“You made 51 a family, Chief, and this firehouse a home,” Cruz (Joe Minoso) tells Boden in Eamonn Walker’s final Chicago Fire episode as a series regular. often. That sums up who Boden is perfectly.

He returns, having helped James, and is determined to prevent Chief Robinson from becoming Deputy Commissioner. (Other options? Not much better. As Boden says, “this is a disaster.”) He also strikes up a conversation with Severide (Taylor Kinney), who filled in for him while he was away, and the lieutenant comments on how much of his job is consulting, something Herrmann (David Eigenberg) has a knack for.

Then, when a structure collapsed, Boden climbed a ladder to help a foreman hanging on a rope from a hanging platform, only for the man to slip and fall — before the bag below was ready. With a head injury but still alive, he was taken to the hospital but the situation was not good. It was Herrmann who stood up to remind everyone of the lives they saved during the call. (We are sensing something about his future…) Meanwhile, Boden goes to see the foreman in the hospital. Seeing what he did made him think about what leadership is, he said to the man who was intubated and unresponsive. He’s put everything in danger for his people, but now he must do something more: overcome. (At the end of the episode, the foreman showed signs of improvement.)

Boden then announced that he would tip his hat to the Deputy Commissioner. He explained that although he tried to avoid the politics of CFD, this was an issue for the entire department, not him. Robinson wouldn’t be happy, Severide commented. “Good,” Boden said. But if he gets the job, he’ll leave 51 forever. So who will replace him? Boden knows the perfect person (as we think): Herrmann. He’s not sure, but Boden assures him that he just needs to be himself, someone who “cares about people, knows how to listen, and always leads with his heart.” Herrmann told him that whatever happened, he would never know what it meant to him.
But that depends on Boden getting the Deputy Commissioner job, and Robinson feels pretty sure of her chances with the support she has. But she was wrong, because Boden was the new Deputy Commissioner.

Everyone gathered at Boden’s office to congratulate and send him off, even though he had only just arrived at headquarters, in a heartfelt and emotional farewell. “There are people you say goodbye to and there are people you can never say goodbye to because they have become such a big part of who you are. They shaped you, trained you, even taught you everything you know,” Kidd said. Ritter (Daniel Kyri) recalls how Mouch (Christian Stolte) brought him here, where he felt like he was born because he didn’t know what it was like to be a firefighter or an older brother.

“Now you can do that for the whole CFD and they will see how lucky we were,” Severide said. The only words after that were “thank you, Sheriff, for being the best friend and leader anyone could ask for,” according to Mouch (who was planning to take his senior test). sublieutenant!). And with that, everyone hugged Boden goodbye.

Meanwhile, a call in which a father denies his son’s burns and refuses any help from Truck or EMTs leads to some serious trouble when Carver (Jake Lockett) and Damon (Jake Lockett) Michael Bradway) got into a physical altercation with his father and another person. lipstick. (Carver suspects one of them burned the injured teenager, who wound up close to home from his own burns.) Violet (Hanako Greensmith) thinks Carver reacted that way because he had feelings for Kidd ( Miranda Rae Mayo) and the father got in his face. But he points out that she’s the one who keeps him at arm’s length and he doesn’t love Kidd “because I’m stupid enough to love you.”

When Violet stops to see Kidd at the end of her shift, the lieutenant reveals that Carver is taking another leave and accidentally lets slip why the call came to him. She tried to track him down, but when she stopped by his apartment, he was somewhere, sitting in his car and not answering her calls.

As for Damon, he impressed Severide by launching himself, but then called, Kidd was ready to take him back to the floating pool. Damon started talking to Severide about it, but it wasn’t until after 51 said goodbye to Boden that he told him why the call came to him.

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