The Chicago Fire make another cast change with Dermot MulroneyChief Dom Pascal retreats to Firehouse 51 after a screen freeze.
On Wednesday, March 11, an episode of the hit NBC series showed Pascal being fired from his position after disobeying a federal agent’s order to stand down while gathering evidence during a house fire. Pascal was arrested, but despite the charges against him being dropped, his position was in jeopardy.
Pascal finally confirmed to Firehouse 51 that he was told to leave this position immediately. In the midst of a major career change, Pascal considered quitting firefighting but then shared that a former colleague in Phoenix offered to connect him with a firehouse in Arizona. It was not clear what Pascal would choose for his future.
“He’s been on the ropes,” The Chicago Fire the exhibition Andrea Newman he told NBC Insider. “[The arrest] it puts him in a situation, it is a journey like him from the beginning, where he was not connected to 51 as it is clear that we have seen kings in the past, like Boden.”
Newman continued: “So he’s making a big sacrifice for his team, for all the teams in this episode, and it’s sending him to a completely different and new place at the end here. And he’s going to have to see if he’s going to fight and claw his way back to 51, or if he’s going to be on a whole new path now.”
Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) later found out that Pascal left his office – along with a copy of the captain’s manual – as a means of transferring the position of interim captain. The screen shake-up comes after news broke earlier this year that Mulroney’s Pascal would not be in season 14.
Deadline It was reported in January that a storyline requiring him to be off-screen would be how NBC is writing the character off the show — for now. Mulroney was expected to appear in the One Chicago crossover earlier Rob Morgan takes his position at Firehouse 51.
Mulroney has a chance to return at the end of the season. Morgan is taking over as Battalion Chief Hopkins. According to the official character description, Morgan’s character, Hopkins, “has a difficult history overseeing many of Chicago’s firehouses and is quick to assert authority over his new colleagues.”
NBC’s president of programming Jeff Bader you have already spoken in a way Chicago Fire, Chicago Med again Chicago PD they often lose fan favorite characters.
“Cast comes in, cast goes out,” Bader told TVLine in July 2024. “It’s exciting, because every year there’s a cast change, and every year someone asks the same question about what’s going on in the One Chicago universe. But [those shows] just keep going.”
Bader noted that each of the Chicago shows continued to find success, adding, “We’re happy with how the Chicagoans did on Wednesday. We have no plans to change anything that night.”
The Chicago Fire airs on NBC Wednesdays at 9 pm ET.
