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\n [This story contains spoilers for \u201cDoes One Door Close and Another One Open?,\u201d the season eight finale of Chicago Med<\/em>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) has been chafing under newly profit-centered management of the Gaffney Chicago Medical Center since Jack Dayton (Sasha Roiz) took control of the hospital. The season eight finale of Chicago Med<\/em> brought his frustration to a head, when Dayton insisted on going through with a surgery assisted by his OR 2.0 system, under protest by Dr. Crockett Marcel (Dominic Rains).<\/p>\n

\n The routine hernia surgery goes fine \u2014\u00a0no thanks to 2.0, which shows a complication that\u2019s not there. Halstead admits to Goodwin (S. Epatha Merkerson) that he manipulated 2.0 to produce a bad result \u2014 and protects Dr. Song (T.V. Carpio), who hacked the system \u2014 and hands in his resignation letter. \u201cWhat are we going to do without you?\u201d Goodwin asks him.<\/p>\n

\n The law of unintended consequences, however, might catch up to the rest of the staff at Med: Dayton tells Goodwin that the botched public demonstration of 2.0 has wrecked him financially, and he\u2019ll have to sell the hospital.<\/p>\n

\n The finale is Gehlfuss\u2019 last episode as a regular on Chicago Med<\/em>; he\u2019s one of only a handful of cast members (along with Marlyne Barrett, Merkerson and Oliver Platt) who have been with the series<\/a> from the beginning. The door could still be open for a return to the show, however \u2014\u00a0as evidenced by the other surprise in the finale: After Will leaves Chicago, he boards a plane for Seattle, where he\u2019s greeted by Natalie Manning (former series regular Torrey DeVitto) and her son, Owen. The previous episode revealed that Nick and Natalie have kept in touch since her departure at the end of season six, and now he has moved to Seattle to restart their relationship in person.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt was really short and sweet and beautiful \u2014\u00a0exactly what it needed to be,\u201d DeVitto \u2014\u00a0whose app<\/a>earance was kept tightly under wraps \u2014 told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. \u201cHe\u2019s made the move to come be with her in Seattle, where she\u2019s living now, and they kind of walk off into the sunset and you can assume they live happily ever after.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n DeVitto spoke with THR<\/em> about getting the call to reprise her role and the \u201cspecial closure\u201d she got to have with Gehlfuss.<\/p>\n

\n Can you tell me a little about how your return to the show came about?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n I feel like I left the show on such a good note \u2014 it was just time to move on and time to go and time to grow, really. But it was always one of those things where I knew that if they asked me back, I would enjoy going back. Because I mean, I love my cast so much. And especially, you know, Nick Gehlfuss and I had such an intense storyline together for six years. I wasn\u2019t expecting this call at all, but when they did call me and told me what the premise of the storyline was going to be, and that I would be coming back to support Nick and his journey on his way out, it was just a no-brainer for me. I do feel like the fans never got what they wanted with Natalie and Will, and to be honest with you, Nick and I never even got the ending that we felt we deserved for our two characters. To be able to come back and give that to not just the viewers that love the show so much and really rooted for these characters, but also to give it to me and Nick, who really wanted this ending for our characters was really so beautiful. He\u2019s like a brother to me, so to be able to come back and support him in this way was just so much fun.<\/p>\n

\n What was the experience of coming back onto the set like? Did you feel like you had any rust to shake off to get back into the character was it was pretty easy to step in again?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n She\u2019s a character that is more like me than any other character I\u2019ve ever played. And because Nick and I have such great chemistry as actors together, and we have such a friendship, it honestly felt like stepping into a pair of shoes that still fit perfectly. It was so great seeing the crew. When I got out of the van [after arriving on set], everybody started clapping, which I got a little flushed about [laughs], but it felt like coming home. It felt like coming home to somewhere I lived for so long. And it was really beautiful. It was short and sweet, and then I was out and on my way again.<\/p>\n

\n When Natalie left Chicago, it was to be near family in Seattle. Either in your own head or in conversations with the writers, have you sorted out how she\u2019s been doing the past couple of years?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n I\u2019m sure she\u2019s been through a bit of ups and downs because she didn\u2019t leave the hospital on good terms. She was behaving quite unethically, trying to get those trial meds for her mom and her mom\u2019s heart condition, and she got fired from a hospital. I\u2019m sure she took some downtime and really reassessed her life and what she wanted to do. Now, I\u2019m sure she\u2019s kind of settled into Seattle and just living her life with her son, working at another hospital out there. Now having Halstead out there, it\u2019s probably the icing on top of the cake for her.<\/p>\n

\n It sounds like two this is kind of closure for both of you and not an opportunity to reopen her tenure in Chicago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n I feel like there\u2019s always like a chance \u2014 they can make whatever happen on this show. But from my point of view right now, it was the perfect closure that I felt like I never got with the character and that Nick and I never got with our characters together. It\u2019s a really special closure.<\/p>\n

\n I<\/strong>f I\u2019m not mistaken, this was the longest role you\u2019ve you\u2019ve played in your career to this point. What did that experience mean to you, in terms of the day-to-day work or growth as an actor?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n This is the longest role I\u2019ve played like as a series regular. But I was on Pretty Little Liars<\/em> all seven seasons. So that, technically, is the longest role I ever played. But being on a show as a series regular for six seasons, there are a couple feelings you get. You can\u2019t not feel grateful \u2014 to even have [a show get ordered], it\u2019s like the luck of the draw sometimes. And then to have a show that actually gets picked up for a second season \u2014 people\u2019s attention spans are so short, people don\u2019t allow things to breathe and grow. It\u2019s like, if you don\u2019t like it automatically, it\u2019s out. That\u2019s really scary as an actor, because if you look at some of the best shows from the past, some of those first seasons wasn\u2019t that great. You kind of had to live with the characters and get to know it better to really appreciate it. To be on a show for six years and to love the character the way I did, and to get to know her the way I did, and to love my castmates the way I did, was really an experience I will absolutely never forget. I\u2019m so, so, so grateful for it. It\u2019s also very exhausting working 10 months out of the year, especially in the cold in Chicago. It can be a little tiring. But then by the time you get the hiatus, it\u2019s like you forget all of that. and you just remember the good moments. But it can be hard sometimes, for sure. It\u2019s a multifaceted experience.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n