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CHICAGO MED’s Steven Weber Previews Archer’s Attempt to Save Goodwin: ‘It is Terrifying and Enthralling’

January 7, 2025 by  

CHICAGO MED Archer saves Goodwin

CHICAGO MED — “No Love Lost” Episode 1009 — Pictured: (l-r) — (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC)

CHICAGO MED’s fall finale ended with one heck of a cliffhanger: Goodwin’s (S. Epatha Merkerson) stalker, Cassidy, attacked and held her captive in her own office…but after briefly getting the upper hand, an injured Goodwin made a break for it. Archer (Steven Weber), who had just dropped off a resignation letter under Goodwin’s door, was in the elevator intending to leave the hospital when he was horrified to see his colleague wounded—and with Cassidy right behind her. But before Archer could act, the elevator door shut.

“The reality is that the anticipation and the…almost exhausting, nerve-racking nerves does not abate with the next episode,” Weber teases to Give Me My Remote, in the video below, of the Wednesday, January 8 midseason premiere. “It continues, and it is terrifying and enthralling and moves at an amazing pace. And everybody, all the characters and the audience and the fans of the show, are going to go on a ride.” 

“But it’s a ride that’s not just thrilling and scary and a lot of action: It’s also an emotional ride as well,” he continues. “Because what we found out…is really how emotionally enmeshed all these characters are. And how invested they are in each other. So this was a real heavy moment for Archer, especially, who’s about to leave this hospital and move on to who knows what. And he sees his boss, who also he realizes, in that moment, is somebody he cares deeply for, and she’s in peril. So we see what happens…But it’s not just about Archer and Goodwin, it’s about this whole cast that finds themselves embroiled in this crisis, and everybody is propelled forward.”

With Archer at least temporarily delayed by the elevator taking him away from Goodwin, “his military instincts kick in,” Weber previews. “He’s not turning around. He’s going forward. And the brilliance of that episode was that the doors literally closed on him and closed on any kind of realistic possibility of him being able to intervene at that moment. So he’s got to use his old instincts and his old survival tools…he’s hurled into action, and that’s part of the fun of the show.”

Of course, even after they (eventually) rescue Goodwin from her immediate danger, there’s the fact that she’s been injured.

“Her injuries are extensive,” Weber previews. “They are life-threatening injuries, and he has to do all he can to help this person. And it’s more than just personal, it’s more than just technical. It’s a way for him to give back to the whole family, the whole hospital; all the characters who are intertwined. He’s helping to save their leader, right? And so, again, he’s a doctor through and through. Sure, he’s a mess, sure it’s hard for him to express his emotions. He’s uncomfortable with intimacy and all that. But this is a way for him to mitigate those flaws. And he tries the best he can, tries the best he’s able, to save this person.”

But what will come of Archer’s intended resignation, especially in the aftermath of this traumatic situation? “Well, it’s going to be interesting to chart his trajectory after this moment, because he’s forced to question his belief system, or in a way, his lack of belief system,” Weber acknowledges. “He’s just about to leave the hospital when, arguably, one of the worst crises that he’s ever encountered, certainly after [his experience in] the war, is rearing its head. So I think at some point he has to think, well, what does this mean?…Because, yeah, he was ready to chuck it all. He was ready to just leave.”

“I don’t think he even knew what he wanted to do,” he continues. “Just wanted to detach, but he was being forced to connect. And that’s hard for him, and maybe he recognizes that that’s his challenge, his life challenge, that he’s got to sort of face: the things that are hardest. Being a doctor has become relatively easy for him. He understands, technically, what to do, and the anxiety doesn’t creep up on him like a young doctor, because he got through that in the war. But this is something else. This is the next level of his emotional evolution.”

CHICAGO MED, Wednesdays, 8/7c, NBC

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