Tonight on NBC Chicago Fire returns with an all-new Wednesday, April 5, 2023, season 11 episode 18 called, “Danger Is All Around” and we have your Chicago Fire recap below. In tonight’s Chicago Fire season 11 episode 17 as per the NBC synopsis, “A familiar face returns to Firehouse 51 to serve with Kidd on a special task force.
With Tony days away from breaking the CFD’s perfect attendance record, Mouch and Capp work to keep him safe. Old memories and grudges resurface when Gallo reunites with a family member.”
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In tonight’s Chicago Fire episode, Kidd has been tapped to serve in a Homeland Security Anti-Terrorism Task Force. She wasn’t particularly excited about it because she thought it was extra work without the extra pay. She also didn’t want to be too far away from her team. Only she didn’t need to worry about the last part because the man assigned to assist her was coming to her.
There was also more good news because her liaison wasn’t just anyone. It was Casey. Casey was on the task force. He stopped by the firehouse to talk Kidd and he let her know that this wasn’t just some boring conference that they could slack off to.
The task force was connected to a very real threat. One that he couldn’t discuss with her out in the open nor could she tell the other guys about it. They had to pretend it was a “boondoggle” to their friends. Casey promised to update her when she came in for her sessions with him and until then they just downplayed it to everyone else.
Casey even pretended that he came up with this excuse because he wanted to be at Cindy’s party for beating cancer. He also didn’t tell Brett about the truth. Casey and Brett had broken up because they couldn’t handle the long-distance relationship.
They’ve also both started to date other people. It wasn’t serious or anything in either of their cases, but they were moving on and Casey was deadly serious about telling no one about the threat.
He hadn’t even told anyone that he was coming to town. He was playing everything close to his chest and some chose to get offended by that. Like Brett. Brett felt she should have gotten advance warning. She was complaining about it to Violet all throughout their ride back from the hospital. Brett only broke up with Casey because she felt she barely saw him.
Now, he was making visits back to Chicago. It just hadn’t been for her. Brett was upset by that and the part she wasn’t willing to admit out loud was that she was also upset to hear Casey dating again.
Brett used to be the friend on the sidelines while Casey dated other people. She hated that. She became incredibly jealous in the past and there was a small part of her that didn’t want to return to those days. Even if she was the one to break up with him. Brett was just feeling a lot and she couldn’t talk through it with Casey like she used to.
Brett chose to use Violet as her listening board. She also kept going on dates with Dylan. Dylan took her to a theater show and she pretended to like it because she didn’t want to admit it wasn’t her thing. Brett felt she had to make this situationship with Dylan work because she didn’t want to be the only one not in a relationship. But Casey talked to Kidd about what he’s been up to. He actually admitted to her that he wasn’t dating anyone right now. He tried to and nothing has been working out because he was still hung up on Brett. And he felt he couldn’t talk to her about it because she had moved on.
Kidd meanwhile learned that a couple of substations have been threatened. There were literal terrorists that were hoping to start a massive fire at several of these substations because they wanted to set the whole of the United States on fire. That’s what the task force was about. Chicago was one of the areas that were threatened and Casey was there to help them navigate their call and response time. Casey chose Kidd for the task force because there was no other person he trusted more with such a daunting task.
Casey was sorely missed around the firehouse. He was an impeccable leader and a better friend. Casey had to ride with one squadron while in Chicago. He chose Kidd’s team. He got called out like everyone else to a man that was falling off the side of a building. They had no clue how the man got there. Only that he needed help.
Gallo told Kidd that he thought he could catch the guy by getting him from one of the lower apartment buildings and Kidd agreed to let him do it because she figured Gallo was known for this sort of stuff. She didn’t know nor did anyone else that Gallo was going through a lot of personal grief at the time.
Gallo’s aunt had reentered the picture. She abandoned him not long after he lost his family because she felt she was too young and she wanted to party and do drugs. She’s now clean. She reached out to Gallo with the hope of making amends. She also wanted his help because there was a storage locker with a lot of items belonging to his mom that she’s been sitting on all these years. Gallo wanted to see what was in that storage locker, but he refused to have anything to do with his aunt. She abandoned him when he needed her the most and she doesn’t to get to come back to tick off a box.
Or at least that’s what Gallo said to her face. Gallo did end up going to the storage locker. He found some stuff that his mom had kept as a memento. She kept all of her mother’s day gifts there. There was a message of Gallo and his sister as kids that were telling her how much they loved her. It made him cry when he heard that message because he had no mementos of his sister. Gallo wasn’t himself after that. He went on to save that man hanging off the side of the building. He just hadn’t been able to return to his usual self and Carver was the only one that noticed it.
Carver had heard about Gallo’s family. He also heard that Gallo’s aunt came looking for him at the station and so he realized that Gallo wasn’t alright. He talked it out with him. He helped put Gallo in a better mood. And they were enjoying Cindy’s party later on when Gallo got a message from his aunt saying she was at a bar.
Lacey broke sobriety and she eventually got into a car accident and so Gallo could lose her for forever this time.
And Tony broke the perfect record at the Chicago Fire Department. He almost called out sick because he got food poisoning from Herrmann’s mini corn dogs, but Mouch pushed him to finishing his shift because Mouch really wanted to break the previous record held by his nemesis – Rutledge.
THE END!