Chicago Fire (TV Series)

Spartacus (2015)

Joe Minoso: Joe Cruz

Quotes 

• Otis : You haven't said two words to me all morning.

  Joe Cruz : What, now I'm not allowed to be contemplative and asocial?

  Otis : No, you're not. You're supposed to be dense and loveable.

  Joe Cruz : Dense?

  Otis : In a lovable way.

  Joe Cruz : I am not dense.

  Otis : Fair enough. But it's "antisocial", not "asocial".

• Otis : This is gonna be weird. You really gonna sit at the Squad table?

  Wallace Boden : He worked hard. Nights. Weekends. And he was willing to give it all up today... for his brothers.

  Joe Cruz : Hey, what you did today... Spartacus would've been proud.

  Otis : Why didn't you tell me, man?

  Joe Cruz : I didn't know how to. After Sylvie and me broke up, I just... had to challenge myself.

  Otis : Okay.

  Joe Cruz : Hey. You're my best friend, Brian. You mean more to me than... well, my own family. I didn't want to do anything to blow that. Besides, I didn't think I was gonna make Squad anyway.

  Otis : Then I'll tell you what I would've told you if you would've told me sooner. Of course you belong on Squad, man. Congratulations, seriously. And now I get to drive the truck.

• Matthew Casey : [Otis, Dawson, Herrmann, and Mouch are sitting at the Squad table in protest]  Otis. What are you doing?

  Otis : Just sitting with my brothers, Lieutenant. I thought this was Firehouse 51, not the Kingdom of Squad 3.

  [Truck 81 and Squad 3 glare at each other] 

  Kelly Severide : We need gas. Let's load back up.

  [Severide, Capp, Tony, and Rice get into the Squad truck and drive off] 

  Otis : Cruz. Pull up a chair, man.

  Joe Cruz : Yeah, sure.

• Wallace Boden : Okay. Everybody, listen up. Scott Rice has just been dismissed from Firehouse 51. And I'm not gonna kick a man while he's down, so leave it to say his family situation got in the way of his work here. Joe Cruz, will you stand up here for me, please? It has recently been reported to me that Joe Cruz completed his Squad Certification last week.

  Otis : What?

  Wallace Boden : And since we now have an opening, it is my honor to welcome Joe Cruz to Squad 3. Joe.. make us proud.

  Joe Cruz : Thank you, Chief. I will.

  [looks at Capp and Tony] 

  Joe Cruz : I promise.

  Otis : What the hell are you doing, man?

  Wallace Boden : Brian, you are now the driver of Truck 81.

  Randall McHolland : Uh, since Casey's gone, who's gonna be acting lieutenant?

  Wallace Boden : I am. Anybody got an issue with that? Good.

  [alarm blares] 

  Emergency dispatch : Truck 81, Squad 3, Ambulance 61, Truck 64, Truck 70...

  Wallace Boden : Here we go.

  Emergency dispatch : Ambulance 96, warehouse fire, 1400 North Cortland Street.

  Otis : What, you couldn't have said something? After all this, you're joining them.

  Christopher Herrmann : Otis, you driving or what?

  Otis : Yeah. Let's go.

  Kelly Severide : Hey, Cruz. Do your job.

• Wallace Boden : Chief Tiberg.

  Chief Joel Tiberg : It's been brought to my attention, Wallace, that one of your firefighters threatened Batallion Chief Dan Weiss with violence at the blaze today. I need a name, Chief. Now.

  Otis : I did it.

  Joe Cruz : No, Otis.

  Otis : Yep. It was me.

  Joe Cruz : No. It was me

  Chief Joel Tiberg : Well, who was it?

  Kelly Severide : It was me.

  Randall McHolland : I did it, Chief.

  Capp : I did it.

  Tony : It was me.

  Sylvie Brett : I did it.

  Jessica Chilton : I did it.

  Chief Joel Tiberg : What is this? You don't think I can find out who it was?

  Wallace Boden : Yeah, I do. But I gotta ask. Why the hell would you want to?

  Chief Joel Tiberg : Firehouse 51.

• Chief Weiss : That's it. I'm calling it. Wheatley, get ready to hit the building from the river. Tower ladders on my signal.

  Joe Cruz : That'll cook anyone in there.

  Chief Weiss : There's no way they have any air left, and that hose line isn't big enough to get them out. I'm cutting off the water and sending it to the tower ladder.

  Joe Cruz : Chief, they could be alive and breathing off that hose for all we know.

  Chief Weiss : I'm not looking for opinions, son.

  Joe Cruz : Well then, you take my badge, Chief. You take my uniform, you take my pension, whatever you want. But you are not shutting down that line!

• Otis : Am I really just the elevator guy?

  Joe Cruz : Of course not.

  Otis : Does everybody think that or just the Squad a-holes?

  Joe Cruz : Otis, man, don't.

  Otis : God, I can't stand those guys.

  Christopher Herrmann : Hey, Otis, wait up! Hey.

  Otis : Yeah?

  Jessica Chilton : We need a good elevator man.