《Chicago Med》Chicago Med returns Connor Rhodes for Season 12, with Colin Donnell appearing in two episodes

A high-risk heart surgery will bring Dr. Connor Rhodes back to Gaffney Hospital.TVLine has confirmed that Colin Donnell will appear in two episodes of Chicago Med Season 12, returning to the NBC medical drama for the first time since leaving in the Season 5 premiere.

People magazine, which was the first to reveal the news of the return, gave the time for its debut: the fall half-season finale airing on Wednesday, December 9, at 8 pm Eastern Time and 7 pm Central Time on NBC.Sharon Goodwin will invite Rhodes back to help a young heart patient who needs complex surgery.Goodwin is still played by S. Epatha Merkerson, and an air date for another episode has not yet been announced.

For showrunner Allen MacDonald, the significance of Rhodes is also the audience's first encounter with the hospital.At the opening of the first episode in 2015, he was the first character the audience saw.MacDonald said in a statement that Rhodes has always been one of his favorite characters, and after joining the series, bringing him back to Gaffney became a priority.Now that Donner has agreed to come back, he will bring back the warmth, intelligence and complexity of this character.He believes that both the actors and the characters have been missed by the audience for a long time.

The last time Rhodes appeared, he was dealing with a family tragedy.In the first episode of Season 5, he discovers that his ex-girlfriend Ava Becker killed his father.Ava, played by Norma Curlin, commits suicide after realizing that Roz won't let her get away with her crime.Rhodes eventually left Chicago, hoping to start over somewhere else.

Andrew Schneider, the co-producer at the time, once explained to TVLine that the production team wanted to arrange a dramatic and emotionally complete ending for the two people's story, and both actors were willing to cooperate to complete the farewell.

The first episode of Season 12 left Goodwin with another problem.She remains on voluntary leave after being accused of violating U.S. medical privacy regulations HIPAA by leaking the medical files of Dr. Rabari, played by Manish Dayal, to prevent the hospital from hiring him.It wasn't until the end of the episode that senior nurse Doris, played by Lorena Diaz, admitted to Goodwin that she was actually the one who leaked the files.

MacDonald said of the twist that Doris knew the inside story of the incident and her guilt continued to increase throughout the episode.However, he also reminded the audience to continue to exercise judgment and not to take all the appearances presented in the first episode as the final truth.