Chicago Fire (TV Series)

A Guy I Used to Know (2023)

Tim Hopper: Captain Tom Van Meter

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• Kelly Severide : Van Meter.

  Captain Tom Van Meter : What is this, Severide? Why do I feel like I'm being ambushed?

  Kelly Severide : Look, you know the insurance company disagrees with you on the cause of this fire.

  Captain Tom Van Meter : How is that any of your business?

  Kelly Severide : They think you're covering something up. Now CPD's involved.

  Captain Tom Van Meter : And you're helping them?

  Kelly Severide : I'm trying to help *you*. Why didn't you disclose your relationship with the property owner?

  Captain Tom Van Meter : Stephen Flores? That's not a relationship. That's--that's just a guy I used to know.

  Kelly Severide : Okay, well, you look pretty cozy in a photo that I saw from a few years back.

  Captain Tom Van Meter : My high school reunion? That's what they're basing this on? Severide, that insurance investigator is wrong about the accelerant. The charring she noted was due to an isoparaffin hydrocarbon from a can of charcoal lighter fluid that likely got crushed under a firefighter's boot in zero visibility. The fire preceded that spill. The real cause was high-voltage short in a faulty EV charger.

  Kelly Severide : The evidence you just mentioned, it's not here.

  Captain Tom Van Meter : Sure it is!

  Kelly Severide : It's not!

  Captain Tom Van Meter : Well, then it got lost! I don't get it. After all we've been through, after all the trust that I've put in you? You can't reciprocate? You just take their word for it that I'm covering up for an old friend? Let me tell you something, Severide. Stephen Flores isn't one-tenth the friend that I thought you were.

  Kelly Severide : Van Meter, why did you handle the investigation yourself?

  Captain Tom Van Meter : I expected a lot more from you.