Chicago Fire (TV Series)

The Center of the Universe (2022)

Hanako Greensmith: Violet Mikami

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Violet Mikami : That's him, Evan. He was the only one who saw you fall out of that door overcome with smoke. And, um, he knew he was supposed to stay out of the collapse zone, but he could see you weren't gonna make it out on your own. So he ran in to help.

  Gabriel : That is a brave man.

  Violet Mikami : Is it okay if, um... Can I tell you all a little bit about who he was?

  Gabriel : Yes, I'd like that very much.

  Violet Mikami : Evan was the kind of guy... Evan was the kind of guy who could make someone feel like the center of the universe. And was worth risking everything for.

• Kelly Severide : Can I come in?

  Violet Mikami : I'm really bad company right now, but...

  [Severide walks in and sets down some beers on Violet's kitchen table] 

  Violet Mikami : Let me guess, Stella is stuck working at Molly's so she sent you to bring me a beer and try to cheer me up?

  Kelly Severide : No, this is my idea. I wanted to tell you about a girlfriend I had before your time at 51: Anna.

  Violet Mikami : Yeah. Stella has told me about her. I mean, I don't know much, but I... I know she died.

  Kelly Severide : The two toughest things I've ever been through were losing Shay and losing her. And for the longest time after Anna died, I felt like a boat cut loose from the dock, just lost, nothing to hold on to.

  Violet Mikami : Yeah, that's... Yeah, that's pretty much exactly it.

  Kelly Severide : I don't like to think about how low a bottom I might've hit if I hadn't gone back to work. That's just my take, having been where you are.

  Violet Mikami : I appreciate it, I really do, but the... the difference is... I'm scared if I go back to work, I'll see Evan everywhere. It was his work too.

  Kelly Severide : You can't avoid it that way, I'm sorry to say. I saw Anna wherever I went, too, for the longest time. But what I saw even clearer, right in front of me, was my crew at 51, always bugging me, checking in on me. And I wanted to kill them half the time. But I knew that if I started to drift, they'd hold on tight.