Dr. Daniel Charles is Chicago Med’s calm center—a psychiatrist who holds everyone else together. But in a recently leaked script from Season 9, the calm cracked.
NBC allegedly shelved an entire episode where Charles suffers a mental breakdown, spiraling after a patient’s suicide.
Why? Network execs feared the storyline would be “too dark, too destabilizing.”
But after fan outcry and pressure from the show’s mental health consultants, the episode is finally being aired this season—with major edits and a disclaimer.
In the lost footage, Oliver Platt delivers what insiders call “his most raw, unfiltered performance yet.”
Prepare to see Dr. Charles like never before: vulnerable, confused, and terrifyingly human.
