Our favourite “Chicago Fireplace” besties Violet and Novak are going through one other disaster — however will the trauma carry them nearer collectively? Or will it’s robust sufficient to tear them aside?
Wednesday’s episode of the NBC drama sees the pair get lured right into a subterranean bunker the place they in the end are held hostage by a deranged man who kidnapped his pregnant tenant. (He is superintendent of her constructing and had been stalking her.) Held at gunpoint, the primary responders attempt to deal with the lady shackled to a basement mattress; she’s in labor and, as a diabetic with out insulin, is exhibiting indicators of hyperglycemia.
Although Novak and Violet do their greatest to get out, they can not beat the deranged man and his gun, which he retains fastened on their each transfer. Ultimately, it is Vasquez who smells hassle when he discovers the pair’s rig left unintended on the road. He in the end tracks them down, coming to their rescue earlier than any deadly injury might be carried out, and everybody’s life is spared — together with the lady and her new child.
Jocelyn Hudon says Novak takes a ‘massive step’ in sharing her emotions
Earlier than the pair get trapped, nevertheless, Novak addresses some lingering rigidity together with her good friend. Final week, Violet lastly admitted that she had connected with Vasquez. Although Novak initially mentioned she was wonderful together with her good friend sleeping together with her work crush, she now tells Violet that she is dissatisfied her good friend hadn’t confided in her sooner. The dialog is interrupted by the deranged man’s requires assist, leaving Violet unable to reply to the suggestions.
Because of the entire hostage scenario, it nonetheless looks like Violet and Novak have not totally addressed the entire Vasquez factor. Will rigidity proceed to linger for the “Chicago Fireplace” duo?
“She would not actually need a response, or an answer, or a conclusion,” Jocelyn Hudon, who performs Novak, tells TVLine. As a substitute, Hudon sees this week’s minor confrontation as a “massive step” for Novak, who generally brushes issues underneath the rug as a substitute of speaking her emotions clearly.
“It reveals, on the core of it, you might be dissatisfied, however you possibly can nonetheless love somebody,” Hanako Greensmith, who performs Violet, provides.
Hanako Greensmith says ‘there’s nonetheless extra drama to entangle’ this season
Although the pair share a traumatic second that will strengthen most friendships, issues are in the end muddied by the truth that it is Vasquez who saves them; they every see their co-worker as a hero, which solely provides “one other layer of depth” for the trio, Hanako Greensmith says.
“The 2 of us come out of this episode feeling extremely grateful to Vasquez,” Greensmith provides. “And I believe there’s lots of room to admire him, too. He actually does a heroic feat in saving us.”
Greensmith maintains, although, that the underside line for Violet is that she survived a traumatic ordeal with the assistance of her greatest good friend — she is not specializing in Vasquez in the intervening time.
“What actually issues to her is that [she and Novak] nearly died in a bunker collectively, and so they shared this second,” she says. “Regardless of no matter drama there might have been, on the finish of the day, they knew what their priorities have been.”
Although Jocelyn Hudon in the end considers Episode 18 a form of skilled “all-time low” for our two firefighters, Greensmith guarantees that “there’s nonetheless extra drama to entangle” in Season 14.
What’s your take: Will Vasquez come between Novak and Violet? Or is the pair’s bond stronger than any lingering 51 flirtation? Hold forth within the feedback!
