The One Chicago crossover was a dramatic and tense three-hours of tv that noticed Desk Sergeant Trudy Platt “die a number of occasions” as she was within the working room.
The first crossover in 5 years noticed the groups of Chicago Fireplace, Med, and PD come collectively after an explosion within the basement of a public constructing results in mass casualties, evacuations and a tunnel collapse that left first responders trapped on the L practice.
The episode started with Chicago Fireplace, as Firehouse 51 was known as to the scene after a fuel explosion. Chief Battalion Officer Pascal (Dermot Mulroney) was the incident commander and Squad 3 and Truck 81 have been introduced in to clear victims and uncover the supply of the incident.
It grew to become clear that the information middle, situated within the basement, was the supply of the explosion, and PD’s Sergeant Voight (Jason Beghe) and his group quickly realized it was a deliberate assault when Lieutenant Severide (Taylor Kinney) and Captain Hermann (David Eisenberg) found oxygen tanks.
Trudy was on the scene with the group, and he or she was tasked with chasing after the offenders after Severide found them hiding in a locked room and posing as metropolis workers. As she apprehended one of many attackers, Trudy was shot twice within the again and within the entrance by a second masked assailant, and viewers noticed her fall to the ground.
Trudy has by no means been a personality to go quietly into the evening, and he or she managed to make a name over the radio, leaving Officer Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger), Trudy’s husband Lieutenant ‘Mouch’ McHolland (Christian Stolte) and former officer Lauren Bates (Jennifer Regan) – whom we met firstly of the episode as a peer of Trudy’s who retired from the Chicago police pressure however was working non-public safety to make ends meet – to search for her.
Mouch was the one to search out Trudy, however what made it much more heartbreaking was that the pair have been in a combat as a result of he had forgotten her birthday, and assumed she had wished to exit to have fun his promotion.
He had tried to apologize earlier within the episode however Trudy was so harm that she had blown him off.
She was rushed to Gaffney Medical the place Medical doctors Ripley (Luke Mitchell) and Lennox (Sarah Ramos) have been tasked with saving her life. Trudy coded a number of occasions within the emergency room, till Lennox determined to make the daring choice to cease transfusions and funky Trudy’s physique to provide them time to carry out surgical procedure.
Within the working room, Mouch discovers Lennox was really performing experimental therapy, and Trudy crashed once more as they tried to convey her inner temperature again up.
As Voight returned to Gaffney to test on Trudy, Mouch and Voight got the information that “she died a number of occasions,” throughout the operation, nevertheless the beloved Chicago PD character made it by – was there any doubt?
“The process labored and it was a hit,” Lennox instructed Mouch, earlier than taking him in to see his spouse, who was capable of inform Voight what had occurred earlier than she was shot, and revealed she had discovered a resort key for the Crescent Moon resort, which gave them a break within the case.
As Mouch sat with Trudy to take care of her, she instructed him to get again to the scene and “do your job,” and he returned to assist extract Lieutenant Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo), Ruzek and victims from the tunnel collapse.
Later, as he returned to Gaffney to test on Trudy, we noticed her complain as she was instructed that she would endure months of restoration and rehabilitation, to which Mouch joked: “Is there one thing you can provide her for the angle?”