Tonight on NBC Chicago Fire returns with an all-new Wednesday, March 29, 2023, season 11 episode 17 called, “The First Symptom” and we have your Chicago Fire recap below. In tonight’s Chicago Fire season 11 episode 17 as per the NBC synopsis, “Mouch builds a classic firetruck model for the Deputy District Chief, but quickly needs some assistance from Gallo and Ritter. Brett and Violet encounter multiple victims with a strange set of symptoms. The results of Cindy’s chemotherapy loom over the Herrmann family.”
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In tonight’s Chicago Fire episode, Cruz was getting better as a lieutenant. He was gaining confidence in the job. There was just own downside to taking over. He was missing a lot of his son’s games at school and he used to love going to them. Javier misses him. Javier idolizes Cruz. They have a great relationship.
Javier actually enjoys spending time with his parents and he wishes he could go back to the carefree days when Severide was in charge. But Severide was still out of town for his work thing. They all miss him. They just don’t know when he’s coming back. They also needed to keep saving lives in in the interim. And Cruz was still in the early days of juggling everything.
Cruz at least has his wife to step in to help. She’s been filling in for him lately by being there at the games. She’s been helping Javier with his homework and Cruz would be lost without her. Cruz and the other teams got called to the scene of a large fire. The fire was a medical clinic. There were patients as well as nurses still inside.
Cruz’s people went in to go rescue everyone. His fill-in ignored his orders to play the hero. No one got hurt, but it still rubbed Cruz the wrong way and it didn’t help that Bamford was bragging about ignoring his orders.
Cruz wanted to replace him. He went to Chief Boden. He told him that Bamford has to go because he was ignoring orders and so Boden told Cruz to write him up. No one gets to ignore a command. Also, Cruz has to write him up to defend why he needed to be replaced and so Cruz thought that was going too far.
He didn’t want to get stuck with Bamford. He also didn’t think he had the right to make that decision about someone’s career. He just didn’t want to be responsible for a black mark on anyone’s record and so Cruz decided to sit on this one for a while. He didn’t want to rush into an action that might cause someone their job.
Cruz may have gotten better at being a lieutenant. Only he still didn’t fully believe he was the boss. He just saw himself as filling in and he wasn’t going to get anywhere by doing that.
Cruz was thinking things over as Brett and Violet reported a strange situation. The paramedics were called to the home where they saw a man suffering from hallucinations. His name was Andrew. He hadn’t taken any drugs. Not prescription or recreational. He was a country prosecutor and he constantly gets tested for work. And so the EMTs couldn’t figure out what was causing the hallucinations.
They took Andrew to the hospital. They thought that was it until they got a second call that was similar to Andrew’s situation. The first time they could dismiss as a flook. They couldn’t do that the second time around. They also learned at the hospital that there were other patients with the same symptoms. It was beginning like there was toxic exposure and that it was making people sick. Brett and Violet were on the frontline for this. They saw firsthand how bad it was getting and so they knew enough to be scared.
Everyone else however was treating it like a regular day. Mouch had bought a fire engine model that he was working on and he unfortunately lost one of the pieces on the first day he opened it up. So, he had to run all around town to get a replacement. Mouch was a model enthusiast. Chief Giardi had heard about Mouch’s project and he even came by to see how it was going. Even after they started hearing about the breakout of patients, Mouch was still showing off that fire truck. And there was another situation in which Bamford went off at the mouth.
Bamford hadn’t known about Hermann’s wife’s cancer. He thought Herrmann was just whipped. He made a joke about it and Herrmann almost took his head off. Cruz had to come between them. Cruz had tried to give Bamford the benefit of the doubt earlier because he found out that Bamford had gone through an ugly divorce. Only that didn’t justify his complete disregard for other people. Bamford was a jerk. Cruz was willing to admit that guy was a jerk and so the time had come to finally write him up.
Bamford will find a new home and maybe this time he’ll learn to stop being a jerk.
Brett and Violet had meanwhile figured out what was making people sick. It turns out that someone has been deliberately messing with over the counter pain relievers at this one pharmacy. They used a syringe to inject something on the medications and people would get sick whenever they take a pill. It was like the Tylenol murders of ’82. It was actually that other crime that gave Brett the idea to check the medications. And so she handed over the case to Sergeant Voight.
Mouch also gave his toy model to Chief Giradi because he thought Giradi would show it off to his dad, but Giradi actually wanted a photo of his small daughter playing with it to show his dad. And that little girl was already destroying all of Mouch’s hard work.
But Cindy got some good news from her doctor and it looks like her cancer was responding well to chemo.
THE END!