EXCLUSIVE: After 13 seasons, unique solid member LaRoyce Hawkins is leaving the NBC police procedural as a sequence common, sources inform Deadline. He’ll return to wrap up his character Kevin Atwater’s storyline within the first two or three episodes of the upcoming Season 14, we hear.
Chicago P.D. is at present casting a brand new sequence common, a Black cop who’s an agent of chaos.
A rep for Wolf Leisure, which produces the One Chicago franchise with Common Tv, declined remark.
Forged modifications after every season of Chicago reveals have change into commonplace. Forward of Season 13, Toya Turner left Chicago P.D. after taking part in Officer Kiana Cook dinner for one season. Arienne Mandi joined as a brand new sequence common, nabbing the position of Officer Eva Imani for Season 13. Hawkins joins fellow P.D. unique solid members Jesse Lee Soffer and Tracy Spiridakos who lately exited the cop drama.
Hawkins debuted as Atwater within the Chicago P.D. sequence premiere in 2014 and has been a relentless fan-favorite throughout the present’s 13 seasons. As a part of Hank Voight’s (Jason Beghe) Intelligence Unit, Atwater served alongside fellow elite officers that almost all lately included Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger), Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati), Dante Torres (Benjamin Levy Aguilar), and the beforehand talked about Imani. As a good-looking, sincere, and dependable character, followers usually mentioned Atwater’s private life, with the hopes that he would discover somebody equally as fantastic to cool down with.
And whereas he beforehand received shut, issues by no means received too severe. That’s till Season 13 Episode 5, when Atwater reconnects with Officer Tasha Fox (Karen Obilom), a platonic good friend from his previous now turned lover. Nevertheless, the potential love connection is straight away challenged as Tasha revealed that night time that she is transferring to Miami for a brand new job in per week. Earlier than Atwater wakes up the following morning, she’s gone. However she leaves behind an orange, as a nod to her new residence within the Sunshine State, with an open invitation for Atwater to hitch her.
Because the season continued, Atwater struggled with reaching out to Tasha. He would begin to write a textual content saying that he misses her, however by no means hit ship. He contemplated with what to say and whether or not he ought to attain out in any respect, however there was a pull between them that was plain. Later in Episode 11, Fox is again in Chicago and at Atwater’s door. She’s pregnant with their first baby. If Atwater finally ends up leaving the Windy Metropolis for Miami, it might not be a shock.