'Chicago Fire' Season 8 Episode 6: Cruz asks Severide to be his best man and fans are tearing up at the moment
'Chicago Fire' started off its eighth season with the heartbreaking death of Brian "Otis" Zvonecek and no one was more devastated by it than his best friend and roommate, Joe Cruz. The road to recovery is slow and more than three months after the incident, Cruz bucks up the courage to ask his girlfriend Chloe to marry him. Though Chloe -- who is also upset over Otis's death -- initially breaks up with him, the two end up engaged at the end of last week's episode.
A wedding could be exactly what Firehouse 51 needs to lift it up and this week, Cruz has told his friends at the station about his engagement. At the end of the episode, while talking to Severide, he says that if Otis was here, Cruz would be asking him and proceeds to try to ask Kelly Severide if he would be his best man -- and Severide joyfully accepts.
This was a nice way to honor Otis as well as bring in a happy and hopeful moment to the show and fans loved the exchange between Severide and Cruz. One fan tweeted, "I'm fine. I'm just crying sad tears over the mention of Otis, but happy tears that Severide can honor his place by being Cruz's best man. #ChicagoFire." Another fan loves the growing friendship between the two characters and wrote, "Bromance between Kelly and Cruz? Love it. If we can't have #crotis I will take it #ChicagoFire."
Showrunner Derek Haas tweeted that they "wanted to pay off the way Severide showed up for Cruz's award last season. #ChicagoFire." This is in reference to the moment when Cruz was up for Special Commendation for his actions on a previous call, and Severide, as his lieutenant, showed up to pin the medal on Cruz.
'Chicago Fire' airs on NBC on Wednesday nights.
