Starting at 8p tonight, Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago PD all join together to stop a highly-contagious, deadly virus from spreading all over Chicago. The three-hour event will keep you on the edge of your seat from the beginning until the end. Therefore you might want to drink some coffee with your dinner because you are going to want to be awake to see how it ends.
The episode starts off with our first responders doing a tailgate at a football. They are enjoying the food and friendship until a man suddenly collapses. Brett (Kara Killmer) looks at his bloodied leg and realizes he has flesh-eating bacteria. They rush him to the hospital and think that is the end of it.
It is not. Brett and Emily (Annie Ilonzeh) are sent to a house and discover a couple who died from the same thing. They are not the only ones, a woman and her baby are found in a car at a gas station with their flesh decaying away.
One case of it necrotizing fasciitis is rare, five is an outbreak. Now One Chicago needs to find out how this thing is spreading, how these people are connected and how to make it stop.
Fire gets their first clue in a major fire. There is a laboratory that has the same initials that patient zero kept repeating when they were working on him. What is the connection?
Just as things seem to calm down, three sets of paramedics are all sent to the same building but to different apartments. They discover several people who all have the same symptoms as the others. Now there are 30 more possible victims and the hospital has to prepare to quarantine them all. Sharon Goodwin (S. Epatha Merkerson) needs to make space for all of them because they are not prepared for an influx of people like that.
No one, even the CDC, knows what is going on and the death toll is climbing. Everyone in Chicago is afraid to leave their homes because they do not want to catch whatever this thing is.
Will they be able to find out what this is before they need to find a new city to live in? You just have to tune in to find out.
Out of all of the crossover events they have done with this franchise, this one is by far the best. Instead of having three different episodes telling the same story, it feels like one telemovie. The three shows flow very well together as one entity.
Plus, the story is a really good one. Then again, I am biased because I love all things plague related. Some shows and movies get it right and some get it wrong. One Chicago got it very right. They all did Dick Wolf proud.
