CHICAGO MED Post-Mortem: Luke Mitchell on ‘One of the Most Challenging’ Film Experiences

March 5, 2025 by Marisa Roffman

CHICAGO MED — “Down In A Hole” Episode 1015 — Pictured: (l-r) — (Photo by: George Burns Jr/NBC)

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Wednesday, March 5 episode of CHICAGO MED.]

CHICAGO MED’s Ripley (Luke Mitchell) had his already-rough month complicated even more on the Wednesday, March 5 episode when he accidentally hit a parked car…and discovered a mother and daughter trapped in a well.

Ripley was able to get help, and the emergency personnel—including CHICAGO FIRE’s Mouch (Christian Stolte), who was floating—realized he had formed a bond with the mother, Sadie. As such, Ripley stayed on as a point person to continue to talk with Sadie about her injuries and the state of her daughter, Emelia, who was trapped below her.

The firefighters worked for hours, securing a side way into the well. But when Ripley realized Sadie’s leg needed to be amputated, he made a case for being allowed to go down the well to help since Mouch, who was down there, didn’t have the necessary medical expertise. Though the chief initially was reluctant, Mouch vouched for Ripley.

Once Ripley was down in the hole, Sadie insisted that they treat and evacuate Emelia first. Emelia fought against being separated from her mother, but the duo sang together and Emelia calmed down; the team then lifted her out of the hole.

Ripley did the necessary medical procedure on Sadie, but as she was being lifted out, the hole collapsed under her, trapping the doctor.

With radio contact lost, Mouch contacted the hospital to let them know about Ripley’s status. Goodwin (S. Epatha Merkerson) informed the doctors about what was going on and Charles (Oliver Platt) insisted on going; Archer (Steven Weber) realized Asher (Jessy Schram) would want to know and he tracked her down to break the news.

At the site, Mouch begged for Ripley to reply to him over the radio—Ripley finally replied, coughing, and said he wanted to dig himself out. Mouch asked him to wait…he needed to conserve air.

Charles arrived at the site and talked with Ripley, who seemed resigned to his fate. “Whatever happens, I’m okay with it,” Ripley said. Charles said he wasn’t, and he needed Ripley to be okay. Ripley tried to reply, but he passed out—and saw a hallucination of his dead friend, Sully, who encouraged Ripley to fight to survive. Ripley’s fighting with “Sully” led to the firefighters hearing him and they were able to save him from the hole.

Once he was out, the emergency team had to perform life-saving measures on him, and a devastated Asher arrived and told Ripley she loved him, too. Finally, he started breathing again.

Filming the big Ripley-centric hour “was wild,” Mitchell tells Give Me My Remote in the video below. “It was, I think, one of the most challenging experiences I’ve ever had—maybe the most in lots of ways. There’s only a handful of scenes that I’m not in in the episode, for starters. Two, half the episode was shot on location, which is something that we don’t really do on CHICAGO MED. Three, that just happened to coincide with an arctic blast in Chicago. So the temperatures were crazy cold.”

“Then once we did move to the stage, we were shooting on these really cool sets that our crew built,” he continues. “But it was super, super tight. And once I was in there, you really had to be selective about when you were getting out of there. And it really did help heighten the stakes. There are some really emotional scenes. I think the audience is going to be taken on a pretty good ride this episode.”

But where does Ripley go from here? “I hope that people enjoy seeing Ripley try to rise up from the ashes,” Mitchell says. “I think if he’s going to survive beyond the life or death scenario, if he’s going to survive mentally, he’s got to do a lot of work on himself, and he’s got to win back a lot of trust. And he’s got to be honest with himself and the people around him. And I think that’s really interesting territory to explore.”

CHICAGO MED, Wednesdays, 8/7c, NBC

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