Chicago Fire season 14 uses its October 8, 2025, episode “Primary Search” to give Darren Ritter ( Daniel Kyri ) a specific, character‑driven exit while setting up the next phase of Firehouse 51. The hour explains why he leaves, quotes the people who push him to choose love, and shows who is now carrying the load at 51 — all while continuing a paramedic case about Karl and Laura and introducing new dynamics for Stella Kidd and Kelly Severide.

The storyline makes clear what happened and when. In the wake of Dwayne’s gunshot injury in New York, Ritter flies out, meets Dwayne’s family, returns to Chicago, and then decides he’s “flying back to New York right after shift,” after he “already cleared it with Kidd and Pascal.” He frames it as “just an extended furlough,” but Violet Mikami coun

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