'Chicago Fire' boss previews major death, emotional finale

Earlier this week, Chicago Fire was among several NBC shows that learned they will officially be returning next season. So it’s a good thing the show has plans to heat things up in the last four episodes of the season, which kick off tonight on NBC. How will they do that? Executive producer Matt Olmstead explained when we had him touch on some of our burning questions…


On Shay and Severide’s baby possibilities:
Shay’s interest in having a baby may have seemed to some like a knee-jerk reaction to having her heart broken (again!) by her ex-girlfriend Clarice (Shiri Appleby), but as it turns out, it was much more than that. Now, she and BFF/sperm donor Severide (Taylor Kinney) are actively trying to get a bun in her oven via in vitro fertilization. “And at the end of the season, we get the answer in terms of whether she’s pregnant or not,” Olmstead promises. But trying to get pregnant will come with more than just medical hurdles. “One of the big season-ending surprises we have is that there’s a romantic interest of his who we’ve seen on the show who comes back to [Severide] and it comes at a time when he and Shay are domesticating. That throws a major wrench into the plan to have a child with Shay,” he says. “Someone comes back from his past and throws everything upside down.”

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