[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the One Chicago crossover: Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, and Chicago P.D.‘s “Into the Trenches.”]
Nobody does a crossover like One Chicago — particularly the main occasions. This franchise has a approach of constructing a three-parter throughout Chicago Fireplace, Chicago Med, and Chicago P.D. (the order for this yr’s) seamless, cinematic, thrilling from begin to end, a must-watch, and a showcase of what every sequence does greatest. Such is the case with “Into the Trenches.” This one seems like a film.
A fuel explosion brings firefighters, paramedics, docs, and law enforcement officials to the scene from the beginning, and this crossover does an ideal job of highlighting the relationships throughout the exhibits, together with ones you won’t even have identified about or anticipated. Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) and Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger), trapped underground whereas her husband, Severide (Taylor Kinney), and his fiancée, Burgess (Marina Squerciati), fear up prime and attempt to discover a strategy to rescue them and resolve the case? Simply what we wanted. Dr. Charles (Oliver Platt) calming down and reassuring Mouch (Christian Stolte) as he worries about his spouse Platt (Amy Morton) in surgical procedure? Give us extra!
Archer (Steven Weber) donning turnouts to go underground with Pascal (Dermot Mulroney), Severide, Herrmann (David Eigenberg), and Mouch? Value it for the alternate he and Ruzek share as soon as again on avenue stage when the officer insists he doesn’t want medical therapy. “Are you a health care provider?” Archer asks. “Are you?” Ruzek retorts, taking a look at him within the turnouts.
Beneath, we recap the main moments of the crossover.
Does Platt die after being shot?
Early on, we get hints of rigidity between Mouch and Platt; he missed out on a celebration she’d put collectively for the 2 of them for his lieutenant promotion … or so he thinks. After she brushes him off on the web site of the fuel explosion, he realizes the plans had been for her birthday, which he’d forgotten. Then, when Platt, Ruzek and a former officer-turned-security guard, Bates (Jennifer Regan), chase after the offenders who set the hearth that induced the fuel explosion, Platt is shot a number of instances within the again!
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Mouch instantly rushes inside to seek out her after the decision goes out over the radio. He, Severide, and Herrmann — whom Pascal tries to maintain again to get an summary of what it can imply when he’s sooner or later battalion chief — refuse to depart when the chief provides the order to evacuate with considerations of the constructing’s basis giving out. Mouch finds his spouse bleeding out in an elevator, and he pleads along with her to not depart him within the ambulance on the way in which to the hospital.
As soon as at Med, Platt flatlines — and Stolte delivers certainly one of his greatest performances of the present as he can solely stand by and watch as Ripley (Luke Mitchell) and Lenox (Sarah Ramos) attempt to save her, finally utilizing an experimental therapy by cooling her physique all the way in which down to present them time to patch up the bullet holes. The hope is that they’ll then heat her again up. Upon realizing that this has solely been extensively studied in animals with out a lot success, Mouch is understandably upset: “Inform me you didn’t simply kill my spouse,” he calls for of Ripley.
That’s when Charles sits down with him and assures him that Ripley is an effective physician and Platt is powerful. It’s to Charles that Mouch admits that a part of him must be again on the scene of the fuel explosion serving to to dig Kidd out. He thinks it makes him a horrible husband, however the physician argues that’s why Platt married him. “Do I would like to elucidate your individual spouse to you?” Charles asks, making us need scenes with him and Platt stat!
As Mouch sits with the unconscious Platt, he says that one of many issues he loves most about her is he has no thought what’s going to come out of her mouth. “If solely I’d met you sooner, perhaps I’d have figured you out by now,” he admits, emotional. “Oh, child, you higher not stop like this on me. Who the hell would I be left to speak to?” Happily, he doesn’t have to seek out out: Platt’s going to be okay (however will want months of bodily remedy), and as soon as she involves, she not solely passes alongside key info to Voight (Jason Beghe) that helps them discover a approach to assist these trapped underground, however she additionally sends Mouch to assist.
How do Severide and Burgess deal with Kidd and Ruzek trapped underground?
One factor’s clear after the day Kidd has: She wants that trip with Severide, even when it’s only a lengthy weekend. It’s all fingers on deck — together with Frost (Darren Barnet), on a ride-along with Violet (Hanako Greensmith) and Novak (Jocelyn Hudon) — when there are studies of a number of underground explosions. CPD is on scene to assist management the world, then attempt to chase down the arsonists after Severide identifies the supply of a hearth in a server room, whereas the firefighters, paramedics, and physician assist with rescues and triage.
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Kidd leads Truck to a prepare disabled beneath; she sends Carver (Jake Lockett) up with a number of the passengers, however a tunnel collapse traps her beneath with the remaining. Ruzek, having chased one of many offenders into the tunnel, joins her on the prepare. Although Pascal and Severide (“Stella Kidd, report again proper now!”) attempt to attain her over the radio, there’s no response. (Kinney taking part in the desperation of not with the ability to attain his spouse all crossover? Amongst his better of the present.)
The excellent news is it doesn’t take lengthy for Ruzek to get a sign and name Burgess, whose reduction is clear. (Squerciati shines taking part in the steadiness of frightened fiancée and decided detective.) However there’s not a lot to have a good time but: There are injured folks on the prepare (Archer talks Kidd by way of treating them first over the telephone, then morse code with lights on a panel), and Platt’s shooter might very effectively be amongst them. Plus, they’re shortly operating out of air and there doesn’t appear to be any strategy to get to the injured civilians. (Severide is prepared to dig them out by hand just about, however there’s simply no secure place to take action.)
Although Kidd can inform instantly that one thing’s occurring with Ruzek, it’s not till she calls him out on having his hand on his gun when he bought on the prepare (and that she must know all the pieces) that he fills her in on Platt being trapped and the offender possible being with them. There’s even time for moments of connection for each {couples} — Burgess gives to get Makayla out of college so Ruzek can discuss to her (he says no, they’ll have dinner collectively) and passes alongside a message from Severide for Kidd (“you have been proper, we have now to make the time,”) referring to their try and take a trip. (She declines to hop on the telephone with him, wanting to remain targeted.)
Among the many offenders recognized is a lady who was badly burned in the course of the preliminary rescue within the sub-basement the place the server room was situated. However when Burgess and Voight wish to wake her to query her to discover a attainable strategy to the prepare — the offenders used these tunnels to get in — Lenox refuses as a result of it will jeopardize the girl’s well being and he or she took an oath. She does, nonetheless, give Burgess a lead simply as she’s leaving the hospital: The sufferer has mesothelioma, and normally, these sufferers are swarmed by legal professionals desirous to sue a spot of employment if there’s office publicity. That will get them a reputation (Margaret), and so they quickly understand that her daughter has been in search of her. However her daughter refuses to present them something till she will see her mother.
In the meantime, Ruzek stumbles throughout a person within the tunnels who’s carrying the identical jumpsuit the offenders have been; Ray claims he was down there the whole time and isn’t the shooter, however Ruzek cuffs him to a pole contained in the prepare. He has a person on the prepare who can learn morse code ship up Ray’s identify for a background examine, however regardless of him coming again clear, the person relays that the message is only a check-in concerning the injured passengers. A teen on the prepare, nonetheless, takes notice and alerts Ruzek that she knew sufficient morse code to know he lied.
In the meantime, due to a tip from Platt a few motel key card she present in an offender’s pocket earlier than she was shot, Intelligence is ready to discover the place they have been staying and blueprints of the tunnels. The rescue group — Severide, Pascal, Herrmann, Mouch, and Archer — break by way of into the tunnel simply because the offender on the prepare has taken Kidd hostage and compelled Ruzek to surrender his gun. However they’re capable of subdue him, and it’s the offender who’s shot within the wrestle. With one other collapse imminent, they shortly get everybody out.
Severide and Kidd share a second as soon as on avenue stage once more (a protracted weekend sounds good), and Burgess joins Ruzek within the ambulance after Archer forces him in to get checked out on the hospital for his injured arm.
Who’s behind the explosions? Who shot Platt?
The offenders stole an information storage drive with metropolis staff’ pension funds totaling $250 million; Ruzek’s arm will get minimize going again to seize it from subsequent to the offender’s physique within the tunnel. (With that, the drive goes into proof and all the pieces that occurred might be made public: all of the most cancers sufferers who have been blocked from therapy because of legal professionals and the retirement funds that have been nearly misplaced.) Amongst these offenders is Bates — and he or she was the one who shot Platt from behind, Voight realizes after they decide there was an inside man to present the offenders all the pieces they wanted to find out about safety. Platt and Bates got here up collectively, he reminds her. They made a vow to town, as police, and he or she shot her within the again.
Bates argues that town screwed over folks like Margaret — and her. She, too, has mesothelioma, and he or she knew the attorneys would battle her lawsuit like they did Margaret’s. She asks Voight to present her a second alone along with her gun since she’s dying anyway, however he refuses. She broke the vow they made to guard town.
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Chicago Med, Wednesdays, 8/7c, NBC
Chicago Fireplace, Wednesdays, 9/8c, NBC
Chicago P.D., Wednesdays, 10/9c, NBC
