Subject: Chicago Fire-Med-P.D. "Reckoning" 3/4/2026 (was: What Did You Watch? 2026-03-04 (Wednesday))
Ian J. Ball <
ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
I watched the amazingly ridiculous, but still entertaining, BIG "One >Chicago" triple-crossover event! Most of the cast of all three shows
were represented. A terrorist (or is it?!!) has killed an entire
planeload full of passengers and crew with some sort of WMD?! Will our >heroes(tm) survive?!?!!
They ended up killing off a recurring red shirt, and threatened to
kill off some of the regulars like Cruz and Liz Novak(!!), but of course >didn't pull the trigger any of those. Oh, and Halstead and >she-who-smiles-inappropriately returned for a "one-off" for this
crossover. I doubt we will see them again after this.
I almost never watch these shows and I feel like I cannot keep up with
having missed decades of melodrama. With just the mystery, it could have
been wrapped up in an hour. They gave me the hard sell during the
Olympics and I got curious.
Amazingly ridiculous but entertaining. So much I didn't follow. Given
that the toxic whatsis turned out to be a chemical used in research, why
did the courrier need to smuggle it in, implanted in his body? Sounds
like it could have been ordered from a catalog or stolen from the right
kind of warehouse or lab.
The argument about FBI calling it terrorism versus drug trafficking
should have made no difference to how you investigate. Either way,
follow the evidence. Of course, both were irrelevant in the end.
Nothing about the secondary exposures made any possible sense. Why could
Oliver Platt have just performed the tracheotomy since it happened in
front of him? Hell, Father Mulchahey on M*A*S*H, on a well-remembered
episode, performed one with pen knife and tube of a ball-point pen.
I didn't like how they went with hazmat and not bio-hazard. My immediate
guess was biowarefare weapon.
I think that was Midway Airport as I think the building in the
background was the former Air National Guard facility.
The corpse handling was absurd. Since they assumed there was a
possibility of exposure from the corpses, there is no way they would
have brought them to the regular County morgue, which lacks the capacity
for 200 corpses requiring Level 1 handling. They'd have set up a
temporary morgue in a closed factory or warehouse nearby; plenty of
those around. Or taken over a hanger, at least for the luggage. Or used
the empty National Guard building.
What was the idiocy of all those Federal Marshals (huh?) being used to
prevent one lousy pregnant woman from receiving surgery? Of course she
died. You need two surgical teams for that kind of emergency, one to
treat the baby, another to treat the mother. The thing about wombs:
Massive blood supply, bleed like crazy. They never even packed the
surgical cavity.
Voight's back story was ridiculous. He felt guilty for saving the boy?
Who cooks meth in an occupied mid-size apartment building? Fumes will
kill people and you don't want witnesses who see the precursor
chemicals. Also, they made it look like the fire began in the boy's
apartment.
Cracked me up that 1634 N Racine would have been in the north branch of
the Chicago River. Also, the Heart of Chicago neighborhood is on the
west side, not too far from the studio and all the acres of land they
own, not the north side.
Not sure what hotel that was. Maybe the Drake? Didn't look like the
Palmer House.
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