A fan-favorite character is saying goodbye in Chicago Fire Season 13. 

This newest season of the hit NBC procedural has seen its fair proportion of exits. 

Whether or not it was this latest exit or Dermot Mulroney’s Chief Dom Pascal earlier within the yr, followers have been on their toes just lately as a few of the present’s largest names have taken a bow and left the sequence. 

What Occurred to Carver on Chicago Fire?

Followers have been itching to know what occurred to Jake Lockett’s Carver on Chicago Fire because the sequence says goodbye to a fan-favorite character. 

Loccket’s recurring firefighter character has been part of the sequence since Season 11, popping up over time as a rival to Miranda Rae Mayo’s Firefighter Stella Kidd, becoming a member of the group at Stationhouse 51, and turning into part of the present’s central group. 

In current weeks, followers have seen Carver backslide right into a sample of harmful conduct. This dates again to Season 12, because the character slipped right into a debilitating drug behavior, main him to pursue a stint in rehab at first of Season 13. 

Nonetheless, the present’s most up-to-date episode introduced him again into the fold, as he was revealed to have returned from remedy prepared to hold the folks of Chicago secure once more (learn extra about Carver’s return right here). 

Season 13, Episode 18 (“Submit-Mortem”) noticed a number of firefighters injured throughout a name gone flawed, with Carver being one of many candidates to have bitten the mud. 

The episode spends a lot of its runtime coping with the fallout of this thriller firefighter’s identification, main many to imagine Carver had died and was not coming again.

Does Carver Die on Chicago Fire?

After dancing across the identification of the injured firefighter revealed in Season 13, Episode 18, it’s finally revealed that Carver was not the thriller firefighter.

It seems that Lieutenant Kelly Severide (performed by Taylor Kinney) mistook Carver for her personal brother Damon, and he was the one who tragically perished within the ill-fated construction hearth. 

Whereas combating the blaze, Damon acquired separated from Clarence, heading for the attic, the place the ceiling got here tumbling down, crushing him within the course of. 

Within the hospital, Damon made it via surgical procedure positive. Nonetheless, after important inside bleeding and excessive smoke publicity, he’s affected by lung breakdown, that means he might now not find a way to go on as a firefighter. 

As for the place Carver went in the course of the catastrophe that despatched Damon to the hospital, he was advised to retreat by Miranda Rae Mayo’s Stella Kidd, getting out of the blaze earlier than issues might take the damaging flip they did.

Is Carver Leaving Chicago Fire 2025?

Nonetheless, simply because Carver didn’t die in Season 13, Episode 18 of Chicago Fire doesn’t imply his days on the sequence are numbered. 

It has been confirmed that Jake Lockett’s character may very well be on the chopping block after Season 13 comes to an finish.

In accordance to reporting from Deadline on the topic, if the present is greenlit for a fourteenth season, it (together with a number of different NBC reveals) is about to be the sufferer of sizeable finances cuts ought to it transfer ahead. 

Which means that actor contracts will want to be considerably reworked (particularly as a result of it has been famous that a few of the largest actors’ offers at the moment are arising), which might end in an exodus of characters on the fringes of the firefighting franchise.

This might embrace Jake Lockett’s Carver, as he has already come and gone a number of instances throughout his run on the sequence. 

Whereas in no way a affirmation of Carver leaving the sequence after Season 13, this monetary tightening of the belt might end in characters like Carver being given the boot in hopes of maintaining extra outstanding names on the decision sheet on reworked offers.