Spoiler Alert: The next reveals main plot factors from tonight’s Chicago P.D.’s Season 12 finale.
NBC‘s Chicago P.D. followers are in for a double deal with tonight because the Season 12 finale addresses two main plot factors left unresolved for 2 fortunately ever afters.
Let’s begin with Voight (Jason Beghe) and his tumultuous relationship with Reid (Shawn Hatosy), which heats up and boils over in tonight’s episode, “Vows.” I guarantee you, the vows weren’t between Voight and Reid, however we are able to focus on that later.
Voight is fed up with Reid and launches a full-on assault in “Open Casket.” Voight isn’t right here for the intimidation, and he gained’t have his staff threatened. The time is now to convey Reid down, and Voight is prepared to do no matter it takes to get the closure he wants. Therein lies the issue.
Voight has come a great distance from the person and chief followers obtained to know in earlier seasons. He’s put in exhausting work, doing issues by the ebook, and specializing in his household on the twenty first District. There’s even been a possible love curiosity making herself obtainable, regardless that she is aware of he’s an advanced man. When Reid enters the image, he challenges Voight at each nook, pushing him to the sting of no return. Studying the staff’s massive secret that Dante (Benjamin Levy Aguilar) had slept along with his CI, and that Burgess (Marina Squerciati) coated it up, put Reid ready the place Voight needed to do no matter he requested or danger their jobs. However his compliance wouldn’t final endlessly.
Shawn Hatosy as Deputy Chief Reid
When he discovered final week that Voight was investigating his soiled dealings, Reid stored his finish of the discount. He arrested and suspended Dante and Burgess, then dismantled Voight’s staff. At this level, Voight is unstoppable. He’s determined to decimate this man who’s ruining their lives. No stone goes unturned, however the boss is confronted with a number of challenges. Somebody he was relying on to assist expose who precisely Reid is dies in an unlucky accident.
Alongside the way in which, ASA Chapman (Sara Bues) virtually begs Voight to let her assist, however he isn’t listening. He is aware of he has a restricted period of time to get Reid, and each authorized avenue he’s tried has fallen by way of. Because the saying goes, a cornered canine will chunk. And that’s precisely the place we discover Voight within the finale. So, he orchestrates a scenario the place a useless drug boss’s son kills Reid in retaliation for the homicide of his father. Voight is clear, and the staff is freed from him ultimately. Or is he?
Voight might have cleaned issues as much as look as if the sequence of unlucky occasions simply got here to be, and never like he was the puppet grasp pulling all of the strings. However at what price? To begin with, Chapman wasn’t simply taking a look at him, however she was seeing him for who he’s. She figures out all of the unlawful manipulations he used to beat his foe, and he or she shouldn’t be impressed. The air is thick with lies and schemes, and never even Voight can get out of this. In truth, he doesn’t even strive.
Showrunner Gwen Sigan teases the place Voight goes from right here.
“I imagine this one’s gonna have a huge impact on Voight — he was evolving, altering over the previous couple of seasons, and we set out this 12 months to check that evolution; simply how a lot had he modified? Had been his instincts nonetheless there? What was he prepared to surrender to fulfill these instincts if all else failed? Within the finale, we noticed him succumb. I’m hoping subsequent season we are able to discover a contemporary approach to discover the emotional fallout and the fee for him,” she informed Deadline through electronic mail.
Concerning his relationship with Chapman, she added, “Voight actually crossed an ethical line that she will’t help. He additionally made it very clear to her the boundary of their relationship. There could be no ‘extra,’ and he or she heard him this time. I believe Chapman at all times knew on some stage that Voight is incapable of an intimate relationship, however she cared for him anyway — she was prepared to provide greater than obtain till that finale. Transferring ahead, their relationship goes to be sophisticated/messy — it must be skilled now, however I don’t assume Voight was even totally acutely aware of how a lot she was there for him and what it meant to him. He’ll be feeling that change and lack of companionship for positive.”
Sounds extra like a setback than the rest, so hopefully, Voight needs to get again to being the person he grew to be and never be outlined by his errors.
Completely happy ending #1.
(l-r) Marina Squerciati as Officer Kim Burgess, Patrick John Flueger as Officer Adam Ruzek
The spotlight of the night time’s finale was the long-awaited Burgess and Ruzek nuptials that went off with out a hitch. Issues had been near being canceled with the bride underneath investigation and Reid calling the pictures, however all the pieces labored out because it ought to. My solely grievance is that we didn’t spend extra time with them on their massive day. It felt like all the pieces went so quick! OG readers have been ready for this marriage ceremony for a lot of seasons, and it felt like a tiny blip.
The celebration was a little bit of a crossover, there have been characters there from different reveals, like Mouch (Christian Stolte), who escorted his lovely spouse Trudy (Amy Morton) to the celebration.
Concerning their future, Sigan shared, “Transferring ahead, it will likely be enjoyable to write down the brand new dynamic of a married couple — it’s certainly one of only a few we’ve had on the present; I believe that steadiness and dedication shall be good to write down.”
