The season 12 finale of Chicago Fire packed quite a few punches — and that's not even considering the brawl that went down when Firehouse 51 arrived on the scene of a restaurant fire.
Ahead of the episode, viewers discovered that Eamonn Walker, who has portrayed Chief Wallace Boden from the show's beginning in 2012, was stepping down as a series regular, although he is expected to appear here and there on a recurrent basis. But how he would go remained a mystery. After all, he didn't appear to want to throw his helmet into the ring for the Deputy Commissioner post, right?
But after a save at a construction site went awry and the foreman departed in serious condition after requesting that his crew be saved first, Boden had an epiphany about leadership — and declared he was going for the position only a few days before the next D.C. would be named.
Shortly after delivering that news with the crew, he spoke privately with Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg) about his wish for him to move into the Chief post. "You can look after our family," Boden said Herrmann, who answered, "I'm nobody." Of all, we all know he's not, that he "leads with his heart," as Boden stated.
That wasn't the only change confronting the fire fam: Mouch (Christian Stolte) struggled to acclimate to the new rig and also disclosed he was studying for the lieutenant's test with the support of his wife, Trudy.
In the previously described fighting, Sam Carver (Jake Lockett) and Jack Damon (Michael Bradway) found up in a physical confrontation with a restaurant owner and parent who was cruel to his kid and denied care for his terrible burn, which he may or may not have inflicted himself. For Carver, this touched close to home, since he was mistreated and burnt by family members as a youngster, but Lt. Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) wasn't sure why Damon was so affected.
Soon after, Carver fought with his love interest, Paramedic in Charge Violet Mikami (Hanako Greensmith), who accused him of still having a thing on Kidd. But he argued that wasn't the case, that she was holding him at a distance and trying to realize that they were something more because of the loss of her former sweetheart, Chief Hawkins. He also revealed that he was falling in love with her before departing. Later, Stella told Violet about Carver's background and mentioned that he'd taken another furlough.
Read Also: Chicago P.D. Season 12: Everything We Know
Just before discovering that Boden had gotten the D.C. position, Kidd and her husband, Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) started discussing about having children, but little did they realize the family bombshell that was still to come...
The crew gathered at Boden's office to congratulate him and see him depart. He insisted on not having some spectacular goodbye, and Kidd stopped him. "That's the thing," she said. "There are individuals you say goodbye to, and those you can never say goodbye to because they've become too much a part of who you are. They formed you, trained you, taught you all you know even.
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Darren Ritter (Daniel Kyri) joined in, "I look around sometimes and feel like I was born here. I didn't really know what being a fireman was before, nor a brother."
"Now you get to do that for the whole CFD," said Severide. "And they'll see how lucky we were."
"You made 51 a family, Chief, and this firehouse a home," remarked Joe Cruz (Joe Miñoso), and Mouch ended, "Thank you, Chief, for being the best friend and leader anyone could ask for."
As the group separated to get back to business, Damon approached Severide to explain why he lost his temper during the restaurant fire — and the actual reason he came to 51.
"That guy at the restaurant, the father, he was being mean and he was treating that younger kid like dirt, and I had a father like that too," he claimed. "His name was Benny Severide."
Whoa. Kelly has a sibling he never knew about.
Kari Pettersen
The season 12 finale of Chicago Fire packed quite a few punches — and that's not even considering the brawl that went down when Firehouse 51 arrived on the scene of a restaurant fire.
Ahead of the episode, viewers discovered that Eamonn Walker, who has portrayed Chief Wallace Boden from the show's beginning in 2012, was stepping down as a series regular, although he is expected to appear here and there on a recurrent basis. But how he would go remained a mystery. After all, he didn't appear to want to throw his helmet into the ring for the Deputy Commissioner post, right?
But after a save at a construction site went awry and the foreman departed in serious condition after requesting that his crew be saved first, Boden had an epiphany about leadership — and declared he was going for the position only a few days before the next D.C. would be named.
Shortly after delivering that news with the crew, he spoke privately with Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg) about his wish for him to move into the Chief post. "You can look after our family," Boden said Herrmann, who answered, "I'm nobody." Of all, we all know he's not, that he "leads with his heart," as Boden stated.
That wasn't the only change confronting the fire fam: Mouch (Christian Stolte) struggled to acclimate to the new rig and also disclosed he was studying for the lieutenant's test with the support of his wife, Trudy.
In the previously described fighting, Sam Carver (Jake Lockett) and Jack Damon (Michael Bradway) found up in a physical confrontation with a restaurant owner and parent who was cruel to his kid and denied care for his terrible burn, which he may or may not have inflicted himself. For Carver, this touched close to home, since he was mistreated and burnt by family members as a youngster, but Lt. Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) wasn't sure why Damon was so affected.
Soon after, Carver fought with his love interest, Paramedic in Charge Violet Mikami (Hanako Greensmith), who accused him of still having a thing on Kidd. But he argued that wasn't the case, that she was holding him at a distance and trying to realize that they were something more because of the loss of her former sweetheart, Chief Hawkins. He also revealed that he was falling in love with her before departing. Later, Stella told Violet about Carver's background and mentioned that he'd taken another furlough.
Read Also: Chicago P.D. Season 12: Everything We Know
Just before discovering that Boden had gotten the D.C. position, Kidd and her husband, Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) started discussing about having children, but little did they realize the family bombshell that was still to come...
The crew gathered at Boden's office to congratulate him and see him depart. He insisted on not having some spectacular goodbye, and Kidd stopped him. "That's the thing," she said. "There are individuals you say goodbye to, and those you can never say goodbye to because they've become too much a part of who you are. They formed you, trained you, taught you all you know even.
Darren Ritter (Daniel Kyri) joined in, "I look around sometimes and feel like I was born here. I didn't really know what being a fireman was before, nor a brother."
"Now you get to do that for the whole CFD," said Severide. "And they'll see how lucky we were."
"You made 51 a family, Chief, and this firehouse a home," remarked Joe Cruz (Joe Miñoso), and Mouch ended, "Thank you, Chief, for being the best friend and leader anyone could ask for."
As the group separated to get back to business, Damon approached Severide to explain why he lost his temper during the restaurant fire — and the actual reason he came to 51.
"That guy at the restaurant, the father, he was being mean and he was treating that younger kid like dirt, and I had a father like that too," he claimed. "His name was Benny Severide."
Whoa. Kelly has a sibling he never knew about.