Matthew Casey

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**Captain Matthew "Matt" Casey** (born February 12, 1979) is a firefighter and the company officer on all three shifts of Truck 81, assigned to Firehouse 51.

## 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 younger, his mother struggled under the abuse of her husband until she finally snapped, causing her to shoot and kill Gregory after letting herself into his home using a key that Matt had left out.

## Abilities

* **Skilled Fighter:** Casey has shown to be a skilled fighter as he was able to stand up to two muggers at once and even disarm robbers with guns. He was even able to take down CPD Officer Hank Voight single-handedly. Casey relies on brute force and boxing as opposed to Severide who relies on slightly more nimble moves in a fight.

## Medical Injuries

*In reference to the episode: "Not Like This".*

An apartment fire rages across sixteen units, with civilians trapped. Truck 81 work together to get everyone out safely and Boden orders an evacuation, but Casey learns that there is a baby still inside the building. He ignores the evacuation order and saves the baby, but while on his way to the exit, a support beam falls on him, activating his ADSU. Casey is rushed to hospital in Ambulance 61, with Severide in tow. Casey is diagnosed with a epidural hematoma and is rushed into emergency surgery and placed on leave for six weeks while he recovers. After returning to work, he still has problems with his memory and dizziness.

In Double Red, he hit his head during a call again. He suffers from a severe constant headache and blurry vision. The medical report from his operation in 2013 says: "Due to the nature of the injury, another injury could exacerbate trauma to a debilitating level." This seems to concern him, but he dismisses every offer of help and insists on being fine.

The symptoms eventually go away, but Brett insists on Casey getting a checkup anyway (after finally learning about his headaches and tunnel vision). Casey undergoes an MRI scanning, which reveals that his brain is against all odds fine. The constant pain was a result of post-concussion migraines which can be medicated. The uneven strength in his arms was caused by a shoulder injury he suffered during the fall. (*Natural Born Firefighter*)

## Relationships

### Romance

#### Hallie Thomas

Matthew was engaged to Hallie Thomas. After responding to a motor vehicle accident and delivering a baby there, Casey asks Hallie if she wants children. She says no and due to their different choices, Hallie cancels the wedding and moves away.

Hallie returns a few months later and realizes that she misses Casey. They got back together and were getting along well. However, this ends when she is killed in a fire at the clinic she worked at. (*Leaders Lead*) Casey had a hard time dealing with Hallie's death, but he eventually managed to get closure and move on.

#### Gabby Dawson

Casey and Dawson started out as good friends. She crushes on him throughout season 1, even though he's in a relationship at the time. After Hallie and Matt break up, Dawson asks Casey to be her date for a Christmas function. At the end of the night they lean in to kiss, but Casey kisses her on the cheek instead.

After Hallie is killed, Casey leans on Dawson for support and they soon become very close. Sometime later, Casey and Dawson's feelings for each other grow and after he goes to Dawson's house one night, they get together.

At the end of season 2, Casey proposes to Dawson.

Unfortunately, in season 3, Casey and Dawson take a break due to the turbulent nature of their relationship.

During the break, Casey and Dawson become close again and resolve their issues, leading to a one night stand that results in Dawson getting pregnant.

Casey and Dawson then get back together (at the beginning of season 4), but sadly lose the baby. Dawson and Casey are in love and better than ever even through the tragedy.

In season 5, Dawson and Casey get married and foster a child named Louie. Dawson is especially torn up after Louie's father comes back into the picture and takes him back. This discourages her from wanting to adopt in the future. When she decides that she wants to start trying for another baby, Dawson goes in for a fertility test after getting impatient and finds that she has an aneurysm that will be irritated if she gets pregnant again, and may kill her. Dawson wants to move forward with attempting to get pregnant again, but Casey tells her that she can't get pregnant because he can't lose her.

Their relationship is put on hold after Dawson decides to leave Chicago to go help with the relief effort in Puerto Rico.

In *The Solution to Everything*, Casey mentions to Severide that he and Gabby signed their divorce papers.

In *That Kind Of Heat*, Casey was unable to answer Brett's question of him still loving Dawson, stating that he didn’t know.

#### Sylvie Brett

Casey has been developing a bond with Brett since Season 7 when they grew closer as friends while bonding over the loss of Dawson. She helps him look for a new apartment after a fire burns down his place, and she is concerned for him when he suffers some trauma after a scary call, giving him advice and offering to be there if he ever wanted to talk. However, Brett starts questioning her own feelings towards Casey when her friend Olivia, whom she had set up on a date with Casey, tells her that she should be with him, and that they were "meant for each other". Brett gets advice from Kidd and Foster on this, who seemingly agree and she ends up acting awkward and nervous around Casey.

After he is injured on a call, Brett tends to a burn on his neck, teasing him about his bandage skills. Casey then compliments her work, jokingly telling her that she should work in EMS. The two then share a long look before Brett quickly leaves and Matt is clearly confused. Casey is now unsure about his feelings towards Brett, and when Boden invites him to a dinner, telling him to bring a date, he nervously tries to ask Brett, but is interrupted before getting the chance and then gets cold feet. When he sees Brett and Kyle the chaplain at Molly's sharing a hug, he jumps to conclusions and assumes that they had gotten back together. He tells her that they are good together, before she gets a chance to explain that they're just friends. Brett seems upset by this and is confused further. Kyle then proposes to Brett at the firehouse with everyone looking on, including a stunned Casey, and she accepts, although seems reluctant. Casey congratulates her and she tells him that it was what he said at Molly's that made her accept. He realises that he had unknowingly pushed Brett back to the chaplain, and he is clearly upset by this.

At the start of Season 8, Brett has moved back to Fowlerton with Kyle, but she is unsatisfied with the slow-paced life of the firehouse there and misses Chicago and everyone at 51. She and Kyle amicably break up and she returns to Chicago, where she reunites with everyone and Casey is happy to see her back, saying that 51 isn't the same without her. The two continue to grow closer, and Casey starts becoming jealous when he sees her with another man, Ryan, and assumes they're dating, to which Brett quickly explains that they're just friends, prompting knowing looks from Foster. When he teases her again about Ryan, she talks about her lack of luck when it comes to romance, but he tells her that she deserves to find exactly what she wants in a relationship, resulting in some heart-eyes on Brett's part.

When Dawson briefly returns to Chicago to invite Casey to a charity ball, he asks Brett's advice and she encourages him to go, but is visibly upset. He goes to the ball and he and Dawson end up spending the night together before she leaves the next morning. Brett asks Matt how the night went, to which he tells her it was great. Foster teases her more, but she tells her "he seems happy; that makes me happy". Casey and Brett tend to an elderly victim who had lost his wife in a house fire, and they search for his beloved cat. Whilst they wait, she asks for his advice as she has received information that her birth mother is seeking contact. Not quite knowing what to do, he tells her "I've been impressed by your ability to see the good in people, always. If anyone can handle this kind of bomb dropped in their lap, it's you." She then receives another letter from her birth mother herself and she asks Casey to throw it away for her, to which he agrees, but keeps it anyway. When she later asks about the letter, he smugly shows her the letter, saying that he knew she'd change her mind. She gets angry, to his hilarious confusion, as he didn't do what she asked and asks him to get rid of it again. He throws the letter in the trash, but Brett later comes to his apartment, saying that she's changed her mind and wants the letter back. He seems confused as she saw him throw it away, but she doesn't buy it and asks him if he went back and got the letter after she'd left. He smiles and says "Are you gonna yell at me again if I did?" She asks him to stay with her as she opens it, only to find a name and an address. He offers to drive her to the house, for which she is grateful. Sylvie and Julie are getting along great and

When Brett introduces her birth mother, Julie, to Casey, she mistakes their relationship and asks her how long they have been dating, to which Brett quickly explains that they're just friends, but Julie isn't entirely convinced. When a realtor asks Brett out and she seems unsure, Julie tells her that she's hung up on Casey. She reaffirms their platonic relationship, and explains that Casey was married to her best friend, and so nothing was going to happen. However, she starts to question why she is reluctant to date anyone else. As she leaves after a shift, the relator calls her, and, as she looks on at Casey, she turns him down, telling him that she's "got some things to sort out." Having finally acknowledged her growing feelings for Casey. Julie goes into labour and Brett calls him for support when the doctor explains that there are some complications. When Casey arrives at the hospital, the doctor tells Brett that Julie has died in labour. She is devastated, but goes to see her little sister and cries as she holds her. Brett is heartbroken by Julie's death and Casey continues to check up on her, telling her that how she's feeling isn't silly. When Julie's husband starts to have doubts about raising the baby, he asks Brett to look after her or he'll put her up for adoption. She is shocked and completely unsure what to do. She confides in Casey and breaks down in his arms, grieving for her mother. He tells her that "Whatever you decide, I'm here". She appreciates this, but ends up convincing Julie's husband to keep the baby. At Cruz's wedding, she and Casey share some longing looks during the vows.

In *Rattle Second City*, Sylvie worries about a stalker and comes back home to find her apartment unlocked. Before going inside, she calls Casey and he insists on sleeping over to protect her until they hear otherwise. They spend the evening playing Heads Up, teasing each other over their terrible Australian accents. They then share a moment before Sylvie goes to bed, but not before gazing at Matt as he makes up the couch to sleep on. Later on, the stalker chases Brett and Mackey when they head out and runs them off a bridge after trying to shoot at them.

Upon hearing of this, Casey rushes to the scene. When he sees the wreck, he jumps out of the moving truck to reach Brett quicker. He runs to her and checks if she's okay, to which she is stunned to see him there so fast. She later questions him as to why she only saw him there at first, but Casey lies and tells her that they had all rushed down together. She then blurts out "It's always been you" to Casey's shock, as he seemingly realizes her feelings for him. She tries to roll back on this, but Casey isn't convinced. Brett runs to Kidd, telling her "I basically just told Casey that I'm in love with him." Kidd asks her why it's such a bad thing for him to know how she feels, but she tells her she can't feel that way. She then tries to pretend she never said it so that things could go back to the way they were.

Casey awkwardly asks Brett out to Molly's. At Molly's, Gallo recounts the real events of the accident to Brett's amazement, as she realizes Casey feels the same way about her. The two share some longing looks whilst Gallo talks, but she abruptly leaves, making up an excuse about meeting a friend, leaving Matt seemingly hurt and confused. For the duration of their next shift, Brett avoids Casey, to his annoyance, and Severide picks up on this and tells him to sort it out. Wanting answers, Matt shows up at Brett's apartment and she tells him that she was only avoiding him "so I wouldn't end up doing this" and she kisses him. He then kisses her back. Brett then admits that she'd "wanted this for for a long time" and Matt agrees. Just as it seems that the two were going to sleep together, Brett pauses and explains the reason that she had been so scared to act on her feelings for Casey, asking him: "If Gabby came back to Chicago, right now, tonight, and asked you to leave with her, would you go?" Matt hesitates, but tells her that he hadn't spoken to Dawson in ages, but Brett doesn't see this as an answer to her question and pushes him further before he admits "I don't know." Brett is clearly heartbroken, her fears having come true. She tells Casey that she knew he was "still in love with Gabby all along" and so blames herself for her actions. Casey tries to explain that things were more complicated than that, but she doesn't see this as complicated at all. She asks Casey to leave, and although reluctant, he agrees. A devastated Brett then breaks down alone on her couch.

While talking to Severide about this, Matt reveals that he has only ever thought about Brett for the past few months.

When Casey suffers another head injury during a call, all of his concerns about not being fit for work emerge again (after his injury in *Not Like This*). Brett is the first person he confides in revealing all of his fears and uncertainties. She accompanies him during all of the medical exams.

### Friends

#### Kelly Severide

Kelly and Casey are co-workers at Firehouse 51. At the beginning of season one, after the death of a close friend, they had some trouble getting along and often butted heads, but would come together for the sake of the house. By Season 2 they have stopped blaming each other and get along very well. They are often seen putting themselves in danger to protect each other, such as when Severide went into an unstable burning building to help Casey find his fiancé. After Casey was injured in episode 2x10, Severide was the first to notice that he was not healed. He was very concerned about Casey, asking him numerous times if he was okay and offering help.

Following Shay's death, Severide moves in with Casey and Dawson. Severide and Casey stay as roommates after Dawson moves out. Some of the strain on Casey and Dawson's relationship comes from Casey and Severide's relationship; with Casey putting Severide in front of Dawson, such as when Dawson tells Casey to ask Severide to move out after his unexpected marriage and Casey responds by saying Severide "is going to need [him] on his side, so good or bad that's where [he'll] be".

In Headlong Toward Disaster, Severide instantly turns down an order from his chief to spy on Casey. He also tells the chief that Casey is "one of the finest firefighters [he's] ever had the opportunity to work with in the entire CFD."

In Season 5, when Dawson and Casey are getting back together and adopting Louie, Severide offers to move out to give the three of them space.

After Casey's apartment burnt down in *Inside These Walls*, Severide offers him his guest room. This results in Casey moving in with Severide permanently.

During Season 9, Casey confides in Severide about his status with Brett, something that leaves Severide amused, but he gives advice on how to handle it.

Severide is one of the only people on the show besides Sylvie, Dawson, Boden and Voight (Chicago P.D.), to call Casey by his first name. Severide is the only person on the show to call Casey by the nickname, Case and Casey is the only person on the show to call Severide by the nickname, Sev.

### Neutral

#### Hank Voight

Voight is a police officer whose son drunkenly caused a car accident. Casey filed a CFD Incident Report that implicated Voight covered it up.

This marked the tension between the two, as Hank tried bribing, threatening, and outright trying to kill Casey. This ultimately led to Voight being arrested by Antonio Dawson but he was released after making a deal with Internal Affairs and becoming Sergeant of Intelligence in the Chicago P.D. force.

While Casey and Voight still have their problems, they are slowly reaching neutral terms. This was seen when Voight saved Casey from a gunman in *Let Her Go*. At the end of Season 3, Hank informed Casey that his old friend Nesbitt is actually a crook who is trafficking women and asked for his help in bringing him down. Casey goes undercover which leads to Nesbitt getting caught. However, the FBI releases Nesbitt because he was their informant. Casey went to Voight and revealed his belief that Nesbitt may be playing both the traffickers and the feds, promising to do something about it if Voight doesn't. Voight takes his promise into consideration, secretly following Casey and arresting Nesbitt after he held Casey at gunpoint. Voight even congratulated him on becoming a father. In a crossover (CF 5x09, 4x09 of P.D.), Casey believed the conflict was behind them after Severide was nearly accused of committing a vehicular homicide.

## Trivia

* Casey's Badge Number is 5939.
* In *An Even Bigger Surprise*, Casey is promoted from Lieutenant to Captain.
* He wears the same jacket for four seasons.
* He is the only character to have an American flag on his turnout jacket.
* He's unable to do a decent Australian accent (he attempts to in 6x20 and 9x01).

## Appearances

* S1E12 8:30 PM
* S2E20 The Number of Rats
* S4E1 The Silos
* S4E9 Don't Bury This Case
* S5E16 Profiles
* S6E15 Good Men