Just one episode is left in Chicago P.D. Season 12 within the spring 2025 TV schedule, and true to kind, the penultimate episode set the stage for a finale the place one thing goes to have to vary for good. After the key investigation into Reid’s shady dealing received again to him, the Deputy Chief did what he’d been threatening: had Torres arrested, Burgess stripped of her new detective badge, and the Intelligence Unit disbanded, pending investigation. Voight clearly is not going to just accept the top of his unit, and govt producer/showrunner Gwen Sigan previewed how he will react.
One Chicago’s crime drama has a historical past of delivering intense penultimate episode, and the newest (which you’ll stream now with a Peacock subscription) put the entire workforce in scorching water for Voight’s feud in opposition to Reid. The finale, known as “Vows,” airs on Could 21, and sadly the title of the episode does not simply seek advice from one thing as candy because the Burzek wedding ceremony. The workforce will go off-book to proceed their efforts to take down Reid, whereas Burgess and Ruzek ponder laying aside their nuptials. A lot for that “friendship” provided by Reid!
After I spoke with the showrunner, I needed to ask: does Voight have a restrict to how a lot he can take from Reid earlier than falling again into some previous dangerous habits? Gwen Sigan shared:
That is the entire query of the finale, to me. Does he have a restrict? Has he developed? Has he type of grow to be this Voight 2.0, this Voight that I believe is softening up with Chapman and is his mortality otherwise because of the occasions of Season 11, and attempting to see if there’s extra. That was the place we began this season, and what you may see within the finale is coming again to this query of, is there extra for him?
Voight has definitely gone forwards and backwards about how a lot he is modified, and the showrunner solely had good issues to say about Jason Beghe and Shawn Hatosy as display screen companions earlier this 12 months. I am additionally intrigued by the point out of Voight’s “mortality.” I do not take that to imply that Voight goes to go the way in which of Olinsky and die, but it surely’s some good continuity from when he was shot in Tracy Spiridakos’ closing episode and hallucinated Olinsky with a cameo from Elias Koteas. Sigan continued:
And if there’s extra, that implies that he is greater than he thought he was, proper? He is a special particular person. That is the query we come again to within the finale, and also you simply see him and Reid type of up in opposition to one another and Reid testing that in Voight. The query is, the place will he find yourself.
I shared with the showrunner that I used to be stunned that I preferred Chapman and Voight as a duo in Season 12 as a lot as I do, and she or he defined why type of ally the ASA will probably be to him after he fairly actually shut her out on the finish of the earlier week’s penultimate episode:
We’ll see instantly within the finale her not permitting him to close her out, which I believe is nice. I believe she is such an excellent ally for him, as a result of she checks him, as a result of she does not let him get away with something. She’s not fearful of him. She’s by no means been intimidated by him. She simply sees him type of as all bark. She’s wonderful with it, and greater than that, I believe she cares about him. She desires to grasp him. She desires to grasp why he makes the selections that he makes, and she or he desires to push him additional.
The EP went on:
We’ll see her type of not letting him get away along with his typical ‘I will go do every thing alone and never contain anybody else and shield all people from it’ [approach]. We’ll see if she will be able to maintain on to him, is de facto the factor, and maintain him within the mild whereas he is attempting to combat in opposition to Reid.
Try the promo and make your finest guess as as to whether Voight can keep away from his previous dangerous habits or proceed to attempt to be his finest developed self:
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The Season 12 finale of Chicago P.D. airs on Wednesday, Could 21 at 10 p.m. ET on NBC, following the Season 13 finale of Chicago Hearth with two departing stars at 9 p.m. ET and the Season 10 finale of Chicago Med with a “powerhouse” efficiency at 8 p.m. ET. All three exhibits are additionally out there streaming on Peacock.