Spoilers forward for Episode 10 of Chicago Fireplace Season 13, known as “Chaos Concept.”
The Chicago Fireplace staff wasn’t kidding with the title of “Chaos Concept” for the most recent episode within the 2025 TV schedule, as a result of one character went by some critical highs and lows earlier than making a call that will have reduce him from the upcoming One Chicago crossover occasion. Joe Cruz got here clear in regards to the Flaco scenario, greater than a decade after he first left the gang member to die in a fireplace, and it could possibly be a pair weeks earlier than followers see Joe Mińoso once more. The actor had some humorous feedback about crossovers when he spoke with CinemaBlend, although!
Has Cruz Been Minimize From The Crossover?
Cruz’s responsible conscience obtained the higher of him in “Chaos Concept,” which was good timing, as a result of the reality appeared certain to return out after he was shot within the arm and Severide began digging as soon as Chief Pascal confirmed curiosity. After listening to Javi boasting about having a heroic firefighter for a dad, Cruz got here clear to Severide and declared his intention to show himself in to CPD.
Thankfully, Severide had science on his facet: the temperature was too excessive in that home all these years in the past, and Flaco would have died whether or not or not Cruz has closed that door on him. Nonetheless, Cruz went to Chicago P.D.‘s Atwater to confess what he’d completed, and he was able to pay the worth for his actions… till the state’s lawyer knowledgeable him, Severide, and Pascal that there wasn’t proof to prosecute him.
That wasn’t the top of the story, although, as a result of Pascal knew that Cruz had lied many occasions and determined to droop the Squad firefighter for 2 weeks with out pay for “conduct unbecoming, efficient instantly.” Cruz agreed that his actions of mendacity and withholding data had been unacceptable, saying that he’d informed Chloe the identical factor and he was ashamed of what he’d completed.
Pascal did not appear to assume much less of Cruz by the top, although, when Cruz confirmed that he got here clear regardless of studying from Severide that no one would ever have to seek out out what he’d completed if he by no means mentioned something. “I need to be the person my son thinks I’m,” defined Cruz, and that appears to be the top of the story.
And Pascal ended the scene by telling him that he’d see him in two weeks, and the One Chicago crossover is only one week away on January 29. So, does that imply Cruz will not be a part of it? Nicely, if we account for NBC delaying new One Chicago episodes final Wednesday, January 29 would have been the two-week mark. Nonetheless, a suspension may imply that Cruz simply will not be on the job when all the things goes sideways for the three sequence.
Mainly, we simply do not know if his suspension means Cruz will not seem in Chicago Med and Chicago P.D. subsequent week, however there are definitely causes to marvel. And both means, I like what Joe Mińoso mentioned about One Chicago crossover occasions.
Joe Mińoso’s Take On One Chicago’s Occasion
I spoke with Joe Mińoso in early January as a part of NBC’s One Chicago winter premiere occasion in regards to the “totally ridiculous” means Chicago Fireplace revisited Season 1 and what nonetheless terrifies Cruz in spite of everything this time. Since he is been a part of the franchise from the very starting, I questioned: did he have any recommendation for the newer solid members who have not been a part of a three-show crossover earlier than? He first joked that different One Chicago stars ought to “get as small a storyline as you may, as a result of it means essentially the most days off,” then mentioned:
No, be your self. Have enjoyable. This stuff are at all times form of like visiting your cousin’s home and enjoying with their toys, and cousins have quirks. And so all of us include our personal particular person quirks. Fireplace has lots of them, and hopefully we do not tear down Med’s set. Steven Weber, he has it so good. Every part is so clear over there, largely heated on a regular basis. They’re strolling round in cozy scrubs. I needn’t give them recommendation. They’re residing the life up there. We name it Membership Med, really, on Fireplace, so they do not want my recommendation. They’re doing simply advantageous with out me.
Chicago Med definitely is the One Chicago present that normally retains the solid indoors and wearing cozy garments! In truth, S. Epatha Merkerson commented that the Med medical doctors and nurses get to principally work in “pajamas and slippers” whereas she needed to put on “fits and excessive heels” as administrator Sharon Goodwin. Fireplace additionally causes much more destruction than the opposite two reveals, so there might be bother on the Med set if a lot of the crossover is about there.
And in a humorous twist, Joe Mińoso shouted out Steven Weber particularly as a result of Weber was representing Chicago Med on the similar One Chicago winter premiere junket that the Fireplace actor was a part of. In truth, I would spoken to Weber simply minutes earlier than I used to be capable of interview Mińoso, and requested for Fireplace actor’s tackle Weber’s suggestion that the upcoming occasion is “the One Chicago model of Avengers: Endgame.” Mińoso jokingly responded:
It is humorous that he says that too, as a result of I bear in mind once we first began the present and the primary crossover we ever did, that is precisely what I used to be saying. I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, that is precisely just like the Avengers.’ However I used to be saying that in regards to the first Avengers film. I used to be like, ‘We’re principally TV’s Avengers, as a result of we’re doing all this loopy crossover stuff.’ So after all Steven Weber would steal my line. That sounds identical to him.
Joking apart, all indicators level to an thrilling evening of primetime for the crossover, which would be the franchise’s’ first three-parter because the pre-COVID “An infection” occasion of 2019. (Yow will discover “An infection” streaming with a Peacock subscription now.) We could have to attend till it airs on Wednesday, January 29 to make certain about whether or not or not Cruz will probably be a part of it, although!