‘Chicago Fire’ First-Look Photos of Eamonn Walker and Interview Tease

NBC‘s Chicago Fire followers are per week away from seeing the return of the beloved actor Eamonn Walker reprise the function of Wallace Boden, and Deadline has your unique first take a look at the action-packed episode with teasers from the actor beneath.

In “Post Mortem,” airing Wednesday, April 16, at 9/8c, Boden has been tasked by Commissioner Grissom to run a post-incident evaluation following a home fireplace that collapses with a firefighter inside.

This might be Walker’s first time on the sequence again at 51 since he departed within the Season 12 finale following his promotion from Battalion Chief to First Deputy Commissioner of the Chicago Fire Department.

“It’s a really intense episode,” Walker instructed Deadline throughout a latest chat. “I will give you this much: somebody got left behind in a fire, and that somebody was a firefighter. That is a no-no and should never, ever happen. And because they were left behind, possibly by the end of this episode, we may lose them. It’s one of your favorites.”

More on this and what it was like for him to revisit the character he performed for the reason that sequence premiered in 2012 in our Q&A beneath.

DEADLINE: What? Why are you guys all the time enjoying with us and scaring us into considering our favorites may die?

EAMONN WALKER: We’re not enjoying with you. It’s not referred to as enjoying. We love the truth that you’re so emotionally concerned and that you just don’t need any extra! [LAUGHS] Within the hour {that a} firefighter was left behind and that second occurs, an investigation begins. So, Deputy Commissioner Bowden has to show up at Firehouse 51 and let all officers and the chief know they’re being investigated, and we now have to prep simply in case we lose this particular person. Possibly, a head will roll.

DEADLINE: Who is the firefighter that was left behind?

EW: That’s what you wish to know? Yeah, I can’t let you know. Nice attempt, although. [LAUGHS] It’s any individual you realize and love. You may even freak out.

DEADLINE: Will Boden be capable of swoop in and save the day?

EW: That’s not his job this time.

DEADLINE: What was it like for you getting again into character?

EW: Bowden lives inside me. My drawback is stopping Boden from coming out. [LAUGHS] It was superb to return. It was superb to place the uniform on. I’d missed all people terribly, and the welcome that I received was second to none. I really feel very privileged as an actor to have a forged, a crew, and a manufacturing workplace step up and welcome you residence. That’s what it was like, after which we went to work. And we went to work in the best way that we all the time work. We knew that there was a really particular episode. The writing on this episode is implausible, and the filming of it’s uncommon for a Chicago Fire episode. I believe you’ve received extra of a film right here than an episode.

DEADLINE: Boden has been gone for a scorching minute, and so many issues have occurred. Boden’s choose to succeed him was Hermann (David Eigenberg), who has now taken the chief examination. Will he be weighing in on any of that?

EW: With his scenario because it stands, none of that stuff issues. You know, the immediacy of any individual presumably dying is what takes precedent, and so he’s come to seek out out whose fault it’s. Whatever relationships, politics, or promotions occurring earlier than, this example proper now may change all of that for everybody—none of that issues. And you realize, Bowden’s investigating his previous favourite home, so he has received to tread very rigorously. He’s been a chief who’s been on the road. We watched greater than 15 to twenty episodes the place any individual was turning round and giving Bowden a tough time for the best way he was doing his job. It’s Pascal’s [Dermot Mulroney] time this time, and I’m the one coming in. In my case, it was all the time a deputy, a deputy chief, or any individual increased than the chief coming in. There’s just one particular person above me, and that’s the commissioner. I’m the Deputy Commissioner coming in to seek out out why a firefighter is left behind within the fireplace. It doesn’t get extra intense than that.

DEADLINE: Would you say he’s been conscious of all that’s been occurring, although? What has Boden been as much as off-camera?

EW: You don’t suppose that as Commissioner of the Chicago Fire Department, I don’t know what’s occurring in Firehouse 51? [LAUGHS] As far as what he’s been as much as off-screen, he’s being deputy commissioner and studying what that job is and the way completely different it’s to being a chief. When you first met him, he had management of 5 fireplace homes, though you by no means noticed them, otherwise you might need seen one or two. Then, he went to Deputy District Chief, after which he had a complete district, and now he’s received the entire Chicago Fire Department, so all of Chicago is beneath his wing. He is aware of the popularity he obtained for having a favourite with Firehouse 51, and he can’t afford to have that as Deputy Commissioner. He’s coming in to do his job and never get caught up on the truth that any individual’s in hospital. If Bowden does his job correctly and the suitable particular person is found to be at fault, you’ll lose them too as a result of they’ll be fired.

DEADLINE: We haven’t even seen your episode but, however we’re prepared so that you can safe a date for one more look. Was this a one and accomplished?

EW: The fact of the matter is, in the event that they write it, I’ll all the time come again and do it if I could be right here. It’s a beautiful factor to be a part of the Chicago Fire household. We assist one another in so many ways in which individuals can’t even presumably think about, on and off the display. So I’m very grateful.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Deadline chosen the 2 unique photographs on this story after talking to Walker. The one beneath could reveal the firefighter left behind and why Walker was so emphatic about how pressured followers ought to be about what’s forward. Walker is correct, we’re shooketh.

Chicago Fire is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in affiliation with Wolf Entertainment.