There's such a thing as having too much empathy. You leave nothing for yourself.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Hey, I found something.
Okay. Why are we whispering?
You have to make so many death notifications on this job. I remember every one. Now to be able to walk up to someone's door, someone who's lost so much, and bring good news? It's a blessing.
Cases come and go. Bosses come and go. Jobs come and go. I don't want you to come and go.
A.C. went out in my apartment last night. It's like Dante's Inferno in there.
Yeah? Which Circle of Hell?
All of them.
[to Burgess] I can name at least two detectives, both married, and a stable's worth of patrolmen who have confided in me their desire to take you to the futon, hard.
We didn't find any drugs or signs of "paraphenalia" in the car.
Para-pher-nalia. There's an R in there. A lot of people miss it.
Okay, Hooked on Phonics. You want to step outside?
Let's go.
I've just been thinking, man. What am I gonna do? Join the academy? Be a 31-year-old rookie? Come on. Over there, I got stripes.
Do you forget what it did to you? Depression? Can't sleep at night? You want that? You want to be You want to be calling me 3:00 in the morning? You can't sleep, you're popping pills?
I'll learn to deal with it, just like you did.
Greg, you're in the middle of a war in Chicago. You want a war? You're right here, okay?
I'm just being honest, man. Here, there's just Just too much noise. You know, who's right and who's wrong? Over there in Afghanistan, I know that I'm the good guy and they're the bad guys.
You of all people should understand this!
You're not me, Trudy!
So, what, you avoiding going home already?
What? Dude, I'm working overtime so we can pay off my place faster.
It's your place.
Our place.
Uh-huh.
It's been four days.
Well, still.
What?
Nothing.
I'm not avoiding going home, I....you know, out of all of my friends, I am not going to take relationship insight from you.
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You can learn from my mistakes. I just think you and Halstead should have a plan.
Dude, you and Burgess had the ultimate plan. What happened?
That's a fair enough point.
[Dawson and Olinsky find what appears to be a threesome in bed.]
You're her roommates?
BBoyfriend
I'm her boyfriend.
MMan
I'm nobody.
We're gonna need a little bit more than that.
MMan
Really? Look, I don't know what you think you saw, but just so you know, nothing was happening between me and him.
Look, I know you're gonna do what you're gonna do, but this is your neighborhood, this is your families getting shot up. And we got the offender, he's in custody. So now this is about nothing.
RRuzke
Don't act as stupid as that haircut makes you look.
I've done my job. I've done my job since the day I got here. Busted my ass for you. I never never once asked for OT. And all I'm asking for is a favor a favor so that maybe I can live my life the way that I'd like to.
Don't go out like this, Mouse. You've come too far.
[Lindsay breaks up an argument between Halstead and Mouse]
Listen. What you two went through and what you carry is real. And you know that if you ever need my help carrying it, you just have to ask me. Why are you not listening to him?
Because going back is not the right move for him.
For you. Him going back is not the right move for you. But if it was if you were the one that wanted to go would you let anybody stand in your way?
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