Chicago Fire Season 11 Solved One Major Problem, But in a Heartbreaking Way
It's easy to miss when you first watch S11 but hard to ignore on a rewatch: it seems like we're up for terrible news next season, and the writers were prepping us for it.
Season 11 of Chicago Fire ended on a huge cliffhanger like Dick Wolf shows often do. This time, however, it seems like we have all the reasons to be scared.
In the last episode of S11, one of the OG Firehouse 51 firefighters, Randy McHolland aka Mouch got severely injured during a domestic terrorist attack at a local power plant.
While initially, everyone thought that Mouch was shot, he was rushed to the hospital where it turned out it was shrapnel that took him out.
By the end of the episode, we're pretty sure that Randy is fine: he's in the hospital and appears stabilized.
But when Hermann visits him in the very end, Mouch becomes very pale and suddenly passes out mid-dialogue with a bloodstream painting his bed red and the terrifying flatline sound in the background.
We wouldn't have been that scared for the old man's life there if not for the fact that Mouch got way, way more episodes this season than he usually gets.
Let's quickly go through all the cases of Randy's direct involvement in S11: the model truck, saving the blood, the magic trick, Trudy's friend's apartment building case…
That's a lot more attention on Randy than we normally see. Sure, Mouch is known for always trying to help everyone out, but he's never had so many episodes where he was directly involved as in season 11.
This got some of the fans thinking: what if this actually means there's no happy ending, and Randy's death was planned?
Apart from letting us see more of Mouch in the latest season — followed by him getting injured and admittedly flatlined at the end of the season's finale — there's at least one more reason to think so.
A few seasons ago, there already was a finale that made everyone think that he died, and then it turned out he was alive.
It's unlikely that Chicago Fire is doing the exact same thing with the exact same character all over again, and our concern only grew stronger after this realization.
At this point, we would bet that Mouch is out of the game… But we'd be happy to turn out wrong in the end.