The last NBC One Chicago Wednesday of a TV season is guaranteed to deliver some major twists, and that certainly will be true in the spring 2025 TV schedule on May 21. Chicago Med has a pregnancy bombshell to follow up on, Chicago Fire‘s Battalion Chief was arrested ahead of the finale, and Chicago P.D.‘s Intelligence Unit was disbanded in the penultimate episode of Season 12. And those are just some of the twists that will have to be untwisted over the course of the finales!
Luckily, I was able to speak with the showrunners for Med Season 10, Fire Season 13, and P.D. Season 12 about the last episodes. of the season, and my biggest takeaway is honestly that I’m glad all three shows have been renewed for next season. Let’s start with the same show that One Chicago Wednesdays kick off with: Med.
Chicago Med – “… Don’t You Cry”
The penultimate episode of Season 10, which is available streaming now with a Peacock subscription, guarantees that the doctors are in for trouble with the desperate parents of some patients. In addition to hyping the scare that will result in a “powerhouse” performance from Oliver Platt, showrunner Allen MacDonald told CinemaBlend:
I’d say the stakes are very high. Walter [Sam Trammell] — the dad with the gun — feels deeply betrayed and desperate: he played by the transplant rules for year… he got on the waiting list and waited for his turn while his son Noah’s condition deteriorated… and now at the eleventh hour Griffin [Tim DeKay] essentially steals the lungs right out from under Noah for his own daughter Alea [Brooklyn Shuck]. Griffin’s power and money allows him to cut the line and I think Walter hits his limit when confronted with the unfairness of that. I think nothing guts a parent more than feeling powerless to protect their own child… and I think for Walter that escalates into pure rage.
There’s a glimpse of that “pure rage” in the preview for the Season 10 finale, which indicates that Dr. Frost may be the one to intervene before a messy situation gets bloody at Gaffney. For her part, Hannah has an entirely different conundrum for the episode, as she learned last week that she was pregnant. I’d originally assumed that Ripley had to be the father as her most recent ex (that we know of), but the showrunner was somewhat coy when he previewed how she handles her pregnancy in the finale:
Hannah’s central dilemma in the finale is that she’s ‘carrying’ the secret that she’s pregnant all alone and isn’t quite sure who to turn to.
Will Hannah turn to somebody before the credits roll on Season 10, or will we be waiting until Season 11 – when the bun in the oven could already be well on the way to rising – for any answers? Find out with the Season 10 finale of Chicago Med on May 21 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.
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