Tonight on NBC Chicago Fire returns with an all-new Wednesday, March 26, 2025, season 13 episode 16 called, “In The Rubble” and we have your Chicago Fire recap below.
In tonight’s Chicago Fire season 13 episode 16 as per the NBC synopsis, “In the face of adversity, Pascal searches for justice. Violet struggles to write a letter to Carver. Damon returns to the floater pool hoping to secure a permanent spot at 51.”
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In tonight’s Chicago Fire episode, Chief Dom Pascal lost his wife. Monica was involved in a car accident. She died from the injuries she sustained from the accident and so Pascal blamed the other driver for her death. He pushed for an investigation. He claimed he wanted accountability when really he wanted revenge.
He wanted someone to blame for losing his wife. It made him feel better if he doesn’t blame himself. It was their anniversary. She was supposed to meet him for a night out. The original plan was a dinner with her sister and Pascal hated that. He suggested dinner for just the two of them. And that’s why his wife was on the road that night.
Pascal wasn’t ready to face ownership. It was easier to focus on the one thing. Like the investigation. He blamed the other driver. He waited for charges to be filed. He also went back to work after two weeks.
He asked everyone at the firehouse to not dance around him. He was their Chief. He told them nothing has changed and that proved to be a lie. Pascal later went with the others when they got called to a workplace accident. He normally stays back at the firehouse for those. He went into the field with them tonight and he climbed up a scissor ladder to help a man trapped up there.
The man was easily a hundred feet above the ground. The firefighters’ ladders weren’t going to reach that high. Pascal deciding not to wait for the professionals and climbing his way up there seemed problematic.
They thought he had a death wish. He saved the guy, but he almost got killed doing so and that’s the part the firefighters were worried about. They didn’t want a Chief with a death wish to put them at risk. It also got worse from there when Pascal learned that the other driver wasn’t going to face charges.
The other driver wasn’t drunk or on drugs. The traffic signal malfunctioned that night. It caused an accident in every direction. It wasn’t just one guy that caused it and so there weren’t going to be charges. The State’s Attorney felt it was a simple tragedy. The only person that could be blamed was the city for not fixing that light sooner.
They tried to tell Pascal this and he flipped out. He said his wife was a cautious driver. She wouldn’t have speed ahead on a yellow. He didn’t care about the evidence or anything else. He still believed the other driver murdered his wife.
Pascal ran into the guy when he was leaving the State Attorney’s office. He yelled at him. He called him a murderer and he wasn’t going to let this go. Pascal ordered his best firefighters to go back to the scene with him. They were all supposed to help him find evidence that his wife was murdered.
They explained that they followed protocol. It’s not like they chose to save the other driver over Monica. It just happened that way in the heat of the moment. Severide was a scene investigator. He knew they did everything they could to save everyone at the scene.
Monica succumbing to her injuries was not on them. Or the paramedics. Or the doctors in the ED. They all did what they could for Monica and that wasn’t enough for Pascal. Pascal didn’t even want a proper funeral. He wanted to keep it small. He just wanted family members to be there.
He didn’t want to invite his house. He didn’t want to invite Monica’s friends. He was struggling with his mental health and he was the only one that couldn’t see it. Pascal was becoming dangerous on the job.
Herrmann later spoke with Severide and Kidd. They had to talk about the possibility of Pascal getting worse. If he kept showing up to work being crazy, they might have to go against orders.
Breaking command was no small thing either. Severide had earlier asked Pascal about Damon coming back to work for Herrmann. Pascal wouldn’t approve it until Severide went over his paperwork from the night Monica died. It wasn’t explicitly said only Pascal wanted Severide to “find” something or Damon was going to be stuck in the floater pool.
The rest of the house meanwhile tried to find out what they could do for Pascal. They thought about sending flowers. Violet lost her boyfriend on the job and was given a bunch of flowers. She warned the others that the flowers stay with the memory to the point just smelling them again brings back the trauma back.
Violet was so traumatized after she lost her boyfriend that she turned down the chance at love with Carver. She pushed him away. He met someone else. It didn’t work and now he was at rehab. Violet has started writing him a letter to explain how much he meant to her.
Violet was practically writing a book full of everything she wanted to say. It was helping her heal. Pascal was visiting the other driver’s home to help himself heal. He was stalking Franklin.
Severide found out about it. He warned Pascal to stop now before it gets worse. He was where Pascal was. He knew it wouldn’t end well. Pascal must have also realized it too because he finally calmed down. He also approved for Damon to be assigned back to 51 permanently. Which will help Damon because he was finally starting something with Lizzie Novak.
And while they weren’t invited, the whole house showed up for Monica’s funeral. They knew Pascal needed support and were there for him.
THE END!
