‘Chicago Fire’ season 4, episode 16 preview: Why is everyone staying silent?

The next new episode of “Chicago Fire” is coming your way on NBC in one week’s time, and it seems like in terms of the larger story, one of the things you can expect to see is Matthew Casey running into some unexpected problems in his quest to become alderman. Apparently, there are some out there so desperate to not have him land the job that they’re willing to do whatever to sabotage him.

However, there’s also going to be another interesting storyline in this episode that reminds us to a certain extent of a “Law & Order: SVU” installment recently, where a crime was committed but nobody seems altogether interested in coming clean about what really happened. The different of course with this show is that it’s a fire, and it could take a lot of teamwork to learn the truth. These people are not police officers, so they may have to use some other means to figure this out.

If you haven’t seen the synopsis for this episode (entitled “Two D’s”) yet, you can see it below:

“Casey (Jesse Spencer) continues his run for alderman, but a citywide propaganda attack against his campaign makes him reconsider his candidacy. The rescue squad is summoned to the scene of a man trapped inside of a burning car with suspicious evidence suggesting that that the fire may have been intentionally set. Mouch’s (Christian Stolte) upcoming bachelor party looms, but with Trudy’s (guest star Amy Morton) nerdy brother Larry (guest star Zack Pearlman) handling the details, everyone fears for the worst. Meanwhile, Jimmy (Steven R. McQueen) and Brett (Kara Killmer) take a kidnapping investigation into their own hands.”

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