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Mouch: I know what all that whispering was about.
Cruz: You do?
Mouch: Yeah, and if you saw it, say it to my face.
Cruz: What are you talking about, Mouch?
Mouch: OK.
Kidd: Sorry, my head’s all over the place.
Brett: I don’t blame you.
Kidd: Everyone warned me that Kelly wasn’t the settling down type, that he would blow this up, somehow, someway.
Brett: But he’s changed so much since you two got together.
Kidd: Does anybody ever really change? What if everything I thought we had together was wrong?
Casey: I gave you an order on that call, did I not?
Gallo: You mean about the shutoff. Yes, you told me to take care of it, but I spotted the victim and shutoff wasn’t going to help her. She was already covered in gas.
Casey: The order I’m referring to is when I said no one moves in until I say so.
Gallo: She’d be dead if I didn’t move in right then and there.
Casey: You’re lucky you’re not dead too. Diving in headfirst wasn’t your only option. Forget how to use a radio? Report your situation, call for backup.
Gallo: With all due respect, captain, you know I was quick to act when you hired me. That’s why you hired me, and I think I deserve the benefit of the doubt here. I was operating with information you wouldn’t have.
Casey: Go home.
Gallo: What?
Casey: Pack up and go home.
Gallo: Captain…
Casey: I can’t be your babysitter, Gallo. Come back when you’ve got your head on straight.
Severide: I’ve been MIA because I thought that was best for you. Chief Conway told me the white shirts said the only reason you’re moving up the ladder is because you’re with me. I didn’t tell you because I figured it would mess with your head. You deserve better.
Kidd: You thought that I couldn’t handle that?
Severide: What I thought is you’ve earned every part of this yourself. Everybody should know that.
Kidd: It sounds like maybe you care what they’re saying because I sure as hell don’t. Kelly, I didn’t become a firefighter as a white guy with my father at the top of the chain. I came up alone, fighting every step of the way with people looking down on me and doing whatever they could to shake my confidence. I have a built-in armor that you will never understand, and no one like Conway is going to knock me down.
Severide: Then why aren’t you taking the test? You don’t need my help. You have to know that.
Kidd: Of course I know I don’t need your help with some test. I needed you to do what you do best: To tell me, ‘You got this, Stella Kidd.’ And to pick me up when I’m feeling low, and instead, you shut down on me. You shut down on me like the bad old days.
Severide: This attitude of yours is exactly why I know you got this, Stella Kidd, and it’s why I know how badly I screwed up, and it’s why I’m never gonna let you go away from me again.
Kidd: You are not the decider. And pretty soon, we’re gonna be in the same rank, so listen up. I am the one who’s never going to let you get away again.
Ritter: Yo, why you in such a good mood, lieutenant?
Herrmann: I tell you. We have Chinese food last night, and you know what my fortune cookie said?
Ritter: Nah.
Herrmann: Tomorrow is your lucky day, and look at this, we catch a fire before breakfast.
Trevor: You sure know a lot about elevators.
Cruz: I know some. I learned from an expert, my buddy Otis.
Holly: I wish he was here.
Cruz: Yeah, me too.
Holly: This is, I can’t believe it. I shouldn’t even be here.
Herrmann: We’re gonna get you out of here, ma’am. Just breathe easy.
Holly: No, I just mean this job, this year, everything.
Trevor: Any of you have kids?
Herrmann: I got four sons myself and a daughter. None for this guy.
Cruz: Actually, Chloe just told me that she’s pregnant this morning.
Herrmann: What, oh man, that is great news.
Cruz: You cannot tell anyone, OK. Chloe specifically told me that no one can find out anything, OK?
Herrmann: OK. Congratulations, Joe. You, my friend, are going to make a great dad. Kids are the best thing in the whole world, even when they’re not.
Holly: Are we gonna die?
Herrmann: No, ma’am, we are not gonna die.
Holly: But you can’t be sure.
Herrmann: I’m sure I’m sure, OK. Did you forget about my fortune cookie, OK. Today is my lucky day. You never know when it’s going to come into play.
Trevor: What’s it waiting for?
Herrmann: Uh, the right opportunity. We just haven’t needed it yet. You’ll see.
Herrmann: Cruz, do you remember what you said to Mouch and me on your first day that you showed up at 51?
Cruz: No.
Herrmann: You said, ‘Hey, my name is Joe Cruz. You don’t know me, but you can count on me.’
Cruz: Yeah, I vaguely remember that.
Herrmann: Truer words never spoken.
Severide: If I hadn’t seen that rescue of Mouch with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have believed it.
Casey: I was not ready for what happened at all.
Severide: They should give you a medal for that drop alone.
Casey: Pretty damn insane yourself with that, what was that thing?
Severide: No idea, I tripped over it in one of the storage units.
Cruz: What if she’s right, Herrmann? What if this world is too tragic to bring a child into it?
Herrmann: No, no, she’s not right.
Cruz: I always wanted a kid, but when Chloe told me, I just felt panic. So much has changed – the pandemic, politics, the whole country is fighting with each other.
Herrmann: Enough, all right. Joe, you listen to me and you listen to me good, this country is not just what’s out there on the news, it starts in a home, in a family. The country your child is going to see, the one that’s going to make them who they are, that is the country of Joe and Chloe Cruz. You two, you got such an energy about the both of you. You make all the people around you light up. You both came from pretty different world, and you made a beautiful happy home, and that is the country that your baby is going to wake up to every day. If you have a solid family, it balances out all the bad out there.
