Chicago Fire’s Cruz Will Be Touched by a Near-Death Experience

The Chicago FireJoe Cruz survived the One Chicago crossover — and the aftermath will continue to haunt him this season.

Warning: Spoilers below from season 14, episode 13, of the Chicago Fire and One Chicago crossover.

“There is a negative effect of this [case] that kind of changes a bit [of] a view many of these boys have,” The Chicago Fire the show Andrea Newman you are only told Us Weeklyreferring to the painful experience Firehouse 51 endured during the Wednesday, March 4, crossover event.

Newman teased, “We’re working on an episode now where there’s a lot of positives that affect Cruz in particular, what he’s going through in terms of it. There are ripples. They just keep going and going.”

During Wednesday’s three-part event titled “Reckoning Part I, II and III,” Firehouse 51 was among the first on the scene when the plane landed in Chicago after losing contact with the tower for more than an hour.

Once safely on the ground, two members of Squad 3, Cruz (Joe Miñoso), Cap (Randy Flagler), and two additional firefighters from different trucks, Macy Vasquez (Carlita Tucker) and a new boy named Holt, get on the plane to find out what’s going on.

They found the entire plane, including the pilots, dead from an unknown cause. The difficulty of the death – many were foaming at the mouth – left everyone in awe.

“[In] I have been on the job for 20 years, I have never seen anything like this,” said Cruz when he got off the plane.

While Chicago PDThe Secret Service tried to identify the mysterious murder weapon, Cruz and Capp began to drive their machine to another location when, suddenly, they both began to seize and foam at the mouth.

It was later revealed that two other firefighters – the first inside the plane – also showed symptoms and the four were taken to isolation rooms. Chicago MedGaffney Chicago Medical Center.

This deadly weapon was later identified as a poison that was being sprayed in the city by a drug smuggler that accidentally exploded while the transporter was on the plane, killing everyone. (The other passenger survived, but later died in hospital.)

Without knowing where the other poison pill is – the intruder who blamed first responders for the death of his family in a fire 25 years earlier broke into the cold room and released the deadly poison – and the antidote, everyone’s lives hung in the balance, including Capp and Cruz.

Luckily for fans, both Cruz and Capp survived after their fellow cops took out the bad guy, who was planning to release another poison in the firefighter’s memorial to get more casualties.

Emergency services Lyla Novak (Jocelyn Hudon) also survived after being sprayed with blood while he was here, the only survivor of the plane. The woman later died after Novak helped her child in the back of their ambulance.

Sadly, Macy and Holt did not make it, dying in the hospital before they could find a cure for their symptoms.

Moving forward, Newman said Us that risk is part of the job when you’re a first responder, adding that viewers shouldn’t expect to breathe easy watching the show — ever.

“I mean, they’re firefighters. Every day it’s a close call,” Newman said. “There is no episode where the team is safe.”

The Chicago Fire airs on NBC Wednesdays at 9 pm ET.