OneChicago is putting the team back together!
As was just revealed in the Chicago Med teaser for next week’s Wednesday night crossover event, Tracy Spiridakos and Jesse Lee Soffer will return to help their former colleagues as Hailey Upton and Jay Halstead, respectively.
The three-part crossover will air March 4 from 8-11 p.m. ET/PT. As we previously noted, the order in which the shows will air differs from the regular schedule. The night will kick off with Chicago Fire, followed by Chicago Med, and Chicago P.D. will close out the celebration.
Following her exit in Season 11 of Chicago P.D., Spiridakos reconnects with her character Upton, who has returned to her former stomping grounds, but this time on the federal level as a Special Agent of the FBI. She joins her former P.D. allies after a drug enforcement task force case out of her Detroit field office leads her back to Chicago.
Soffer departed from the hit police procedural Chicago P.D. after 10 seasons, though he has returned to direct three different episodes. The crossover will herald his first time back as Halstead. The last time we saw the character, he had taken a job with the Army in Bolivia, tracking drug cartel targets. Most recently, he’s been deep undercover, which leads him on a path to the same case that Upton is investigating.
When Halstead left the series, he and Upton had just gotten married, leaving her heartbroken and lost. Upon reflection, she also left the series to forge a new path with a new job working for the FBI. It will be nice to catch up with the character and see all that she’s been up to. Hopefully, the exes are able to talk beyond the big emergency to work out any animosity and clear up any misunderstandings so they are on better terms. I’m sure most fans would agree, a happily ever after would not be the worst thing in the world for the former love birds.
The logline for the crossover is as follows: Firehouse 51 is called to an airfield when a passenger jet suddenly goes silent mid-air, triggering a high-stakes emergency. Their discovery cracks open a bigger and deadlier mystery — one with consequences that could ripple far beyond the runway and put countless lives in jeopardy.
Surprise returns are not something new for the OneChicago Universe. For example, for Chicago Med‘s big 200th episode, they brought back Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) and Natalie Manning (Torrey DeVitto).
Up next for Spiridakos, she will be seen in the new USA Network series Anna Pigeon, playing the lead titular role. Anna is a former city slicker who became a park ranger in rural Washington after a devastating loss changed the trajectory of her life forever. While she tries to outrun her demons, her focus turns to solving crimes that have taken place within national park grounds, no matter who or what gets in her way.
The actress spoke to Deadline recently about the upcoming summer series and released a bevy of first-look images of her and her castmates, Ronnie Rowe Jr. as FBI Agent Frederick Stanton, a charismatic wanderer who chases crimes through national parks and keeps his cool, and Paulina Alexis as Zoey Bear Child, a young ranger coming into her own, whom Anna mentors.
The teaser for the OneChicago crossover can be found below.
