Spoilers forward for the winter premiere of Chicago Med Season 10, known as “No Love Misplaced.”
Chicago Med lastly returned within the 2025 TV schedule to repay on the harrowing fall finale cliffhanger that ended with Goodwin stabbed and Archer simply out of attain, and Steven Weber wasn’t kidding about “getting down and soiled” for the storyline! Happily, Archer was in a position to save her life (and her high quality of life) with a tough surgical procedure, and he or she each reunited with a former ED physician and shouted out Will Halstead in her restoration. And dang it, now there’s one other former character who I would like to see again in Season 10!
I am certainly not the one One Chicago fan who has felt nostalgic ever since Rachel DiPillo reprised her position as Dr. Sarah Reese in Season 10 for the primary time because the fourth season premiere. So, when Goodwin jokingly requested if Will Halstead was subsequent after she acknowledged Reese, I half believed based mostly on the look on Dr. Charles‘ face that Nick Gehlfuss actually was about to stroll into the shot as a winter premiere shock. If Med may do it with Torrey Devitto for Gehlfuss’ exit, why not one thing related for Goodwin’s restoration?
In fact that wasn’t the case, and Dr. Charles naturally was emotional on account of his greatest pal’s near-death expertise, however listening to Will’s identify on the finish of an episode that includes Sarah Reese jogged my memory that Dr. Connor Rhodes by no means obtained the type of closure that Will did or a return to complete his story like Reese did. Can we please get Colin Donnell again earlier than the tip of Season 10?
I used to be at all times a fan of Colin Donnell on Chicago Med, to the purpose that I hoped he would stick round on FBI: Worldwide to make up for his abrupt One Chicago exit. (A special One Chicago alum grew to become the brand new FBI: Worldwide lead within the fall 2024 TV schedule as a substitute.) Donnell’s final episode of Med was the Season 5 premiere, which needed to clarify each Connor and Ava’s exits after the Season 4 finale raised huge questions for his or her characters. (You’ll be able to revisit Connor’s ultimate arc streaming with a Peacock subscription.)
Each Donnell and Norma Kuhling returned for simply the one episode of the fifth season, which fairly definitively dominated out Kuhling ever coming again. Briefly order, Ava broke down, revealed that she had killed Connor’s dad, after which slashed her personal throat when Connor refused to help her. Connor did not die like Ava did, however determined that he wanted to depart the hospital and could not convey himself to say goodbye to anyone apart from Goodwin. And that was that.
In line with co-showrunners Andrew Schneider and Diane Frolov on the time, his exit occurred as a result of “There was a basic feeling that Connor’s story was actually coming to a conclusion” and so they “knew [Ava] was not going to return to finish.” The bosses later went so far as to say that Connor is “alive” and “doing properly” off display screen, and it was a “chance” that he may come again.
That by no means occurred beneath the tenure of Schneider and Frolov, however a brand new showrunner took over within the fall with the arrival of Allen MacDonald, who watched all 176 episodes of the primary 9 seasons forward of Season 10. Maybe Connor’s story remains to be contemporary sufficient in MacDonald’s reminiscence for him to return again, even when only for an episode or two like Rachel DiPillo did as Sarah Reese?
For now, Chicago Med followers can sit up for what occurs subsequent since Goodwin has survived her ordeal and satisfied Archer to remain at Gaffney. New episodes will proceed airing on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on NBC, forward of Chicago Fireplace at 9 p.m. ET and Chicago P.D. at 10 p.m. ET earlier than the massive three-part crossover later this month.