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“Chicago Fire” (2.4) recap: Shay walks into a bar

Previously on Chicago Fire, Dawson found out that her run of picking terrible men to date continued with Smarmy Jay who is working for the mob. Otis went on Double Dare and won the third room at the Shayveride house of shagging. Isabella helped Mouch with his campaign for union president and Mills with his campaign to get over Dawson. Casey played Mr. Mom. Herrmann got on his Nimbus 2001 and kept chasing the snitch, and Hadley did his best Katniss and made sure everything was catching fire.

Severide and his dad are sitting around talking about arson. Severide thinks the arson squad is stupid for not keeping closer tabs on Hadley and his dad is more interested in how this is all Boden fault. Shay walks in and brings Severide over to stare at the wonder that is Otis’ Battlestar Galactica poster he has placed in the center of their living room. Severide chuckles because there could be actual Lord of the Rings characters wandering around, having brunch with Spock and playing Dungeons & Dragons with a freaking dalek and it wouldn’t hurt his game. Shay’s not so sure since her romantic luck has been worse than Dawson’s. Otis bops in like a kid on Christmas (where the gifts are hot lesbians and sloppy seconds) and Shay knows, this guy is going to cockblock whatever mojo she has left.

Smarmy Jay shows up looking for Dawson and Herrmann is on him like a tiny little, yapping bulldog. Herrmann gets on a step ladder so he can look Jay in the eye and tells him to get lost. Jay’s a smug bastard but he leaves. Dawson and Casey are hanging out at the park with the Darden boys. Griffin is trying out his triple flipping backflip off the monkey bars and Casey tells him to knock it off. Dawson tells Casey he’s going to be a great dad, he’s a real natural for yelling at kids. Jay tries to call Dawson but she ignores him. Casey offers to help educate this dumbass about how to leave a lady alone but Dawson declines. Apparently, Casey doesn’t recall the way Dawson ejected a frat boy from the back of her rig. She’s not exactly the damsel in distress type.

Boden needs volunteers to be the new wellness reps for the house. Shay is throwing spitballs and writing notes to Dawson, so the Chief picks her to be one of the reps along with Mills. Shay’s going to be checking out everyone’s physical condition? I volunteer as tribute! Dawson is similarly supportive.

Dawson and Shay get called out to check on a frequent flier, a guy who likes the company. Dawson tells the Chief it’s a nuisance call but they must go anyway. They show up to find Darryl in need of a snack and a glucose shot. He flirts with Shay and Dawson tries to shut him down by explaining that he can’t just call when he’s lonely. He starts talking about how much he loves Shay (get in line, buddy) and how he can’t live without her. It’s all fun and games until he pulls a gun. Dawson tells him to drop it, and Shay tries to talk him down more gently. She offers to run away to Vegas with him if he’ll just give her the gun. She creeps closer, in spite of Dawson yelling at her, and the guy shoots himself. Both Shay and Dawson wear shocked expressions and a good dose of the guy’s blood on their faces.

Back at the firehouse Shay and Dawson tell the guys they’re “fine.” Guys, some of you are married so you should know when a woman tells you she’s “fine” it means she’s teetering on the brink. Shay and Dawson head inside while the guys talk about Mouch’s campaign and shun Clarke by going all Mean Girls and refusing to sit at his lunch table.

In the bathroom, Shay and Dawson are washing up. Ladies, may I remind you that there are showers nearby? There’s no need to confine yourselves to the sinks. Shay asks Dawson if she heard anything wrong with the ambulance. She thinks she heard something and it might just blow up at any time and she sure would hate to have a flashback problem with it during a call. Dawson offers to wash Shay’s shirt with hers, which sounds like an invitation to naked cuddle time to me, but Shay says no. Dawson leaves and Shay finds grey matter on her belt buckle. There’s not enough soap in the great Chicago metro area to get rid of that. Kelly walks in just as Shay is contemplating lathering her entire body in hand soap. She insists she’s fine, who hasn’t had a little bit of someone’s brain in their pants? I’m not a shrink but I’m pretty sure she should get checked out so she doesn’t breakdown on her next call either.

Dawson is laundering her blood soaked clothes when Casey walks in, ready to be Mr. Fix-it. He offers to have his sister watch the Darden boys after work but Dawson stops him. She needs a little dose of normal in her day.

Next we take a tour of the house. Boden tells Herrmann to write a report about all interactions between Hadley and anyone in the house for Gail McLeod. Extra homework! Miss Viola Swamp is the worst. Boden take his complaint to HQ and busts in to talk to the fire chief about getting McLeod off his ass. Oh will you two just have hate sex and get it over with?Next, Isabella shows up to flirt with Mills and tilt at windmills take some campaign pictures with Mouch.

Everyone grab your blankie, this part is going to hurt a bit. Shay and Dawson start talking about the new inventory reports. Shay walks away and Dawson follows telling her she wished Shay had let her handle Darryl because maybe she could have diffused the situation. Right Dawson, you’re the calm one, the one who doesn’t kick people out of the ambulance, the one who always follows protocol, the one who isn’t on the Christmas card list for everyone on the disciplinary board. She complains about Shay leading Darryl on because that’s how people get hurt. Um, excuse me, Dawson? Are we talking about you now? Shay notes that perhaps screaming at a man with a gun isn’t the best plan. The Dawson pulls the dick move of all dick moves. She tells Shay that since she’s the paramedic in charge Shay should have listened to her and then maybe Darryl would still be alive. Shay walks away. When Dawson calls her back and tries to apologize, Shay breaks up with her. She says if Dawson wants to make her the bad guy so she can feel better that’s fine. Come on you guys, I can think of at least one more way you two can make each other feel better. But Shay says they’ll work together and nothing else. The balcony is closed, Dawson. Nice work, you ass. Next time just tell Shay you love her and were scared she was going to get dead. Firehouse 51, home to the impulsive and emotionally stunted.

Mouch is meeting and greeting at his campaign event when Hadley walks in and starting bitching about how Mouch wasn’t much of a union rep when he got dismissed for being a racist jerk. He rants a little, taunts Mills, and then leaves. Severide watches Hadley get into his car from the front seat of his most recent muscle car.

Back at 51, Viola Swamp is waiting for Boden in his office. She wants to know how Shay and Dawson are doing. “They are working through it” he tells her which I take to mean he sent them to couples counseling. She lets him know that no matter what his problem is, his boss can’t fix it because she works for the state, not the CFD. Basically, Boden, you’re fucked. She wants to know what gets him up in the morning, which I think is a little personal. He does too, and tells her if she wants to know what gets him excited and what kind of thorough job he does, she should ask around. May I suggest she start by asking Mills’ mom? Benny and Kelly are having lunch together and talking about Hadley’s visit to the union meeting but Benny is more interested in the fact that Boden is talking to McLeod.

Back inside, Mills and Shay are talking wellness and Shay is hugging her binder full of women. They walk everyone through the program, Herrmann goes all G.I. Jane and puts on a display of his push-up prowess. The good times are interrupted by a call to a car accident. It’s a doozy. We’ve got a car hanging of the edge of a parking deck and another being crushed by falling debris. Super Severide goes in to rescue the driver of the car dangling in mid air while Casey and his guy play tow truck. They get the car out of the way just before the other one falls.

Back at the house, Otis runs up to Cruz to tell him just how awesome it is to be living with Severide and Shay. He starts waxing poetic about the whisky they drank the night before. Cruz walks off and Otis thinks he’s pissed about giving up the third room. Nope, Cruz just drops the bomb that Severide is dating Otis’s cousin. Otis says, no that’s impossible because Severide is his boy and you don’t bang your boy’s cousin. Otis, so young, so naive. Severide would shag an open wound.

Mills checks the truck and can’t find what he’s looking for. Clarke comes up and says,”Looking for this?” Yes, you’ve seen this gay porn before, I know you have. Mills looks at Clarke with new eyes, the soft light of the garage bay shining on his Halligan Bar. He screws up his courage and asks Clarke if he’d like to hold his cue. Fine. He invites him to play pool with him after shift and flirt about taking all of Clarke’s “money.” Oh boys, you are kind of cute when you’re nervous.

Dawson is hanging with the Darden boys at the park. Ben asks if Casey is her boyfriend and she says, “No, he had a chance and he blew it so I friend-zoned him.” She gets a call and leave Griffin hanging upside down on the monkey bars while she yells at Smarmy Jay. Ben runs over to say that Griffin fell and is hurt. Off to the hospital they go. Griffin has a cracked rib but Casey isn’t mad because he wants an invite to Dawson’s pants party and, well, it was only a matter of time before that kid fell doing something stupid.

Benny stops by for a chat with McLeod who practically trips over herself to welcome the famous Severide. He wants to talk about what a good house 51 is. She is familiar with his kid because she has eyes and even Viola Swamp can’t resist his rugged good looks. Benny suggests that the house isn’t the problem but maybe Boden is. Yep, you’re right, Boden is the problem. It certainly wasn’t your kid who was stealing narcotics, fighting fires with one arm that didn’t work, or who was having sex in the equipment room while on duty. Yep, it’s all on Boden. Little League dads really are the worst.

Severide and Capp are staking out Hadley house. Hadley comes home and when he goes inside they break into his car. They leave Severide’s phone under the seat to track Hadley’s whereabouts. Meanwhile, Mills and Clarke are on a date. Mills says, “You must know what they are saying about you in the house. Why don’t you defend yourself?” Clarke says, “No one asked, so I’m not telling.” Mills asks so Clarke explains that McLeod asked him to snitch and he declined. Then he invites Mills to Babylon for some dancing.

Shay and Otis are bonding and wasted. They laugh as he tries to explain Battlestar Galactica to her. He says they should do a marathon of the show and she’s all for it. She’s laughing and getting way too close to his face and he looks like he thinks this is some kind of porno where the guy gets to sleep with the lesbian. Nope. As soon as her brain registers that he is not, in fact, a cute little butch lesbian she starts crying. Shay’s crying face is way too sad. Why don’t you guys kick a puppy next time, too. Stop making her so sad, would you? She tells him not to tell Kelly that she’s falling apart. Poor Otis looks like he got hit by a truck.

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Herrmann is having a little chat with Dawson’s big brother about the state of Molly’s and her atrocious dating life. He tells Antonio about Arthur and the doof Dawson was dating. Meanwhile Severide sees that Hadley is on the move to a building on the dangerous list and off they go to investigate. They see a condemned building with smoke coming out of it. They call back to the house where Mills is busy defending his new boyfriend over coffee and donuts. They rush out to the fire.

The building is a death trap but is also known to house squatters so in they go to make sure no one is inside. They find one of Hadley’s devices which flashes and starts another fire and others start around the room. They break through a door to get away from the fires and on their way out they see someone run by. Severide ends up face to face with Hadley who is standing on a huge bed of flammable material and holding a jug of the fuel he’s been using to ignite it. He threatens to blow Severide and everyone else up with him. Instead Severide rushes him, spills some of the fuel and Hadley catches fire. Severide struggles to put him out until Casey and the guys rush in and turn the hose on Hadley. They carry him out and hand him off to Shay and Dawson.

Back at the firehouse, Mills catches Spellman on the phone looking guilty as hell. Mills caught the snitch! One hundred fifty points to…wait. Sorry, Mills is surely a Muggle. By the way, we’re sorry Clarke, our bad.

Benny and Kelly are chatting over dinner about when the Hunger Games and how maybe it’s best to avoid being the prey. Severide seems a little more shaken about seeing his former buddy cooked medium well, but he’s happy to have his dear old dad around. Boden is in his office having a hard time with it too as he looks around at the pictures of Hadley as a wee pup of a firefighter. Casey is sitting with Griffin who misses his mom. Casey promises the year will go by fast and agrees to sit with Griffin until he falls asleep. Antonio is giving Dawson a run down of her stupidity in getting involved in something so serious. Then he Dawsons the protocol and tells her that Smarmy Jay is a cop but you know, keep it under your hat, OK? She shows up to his apartment and bangs the door down to ask him about being a cop. Cop or not, that guy is still smarmy.

And here’s what we’ve all been waiting for, Shay at a lesbian bar. It doesn’t look like the Rosebud and she’s definitely not drinking pink drinks. She’s throwing back tequila and looking around like she needs someone to scratch a very particular itch. This might end badly but I have a feeling we’re all going to enjoy the ride.

What did you guys think of the episode?

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