After that fall finale, it seems to be like The Resident has reached a flip in two docs’ lives that has been just about inevitable since a love triangle was launched in Season 5.
Following Nic Nevin’s (Emily VanCamp) loss of life, the Fox drama jumped ahead just a few years, and by the top of Season 5, it had arrange a brand new love triangle for her husband, Dr. Conrad Hawkins (Matt Czuchry). There was Nic’s finest good friend, Dr. Billie Sutton (Jessica Lucas), to whom he had turn into shut as properly, and new doc Cade Sullivan (Kaley Ronayne), with whom he’d been working side-by-side in and (with the Go Team) out of the hospital. When Season 6 started, we discovered he’d chosen Cade, although he additionally didn’t know that Billie was even an choice at that time.
But for each time we noticed Conrad and Cade as a pair (and for all of the occasions they spoke about having dinner) in Season 6, there was a second shared between him and Billie. In reality, probably the most romantic scenes didn’t function Conrad and Cade, however relatively Conrad and Billie: their dance at Dr. Kit Voss (Jane Leeves) and Dr. Randolph Bell’s (Bruce Greenwood) marriage ceremony and their kiss close to the top of the autumn finale. Besides these, you can additionally argue probably the most emotional second got here between these two as properly, within the elevator as Conrad questioned if Nic would approve of Cade. “I just want you to be happy, whoever you’re with. So would Nic,” Billie advised him.
And then with the autumn finale got here the massive second for Conrad and Billie, simply as Cade was pulling away from and mendacity to him — her father, Dr. Ian Sullivan (Andrew McCarthy), agreed to go to rehab for his habit if she advised nobody, together with her boyfriend. Family members of a affected person who died attacked Billie, and Conrad got here to her rescue then was the one to convey her residence. (Billie’s new love curiosity, Ian Anthony Dale’s Dr. James Yamada, was primarily dismissed by Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s Dr. AJ Austin, a.okay.a. the largest Conrad/Billie shipper on the present.) And after he walked her to her door, the 2 kissed. But then she went inside, and he left, so we’ll have to attend till the sequence returns on January 3, 2023, to see what’s subsequent for the 2.
When TV Insider spoke with showrunner Andrew Chapman concerning the fall finale, he refused to say that Conrad and Billie will find yourself collectively (although it seems to be to be heading in that route) however did promise,“His choice will be settled by the end of [Episode] 13 [which is the Season 6 finale], and we will see him living with the choices he made and whether he’s happy or sad about them. I’m not gonna give it away, but we’ll definitely have closure on that.”
As for the kiss itself, “we’ve always been playing with the idea that Billie and Conrad were secretly in love and just could never express it to anybody and that that was always going to be our love triangle between Billie, Conrad, and Cade,” he explained. “We played with when the timing was, but given that we only have 13 episodes, we thought that a kiss would be a really great way to end the fall season.”
So we’re now heading into the ultimate episodes of Season 6 with the query of who Conrad will select up within the air. While it appears apparent the season will finish with Conrad and Billie collectively, we’re asking you within the ballot beneath to vote for who you need him to be with, not essentially who you assume he’ll find yourself with.
The Resident, Winter Premiere, Tuesday, January 3, 2023, 8/7c, Fox