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- Stella Kidd... brave, beautiful, strong.

I am actually the luckiest man in Chicago.

[soft dramatic music]

- I am still very excited to become a lieutenant.

Once I get on that train,

there will be no time for Girls on Fire.

- You have a long important career ahead of you.

You cannot lose focus.

- Feelings have developed between me and Hawkins.

- Did something happen?

- You look great. - So do you.

♪

- You ghosting me in my own bedroom?

- No, I just wanted to let you sleep.

- Let me make you some coffee.

- I shouldn't stay 'cause, you know,

I shouldn't be here at all.

- That's not true.

- Evan, come on, we both know that this is a disaster.

You--you are my boss. We could get fired over this.

- It's not a fireable offense.

It's not even officially against the rules.

I mean, it's--it's frowned upon, yeah.

- Okay, frowned upon means it is trouble, okay?

And neither of us need trouble.

And, as fun as it was,

and it--and it was-- it was very, very fun--

this--this is a bad idea.

- Violet? - I'll just--

I will see you around at work.

[soft dramatic music]

[sighs]

♪

- So I was hoping to set up a Girls on Fire session

this shift since I'm trying to catch up from my time away,

but only with your permission, of course.

- Sounds like a great program. I'm all for it.

- Great.

- But what happens

if we get a call in the middle of it?

- I can step in if Squad isn't out on a call.

- I'd love to help.

I mean, I know the program really well

and I won't get called out of the firehouse.

- Yes, that is a great idea.

Thank you, Kylie.

[alarm blares]

- Truck 81, Squad 3, Engine 51, Ambulance 61.

House fire, 9340 DuPage Avenue.

[tense music]

[sirens wailing]

♪

[horn honking]

♪

- Hurry! My sister might be in there.

I'm not sure. - All right.

- I just came home, I tried to go inside but--

- How old is she?

- She's not a kid. My big sister, Courtney.

- All right, looking for an adult female.

Squad, let's do a primary search on one.

Truck, you take two. It's pretty hot up there.

Try a vent-enter-search.

- Kidd, Gallo, vent-enter-search.

Grab a ladder, start at that window.

Mouch, get the aerial to the roof.

- Copy.

♪

- I've tried calling her but she doesn't pick up.

Please, she's the only family I have.

- Hey, listen--listen to me. We're going inside.

If she's in there, we'll find her, okay?

- Hey, come with me, okay? Let these guys work.

- Move.

♪

- Looks good. I'm going in.

♪

Fire Department! Call out!

♪

Fire Department! Call out!

Call out! [indistinct speech]

♪

Fire Department! Call out!

[indistinct speech]

♪

Call out!

[indistinct speech]

Hang on, I'm coming.

♪

Fire Department! Call out!

Where are you? Call out!

[indistinct speech]

Call out!

- I didn't get that.

Please repeat. Please repeat.

- Son of a bitch!

- I didn't get that.

♪

- [strained breathing]

- Gallo, where the hell are you?

[intense music]

♪

Gallo, report.

- Gallo?

♪

Squad, can you get to the second floor?

Gallo's not answering.

- Negative, we can't get up the stairs.

- I'm going in after him. - Copy.

♪

- [groaning]

♪

- Gallo!

♪

- Okay, Gallo!

- [straining]

♪

- Hey, you okay?

All right, okay.

[somber music]

- Julia, Julia! - Oh, thank God!

- Julia, what happened?

- I tried calling you. Why weren't you answering?

- Julia, what happened to my house?

- I don't know, I wasn't here.

- Were you cooking something?

Were you using the fireplace?

- I wasn't here.

Why is everything always my fault?

♪

- Hey, what the hell happened to you in there?

- I don't even wanna tell you, Lieutenant.

- Well, you damn well better.

- I thought I heard a victim,

but it was just some smart speaker.

♪

- All right, all right, just get ready for overhaul.

- I'll be ready, Lieutenant.

[sighs]

- Hey, Chief.

- What's this I hear about Gallo getting jammed up?

- Yeah, it wasn't really his fault.

Kept hearing someone, turned out to be

one of those smart speakers that talks to you.

- You kidding? - I wish.

But Kidd was on top of it, really saved his bacon.

He's fine.

[cartoon chimes]

- Look, I'm really sorry

you don't have your own quarters, Pelham.

- Oh, all good. This works fine.

[laughter]

- Does it?

You know what?

The blue room in the bullpen, it's just sitting there empty.

Why don't you set up in there?

- Thanks, Chief. - You're welcome.

[loud laughter]

- So this is today's plan.

I was thinking of doing a fun obstacle course,

and then a refresher on the basic ropes and knots drill.

- We did that my first class.

- That was what, two years ago?

- Yeah... [laughs]

It's so crazy to think about how much my life

has changed in the best ways.

- That makes me really happy to hear, Kylie.

- Ah, there you are.

You know how much I hate it when you almost die.

Why did you do that?

- My apologies. I really did screw that one up.

- Oh, well, don't beat yourself up.

That's my job.

- You never showed at the alt-gala.

- Oh, yeah, I'm--I'm sorry about that.

I got stuck at the uptight actual gala

making small talk, you know, so.

- With Chief Hawkins?

- I saw Hawkins there, yeah.

[soft dramatic music]

- It's not a good idea, Violet.

- What isn't?

- This thing with your boss.

Sorry, but it makes you look pretty bad.

♪

- Wow.

Okay, first of all, it's not against the rules,

it's just frowned upon.

And second of all,

you were the one who rejected me,

so it is time for you to step back with this jealousy crap.

♪

- Severide, that house fire this morning,

you get any whiff of arson?

- Arson? No, why?

- Police have asked OFI to get involved.

PD had been called out to that house a lot over the years,

domestic disturbances between two sisters that live there.

- Julia and Courtney?

- The mother died a few years back.

The older one was stuck raising her half-sister,

a real problem child, apparently.

But now that she's 18, theory is

she's making grown-up-sized trouble.

- They think Julia torched the house?

[scoffs] No, no way.

- What makes you so sure?

- 'Cause my gut instinct

from interacting with her on the call.

- Well, the cops don't share your gut.

They've already arrested her.

♪

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[indistinct radio chatter]

- Hey, just hold tight for a bit.

This shouldn't take long.

- Copy that. - Why are we back here?

Severide forget something?

- You see all these OFI vehicles, don't you?

Severide's playing fire cop again.

- Hello, anybody home?

- This is a closed scene.

Severide, I was about to boot you from my crime scene.

- Is it really a crime scene? - For now.

Did you work the fire?

- Yeah, didn't see any signs of arson though. You?

- Not yet, but the cops are

pretty sure about their suspect, Julia Davis.

They're trying to get a confession

out of her right now.

- Do they have anything on her?

- Neighbors overheard her screaming

at her sister this morning

and a couple of hours later...

Plus, the fire apparently started

right here on her sister's bed.

It's like Julia was sending a message, right?

[somber music]

♪

- You find any signs of accelerants?

- Not yet, but we're taking plenty of samples.

♪

- I don't think she did this.

- Why not?

- I saw her reaction in the moment

and the thought of her sister being stuck inside here

scared the hell out of her.

- All right, maybe she's just a good actress?

- Or maybe I'm a good judge of character.

- Sounds like you're pretty invested.

- Yeah, whoo.

- Nice, Macy. - Oh, yes.

[indistinct cheering and chatter]

- Yvette, knees up. Go, go, go.

Come on, ladies. Keep it going.

Good hustle, good hustle. Keep it up.

Yes, good hustle, Macy, good hustle.

- All right,

do I sound that intimidating when I yell at you guys?

- [laughs] So much worse.

- Yeah.

all: Whoo.

- Nice job, Becca!

- Hey, Macy, how's it going?

- Happy to see you back, Stella.

I've been wanting to tell you something.

- Yeah. - I'm turning 21 next month

and--and I'm gonna apply for the next CFD test.

I wanna be a firefighter, no matter how long it takes.

I'm all in.

- That is--damn, come here.

You--you're my first official recruit.

I'm so proud of you. - Thank you.

[warm music]

♪

- Bad idea there, Pelham.

The blue office is a no-fly zone.

You know, I tried to, you know, stake my claim in here,

but Boden declared it is off-limits.

- Really? - Yeah.

- 'Cause he just told me to move in here.

- He did? - Yep.

- Your own thermostat, nice.

I got to live with whatever temperature Severide wants

and that man's a yeti.

- Hey, look, if you want the blue office,

I'm happy to swap with you.

- No, thanks. Yeah, if I'm being honest,

most people think that this place is cursed.

Kidd tried to turn it into a, you know, a woman's lounge,

total disaster.

And oh, and Gorsch, you remember ADC Gorsch?

- Mm-hmm.

- He burrowed in here for a while

and he made our lives hell

so, you know,

you might want to bring in a priest

and get an exorcism going.

- Mmm, what is this? It's amazing.

- Martha Stewart's firehouse jambalaya,

one of my favorite recipes.

- So why aren't you eating anything?

[phone chimes]

- Ms. Davis, I'm not sure if you remember me.

I responded to the fire this morning.

- Oh, hi.

- I'm Lieutenant Kelly Severide.

This is Lieutenant Wendy Seager,

with the office of Fire Investigation.

- Courtney, we'd like to talk

to you about the fire if you have a minute.

- I'm sorry, all I've done today

is answer questions from the police,

from the insurance company, from my boss who doesn't get

why I can't deal with work right now so.

- We'll try and make this quick.

We're just trying to get the full picture

of all the events leading up to the fire.

- All I can tell you is that when I left for my 10:00 a.m.

doctor's appointment, everything was fine.

And then when I got back an hour later,

my house and everything I own was on fire.

- Julia was still there when you left?

- We heard you two got into a fight this morning.

What was that about?

- What it's always about, money.

I've been taking care of her since she was 13.

So now it's time that she starts pulling her own weight.

- You two don't get along?

- It's complicated.

I mean, she was still young

when our mom died in a car accident.

And then all of a sudden big sister's calling the shots.

That's pretty heavy stuff for a kid.

She started acting out

and she was in and out of trouble.

But things started to get better last year.

- How so?

- She chilled out a bit,

got her grades up and managed to graduate.

She even started looking for a job.

I really thought she was turning it all around.

- Do you think Julia might've actually started this fire?

- I don't wanna think that, but--

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- Julia Davis called 911 at 10:41 this morning

to report the fire.

We're just trying to see

if anyone saw her returning home around that time.

- I wasn't around this morning, but whatever she told you,

take it with a big old grain of salt.

That girl's been trouble her whole life.

- Okay, thanks for your time.

- Help me understand, Severide.

I mean, her own sister thinks she's guilty,

but we're freezing our butts off

trying to find someone to corroborate the timeline?

- You can go back to the office if you want.

- Okay, I'm just saying this girl's kicked holes in walls.

I mean, she threw

a brick through her sister's windshield once.

- So what?

You're--you're just doing what everybody else is doing

and judging her for things she did in the past

but people can change. I did.

You know, I was a nightmare in my teens.

I mean, the Julia that I met this morning at the fire

clearly loves her sister.

She was a mess at the thought of her in danger.

I think she deserves better than to be boiled down

to a rap sheet of her past offenses.

[somber music]

♪

- Let's keep knocking on doors then.

- I'm just gonna call Stella,

and make sure she knows that I'm gonna be gone for a while.

- Okay, yeah, it sounds like you got your hands full.

Good luck.

- What's that?

- Oh, that's Kelly. He's gonna be late.

You know, I guess the arson case is a tough one.

And you know, he's working with Seager who is very attractive

and obviously in love with him,

but I'm okay with it because Kelly and I

just got back to being solid as hell and there is no reason

why I should feel weird about how well they work together.

- I just meant what's all that paperwork?

- [clears throat]

This is Girls on Fire stuff.

- Cool. - Mm-hmm.

- I'll help.

- That would be awesome.

God, now you see why I can't be a Lieutenant right now.

You know, supervising all of this,

it's endless hours of paperwork,

plus the time and energy it takes to run the sessions.

- It's a lot.

- It is but, you know, I can't drop the program.

Look at the difference it's making.

Macy is going to become a firefighter.

- Yeah, it's pretty amazing.

No way you can drop the program.

[faint rustling]

- Did you hear that? - Yeah.

[rustling continues]

- Kylie. Kylie, where are you?

- Kylie's not out there.

Is there something wrong, Chief?

- Everything okay back here? - Shh, quiet.

There's a critter in the wall.

all: Oh.

- Little guy is just trying to escape the cold weather, right?

No harm, no foul.

- Yeah, and then he'll die in the walls

and turn the firehouse into a hazmat situation.

- Yeah, we had a carcass in the bunker

in the wall one time, Mr. Sprinkles.

- He was a guinea pig.

- Okay, I doubt there's a guinea pig

living in my office walls.

- No, most likely a swarm of rats.

- Shh.

[playful music]

[alarm blares]

- Ambulance 61, person injured...

- Oh, sorry, I can't stay and help.

- Northwood.

[siren wailing]

[tense music]

♪

- What are we looking at?

- Stabbing in the holding cell,

a couple of dirtbags mixing it up.

One of 'em got ahold of a soda can and turned it into a shiv.

♪

Never a dull day, right?

♪

- Hey, let me see that wound. Oh, hi--

- You better keep that bitch away from me, you hear?

- You open your mouth, you see what happens?

- Hey, shut up, huh.

- Aren't you from the fire this morning?

- I didn't do anything,

but they threw me in here like some criminal.

- Keep talking, girl.

- Hey, you're not doing yourself any favors.

- I didn't start that fire. I swear it.

♪

- Hey, we need to get her to the hospital.

- Why, can't you just patch her up?

- It won't stop bleeding, might have nicked an artery.

She needs a doctor.

- I gotta run this by my Sergeant.

- Look, we'll handle this however you guys want.

Just know we fill out very detailed reports.

- Go with them.

- Come on.

Let's go then.

♪

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- Hey, guys.

- Hey, she's over there.

- The room with the armed guard.

- Thanks for the heads-up.

- We are with the Office of Fire Investigation.

Do you mind if we have a word with her?

- Sure.

- Hey, Julia. Do you remember me?

- Yeah. - My name's Kelly.

This is my friend, Wendy. We're investigating the fire.

We just have some questions for you.

- You have to believe me. I didn't set that fire.

- Okay, then help us prove it. - How?

- Just tell us everything

that you can about what happened this morning.

What you did, where you went.

- Oh, it was kind of a normal day.

It started out with a big screaming match

between me and my sister about what a burden I am.

But after she left, I tried to chill out with a hot shower.

Then I kicked back on her bed

for a while and listened to music.

- On your sister's bed? - Yeah.

- Were you burning any candles or incense, anything like that?

- Smoking? Vaping?

- No, I gave up weed in case I have to get drug-tested.

I'm looking for a job.

That's where I went this morning, walking around,

looking for "help wanted" signs.

- Okay, did you fill out any applications

or even just talk to anyone

that could vouch for your whereabouts?

- The only openings I saw were for car mechanics,

stuff like that, so I gave up and headed home.

- Julia, the fire started on your sister's bed.

- It did?

- How were you listening to music?

Headphones, earbuds, anything with a lithium battery in it

that you might've left on the bedspread?

- No, Courtney has one of those smart speakers.

You don't even have to touch it.

Just tell it what to play.

[soft suspenseful music]

♪

- That was a bust.

Weird thing is I'm starting to agree with you.

I think she's telling the truth.

♪

What's up?

- Some of those devices, when they're given an instruction,

they store the audio recording in the cloud.

It might be a long shot

but if her sister can access those recordings,

maybe that'll help us figure out

what happened in the bedroom when the fire started.

- You know how once they go past stale

and then go another six months or so,

and reach a whole new texture? That's what we're at.

Check it out.

I'm telling you, it'll cheer you right up.

[quiet rustling]

Sounds like you're chewing sandpaper.

- That's not me.

- I think it's coming from in there.

- What's that--

- Shh, shh, there could be 1 or 100, who knows?

- You okay, Lieutenant?

♪

- Did you get the 20?

- Hey, yeah. I'm thinking this general area.

- Okay.

♪

- As tough as she was playing it, she was scared.

And she didn't strike me as a type

to try and burn a house down.

- Yeah, that's what Kelly's been saying too.

- I'm glad we got her out of that holding cell,

at least for now. - Yeah.

- Does anybody have moisturizer?

- Yeah, in my locker, green bottle.

[gentle music]

- Stella Kidd, what is this?

♪

- It's a ring. A ring that Kelly

gave me at the gala on a freezing cold terrace.

- Why didn't you tell us?

- Because we've already been engaged for a while.

And so I didn't wanna make too big a deal out of it.

- Oh, but it is a big deal. - Yeah.

- Maybe it's time to plan an actual wedding now?

- I was thinking the same thing.

- Just curious,

has it ever been tricky with you and Severide,

with him being a Lieutenant at 51 and you guys dating?

- Well, we're not on the same rig so that helps.

But even if we were,

who gives a damn what people think?

- Yeah, yeah, who gives a damn?

♪

- Spill.

What happened with you and Hawkins?

- Okay...

There was a thing

and we--we kinda hooked up at the gala.

- At the gala? - Just--just for a minute.

And then we left and we went to his house.

- Whoa. - I like him.

- Well, he is very likable.

[alarm blares]

- Truck 81, person trapped...

- Okay, no time for deodorant,

but I will still smell better than the rest of my unit.

[laughter]

[sirens wailing]

[tense music]

♪

- Hurry. He got himself stuck.

- Okay, show me where he is. Can you tell us what happened?

- Well, my neighbor said that if I told you the truth

that you probably wouldn't come.

- What do you mean?

- Well, it's not a person who's trapped.

It's Tyson.

[forlorn meowing]

♪

Now, I know they say that cats land on their feet,

but Tyson is up so high. If he fell, I know he'd die.

- Don't worry, cats always figure out

how to get down all by themselves.

- But he's been up there for almost an hour.

♪

- Lieutenant, so Gallo could use a boost.

He's been pretty hard on themselves

since the fire yesterday.

Climbing is his specialty.

Maybe let the kid loose?

- Gallo. - Yes, sir?

- Think you can get that cat down?

- [gasps]

- Yes, sir.

- Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[meowing]

♪

[knock at door]

- Come in, come in.

So I logged into my account like you told me to.

It took me a while to figure it all out,

but eventually I found where they store the recordings.

Anyway, listen to what I found.

This is from yesterday morning right before the fire.

[upbeat music playing]

- Hey, computer, pause the music.

Hey, girl, what are you up to?

- Who's she talking to?

- She's on the phone with a friend, Mya, probably.

- Cool, well, I gotta go pound the pavement for a while.

My sister is making me get a job.

But later, you wanna meet up

and get some boba or something?

Okay, call you then. Computer, unpause.

[device chimes and music resumes]

- Is that the only recording?

- It's the only one from yesterday,

but it's good, right?

She was telling the truth about going out to look for a job.

♪

- It's good. It's helpful.

But I don't think it's a silver bullet

that's going to get your sister out of police custody.

- What's this about?

- Nothing, it's a rash

that I woke up with the other day.

So you really don't think this is gonna make a difference?

I mean, she's not plotting to burn the house down.

She's talking about getting boba.

- You woke up with that?

Had your sheets been washed the day before?

- Yeah, actually, why?

- I might know how the fire started.

.

[dryer rumbling, buzzes]

- Now we just wait?

- Right.

- For how long?

- What, you want me to find you a magazine

to read or something?

- Whoo, that was a fun call! - [chuckles]

- And you can see why she named him Tyson, he's a real fighter.

[indistinct radio chatter]

- What's going on over here?

- It's just a little experiment.

- We're testing a theory about how the fire started yesterday.

- What's the theory?

- When Julia took a shower then she applied

an alcohol-based gel to her wet hair.

Then she laid down on sheets

that were washed with too much bleach.

- And that's bad?

- No, not at first. Not while it was wet.

But then she left the house, the moisture evaporated,

and...auto-ignition.

- Whoa.

[upbeat music]

- I'll let PD know.

We're ruling this an accidental fire.

Nice work, guys.

♪

- Sure, she's cute and all, but come on.

♪

You're the one he looks at when he's showing off.

- That's true.

- Well, looks like Gallo's got his mojo back.

[indistinct chatter]

- Yeah, figured he just needed a win.

Help him hit the reset button.

- It's a nice piece of leadership, Kidd.

Really impressive.

♪

- I'm not proud of myself.

- Did you find it? - No.

[clunking]

[quiet rattling]

- It's in the air duct.

- Right.

- You ready?

[quirky music]

♪

[thunking quietly]

♪

- I...

I turned on the heat when I moved in.

So must've been the first time

in a while there's any air flowing through there.

- I'll get this room put back together right away.

Good as new. - Ah...

No rush.

You know, I think a briefing room might be better after all.

- Hey. - Hey.

You have a second to talk?

- Of course, yeah.

- I'm sorry if this is out of line at all,

but I have something I need to say to you.

- Okay. - For like two years now,

you've been my mentor and my hero.

- Oh, that's--that's nice of you to say, Kylie.

- Well, during that time,

I have watched you work so hard for that Lieutenant position.

Put all you had into it and kick ass.

And I know how important Girls on Fire is to you,

but the truth is I can take over

a lot of that organizational stuff

and even run the sessions.

- You're great. - So I was thinking...

What's so awesome about Girls on Fire

is that it makes girls like me and Macy

from all over the city feel like becoming

a firefighter could really happen.

But just becoming one isn't the only goal.

Moving up, working to become a leader, that's the dream.

And that's what makes you so inspiring.

That you're capable of all that.

Of becoming a Lieutenant.

So why wait to show it?

♪

- Hey.

- I don't think your assistant likes me.

- She doesn't like anyone.

- I told her we had a meeting off the books

and she frowned.

But she let me in so.

- You are lucky.

Others have perished trying.

- Well, I have decided not to let the frowning bother me.

Hers or anyone else's.

[warm music]

♪

So call me when you're done here.

And we'll make some of that good kind of trouble.

- Thanks for pitching in on the paperwork. For once.

- Well, don't get used to it. It's just my way of

thanking you for taking this flyer with me.

- My pleasure.

I'm happy to follow your gut instinct wherever it leads us.

- I'll see you around, Seager.

- See you around, Severide.

- Julia! - [laughs]

Thank you so much.

♪

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[dramatic music]

♪

[wolf howls]