Spoilers forward for the autumn finale of Chicago Fireplace Season 13, known as “Quickstand.”
Fall finale evening in One Chicago often means some dramatic twists, and Chicago Fireplace took Joe Cruz on a blast to the previous all through “Quickstand” till a cliffhanger to finish the 2024 TV schedule. In reality, it was a blast all the best way again to the primary half of Chicago Fireplace‘s first season and the very first main arc for Joe Minoso because the then-Truck firefighter. His choice to go away Flaco to die all these years in the past has come again to hang-out him greater than a decade later, and it means hazard for him within the 2025 TV schedule… and presumably a refresher for me over hiatus through a Peacock subscription.
In case it wasn’t clear that Cruz was in bother when he was being left bullets crammed want ashes, his brother Leon turned up for the primary time since Season 8, and it wasn’t for a pleasant go to. Leon dropped some very dangerous information on his brother:
A Prepare dinner County parole agent reached out to me about Junior. It is Flaco’s cousin, the man I helped put away like 12 years in the past. The one individual in addition to you who was in that constructing when Flaco died… He acquired early launch. He acquired out final week.
Leon helpfully dropped a little bit of exposition for followers who have not watched Chicago Fireplace going again to Season 1 by mentioning the loss of life of Flaco, and information of Junior getting out after having twelve years to stew clearly unnerved Cruz. He nonetheless did not appear fully ready for the top of the episode, when he was confronted in a church by Junior himself, who mentioned:
You bear in mind me, proper, Joe? It has been some time. Let me refresh your reminiscence. I am the one who noticed you shut the door on my cousin. And left him to die. We have to speak, my pal.
Properly, “we have to speak” is a greater cliffhanger for Cruz than what one character acquired over on Chicago Med simply an hour earlier than “Quickstand” aired on Wednesday evening, however not being instantly attacked doesn’t suggest that Cruz is not in for lots of bother from Junior and presumably extra gang members within the new 12 months.
It has been a very long time since I first watched Season 1 of Chicago Fireplace, however I actually bear in mind how tortured Cruz was by guilt and the way that call to let Flaco die had main penalties. These appeared fully up to now, and Cruz went on to hitch Squad and fall in love and begin a household, full with adopting Javi and having child Otis with Chloe. He is older and wiser now, but additionally has much more to lose.
And dang it, now I understand how I wish to scratch the One Chicago itch over winter hiatus! I bear in mind being invested in Cruz’s Flaco arc, however might want to rewatch the related episodes of Season 1 to completely respect the way it began earlier than it presumably continues in 2025. The promo for the winter premiere would not even give a lot of something away. Have a look:
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Whether or not or not you revisit earlier episodes of Chicago Fireplace, Season 13 will return with the winter premiere on Wednesday, January 8 at 9 p.m. ET, between Chicago Med at 8 p.m. ET and Chicago P.D. at 10 p.m. ET. In the event you do need a refresher on Joe Cruz, Leon, and the Flaco mess, you’ll find each episode of Fireplace thus far streaming on Peacock.
The arc begins with Episode 7 of Season 1, known as “Two Households,” which aired again on November 21, 2012 – a.okay.a., virtually precisely twelve years earlier than “Quickstand” on November 20, 2024.