The end of Chicago Med‘s Season 9 finale didn’t bode well for Hannah and Ripley… but is their nascent romance already over?
As suspicions turned to Ripley when a beat-up Pawel was brought into the ED and accused the doc of assaulting him, Hannah remained silent. Despite their growing closeness, she did not come to Ripley’s defense, and Ripley left the hospital without a word.
“She was just confused. I mean, let’s be real, Ripley didn’t speak up when they asked him what was going on,” Jessy Schram explains to TVLine. “So I feel like we should put the suspicion on him. I think she was just very confused and didn’t know what to think about it when he walked away so silently.”
When the new season picks up one month after that dramatic ending, the intense situation “could possibly cause complications” for the couple, Schram says, adding that “we’ll see if that’s going somewhere good, or if it’s a little too rocky for them. We’ll see how they affect each other.”
Looking back at Hannah’s storyline with Ripley last season, “I think what I liked about the romantic relationship is we haven’t seen that side of Hannah since Will Halstead, and even then, that was such a different version of Hannah,” Schram shares. “So I’ve really liked, as an actor, getting to know this version of her in a romantic, sober relationship, in a flirtation, in a crush scenario. It does happen to be with someone she works with, so that could get a little tricky sometimes. But Luke [Mitchell] has been a great addition, and I feel like he’s definitely been finding his stamp [with] Ripley, and it’s fun to be able to be his scene partner while he’s doing that.”
With new showrunner Allen MacDonald (Harlan Coben’s Shelter) coming on board next season with fresh ideas, Schram is “excited to get to dig in and challenge myself and bring something really exciting to the show,” the actress says.
I think we’ll be seeing how Hannah’s sobriety is going,” Schram previews, noting that “when you’re an addict, you’re always an addict, and I think that we’ll see how Hannah keeps things in line the way that she does.”
Viewers can also expect “a lot of really important, interesting, heartbreaking, and exciting women’s storylines for the OB,” Schram shares.
Chicago Med Season 10 premieres Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 8/7c on NBC, where it will as usual lead into Chicago Fire Season 13 and then Chicago P.D. Season 12.
