulder, and multiple contusions.
This guy's been through hell.
Banana. Banana?
Did he just say "banana"? I think he did.
Okay, let's go.
The surgical wound is healing pretty well.
I was hoping to get back on shift today.
We need to keep an eye on your breathing for another week or two.
I can breathe fine. No pain.
See?
Fine. I'll sit out this shift.
But 72 hours from now...
No early fatigue when you exert?
No need to catch your breath?
None.
I swear.
Hey, what happened to you?
You get handsy with the guys on truck again?
Hey, this is your fault, all right?
Mills is filling in for the spot on Squad.
The house was about to get McAuleyed, so I had to step up.
Oh, hey, that's great news for Mills, right?
You just missed the craziest call.
Unconscious victim, multiple broken bones, impaled on a lamppost.
How the hell did that happen? Total mystery.
He did say something before he passed out though. "Banana."
Shay would have loved that.
Yeah, she would've.
Hey, uh, I'm looking for April Sexton? Not here.
I thought she worked here Tuesday mornings.
April's not on the schedule anymore.
Hit and run? Guy was 12 feet off the ground.
But think about it though, if he got hit by a city bus
while he was crossing the street, he could get launched pretty high.
Nah, to me it smells like some kinda Jackass-style stunt gone bad.
What does banana mean?
You know where they grow bananas? Colombia.
These cartels get pretty creative with distributors
who don't hold up their end of the deal.
You guys learn anything else? Nada.
I guess we'll know more when he comes to, if he comes to.
What's "Stilettos"? It sounds like a strip club.
Oh, God.
It is a strip club, isn't it?
Yes, I landed a construction contract expanding a club
called Stilettos. Permits just came through.
Lieutenant, uh, I've been meaning to ask you,
do you by any chance need any strong backs
for your side business, 'cause I could use a little scratch.
You don't say.
Oh, are you looking for guys, Casey?
Because I know my way around a toolbox.
Fine.
Maybe he was trying to tell us that he slipped on a banana peel.
Could it have been self-inflicted?
Hey, Mills.
Hey!
What are you guys doing here?
Peter, are you back on Squad already?
Yeah. Total surprise, actually. Boden just sprung it on me.
Come say hi to the guys.
Actually, is there somewhere we can go for a little privacy?
Sure. Yeah.
You could throw a stone and hit the water, it's that close.
I'm telling you, a little revamp and this place could be the beachfront hotspot.
Okay, so then we renovate it and we sell it.
No, no. We want to keep it.
You're on board with this? Mmm-hmm.
Look, we... We all agreed we're selling the place, okay?
This could be really good for us, Peter. It's better than just a cash buyout.
Mom, I know you don't want me to be a firefighter.
This isn't about that, Peter.
It's a chance for us to build something of our own again.
You'd love Wilmington. The weather, the people.
There's this guy, Doc, who used to... Doc? That's his name?
I guess, that's what everyone calls him. He's sort of a character.
Anyway, he totally knows the place, and he offered to help us start it up again.
You guys are getting into business with some crazy local who you just met, named Doc?
Forget about him, Peter.
The point is, we want to give this a try.
We're moving to North Carolina.
Hey. I heard what happened with your mom and Elise. Are you okay?
What are you looking at?
Doc's Facebook page.
Who is that? He is the idiot that they're partnering with.
Yeah. Guy's run four restaurants in the last six years.
Guess how many are still in business.
Why is he dressed like that?
Is he a Civil War re-enactor?
You know, I reached out to my grandfather to try and fix this family.
Now I'm losing what's left of it.
So, you're not gonna go with them?
No, of course not.
My whole life is here at 51.
Plus, I just made Squad again.
Hey.
How are you feeling?
Like a million bucks.
Ow, not so tight.
Like a million bucks.
Did you quit the hospital?
I tried to, but they gave me paid leave instead.
It was a real wake-up call, Kelly.
I'm taking a break.
Gonna go see all the things I've been missing out on.
All of 'em? Yeah, all of 'em.
Because at any moment,
a psycho with a grenade can come along and ruin your whole day.
So, I bought myself a round-the-world plane ticket.
Gonna start flying east, picking destinations as I go, wherever I feel like going.
That, uh...
That sounds amazing.
Let me take you out before you go.
I don't have a lot of time.
Come on, we just reconnected, now you're gonna leave?
You hoping to take advantage of my carpe diem phase, try to get me in bed?
I was thinking more along the lines of dinner.
But that's interesting, that your mind goes there.
I have so many loose ends to tie up.
Packing, putting stuff in storage.
I can't.
But we'll get together when I come back.
I'm gonna hold you to that.
So, it's my sister-in-law's birthday,
but I got a kid that goes to bed at 7:00.
I don't want to drag him out to Wheaton.
So, before I know it, I'm volunteering to host this thing at my place.
I can barely make scrambled eggs.
What am I gonna cook for nine people?
Tex-Mex Lasagna.
Okay, I have no idea what that is, but that sounds amazing.
It's super simple. Twenty minutes prep time, pop it in the oven.
The one trick is, you gotta remember the no-boil noodles. They're...
You know what? I'll make it for you.
This guy can cook. Yeah?
All right, fine, but only if you join us.
Ah, I got plans with my sister.
She's moving to North Carolina.
Yeah, bring her along. I insist.
Okay.
Psst! Cruz, Otis. Come here.
I've been catching an earful from all the hockey parents.
They feel that Coach Herrmann is playing favorites.
Starting his own son
when there are other kids that might do better in the position.
Yeah, it's a problem. But what do we do?
You gotta get Herrmann to bench him!
Luke takes one step on the ice, it's gonna cost us a championship.
And $500?
I'm thinking about the children here, Brian.
Mmm. Mmm-hmm.
Luke Herrmann has got to ride the pine.
- Ambulance 61, person injured. - 609 North Union.
This way, they're in here.
What's going on?
Little rumble in the cafeteria, got the kids all worked up.
All of you, shut your faces now!
Okay, what do we got?
You touch my brother again, you little bitch?
Huh? Come on, you want some of this?
Whoa! He hit my little brother! Get the hell out of my way!
Whoa! Get outta my way!
Come on, you want some of this?
Keith, put that chair down!
Yeah, boy! Get him!
Come on now, Keith!
You hit my little brother. Get the hell out of my way!
Yo!
Get off me! We got him, we got him!
I got him.
Stay down, kid. Stay down!
Hey, I've got some details on your impalement victim.
You figured out why he ended up skewered on a lamppost?
No, but he ran some sort of import business out of Miami.
He does a ton of international travel.
Last seen at a client meeting downtown.
Steps out to take a call, never comes back.
We're still trying to locate his next-of-kin.
Did he import bananas?
Sorry?
I don't know, that was the last thing he said before he passed out.
Bananas?
No, I didn't ask about bananas.
Okay. I'll be sure to look into that.
Thanks.
Where are the girls?
They're in the other room, working,
which is what you're supposed to be doing.
Hand me that rafter square, huh?
Sure, you know your way around a toolbox. It's the blue triangle.
Then why did you call it a square?
Whoa, look at all this progress already!
Hey, Jack. How's it going?
How are you? Jack Nesbitt. You guys all work over at 51?
Yeah. Hey, I'm uh, Brian. Uh, but you can call me...
Great, really great.
I love throwing a little work to my CFD brothers.
I didn't wanna keep you. Just wanted to say hi.
Hey, you guys want to see some strippers?
Yeah.
Well, you should have gone to a strip club. Come on.
"My CFD brothers."
You know, I asked Weathersby about this guy Nesbitt.
You wanna know why he quit the CFD after only seven years, huh?
Here we go, the town crier.
He worked a fire at a check cashing joint
and he torched open the safe during overhaul.
Yeah. They couldn't pin it on him, but he agreed to resign.
Hi. Do you guys want something to drink?
Jack asked me to take good care of you.
Nah, we're good, thanks.
You're the boss.
More like wrangler.
I'm Katya.
Hi.
Jack asked if you could come by the club on Saturday, around 8:00 p.m.
Sure, I'll swing by.
Great. I'll see you then. Okay.
This job rocks.
What were you doing managing a restaurant at 16?
I don't know, my mom was always cooking,
and who else was gonna do it, her?
Uh, I could have. I was just better at handling customers.
Yeah. You know, hospitality?
Sounds like it was a blast. Yeah, I guess it was.
I didn't think so at the time though.
I was always looking at the horizon.
You know, CFD.
Well, you make a hell of a Tex-Mex Lasagna.
Logan would like another piece of cake.
Mmm. Oh, fine.
There you go. Thank you, Daddy!
You got it, buddy.
You go back there and play?
You got a great family, Scott.
It's cool you're so tight with your wife's parents.
Yeah.
You know, when Angie died, they were really there for me.
It means a lot having them around.
Logan's memory of his mom is probably gonna fade, you know?
He will know her family, always have that connection.
Yeah, I, uh...
I used to really take family for granted.
But not anymore.
Hey.
He's coming!
I'm coming for you! I'm coming for your cake!
Oh, no! He's getting your cake! Get him, get him.
Whoa!
How sure are you that he said "banana"?
I heard what I heard, Mouch.
Bandana? Montana?
Cabana?
Bad mama jama.
Pamplona.
Bologna.
Hey, Herrmie, you got a minute?
Yeah, guys, what's up?
We gotta bench Luke.
Hey, look. We love the kid, obviously.
It's just that he...
A couple of other kids deserve a chance to start, too.
Yeah. Like, uh, Hill, Corbell...
It's for the cup.
And Luke's skills are, well, for lack of a better word, lacking.
Get out of my bar.
Herrmann, man, come on. We're on...
Out! Now! Both of youse!
But, it's my bar, too.
I got sick of packing. I needed a break.
That's your packing outfit?
I was trying things on as I went, had to make sure it fit.
It fits.
Do you remember summer after junior year,
when we went to Steph's roof to watch that lightning storm over the lake?
Yep.
We always made time to get away from the crowd.
Not sure I would've made it through high school without that.
You remember
how every time a bolt of lightning came down,
I'd let out a yelp and grab onto your arm as tight as I could?
Yeah, I remember.
Whole thing was fakery.
Just an excuse to get close to you.
I was curious
what it would feel like.
I still am.
Chief. Hey.
Sorry to bug you so late.
Never mind that.
What's the matter, Mills?
I don't know if my dad expected me to follow in his footsteps.
I do know that he'd be proud that I did.
Peter...
I also know that
he would've wanted me to live my own life.
Find my own path.
I can't keep chasing his ghost.
I want to be with my family.
My mom, Elise.
I'm going to North Carolina.
Peter, don't rush into anything.
Please don't try and talk me out of this.
I made up my mind.
I'm moving on.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Back up a minute.
This some kind of joke?
Where's the punchline?
Believe me. It was a difficult decision to make.
I don't get it, you just got back on Squad.
And I have expanded Squad so that Mills can finish his last shift here.
So let's make it a good one, shall we?
Peter Mills.
It's been an honor and a pleasure to work with you.
Hope you know you always have a home here at 51.
Thank you, Chief.
I'm gonna miss all of you.
Hey, I guess if you gotta go,
we gotta have a going-away party, right?
At Molly's tomorrow night? What do you say?
Hell, yeah.
Hey.
You don't owe anyone an explanation.
Thank you. I knew you'd understand.
Oh, no. I don't.
My point is that you're the only one who has to.
The guys, they're just... They're just gonna miss you, is all.
I'm going to miss you.
Then come with me.
Hey, Mills, you got a sec?
Yeah.
A, congratulations.
B, don't carve anything in stone.
Meaning what?
You just got back on Squad, Mills.
Where you belong.
Use this last shift as a sort of cooling off period.
Don't make any decisions until the end of shift.
That is all we are asking.
Sure. Okay.
Truck 81, Squad 3, Ambulance 61,
Battalion 25. Traffic accident. Cermak and Ashland.
How bad is it?
The hatchback blew through the light at full speed.
Driver's in bad shape.
This one's a little banged up. That one's bleeding pretty good.
Battalion 25 to main. We need two additional ambulances
at Ashland and Cermak.
Severide, check the hatchback for pin-ins.
Truck! Yeah?
Triage the other two. Got it.
Hey, you okay? You got a name? Yeah.
Viri Sanchez. Okay.
Is my dad okay?
Guy wasn't wearing a seat belt.
He, he took it off.
He said it was hurting his arm.
I told him not to. I told him to put it back on,
but he just kept holding his arm.
Why was his arm hurt?
I don't know, but that's why he took off his seat belt.
Is he going to be okay?
Hey Severide, we gotta get him out of there.
He had a heart attack! Daddy?
Hey, I need a backboard here, now!
Please! You gotta save him.
Oh, my God.
I need a medic!
They're treating another victim.
How long ago was the accident?
I don't know, five minutes ago?
It's not too late, come on.
Dad! Oh, my God. Dad! Is he okay? Is he okay?
You see that guy working on him?
His name is Peter. He knows what he's doing. All right?
Dawson, I need a monitor!
Right. You got this? Yeah, go.
Rice! Bag him. Yeah.
He seemed fine. We were talking about our trip.
He's taking me to visit schools next week.
Hey, come on.
All right, Mills, take a pulse. Yeah.
I got a pulse. He's breathing.
Brett! Need you over here.
Got this? Got it.
He's in a third degree heart block. We need to pace him at 70 milliamps,
at a rate of 80.
Ready?
One, two, three. One, two, three.
Ready? Let's go.
You saved him, Peter. You did it. Thank you.
Good job.
Guys. Are you kidding me?
Guy was on top of a truck. Or a semi or something.
Who's that now?
Impalement victim. If...
If he was on top of a truck,
he might have gotten bumped off
when the truck hit the seam in the middle of the draw bridge,
landed on the lamppost.
What was a businessman doing on the roof of a semi?
And how'd he get all busted up?
I don't know. Uh...
Maybe it was a suicide attempt.
He jumped off a building, truck broke his fall.
Driver didn't notice, he kept going.
Was it possibly a banana truck?
Yeah.
I don't get it, Mills.
How could you walk away from all this?
Cruz, man, I...
You saved that guy back there.
It takes a rare breed to do what you did.
You got the best job in the world here, man.
Don't you realize how lucky you are?
What you readin', Herrmie?
It wasn't banana. It was Banan.
Banan? We just got back from Chicago Med.
The guy woke up.
He told the nurses he tried to kill himself by jumping off a rooftop.
But he came to on the roof of a tractor-trailer.
No way. Unreal! Mills called it.
Yeah. What does Banan mean?
It's a name of a woman. He met her on a trip to Syria.
They got married, and then the civil war broke out.
He couldn't get her out of the country.
They spent four years apart.
And then, just the other day, she was killed. So, that's when he did it.
Can you imagine all that time, separated from a loved one?
So you're still going?
I am.
You're doing the right thing, Mills.
We got your back no matter what, brother.
We just had to make sure you were sure.
You are a born firefighter.
You've been an asset to this house on every level.
I knew leaving here would be hard.
You are not leaving.
You're going to carry 51 with you wherever you go.
I'm so proud of you guys.
You worked really hard to get here.
And no matter what that scoreboard looks like at the end of all this,
you guys already won. You got spirit. You got heart.
And nobody can ever take that away from you.
Now that said,
get in here.
I want you guys to go out there
and kick some butt!
Let's go, let's go!
Hey, Zack, Zack. You're gonna need a stick, buddy. There you go.
Let's go! Let's go!
Hey, Luke, buddy. I gotta talk to you for a minute. Okay?
I'm gonna start Zack at right wing.
But that's my position.
I know, buddy, I know.
I gotta keep you on the bench.
Yeah!
Hi, Matt. Trish, remember?
Hi, Trish. I'm here to see Jack.
He's, uh, kind of tied up right now, but...
I got it from here, Trish.
Hi. Hi. Let's get you a drink.
Jack will be with you in a moment.
Yeah, I'm good on the drink, thanks.
So, uh, what's going on?
Who are those guys?
Jack will explain everything.
Listen, Katya, I can't wait long.
There he is. Katya, a couple of scotches, please.
Hey.
Matt, are you adverse to making money? No, not at all.
See these guys over there?
I mean, they're not much to look at, but they are loaded,
and they want to open a whole chain of Stilettos.
And I told them you're just the guy to build them.
They'd like to meet you.
Jack, I'm just here to do a little construction work.
I'm just offering you a lot more construction work.
Listen, sorry. I hate to do this.
I'm late to a friend's party. A really good friend.
I'm gonna get you out of here in five minutes.
Drink.
Cheers. Cheers.
Hey. Molly's.
Yeah.
Do you really think she's blowing off her flight?
Man, that's confidence.
Hey! A friend of yours just called from O'Hare.
Said to give you a scotch and this.
Jeez.
Hey, where's Mills? I didn't miss him, did I?
Oh, no. He's, uh, on his way here.
Got some glitter right there.
Who wants to take a picture with the cup?
Yeah, baby! Come here.
Just smile. Aw, you look good. Hey, Casey, get in there, man!
He's here!
Thank you, guys.
Party!
Speech, speech, speech!
Come on, man. A few words.
Oh, man, I suck at these kinds of things. Um...
I just wanted to say thank you.
Working side-by-side with all of you.
I've learned a hell of a lot more than just how to do the job.
I learned what it means to be a brother.
And how you do whatever you can to be there for each other.
And the crazy thing is, now I'm leaving this family for another.
But I wanted you all to know that these three years,
they've been the best time of my life.
Don't think for one second I don't know how lucky I've been.
I will never forget that.
We're the lucky ones, Mills.
Having you with us as long as we did.
Probably think I'm crazy, huh?
Walking away from 51, right after I get on Squad.
You figure out what you want, you gotta go for it.
I'm proud of you, Mills.
I really am.
All right, quit hogging him, Severide.
You ever change your mind, Mills,
you'll always have a home here at 51.
Hey. Um, I got something for you.
Thank you.
Come on, come on. Don't do this!
Come on.
Hey, Peter Mills.
You forgot one.
Things ever go south for you here,
or you decide you're looking for a change,
you know where to find me.
Hey, hey.
Sit, Pouchy.
Come here.
All right, girl.