The Chicago Fire Season 13 finale ended with Kidd revealing that she’s pregnant! Elsewhere, Pascal (Dermot Mulroney) cleared his own

name — with significant help from Severide — in the attempted murder of his wife’s killer; Herrmann (David Eigenberg) announced he was

stepping down to being a regular firefighter so Mouch (Christian Stolte) can be lieutenant of engine; and Violet (Hanako Greensmith) and Carver (Jake Lockett) said “I love you” … just as he’s planning to move to Denver.

 

 

Below, showrunner Andrea Newman breaks down the finale and teases more change coming in Season 14. (She previously told us that the finale wouldn’t be writing out Daniel Kyri‘s Ritter and Jake Lockett’s Carver and we’d have to tune in next season to see how their absences are explained.)

 

 

Andrea Newman: I think that they both had, especially Kidd, some real issues and hesitations around it, and it didn’t feel right to have her just jump into it from the start. Severide was ready before she was. In his mind, it was simpler for him for a bunch of reasons. It is more

 

 

complicated for a female firefighter than a male firefighter. And in terms of just how they saw their own childhoods, it was complicated. But for Kidd especially so, and this season was really about her coming to understand all of that and understand the things that happened when her cousin came, and she got to really explore and talk about for the first time her aunt being so depressed after her pregnancy.

 

 

Yeah, we always do that time jump. How much of a time jump, we don’t know, but I think the way we are looking at it and who knows exactly what’ll happen with this pregnancy journey for her, but what we want is that idea that parents who are first responders face, which is the stakes go so high. You think they’re high now when you’re married to the person in a firehouse, what if you’re both trapped in a fire together and realizing you’re going to leave your child orphan essentially, which is what happened to Kidd when she was young. So it’s a big fear of hers. And now yeah, the stakes are just up. Everything gets dialed up when you deal with children on a call, you see the face of your own child.