One Chicago: This season's One Chicago character departures, ranked

This season’s One Chicago character departures, ranked

CHICAGO FRANCHISE -- Season: 2015 -- Pictured: (l-r) "Chicago P.D." top row; Marina Squerciati as Officer Kim Burgess, Brian Geraghty as Officer Sean Roman, Jesse Lee Soffer as Detective Jay Halstead, LaRoyce Hawkins as Detective Kevin Atwater, Elias Koteas as Detective Alvin Olinsky, Amy Morton as Desk Sgt. Trudy Platt, Patrick John Flueger as Officer Adam Ruzek bottom row; Jon Seda as Detective Antonio Dawson, Jason Beghe as Sergeant Hank Voight, Sophia Bush as Detective Erin Lindsay; "Chicago Fire", Yuri Sardarov as Brian ?"Otis"? Zvonecek, Jesse Spencer as Matthew Casey, Taylor Kinney as Kelly Severide, Eamonn Walker as Chief Wallace Boden, Dora Madison Burge as Jessica ?Chill? Clinton, Monica Raymund as Gabriela Dawson, Kara Killmer as Sylvie Brett, Joe Minoso as Joe Cruz, Christian Stolte as Randy ?Mouch? McHolland, David Eigenberg as Christopher Herrmann; "Chicago Med" top row: S. Epatha Merkerson as Sharon Goodwin, Nick Gehlfuss as Dr. Will Halstead, Brian Tee as Ethan, Torrey DeVitto as Dr. Lily Manning, Oliver Platt as Dr. Daniel Charles, Colin Donnell as Connor Bradhaw; seated: Yaya DaCosta as Nurse April Sexton, Rachel DiPillo as Dr. Sarah Reese (Photo by: Mark Seliger/NBC) /

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CHICAGO P.D. — “The Silos” Episode 401 — Pictured: Sophia Bush as Erin Lindsay — (Photo by: Matt Dinerstein/NBC) /

5. Erin Lindsay on Chicago PD

We’re including Erin Lindsay on this list because, even though Sophia Bush announced her exit from Chicago PD after last season, her character’s exit wasn’t actually spoken of until the fifth season premiere “Reform.” And it was, well, a little underwhelming.

The opening scenes of the premiere involved Lindsay’s ex-boyfriend and former partner Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) standing in an empty apartment, while her former boss and father figure Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) spoke about her leaving. It also came out that neither of them had heard from her since she went to New York.

Lindsay’s departure makes our list not because of the sadness that came from what we didn’t get to see. Bush didn’t return to film any goodbye scenes, so fans were left to think about how sad it was when Lindsay turned down Halstead’s marriage proposal (if he even had the chance to ask, as she was last seen with him calling her). Or Voight’s reaction to her deciding to move on.

Chicago PD then made it unintentionally more depressing by repeatedly referencing Lindsay in its storyline about the Jason Bingham murder. Since it was both Alvin Olinsky (Elias Koteas) and Erin Lindsay who were involved in covering that up, the discovery of the body meant the show had to talk about her again—and remind us how she wasn’t in One Chicago anymore. Ouch.

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