And as more police officers become involved, it all gets out of hand too quickly.Īfter hours go by, though, the original protestor, still chained to the rigs, begins to lose consciousness. The second group of protesters that show up for solidarity aren’t as peaceful, nor do they have quite the same motives. Something about the invasion of the firehouse feels more unsettling than life-threatening rescues.Īnd even as the crew at Firehouse 51 comes to be on the same side of the original protest group - they’re sympathetic to the loss of that other firehouse - the whole thing is an illustration of mob mentality. This is a situation we’ve never seen, and the episode is surprisingly more suspenseful than it would be if it centered on a house fire or other rescue. It tests the characters in different ways. Unfortunately, as more citizens get wind of the situation, the takeover gets out of control. CHICAGO FIRE - “Light Things Up” Episode 819 - Pictured: (l-r) Taylor Kinney as Kelly Severide, Alberto Rosende as Blake Gallo, Eamonn Walker as Wallace Boden, Miranda Rae Mayo as Stella Kidd - (Photo by: Adrian Burrows/NBC) The firefighters have to be careful and Boden doesn’t want too many police officers. This is a delicate situation not only because of optics in general but from a moral standpoint also. What seems simple at first - that the protesters are disrupting a working firehouse and should be forced to leave, isn’t actually so simple. It starts small when a group of protesters chains the doors and then one of them chains himself up to their rigs. The firehouse is taken over by protesters. Most of the episode is centered around something we haven’t seen before. And no, that’s not just because we get a chance to see our favorite firefighters dressed in formal wear. There are ancestors that I think that we still have to acknowledge and honor in the way that we tell stories.Chicago Fire Season 8 Episode 19, “Light Things Up,” is one of the best episodes of the season. It doesn’t seem like darkness has let up in any way since, since the Trayvon Martin situation, since the Emmet Till situation. The actor also hopes that the audience learns a lot about themselves and that “we can still reimagine policing in a way that is necessary… I find it unfortunate and interesting that we started the season with the weight of a George Floyd. The passion that we have for the job, where our hearts and our minds are, are going to get stretched.” Hawkins hints that the Burgess situation “forces us all to have to figure it out and do our best.” In next week’s finale, we’ll see that “concepts like reform are challenged.
“So when Burgess finds herself in a jam, and when we don’t know what’s going on with her, sometimes the gloves come off, and emotions get a little too carried away.” “That respect and love is challenged, however, by the only person that they both love probably more than themselves,” he adds, referring to Burgess. “What was interesting about their biracial bromance is that it’s very much rooted in an authentic respect for each other… They love what they do, and they love each other as brothers.” “Since Episode 8, I think Atwater and Ruzek have done their best to continue to learn and understand each other,” LaRoyce Hawkins, who plays Atwater, tells TVLine.
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