The Dr. Caitlin Lenox (Sarah Ramos) who first checked into Chicago Gaffney Medical Center’s ED on Chicago Medin 2024 no longer exists. R
ather, the confirmation she received that she is carrying the GSS prion gene, changed her. She has since become a risk taker, so in the Season 11 midseason finale, Lenox put herself in jeopardy when she went to the aid of a former patient Faye (Olivia Nikkanen), when she suspected that Faye’s husband Devon (Jack Falahee) may have seriously injured her.
“I don’t think that she doesn’t value her life, I think that she wants to now supercharge her life experiences in the time that she has,” showrunner Allen MacDonald tells Parade. “When she first found out about her prion diagnosis, when we saw her again in the season premiere this year, she had kind of shut it out of her mind and gone on with business as usual, pretending it wasn’t hanging over her.
“But the storyline she had in the premiere when she treated these two sisters that were potentially going to die because of their injuries at a rave, that made her really think about what she wants to do with the time that she has, and that is to live it, and to live it to the fullest extent that she can.”
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Lenox had previously tried to sneak Faye out of the hospital to safety through an organization that aids abused women. But just as Faye was about to get into a car and be whisked out of danger, Devon showed up and she chickened out. So, Lenox did have a vested interest in Faye when Devon showed up in the ED and needed medical attention.
Because there was a bad storm, Lenox knew that a welfare check on Faye by the Chicago PD would take too long, so she drove to their home, and she found Faye in the basement, beaten close to death. There were no bars on her phone, so she went upstairs to call for help when Devon returned home and attacked her.
“She wants to make sure that Faye is okay,” MacDonald says, explaining her motivation. “That is her primary concern. There’s another part of her that [knows] this is just another risk, and this was the most dangerous risk that she had taken. Because I think part of her, on some level is ‘I don’t want to die, but I’d rather die doing something to help somebody basically.’”
Previous risks included having sex with a stranger in a bar bathroom and then facing down a gunman in the hospital.
“I think her risk-taking is like a drug. The more she takes these risks, the next time she has to escalate it in order to feel alive still,” MacDonald says.
But he won’t confirm Lenox’s status — alive or dead — in tonight’s episode other than to say, “It’ll be harrowing.”
MacDonald also answered our other burning questions that resulted from the Season 11 midseason finale. Read on for what he shares about the hot chemo surgery, what’s happening with Dr. Charles (Oliver Platt) and Hannah (Jessy Schram) and Archer’s (Steven Weber) baby.
Steven Weber as Dr. Dean ArcherPhoto by: George Burns Jr/NBC
Another cliffhanger was the hot chemo surgery with the power going out, do the backups have backups? We really want Jeremy (Zach Appelman) to meet his baby.We all do. Obviously, Jeremy’s life is hanging in the balance, and the thing I can tell you about this next episode “Triple Threat,” is that there’s a time jump of one or two days. It’s called “Triple Threat” because it finds three characters reflecting back on the decisions they made [during the blackout] and being interviewed and questioned about their actions of that night.The thing I’ll say about the Archer of it is that he has to make a very difficult decision early in the episode. He has to decide whether or not to move Jeremy upstairs, where they know they have electricity to do the surgery, or try to do this operation in the dark because moving Jeremy at this point in the surgery is inherently dangerous. Archer makes a decision and he has to answer for it.
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Dr. Charles has been a little strange. He was so sure that Dr. Rabari (Manish Dayal) had done something to his gymnast patient, and so he had to apologize for it, because he basically accused Dr. Rabari of malpractice. Is an apology enough? I don’t know if that would be enough for me because of the seriousness of the accusation.Yes, and I think that Dr. Rabari probably feels that way, too, but he’s also getting something out of this deal, which is the ability to do his research at Gaffney, and so I think I can tease that their relationship will continue to grow more complicated as we move forward in the season. Also, I think the fact that Charles accused him [means] that he’s a little off his game. There are reasons for that that we go into a little more in the next handful of episodes, the next five episodes or so.
Oliver Platt as Dr. Daniel CharlesPhoto by: George Burns Jr/NBC
We’ll do a deep dive into Charles and his issues in Episode 15, which is going to be called “The Book of Charles,” which is kind of a sequel to “The Book of Archer” from last year in that I like this idea of every episode picking a character and doing an episode that’s entirely from their point of view from the beginning until the end. And so, we’re going to spend a whole episode with Dr. Charles in every scene, and we’re going to do a real deep dive, like I said, into what’s going on with him psychologically.
Right, because he’s already been surprised by his daughters telling him that he’s not as great a parent as he thought he was.That’s exactly right, and you know what? They’re right. But he’s also a fearsome protective father, and he goes too far. The thing that he always struggles with is where’s that line between being a father and being a shrink? He tries to combine those things, and he gets in trouble. But also, we haven’t talked about it a lot, but we will. He’s going through the death of his mother and the fact that his younger daughter Anna (Hannah Riley) tried to kill herself in the season finale last year. I think those things are still with him and we’ll be picking up on some of those storylines coming up.
Darren Barnet as Dr. John Frost, Jocelyn Hudon as Lizzy NovakPhoto by: George Burns Jr/NBC
On the fun side, we have the triangle between Dr. Frost (Darren Barnet), Dr. Howard (Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut), and Novak (Jocelyn Hudon), which woman do you think might be better for him? He’s coming with baggage from finally acknowledging that he was sexually abused, so actually is he ready to even move on?I think they’re both equally interesting matches, that’s what makes it such a good love triangle. What’s interesting, and I won’t tell you which way it went, but everybody in the writers' room was focused on one of the characters; they wanted to see Dr. Frost end up with one of those two characters. But then, when they started seeing scenes shot of Frost with the other character, they started to change their mind, and that’s what we’re hoping that the audience feels: that they feel that intense conflict.
Then the other part of the question is, is he ready for relationships? I think you pointed out a very observant and salient point when you asked if Frost was ready to embark on a relationship. I think through his whole life, because he had all this baggage from being a child star on the TV show Nick of Time, and he had this inappropriate sexual relationship with Ainsley Towne ( Jessalyn Gilsig), who played his mother, I think that he didn’t know how to emotionally handle a mature adult relationship, and so he never engaged with one. That’s the Frost that we met last year.But by the end of the season, he has confronted Ainsley. He basically confronted her about their past relationship and her actions, and didn’t let her worm her way back in again. Because of that, I think there was some pride in himself that he did that, and I think coming into Season 11, he was very much ready for a relationship. I think he’s very much wanting a relationship and open to it.
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And then we have Hannah’s pregnancy, and her very good outlook on life. She said, “Do the things that make us happy while you still have the time.” How is Hannah going to proceed with her life?Like all the characters on Chicago Med, she has some issues on the table that she has to work out. I think she has to figure out what her relationship is going to be with Archer moving forward. They’ve agreed, and this is something that Hannah echoed several times during the season, that they are two friends having a baby, but there are feelings there, and there are emotions, and having a baby with somebody is one of the most emotional, intimate things there is. So, I think that on both Archer’s and Hannah’s side, emotions are going to swell at certain times, and then the question becomes, will they swell at the same time? I don’t even know.I think they love each other, but I don’t know that it’s romantic love on both sides, and so we’re going to have to see how that plays out. I’ll also say that Hannah also has some issues to work out with her family. She’s still estranged from her sister Lizzie (Erin Anderson), so we’ll be seeing Lizzie again towards the end of the season. And we’ll also very soon, I think he’s already been seen in some previews and promos, we’re going to meet her father, Mark Asher, and we’re going to see Dr. Archer meet Hannah’s dad. And I’ll tease that that doesn’t go well.
He’s probably closer to the dad’s age, right?That’s exactly right. But I think, surprisingly, that’s not her dad’s big issue with Archer. I don’t think he loves it, but that’s not his primary issue. We’ll see how that all plays out, but there are some issues between Hannah and her dad that go back to the fact that Hannah’s mother died giving birth to her.
I think that haunts Hannah, and what you saw in the beginning of the fall finale, which was called “Double Down,” the first scene of the episode was Hannah waking up from a nightmare. You’ll also notice that during the season, Hannah has been very resistant and reluctant to find out the sex of her and Archer’s baby. We’re going to unpack in episode nine, “Triple Threat,” the reasons for why that is.
And then, of course, you’ll have the opportunity later to have fun with them having difficulties with deciding on how the baby should be parented.A hundred percent. I was just talking about that with someone.
Chicago Med returns from its winter break with a new episode tonight at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. Streams next day on Peacock.
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