The primary One Chicago crossover since 2019 is nearly right here — and primarily based on what the celebrities need to say, it’s going to be similar to the others in a single main manner: a seamless transition between episodes.
“I’ll say at the beginning, I don’t take into account this a crossover. I believe it is a three-hour movie that occurs to incorporate all your One Chicago characters. This doesn’t actually take us episode to episode. It’s simply three hours of 1 steady storyline, which is absolutely particular,” Chicago Hearth‘s Joe Minoso tells TV Insider. (Watch the complete video above.)
Chicago Med Steven Weber echoes that: “It appears like, to me, Avengers: Endgame. Ultimately, everyone is on this big journey and all three reveals work together and intersect in such an unimaginable manner that individuals are going to freak out.”
The crossover is ready to air on Wednesday, January 28, beginning at 8/7c, with Hearth main it off (and swapping slots with Med) and concluding with Chicago P.D. A gasoline explosion rocks a high-rise, and the primary responders come out in drive to rescue lots of of civilians. A calamity beneath the floor sends the heroes on a race to avoid wasting 40 individuals trapped deep underground — together with two of their very own.
So who’s trapped? All Minoso would tease is, “It’s somebody you like, I assure that.”
However we will’t assist however suppose that we needs to be frightened about P.D.‘s Trudy Platt (Amy Morton). After we spoke with government producer Gwen Sigan in October 2024, she’d instructed us, “She’s acquired another issues cooking that aren’t official but, however I believe will likely be actually, actually thrilling if we will make ’em all occur.” Properly, that labored out.
“Trudy performs a giant half within the crossover,” Sigan now teases. “We acquired to present Amy quite a bit to do and it was actually thrilling. I imply, she’s so good and I really feel like we had been lastly in a position to give her one thing completely different. I believe you’ll see a unique facet of her character within the crossover, which is good.”
Weber says that Med will “rise to the event” of what he calls “an enormous enterprise. It’s an actual epic night of tv that may hearken again to the olden days of these large, large occasion reveals that I bear in mind rising up with.”
For Intelligence, “There’s such a ticking clock on the best way the story performs out that we’re below the gun and we try to work as quick as we probably can with actually excessive stakes,” Sigan previews. “And it’s additionally only a difficult case in itself as a result of it’s exhausting for us to get data due to the best way the case performs out. And so it’s a number of operating across the metropolis, heads minimize off, attempting to make sense of it and get forward of it. And we’re actually the engine that kind of investigation and hopefully having the ability to save the day on the finish of this factor, which is large excessive stakes, the entire metropolis concerned kind of really feel.”
Minoso calls it “the largest factor we’ve ever executed” and praises manufacturing (“magicians”) for pulling it off — particularly contemplating the schedules of the three reveals.
Characters throughout the three reveals will work together, in fact. “The writers have been very good in inserting sure characters which have sure issues in frequent and likewise would make good energetic ping pong dynamics. What can I say? I’m not going to say something to you besides I’ve heard that, let’s say, sporting that heavy fireplace gear that’s 40, 50 kilos with a tank in your again and with a device in your hand, apparently, I’ve heard is absolutely exhausting and tough to do,” Weber teases.
Watch the complete video above for extra from Minoso and Weber. Then, tell us who you suppose will likely be trapped and what you’re hoping to see within the crossover within the feedback part under.
One Chicago Crossover, Wednesday, January 29, 8/7c, NBC