( 'I look better than Da Vinci. Let's be honest.' [Stark, Storm] )

( 'What's the matter, ese? Run out of yards to rake in Buffalo?' [Casteneda, Vincent, Zenith] )

( 'You're welcome. Now, are you going to charge me or not?' [Magneto] )

( 'Rossi, darling. Don't flinch.' [Emma, Leonardo] )

( 'Would you make the choices you have if you weren't a guilt-ridden busybody with a hero complex?' [Jason] )

( 'In the end, we could not choose public opinion over reason.' [Storm] )

( 'Life's a bitch and then you die. We're living examples.' [Vincent] )

The shouting from the office is one-sided, and it is not Rossi's voice. The Lieutenant's voice carries, but it is the Captains' -- plural, competing with each other in a duel of anger and consequence -- that keep the squad room quiet, less in the hopes of overhearing (easy) than in the fear that the concentration of furious brass might find a new ( Read more... )

( 'Eight out of ten, for bravery.' [Vincent, Arika, Stark] )

( 'I think even the heroic first responders are maybe a little idiotic.' [Norah] )