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'Chicago Fire' Season 8 Episode 16: Submerged car and cleaned out accounts put Casey on a scammer's trail

The case also generates an unfortunate tiff between Casey and his lieutenant, Kelly Severide
UPDATED MAR 19, 2020
(NBC)
(NBC)

Spoiler alert for 'Chicago Fire' Season 8 Episode 16 'The Tendency of a Drowning Victim'

This week's episode of 'Chicago Fire' sees Firehouse 51 and its captain, Matthew Casey, deal with the case of a submerged car, a missing victim and a possible scam. The case also generates an unfortunate tiff between Casey and his lieutenant, Kelly Severide.

When the firefighters are called to Lake Michigan, they see a submerged car. However, when the car is pulled out, they see that the car is empty. Seeing the broken window, Severide thinks that the driver could have escaped.

When Severide suggests suiting up and looking in the lake for the driver, Casey overrules, thinking that since the car had been in the water for 40 minutes, the low chance of survival meant that he could not put his men at risk.

This, unfortunately, leads to an argument between the two. Casey seems to let go off it, but Severide does not seem to be on the same page. Later, Casey learns that the case could be of murder since the car's throttle was tampered with. 

The car's owner, Lisa Berg comes to the firehouse to talk to Casey. It was her fiance who took the car out that morning. When Casey tells her that he might not be declared dead immediately, she seems disappointed rather than distraught.

Suspecting Lisa of doing something wrong, he informs the police. However, Lisa comes back to tell Casey that she was scammed by the man just before she got the news about her car, she learned that her accounts had been cleaned out by her fiance who was probably scamming her.

Casey and Severide start talking and the former gets an idea. With a little bit of digging, he finds the fiance and it turns out he stays in Chicago itself — and he has a wife and two kids to boot.

Seeing the firefighters deal with their own investigations is quite cool, especially now that Severide is not with the Office of Fire Investigations (OFI) anymore. And with more Casey-Severide moments, these scenes are worth it.

'Chicago Fire' airs on Wednesday nights at 9/8c on NBC.

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