‘Chicago Fire’ Season 11 Finale: Hope for Brettsey, Plus Will [Spoiler] Die? (RECAP)
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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Chicago Fire Season 11 finale “Red Waterfall.”]
Welcome back to Chicago Fire (again), Matt Casey (Jesse Spencer). We just hope there’s not going to be a funeral while you’re in town!
A possible lead in the Homeland Security case brings Casey back to Chicago — and into Brett’s (Kara Killmer) life as she’s trying to adopt Amber’s baby; she’s just waiting for the teen to decide if she’ll reclaim custody long enough to make the paramedic the baby’s legal guardian. Oh, and things are going well with Dylan, Brett tells Kidd.
However, when she tells Casey what she’s hoping to do and he asks if Dylan’s part of it, she’s quick to say “no,” that though he is supportive, it’s all her. And when Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo), Violet (Hanako Greensmith), and Mouch (Christian Stolte) plan to go see Amber so they can tell her all about Brett, Casey tags along, to talk about “the most amazing, caring person I know.”
And what do you know: Dylan breaks up with Brett. They’re at different places in their lives (he wants a family someday), and he remembers how she went MIA last time Casey was in town. “He’s here for work, not for me,” she says. But Dylan knows she never got over him. Needless to say, Casey’s clearly interested when Violet casually brings up the breakup.
And so after Amber agrees to Brett’s plan — time to celebrate the paramedic (eventually) adopting the baby, whom she’s named Julia — Casey goes to see her. “Our first kiss was right here,” he says as he stands in her doorway. “I got something about a year and a half ago and I wanted to give it to you before I go back to Portland.” He gets down on one knee. “Sylvie Brett, we were meant to be. Will you make me and three kids the luckiest family in the world and marry me?” She stares at him, and we’ll have to wait until Season 12 for her answer.
As for the threat to the energy grid that brings Casey back to Chicago initially, he and Kidd start keeping track of all calls, and when there’s smoke at a substation, 51 responds. They come under fire from a sniper, and while Casey, Kidd, Gallo (Alberto Rosende), and Carver (Jake Lockett) go to take him down — they do secure one of two suspects, while the other flees — and they’re able to put out the fire, Mouch suddenly collapses: He was shot?!
Is this what the “psychic” Herrmann (David Eigenberg) saved meant when she warned him he would “experience great pain very soon”? That’s what he thinks (“only way to describe how I’m feeling right now”), but it turns out it was just shrapnel, and the doctors are able to remove it. They think Mouch is in the clear, but when Herrmann’s visiting him, his side starts bleeding and he falls unconscious. Herrmann immediately calls for a doctor. Uh-oh!
Meanwhile, Kidd has talked to Severide (Taylor Kinney, on a leave of absence) about his change of plans. “It was fine, I guess,” she tells Brett and Violet. “I asked him about why he didn’t tell me about the new job detail. He told me it came up too suddenly. He kept telling me it was no big deal and not to worry,” but “he was just so vague about everything, and not just what exactly he’s up to but also how it affects when he comes home. He said that’s a little up in the air right now. I don’t know what’s going on with him.”
She then asks Boden (Eamonn Walker) for his take on Benny Severide. He “was a wanderer,” the chief says. “He never stayed anywhere for very long and it caused him as much pain as it caused the people he loved, even though he never showed it.” And it’s that same descriptor possibly fitting Severide — “wanderer” — that keeps Kidd up at night. She can’t help but wonder if that’s who he is “at heart” and “now that we’ve been apart for a while, he’s slipping right back to that. We’re losing our connection no matter how hard I try.” Brett tries to assure her that once they’re together again, the complications will fade and everything they feel for each other will come rushing back.
And as the episode ends, with “you give it everything you have” for the people you love in mind (relating back to how they all went to see Amber for Brett), Kidd takes a few shifts off. “I’m going to get my husband and bring him back to Chicago,” she tells Carver. (Sorry, Carver?)
Will Mouch survive? Will Brett say yes? Season 12 can’t come soon enough!
Chicago Fire, Season 12, TBA, NBC
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Mouch better not die.
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Trudy would NOT be happy. We need Trudy to be happy, or no one will be happy!
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Exactly
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I really hope she says yes❤️!!!! I also hope Jesse Spencer, thus Matt
Casey returns to the show!!!! Even if it’s part time 8-10 episodes a season, it’s better than nothing. These two are made for each other, so much love❤️!!!! Meant to be!!!! Brettsey Forever❤️!!!!
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#bringbackjessespenceforgood
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#getmattandsyiviaengaged
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Well here's a thought why don't the writers just ask Jesse Spencer to come back to Chicago Fire and still have Matt and Sylvie to get engaged? For the record Kara Killmer doesn't have to leave the show at least the fans can be happy that her and character and Jesse character can still get engaged and to be together romantically forever instead of her saying no or not having them together romantically anymore I mean Sylvie and Dylan has broken up and Dylan was right about her being in love with Matt Casey and Sylvie Brett and Matt Casey does belong together romantically forever. So why not have Jesse Spencer back for good in Chicago Fire and still have Matt and Sylvie together romantically and engaged.
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Jesse wanted to leave. CF would be more than happy to have him back. Time will tell.
I have no idea if Kara is looking to move on. If she is, this is her moment. If not...
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Yes it sure would I mean look at what happened to Ethan and April. They've gotten back together romantically again, got engaged and gotten married that was a great send off for them both at least they're back together romantically again.
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Hey I got an idea. How about actually fighting some fires on a show called "CHICAGO FIRE". Instead they are cops,social workers, baby adopters, & anything but fire fighters.
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They do fight fires as in this episode they dealt with a traffic accident and a fire at the electrical substation. But this show is also about the personal lives of first responders. It would be extremely boring and expensive if all they did every episode is go from fire to fire. It’s a tv drama so they have to do different things within the series. It’s not a documentary if that’s what you’re looking for watch the Wolf Entertainment latest summer addition starting in July, I believe it’s call LA Fire. You’re watching everything real fighters do in LA County. They will be going from firehouse to firehouse and you will see fires, accidents and life and death situations for firefighters and civilians alike.
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You cant please everybody no matter what they do..Just look over folks like that.
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