A “clean campaign” pledge brouhaha and Lamar and Tandy think it’s a good idea to sully it by arranging for a traffic stop for Coleman on his way to the event. That, my friends, is why I despise politics. Everything about it is dirty and nasty. The only thing that even slightly ties the political scenes to the more interesting Nashville happenings is the tie between Coleman and Deacon. When a routine traffic stop becomes a drug incident because of the drugs Deacon gave to Coleman, his sponsor.

I still didn’t care about the Mayoral race, but it made me feel for Coleman and the good man he truly is, trying to help Deacon. It also proved he’d be a better Mayor for Nashville and gave me one more reason to hope he goes against his own better judgement and uses the trash he received while not following the clean campaign trail so Rayna and Teddy ultimately split up.

Rayna was busy forging her own musical path without Deacon, her regular producer or any of her normal cohorts as she chose a rocker dude to produce her album. While I still don’t like the song she wrote, her decision to break away from what’s expected of her as an artist is refreshing. It seems like she has been doing what’s expected all her life, and being force fed is no longer on her menu. Something tells me she’s going to wander down her own little bad-girl path, learn to understand a bit what it’s like to be Deacon, or even Juliette, before she reaches the destination of success she’s meant to find. It should be a fun trip.

Scarlett stood by Avery just until he did the right thing, and then she gave up. It was rather ironic that he could have gone to the place she accused him of going to, but he didn’t. He chose her over his career. That surprised me, but he did it. After everything, it turned out she didn’t have the faith in him she pretended to, and pushed him to do the exact thing she tried so hard to keep him from doing in the first place. He showed up on a slutty manager’s doorstep for a snog.

Listening to Avery talk about how people didn’t like him, I realized it was low self esteem that drove him to be jealous of Scarlett and Gunnar, not just general asshattery. It just didn’t take long to tip him into the directly everyone thought he was headed in the long run. After first being skeptical of him, now I feel badly for prejudging and sad at where he’s ended up. I think he did love Scarlett and wanted to be a part of her family. Now he won’t be. He may end up famous, but most likely unhappy.

Finally, we had Juliette, doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. What a perfect person for her to meet up with, the Tim Tebow of television quarterbacks. No drugs, no drinking, doing charitable work instead of partying. The anti-Juliette. I hope she learns more from him in the long run than he does from her, because they were cute together. If they have something, it would allow for a truly professional relationship between Juliette and Deacon and let’s face it, they made beautiful music together.

I didn’t understand the “angry photo” everyone thought was Sean wasted. Has nobody ever been photographed walking along the street before? I can take 20 photos of myself with a timer and only one looks normal. The rest look like I’m in various states of mental illness. It was a proud moment for Juliette to take care of the situation for Sean, offering herself up like a lamb for slaughter. She better be careful, her heart is showing.

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Considering the number of time it’s necessary for either Dawson or Shay to do a trach to save someone’s life while in the field, wouldn’t it behoove the Chicago Fire Department to teach them how to do it rather than consistently write them up for doing it? Especially when, to date, they haven’t killed anyone, but have saved people by using the procedure? As a civilian, if I were in the street and someone wasn’t breathing and they were nearing death, I’d go all MAcGyver, beg for a pocket knife and a Bic pen (do people still carry them??) and perform one myself if I thought it would keep someone from dying right in front of me.

I’ve really enjoyed how the CFD has been portrayed in Chicago Fire so far, so I’m hoping they go the message loud and clear that what they are doing out there isn’t just lifting people onto a bed and rushing them to a hospital, but saving them in the process. The next story I expect to see if a class where every one of them learns how to perform that procedure should the need arise. Heed me NBC!

Hallelujah!  Casey saved the life of one of Voight’s future minions and his mom. Sure, Voight could keep him out of jail some day, but the kid can do that himself by steering clear of crime. Can he rescue himself and his mother from a burning building without dying? Not so sure about that. Who’s the hero now Voight? Sadly, now he and his son can share adjoining cells. Although, realistically, the judge may just go easy on his son for having such a crap father. If his son plays his cards right, cries and says he wanted to turn himself in for what he did, but his bully of a father wouldn’t allow him, Voight could take the entire wrap himself. It’s such a shame to think of the lengths people will go to to get themselves out of trouble when they could have avoided it in the first place.

We received a bit of  a break from this week from Kelly’s addiction. Thank you! Seeing him go off the rails can only be experienced for so long before you want to reach in and take him into your arms and smack the hell out of him. When you see what everyone was willing to do for Dawson to make sure she didn’t lose too much pay, imagine what they would do for him if he got his much-needed surgery.

A few other thoughts:

**I don’t think Hallie and Casey are long for this world. They have so little in common.
**Did anyone else notice a hint of something in Shay’s eyes as she asked on behalf of Cruz if Peter’s sister was in the restaurant? New love interest?
**Mouch really came through for Dawson. He had me worried for a while, but it was a proud moment when the family showed up as support.
**Chief Boden has to be the best Chief ever to grace a firehouse on television. Eamonn Walker just nails it.

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