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CHICAGO MED Season 10 Finale Post-Mortem: Allen MacDonald on Hannah’s Paternity Mystery, Lenox’s Reveal, and What’s to Come in Season 11

May 21, 2025 by  

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CHICAGO MED — “…Don’t You Cry” Episode 1022 — Pictured: (l-r) — (Photo by: George Burns Jr/NBC)

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Wednesday, May 21 season finale of CHICAGO MED.]

CHICAGO MED ended its tenth season on Wednesday, May 21 with secrets, life-changing news, and a whole lot of cliffhangers.

Fresh off the reveal that she was pregnant, Hannah (Jessy Schram) had to break the news to Lizzy (Erin Anderson), given that it meant she couldn’t be a surrogate for her sister any time soon. Lizzy, who had already gone through a traumatic pregnancy loss this year, didn’t take the news well.

But Hannah still had to actually tell the baby’s father. After appearing to stop-start a conversation with Ripley (Luke Mitchell) at work, Hannah instead ended up on the doorstep of Archer (Steven Weber) asking to talk. (Ripley, for his part, was visited by the woman he helped save from the well.)

Goodwin (S. Epatha Merkerson), meanwhile, reluctantly visited the woman who held her hostage and stabbed her in lockup (while Goodwin rejected the apology she was offered and declared she wouldn’t forgive her)…only to go to work and be told she had cut staff, including her boyfriend, Dennis (John Earl Jelks). Goodwin tried to make a counterproposal to keep Dennis at the hospital, but he was hurt by how little she actually fought for him. Instead, he resigned, and their relationship came to an end.

For Charles (Oliver Platt), who was still grieving his mother, he was worried when his daughter, Anna (Hannah Riley), was brought into the ED after a bad car accident. But when he realized it wasn’t an accident, it was instead an attempt by Anna to take her own life, he finally opened up to her about his father’s death by suicide years earlier.

And after Lenox and her brother finally got tested for Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker, the siblings were overjoyed to share that their results were negative. Archer suggested she take a trip now that she had a negative test…but when Lenox was alone, she got emotional over her test results, which were actually positive. 

So what comes next? CHICAGO MED showrunner Allen MacDonald talks with Give Me My Remote about those cliffhangers and offers a few season 11 teases.

Hannah goes to see Archer at the end of the episode. Are we supposed to be inferring that he is the father, or is she going to him as a friend, to have a conversation about what the heck to do?
Um, I think that… [Pauses.] I don’t want to eat up time thinking here, but I think that’s one of the things that will have to bug people over the summer.

Do you know who the father of her child is?
I do. Yeah. I would hope I know!


I would hope so, too, but with writers’ rooms, you never know! On the flip side, obviously, one of the heartbreaking moments was when Lenox found out that she was positive—and she lied about being positive. What can you share about how you expect this to change or impact her character going forward?
I think that with Lenox, she has very much been influenced by this knowledge her whole life. Her parents died: Her mother died of the disease, her father killed himself a few hours later, because they were one of those couples. They just couldn’t live without each other. And so she had to raise her brother. This was something that has hung over both of them, in effect, the way they chose to live their lives, because both she and Kip know that they…could possibly have limited time. 

And after you watch the finale, you know for sure that Kip is going to be fine, and Lenox is positive. Up until this point, she, with this knowledge, has lived her life in a very driven way; she didn’t want to have fun, she had so much she wanted to accomplish. She wanted to leave a mark. She wanted to have a legacy. Kip’s attitude was like, “Well, I could die tomorrow, so I’m just gonna, like, have fun and have no responsibility.” 

So I think moving forward, both Lenox and Kip now, knowing what their futures hold a little more clearly, you’re gonna see that they start to make very different choices.

Anna tried to take her own life. What can you share about how that will play out for Charles going forward, and what we will be seeing of that father-daughter relationship now that she does know more about her family history?
Well, I think what was so shocking for Charles in this episode was that when Anna says, “You would be the last person I talked to.” And that’s a gut punch to him, and he immediately reacts…and I think, as the finale progresses, that he shares more of his past, and tells the story of his father to help [Anna] understand that she’s not alone. When she finally breaks down, I think that’s like a new opening for them, a new connection. And I do intend to continue to explore their relationship in future episodes in the fall.

Goodwin had to make brutal cuts at the hospital. What can you share about what this means to her that she had to cut someone that she cares very deeply about, what it will mean for the hospital, and what this will mean for her healing now that she’s had to acknowledge she isn’t as healed as she thought she was?
She definitely is not as healed as much as she thought she was. I think these cuts coming, and Dennis being one of the cuts, really kind of put the heat on some of the concerns and feelings of betrayal that Sharon had. And really kind of pushed her into action in this episode.

I think that when Goodwin went to see Cassidy in the beginning of the episode, that kind of reopened the wound a little bit. After having been stabbed and almost dying, I think that she really, as a lot of people do, tried to compartmentalize it and put it away. And then it kind of felt like things went back to normal. But it was very important to me that we circle back around to this, because I didn’t want it to feel so old-school TV where it’s like, “Well, it’s the next episode! She’s over that.” [We needed] to come back around and realize that this has had a profound effect on her, and she’s been trying to act like everything’s okay. And in this episode, she realizes that, “Everything is not okay; I could have died. And I’m going to make some changes in my life moving forward. And if I feel betrayed by Dennis, I may love him, but that needs to end.”

I am so proud of the character when Goodwin said to Cassidy that, “I don’t forgive you.” And then at the end of the episode, she goes to Bert, which is, for me, such a moving scene. And it’s like her going back home. That he is home to her. They have their own history, and it’s very volatile in and of itself. But, ultimately, she had children with him. She was married to him for decades, and she needed to go back to that security a little bit at the end. So I think that, at the end of the episode, that is the beginning of her healing process, for real.

Update 6:05 PM: Watch a deleted scene from the finale, where Hannah and Lenox talk about the pregnancy…

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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