Tommy decides to turn over a new leaf. "I am quitting drinking," he announces to the guys (to gales of laughter). He's also under pressure from Janet to do something about Colleen's drinking, and Sheila wants him to get Damien to quit FDNY. Meanwhile, Tommy tells Lou about what he experienced after being shot, and Mike Siletti overhears it. Soon everyone else knows as well.

With the cookout approaching one key ingredient is missing, so the crew takes a drastic step to obtain it. Meanwhile, Tommy continues to be troubled by his taste of the afterlife, so he seeks out a priest; Sean helps a cancer-stricken firefighter break out of the hospital; and Damien consorts with the enemy, so to speak, when he dates a probie from the rival firehouse, the West Side Wildmen.