Scurti

Scurti says not to expect a warm and fuzzy ending for these old friends.

Rescue Me's John Scurti on the Final Episodes: "Lou Steps Back Up" 2011

"After all this kind of plays out, Lou steps back up," Scurti says.

Rescue Me's John Scurti on the Final Episodes: "Lou Steps Back Up" 2011

"When you look at Lou in that scene, he won't let the emotion in," Scurti says.

Rescue Me Postmortem: Creators Talk Lou's Heroism and Tommy's Happy Ending 2011

What's keeping Lou going, Scurti says, is being able to do the job he loves.

Rescue Me's John Scurti on the Final Episodes: "Lou Steps Back Up" 2011

Signing the guest-star book: Rescue Me's John Scurti, last seen covering his friends in ashes and becoming Tommy's new ghost companion in the series finale, checks in on Fox's House 9/8c as a patient convinced he has diabetes. ...

Critic's Guide to Monday TV: Farewell to Regis, a Diane Sawyer "Get," and More! 2011

"Knowing that I had to march through that church and stand in front of all those coffins, I was afraid that I was going to lose it, because it happens to be the absolute last scene that we ever shot of Rescue Me," Scurti says.

Rescue Me Postmortem: Creators Talk Lou's Heroism and Tommy's Happy Ending 2011

Rescue Me's John Scurti on the final episodes: "Lou steps back up"

Rescue Me Postmortem: Creators Talk Lou's Heroism and Tommy's Happy Ending 2011

Lou John Scurti, making the most of his swan song delivers a stirring eulogy to his fallen brethren in the wake of last week's cataclysmic fire — except this isn't the real funeral.

Finale Review: Rescue Me 2011

Scurti, who expressed some displeasure with the amount of food-related jokes in the final season, was thrilled with Lou's heroic swan song.

Rescue Me Postmortem: Creators Talk Lou's Heroism and Tommy's Happy Ending 2011

And all of the guys of 62 Truck hilariously take parts of Lou's John Scurti physical so he can get an otherwise-unattainable clean bill of health.

Rescue Me's Final Season: Can Tommy Gavin Survive? 2011