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Headquarters wants to get your firefighter medic program up and running

That is great news, Chief. Make it work.

I don't get that victim statement.

I'm not getting paroled.

You lied to everyone, including me.

This is over.

Shut down.

Maybe it's a politico. Those people there are always working from an angle.

maybe she just likes you.

I lost my wife last year. So even thinking about going on some kind of

totally understand.

Thing is, if you're okay with it, love to go out for a cup of coffee sometime.

Hey. I am so sorry, Dom. My morning got shot to hell and I totally lost track

of...

The teachers' union just voted to authorize a strike. Ed, don't give it a

thought. I know what it's like when alarm bells go off.

Thanks. Can we try again later this week?

Of course.

You will not get preempted twice. I promise you that.

I don't care if Ben Johnson himself calls me for advice on the Bears lineup.

Careful. I may hold you to that.

Bye.

I appreciate you saving me the trip to 13th.

I was headed to the loop anyway.

Your dad's parole hearing is today, isn't it?

As far as I know, yeah.

We haven't really talked much since our dust -up at MCC.

Hey, man.

You did the right thing.

Your dad had every opportunity. I know.

He made his bed, and however long he's gonna lie in it, that's on him.

I'm done.

Hey, thanks for having my back in all this.

And if you ever need an extra set of eyes and a sticky case, hit me up.

I'm down to kick stuff around.

That's my sergeant, Cope.

Wait, the clinic is in Cleveland?

I never heard of a world -class anything in Cleveland.

They got a world -class orchestra, actually.

So, um, I guess Mom, she's doing better there?

It says they got an army of doctors taking care of her, and her scans are

in the right direction, so things are looking up.

Well, uh, how long is Stella gonna be out there?

Two weeks of furlough. Hoping no longer than that.

I call it the Universal Compartment Protocol, UCP for short. Like the

You're thinking of UPC. My thing is UC... I'm still workshopping the name.

point is, with all these crazy rig rotations and firefighters constantly

shuffled from house to house, it's high time we instituted department -wide

standards for compartment organization.

Okay, look, Mouch, it's not that it's a bad idea. It's just...

You are not the first newbie lieutenant to try and revolutionize compartment

organization. I may not be the first.

But I plan to be the last.

Oh, wow. You really went down.

Too much? I think it's kind of addictive.

Oh, tell me about it. I label my toothbrush and I live alone.

Thank you again for giving me a hand with all of this on your day off. Oh, I

wouldn't even have the shift off if you hadn't fought so hard for the joint duty

program. What are you going to do with a whole weekend off anyway?

Oh, well, today I have this hot little foursome on the docket. It's me, my

couch, my DoorDash app, and season eight of Clutched. Oh, that sounds glorious.

Oh, um, this is low. Swap it out. Copy. Thank you.

There he is.

Joint duty program is officially underway.

A hell of a friend you are. You get me to sign up for this thing and then you

just build the first shift, huh? Okay, well, that wasn't my call.

Chief Robinson only wants PICs riding with firefighters, at least until the

program is really dialed in.

Right. Squad 3, engine 61, ambulance 61, automatic alarm, Patterson High School.

All right, that's good. Let's hit it. Yep.

You ready for this?

You know it.

Okay, well, I want a full report tomorrow night at 5.

You've got to know that.

They said it was an automatic alarm? Yeah, let's go in and take a look

Mouse, you stand down for now. Copy that.

Got smoke on the Charlie side.

Let's go squad primary search. Mouse, get a line in there now. On it.

Clarence, looks like we got a long run to the fire. Let's load off from the

officer side.

Copy.

All right, let's mask up. Captain Tony, lead squad, search. Cruise with me.

Copy that.

Fire department, call out.

Fire department, call out.

Ready, put to go.

Gun's there. Hold the line. Coming in.

Hey, back here!

Wait!

Hey,

you okay?

You woke?

I think so.

All right, we're going to form a shield for you. All right, you stay tight on

our ass, just like a quarterback sneak. You got it? Uh -huh. On three.

One, two, three.

Hang on.

All clear in there.

Copy.

All right, buddy. Take it easy. We got you.

South Florida. We're all clear, Lieutenant.

We can see you right here, sir.

Copy that, Tony.

What's your name, sir?

Jerry. Have any tightness in your chest? Thank you.

Oxygen's at 92.

All right, let's get him on the non -rebreather and crank it to 15.

Copy. What happened in there, Jerry?

I was running the buffer down the hallway from the office when the alarm

off. I should have run, but my dumbass went to see if I could stop it. What did

you see?

Cadenza was on fire.

I keep some cleaning supplies in there to keep me from walking all the way down

to the custodian's closet.

Damn, I hope that's not what caused this.

You were the only one in there?

Yes, sir. The only one here on Saturdays. Except for the principal, but

texted me and said he was running late. All right.

We've got to get him to bed.

You take the wheel and just get us there, Vasquez. We're not hopping, Shaw.

got it.

What's all that?

Hi. I'm packing a GSW to the lower torso, so I need you to start an IV.

IV kit, 20 -gauge catheter, flush syringe, and don't forget gloves.

Copy.

Read the labels, Vasquez. Bottom right. And hurry. Patient's going into

hemorrhagic shock.

Starting an IV is one of the most important skills you need to master as a

paramedic. So, let's see what you got.

Don't forget the alcohol swab.

Right, right. We don't want our chicken to get an infection.

Only way to know for sure is to aspirate and check for blood return.

There you go.

Nope. You went right through it. Try again.

Bevel side up and pierce the vein. Don't go right through it.

Pierce the vein. Copy.

So start a little steeper and flatten out the angle once you're through the

skin. Copy.

Come on.

Hey, check it.

Yep.

Good job. Okay, you're in.

Advance the catheter, connect the J -loop, and let's go again.

Hello?

This is Lizzie Novak.

Oh, my God. Is she okay?

Okay. Okay, I'll be there as soon as I can. Thank you for the call.

You came up with this yourself?

Well, I've been talking to lieutenants around the CFD for a while, gathering

information, doing an informal poll, if you will, but the core principles, for

better or worse, they're mine.

Give me a minute.

Mm -hmm.

Chief, I was just on my way to lunch with the police commissioner and he just

canceled.

So I picked up some sandwiches from Ferrara Bakery.

I know it's a long shot and it's a little more than coffee, but it is just

lunch.

Any interest?

So it wasn't electrical.

Uh, the origin point is too high.

What about that smell? It's intense.

Well, it could be mineral oil or paraffin.

Once it's all burned away, it's hard to tell one, which will only be a chemical

from another just by the smell of it. So you gotta send it to the lab to make

sure, huh?

Yeah. You can get a good idea by taping it.

Although officially it's against protocol.

Well, that must be the cleaning supplies the janitor was talking about.

Yep.

Morning, Captain.

Gentlemen.

What do we got there, Lieutenant?

Well, I think this one was hand sanitizer.

Probably got fire cooking that much hotter, but I don't think it's the

the odor in here.

Check this out.

I'm guessing it's a coffee maker. Or was.

I think you're right.

Definitely the source.

Paint thinner?

That's gasoline.

And a lot of it.

Based on how hot the fire burned in here, I'd say they filled the whole damn

reservoir with it.

But enough to burn down the whole school.

I think he may have had a more specific target in mind.

Officially, we'd call it an improvised incendiary device.

So, someone did this on purpose.

Almost certainly.

The coffee maker served as a crude timing device.

Probably gave the perpetrator two, three minutes to clear out any idea of who

might have done this.

I mean, I can't give you any names, but I have been getting these text messages.

Nasty stuff.

Threats. Profanities.

All from an unknown number.

When did they start?

Oh, hey.

The third, so a week and a half ago.

I assumed it was a student with an axe to grind.

Not that that narrows things down at all, unfortunately.

I never thought that it would escalate into actual violence.

There was a kid outside just as the fire got going, maybe 14, 15 years old,

tall, lanky black kid with a bright red skateboard.

That him?

Name's Wyatt Moore.

He's a bright kid, but trouble.

His parents are going through an ugly divorce, so I've tried to cut him some

slack, but I caught him smoking cannabis in the parking lot a couple of weeks

ago and had to suspend him for all the good that it did him.

Why do you say that?

Well, I ran into Wyatt last night at the boys' basketball game at Lane Tech.

I suspected that he was under the influence again, but he denied it with

choice words.

Left me worried that he is not on a good path.

Does he seem like the type of kid who could do something like this?

I wish I could tell you now.

Excuse me.

Hi, I got a call about a patient, Heidi Novak.

I'm her sister.

Oh, my God, Heidi.

What are you doing here?

Apparently, I am still an emergency contact in your phone.

A paramedic called me.

What happened?

Nothing.

I mean, it's not a big deal.

I think I was just majorly dehydrated.

The medic said that you were passed out at a bus stop and you almost got hit by

a car. The lady who called 911 said that she couldn't wake you up.

She thought you were dead.

Did you know you're not supposed to drink grapefruit juice when you take a

sleeping pill?

Because I sure didn't.

Heidi, I'm dead serious.

Google it.

It's really bad.

I just remember going to bed and waking up to the ambulance.

Did you take more than one pill?

You couldn't tell me the truth.

I literally just told you. Are you sure? I didn't do this on purpose, Lizzie.

I swear to God, okay?

I know that's what you're thinking.

I would never say that, but...

I'm not mom, okay?

It was my first campaign, a city council election up in Madison.

Turkey or Tuscan chicken?

Turkey. Decisive. I like it.

Anyway... My candidate lost by 12 votes, but I didn't care.

I was absolutely hooked on politics.

My phone hasn't stopped ringing ever since.

I have to take this. Sorry. Of course.

What's the latest?

Of course they're going to say that.

How many schools are we talking?

Fine.

Gather the comms together, and I'll meet you in an hour.

The teacher's going on strike.

Let's hope not.

I'm sure we'll do whatever we can to avoid a school shutdown.

The problem is, wherever we find the money, it just means someone else is

to be pissed off at us.

Everyone's taking cuts right now.

The fix is to spread the pain, maybe take a little more from items further

the priority list.

You don't fix the fence before you fix the roof.

That's my grandfather used to say.

Have you ever thought of running for office?

No. That folksy charm of yours?

A lot of Pauls would kill for that, you know.

It's one of my firehouses.

Captain O 'Neill.

I'm serious.

All right, I'll be right over.

Yeah, it's one of my guys. Got hurt.

Nothing serious, but got to go to the seams protocol.

Totally understand.

Feel free to stay or, uh... Oh, no, I'll take mine to go.

But one of these days, we will have an actual meal together, Chief.

I'll call you.

Nice place.

Yeah.

What's going on?

I'm Captain Van Meter.

I'm at the Office of Fire Investigations. This is Lieutenant

Are you Wyatt Moore's father?

Yeah. What's this about?

There was a fire at Patterson High School this morning.

We were hoping to talk to your son about it.

Mr. Cole sent you here, huh?

Don't pass go just straight to the Moore's house.

Actually, the lieutenant here... Ridiculous.

Why he got busted smoking weed one time?

Mr. Cole wants to make him out to be an arsonist now? No one's accusing Wyatt of

arson, sir. We're just here to get information.

Your son was outside the school at the time of the fire. I saw him there

Go to your room, son.

Now.

I'm not an idiot.

I know how this goes.

You lock in on one person and you... I don't care what Mr. Cole said.

My son, he would never do anything like that.

If you got a shred of evidence against him, come back with a warrant.

Otherwise, leave us alone.

Our family's been through enough this year.

That kid seemed pretty freaked out.

Unfortunately, I don't think we're going to convince Dad to let us talk to him

until we have something solid.

Let's go back and see if we can find something to put the kid inside the

building this morning.

Not to bang my own drum, but I think there's a logic here that would best be

described as elegant.

Schools are organized by frequency of youth, based on a five -point fiscal.

how's the custodian doing?

Oh, his O2 level stabilized by the time we got to med. He's going to be okay.

Hey, you guys, uh, forgetting we've had it somewhere?

No, we found evidence that the fire was an arson, so he decided to chase it down

with Captain Van Meter.

Is that Roger's fire investigation?

Uh, more of a freelancer, whenever Van Meter needs help with a thorny case.

His father, Benny, was a legendary fire investigator, so I guess you could say

it's in the blood.

Hey, over here.

My roommate was taking a shower. I heard the water shut off, and then she

screamed, and the whole apartment shook like an earthquake.

It's blocked from the inside.

She must have fallen behind the door. Okay, what's her name?

Kalina. All right.

Kalina, I'm a paramedic with the Chicago Fire Department. Can you hear me in

there?

Hey.

Ambo 61 to Maine. We need a truck company to assist our location.

We got a victim with a possible head wound trapped behind a bathroom door.

that, Ambo 61.

Dispatching truck 93.

EPA, 14 minutes.

Not much blood. I don't think we have 14 minutes. How's that door frame looking?

Oh, it's pretty solid.

Yeah, maybe if I had my tools, we could... Actually, ma 'am, do you happen

have any tools? Like a hammer or a screwdriver?

Yes, Helena keeps a toolbox in the kitchen. I can check.

Great. Bring them all, please.

Hurry.

Helena, can you hear us in there?

Perfect. Thank you.

Give me a hand. Yeah.

Okay. On three. Ready? One, two, three.

This one with blood? Yeah.

Let's get her on the backboard.

Yeah.

She's still got her head.

He's got a two -inch occipital laceration with an arterial bleed.

4x4 box.

Okay, grab me a C -collar and some curligs and start prepping an IV.

Copy. Is she okay?

She lost a lot of blood, but we're going to get her to Chicago Med.

Okay, I'm going to finish up this bandage. You start the IV. Copy that.

You got this? Yep.

That was great.

Good, you're in.

Alright, I'll push for what was on route.

Okay.

On three? Yep. One, two, three.

That's a little luck.

We'll dig up something to help us pull a warrant.

Would have been a whole lot easier if he had just let us talk to the kid.

Yeah, I get it, though. That's got to be a hell of a tight spot for a father to

be in.

That's parenting.

There's no ends to the rocks and the hard places.

Must have been having a teenager in your house anyway.

You and Stella got lucky there.

Isaiah's a great kid, sharp, stays out of trouble.

Pretty much the opposite of me when I was his age.

What do you got there, boys?

Coffee maker was plugged into the... We thought it was an ordinary outlet

splitter, but when we pried it from the wall, it cracked open.

Thought it's got a microchip inside.

The smart plug.

Yep. So you're saying the arsonist started the fire remotely?

See you in another six months, I guess.

Wait.

If there's something that you want to say, just say it.

No.

I'm good.

Come on.

It's not like you're blowing up my phone either.

But hey, the second that I got a call that you were in the hospital, I was out

the door.

You know, it's easy to show up in a crisis.

Because you get to feel like a good person.

Well, it's true.

We don't ever just hang out.

We don't even talk, really.

We used to call each other on our birthdays or whatever, and now it's just

text or a comment on InstaStory.

HBD.

I have never written HBD in my life.

When's the last time you talked to Will, by the way? When is the last time that

you talked to him? He is your brother, too.

Look.

You can lash out at me all you want.

But that is not... I'm not lashing out, Lizzie. I'm saying I'm over it.

I'm sick of pretending like we have some normal sibling relationship.

What is normal?

That's not even a thing. You know what I'm talking about.

We haven't acted like siblings in a very long time.

Is it possible to pull any data off that? I seriously doubt it.

We got enough of the serial number to maybe track where it was purchased, but

look at this. The pins on this chip are trashed. So that means there's no way to

ID whatever device was controlling it.

Unfortunately. Understood.

Thanks for the information. That's a big help.

That was the school's IT administrator.

He checked the connected client's log on the school's Wi -Fi router and found

that a Helix Home smart plug that's the same model as this one logged onto the

Wi -Fi for the first time at 7 .36 p .m. last night.

Well, didn't Mr. Cole say that he saw Wyatt at the Lane Tech game last night?

Yeah, at halftime.

But based on the tip -off time, there's no way that Wyatt could have been here

connecting that smart plug to the school's Wi -Fi at 7 .36 p .m.

That kid wanted to tell me something when we were at his house. It was

all over his face.

He knew something.

Hey, Chief. You got a sec?

What is it, Mount?

I was just wondering if you had a chance to mull over my universal compartment

protocol.

The plan is solid. It's a good idea.

Just these days, if you want to get something like that on the white shirt's

radar, it has to translate into dollars and cents.

You don't think they'll go for it?

I think it's going to be a little low on their priority list for now.

Well, I copy that.

I appreciate you looking at it, Chief.

Now, I don't mean that you should give up on it.

Timing just has to be right.

Yeah.

Mouch.

I appreciate you leading Engine 51 with such gusto.

Thank you, Chief.

I'll keep working on the plan.

Thanks again for doing this.

I know you've heard the sales pitch a hundred times, but it's really going to

make a huge difference for all the paramedics. I mean, Novak worked one -on

off for an entire week before this shift.

I'm glad to give her some rest.

And it's good to keep our EMT skills sharp.

Yeah. And, hey, it's good to keep our forced entry skills sharp, too.

Well, look, since you're going to be working with firefighters more often,

do you feel about keeping a halogen bar in the elbow?

I think that would be a great idea.

Okay, fantastic.

So we can...

I'm

sure he's not trying to be rude.

Just wasn't expecting to see me so soon.

Ray Vasquez was Sal's father.

Violet McCommie.

You two work together. What the hell are you doing here?

Came for my wheel, son.

You forgot?

Sal was nice enough to look after my car while I was away, but I'm back now.

Go.

Wow. You try to teach your kids good manners, but in the end they are who

are.

Pleasure to meet you, pal.

You know, when people don't call you back, it's usually a sign they don't

to talk. We know why I didn't start the fire.

How? Because the fire was set up at the exact same time that Mr. Cole saw Wyatt

at Lane Tech, three miles away.

I'm glad to hear you say that.

But then, what are you doing here, Lieutenant?

Maybe that's a question you should ask your son, because I think he knows.

He's right.

Don't say another word.

This guy doesn't care what kind of trouble you get into as what he wants.

Jerry's in the hospital because of what happened.

Maybe we can help catch the person who did it.

Whoever did it, I bet you'll find him there.

Yeah, I used to live around the corner. Have you been to that huge farmer's

market on Webster?

Uh, yeah, maybe. I'm not sure.

Hey, you should go.

There's, um, a great barbecue stand.

If you like barbecue.

Okay.

You should be right.

I feel bad. I could use your food, but... I don't feel bad. I was on my

Yeah.

Look, I'm sorry that you had to deal with all that.

Yeah, my dad and I, we've... we've got some issues.

Hey. No need to apologize.

Seriously. Don't even think about it.

Okay, well, I'll see you around.

Okay.

Hey, wait, Vasquez.

You should come to Molly's tonight.

Everyone is going to be there. We've got to wash the day off somehow, right?

Maybe I'll see you there.

We were so looking forward to your day off.

Is Heidi okay?

Physically, she's fine.

She just had a bad reaction to mixing sleeping medication with grapefruit

Yeah, that's a thing.

Who knew?

Okay. And mentally?

Who the hell knows?

Heidi and I, we kind of have this way of talking around the big

things.

It's like deep down we both want to be more connected, but we can't just...

What?

Okay, you know that game, Taboo?

It's like we're both playing it whenever we see each other. It's like there's

this whole long list of words we're never allowed to say. Ever.

It's funny, I used to play Taboo with my parents when I was a kid. Only we had

special rules because it was just the three of us.

Yeah, that's not as fun.

Yeah, I was always jealous of people who had these big families. My best friend

growing up had four brothers.

So I wanted four brothers, two older and two younger.

Yeah.

I guess it never occurred to me how much messier my family would have been if I

had had siblings.

Yeah, but that's the thing. It was messier, but it was a

good kind of messy.

Things didn't get complicated until...

After my mom, everything changed after.

Meaning, basically, everything just fell apart.

But still, someone had to make the lunches and sign the homework.

And you would think that that would make siblings closer, but... I don't

know. I feel like you had a choice, right? You were forced into it. I'm sure

your siblings get that.

But that's the thing, no one really asked me to do any of those things.

I just kind of did it.

Never really occurred to me to ask what anyone else wanted.

I'm sorry, I have to go.

I totally get it.

Yeah, go, go.

Hey, just the woman I needed to see. Let me ask you something.

When you were putting together your proposal for the joint duty program...

-huh. If you're heading out, we can just talk about this next shift.

Uh,

no. No, it's fine. I can take another drink. Great.

That's good.

Hey.

So here's my question.

Did he let you talk to Wyatt?

We were right.

Swipe that way.

What am I looking at?

Screenshots from a private Facebook group called I Hate Mr. Cole.

Subtle. Yeah. There's hundreds of comments going back at least two years.

accusing Mr. Cole of bullying students, public humiliation, trumping up charges

to expel kids for low grades just to inflate test scores.

Did you read all these?

Some angry mob sharpening their pitchforks. According to Wyatt.

There's 83 active members.

So we have 83 possible suspects.

Sorry to bother you at this hour. Mind telling you what's so urgent that I

couldn't wait till morning? The fire at Patterson.

It's likely the perpetrator wasn't just trying to send you a message.

We believe the attack was deliberately timed for when you'd normally be

at the school and you'd be alone.

Can we talk inside?

Yeah. Yeah, please, come in.

What's up?

Sorry for the random poppin, but I heard that's what normal siblings do.

What's that?

I thought we could hang out.

If you're not doing anything.

One with peach schnapps and I just start sweating bullets.

Think I'm about to get grounded for a month. You weren't grounded for a month.

It was like a week. Mac.

Drama queen.

Whatever.

Well, I hope you like the show Botched.

I love Botched.

I mean, I'm talking like 30 people are just standing there, frozen, some of

still holding their drinks while we're doing CPR on a little baby girl.

They can't even look at each other, they're so ashamed.

I mean, how did no one notice her crawl into the pool? Not a single person?

Damn. Already?

Yeah, I...

I forget, on Sunday they close early.

Well, Vasquez, I'm glad you decided to come out tonight.

Wait, uh, I mean, come on, you're not going home after the shift we had.

Okay, fine, after the shift I had.

Look, I've got a lot of the data wash off still.

I mean, that raw chicken alone.

Oh, my God.

Let's go to Nick's.

Or the Redhead Piano Bar, or...

Wherever you want.

Just one more for the road.

Sure. Yeah.

Let's go.

Never would have guessed you're a chef.

Well, don't jump to any conclusions. You haven't tried it yet.

Oh. Don't tell me you don't like red meat. I should have asked. No, it's not

that.

You've gone to so much trouble.

What I have to tell you, I can't pretend I don't know.

You'd find out and wonder why I didn't say anything.

I don't want it to ruin the night.

What's this about?

What you said yesterday about fences and roofs and making tough choices.

We had to avert a teacher strike. We had no choice.

So I had my budget team look for money to reallocate quickly without starting a

new and bigger backlash.

We pulled from infrastructure, public works, admin services.

There's no easy way to say this.

We asked the CFD for a list of rigs that could be permanently decommissioned.

One of those rigs is in your battalion. Which one?

Engine Company 51. I believe the lieutenant's name is... Randall