Maggie Lockwood is a charge nurse in the Emergency Department at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center. She is portrayed by Marlyne Barrett.
Biography[]
Maggie's mother was a midwife, and she grew up around medical settings. When she was 16, Maggie got pregnant and gave up her daughter (Vanessa Taylor), viewing herself unfitted to be a parent but she slowly regretted her choice over the twenty years that followed. She was formally married to Ben Campbell.
Family[]
She has a sister, Denise Lockwood, and another unnamed sibling.
She once took her niece to a Justin Bieber concert. She has a cousin who is a contractor.
Personality[]
Maggie is extremely dedicated to her job and loyal to those who work under her, but she runs the department with a no-nonsense attitude.
Season 1[]
Derailed[]
Maggie coordinates the treatment of an influx of victims from an elevated train derailment. At the end of the episode, she and April are seen putting together a crib for their pregnant widow colleague Natalie.
Guilty[]
An injured drunk driver is brought into the ED, along with the police officer he hit. The partner of the police officer demands Dr. Rhodes draw a blood-alcohol sample before he goes up to surgery. Connor asks for the patient's consent as per hospital policy, but he refuses. Maggie tells the officer that they are in the business of saving lives and Connor takes the patient up to surgery. The police officer then places Maggie under arrest for obstruction of justice.
Later, Maggie is released on bail and Connor picks her up. In the car they discuss how the justice system is unfair.
Season 2[]
Natural History[]
Maggie's sister Denise briefly loses her vision and has a car accident. Dr. Halstead informs her that she has prostate cancer, revealing that Denise is a transgender woman and that she elected not to have her prostate removed.
Denise and Maggie bond during the episode and work through some of their issues. Maggie misses her brother but accepts Denise the way she is now.
Mirror Mirror[]
The officer who arrested her in Guilty is brought in with severe injuries. Maggie is cautious over her approach, especially as the officer's husband and other police officers do not want her near her after the arrest. Trudy Platt asks Ms. Goodwin to keep Maggie away. However, Maggie refuses, saying that she won't let this interfere with how she works but April ultimately takes over. As an organ donor, the officer is kept on life support until the compatible recipients are found. The husband eventually shows up before his wife is taken to surgery and taken off life support with a necklace that belonged to her, Maggie tells him he can stay with his wife through surgery. Maggie convinces Goodwin and the patient's husband to let her back on her case, so she can get closure.
Season 3[]
Season 4[]
Season 5[]
Never Going Back To Normal[]
Following donation of her kidney to a woman who then developed cancer, Maggie gets a mammogram and learns that she has metastatic adenocarcinoma. She needs further tests to see where the cancer has spread to, as well as a lumpectomy with chemo and/or radiation, or else a mastectomy.
We're Lost In The Dark[]
Maggie has her first round of chemotherapy at East Mercy. She returns to work, explaining away her absence as a vacation. She guides the fire department paramedics who are called in after a power outage and re-organizes patients already in the ED. Sharon advises her to pace herself. When Will orders one of his patients to be isolated because of a possible infectious disease, Sharon orders her to remove herself from the case due to her being immunocompromised from her chemotherapy, but she refuses. She eventually becomes unwell from overstretching herself, but is able to recover.
In the Valley of the Shadows[]
Maggie continues to push herself beyond her limit and takes it out on her new pupil Paula who has been assigned to shadow her. Paula is eventually driven to quit, and after pressure from Goodwin she decides to start training April as her second in command. Sharon also convinces her to continue her cancer treatment at Gaffney, saying she will receive better care than at East Mercy.
Infection: Part II[]
Maggie is sent home by Sharon, who does not want her around when multiple patients suffering from the flesh-eating bacteria are brought in due to Maggie being immunocompromised.
Got a Friend in Me[]
Maggie has started to lose her hair due to her chemotherapy and starts to wear a wig. When she is discovered in the chemotherapy ward by CeCe she is initially displeased, but CeCe convinces her to share her condition with her colleagues. Outside the hospital, she removes her wig in front of April, Doris and Monique, revealing her balding head.
Season 6[]
When Did We Begin to Change[]
Maggie coordinates the treatment of COVID and non-COVID patients in the ED.
Those Things Hidden in Plain Sight[]
Maggie consoles Will when he is passed over for the position of head of the ED in favor of Ethan.
Do You Know the Way Home?[]
Maggie attempts to reign in Will when he becomes overly eager to enroll his patient in his new clinical trial.
For the Want of a Nail[]
Maggie decides to reconnect with her biological daughter Vanessa Taylor.
Season 7[]
You Can't Always Trust What You See[]
Maggie joins Goodwin and the rest of the ED staff in welcoming back Dr. Halstead. She continues to struggle with having to keep her distance from Vanessa. She breaks her rule when she comforts Vanessa after her first time pronouncing a patient dead.
Season 8[]
Season 9[]
Row Row Row Your Boat on a Rocky Sea[]
Maggie helps coordinate the care for a large influx of patients involved in a multi-car pileup. During the episode she is frustrated to receive constant reminders of her husband Ben and what a great person he is. At the end of the episode she reveals that Ben has asked for a divorce.
This Town ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us[]
Maggie and Ben attempt mediation for their divorce and quarrel over who gets to keep their cat Jasper, with Maggie eventually storming out. Maggie is instrumental in convincing Leanne Archer to not come between the kidney transplant between her son Sean and her ex-husband Dean by having a conversation with her about her current divorce from Ben. At the end of the episode, Maggie gives Ben the cat, saying he was right about who should get to keep him.
What Happens in the Dark Always Comes to Light[]
Maggie is confused when a woman lures her depressed husband into the ED under false pretenses because she is afraid he will hurt himself. When the husband finds out he has the beginnings of pancreatic cancer, he asks his wife for a divorce, prompting Maggie to become emotional over her own divorce from Ben. She is consoled by Daniel Charles who, as a self-proclaimed "expert" on divorce, reassures her that crying is not unusual.
These Are Not the Droids You Are Looking For[]
Maggie helps Zola Ahmad obtain a blood test on one of her patients from an outside company because the patient's insurance will not cover him. She quickly realizes this was a slippery slope and the two resolve not to do it again.
I Make a Promise, I Will Never Leave You[]
Maggie has received her divorce papers and is looking to get them notarized.
Notes and Trivia[]
- She played the scarecrow in her middle school's rendition of The Wizard of Oz. (What a Tangled Web We Weave)
- Her uncle owns a farm. (Those Times You Have to Cross the Line)
- She knows American Sign Language. (Look Closely and You Might Hear the Truth)
- She is also overprotective of Jay Halstead, Matthew Casey and Kelly Severide whenever she sees them hurt on a gurney.
- Among the sweet things her ex-husband Ben did for her was making sure she took her vitamins every morning (This Town ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us)
Memorable Quotes[]
- (to Connor): "Nothing happens in my kingdom that I don't take responsibility for."
Gallery[]
Appearances[]
Season 1 | ||||
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Derailed | iNO | Fallback | Mistaken | Malignant |
Bound | Saints | Reunion | Choices | Clarity |
Intervention | Guilty | Us | Hearts | Inheritance |
Disorder | Withdrawal | Timing |
Season 9 | ||||
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Row Row Row Your Boat on a Rocky Sea | This Town ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us | What Happens in the Dark Always Comes to Light | These Are Not the Droids You Are Looking For | I Make a Promise, I Will Never Leave You |
I Told Myself That I was Done With You | Step On A Crack and Break Your Mother's Back | A Penny For Your Thoughts, Dollar For Your Dreams | ||
Chicago Fire[]
Season 4[]
- Two Ts (4x16)
Season 5[]
- That Day (5x06)
- Lift Each Other (5x07)
- Some Make It, Some Don't (5x09)
- Trading In Scuttlebutt (5x13)
- Deathtrap (5x15)
- Telling Her Goodbye (5x16)
Season 6[]
- A Man's Legacy (6x07)
Season 7[]
- All the Proof (7x06)
Season 8[]
- Infection, Part I (8x04)
Chicago PD[]
Season 3[]
- Justice (3x21)
- Start Digging (3x23)
Season 4[]
- The Silos (4x01)
- All Cylinders Firing (4x03)
- Big Friends, Big Enemies (4x04)