One Chicago crossover spoilers: Date, details for 2019 crossover
By Kari Highman
The next One Chicago crossover is coming, and here are the first details about the Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Chicago Med event for 2019.
Before the new One Chicago season starts, Chicago Fire showrunner Derek Haas is sharing details about the first One Chicago crossover of the fall 2019 TV season—including when fans will get to watch it.
Haas revealed to TVLine this week that the crossover will be taking place two weeks later than last fall. Where last season’s crossover happened in every show’s second episode, this season it’s been planned for episode four—which would make it Wednesday, Oct. 16.
The fall crossover will include all three shows: Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, and Chicago PD.
Whereas the fall 2018 crossover changed the schedule, with Fire airing at 8 p.m. and Med being pushed to the 9 p.m. time slot, this time things will go in their regular order.
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But there is one big change on the horizon: Haas is writing all of the crossover episodes, meaning he’ll be the sole writer for all three series that week.
That’s a huge leap, since by his own admission, he hasn’t written for Chicago Med‘s characters since the backdoor pilot, “I Am The Apocalypse,” which aired as an episode of Chicago Fire four years ago—before Med had even figured out what it was going to be yet!
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Yet Haas, who developed the crossover story directly with franchise mastermind Dick Wolf, isn’t worried since the fall 2019 One Chicago crossover is going to be one unified plot that just happens to be carried across the three shows—instead of each series taking a portion of the story in their own direction like we’ve seen in years past.
“You’ll see why that’s feasible,” he explained to TVLine, “because it’s less about each show having its own shape to it and more like all three shows really intertwined throughout.”
Haas even let slip what the next One Chicago crossover is going to be about, and it sounds more than dramatic enough for a three-show, three-hour event.
It begins with the outbreak of a mysterious illness, “and there’s a mystery, both medical and criminal, going on that we’re trying to solve before it gets out of hand.”
The Chicago Daily Herald caught some Chicago Fire cast members filming for the crossover on Aug. 29, at the former Motorola Solutions campus in Schaumburg, Illnois. The location was serving as a collegiate campus, which speaks to just how big of a problem our heroes are going to have on their hands.
It certainly sounds like the latest One Chicago crossover event is going to change the formula for the crossovers as a whole, and it’ll be intriguing to see if that new approach makes them better, especially having one individual writer handle all three hours. One thing’s for certain: it’s going to be must-see TV for fans of Chicago PD, Chicago Med and Chicago Fire next month.
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