Tonight on NBC Chicago Fire returns with an all-new Wednesday, February 21, 2024, season 12 episode 5 called, “On The Hook” and we have your Chicago Fire recap below.
In tonight’s Chicago Fire season 12 episode 5 as per the NBC synopsis, “After their defibrillator malfunctions on a call, Brett and Violet search for answers. Herrmann tries to find the perfect home for his new recliner. A secret from Gibson’s past comes to light.”
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In tonight’s Chicago Fire episode, Violet threw the best Bachelorette party ever. It was so wild that everyone loved it. Violet really was at the top of her game with that party. She was the Maid of Honor for Brett. She was helping with everything in the upcoming wedding. She was also Brett’s best friend and so it had been her pleasure to throw the party.
Only the morning after was brutal. The ladies of Station 51 were so hungover. They couldn’t even laugh about it because they still didn’t feel human to do that yet. They were taking multiple showers. They were trying not to check their cell phones seeing as something sent naked pictures to their loved ones. And one highlight was that Severide at least responded to Kidd’s messages.
Severide usually takes forever to get back to her. Kidd now knows that she could get his attention with naked photos. Violet herself also came close to sending her own photos to Carver.
She hadn’t, but it was a near miss and that wasn’t the last one of the day. The ladies were later called to a high school basketball game. Some kid had passed out during the game. Brett was going to shock him to get a pulse back and unfortunately that’s the exact moment that defibrillator broke down. Brett had to beg for a machine off the school. And they eventually got a pulse back for the teenager.
Brett later checked that monitor after the boy was dropped off at the hospital. The machine seemed fine. It even said it gave out a charge when it didn’t and so Brett had to report the machine breaking down.
Unfortunately, the kid she helped was still unresponsive. He was without a pulse for a good four minutes because the machine failing like that. He could still die and if he does it might get written off as user error and not machine error. It puts Brett right in the frame for what happens next.
Brett’s career could end over this. She has to find a way to prove it was machine error. She was lucky in the sense that there were plenty of witnesses at that game and they could all see that the defibrillator wouldn’t work.
This included Violet. What was working against her was that this happened the morning after her Bachelorette party. It also happened while Brett was applying for a position in Portland Fire Department. If this mistake was ruled an error on her part, it could follow her to any new job she might have or apply for.
Violet spoke up for Brett when their supervisor stopped by to question them. Violet’s career might go down as well because of it. The two of them along with a fire truck were called out to Lakeshore hospital.
It’s where they dropped off the teenage boy named Jared. It was also where a guy was losing it in the psych ward. This man somehow broke the key card system. The doctors couldn’t go in to treat him. The doctors inside with him couldn’t come out to escape him. The firefighters had to break down the door and that’s when Andre truly lost it.
He knocked down Kidd. He plowed passed Mouch. Carver and the new guy had to take him down. Carver tried to talk to Gibbson afterwards. He thought he saw Gibbson talking to the nurse.
He figured he was checking on the kid that lost his pulse earlier. Only Gibbson didn’t like it when he asked him about it. Gibbson also didn’t like that they googled him when he first joined. Gibbson had this huge chip on shoulder. Sorta like the one that Carver once had when he joined. He was a great firefighter only he needed to work on his people’s skills.
Gibbson seems to hate it that they know anything about his personal life. Or that he used to box. He was completely closed off of everyone else. This could be why he floated for so long.
He never found a home until Kidd took a chance on him. Kidd did the same for Carver and that’s why Carver knows he can’t push Gibbson into opening up. He has to decide to do that for himself. Carver gave him space and it got Gibbson to at least admit he was worried about the kid in the hospital. And what it might do to the kid who put him there.
Gibbson’s real concern was what would happen to the kid that knocked down Jared. It was a friendly game. They were rough housing. This other kid was so scared that he might have harmed Jared that he stayed glued to that hospital.
Gibbson understood where the boy was coming from. He was able to talk the kid down. To help him see that this wasn’t his fault. Jared has a heart condition and he would have been at risk no matter who stumbled into him. Gibbson helped that kid. He then told Carver his secret. Gibbson had killed a man.
Gibbson accidentally killed someone in the ring.
Violet in the meantime figured out what went wrong with the defibrillator. The patches had all the gels worn off. They were coming in unopened packages faulty. They needed to be replaced and both Brett and Violet’s careers were saved. Although Violet was warned to never disrespect her chief again because she still works for Chicago Fire Department.
Cruz also learned a lesson from Capp. If he wants to keep earning money from the Slamigan, all he has to do is keep putting out updated versions of it and that will hopefully put his kids through college.
And Brett needed a new wedding venue because Tony’s hookup was at a fish store. Not at the official aquarium. There was some confusion when they had talked earlier.
THE END!
