As the thirteenth season of Chicago Fire kicks off, Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) has several things to deal with. His longtime firehouse is under new leadership; he’s wading in untested waters with Stella, and another one of Benny’s surprises sought him out. In Season 12, Damon (Michael Bradway) revealed that he was Benny’s son and Kelly’s half-brother, and the succeeding season deals with this revelation. His relationship with Damon is one of his top priorities, but someone is not convinced that this is good. Joe Cruz (Joe Minoso) has reservations about the new Severide brothers and showrunner Andrea Newman talked to TV Line about why this is the case.
“Cruz has a very tumultuous history in terms of his relationship with his brother, Leon, and all the things that he did for Leon, all the drama that he had in terms of Leon,” she began, calling back to one of the earliest arcs involving Cruz and his brother that had kept him on his toes for years. “And so, he knows that getting close, having a brother, is a whole new experience, and could have its own perils for Severide, in terms of just the emotional weight of it, and what Cruz was willing to do for his brother,” the showrunner continued, detailing the workings of Cruz’s mind and why he’s paying extra attention to this relationship. “It just sort of raises all sorts of flags for him in terms of Severide and Damon’s relationship,” Newman concluded, revealing why Cruz seems to pay more attention to how Damon and Kelly work together
