S13.E07: Untouchable

[DanaK]

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11/13/2024 (09:00PM - 10:00PM) (Wednesday) : Pascal and Severide revisit the storage facility fire in hopes of uncovering new evidence. Cruz helps Mouch take his studying to the next level. Novak prepares a proposal for Chief Robinson for a whole blood program.
 

 

[FnkyChkn34]

I thought this episode was actually pretty good.  Maybe Taylor Kinney missed his calling as playing a cop that gets to interrogate suspects. And Pascal is shady? Hmm...

Good riddance, Tori. I won't miss you. 

Nice to see Cruz and Mouch interact and Mouch be so nervous for his test. 

Where's Herrmann? Are we just supposed to forget that he exists?

[Dowel Jones]

Severide has a new cigar partner.  One who is not afraid to break the rules.  I'm not sure that the case against Bishop would hold up.  I'm now legal eagle, but a defense attorney might be able to exclude the search of the cabinet in the garage, as it had nothing to do with the fire.  And from that the search warrant would also be invalid.  Bishop would still lose his job, though.

I suspected that CI "vagrant" from the git-go.

Mouch is a 60-year-old firefighter, wanting to become a Lieutenant?  Just retire now, Mouch.  It will take you probably three years in grade to get the higher pension anyway.  There's a very good reason fire departments offer retirement at 55 or sometimes even 50.  The body can't handle the stresses anymore and the workers comp gets more expensive all the time.

Well, Carver, play jerky games, win jerky prizes.

[laugard]

12 hours ago, FnkyChkn34 said:

I thought this episode was actually pretty good.  Maybe Taylor Kinney missed his calling as playing a cop that gets to interrogate suspects. And Pascal is shady? Hmm...

Good riddance, Tori. I won't miss you. 

Nice to see Cruz and Mouch interact and Mouch be so nervous for his test. 

Where's Herrmann? Are we just supposed to forget that he exists?

That felt too easy. I'd love to think they abandoned the Tori storyline and will now just have Carver brooding about Violet (I don't want it, but it would track). However, I fully expect Tori to return pregnant (either for real or faking it) with his baby

[FnkyChkn34]

41 minutes ago, laugard said:

That felt too easy. I'd love to think they abandoned the Tori storyline and will now just have Carver brooding about Violet (I don't want it, but it would track). However, I fully expect Tori to return pregnant (either for real or faking it) with his baby

This show has already been there and done that.  Not like they don't reuse storylines all the time, but personally I don't need Carver to be Severide2.0. 

[iMonrey]

This whole Bishop storyline has been a snooze. The show is at its worst when it tries to be a police procedural. And honestly, I say this all the time but it's a wonder these Chicago shows haven't been sued for slander. All the higher ups at HQ seem to be crooked and/or assholes. 

Didn't Pascal tell Severide he couldn't tell anyone else about the case? Because apparently Severide blabbed the whole thing to Stella. 

You know, I like the actress who plays Stella, and the character itself could be good. The problem is the way the show keeps her on a pedestal dehumanizes her. Watching her boss around Carver and Mouch makes me cringe, too. I just don't buy her as an authority figure.

I take it we're meant to think Pascal set fire to the crooked cop's car. WTH happened in Miami the show keeps referring to? If he was fired for doing shady shit there how did he get hired here?

Inviting your new girlfriend to a relative's funeral is just weird.

[Dowel Jones]

55 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

I take it we're meant to think Pascal set fire to the crooked cop's car.

And who leaves their garage door open at night in Chicago?

[preeya]

4 hours ago, iMonrey said:

Inviting your new girlfriend to a relative's funeral is just weird.

I've never heard of invitations to funerals. You find out someone dies, you just go pay your respects. Though never by invitation.

[MediaZone4K]

The only time I recall them fighting a nighttime fire was the episode Violet's boyfriend died.

I like Pascal. After years of the stoic and upstanding Chief Boden, it's interesting to have an edgy Hank Voight esque fire chief.

I understand the actor who played Herman injured his foot that's why we haven't been seeing him? If so, it would be interesting if they wrote that into the show as a comedic plot. 

Edited November 15 by MediaZone4K

[laugard]

9 hours ago, FnkyChkn34 said:

This show has already been there and done that.  Not like they don't reuse storylines all the time, but personally I don't need Carver to be Severide2.0. 

Oh I definitely don't want it. I just don't have much faith in the show runners not to go there with a contrived pregnancy--likely right after Carver and Violet reunite--or similarly predictable storyline. I really hope that doesn't happen, however.

[NJRadioGuy]

Loving Pascal now. He didn't say a word, and Severide caught on with a subtle smile. How 'bout them Black Hawks, Chief?

I see Novak is trying to recreate her own mini-version of The Wedsworth-Townsend Act. Wonder if she could get a 7-year hit TV show out of it?

Glad to see the cigars are back! Unless all the sticks in Bishop's small wineador* were Cohiba Behikes or the like, that is not $50k worth of cigars. That's a rather small collection, and probably, maybe, $10k if acquired all together. My own cigar collection is about triple that size, although it took me 12 years to build it up, a box or two at a time. I've known guys in my now-defunct cigar club who would buy 10 or 20 boxes every order. Even that wouldn't have been more than $5k, and they would have filled two of those enclosures. Possessing Cuban cigars is not illegal, just importing or selling them, so that wouldn't have even been probable cause. I expected Severide to have found the fire retardant instead.

It's relatively easy to get Cubans here, and for a while, under the Obama administration, it was legal to bring them in yourself from abroad, which is how I got all of mine back when I was traveling internationally on a semi-regular basis. Nowadays they're too spendy, and non-Cubans are actually much better sticks anyways (especially Nicaraguan puros). *A "wineador" is slang for a wine cooler/fridge converted to a humidor.

[buttersister]

Bye, Tori!

Now we’re left with Carver making faces. He was trying to look hurt or confused? Looked like indigestion to me.

 I’m past tired of Pascal’s mysterious past. Either he was bad and so Chicago wouldn’t have hired him or this is a whole lotta smoke.

[Dowel Jones]

2 hours ago, NJRadioGuy said:

I see Novak is trying to recreate her own mini-version of The Wedsworth-Townsend Act.

Ha! I remember that episode, stuck in the deep recesses of my mind.  Yes, I did have to look up the link.

[FnkyChkn34]

On 11/14/2024 at 2:35 AM, Dowel Jones said:

Severide has a new cigar partner.  One who is not afraid to break the rules.  I'm not sure that the case against Bishop would hold up.  I'm now legal eagle, but a defense attorney might be able to exclude the search of the cabinet in the garage, as it had nothing to do with the fire.  And from that the search warrant would also be invalid.  Bishop would still lose his job, though.

I don't know that any of it would be invalid - Severide had to inspect the entire garage to make sure that the fire was out and it hadn't spread.  From one angle, it looked like it had jumped from the car to the back corner, so he had to check everything else.  Plus, as soon as he saw something that he knew was suspicious, he called the 10-1.  Then it was the cops' choice to continue.  

[iMonrey]

On 11/14/2024 at 1:35 AM, Dowel Jones said:

And from that the search warrant would also be invalid.  Bishop would still lose his job, though.

Oh I don't know, on this show. Voight tried to hire a hitman to kill Casey and he's still got his job. (Which I why I have never watched an episode of Chicago P.D., ever.)

[FnkyChkn34]

1 hour ago, iMonrey said:

Oh I don't know, on this show. Voight tried to hire a hitman to kill Casey and he's still got his job. (Which I why I have never watched an episode of Chicago P.D., ever.)

It was very, very poorly explained/white-washed on one of the first episodes of PD that Voight was/is not a dirty cop and it was all an act.  For what?  I can't remember. 

[MsJamieDornan]

On 11/14/2024 at 11:02 PM, buttersister said:

Now we’re left with Carver making faces. He was trying to look hurt or confused? Looked like indigestion to me.

Thank you ! His facial expressions are horrible. Bad acting.

[FnkyChkn34]

On 11/16/2024 at 8:08 AM, MsJamieDornan said:

Thank you ! His facial expressions are horrible. Bad acting.

They all seem to do more light-hearted scenes better than brooding.  If only the show would bring back that balance...

[paigow]

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