One Chicago’s 5 worst parents

3. Robert Haywood

We only met Dr. Sarah Reese’s father Robert Haywood in this season of Chicago Med, but we are wishing we’d never met him. In fact, we’re wishing he’d have passed away already, which is sad to say but speaks volumes of how terrible a father he is.

Robert (guest star Michel Gill) was established as having abandoned Sarah and her mother in a contentious split when she was still a child. Then out of the blue, he reappeared and immediately started saying everything Reese wanted to hear. He claimed he had been trying to contact her for years and wanted to rekindle a relationship with her. In reality, he was just trying to see how much he could get out of her.

Dr. Daniel Charles (Oliver Platt) quickly diagnosed Robert with a personality disorder to go with his life-threatening heart condition. Robert was downright smug about Charles’ inability to tell Reese the truth, while he talked about wanting his daughter to support him, at one point even asking her to co-sign a loan. Though thankfully she didn’t, she did mistakenly lash out at Charles when her father told her that Charles was manipulating her, which couldn’t have been further from the truth.

Things came to a head in “The Parent Trap” when, even though he was facing down death, Robert still found time to taunt both Charles and Reese. He said a whole list of terrible things to his daughter, including preying on her fear that she, too, had a personality disorder. He was practically laughing in her face even though it might be the last things they ever said to each other. Why One Chicago is still inflicting him on her (and us), we have no idea.