‘Chicago Fire’ season 2, episode 18 review: What happened to Rebecca Jones?

“Chicago Fire” is one of those shows on NBC that can be very deceptive. It looks like a typical Dick Wolf drama and can feel like one too, but from time to time, it rises above that and becomes something unlike anything on the network schedule. (Yes, we know that there are multiple other shows located in this same universe.)

But did Tuesday’s episode “Until Your Feet Leave the Ground” actually deliver on that? For the first half an hour or so, we weren’t that hooked, but  those last five minutes were powerful and shocking enough for us to forget about most of it. Is Rebecca Jones really dead? We saw her compose a note, conceal it in an envelope, and then Dawson received a fateful phone call about a body. Reactions to what happened here already differ, and we’r going to leave that reasonably open-ended until we have more answers in the next new episode.

It’s hard to really even think about almost anything else that happened in this episode, even though there was some good stuff for Casey and some of the other characters to go through. We just want to applaud the evolution of this show from something that felt in the early going like yet another carbon-copy network show, except with fireman instead of cops, and actually becoming something much more layered an interesting. When one person in the firehouse is hurt, so are the others. The familial nature of the group makes it interested, and seeing them go through hard times is all the more painful … and there will be plenty of that next week.

Is this the most shocking episode of “Chicago Fire” to date? We may need some distance on that, but for now, we’re willing to at least call it the most shocking of the season. Grade: B+.

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