Otis quotes from Chicago Fire

Otis

A lot of people out there are probably wondering why we do this job. Um, and it's true. Some days are bad. We grope around in zero visibility, hoping we grab onto an arm or a leg, and we pull someone to safety. Sometimes you can search through an entire room, come up empty. And you hear about the kid you missed under the bed. I don't care who you are. I don't care how many years you've had on the job. You think to yourself, "How did I miss it? How come I didn't reach just a few feet further?" No doubt, there are days you want to pick up your helmet, and you wanna chuck it in the lake. Some days, you get to see things that no one gets to see. A wife grateful you dragged her husband to safety, a grown man dripping like a faucet 'cause you saved his son. And every once in a while, you get to see a baby take its first breath in the middle of a ten-car pileup with lights and sirens and a whole group of firemen standing around just clapping till it hurts. Those are good days. You want to know what I'm thankful for? I'm thankful because I have two families. And not too many people can say that.

Otis

[at Mouch's rambling] Mouch, could you keep your tonsils out?!

Otis

[explains to Cruz why his grandmother is moving in] Joe, you know what? When I wanted to be a firefighter, my parents flipped out. They wanted me to become a doctor like Vlad and Dimitri. Now, my grandmother calls me from Russia and she says to me, "Your mother moved to America to follow her dreams. Now you follow yours." I'm here because of my grandma, so if I have to share a room with her, I will.

Otis

[after getting drenched in India pale ale during a call, annoyed] Taking a beer shower sounds great. 'till you actually do it.

Yo Peter Mills. My partner Shay, she's been asking about you, been talking about you all morning.

Otis

She's a monster. A dude I know over at 19, he walked with a hitch for a week.

You guys are busting my balls.

Listen to me, kid. I just lost my house to foreclosure because I took a bath in the market. We're now living with my in-laws, which is two bedrooms shy of unpleasant. My wife won't take birth control pills because the pope said if she did God would cry, so I'm not having any sex. So if there's any chance that I could live vicariously through you, it's literally all I got.

All right.

Hey.

Hey.

I'm Peter Mills. Uh Pete.

[chuckles] Uh-huh. Peter Mills. Can you hand me that box right there?

Uh, yeah.

Thanks.

So the little girl from the bridge accident, she okay?

You really are new, aren't you? Listen. We get 'em to the doctor best we can, and then we move on. It's the only way to make it here.

Uh, yeah Yeah. So, um I was thinking I mean, I was wondering do you maybe wanna hook up for a beer or dinner or something?

Peter Mills, are you gay?

Me? No.

Because I am.

How long were you the Candidate here?

Otis

Not long. Four years.

That's it?!

Otis

Anything to piss off the engine.

Otis

What's with the goat?

What?

Otis

The Truck 81 seal, or symbol..or whatever it's called. It's a goat.

It's a fighting goat.

Otis

Yeah. [looks at Squad 3's table] They've got Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guards the gates of hell and we got a freakin' goat.

[sees Mills behind the kitchen counter] Hey, you know about "fire fans", Peter Mills?

Otis

They're chicks who follow firemen like flies to honey.

Bees, Otis. "Bees to honey."

Otis

Whatever, we're still the honey.

Otis

Hey, lieutenant, why do we have a goat on our truck?

Years ago, truck 81's first fire was at a goat farm in Little Italy.

Otis

Really?

Mm-hmm.

Mouch

They used to have a goat at the station so they didn't have to mow the grass.

Otis

Huh. I thought that's what candidates are for.

Otis

All I'm just saying is, I'm more than happy to design a new seal more reflective of the truck we are. Anything besides a goat!

[to Casey] What's he on about?

He doesn't like our crest.

[to Otis] I love that goat. That goat's all about reversing the curse.

What curse?

The Cubs. A goat owner cursed 'em once, which is why they always suck. Everyone knows that.

Otis

So we have a cursed crest?

How the hell should I know? Leave it alone. The goat rocks.

Otis

I was wondering what the proper protocol would be for designing a new crest for the truck. It's just, sir, engine's got a camel, which I get. And squad has got a badass three-headed dog, which I get. And we have a goat, sir.

Named after Billy "Goat" Bukanski. First chief of firehouse 51 and a mentor to me.

Otis

Just forget I said anything.

That's it?

Otis

Yes sir.

Then y'all do good work out there.

That true about the crest?

Oh! Good afternoon, candidate.

Sorry.

Otis

First he blows a no-hitter. Now he's coming in five minutes late. So much for employee of the week.

You know, you were the candidate up until two weeks ago. Why are you riding him so hard?

Otis

The abused abuse, Cruz.

What we got in the treasury box?

Dick. We spent it all on the elliptical machine so Shay could keep her ass toned.

Oh, Herrmann, please. Everyone benefits from me having a toned ass.

Mills, you're in charge of a fundraiser for a new TV.

[hopefully] Instead of cooking?

In conjunction with cooking.

Otis

I believe it's called multitasking.

Okay, um...how about a t-shirt booth in the driveway?

We already sell t-shirts.

Yeah, but I mean, no one can ever find the key to the cabinet, Herrmann never has change in the treasury box. It's a pain in the ass, so we put the shirts out front and display 'em properly.

Mouch

I don't know how that's gonna generate enough money––

And, we get Nicki to man the booth.

Ding. Done.

That is called putting it over the goal line, Peter Mills. [fist-bumps Mills]

Why don't you put her in a bikini while you're at it?

Otis

Before I respond, are you joking, or are you serious?

About as serious as putting you in a bikini.