“You’re in Chicago politics now, there is now shallow end.”
The race between Casey and Becks heats up this week. While he is a scumbag, Becks is at least an intelligent scumbag. He knows exactly what he’s doing and I wouldn’t be surprised if he wins this thing. I have mixed feelings about Casey running; I know he has the purest intentions and would make a great Alderman. But, it would take him away from the house more than he thinks.
Danny visits Casey at the firehouse and asks him to reconsider Dante’s offer (to keep police cameras of drug-dealing corners).
“I’m not willing to compromise what I think is right.”
“But that’s what politics is, son! Compromise here so you can affect change there. You take blind ideology out of it and you live with a little of what stinks so you can grab a whole lot of what doesn’t.”
Presumably Becks begins the mud-slinging with banners, billboards, and fliers all over town painting Casey in a not-so-great light. One says, “Nancy Casey murdered her husband. Do you really want her son as your next Alderman?” while another says, “Do you want someone who worked at a strip club as your next Alderman?”Casey obviously doesn’t take it well and is understandably upset. But his political naïveté shows in this episode more than ever. While he is a great moral candidate who just wants to give back to his community, he has zero political experience and still doesn’t fully know what he’s getting himself into. To his credit, he’s quickly learning what this election might cost him.
“You run a clean campaign, you get creamed. You run a dirty one, you might win an election but you lose your soul. What’s the point?”This election has also been a window into the relationship between Casey and Dawson. For so long they were the “will they, won’t they” couple. But now, four season in, they’ve established themselves as a solid, mature couple. They face these problems as a team and I’m confident that without Gabby, Casey wouldn’t have started this Alderman run in the first place. She pushes him to be better. Perhaps a Casey/Dawson wedding is on the horizon too?
On a later call, the house arrives on scene to find a man burning alive in his car. It was drug deal gone wrong, and of course, this is all happening across the street from a school where kids look on in horror. After the call, Casey meets up with Danny and Dante, agreeing to do what he can to remove police cameras from certain streets in exchange for Dante’s promise that drug deals won’t go down by the high school.Casey finally realizes politics isn’t necessarily right and wrong, black and white; there are gray areas. I just hope that this decision doesn’t come back to bite him or make him question who he is.
Elsewhere…
Herrmann is in full swing with the planning of Mouch’s bachelor party. But when Mouch tells Herrmann Trudy coerced him into having her half-brother Logan be the best man (and therefore bachelor party planner), Herrmann kind of loses it. Enter, Logan. If ever there was a perfect definition of a goofy goober, it’s Logan. He’s your stereotypical nerd full of cheesy jokes and shallow, tame bachelor party ideas. TGI Fridays, y’all!
Everyone is skeptical, and poor Mouch feels so bad! The guys show up at the designated meeting place, the Sunflower Suite, at a fancy hotel. But surprise! It’s actually the crazy bachelor party Mouch hoped for. It was all an elaborate scheme thanks to Trudy. Don’t get me wrong, the after the party elevator shot was hands down one of my favorite moments on the show ever. But, I don’t understand why they went to all this trouble. Was it funny? Sure. But what was the point of the scheme?On the first call of the episode, Sylvie and Jimmy take a little boy and his father to Chicago Med after a car crash and flying manhole covers. When the little boy says he wants to go to his mom’s house but the dad says his wife died, Sylvie has a tough time leaving the case alone. When she checks back in with Chicago Med’s Maggie, she finds the dad is actually wanted for kidnapping his son from his mother, who he says is a drug addict. And though Sylvie does what she thinks is right by returning the boy to the mother, it’s clear she is an addict and Sylvie regrets her actions.
I can’t talk about Sylvie and her paramedic duties without now mentioning Jimmy. There wasn’t any direct reference to her admittance of feelings this hour, but I think it’s safe to say Jimmy feels the same way (or is at least beginning to); he was adorably protective of her with the drug addict mother.
What did you think of the episode? Will Casey continue to toe the line of right and wrong? Will Sylvie see any ramifications of her actions this week? When will we see Mouch and Trudy’s wedding? Share your thoughts below!
