

In tonight’s Station 19, Vic confronts Dean and makes him admit that he is considering moving to Oakland to expand Crisis One into California. Instead, it was Dean who didn’t make it.Įarlier this season, just as Dean was ready to profess his love for Victoria Hughes, newbie Theo Ruiz made his move and the pair have been dating since. In typical Grey’s fashion, the promo served red herrings, alluding to Ben, Sullivan or little Farouk possibly perishing. It will be powerful, it will be deep, and it will be courageous because Oak is all of those things.”ĭean’s death was foreshadowed by ABC’s ominous promo for tonight’s Station 19-Grey’s Anatomy crossover which teased a massive explosion and warned that “Not Everyone Will Survive.” “Oak has an expansive spirit and was ready for and craving new artistic horizons -and I truly can’t wait to see what he does next. I am heartbroken by the loss of Dean Miller and that I no longer get to write for Oak,” Station 19 and Grey’s Anatomy executive producer/showrunner Krista Vernoff said. “I am a better artist and human for having had the opportunity to work with Okieriete Onaodowan. That carried over to Season 5 where Dean’s final arc revolved around Crisis One, the mental health-focused program he spearheaded. The events of summer 2020 shook him to the core and prompted him to take action. As a Black man and a firefighter, Dean felt the burden of responsibility for an entire community on his shoulders as he fought against a system he was a part of. The Hamilton star agreed to come back for the first several episodes of Season 5 to wrap up the story of his character.ĭean has come a long way since his early days as an eligible bachelor after the birth of his daughter Pruitt Arike Miller, named after Andy’s (Jaina Lee Ortiz) father Pruitt (Miguel Sandoval), who was the first major Station 19 character to die in Season 3.ĭean had an emotional storyline in Season 4, which reflected the racial reckoning following the death of George Floyd.
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& Mini-Rooms - ATX TV FestivalĪccording to sources, Onaodowan approached the producers with a request to leave the series at the end of last season. See what else is premiering soon with our 2023 TV schedule."We're Mad": Julie Plec, Zoanne Clack & Others Discuss WGA Strike, A.I. It's unknown when Station 19 will return to ABC, but you can rewatch the first six seasons with a Hulu subscription. Even with Vernoff stepping away from the drama, it’s likely there’s more where that came from, as Zoanne Clack and Peter Paige take over as co-showrunners for Season 7. Station 19 fans have already dealt with plenty of tragedy, given both the dangerous nature of firefighting and showrunner Krista Vernoff’s tendency to take her characters down a dark path. Most tragic of all, however, was that Miller’s young daughter Pru was effectively orphaned. (Image credit: ABC) Dean Miller (Season 5)ĪBC heavily promoted the fact that someone would not survive the Station 19 and Grey’s Anatomy crossover event that started with the firefighter drama’s “Things We Lost in the Fire.” The team responded to a ruptured gas line that had caused an explosion in a Seattle neighborhood, and tragedy struck for Dean Miller (original cast member Okieriete Onaodowan) who was ultimately lost in the fire, or rather, in a second explosion.įans were destroyed over the loss of the beloved character, and the effects of Miller’s death are still echoing through the halls of the fire station, particularly for Jack and Vic, the latter of whom suffered a heart attack in the aftermath. She said Rigo “threw a as we were about to discharge him.” While Rigo’s death was revealed at the end of “Poor Wandering One,” it wasn’t until the episode of Grey’s Anatomy that followed that Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) explained what had even happened. This death would go on to haunt Jack for years - literally, Rigo’s ghost stalked the spiraling firefighter in Season 6 - but fans were possibly more upset with the messed up way Station 19 handled it.
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It was thought he’d make a full recovery however, he died just before being discharged from the hospital. There was an explosion, and Rigo was badly injured.


That was apparently the reason why Rigo didn’t listen to Jack in “Satellite of Love” when he tried to stop Rigo from using a fire extinguisher on what turned out to be liquid oxygen.

Tensions were high around the fire station after Rigo Vasquez (Rigo Sanchez) discovered that his wife Eva had slept with Jack Gibson (Grey Damon). (Image credit: ABC) Rigo Vasquez (Season 3)
