Chicago Fire boss explains all the twists behind the cliffhanger WARNING: Where
there’s smoke, there’s fire and this post is a towering hell of spoilers from the season 6
premiere of Chicago Fire. Read at your own risk! It’s time to throw away that paper
bag you’ve been gasping for all summer – everyone lives on Chicago Fire! After a season 5 cliffhanger left Matt Casey (Jesse Spencer), Mouch (Christian Stolte) and Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg) in a serious predicament, Boden, Cruz and the rest of the The team did everything they could to save their people from the massive warehouse fire. And then the screen went black as we continued to hold our breath. Cue what looks like Boden giving a speech at Matt’s funeral… before he goes on stage to receive his medal of honor. Phew! Soon we learn that Mouch also survived, and now he trims himself, exercises, and lets his wife make nutritious sandwiches for him. So what now? We are not the Hounds – we cannot see images in the fire!
But we did the next best thing and called up executive producer Derek Haas to get some information about what’s to come. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: First of all, I’m SO relieved. But I need to know – did you ever consider actually killing one of those guys? DEREK HAAS: We did, but we didn’t. We talked on this call with [Steve] Chikerotis, our technical advisor, last year towards the end of the year, and then how did we get out of this situation? And he gave us an idea why you don’t use a water cannon while there are still rescuers inside: steam is just as dangerous as fire. The steam, as Cruz says, will boil you alive. So we said, “Well, what would happen in that situation?” And he said, “Try to cover yourself as best you can.
That’s the only way you can do it.” So when we wrote the episode, we knew that this was going to be the solution, and a really desperate one, but we didn’t necessarily want to kill off any of our characters. We love them all so much. And we thought about Kanell dying in the fire because we knew we weren’t going to bring him back, but we realized that just made the first episode really bad. I mean, when we did that with Shay, I loved writing that episode, but it was a tough way to start a season with a main character dying. And even though Kanell is part of our cast at the end – the last five episodes… That means, people will have to react to that throughout the first episode, which makes it hard for us to do get to do what you love: comedy, drama and romance. Can you talk a little bit about the choreography of the reveal that Matt is alive? I will say, I’ve been to a few medal ceremonies now and they look frighteningly similar to places like memorial ceremonies.
We certainly haven’t played it, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility. And with an audience that’s so familiar these days and how hard it is to create surprises, I thought, let’s look at all their preconceptions and see if we can at least take their breath away in one second or not. We’ve seen Gabby grapple with the aftermath of almost losing Matt – Monica Raymund has made some great faces – but it seems like the issue is bigger than just her conversation with Matt at the end. be solved. Yes, there’s more. That’s basically what’s going to happen this season. It was also reflected with her father, with whom she got into trouble late last year…. She confirmed in him something she was trying to hide. Her father as a confidant and using her as a confidant would have more effect. The idea that Matt said goodbye to her — there was a moment in the premiere where he said, “I don’t want any more politics; point me toward the fire,” and you see her face droop a little. Well, throughout the season, she’s going to push him forward and think of him more as a director, a desk job, rather than a guy who runs into burning buildings anymore . I think maybe she wanted him to get into a less dangerous situation.
