Saying goodbye to Lieutenant Matthew Casey — for now. Jesse Spencer exited Chicago Fire during the 200th episode on Wednesday, October 20, episode, with his character choosing to move to Oregon in order to take care of the sons of his former best friend, who had died in a fire during the show’s first season.Behind the scenes, Spencer, 42, decided he wanted to exit the NBC drama during the break between seasons 9 and 10.“I’ve been doing TV for a long time.
I added it up, and I think this year is my 18th year of network television straight since I went straight from House into Chicago Fire.
We were coming up to the 200th episode so I called [creator] Derek [Haas], made a personal decision and broke the news that I thought it was time to leave
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