How 5 One Chicago Actors Returned to Their Former Shows

Dan Clarendon
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Jesse Spencer in Chicago Fire
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First responders come and go in the One Chicago universe — Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., and Chicago Med — as career and creative decisions dictate. But the characters who leave the shows alive often find their way back to the Windy City, and it’s not unheard of for a dead character to make a reprise appearance, too. With Jessy Schram’s recent return to Chicago Med and Jesse Spencer’s upcoming guest spot on Chicago Fire, we’re recapping how those two and other One Chicago alums popped back into the plots of their respective series.

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Lauren German as Leslie Shay in Chicago Fire
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Chicago Fire’s Lauren German (Leslie Shay)

In Fire’s Season 3 premiere, viewers learned that Leslie Shay didn’t survive the explosion of the Season 2 cliffhanger. But German returned midway through that third season, in the episode “Call It Paradise,” as a teary Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) watches home movies of his and Shay’s friendship.

Chicago Fire - Monica Raymund as Gabriela Dawson
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Chicago Fire’s Monica Raymund (Gabriela Dawson)

After leaving Fire in the Season 7 premiere, Raymund returned for the Season 8 midseason finale, “Best Friend Magic.” In that episode, Dawson came back to Chicago for a fundraiser and had a one-night stand with her ex-husband, Casey, before leaving again and sending him a standing invitation to visit her new home in Puerto Rico.

Jesse Spencer as Matthew Casey in Chicago Fire
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Chicago Fire’s Jesse Spencer (Matthew Casey)

As for Casey, he bid Chicago farewell earlier this season, setting off to Portland, Oregon, to look after the sons of his late best friend. But he’ll pop up again in Fire‘s May 25 Season 10 finale, coming back “to support Severide through what will be a very topsy-turvy wedding” and to spend time with long-distance girlfriend Sylvie Brett (Kara Kilmer) as that wedding “puts a spotlight on their [own] situation,” co-showrunner Derek Haas has revealed.

Chicago P.D. - Brian Geraghty and Sean Roman
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Chicago P.D.’s Brian Geraghty (Sean Roman)

Roman left his Intelligence colleagues at the end of Season 3 — heading to San Diego after being shot on the job — but the character came back two and a half seasons later in a crossover event with Chicago Fire. In that two-parter — the Fire Season 8 episode “Off the Grid” and the P.D. Season 7 installment “Burden of Truth” — Roman looked for his missing sister, who had fallen in with drug dealers. “We felt there had to be a compelling reason for him to return to Chicago and to the Intelligence family,” then-showrunner Rick Eid told TV Insider at the time. “We wanted it to be an emotional return for Roman.”

Chicago Med - Jessy Schram as Hannah Asher
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Chicago Med’s Jessy Schram (Hannah Asher)

Schram had a season and a half off from Chicago Med, as Asher sought rehab for her heroin addiction at the start of Season 6 and then returned in Season 7’s “May Your Choices Reflect Hope, Not Fear” this March, sober and ready to resume work as an OB/GYN at Gaffney.

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    OrangeController

    l love casey so so so much alla the time

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    CyanScissors

    I think Casey and Gabriella need to come back . They had the better chemistry , not Brett!!!!

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    PurplePopsicle

    Kelly needs better partner. Stella showed been with someone else pretty lady but Kelly n her not a match

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    PurplePopsicle

    No Stella

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    PurpleBottleOpener

    Jesse Spencer, Casey needs to return to Chicago Fire!!! It’s just not the same with him gone. Brett & Casey need to be together!!

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      GreenElephant

      Brent was wrong in so many ways, she broke the ultimate girl code, you just don’t get with your best friend’s ex-boyfriend or ex-husband period, and then Casey yes he’s a man, but damn Brett slept with his former brother-in-law‘s Antonio Dawson SMH, And when Chili left Brett ended up sleeping with the fire fighter at which I can’t remember his name, If you are a big fan of the show and watch TV in the beginning Shirley slept with that one fire fighter that ended up leaving after his brother was killed in a fire. You just don’t do that…..

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    GreenCarrot

    Keep the same actors and actresses. It ruins the plot line, the interest and the show!