04x08 - Make No Mistake, He's Mine

[bunniefuu]

[SIGHS SHARPLY]

Mm.

[CHUCKLES]

Wait.

I need water.

I need water... first.

No water.

Oh!

[CHUCKLES]

I promise you, I'll get you water in about minutes.

Okay.

♪ You better hope that there's a world inside your head ♪

♪♪

No way, my brownie thing totally beats your broccoli thing.

- THEO: No.

- ‭It does.

- It's broccoli soufflé.

- ‭Oh.

- Okay?

It took me three hours.

- Okay.

Excuse me.

Okay, well, then I win on efficiency alone.

[BOTH LAUGH]

- I'm sorry.

- Who makes a broccoli soufflé for a first date?

[LAUGHS]

You know, it's weird.

It doesn't feel like a first date.

I don't think I would know.

I think this is the first first date I've ever been on.

- Really?

- ‭Yeah.

Usually, I just, like, collide with people, and then, whoops, we're dating now.

- So...

hey.

- ‭Right.

Silver lining to the pandemic.

Yeah.

[CHUCKLES]

Yeah.

♪ sh**ting stars ♪ ♪ Let's make ourselves... ♪ We're being responsible right?

Very responsible.

Responsible and strict.

For the good of all mankind.

I'm sorry.

Uh, what was that?

I was too busy watching your mouth.

♪ Feed that restless heart ♪ ♪ Restless heart ♪ ♪ It's burning up, you're burning up ♪

[CELLPHONE RINGS]

- I'm not answering that.

- You can't hear anything.

♪ Feed that restless heart ♪ ♪ Restless heart ♪

Ugh!

[SIGHS]

♪ You're burning up with the wind ♪ Ruiz.

Yeah.

Yeah, copy that.

♪ Not on my own ♪

Apparently, I'm subbing at tomorrow.

♪ Not on my own ♪ ♪ Not on my own ♪

Oh.

Okay.

That's cool.

That's, um...

Just...

Let's not...

Let's not tell... anyone anything.

Right.

Okay.

So...

like, you don't want to make this a thing?

I-I don't want our...

thing to become...

everyone's thing.

Yeah, yeah.

No, I got it.

As long as this is still our thing.

Yeah.

♪♪ I should've been your first call.

Well, Yemi's my sister, so I called her first.

- She's a contracts lawyer.

- Still a lawyer.

Still goes by "esquire." Still works at a firm.

A lawyer is not a litigator.

Well, that's why I called you, Dola.

Second.

You called me second.

And I'm really hoping that you can get over that, please.

I've gotten over worse things you've done to me.

Okay.

That's not fair.

We were kids.

Only men are allowed to call themselves "kids" at .

Not wrong.

Okay.

If I'm gonna be your litigator, I need to know what it is you want out of this lawsuit.

You saw the video, right?

Yeah.

I saw the video.

Everyone's seen the video.

So, you know what I want.

I want those officers punished for what they did to me and Joyce, and I want justice.

Okay, so you don't know yet.

I just said that I was just...

"Justice" means nothing.

And not just in this current climate of the court of public opinion.

It never has.

Because justice is subjective.

There's no one way to get justice, and especially not for what you went through.

So, ask yourself, what is the best possible outcome of your decision to take on not only the Seattle Police Department, but the very institution of policing in this country?

What do you, Dean Miller, firefighter, hope to achieve?

And while you do that, I'll take a refill.

- [CHUCKLES]

Yes, ma'am.

- ‭[CHUCKLES]

We're gonna have a full-on feast tomorrow night in your honor.

[MARSHA CHUCKLES]

_ I want carbs.

Starchy ones.

With cheese.

[CHUCKLES]

[LAUGHS]

Good idea.

- You got it.

- [CHUCKLES]

They said a family member needs to pick me up, but my son hasn't answered my calls.

- No, no.

- You're...

You're good.

We'll be there, you know, bright and early tomorrow.

I took the whole day off to come pick you up.

- So, we're good.

- ‭Oh.

Ooh.

Bring chocolate.

[LAUGHS]

Bye, Marsha.

Oh.

♪♪ And the water will be turned off when?

Thank you.

Mm-hmm.

Mm.

Yeah.

Uh, yes.

The movers will be there on...

- Friday.

- ‭...on...

on Friday.

- [KNOCK ON DOOR]

- Okay.

Thank you.

Hey.

Hi.

[SPEAKING ITALIAN]

[CARINA SOBBING]

Hi.

Hello.

Maya, this is my friend, Gab...

- Yeah, uh, - Dr.

Gabriella Aurora.

Hi.

Yeah.

[SPEAKING ITALIAN]

What?

No.

That was...

Stressing about your homework?

[SIGHS]

No, it's...

it's Tuck's.

I-I told him I'd prove to him his math homework was easy, but this isn't math, all right?

This is...

I don't know...

New Math.

- They changed math?

- Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Hey.

Theo.

Ruiz.

Nice to meet you.

Is it okay if we just call you newbie?

- [CHUCKLES]

- You're still probie, probie.

- [LAUGHS]

- You're a probie?

Aren't you a Battalion Chief?

Oh, you're...

I-I'm sorry.

Welcome to Station .

Thanks for jumping in.

Yeah.

- Yeah, Ben Warren.

- Hey.

How you doing?

Hi.

I'm Vic Hughes.

What was it again?

- Sorry.

Vic Hughes.

- ‭Right.

Got it.

Yeah.

Nice to meet you.

- Right.

- ‭Yeah.

♪♪ ♪♪ Hey.

You okay?

Uh...

no.

No, I'm not okay.

I'm very far from okay.

I never thought I'd have to see him again.

What, you mean the sub?

Wait, you know him?

He's Michael's captain.

Michael's... captain?

I'm so...

You're saying that guy is the...

Is the guy who got my husband k*lled.

♪♪ Wow.

Law review.

AG's office.

Yep.

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

She was first in her and Yemi's class at Yale.

So, she knows her stuff, and she knows you, so what's the problem?

Uh, she's...

She's my ex.

Oh.

W-Well, it's not that that matters.

It's just...

she asked me what do I want.

- Justice.

- ‭Right.

- Yeah.

- ‭But she says that's too vague.

- Change?

- Not less vague.

Okay.

Um, how about not having to teach my kid not to ride in the car with more than two Black friends?

Is that less vague?

What does justice look like to you?

Hold on.

Oh, please.

'Cause I...

- [CHUCKLING]

Oh.

- I mean, look, I was good at math, but the way I was taught, it was a simple method, one way of d...

- Done.

‭Check it.

- Let me check.

- Check it.

- ‭No, no.

T-There's no way you got that answer using their method without cheating.

Do they not do math on the board exam?

You jealous, Doc?

Can you explain this to me,

- though, one time?

- Yes, I can.

How does he even have a job?

He shouldn't even be working a garbage truck,

- much less a rig.

- I'm sor...

Okay, wait.

I thought your guy was a...

Was a captain.

This guy, Theo...

something, he's just a lieutenant, right?

Yeah, he must have been demoted after Michael.

Good to know that k*lling someone's husband gets you a whole slap on the wrist.

JOSH: Yo!

Help us!

I need a little help, please!

- Hey, hey!

Hey!

Hey, hey!

- Slow down!

- Masks!

Masks!

- [POUNDING ON DOOR]

- VIC: What?

- ‭Call a still alarm.

Call a still alarm.

- I got it.

- Do we need a key?

- Put your masks on!

- This is a still alarm.

We have a -year-old male with a penetrating head injury.

After you, man.

Go ahead.

But easy does it.

Right here.

Right here.

Thank you.

Thank you, everyone.

Thank you.

Yep, I see it.

I see it.

You two, sit down.

Sit down.

Okay.

Where is your jacket?

Marcus?

Hey.

[FACETIME RINGING]

There you go.

Buddy.

Hey.

We're on our way right now.

Yeah, um...

Yeah, Jack, don't come here, okay?

What?

Well, they think Marsha may need to be intubated.

No, she's getting discharged.

We're coming to get her.

I guess she...

she took a turn overnight.

Her sats are dropping.

They're gonna keep watch and decide tonight whether or not to put her on a vent.

Why didn't anybody call me?

Well, her son is her emergency contact.

- I called as soon as I heard.

- Did he answer?

Uh...

yeah, I'm...

I'm...

I'm not sure.

I'm sorry.

Look, I gotta go.

It's getting busy here again, but I-I just wanted to let you know.

- Yeah, thanks.

- ‭Of course.

♪♪ TRAVIS: We're gonna need you to keep your head really, really still, okay?

- What's your name?

- Uh, his name's Tad.

Okay, how are you feeling, Tad?

- Okay.

A little woozy.

- ‭Okay.

But still talking and lucid.

How are his vitals?

Uh...

stable, somehow.

Holy crap.

ANDY: Warren, get the gurney.

Yep, I've seen something like that before.

Sullivan, I'm calling this one.

Go help Warren with the gurney.

- Okay.

- These guys have lacs.

- Nah, we're fine.

- Oh, man, Tad.

That looks really gnarly, man.

- Yeah, man, does it hurt?

- Of course it hurts, dumb-ass.

He looks like a freaking shish kabob.

I don't know.

All right, Vic, maybe take the frat party to the barn.

Yeah, I'm on it.

Okay, guys, out this way.

Through the door.

Go on.

Get out of here.

Okay.

To your left.

So, can you guys tell me what happened?

- Heads up!

- Oh, we...

Hey.

Watch out.

Okay.

Were you att*cked?

Uh...

Uh, n-no...

Take a seat right there.

- Eh...

- ‭Okay, so?

Uh, we...

we were just playing flag football in the park.

I avoided the...

The pass rush and hit Tad with the deep post.

- Tad...

- ‭Seahawk style.

And then Tad spikes the ball.

And then, boom...

You know, he got...

He got Robin-Hooded, right...

Right through there.

- Oh.

- ‭Maybe more like Bravehearted.

[CHUCKLES]

‭Right, hey.

Wow.

Jocks and historians.

Nice.

So, these lacerations were made by a football?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then a hunting arrow just happened to sail through Sherwood Forest into your buddy's head.

Right?

- It's crazy.

- ‭Wow.

Pull up your mask, dude.

♪♪ TAD: Listen, listen, listen...

Yeah, okay.

I got a plan, all right?

I'm just gonna pull it out myself.

- No, no, no!

- ‭No.

No, no, no, no!

Hey!

Hey, hey, you don't want to do that.

Tad, you don't want to do that.

We need to push a benzo or something.

We're not gonna do anything more than get him to a hospital.

- You disagree, Warren?

- Nope.

Wouldn't do anything until we get him into a CT.

Right.

Hold his arms.

- We really shouldn't...

- Hold his arms.

[TAD GRUNTING]

Get this thing out of me!

Hold on a second.

Okay, let's...

- Okay, okay.

Okay, okay.

You got him?

- ‭Yep.

Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

We can't just lay his head flat on the stretcher.

It's okay, it's okay.

I'll keep him on his side.

I got it.

You're gonna hold his head all the way to Grey-Sloan?

Apparently.

On three.

Hang on.

One, two, three.

- [GRUNTS]

- ‭Okay.

Got it.

[GRUNTS]

- Oop, oop, oop.

- Let's get him to the aid car.

I got it.

We gotta go fast.

Shouldn't we go slow?

We don't want to jostle him with that thing in his head.

[SIGHS]

We're going fast.

Copy that.

♪♪ TAD: I got to get this out of my head!

Tad, if you don't want permanent brain damage, hold still.

Does she mean brain damage like...

Like he could be a vegetable?

All right, we're going back in there.

Look, if you keep fighting us, you're gonna displace this arrow...

or worse.

Arrow?

What arrow?

Through here.

So, the...

the arrow could have wrecked him for life?

- Dude, what the heck, man?

- ‭What?

You are totally wearing this, dude.

What are you talking about?

I'm wearing this?

- You're the one that missed, man.

- It was your idea.

What was your idea?

- Uh...

- ‭Nice.

- [HORN HONKING, SIREN CHIRPS]

- [SIGHS]

Look, COVID has been a...

- A bitch.

- ‭Yeah.

- But apologies.

- We needed an adrenaline rush.

- You know, try something different.

- Mm-hmm.

Okay, tell me what happened and tell me the truth this time.

Um...

Okay, so... we're three beers deep and we're sh**ting darts at Josh's garage.

- And I slay at darts.

- He's okay at darts.

Skip to the part with the arrow.

Well, I mean, you know, darts don't have any real stakes,

- so...

- ‭He's right.

DEAN: Please tell me you're not that dumb.

Oh, no, I think they're exactly that dumb.

Okay.

Well, we were just trying to test our nerves.

You are really testing mine.

So, Rick said, "Why not sh**t cans off each other's heads?" All right, I'm out.

I'm out.

I'm out.

This is your problem now.

RICK: What?

Well, then we're just gonna head to the hospital and tell the doctors what happened.

JOSH: Yeah, we're gonna go check up on Tad.

[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

They make 'em that dumb at ?

You know, I think you might have us b*at, man.

[CHUCKLES]

[SPEAKING ITALIAN]

Mm.

Perfetto.

You're gonna have to teach me your secret.

The secret is to make it good.

[CHUCKLES]

Well, after tries, first-degree burns, and one cup of literal spilled milk, I have...

I have failed at doing that.

You put milk in your espresso?

_ Gabriella, English, please.

Okay, Maya, you live with an Italian woman and you don't speak Italian?

_ I-I'm learning.

It's just...

It's slow.

It's okay.

Mm.

_ She's looking for flour.

I got it.

It's right here.

- Flour.

- ‭Brava.

I know how to speak English.

[CHUCKLES]

_ - Potatoes.

- ‭Ah, yeah, potatoes.

- There you go.

- ‭Thank you.

So, you guys, um, grew up together?

Uh, no.

We've been friends, honestly, since medical school.

Well, friends.

I mean, yeah, that, too, but...

_ Yeah, that, uh...

She...

Yep.

No.

I got that one.

I remember that one.

- Mm.

- ‭Yeah.

- Sorry, do you...

- You want a Kn*fe?

Yeah.

Do you have a Kn*fe?

- [EXHALES SHARPLY]

- ‭Vic.

No.

No, no, no.

Okay, I just have one question.

Just one?

That's good.

I have a thousand.

Yeah, did you know?

- Know what?

- ‭That I knew Travis.

- That I worked here with him.

- Of course not.

So, y-you're...

you're swearing you had no idea?

- Vic, no.

- ‭Stop.

I didn't know you guys were friends.

[SCOFFS]

We're not friends.

- What?

- ‭He is not my friend.

We live together because he took me in when I had no place else to go.

He was there for me after my fiancé d*ed.

He has saved my life more times than I can count, so, no, we are not...

We are not friends.

He is a part of me.

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

Guess that makes me the villain, then, right?

- No need to hear my side?

- What side?

You got his husband k*lled.

There is no side.

That is the only side.

Stop.

♪♪ He's still crying.

Do you want me to talk to him or something?

Oh.

No, it's okay.

He says this is a bad sign.

He says he read that most people who go on a ventilator end up dying.

No, we don't know that.

There have been new studies.

Plus, we have friends at the hospital, huh?

And they'll make sure, if she needs the vent, that she'll get the best treatment possible.

God, I just...

I can't stop thinking about her son.

It's like he doesn't even care that his mother is in the ICU.

[SIGHS]

Alcoholism takes a toll on a family.

Is that why they're estranged?

I'm pretty sure.

I mean, she doesn't like to talk about it, and I don't like to ask, but...

the way we first met...

[SIGHS] she had caught her Christmas tree on fire, and she was so hammered that she was trying to put it out with a glass of water.

I've never seen her touch a drink.

I think she's happy now.

With us.

Doesn't want to, uh...

screw it up.

[CHUCKLES]

[GRUNTING]

Hey, hey!

Watch it!

BEN: -year-old male with an impalement to the head.

Extremely agitated.

- [GRUNTS]

- ‭Okay.

His pressure's spiking.

Tad, I need you to stay calm.

Hold him, hold him.

Take deep, slow breaths, please.

[SIREN CHIPS, HORN HONKS]

Come on.

[HONKING CONTINUES]

[SIREN CHIRPS]

♪♪ Driver looks unconscious!

♪♪ [SIGHS]

♪♪ Montgomery, jump out, check the driver.

We'll sedate this one.

Excuse me.

That's my call.

Captain?

[TAD WHIMPERING]

Go.

We'll call it in.

Good luck, you guys.

♪♪ [POUNDS ON DOOR]

♪♪ [SIREN WAILING]

[POUNDS ON WINDOW]

Hello!

Hello!

♪♪ Hey!

You're the Miller from that video, right?

With the cops?

Yeah.

Yeah, it was a, uh...

It was a rough watch, man.

My apologies.

Thanks, man.

So, uh, what's your deal?

My deal?

Yeah, man.

Where you from?

Uh, you married?

You got kids?

Is Theo short for Theodore?

'Cause if so, I'm sorry.

- [CHUCKLES]

- [KLAXONS SOUND]

Aid car , respond to an unconscious patient at Walnut Street.

Firefighter Montgomery on scene.

Oh.

That's like a block away.

I got this one.

No, I got it, man.

Uh...

PD might be there.

You've been through enough with them lately.

Cool.

Hello!

Hey!

Can you hear me?!

Can you hear me?

Hey!

Wake u...

Oh.

What are you doing?

My father's a lawyer.

I could sue.

For what?

Saving your life?

Good luck.

Tad?

- [ALARM BEEPING]

- ‭Hey.

He's decompensating.

His heart rate's dropping.

We need to intubate.

No.

No, he's still breathing and his O stats are fine.

I need you to bag him.

He's fine for now.

[GRUNTS]

I cannot intubate him and hold his head at the same time.

They'll do that at Grey-Sloan.

- How far out are we?

- Two minutes.

We might not have that long.

Okay, we'd have to lay him flat, and the arrow's in the way.

You're right.

[BEEPING CONTINUES]

What are you...

What are you...

What are you doing?

Trust me.

Hey!

Hey!

Wake up!

You gotta wake up, man!

♪♪ Hey.

Can you hear me?

Not after the party you just had.

♪♪ I'll start an IV.

I got it.

You can go.

- You asked for backup.

- I didn't ask for you.

Hey, buddy, you gotta wake up.

It's time to wake up.

Wake up.

- Wake up!

- Hi.

- [GASPS]

What happened?

- Oh!

[SCREAMING]

Lebowski, move the car!

Move the car!

He screamed, so I-I-I pumped the brakes.

Yeah, well, unpump them!

Ohh!

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Ohh!

[GROANS]

[ALARM BEEPING]

♪♪ -year-old male with a high velocity penetrating head wound.

Whoa.

Decompensated en route, intubated.

Left pupil dilated, so he might have a brain bleed.

Trauma and neurosurgery are waiting in the OR.

We got him from here.

Genius move with the hammock.

Thanks.

Oh, yes.

Off of the Amalfi Coast.

- Remember that?

- Ahh.

A-And with the air conditioning.

[CONVERSING IN ITALIAN]

[LAUGHTER]

Yeah, remember that?

So, it was a fun trip with the...

With the crappy car that somehow still looks romantic.

Is that when you two started dating?

Oh, no, we never dated.

But she said that...

No, no, no, no.

I never said that.

I mean, we never dated.

We didn't really have time, did we?

No.

And neither the energy.

Oh, my God.

Ah, you know, we were in school, we were just working hard.

Yeah.

Yeah, so many hours a week.

We needed an outlet, so...

_ Yep.

Remember that one.

- Oh, look at tiny Andrea.

- ‭Ah, yes.

That's a nice picture of him.

Is that the week he came to visit us at school?

Yeah, I remember that.

Yeah.

And he ended up spending...

Spending the night in your room.

Well, he didn't stop smiling for a week.

[BOTH LAUGH]

And he said that I was the one always romancing with his friends.

Where were you here?

That's very cute.

[CELLPHONE CHIMES]

India?

- Mm.

- ‭So many years...

Oh, no.

_ It's Andy.

It's a family thing.

B-B-But, Maya, we're fine here.

You can go.

Okay.

Visit.

Okay.

[CONVERSING IN ITALIAN]

[LAUGHTER]

This perm is so ugly.

You feel better now?

You think I did that on purpose?

[SCOFFS]

I don't think it was an accident.

What?

I moved the car with my mind?

Well, you should have turned off the car from the beginning.

Oh, yeah.

I guess I'm a little off today.

I wonder why, my man.

So, this is my fault, too?

My foot's fine, by the way.

Good.

Then you won't mind walking back.

♪♪ Whoa.

You trying to break a record?

[GRUNTS]

Sorry.

I'm just...

I'm trying to figure something out.

Yeah, like...

how to get a hernia?

Like...

was I born under a lunar eclipse or when Mercury was in retrograde or when some grey-haired shaman was dancing under a full moon?

Like, there's got to be something, right?

Like some bad juju or hex or omen that explains the epic ton of crap that's been piling onto my life.

If I'm being honest, you lost me at grey-haired shaman.

You remember the...

firefighter?

The one that Travis said I should date?

Yeah.

Uh, is he a dud?

Uh, he turned out to be Theo.

- Wh...

The...

The new guy?

- ‭So...

The new firefighter guy?

From ?

Yeah.

Well, it's, uh, worse than that, because my firefighter is Travis' firefighter.

The one that...

got Michael...

dead.

- Whoa.

- ‭Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Uh...

you should definitely look into that shaman thing.

- Right?

- ‭Yeah.

What did Montgomery think of all this?

He doesn't know yet.

He...

Seriously?

Hughes.

Theo and I... never even...

I mean, we barely even became a thing.

- Yeah.

- ‭I...

Well, if that were true, you wouldn't be taking your feelings out on these hoses like this.

- [SIGHS]

- Hey, man.

What, uh...

What...

What happened to you?

I'm fine.

You're limping.

What happened to your foot?

A car rolled over it.

- What?

- ‭A what?

[DOOR SLAMS]

[GROANS]

All right.

You almost done?

Yeah.

Unless you want to check my signature.

I don't know.

You want to give me tips on how to sign my own name?

[CHUCKLING]

Whoa.

What?

W-Where is that coming from?

Robert, you second-guessed me all day.

You've questioned my every move.

I mean, you even made me second-guess myself.

- What are you talking about?

- What am I talking about?

You contradicted me in front of my team.

To save our patient.

No, you disregarded my explicit orders.

Oh, the way you did when I was your captain?

You...

When you were my captain, you benched me for insubordination.

You wanna bench me?

Andy, everything I did today was to help you, to help you be a better captain.

Except I didn't ask for your help, - Oh.

- Robert.

And what does it say that you constantly think I need it?

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

I'll get it.

Oh.

Hi.

Uh, we've met.

I'm...

- Maya.

- ‭Yeah.

Uh, come in.

Please, come in.

- Thank you.

- ‭Yeah.

Oh.

God.

It's so good to officially re-meet you.

- Same.

- ‭Hey.

Hey.

What's up?

I got your text about Marsha.

I'm sorry.

- Oh.

Yeah.

- ‭Thank you.

Thank you.

Is that why you're here?

Yeah.

Yeah?

Uh, I'm gonna...

I'm gonna go check on Marcus.

- Okay.

- ‭Okay.

[DOOR CLOSES]

Okay, Maya, no offense, but you are not exactly the drop-everything, be-there- for-a-sad-friend-type, so what's up?

Carina's ex-sex-buddy is visiting.

Oh.

So, this is, like, a jealousy thing?

No.

Carina's grieving, right?

And her friend, who she used to...

have some sex with, is here to comfort her, kinda like you're doing now.

Oh.

I'm such a dummy!

Not in general.

About relationships, yes.

Carina comes alive with her esdin ways that I haven't seen in weeks.

I mean, she's laughing again and eating again, and...

You feel threatened.

Look, Carina...

she...

She loves you, and she's also going through the worst thing I think any of us can imagine.

So, if she is eating and laughing and smiling again, I mean, who cares why?

Okay, see, this is why I don't deal with feelings, because they become other people's problem.

♪♪ Does Inara hate me?

She doesn't know you well enough to hate you.

♪♪ Actually, uh, you could make it up to her by doing us a favor.

[LAUGHS]

My marriage is funny to you, Warren?

A little bit.

[LAUGHS]

Nah, look, it's just that I...

I've been there, man.

You've been, uh, where, exactly?

Taking orders from my wife.

A little unsolicited advice?

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

I look at it like sports.

True athletes want to play with and against the best there is, right?

That said...

getting whupped sometimes stings, but you get used to it.

You up your game.

That's how you become the best.

But they wouldn't want anybody to sandbag their game just to make them feel good, right?

I mean, that'd be the most insulting thing ever.

Well, this is not a game, Warren.

This is my marriage.

- Yeah, okay.

- ‭My career.

You and I are attracted to people who are the best at what they do.

Your wife's the boss.

And you will get there again, but you gotta let her shine right now.

Dude, did you seriously run over Ruiz's foot?

It was an accident.

I get it, but you can't leave an injured firefighter behind, man.

You know we don't do that.

You know what else we don't do?

We don't get our fellow firefighters k*lled.

It's a dangerous job.

Okay, we...

we all signed up for it.

I know it's a dangerous job.

Which is why we have to do it right.

We have to do it well.

We have to not make stupid mistakes that cost...

everything.

He cost me everything, man.

And he left me with nothing.

I got nothing.

I got a bunch of broken pieces of who I used to be, and I have spent years...

I spent years trying to put myself back together.

I spent years trying to get over what he took from me.

♪♪ So, he doesn't get to make a mistake that cost me everything and just walk away from it.

♪♪ Ah.

You guys finally decided to include me in the Black firefighters club?

Thought it was No Girls Allowed.

You were always invited.

- Come on, come on, come on.

- All right.

Okay.

‭We good?

- Yeah.

- ‭All right.

All right.

This is Condola Vargas...

CONDOLA: Esquire.

I always wanted to say that.

- [LAUGHTER]

- Hey.

- How you doing?

- ‭Hey.

Okay.

Um, so I-I've been thinking about what you asked, obsessing about it, really.

It's been hurting my brain more than Warren's kid's homework should have.

Yeah, all right, all right.

But, uh, seriously, I finally know what I want.

And I'm telling you in front of my brothers and sister because this affects all of us.

And we're all with you.

Every time, any time, man.

Yeah, what they said.

You guys having my back...

Y-you know that means everything to me.

But if I do this, if I take this stand, they're gonna come after all of us.

It's a good thing we walk through fire for a living.

All right.

So, um...

I don't just want justice.

I don't just want them punished for what they did.

I don't want anyone to feel what they made me feel, or to go through what they put Jada and Joyce through.

So, what I want is to prevent them from doing to anybody else what they did to us.

What they do to us.

♪♪ Good answer.

But that was the easy part.

Now the real work starts.

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

All right.

♪♪ JACK: Hey, thanks for doing this.

It's good for recovery, seeing family.

Marcus is threatening to climb up there by himself.

I'm coming.

[EMMIT FENN'S "CLOSER TO YOU" PLAYS]

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Don't know what to say ♪ ♪ I'm doing fine, I'm just okay ♪ ♪ Still stay in my bed all by myself on rainy days ♪ ♪ And I'm looking at pictures that we took that night ♪ ♪ Up on the hill, there were stars in the sky ♪ ♪ Don't know what to say ♪ ♪ I'm doing fine, I'm just okay ♪ ♪ Thinkin' 'bout you, thinkin' 'bout us on sunny days ♪ ♪ Singing the songs that I wrote just for you ♪ ♪ I hope that you hear them, but I know that you do ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ You left your heart in my head ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ ♪ It's almost like you never left ♪ ♪ And it brings me closer, yeah, closer ♪ ♪ Yeah, closer to you ♪ ♪ Closer, yeah, closer, yeah, closer to you ♪ ♪ Closer, yeah, closer, yeah, closer to you ♪ ♪ And it brings me closer, yeah, closer to you ♪ ♪ Don't know what to say ♪ _ ♪ I'm doing fine, but I'm not okay ♪ ♪ Still hear your voice all on my phone every day ♪ _ ♪ And it brings me closer, yeah, closer ♪ ♪ Yeah, closer to you ♪ ♪ Closer, yeah, closer, yeah, closer to you ♪ I'm sorry that I lied before.

Maya, I'm not threatened by Jack.

I am.

I am threatened by you and Gabriella.

But G-Gabriella is my friend.

She drove overnight in a pandemic to be here for me because...

I know.

I know.

I know.

I know it's not fair.

I know it's stupid.

I'm just telling you the truth.

I mean, these past few weeks, we settled into us.

I mean...

[CHUCKLES]

Sometimes, I know what you're gonna say just by how you crinkle your left eyebrow, - and it's...

- ‭Wonderful.

...wonderful and lovely and satisfying and something that I have never had before.

But you and Gabriella have never even really dated, and you still seem to have this shorthand.

I mean, you literally speak the same language.

But we've known each other for years.

It's...

It's like the shorthand that you have with Jack, talking about fire hoses and... and ladder trucks.

No, that's different.

Yeah.

It is different.

What you and I have is, ah...

What?

Fantastico.

Maya, it's ours.

It's just ours.

♪♪ Okay?

Yeah.

- Good.

- ‭Okay.

But if you... if you wanted to keep making your point...

Mm.

♪♪ [EXHALES SHARPLY]

Andy, I have more experience than you.

Decades more.

It's just a fact.

- Are you trying to help yourself here?

- Can...

Can I finish?

I have years under my belt, okay?

But...

But I'm not using them on the job, so I-I guess...

I-I thought I could use them to help you.

- [EXHALES SHARPLY]

- Help that you didn't ask for.

I get it.

I just...

[SIGHS]

Come on.

I-I just need you to understand where I'm coming from.

Look...

I get that you hate being a probie.

I hate you being a probie.

Hey, hey, we... we...

We found a common ground.

Let's just end on a win.

No, Robert, we need to talk about this.

You're only captain for another shift, and then Bishop comes back and this won't be a problem anymore.

Yeah, except I'll still be your lieutenant, and hopefully, soon, one day after that, a captain for real.

Not hopefully.

You will.

Well, then, this is a problem we need to solve.

What?

Is it a problem we need to solve tonight?

I...

I guess not.

[SIGHS]

[SIGHS]

How is your foot?

[SIGHS]

I thought you said everything was crystal clear.

One side, one story, right?

So why do you care about my foot?

Um, because there is another side.

- Oh, there is?

- ‭Yeah.

There's my side.

The side that...

has been trying to square the you that I've known and seen and semi-dated with the you in Travis' head.

- How's it working out?

- It's not.

It's not working out.

I just...

can't seem to make the pieces fit.

But I know I trust Travis.

I know who he is, and I know how he thinks, and I just don't believe that he could get something so important so wrong.

So, that's where I'm landing.

That's where I'm planting my flag.

With him and by him.

So, that means that... that's it.

I'm done wondering about you and worrying about you and...

I'm just...

I'm gonna stop.

I'm gonna stop thinking about you.

- I'm gonna stop thinking about - Please.

How you make me f-feel.

You're just making it worse.

I want you to know...

I need you to know that what happened with Michael...

...it didn't just destroy Travis.

It doesn't just haunt Travis.

He's not the only one...

reliving that day over and over.

And, God, I'm...

I'm not saying it's the same.

I can't imagine what he feels, what I made him feel.

But that day, it...

♪♪ It didn't just destroy Travis.

[SIGHS]

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪