Dr. Crockett Marcel (born Darioush Jahanbani) is a former attending physician in General Surgery and member of the board at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center. He was portrayed by Dominic Rains.
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Personality[]
Crockett started out as a hard-partying southern doctor who is a skilled surgeon, but wasn't always one to follow rules. He was occasionally seen keeping a bottle of alcohol in his hospital locker, as well as liberally indulging in alcohol at parties. He somewhat came down to earth after opening up to his co-workers about the untimely death of his young daughter Harper.
Biography[]
He immigrated to New Orleans, Louisiana when he was two years old. His family changed their last name to Marcel because it was popular in the region they were in and changed his name to Crockett because his father was a fan of Miami Vice and named him after the character Sonny Crockett.
The family spoke Farsi at home, allowing him to become fluent in it, and overtime he built up a Southern Cajun style accent fluent around the Gulf Coast.
He had a daughter named Harper who died of Leukemia shortly after her first birthday. Crockett donated bone marrow in an attempt to save her, but it was unsuccessful. Her death left a deep scar on Crockett and likely caused him to develop his cavalier attitude to life and his work, making him prone to taking risks and disinclined to form close relationships with those around him.
When Natalie Manning finds out about his daughter, he implores her to keep the knowledge to herself for fear of people looking at him differently.
Season 5[]
Never Going Back to Normal[]
Crockett treats Natalie and Will after they are attacked in Will's car by Tim Burke. He confronts Phillip Davis about secretly putting an engagement ring on Natalie's finger, which Phillip denies. Crockett counters that it was impossible for her to still have it on as it would have been removed upon her arrival in the ED. He remains suspicious, especially after talking it over with Connor, who mentions that Phillip asked for Connor's opinion on the engagement ring at an inappropriate time when his daughter was being prepped for heart surgery.
We're Lost In The Dark[]
Noah finds Crockett in an ED room giving himself IV fluids as a little "pick-me-up" after being moved from the night shift to the day shift. He and Ethan run out to an ambulance that has skidded off the road a few blocks from the hospital. He and Noah treat the patient extracted from the crashed ambulance, who is diagnosed with arterial stenosis. They disagree over the course of treatment, but Crockett convinces the patient to have bypass surgery. While operating, the power goes out. With Noah's help, they continue the surgery. He decides to perform the operation "off-pump" as the patient is not able to be put on bypass again, despite Noah's objections that it is too risky. Just as they successfully complete the procedure, the power returns. When Noah wants to apologize for some missteps during the procedure, Crockett instead compliments him on his skills, peaking Noah's interest in becoming a surgeon.
In the Valley of the Shadows[]
Crockett and April treat a newborn baby who is brought in by her mother, who is covered in blood. April is continually annoyed by Crockett's cavalier attitude, and decides to go over his head and call DCFS because she suspects there is more going on. She is vindicated when it is discovered that the baby does not belong to the woman who brought her in, but that the woman forcibly cut the baby out of another woman's stomach. After the mother is stabilized, an ICU nurse confides in April that Crockett found out the woman did not deliver the baby by illegally drawing her blood after giving her Ativan to put her to sleep, praising Crockett as a "badass."
Infection, Part II[]
Crockett and the rest of the ED staff deal with the influx of patients infected with the flesh-eating bacteria. He works closely with April, who comforts him after they lose multiple patients on the operating table.
Got a Friend in Me[]
Crockett manages to get on Ethan's nerves when he and Noah (who has started his general surgery residency) attempt to poach one of Ethan's patients. His cavalier attitude continues to raise the eyebrows of those around him.
Season 6[]
When Did We Begin to Change[]
He and Dr. Manning treat a young patient who is in heart failure due to the chemotherapy medicine she is taking for Leukemia. His work with Natalie is put under strain due to his personal history with Leukemia.
Those Things Hidden in Plain Sight[]
Daniel coaxes Crockett into a therapy session which he has been avoiding. They are interrupted when Anna calls her dad away to his ex-wife's Susan's house for an emergency. Susan is brought in and Crockett treats her for a stomach ulcer, commiserating with Daniel about ex-wives.
Do You Know the Way Home?[]
Crockett and Natalie have started to flirt. Natalie appears jealous when Crockett treats an old friend of his for a stab wound, but she comes around once the patient reveals that she is engaged and about to get married. At the end of the episode, Crockett and Natalie share an intimate moment on the rooftop balcony.
In Search of Forgiveness, Not Permission[]
Crockett and Natalie lay their jobs on the line to perform a risky, unauthorised surgery on a late stage cancer patient. After the surgery was successful and they aren't fired they both go back to Natalie's place and hook up for the first time.
Season 7[]
You Can't Always Trust What You See[]
Crockett wants to treat a patient named Lois Durand who is suffering from heart failure, but discovers her medical file has been sealed by Kender Pharma after they pulled their clinical trial from the hospital. He begrudingly enlists Dr. Halstead's help due to his familiarity with the patient. When the patient's condition worsens, Dr. Halstead disagrees on the appropriate procedure, which turns out to be the right call and Crockett apologizes. At the end of the episode, they briefly reminisce about Natalie.
Season 8[]
Season 9[]
Row Row Row Your Boat on a Rocky Sea[]
Crockett arrives to Gaffney by helicopter with a 10-year-old boy named Brice Morgan who was involved in a multi-car pileup with his parents. An x-ray reveals that the boy has been internally decapitated. Crockett enlists Sam Abrams to perform a risky surgery to reattach the boy's skull to his spine. With the help of OR 2.0, which Crockett has been fine-tuning to increase its reliability, they eventually succeed.
This Town ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us[]
Crockett is assigned to supervise impulsive new resident Zola Ahmad, who immediately lives up to her name when she decides to decompress a patient's neck hematoma outside an OR, and later decides to leave the ED in the middle of her shift to check up on a group of refugees who may be carrying an infectious disease. Crockett tells Sharon Goodwin that Zola reminds her a lot of Will Halstead. Crockett and Zola also deal with the aggressive husband of the trauma victim who is biased against illegal immigrants.
What Happens in the Dark Always Comes to Light[]
On his first day as a Member of the Board, Crockett gets roped into performing a surgery on a patient with terminal stomach cancer by Zola Ahmad. When the patient's insurance company denies coverage, Crockett shares his grievances with Zola, who then decides to take matters into her own hands and quotes him on social media in an attempt to publicly shame the insurance company. This embarrasses Crockett on his first day as a Board member, but the social media post goes viral and leads to thousands of others, including doctors, airing their grievances with the company. Ultimately, the Board decides to make prior authorization an important topic in their upcoming negotiations with insurance companies. Despite the apparent win, Crockett cautions Zola to not be too quick to burn bridges.
These Are Not the Droids You Are Looking For[]
Crockett banters with his good friend Loren Johnson about whether to have a barbecue or a Cajun fish feast at their upcoming party. After a patient needs an emergency operation to remove a piece of bristle from a barbecue fork that accidentally ended up in the patient's stomach, the two decide in favor of the fish feast.
I Make a Promise, I Will Never Leave You[]
Zola enlists Crockett's help on a patient whose appendix needs to be removed. When the patient is slow to wake up after the surgery, Zola administers a dose of a medication called Exsomadex, which is supposed to help him wake up faster. When the patient has a severe allergic reaction and Zola discovers that the manufacturer has not been forthcoming in disclosing the risks, she implores Crockett to convince the Board to discontinue the use of Exsomadex. Crockett makes the proposal to the Board but they refuse his request.
Season 10[]
In the tenth season premiere, it's revealed that Crockett has moved to Boston for a fresh start.
Trivia[]
- He has done a Surgical Oncology rotation in August 2019, (S5 E1).
Memorable Quotes[]
(to Noah): "It's time to heal with steel!"
(to Natalie): "My birth name is Darioush. Darioush Jahanbani. My parents changed me and my sister's name to make it easier on us in school. Yeah, they picked Marcel 'cause it was popular in New Orleans."
Gallery[]
Videos[]
Appearances[]
Chicago Fire[]
- S8E4 Infection, Part I
- S10E1 Mayday
- S10E6 Dead Zone
- S12E8 All the Dark
Chicago PD[]
- S7E4 Infection, Part III