How ‘The Resident’ Season 5 Includes Nic After Emily VanCamp’s Exit From the Series
usmagazine.comNever really gone. Emily VanCamp may have bid her final farewell to The Resident, but the Fox drama wasn’t quite ready to say goodbye to Nic Nevins.During the midseason premiere — which aired on Tuesday, February 1 — Conrad (Matt Czuchry) was reunited with his late wife (VanCamp) in an emotional way when he encountered a young woman who was given Nic’s heart in a transplant.
Complications arose from the operation, but in the end, the patient’s life was saved. At the end of the episode, Conrad and his daughter listen to Nic’s heartbeat.Nic and Conrad finally got married and welcomed their baby girl, Georgina, at the end of season 4.
When season 5 returned in September 2021, there was a nine-month jump into the future and Nic was involved in a nasty car accident that left her brain dead.One month before the premiere of season 5, it was announced that VanCamp was leaving the series, on which she’d had a starring role since its 2018 debut.
The Revenge alum later addressed her exit, telling Deadline in October 2021 that her “priorities shifted” following the birth of her daughter with husband Josh Bowman.“I think there comes a moment in every woman’s life — in every person’s life — where it becomes less about work and more about family, and that’s what happened while I was making the show,” the Everwood alum explained. “Doing that many episodes in a different city and then you add COVID to that, most of us couldn’t see our families for almost a year.
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