Matthew Casey

Matthew "Matt" Casey is one of the main characters in NBC's Chicago Fire and a guest star on Chicago P.D. and Med.
Matthew Casey (born March 24, 1979) is a fire captain with the Portland Fire Department. He was formerly a captain with the Chicago Fire Department and the officer in charge of Truck 81 at Firehouse 51, but transferred when he moved to Oregon. He is portrayed by Jesse Spencer. who also played Dr. Robert Chase in House MD.
==Biography==
He is the only son and second child of Nancy and Gregory Casey. He has an older sister, Christie, and a niece named Violet.
When he was a teenager, his mother struggled under the abuse of her husband. When she finally snapped (after Gregory started verbally abusing Matt), she shot and killed Gregory after letting herself into his home using a key that Matt had left out. Christie wasn't living with them at that time, therefore, she was adamant on supporting her father's side on every hearing her mother had while she was in prison. This drove Matt and Christie apart.
== Season 1 ==
Casey and Severide are at odds at the beginning of the season, with each blaming the other for the death of fellow firefighter Andy Darden.
Casey is in a relationship with Hallie Thomas and is engaged to her, but the two later break up. Casey gets back together with Hallie when she returns from a long trip and the two are happy until she is the victim of a fire at a clinic where she worked part time. Firehouse 51 responds to the fire and he manages to get her out, but she later dies at the hospital. He cries in the arms of one of his firefighting friends. He's very disturbed by her death and tries to dig deeper and find out what happened with the help of Antonio Dawson. It's clear that something is going on, but the head of the clinic refuses to cooperate and they meet a dead end.
== Season 2 ==
After Gabriela Dawson breaks up with Peter Mills, she helps Casey through the death of Hallie and the two start dating later in the season.
Heather, meanwhile, ends up in a car crash that kills her best friend and she asks him to take care of her children, Griffin and Ben, while she serves an 18-month prison sentence. He agrees since he was close friends with her late husband Andy and Dawson helps him through it until Heather is released early due to overcrowding. Heather thanks him for taking care of her boys, and even though they have grown close to him, she decides to move to Florida.
During Shoved In My Face, Casey is experiencing flashbacks of the fire and suffers repeated episodes when he cannot open his locker. He and Dawson also tell the rest of the squad about their relationship. On a call, Casey saves a man named Jeremy, who had a pipe go through his neck. Casey makes a bet with the man that if he survives, he’ll buy him a six-pack of beer. Casey also experiences another episode when he is forced to stop bank robbers, nearly beating someone to death and almost attacking Mouch. Casey keeps up his end of the bet with Jeremy when he visits him at the hospital and offers him a beer.
At the end of Season 2, Casey proposes to Gabby, but they get a call for a structure fire, leaving the proposal unanswered. The building collapses with all of the firehouse inside.
== Season 3 ==
Following the building collapse that killed Shay, Gabby returns to work after a month's leave. She tells Casey she can't accept his proposal because it would be the day that Shay died and she can't mix the memory with such a sad one. They get later get engaged when Casey tells her that Shay picked out the ring with him. (Wow Me)
Gabby is eventually transferred to work under Casey on Truck 81 and so they can't get married as she wouldn't be able to work under him as long as she's a candidate. Everything works out fine until Gabby makes a mistake, causing Casey to call her out and threaten to kick her off Truck since she ignored his instructions. She's fine with it until Casey refuses to talk to her after shift as he's still upset with her.
Casey deals with the fallout of his sister Christie's impending divorce once his niece details the stress. However, he forces her husband into coming to a truce or else. (The Nuclear Option)
Casey later notices Cruz and Sylvie spending time together. He soon advices her to keep their relationship low but is surprised by her revealing Cruz is a highly skilled Zumba dance instructor. Despite Brett swearing him to secrecy, Casey tells Gabby who in turn tells Hermann and the secret is known to everyone in the house. After shift, Casey and the others sign up for Cruz's class to see it for themselves and are amused to see Cruz surprised at seeing them. When Cruz nearly cancels, Casey encourages him before the class starts and the squad enjoy themselves. (Chopper)
When Gabby works late at Molly's that night and asks Peter to help her, Casey comes by to talk to her, but finds the two talking and takes it the wrong way when he sees them holding hands and leaves. Peter tells him he doesn't want to get in the way the next morning and Gabby apologizes, but he ignores her. Against his wishes, she decides to take a break and leaves the house, moving in with Sylvie. However, they work together when Mills and Brett are kidnapped. (Santa Bites, Let Him Die)
After Chief Boden's father passes away, he decides to take a break from the job for a few months, leaving Chief Pridgen in charge. Even though he seems friendly at first, he constantly mocks the team, specifically Otis. This angers Casey and he speaks up against him. Combined with this, Casey has a brief relationship with Pridgen's newly divorced ex-wife, Beth. He ends it when he finds out, but Pridgen finds out and takes his anger out on Casey during shift. Responding to a fire, Truck 81 and Squad 3 are about to go in, but Pridgen deliberately redirects Truck 81 to a minor accident nearby. This angers Casey, but Pridgen refuses to let him work at the fire. The team leaves while Squad 3 takes care of the fire and rescues the trapped victim. During the rescue, a man has rushed in to help and is on the top floor, but they miss him. Casey comes back and tells Pridgen that the man refused treatment and that he was fine. Just then, the man jumps out the top floor window as the house explodes and injures himself, later taking action against Firehouse 51 for negligence. The case is investigated and Welch and Severide hear Pridgen tell them that Casey failed to properly check the scene and that the reason he was redirected was because there was a "life-threatening" injury nearby. Severide files another report, going against the initial statement made by Pridgen. He finds out and "encourages" Severide to take the promotion to Captain in OFI or be stripped of his rank, but Severide refuses and claims he's happy where he is. Things worsen since the man Truck was directed to help refused treatment and there's no paperwork indicating that they even went to help him. Pridgen then uses Welch's vendetta towards 51 to get him to sign a statement to support him. He refuses due to respect for the people there and is kicked out. However, Welch goes on to make a statement backing Severide, resulting in Pridgen getting fired and Boden returning to take control. (Headlong Toward Disaster, Red Rag The Bull)
Later in the season, Casey decides to find some construction work off-shift. He finds a club called Stilettos where the owner, Jack Nesbitt, is looking to expand. Casey reveals to Nesbitt that he is a firefighter and Nesbitt tells him that he was a firefighter at Firehouse 114 for seven years before quitting. Casey later asks Scott Rice, who also previously worked at 114, about Nesbitt and Rice reveals that Nesbitt had some bad history with some department officials, therefore leading to his resignation. Casey is then informed by Hank Voight of how Nesbitt is into shady stuff and Antonio later tells him that he is illegally trafficking European girls into the country. Casey agrees to help gets jammed up in Nesbitt's business, when he tries to help a girl named Katya. (Category 5)
In the season finale, Gabby comes over to his apartment to tell him some important news, but his place has been ransacked and the dead body of Katya, a girl he had been helping, is laying on the floor. (Spartacus)
== Season 4 ==
In Let It Burn, Gabby calls Antonio to tell him about her discovery and asks him to track Casey down. Casey is found at Stilettos, having overpowered his kidnappers and beaten up Nesbitt for his actions. Casey is angered when Antonio informs him that Nesbitt was released after it was discovered he is working as a CI with the FBI on the case. However, he is overjoyed when Gabby tells him that she is pregnant with his child.
In A Taste of Panama City, Casey and Gabby go to the chief to tell him of her pregnancy and decision to leave her job as a firefighter to take an office job in the Arson Division. Despite this, Casey is annoyed when Jack visits him at the house and he goes to see Voight to tell him that Nesbitt is clearly working both the feds and traffickers. He tells Voight that if he doesn't stop Nesbitt then he will. That night, he talks with Gabby and realizes where Katya stored the notebook and retrieves it but is followed and threatened by Nesbitt. However, he is saved by Voight and the FBI who had took Casey's words seriously. He is happy when Nesbitt is arrested by the FBI and CPD.
Gabby and Casey's happiness is short-lived. She and Boden are at the office trying to find files on a case when she cries out in pain. She's taken to the hospital, where Dr. Will Halstead tells her that she's miscarried. She's heartbroken by this and she and Casey go through a rough patch in their relationship.
During a tornado in Chicago, power lines are cut and houses are destroyed. The Alderman of Chicago encourages Casey, who was at the scene and helped take many of the victims to the only homeless shelter in the area, to make a speech to drive in donations. He is happy to do so and helps to raise thousands of dollars. However, when he returns to the shelter, many of the people are still there and have not received any help or donations. Casey talks to the Alderman, who brushes him off, implying he has taken the money for his own personal use. He tells Casey that it's just 'politics'. Angered by this, he decides to run for Alderman himself after a lot of encouragement from Gabby.
However, during his campaigning, he finds he needs to do more than make promises. He is constantly overthrown in his decisions and shown under a bad light by others. He is frustrated even more when someone vandalizes cars and billboards, claiming that Casey is a "murderer's son." Knowing his opponent did this, he threatens him to take the posters down but he is dismissed, causing Casey to think about withdrawing himself from the election. However, Gabby tells him to keep going and is upset to hear that he is thinking of quitting, which encourages him to continue.
Casey finally gives in and talks to a gang leader who had promised to help him win if he took down cameras from the street corners to let them deal drugs. Initially, he was against this idea but agrees to do so, asking them for just one thing - not to hang around the corners around the children's high school. They aren't sure about this, but imply that they are willing to do so. However, this still isn't enough. He loses his first debate to his opponent before being informed about a second debate that no one told him about. However, as his campaign affects his ability to work, he is told by Chiefs to stop or not miss any time off of work. He therefore agrees and deliberately misses the second debate as he is on a call. His opponent calls him weak and says that Casey is not willing to give up enough for his job as Alderman as he still has a second job. This stresses him out, but the media catch him risking his life for a mechanic and publish it in the newspapers as the reason for him missing the debate. This heroism helps him to win the four-year term as Alderman.
Truck 81 responds to a call of a person in distress. Upon arrival, they find that the victim is a high school boy called Victor. They manage to rescue him and he survives. The boy's grandmother then shows up at the firehouse and tells Casey to do more as Alderman. He finds out from Antonio that Victor was attacked by a gang who wanted revenge because his older brother was previously affiliated with the same gang, but helped take some of them down when he agreed to help the police. Casey goes to see the gang leader again and tells him to stop terrorizing Victor, but they refuse to do so. 3 days later, Casey goes to see Victor, who wants to go to graduation. He tells him not to go as he could be attacked again, but Victor remains unafraid. Seeing no other option, he gets together with the firehouse and they line up along the road, ready to protect him. Chief Boden and Casey personally escort Victor to the school.
Casey also goes through a difficult time in his relationship with Gabby after a call causes her to make an unexpected decision. They find a mother who has overdosed with a young boy in an apartment that's on fire. They help the mother out and Gabby goes in to find the boy. She finds him hiding under the bed and after some time, convinces him to come out. When she comes out, the boy is unwilling to let go of her, so she goes with him to the hospital. However, social workers tell her that he was fostered and will be placed back in a foster home. She feels terrible and tells Casey she wants to foster him herself. However, she had previously told him that she didn't want to get married and so he tells he that it's not such a good idea. She is upset and leaves, but tells him the next morning that she has decided she wants to take the boy in and he doesn't have to help her. In the season 4 finale, Gabby fosters him and Casey goes on a trip with his political adviser, Susan. Towards the end of the episode, Susan kisses him and writes her room number on a napkin. He then goes to see Gabby at her new home, a loft above Herrmann's garage.
== Season 5 ==
The first half of the season mostly deals with Louie and Casey's political career. A political advisor tries to get him to hire her to work on his campaign, but he refuses. Just days later, another opposing politician, who had threatened to destabilize Casey's career unless he listened to his own demands, tells the media that Casey used his position as Alderman to skip the fostering waiting time for Louie to adopt him. This scares both him and Gabby as both are threatened with the issue of Louie being taken away.
Casey decides to call the advisor, who is on the case immediately and solves the issue in no time. However, he soon discovers that this advisor and the politician worked together to trick Casey so that she could use him for her own gains. He fires her afterwards and he goes back home to Louie and Gabby, who he is evidently happy with.
Later on, Gabby and Casey are told that they can now adopt Louie if they want, but that Gabby will be seen as a single mother as they are not married. Casey tries to ask around for another option, but since they aren't engaged or married, there is none. However, later on at Molly's, they both get the idea of running away and getting married. In One Hundred, Casey and Gabby get married at the courthouse in their uniforms, and the whole firehouse attends the ceremony. On their way home, Casey sees the man who has been stalking them for the past few days. The man reveals himself and says that he is Louie's father and that he wants him back. In the season 5 finale, tensions continue to rise between the married couple. However, things take a dramatic turn when 51 is called out to fight a large and out of control building fire. Casey calls Gabby on his radio for what seems to be the last time to tell her that he loves her and that she's his miracle.
== Season 6 ==
Casey goes to the chief's office and expects reprimand from the visiting superintendent but the latter instead praises him for getting the job done, despite him breathing down his neck. Casey is surprised when the superintendent recommends him for promotion to Captain.
After Boden orders the water cannons turned on, Casey shelters himself and a victim under a metal cabinet. He is found unresponsive by Chief Boden after the fire is put out. Uniformed personnel are then seen attending what appears to be Casey's funeral, but is revealed to actually be a ceremony at which Casey receives a medal from Chief Boden for not only being brave at that fire, but for being brave everyday on the streets of Chicago. Casey is then promoted to Captain for his heroism.
A fire at Donna's high school isn't what it seems when she insists that the blaze wasn't an accident. And at home, Gabby angrily tells Casey not to say goodbye to her like that again and he agrees. When an off-duty Gabby is caught in the collapse of a parking garage, 51 responds and Casey rescues her from the rubble. (A Breaking Point) After discovering that Hope forged Chief Mullens' signature on a transfer form for Stella Kidd, Casey and Chief Boden dismiss her from the firehouse. (Down Is Better)
While shutting off a damaged gas valve to slow down a fire, Casey and Severide realize that as soon as they let go of the valve wheel, the whole roof is going to blow. They run to the edge and jump into the river several stories below, still in their heavy turnout gear. Casey surfaces dazed, but uninjured. Severide, however, is injured and Stella rescues him. (The F is For) Casey is comforted by Gabby and Severide recovers. A photo of their daring jump makes the front page news and is great press for the department. The photographer who took the photo is invited by the CFD to do a "day in the life" type spread, but Casey catches him attempting to take photos of Gabby while she's in the shower and throws him out.
Casey helps Gabby with getting Bria ready for prom. He decides they should have something good to remember, so arranges for Kidd to drive them to prom in Truck 81. After the Truck leaves, Gaby tells him that she wants to start trying again and he happily agrees. After going to a doctor and finding out that Gabby has a 10% chance of dying if she gets pregnant, he decides he doesn't want her getting pregnant. He brings up adoption and even looks into it, which upsets Gabby since he did it behind her back and she's afraid the same thing that happened to Louie will happen again. After a huge fight, Gabby tells Casey she'll be right back and she goes to ask about a job in Puerto Rico while he stays home, not sure where his wife has gone.
== Season 7 ==
Gabby tells Casey that she is taking a permanent position with the relief effort in Puerto Rico. He tells Severide that they got divorced in S7E8.
Reporter Naomi Graham asks Casey for his help solving a series of explosions in the kitchens of mobile homes. They get together after seemingly solving the case, only to wake up and find Casey's apartment ablaze. The mobile home company had sent someone to scare Casey and Naomi so they would back off on the lawsuit, but they gather enough evidence to get them arrested. 
== Season 8 ==
The mattress factory fire spirals out of control and Otis is severely injured. He is taken to the hospital, where the doctors reveal that they will not be able to save him.
Three months after Otis's death, Chief Boden tells Casey that he needs to choose someone to replace Otis, which Casey is rather hesitant to do. It is revealed that Casey carries the weight of Otis's death more than anyone else in the firehouse, though he chooses to grieve silently. At the end of the episode, Casey is one of the first people to kneel in front of the monument dedicated to Otis's memory.
After witnessing him at a call, Casey picks Blake Gallo, a young and reckless firefighter, to join 81. Boden is reluctant to bring him on because of his tendency to not follow instructions and seemingly put himself in dangerous situations. Casey is adamant on bringing Blake on, and ends up convincing Boden to give him a chance.
In Badlands, Casey asks an IT manager out. She seems a little crazy (for example, she googled him) but he sleeps with her anyway. He realizes it was a mistake the morning after, but she still has to install new IT system in the firehouse. Casey asks Severide for advice on how to get rid of her, to which he replies that 'these things tend to solve themselves'. He was right as she regrets it as well.
Gabby briefly returns in Best Friend Magic. The whole house is surprised. She attends a fundraiser (connected to her work in Puerto Rico) and asks Casey to go with her. Casey consults Brett on this matter, as he isn't entirely sure it's a good idea. Brett encourages him to go. Casey and Gabby enjoy the gala together and spend the night together, even though Gabby will leave and Matt will stay in Chicago.
== Season 9 ==
In Rattle Second City, he welcomes Cruz's friend to be the new paramedic. When Brett worries about a stalker, she calls Casey and he decides to sleep over to protect her. They end up having a game night where Casey does an Australian accent.
In That Kind Of Heat, the firehouse receives word that Ambulance 61 is under attack. Casey and Truck 81 rush to their location and Casey jumps out of the moving Truck to run and save Sylvie. Despite his actions, they save the stalker to get him medical attention for his wounds. Much later, Casey speaks with Sylvie, who thanks for the rescue and tells him “It’s always been you”. This statement leaves Casey stunned before she awkwardly walks away. That night, he goes to Molly’s, where he invites Brett to join him, Gallo, Capp and Tony. During their conversation, Gallo reveals that Casey jumped out of the moving Truck to get to Brett. Casey and Brett share a moment before she leaves and Gallo apologizes if he ruined things, but Casey tells him he didn’t ruin anything and leaves. Casey then goes over to Brett’s apartment and asks if she has been avoiding him. She kisses him, and he kisses her in return. Before they go too far, Brett asks him if he still loves Dawson and if he would leave Chicago with her if she asked. He can't answer and although he wants to stay, he leaves out of respect towards her.
During Smash Therapy, Casey arrives at work and spots Brett, who notices him before looking away, making him realize things are now awkward. Casey later speaks with Brett, where he tells her that he does not regret what happened between them and wants to make it work regardless of his past with Dawson. However this explanation is not good enough for Brett and she tells him to forget that the whole thing happened. In the end, Casey spots Severide and invites him out for cigars while discussing what happened with Brett. He explains to an amused Severide that all he has been thinking about for the past year is Brett.
== Season 10 ==
Casey is happy in his relationship with Brett, but he still lives at the loft, even though he hinted he would have to move out after Severide's engagement. In Head Count, he is surprised to find Griffin Darden looking for him. It becomes clear in Counting Your Breaths that Griffin is not well as his mother, Heather, is again in jail and his brother, Ben, is going through a rough patch. Casey eventually decides Ben and Griffin need him, but he is unable to move them to Chicago. Therefore, he is forced (by his self-sacrificing nature) to move to Oregon and care for them at least until Ben turns 18 and goes to college in Chicago, which will happen in 3 years. He has also taken a position with the Portland Fire Department. His decision upsets Brett, but she comes around and agrees to try a long-distance relationship. (Two Hundred)
Casey returned to Chicago for the wedding of his best friend, Kelly Severide with Stella Kidd were he was the best man of the groom. (The Magnificent City of Chicago)
== Season 11 ==
Casey returned to Chicago for a conference, informing the CFD of how Portland faced a series of terrorist attacks within its limits and warned of possible strikes coming to various cities, including Chicago. He even assisted Stella and Truck 81 on a rescue job. (Danger is All Around)
Casey returned to Chicago again to help Stella on a Homeland Security case. After having a conversation with Stella about his relationship with Brett, he eventually proposes to her. (Red Waterfall)
== Season 12 ==
Casey returned to Chicago for his wedding with Brett. (Port in the Storm)
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