- Tommy and Sheila find themselves in hot water with Janet and Mickey and realize the truth about their relationship. Damian attempts to leave the crew, but is seduced back by the camaraderie of the brotherhood.
- Tommy sits down to dinner with Janet and the kids -- and Mickey, who just saw him about to have sex with Sheila. Mickey talks about Sheila's new place in Chelsea, and asks innocently if Tommy has been there. He continues to harp on Sheila's place, looking to Tommy for elaboration.
Tommy fakes choking to get out of it. Mickey "helps" by walloping Tommy on the back and force Heimliching him. There's a knock at the door. It's Sheila. She sees Mickey with his arms around Tommy, seeming to be attacking him.
She runs in telling Mickey that nothing happened. She quickly realizes she misread the situation. Janet gives the girls her credit card to get rid of them.
Mickey tells Janet he walked in to see Tommy on top of Sheila with her dress off.
They try to defend themselves, with Sheila claiming he did everything and she told him to stop and leave. The more he explains the worse it sounds.
When Janet asks him point blank if she asked him to leave and he kissed her, he's stuck. He claims they both realized how dumb it was.
Sheila tells Mickey that she told Tommy she cared deeply about Mickey. Mickey asks Sheila if she loves Tommy. Janet asks Tommy if he loves Sheila. They both say no. Mickey asks Tommy if he ever loved her. Tommy tries to deny then Sheila's final summation is to say they had a passionate thing for five years and tonight was just the "final dying embers."
Mickey and Janet both believe Sheila. They go off to discuss. Sheila doesn't believe Tommy never loved her. He says of course he did but she loved Jimmy and he loved Janet.
Mickey and Janet return. Mickey decks Tommy and tells him Sheila's with him now and he's not to see her or Damian. At the hospital, the doctor tells Lou he had another heart attack and has severe tissue damage. The doctor says he's going to have to give up working- he's going to have trouble getting up a flight of stairs.
Damian tells Mickey about saving the baby and how he feels better knowing Tommy has his back. Mickey tells him Tommy's other addiction is danger. Damian thinks fire fighting is his calling. Mickey tells him about realizing he didn't have a calling, his mother did. He suggests he get a job where he's most likely to come home at night.
Mickey says Damian's dad wanted him to go college, fire fighting was just a back up.
Damian meets with Chief Feinberg, who suggests he's making a rash decision. He tells him if he changes his mind there's no guarantee he'll get a good house.
Damian tells him he's not sure he's cut out for it. He asks if he's going to get less scared. He tells Damian about a buddy in Vietnam diving on a live grenade to save his friends. Damian's not sure he could do it. Feinberg says he'll put his papers in, but it might take a couple of weeks.
Feinberg tells him the guy on the grenade lived, it was a dud. But he went on to be a fire fighter and died saving a homeless couple.
Sheila's phone rings. She hangs up, then finally answers. Tommy says he's calling to congratulate her about Damian quitting. She asks him what he really wants. He takes a while to say it, but says he knows he let her down and took advantage and he's calling to make amends. She tears up and asks him if he ever loved her. He says they were haunted by Jimmy and Janet.
She tells him she hates him and that he shouldn't call anymore. "I don't accept your amends, I don't grant you absolution and I do not forgive you. I want you to go away, forever," she says. She hangs up and bursts into tears. He calls back and gets her voice mail.
Later, he comes home and finds Janet is there alone. She asks him why he liked to drink so much. He says it made him feel better, like he was right and everyone else was wrong.
She pulls out two giant classes of booze, fine vodka and whiskey. She says he can have as much as he wants and no one will know. She suggests she'll have one and he'll have the other and then they'll get in bed.
The whiskey is his favorite. He grabs them both and pours them down the sink.
Janet says she needed to know. From now on, a fresh start. "No booze, no grudges and no Sheila," she says. She reminds him Damian isn't his son, but he's got a chance with Katie.
Mike tells Shawn about wanting to name something after Pat. He wants to do something to make the government pay up for first responders. Pat's mom works for the parks department and thinks she can swing something.
Damian packs up his locker. He looks at his dad's fire fighter shield. Tommy joins him, but has no comment on Damian leaving. Tommy tells him about going to a job 20 years ago and not being able to find his helmet in the rig. He put up fliers. A homeless guy brought it back and collected the $100 reward. Turned out, Jimmy had it the whole time. That's what he's gonna miss, Tommy says, the ball busting. "So you're saying you want me to stay?" Damian says.
Tommy tells him it's not like it used to be. Tommy leaves and Damian finds a baby doll in his locker. He squeezes it and it pees on him. Franco strolls in and assures him it's real pee.
Damian goes to see Feinberg and tells him he had a change of heart. Feinberg paws around for Damian's papers. Needles finds them.
In the hall, Lou stops Needles. Needles tells him about Damian getting cold feet and Lou pretends to forget what he was going to say.
Out on a call at an abandoned warehouse, Needles tells Tommy to keep an eye on Lou. Needles checks that Damian is ready.
They walk into and find coffins everywhere. An ominous coffin warehouse.
Inside, Lou wheezes as the water takes forever to get there. Sean can tell that something's wrong. Lou busts out a window contrary to procedure because he can't breathe. The fire rages. Tommy and Damian make their way down.
Needles tells them they have to run out the flaming front. They're going to hose it down from the outside.
Lou takes up the rear, wheezing and clutching his chest. A pile of coffins falls on Lou. The guys turn around to help him as the flames lick higher.
Damian runs back in to tell them they have to go. A huge piece of the ceiling falls on top of him and down he goes, crushed.
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