Tonight on NBC Chicago Fire returns with an all-new Wednesday, February 7, 2024, season 12 episode 4 called, “The Little Things” and we have your Chicago Fire recap below.
In tonight’s Chicago Fire season 12 episode 4 as per the NBC synopsis, “Julia spends a couple of days at 51. Boden’s stepson, James, returns desperate for Boden to help his mother. After a little girl starts a fire in her backyard, Kidd and her team decide to dig deeper.”
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In tonight’s Chicago Fire episode, Severide was enjoying being an arson investigator. His work with ATF was going well. He loved his new job and so he was talking to Kidd about permanently moving to OFI when he gets back. OFI would love to have him. Severide doesn’t have to worry about his team.
He knows that Cruz will happily take over. Cruz has been resenting following orders lately and this was his moment to shine. He was going to do the lieutenant’s exam. He wanted to move up the rank and file. If he passes his test before Severide gets back, it could be the push Severide needs to change careers. And follow his passion.
Kidd wants Severide to be happy. She loves him. She wants to support him and him moving to OFI would be better than him continuing to work with ATF. He has to be on the road with ATF.
They were going to go weeks without seeing each other. She might actually prefer him moving to OFI if it meant him coming back to Chicago and staying in Chicago. Kidd was talking to Brett about it on the down low when they got called out. There was a fire in someone’s garage. It was a weird place for a fire to start because the homeowner claimed no one has gone in there in months.
The fire seems to have started from a trash can. Someone had intentionally set a fire in a trash can. The homeowner didn’t know anything about it and she thought the garage was empty until they heard noises.
It was a little girl in the garage. She was hiding. Kidd found her and the homeowner identified it as her daughter, Harper. She thought her daughter was playing Minecraft in the basement. Harper said she left the basement because she didn’t like her mom being on the phone. Kidd tried to ask the little girl about the fire. And her mom shut that down.
Kidd thought that was suspicious. Hermann disagreed. He said his own wife would have gone into mama bear mode if their kids were being asked questions about arson.
Still, Kidd didn’t forget what happened. It stayed with her even as she was back at the firehouse. The whole firehouse was talking about Brett’s wedding invitations. She did something really cool with them. There were those that were taking credit for giving her the idea. Brett didn’t mind all of that. She was working up the courage to ask Boden to officiate the wedding.
Brett had just gotten to it when Boden’s former stepson called him. James needed his help. His mom got arrested. She couldn’t afford her own lawyer and her public defender was trying to pressure her into accepting a plea deal.
The deal would get her to three to five years. Shonda was in this position because her new man got her in trouble. He could afford the best attorneys. She couldn’t. Boden told James that he’d get a lawyer for Shonda. It was going to be expensive. It was in federal court and they were going to drag it out if they could get Shonda to flip on the drug dealer boyfriend.
Boden didn’t care about the costs. He raised James like his own for a long time. He was prepared to do anything for him and that included paying for a very expensive lawyer.
Boden was hashing out the details when he decided to visit Shonda in prison. He told her that he was getting her help. She told him not to bother. She was guilty of what she’s being accused of. She only did it the once. She didn’t want James to know and Boden couldn’t lie to James. He later told James that Shonda admitted she was guilty. And James refused to believe him.
James thought that Boden was trying to get out of helping his mom. He accused Boden of abandoning him and he said he’d get his mom out of jail himself. Boden was dealing with this new problem when the new guy did research for Kidd.
Kidd couldn’t forget the encounter with Harper. She talked to her team about it and the new guy looked up that neighborhood. There’s been four fires in that same neighborhood over the past two weeks. They were all arson. Nothing serious. Just little fires and Harper was the chief suspect in several of them.
No one has seen Harper set any of the fires. She’s simply been nearby when they occur. It’s not exactly condemning evidence. Also, the whole neighborhood knew Harper is a troubled little girl.
She’s been acting out for the past few months and throwing these loud as well as angry tantrums. Her mom was at her wit’s end on what to do with her. The neighbors didn’t want to add to her troubles by accusing the little girl of arson. They just thought/hoped Harper would eventually calm down. And Kidd wasn’t of the same impression.
Kidd talked to OFI. She wanted to get Harper into some young offender classes. She wanted to get Harper the help she needed before she escalated things.
Kidd didn’t think Harper would stop at four fires with her mother alone watching her. Her mother didn’t even want to admit she had a problem. She didn’t react well when social workers showed up at her door. She confronted Kidd at the firehouse. She admitted that she knows her daughter has problems. She was going through a bitter divorce with Harper’s dad and Harper wasn’t taking it well.
The mom said she would handle Harper. She doesn’t want help. She thinks she can love her daughter into giving up arson and unfortunately she was wrong. The firehouse was later called to the house this time.
Harper set her own home on fire. She did it with her mom still inside. When the firefighters showed up, they saw Alicia begging for help through a broken window. Something then happened. Somehow Alicia fell out of that window. It didn’t look like she jumped. There was no need with the firefighters on the scene. It instead looked like she was pushed. And that begged the question of where was Harper?
Harper was still inside. Kidd and her team went in after her. Kidd found Harper. Harper apologized for setting the fire. She said it was an accident and it didn’t seem like she pushed her mom.
She had no idea where her mom was until she was brought outside. That’s when she saw that her mom was unconsciously lying on a gurney. Her mom needed urgent medical care of falling out of a second story window. And Harper could be facing charges for what she did.
James came back. He realized Boden was the one person to never lie to him. He apologized for ever thinking that Boden would abandon him and Boden forgave him. Boden said he will always be there for him. And that was never going to change.
But Cruz thought for a whole day that he didn’t get Brett’s wedding invite only he was wrong. She accidentally put it in the wrong locker. She put it in the locker next to his and now a stranger was coming to her wedding.
She has to get a new invitation ordered just for Cruz now that she knows about the mixup. And there was Cruz thinking he didn’t get invited because he was an ex when in reality they barely dated.
THE END!