Tonight on NBC Chicago Fire returns with an all-new Wednesday, November 12, 2025, season 14 episode 7 called, “Pierce The Vein” and we have your Chicago Fire recap below.
In tonight’s Chicago Fire season 14 episode 7 as per the NBC synopsis, “Severide investigates a suspicious high school fire. Novak gets an unexpected call. Violet brings a 51 firefighter onboard the ambulance for a shift.”
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In tonight’s Chicago Fire episode, Violet had enacted the Joint Duty Program. She was going to be joined by a firefighter for his first shift. Her usual partner was taking the weekend off. Chief Robinson only wanted the firefighters riding with the PICs.
Which didn’t seem fair because Vasquez signed up to work with Novak. He didn’t do it to spend more time with Violet and that’s what ended up happening tonight. They first got called to a school. The school wasn’t in session thankfully when it caught fire. The one person in the building appeared to be the janitor.
The janitor got trapped by the fire. He was banging on the window to grab their attention. He accidentally broke the glass and fire gets more unstable when allowed to breathe in oxygen. Severide saw the janitor. He got to him. He also got him out of that fire.
He needed medical treatment afterwards and the paramedics stepped in. There was something about that fire though that didn’t feel right to Severide. He asked the janitor about it afterwards. Gerry said he was the only one in there.
Gerry mentioned that the credenza was first on fire. He kept some cleaning materials on it. He didn’t want to walk all the way down to the custodian closet to get items and so he left a few out. His final words before he left in the ambulance was that he hoped he didn’t start that fire.
Severide doesn’t think it was him. He saw a school kid outside. The kid left on his skateboard and prior to leaving he was watching everything. He was interested in what was happening. Severide got a bad feeling about it.
Severide went back into the building once it was cleared. He went with Cruz and Van Meter. They soon found the starting point of the fire. It started from the coffee maker. Someone had filled it up with gasoline. Severide was sure because he taste tested it.
He had to spat right back out. He knew right then that the kid intentionally set the fire and that he did it to target the principal’s office. No one was supposed to be inside on a Saturday. He just hadn’t counted on the janitor. Severide and Van Meter later spoke with the principal.
The principal has been getting threatening text messages. They began a week and a half ago. He thought it would stick to messages until the firefighters mentioned they believed someone intentionally tried to burn down the school. Severide even described the kid he saw to the man.
He recognized him right away. He said the kid’s name is Wyatt Moore. Wyatt’s parents were going through an ugly divorce. Wyatt was stuck in the middle. He was normally a good kid and so the Mr. Cole tried to cut him some slack right up to the moment he found him smoking cannabis.
Mr. Cole had to suspend him. Only Wyatt didn’t take the warning. Wyatt showed up at the a sports event and he once again high. It made Mr. Cole feel like he couldn’t save him. The principal gave the arson investigators his address. They showed up and they got Wyatt’s dad.
His father refused to let them talk to his son. He said that Cole was blowing things out of proportion. A little pot doesn’t automatically make him an arsonist. He wasn’t going to let them put the blame on his kid and he wasn’t entirely wrong.
Wyatt being outside of the building doesn’t mean he started the fire. The fire was started by a spark plug. It was controlled by a device. It couldn’t be Wyatt because he was at the game during that time. This device was set up at 7:36 pm on the Friday.
While it wasn’t Wyatt, Severide still felt that Wyatt had something to say before his father shut down the communication. Wyatt also conveniently being outside of school when the fire went off made Severide suspected he knew something. And he wasn’t wrong.
Severide went back to Wyatt’s home. He said Wyatt was in the clear. He didn’t start the fire. He on the other hand see someone post something on social media and he didn’t like that Mr. Gerry got hurt. He showed Severide the Facebook page called “I Hate Mr. Cole”.
It helped. Severide was hunting down the arsonist when Vasquez got a nasty surprise. He didn’t help his father and he thought that would be it. It wasn’t the end after all because his father still got paroled. He showed up at the firehouse after a grueling day to ask for his car back.
Vasquez was still driving because he really didn’t think his father would get out of prison. Or that he’d have to confront him in front of Violet of all people. Vasquez sent his father on his way in the car. He got a ride home from Violet. He was going to need a new car after this.
He also felt awkward around Violet and she could see that and so she just let them discuss other things. Like helping Mouch with writing an initiative to help firefighters. He wants to leave his mark as a lieutenant. Chief Pascal encouraged.
Pascal did to get out of a date with Annettee, but he did it and now Mouch was running with it. Novak meanwhile couldn’t enjoy her weekend off because the hospital called her. Her sister had been admitted. The sister took a pill with alcohol. They didn’t react well together.
She had to be hospitalized. Novak picked her up from the hospital and they got to talking. There was a lot that unsaid and finally talking will help heal old wounds. Violet helped take Vasquez’s mind off his own problems by grabbing a drink with him after Molly’s closed.
Severide and Van Meter went to Mr. Cole’s apartment to tell him about eighty students being a part of the I Hate Mr. Cole groupchat. They were there when someone set a fire downstairs and trapped them upstairs.
THE END!