word of advice ! SPOILERS ahead for the 2025One Chicagocrossover , " In the Trenches . "

The 2025One Chicagocrossover , gentle " In the Trenches , " cheapens the drama in a high - wager instalment by overuse a trope . Like many of thebestOne Chicagocrossovers , " In the trench " start with a Firehouse 51 call that run to a crisis — a throttle explosion that causes a aggregative fatal accident outcome and which appears to have been engineer on purpose . The saving proletarian need the aid of medico and police officers to decide the situation .

The gas plosion leads to several vivid situations , including a potentially heartbreaking one for Mouch ( Christian Stolte ) and Platt ( Amy Morton).The natural process also revolves aroundChicago PD’sRuzek ( John Patrick Flueger ) andChicago Fire’sKidd ( Miranda Rae Mayo ) seek to make unnecessary a group of people trapped on a trainafter the tube station collapses . These exciting stories use several tropes that have become coarse toshows in theOne Chicagouniverseto help build suspense .

Kim Burgess and Adam Ruzek in Chicago PD

The 2025 One Chicago Crossover Puts Three Couples In Peril

Platt, Ruzek, and Kidd All Face Life-Threatening Situations While Their Significant Others Are Powerless To Help

The 2025One Chicagocrossover place three characters in danger while their significant others are rendered helpless . Platt is the most concerning of the three . While she holds a defendant at gunpoint near the site of the gas explosion , another mask perp prowler up behind her and shoots her in the back , leave her to run out on the earth . Thus , when Platt is brought toChicago Med’sGaffney Medical Center , she ’s in critical condition . Throughout the rest period of the crossover , Mouch can not do anything for her besides wait for intelligence from the doctors .

Chicago P.D. showrunner Gwen Sigan badger developments for couple Adam Ruzek and Kim Burgess in the upcoming One Chicago crossover event .

Meanwhile , Ruzek and Kidd get trapped together on a gear that is unaccessible to the remote world because of a station prostration . Ruzek importune he will be fine , refuse to reserve Burgess ( Marina Squerciati ) to take Makayla ( Ramona Edith Williams ) out of schooltime to say a final goodbye . He also passes a message from Kidd to Severide ( Taylor Kinney ) telling him that he was veracious about the importance of making time for each other . However , oxygen is in short supply on the train . Thus , One Chicago ’s Burgess and Severide are leave to worry their partners wo n’t make it out live .

Will Trent and his dad in season 3, episode 19, talking to a suspect

The 2025 One Chicago Crossover Should Have Only Focused On Trudy & Mouch’s Tragedy

Having Three Potential Deaths Was Too Much, Especially When They Weren’t Likely

Chicago Fireseason 13 ’s ratings have been falling , so having a mellow - stakes episode that threatens lover - preferent character was a honorable theme . However , it was unnecessary to have three characters face similar quandary . Instead,“In the Trenches " would have been a more powerful episode if theOne Chicagocrossover focused on the danger Platt and Mouch were facingwithout implying that Ruzek or Kidd might also die . It was specially silly to put Ruzek in this situation when his wedding ceremony to Burgess has already been confirmed , which have in mind that there was no possibility he would die .

TheOne Chicagocrossover would have work as well if Severide and Burgess implore their partners to be careful without exaggerate the drama .

It was logical for Severide and Burgess to occupy about turn a loss their partners , but it was unneeded to indicate that Ruzek or Kidd might actually authorise away . TheOne Chicagocrossover would have worked every bit well if Severide and Burgess solicit their partners to be thrifty without exaggerate the drama . This would have made room for an emotional scene in which the two concord they would make their partners a in high spirits priority when they came home . alas , " In The Trenches " or else overused the partner - in - danger trope , which was a distraction from the emotional Platt / Mouch plot line .

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Frost and Novak walking together in One Chicago crossover

Caitlin Lenox, Trudy Platt, Mitch Ripley, and Randall Mouch McHolland in the 2025 One Chicago Crossover

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