When Doc fans last saw Scott Wolf‘s character, Dr. Richard Miller, he was getting fired from Westside Hospital — but is the actor coming back in season 2?
In a statement to Us Weekly, showrunners Barbie Kligman and Hank Steinberg said, “Scott’s Dr. Richard Miller was such an integral part of season 1 with such a rich and complicated history with Amy. Pretty sure that’s not the last we’ve seen of him …”
Doc, which returns to Fox on September 23 with an increased episode order, is inspired by the true story of a former chief of an emergency room who forgot the previous 12 years of their life following a car accident. In addition to Wolf, 57, the show stars Molly Parker, Omar Metwally, Jon Ecker, Amirah Vann, Anya Banerjee, Patrick Walker and Charlotte Fountain-Jardim. (Felicity Huffman was recently announced as a main cast member for season 2.)
As the audience already knows, season 1 ended with Amy (Parker) realizing that her colleague Richard (Wolf) was at fault for a patient’s death. She was about to bring up his mistake to her superiors but got in a crash that left her unable to remember the last eight years.
Richard confessed to his mistake in the finale, which ended his career at the hospital — for now. Wolf, for his part, previously spoke to Us about how Richard’s secret would drive his story line on the medical series.
“[My character on Doc] is my No. 1 favorite in terms of my enjoyment of the complexity,” Wolf told Us in January. “I’ve gotten to explore these different medical worlds playing doctors. But I’ve never had a more fun, interesting, complicated and sometimes painful character to play. And to be back working with Fox again after I started with Party of Five [in the ’90s], they are two of my favorite experiences by far. It is full circle in some fun ways.”
Wolf noted that he has enjoyed playing “a flawed human being,” adding, “It wasn’t like I had to figure out how to justify a bad guy doing bad things. This was a very good person who any of us could wind up being. But with his circumstances, he winds up in this terrible situation where a mistake has happened and his reaction to it is to just get protective.”
At the time, the actor, who is currently going through a divorce from estranged wife Kelley Wolf, teased how Doc would “constantly surprise” viewers.
“It is so well-written and I’m a huge fan of hospital shows, But obviously, this central premise is so interesting, and the character development is incredible. The whole point is to create characters and tell stories that engage people,” he continued. “Sometimes it can take time and the very first episode of a show can make you come away feeling like you only scratch the surface.”
Wolf concluded: “I didn’t know what direction they were going to head in all of them, but it’s amazing to read something and feel like I’ll play any character in this show.”
Doc returns to Fox Tuesday, September 23, at 9 p.m. ET. New episodes stream the next day on Hulu.
