- Chief Anderson: Boden?
- Wallace Boden: Yeah? Chief, what can I do for you?
- Chief Anderson: You've been talking about me behind my back.
- Wallace Boden: Come again?
- Chief Anderson: There's scuttlebutt going all over the CFD that you had to jump in and save my ass on that last call.
- Wallace Boden: I have discussed the call with others, yes, but I certainly didn't say anything disparaging about you.
- Chief Anderson: It's true what they say about you, isn't it? You're a real wild card. No respect for the chain of command.
- Wallace Boden: Look who's trading in scuttlebutt.
- Chief Anderson: You see something on a scene, you bring it to the attention of the incident commander.
- Wallace Boden: There wasn't time.
- Chief Anderson: There wasn't time? Or you just decided you could handle it better than me? Maybe you thought you should've got the bump for Deputy District Chief.
- Wallace Boden: Chief, you have every right to be upset, but I didn't intend to undercut your authority. I had a different vantage point. I saw something. I acted. Simple as that.
- Chief Anderson: You don't want to make an enemy out of me, Chief.
- Wallace Boden: We are in agreement.
- Randall McHolland: You wanted to see us?
- Wallace Boden: Yeah. I have three questions.
- [Reads a paper on his desktop while standing up]
- Wallace Boden: Are you going to Kenny Fallwell's cocktail party? If so, are your wives going? And what are they wearing?
- Randall McHolland: You wrote those down?
- Wallace Boden: I just hung up with Donna. She wanted me to ask.
- Christopher Herrmann: Well, yes, yes, and we will have Cindy and Trudy text her.
- Wallace Boden: Mission accomplished.
- Christopher Herrmann: Yeah.
- Matthew Casey: Think there's gonna be any fallout from Anderson?
- Wallace Boden: I'm hoping he got it all out of his system. But then again, he can be tricky: got a very fragile ego.
- Kelly Severide: For good reason. Did you remind him that he almost got some firefighters killed?
- Wallace Boden: You know that's not how I operate. Sometimes when you're a chief, you just got to suck it up and nod yes.
- Matthew Casey: Doesn't sound much different than when you're a lieutenant...
- Wallace Boden: Maybe not.