04x15 - Say Her Name

[bunniefuu]

TRAVIS: That traffic was unreal.

I mean, I guess it's a good thing.

Protests are getting so big, they're starting to shut down the whole city.

If this ice cream melted, I am for sure gonna drink this pint like it's a milkshake.

What time are we doing street medic stuff tomorrow?

Uh, not sure.

P.S., I cannot believe someone picked you up with some drivel about liking a man in uniform.

- No one picked me up.

- Mm-hmm.

Because it's not , and nobody picks up anyone anymore.

And also, because that would mean I would have to call...

Oh, my God.

...Sebastian back and allow him to take me out on a date.

Well, you kept it.

Rest in peace, Chief.

You good?

Yeah, I'm great.

You're a liar.

You "look good in that uniform."

[CHUCKLES]

- I still got it.

- Yeah, you do.

SULLIVAN: Warren, your kids aren't there, are they?

BEN: Should be on their way home.

Yeah, we have a strict "home before dark if you're protesting" rule, and Auntie Roz don't play.

Yeah, they must pretty shook up after you and Miller, you know, went for your long night swim and then your surgery.

[CHUCKLES]

Yeah, well, I got waited on like a king for about hours.

Yeah, yeah, kids forget things remarkably quickly.

[CHUCKLES]

REPORTER: Further emboldening the millions demanding justice

has been the recent media attention

of the death of Breonna Taylor,

a -year-old paramedic who was k*lled in her home.

From Seattle City Hall, Deputy Chief Michael Dixon.

Oh.

DIXON: I know everyone is hurting,

I know everyone wants their voices to be heard,

and I know taking to the streets seems like

the easiest way to voice your frustrations and concerns,

but I'm calling for peace, Seattle.

What we all need to do for the city we love

is to come together as one for change.

He expects people to believe his crap.

It's actually kind of scary how he's convinced himself he's one of the good guys.

Did you know one of the first forms of policing in this country grew from local sl*ve patrols?

Yeah, like, angry white guys using v*olence and intimidation to prevent enslaved people from escaping.

Yeah.

I-I actually did know that.

Yeah, but it is good that you know that now, too.

Um, you know, Gibson, why don't you help me with these?

Yeah.

This one's ready, too.

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

And that still needs to...

Hey, did you hear from your surgeon about your results yet?

Yeah, Miranda just did.

All clear.

They called Miranda first?

Oh.

Of course they called Miranda first.

[CHUCKLES]

So, uh, all clear?

All clear.

That's amazing, Warren.

You know, I would have been personally offended if you survived literally being lost at sea just for this to take you out.

Yeah.

How you doing?

Uh...

you know, like we all are.

Yeah.

I'm gonna make this call.

Looting and rioting...

You know, I've been out there these past couple days, and the protests are usually peaceful, till the police arrive, and then they escalate.

Emmett says the medical tents start filling up later in the day.

ANDY: Yeah, I've seen people get tear-gassed, get scraped up from falls, and even some rubber b*llet wounds.

Runs the gamut.

Yeah, that tracks.

I mean, given the history of the PD.

I mean, it's like if the police department put salt and pepper on a steak and said it became... not steak.

Yeah, that's...

That's true.

Did you know the th Amendment abolished sl*very except as punishment for a crime?

Like, Black people would get arrested, right, on, like, trumped up charges so they could get convicted and then used for free labor.

Also, yes.

Nice.

Something feels a little different, though, don't you think?

People are finally starting to talk about it.

I just hope it's not temporary, that it's not, you know, people just studying for, like, a test, that they're actually, like, internalizing these concepts and t-they're really trying to push...

Ben, can you turn the volume down, please?

Thank you.

[CHANTING "NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE"]

[VOLUME LOWERS]

MAYA: Nice shirts.

Yep.

Got one for you, too, Captain.

Thanks.

But we will have to wear them underneath our SFD shirts tomorrow.

We are running this medic tent in an official capacity.

Providing medical care isn't sanctioned by SFD?

We just have to figure out how to navigate this with the PD.

I've been listening to the scanner.

Things are escalating.

But that doesn't mean that we should back down.

I do think we should make our position known.

I'm just trying to figure out how to do that in a way that they will hear it.

Hey, can I ask you a question?

- Yeah.

- Are we just not gonna talk about the fact that you're engaged?

- Yep!

- Whoo!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

- [BANGING ON TABLE]

- [LAUGHS]

Thanks.

Thanks.

Nothing like getting engaged and then sending your fiancée into the COVID hot spot two days later.

Wait, she still has to go?

Yeah, but only for, uh, a month now, just until the marriage visa comes through.

Congrats, Cap.

- Sorry we missed it.

- Thanks.

Thank you.

VIC: Hey, firehouse wedding, right?

Please say...

Please.

Come on.

Please say we're doing a lesbian firehouse wedding?

- We can't not.

- I could barely get Carina to agree to marriage.

I doubt there will be a wedding, but there will definitely be a registry.

Of course there will be.

[SIGHS]

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

- Hey, Captain.

- Hey.

Just checking in.

How you holding up?

If by "holding up," you mean stuffing my face with cookies every chance I get to avoid thinking about the fact that Carina is heading into the belly of the COVID beast and that the immigration system is as broken as the justice system, then I am holding up incredibly well.

Mm.

What kind of cookies?

[CHUCKLES]

Get outta here.

DEAN: Ben, stop lifting things.

Oh, come on.

These weigh basically nothing.

You can start lifting things whenever Cap takes you off of desk duty.

[SCOFFS]

This is ridiculous.

No, it's not.

Do you think they're all gonna be mad because we got mussels instead of stuff for lasagne?

How could you be mad about moules-frites?

International trav.

- Oh.

- Yeah.

How long you think we soak these for?

- Wait, what?

- Huh?

I thought...

You said that you've made these before.

No, I said I always wanted to make these before.

No, that's not...

Yeah, I did.

Vic!

These aren't chicken nuggets!

Okay, come on.

How hard can it be?

Huh?

What's going on with you?

Nothing.

I'm learning how to make new things.

I'm mussel-making in this case, right?

You practically ran out of the lounge when you saw them making the protest packs.

You turned the radio off when they started talking about the marches.

And now you've decided to learn French cuisine.

Okay, Belgian, but I guess...

What's up?

Nothing.

I've spent all weekend thinking about what's up.

I just want two seconds to not think about that.

I just want to think about...

shellfish.

This is our thing, right?

This is what we do.

We take turns forcing the other person to talk.

So, rip the scab.

Just do it.

Remember when we used to go out at night, like back when the world was open, and before you'd head out, you'd say to your friends, "Text me when you get home"?

You know, just so you'd know all your people were good and, you know, you'd know they made it home safe and sound, right?

That's like sacred friend stuff.

That's like humans evolving beyond beast stuff.

That is consideration and buddy love even when you're too drunk to walk straight.

Oh, my God.

Remember how hammered you were at Miller's birthday last year...

She was home, Travis. Breonna Taylor was home, and she could have texted her best friend "Home XO," and then that friend would have gone to bed thinking, "Great.

Everyone's home safe and sound." And then she was k*lled in the middle of the night.

In her home.

In her pajamas.

Vic, I'm sorry.

And I-I just don't want to think about any of it, you know?

For just one day, Travis.

Tomorrow, I will pick it all back up again.

I promise.

But today, I just want to put my feelings in the freezer because I'm spent, and I just need one day.

I will fight all future battles and I will care as much as I do now, but I just...

I'm...

I'm exhausted.

And I just...

I need a day.

♪ What?

What are you thinking right now?

I'm thinking...

we better figure out how to make these mussels so our team doesn't find out there's no lasagne.

[CLEARS THROAT]

"Mussels chapter one."

[SNORTS]

"Butter is your friend."

- [KLAXONS SOUND]

- DISPATCH: Ladder , Engine ,

- and Aid car requested - And saved by the bell.

To Pike View Road.

At least it won't be our fault now when no one gets dinner.

Protest was a block over.

Fire was actually started by a couple of rioters.

Ladder , Engine , and Aid car

requested to Pike View Road.

- Pike View?

- Isn't that...

My parents' restaurant.

I just wanted one day.

[SIRENS WAILING]

Why aren't they answering?

Why is this taking so long?

It's the other fires and crowds everywhere.

We're having to go the long way to get around them.

WOMAN: Fire is spreading north

- to Olympia Avenue.

- Not ours.

MAN: Pike View Road fire is spreading north to Stanley.

That one is.

That one is.

Come on.

Okay, we're gonna be there any minute.

Travis, this restaurant is their whole life.

This restaurant is like my crappy older sister who they loved more than me for my entire growing up.

They'd be lost with...

They'd be lost without it.

- I don't know...

- It's gonna be okay.

It's gonna be okay.

We're gonna save your crappy older sister.

[HORN BLARES, SIRENS WAILING]

♪ What?

Nothing.

What?

No, I just...

I...

I like it when we get to... fight fires together.

[SIRENS WAILING]

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

♪ Hughes!

Stand down!

Hughes!

Vic thinks her parents are still inside.

Herrera, Gibson, recon the building.

The gas line is in the back.

Montgomery, go help Hughes.

Wiggins, Sullivan, cut all the other utilities.

Miller, you're Med Group.

♪

[COUGHING]

Come on.

Come on.

Let's get you to the aid car, okay?

- [GROANS]

- No, no, Mom.

- Mom.

Mom.

- Wait, wait.

Thank you.

I'm right behind you, Dad.

Okay?

Okay.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Thank you.

She wasn't gonna leave without it.

I know.

♪ ♪ Hughes must be freaking out.

Yeah, Hughes doesn't freak out.

Yeah, about fire stuff.

This is family stuff and fire stuff, and everything that's going on right now stuff.

People lose it.

[COUGHING]

DEAN: Hughes, want one?

No, no, no, I'm good.

I'm good.

I got this.

I'm just...

I'm glad you guys are...

- [COUGHS]

- Honey.

No, no, no, Mom, Mom, Mom, I'm fine.

Keep that on, okay?

Dean is gonna take care of you guys.

I've gotta help my team, alright?

[SIRENS WAILING]

Hey, my parents are secure in the aid car.

- Where do you want me?

- Nowhere.

Seriously?

You ran into a burning building after I told you to stand down.

- I get it, it's your parents.

- Cap...

That's why I want you to focus on them.

Let us focus on the fire, okay?

[SIRENS WAIL]

[SIGHS]

♪ [SCOFFS]

Just what we need.

[GLASS SHATTERS]

LENYA: Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

Do something!

Wiggins, Sullivan, you are on fire att*ck.

Get a line in that restaurant and get some water up on that attic.

Herrera, Gibson, how's it looking in the back?

ANDY: There are no exposures on the D side.

Heading toward the rear now.

Do we need access from the rear?

Yes.

Make access, but we are attacking the fire from the A side.

- Hughes, we've got this.

- C...

♪ ♪ ♪

SULLIVAN: Hold up.

♪ Must have been the stove.

That's not good.

[GRUNTING]

- ANDY: Oh, hey, sir.

- Hey!

Hey, wait!

We're just here to help!

Okay, there's a bunch of people in there.

JACK: Yeah.

Bishop, we're behind the building.

Additional civilians inside.

We're beginning evac now.

MAYA: Copy, Gibson.

- Whoa!

- What the hell?

Whose side are you guys on?!

Whose side are we on?

- Okay.

- [GRUNTS]

- Hey!

- Okay!

- Whoa!

- Enough!

Do not throw that!

Okay, stop it!

We're just here to help you guys!

- Do not throw that.

- SAWYER: Wait for me, Ricky!

You're on your own, bud.

- Seriously?!

- Okay.

- Wow.

- You take him.

I got it.

- Yeah.

- No, just leave me.

Awesome.

Nope.

Come on.

Any more of your pals in there looting the place?

- You good?

- I'm going in.

[COUGHING]

Okay, come on.

The linens!

The linens!

- No, Mom!

Mama.

Mom.

No.

- My mother's table...

You cannot go back in there yet, okay?

I need you to hear me.

You can't go back in there, alright?

Victoria, please, we have to try to save something, honey.

- Our whole life is in that building.

- Dad, I know.

MAYA: 's Roof Division, we have heavy fire in the ceiling space south side of the structure.

Let's cut a trench so we can stop the spread.

- What?

- "Cut a trench"?

What does that mean?

- No, no.

- What does that mean?

- It's, um...

- Everything's fine, Dad.

Victoria, just tell us the truth.

- God, it's the wind.

- It's...

DEAN: It's the wind.

The wind is blowing south right now, which is a good sign for your spot.

Sir, we can't...

Can't hear you.

Yes.

Yes, yes.

Co...

Oh.

Right now, the wind is blowing south.

That is a good sign for your place.

- Alright.

- Station ... we're the best.

You see those two men right to the left of the window?

Those are two of the most strategic firefighters I know.

Right now, they're making sure that all the hose lines have proper water flow and pressure, and those guys on the roof...

They're performing a vertical ventilation.

That means they're cutting holes in the roof right now to release all the hot smoke, all the hot gas to save your building.

That's something that, um... Victoria is particularly good at.

Okay.

Hey, Mom.

Mom.

You see that guy running back inside?

- LENYA: Yeah.

- Okay, he's doing what's called a primary search.

It means he's doing a sweep of the restaurant to see if there's anybody left inside and how to best save them.

And you see that woman right there?

She's our captain, and she's calling all the sh*ts and making sure everything and anything is handled.

[SOBS]

Yeah, okay, everything that can be done will be done by this team, alright?

Hold on.

Where's that...

Those files I was just holding?

- What are you talking about, Dad?

- The folders.

Which one?

What folders?

The ones I got out.

It's got the insurance paperwork.

- Oh.

- It's got the bank information.

- Here.

Here.

Here.

- We can't do anything

- without the insurance...

- Dad, Dad, Dad, it's fine.

It's here, okay?

Okay.

- Okay.

- Oh, my God.

My recipes.

- My God.

Mom.

Mom.

- My recipes!

Mom, I know.

You've got to stop, though.

- Everything...

- Okay, you have to stop.

- Lenni, Lenni, Lenni.

- What?!

Baby, stop.

Shh.

You got the recipes memorized.

- No, I didn't.

- If you have to, you'll remember.

We can replace our things, honey.

We cannot replace you.

Okay?

Over there...

In the kitchen.

♪ Sullivan, I'm pushing in!

♪ Hey, Cap, we're gonna need more hands in here!

♪ Herrera and Gibson, what's the status on the civilians?

ANDY: Civilians made it out safely,

but one ran away before we could assess them

and Gibson got the other one out.

[SIGHS]

You gotta be kidding me.

I need you both in front of the restaurant with another hose line.

Montgomery, Wiggins, Cutler, and Sullivan need support inside.

Herrera, you are now interior division.

Copy, Captain.

This is a closed scene.

MIGUEL: I just have some questions.

- Fire.

- What?

Whatever your question is, the answer is fire, and we are working to put it out.

Buh-bye.

Oh.

- [COUGHS]

- So, what happened?

How did it start?

I don't know.

[COUGHS]

Things just turned so quick.

I mean, all day long, we were watching people stream by, going to protests.

- It was almost happy, you know?

- Uh-huh.

I mean, not happy, but it was

- beautiful.

- It was...

There were signs and solidarity.

- Yeah.

- It felt like.

And then...

[COUGHS]

we heard screaming down the block.

I went outside to take a look, and I saw people throwing things through the window of the, um, shoe store.

- Yeah.

- What?

Over there?

Yeah.

And then there was this...

All this smoke.

Excuse me, did...

Did you just say you saw how the fire started?

- What?

- Could we get a comment?

No.

No comment.

Please leave.

- Just a quick comment...

- Please leave.

She said no comment.

No comment.

- [SIGHS]

- Come on, come on.

There he is, right there.

Shouldn't you be on crowd control or something, man?

Thought SFD could handle that on their own now, 'cause you apparently don't need us anymore.

You really...

You really doing that right now?

When people's lives are on fire?

Yeah?

Well, why aren't you putting it out, then?

Did you start it?

What you say to me, man?

Miller, I need you over here.

Captain?

We need more bodies on the fire.

I'll deal with PD.

Anderson, get your ass to the car now.

Go.

♪ ♪ Ooh ♪

[SIGHS]

- Come on, .

- This one's for Hughes.

Put your backs into it.

♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ My mother used to take my hands ♪ ♪ Put my fingers on the keys ♪ ♪ She said you gotta use your voice, be the melody ♪ MAN: Come on!

We're on the move!

We're on the move!

♪ I listened and my heroes sang ♪ ♪ It saved me when I was young ♪ ♪ They brought me high above ♪ ♪ Took my pain away ♪ ♪ I've been lost ♪ ♪ And I've been found ♪ Here we go.

♪ In the dark I'll use my voice ♪ ♪ I'll be the light, I'll make a sound, singing ♪ ♪ Ooh oh oooh oh ♪ Aah!

♪ I sing a song for tomorrow ♪ ♪ Ooh oh oooh oh ♪ ♪ Sing a song for tomorrow ♪ ♪ Let the song that I'm singing ♪

- Whew!

- ♪ Let it carry you through ♪ Good job, buddy!

Good job.

♪ Giving strength to you ♪ ♪ Ooooh oh oooh oh ♪

Cutler, make sure all the SCBA tanks are full.

- Hey, you okay?

- Stupid question.

Yeah.

No, I'm fine.

You can take them home.

Just go with them.

No, no, no.

They're insisting on staying here.

You know they're gonna try to get back in there after we move out, right?

Wait, get back inside?

They can't.

It's not secure.

No, I told them that.

You try arguing with a...

crazy Polish lady who happens to be your mother.

[SCOFFS]

Okay, I'm leaving Engine on scene for the overhaul.

is staying to overhaul the fire on the corner.

I asked them for a couple additional firefighters to assist.

- Okay?

- Montgomery, stay with Hughes.

Okay.

Thanks.

Alright, let's... head in.

You good?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Let's get back.

I'm exhausted.

Okay, you guys, it's really not safe to go back in there tonight.

Yeah, but...

Okay?

You two are firefighters, right?

You can make sure we're safe?

Victoria, you know your mom's not gonna go home and get her beauty rest.

Okay, I just think that maybe we should try to just talk...

They just...

They just don't...

talk about it, and...

I mean, that's where I learned it, and I've tried so hard to fight against it and to, you know, rip the scab and all that.

It's just...

[BELL RINGS]

ANTHONY: [COUGHS]

Oh, my God.

VIC: H-Hang on.

Hang on.

Hang on.

Here.

Literally everywhere you step is dangerous.

Here.

Put this on.

- Dad...

- Oh, thank you.

Dad, just let us move some of this debris and check for water damage and make sure it's safe to move around in here, alright?

- Yeah.

- We're fine.

Yeah, I know you want to pretend nothing happened, but we actually do have to make sure it's safe.

This isn't an argument, okay?

Yeah.

We hardly pretending nothing happened.

Mom.

Thank you.

I'm gonna go check for hot spots, I think.

Okay.

Just be careful.

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

Oh!

Hey!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

No, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it.

"I got it"?

Victoria, you don't have to lift this all on your own.

Dad, I said I got it, okay?

That would have been a lot easier if you just let me give you a hand.

LENYA: Anthony, would you help me with this one?

Yes.

Just lift it up.

Thanks.

- Thank you.

- [GRUNTS]

[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]

Can we just take a second?

That's it.

A second for what?

To... talk about this.

To talk about what?

This.

How absurd this is.

We should be talking about this.

Why do we not talk about anything?

Why do we not talk about anything ever?

How are we just freaking cleaning up our restaurant that was b*rned down by rioters who h*jacked a protest?

Because it has to be done, Victoria.

Because it's our life.

Yeah, I know, I know, I know it's your life.

You keep saying that.

Dad, your mom d*ed and you went back to work.

My fiancé d*ed and I went back to work, because that's what we do.

But is it working?

I'm really asking.

I know you've worked your asses off my entire life and you didn't have time for all that touchy-feely stuff, but really, just once, for one second, can we acknowledge that something awful has happened?

No?

You know, and all of this was precipitated by the repeated m*rder of Black people by law enforcement, but we're not gonna talk about that, either, are we?

God, that's ridiculous.

You know, Breonna Taylor was k*lled.

She was a Black female first responder.

I'm a Black female first responder.

In another world, that could have been me.

Tiny, circumstantial differences, and that could have been me.

Do you get that?

And news of her death didn't even break until two months after the fact, because clearly, no one cared about it.

And I've spent the last three weeks trying not to feel my feelings, trying not to center myself so that Miller and Sullivan and Warren and... and...

And maybe even you, Dad, maybe even you could feel your

feelings.

But, you know, I haven't been able to sleep through the night since I heard what happened to her.

I go to bed with a kitchen Kn*fe in my nightstand, which I know is outrageous 'cause a kitchen Kn*fe is no match for a b*llet, but I need something, just anything, to help me feel safe at night.

But of course, you wouldn't know that, because you haven't...

You'd have to have checked in on me even once in the last I...

God, I don't even know how long.

But you know what?

Even if you had checked in on me, I probably would have pretended everything's fine because bizarrely...

Bizarrely, that's what we do in this family.

And I just...

I honestly...

I just don't...

I don't think it's working for me anymore.

I am sick and I am sad...

and, Dad, I'm...

I'm scared.

And I don't know how you're not.

We are.

I am.

♪ [CLEARS THROAT]

[COUGHS]

♪ [GRUNTING]

[DEBRIS CLATTERS]

♪ [BRAKES SQUEAK, HISS]

Where's the engine?

It was Hughes' family restaurant.

They stayed back for overhaul.

Oh, hell.

W-Were you able to save it?

Some.

Not much.

ANDY: Ugh.

I'm starving.

As soon as we're done cleaning up, I'm gonna make a massive pot of chicken tikka masala.

You know it's : in the morning, right?

MAYA: And since when do you cook Indian food?

And is curry really what anyone wants at : in the morning?

Okay, A... it was Hughes' and Montgomery's night for dinner.

B... it's a jarred sauce you just pour over the chicken, like pasta sauce.

And C... who cares what time it is when you're so hungry your stomach growls are drowning out the sirens?

She isn't lying.

I could hear it.

Okay, you were sitting so far away.

Your stomach growls louder than Carina's, which I didn't think was possible.

Well, I need a shower and some sleep.

Cool.

I want that for you.

I want chicken tikka masala, and then maybe a shower and then sleep.

- JACK: Ooh, I could eat.

- Yeah.

- Yep.

- Oh, here you go.

You found a buddy for your food adventure.

[CHUCKLES]

I'm going to bed.

Get out of here.

MAYA: No.

No.

What?

What's up?

The city e-mailed me earlier.

They are pulling our permit for the medical tent.

- They can do that?

- They just did.

Apparently, tensions are too high and the city wants to present a united front.

They don't want SFD to appear to be on a different side than PD.

The side of helping people?

That's bull.

We should go anyway.

- We can't.

- Can't or won't?

Can't.

♪ [DOORS SLAM]

I'll be in the kitchen.

♪ [CELLPHONE CHIMES]

♪ [CELLPHONE CHIMES]

♪ Okay, all clear.

[BELL CLATTERS]

THEO: Hey.

Thought you could use some help, or, you know, someone that can break more things.

Oh.

Um, I can go.

[CLEARS THROAT]

No, don't.

You can help me board up some windows.

Thank you.

What?

[CHUCKLES]

Nothing.

I just remember how you used to sit in that exact spot when you were a little girl.

[CHUCKLES]

You were so tiny your chin would touch the table.

LENYA: [CHUCKLES]

I just can't believe our little girl grew up to become so strong and self-sufficient.

Well, necessity is the mother of invention, right?

It was a compliment, Victoria.

- Hey.

Hey, hey.

- Slow down.

- No, no, no.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa!

MIGUEL: We're putting together a story about last night's violent protests turned riot.

- Hey.

- Okay, hey, guys, now is not the time.

Just a quick comment for local news.

We're trying to keep the city informed of what's...

My friend already told you.

Sir, are you the owner of this establishment?

The smoke hasn't even cleared yet, dude.

- Hey.

Hey!

- You can't...

Excuse me, excuse me!

You all must be horrified that a neighborhood mainstay and small family business was destroyed by protesters.

- Rioters.

- Exactly.

Rioters terrorizing our city, costing our taxpayer dollars, all in the name of a movement that cares nothing about them.

- What?

- Care to comment?

Bro, you need to go.

Yeah.

Our comment is let it burn.

'Cause justice needs to be served, and if this is what it takes to make people care and make those officers to held accountable and any officer who did it in any city who allow it to do to make accountable, then let it burn.

What about the property

- that's been damaged...

- Okay.

Okay.

ANTHONY: Nah, property does not equal life.

I mean, you can rebuild a restaurant, but you can't bring back somebody who's been k*lled.

So, if you're asking, if you're...

If you're positing that society should be more upset by the value of property than... than m*rder, I think you need to reevaluate how you're walking through this world.

Being scandalized by property damage, but not the taking of a human life?

That's a problem.

That's a problem, sir.

You're simply fine with your business being b*rned to the ground?

You know what?

Okay.

As my parents said, this isn't actually about our restaurant, this is...

This is about the people whose lives were taken.

They were taken from their families who loved them and cared about them and who they cared about.

This is about justice for Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and Charleena Lyles and...

And Manny Ellis and Michael Brown, India Kager, and Atatiana Jefferson.

And Sandra Bland.

And Tamir Rice and Rekia Boyd.

And Alton Sterling and Freddie Grey and Tarika Wilson and Eric Garner and Janisha Fonville and Philando Castile and Korryn Gaines and Tony McDade and Tanisha Anderson and Elijah McClain and Bettie Jones, Quintonio LeGrier, and Kathryn Johnston and Javier Ambler and Yvette Smith and Jamar Clark...

[SIGHS]

Well, it looks like curry.

Smells like low tide.

Okay, well, Hughes and Montgomery left a bowl of clams or something in the sink when we got the call.

Ew.

I...

Mm.

That is the worst thing you've ever made, and you've made some doozies.

- Oh.

Oh.

- Some bad ones.

- Yeah.

- Okay, well, I guess I was rolling the dice with bottled "Bombay Blend." That's probably a problematic name, too.

[CLEARS THROAT]

No, you know, just because of, like, colonization and...

I don't know.

Ah, Gibson's getting woke, huh?

I'm trying to understand all this stuff.

Like, how can law enforcement become trustworthy, become a force for good if it's not willing to acknowledge its, you know, history?

And with that history, why is, like, reform or, like, unconscious bias training, you know, such a controversial conversation?

It just doesn't make any sense.

That's all I'm saying.

Well, yeah.

And then that kid asked what side we were on.

Yeah, well, that kid was an idiot.

Yeah, true.

Okay, fine.

But... not wrong.

And then he said, "Why not just leave him there?" Well, that's not what we do.

We're firefighters.

Yeah, I just feel like...

[SIGHS]

Maybe I'm most comfortable in, like, crisis mode, and if there's not a crisis, then...

I don't know.

I feel like I'm not good for anything.

Oh.

Oh, got it.

This has nothing to do with the kid.

Are we talking about Inara?

No.

No, it's nothing.

I'm fine.

- Come on.

Spit it out.

- No, I'm fine.

It's good.

Alright, when Inara and I met, it was all about getting her away from the abusive ex, right?

And then we'd become a thing, and Marsha, you know, ends up in the hospital, and then there was always something, you know?

I was protecting her, taking care of her.

Yeah.

And then Marsha gets well and everything is calm, and then...

[SIGHS]

It's fine.

Um... a girl needs more than fine.

♪ ♪ ♪

What is all this?

LENYA: Your accomplishments.

Your professional accomplishments.

The other stuff is over there.

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

It's like my whole life's in here.

I've never even seen some of these.

Well, how would you?

You're hardly even here anymore, and when you are, you just grab your pierogies and go.

And since your dad and I spend all this time without you, we brought as much of you as we could here.

[CHUCKLES]

I watched an interview with Breonna Taylor's mother.

Couldn't sleep for a week.

I know I could never truly understand what it's like for you to navigate this world as a Black woman, and I wouldn't even pretend that I could.

I've experienced even nothing remotely similar to this, but what I do understand is being the mother of a Black daughter.

You don't think I know you could've been Breonna Taylor?

I'm your mother.

This is what I've always known.

I've known since you were five, and a cashier accused you of stealing the candy, the one I just bought you.

I've known since you were , coming home from school, crying because the girls at school wouldn't stop touching your hair.

I've known since before you were even born, when my parents kicked me out of the family for marrying a Black man and refused to meet my perfect little girl.

♪ ANTHONY: Lenya, would you come help me please?

- Just a second!

- Just a second.

It's gonna fall!

♪ [SOBBING]

[SIGHS]

Looks like you kicked some ass tonight.

Getting Vic's parents out of the restaurant.

[DRILL WHIRRING]

You saved them.

Just doing my job.

Yeah.

Hey, I'm sorry.

I know I don't have a right to apologize to you, but I'm sorry.

And I'll never not be sorry.

So... you just need to know that.

I'm gonna go start on the other window.

Hey, Ruiz?

Thank you.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Hey, you good?

Oh, just...

Just tired.

Well, we've been up all night and now you're on a treadmill, so that makes sense.

Look, it's terrible.

You get no argument from me.

See, even just that sucks.

Not what you're saying.

Just...

I know we're on the same page.

It's just getting shut down over and over again when you're just trying to do right by people.

It's...

It's a lot, it's heavy, and it hurts.

[SIGHS]

And it feels like there's just no winning.

First there was the lawsuit.

Everybody says it was just to get eyeballs on the issue, an issue that we can't win, and now, it's the medical tent.

So, somebody suddenly says we're not FD sanctioned, so we just...

I guess it's just okay that we just intended to go.

[SIGHS]

Right.

Totally.

Why don't we still go tomorrow?

So we're not sanctioned.

Our paramedic training doesn't get taken away.

We go as civilians.

Civilians who have medical training?

- Mm-hmm.

- Civilians who have medical training who... who also stopped by the drugstore first, pick up first aid supplies, pallets of water.

Who set up a table where other civilians can come if they need medical assistance.

Who also borrow some stuff from here?

Just...

Just stuff that we can't get from the drugstore, you know?

Like oxygen tanks.

Maybe stuff like that?

As your captain, I didn't hear a word of that.

But civilian Maya likes people being resourceful.

♪ Captain.

Yeah?

I don't mean to come off as disrespectful or out of line or...

Or anything, but...

we need some joy.

We need some fun around here, and I, for one, need to dance.

This body is too good not to dance.

[CHUCKLES]

So, have a wedding.

Have a wedding for .

♪ [SIGHS]

Mom, why didn't you tell me about your family?

Wasn't your burden to bear.

I knew so many were going to be already thrust upon you no matter what we did.

No matter what kind of life we were trying to give you, we just didn't want to add to the pile.

Listen.

I know I was not always there for you when you were growing up, but it was in service of the life we were trying to give you.

The life we needed to give you.

I didn't know you didn't know, Vic...

Mom.

[SIGHS]

...but we were always thinking about you.

I am always thinking about you.

Mom!

Ah.

That's a Greek tradition.

When you have a good meal, a good connection in a restaurant, you smash the plates.

A Greek regular who used to come here many years ago told me that it actually started as a death ritual.

The voluntary breaking of the plates, a type of controlled loss, it helps people deal with the deaths of their loved ones.

- Hmm.

- The loss they couldn't control, to celebrate the dead and to honor the pain of the living.

Hmm?

♪

[PLATE SHATTERS]

Yes.

[LAUGHS]

- Yes!

- [LAUGHS]

Alright, come on, Dad.

Let's do this.

- Come on, honey.

- Let's do it.

Okay.

Alright, ready?

Three, two...

Whoo!

[LAUGHTER]

Is everything okay?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I guess so.

Or it will be.

Here.

Smash.

- Do it.

- Do it.

Welcome.

Go for it.

Do it.

Do it.

Whoo!

[LAUGHTER]

Oh.

Okay.

Now help us clean it up.

Yeah, right.

No, I'm totally serious.

You have to help us now.

♪ I want a fighter ♪

- Yeah.

[LAUGHS]

- That felt good.

Good.

♪ Don't leave me in the dark ♪

♪ Don't leave me in the dark ♪

♪ Don't leave me in the dark ♪