After Chicago P.D. put Ruzek via the wringer within the final episode of February within the 2025 TV schedule, the One Chicago cop drama is about to revisit the tense dynamic between Deputy Chief Reid and Sgt. Voight. Reid, performed by Season 12 newcomer Shawn Hatosy, informed Voight again within the fall finale that he had an entire lot of dust on the Intelligence Unit, then proposed that they turn into “pals.” Forward of the brand new episode on NBC on March 5 and streaming subsequent day with a Peacock subscription, Hatosy spoke With CinemaBlend about what that friendship means from Reid’s viewpoint.
The most recent installment is named “Higher Good,” and can function Voight questioning Reid’s motives with a Violent Discount Initiative, which is being enacted in a group with gangs preventing for territory. That will sound like commonplace working process to get the Intelligence Unit on a case, however what’s not so commonplace is Reid having the means to blackmail Voight and Co… if he deems it crucial, anyway. After I chatted with Shawn Hatosy about how Reid sees the “friendship” with Voight, he shed some mild:
It is an attention-grabbing phrase, buddy, the best way that it is introduced. It is like, ‘Be my buddy after which do what I say.’ I feel it is an attention-grabbing dynamic between the 2, simply because we all know that Voight has a historical past of perhaps performing some questionable issues, so now he is matched up with a chief who’s enjoying with the variations of proper and incorrect and what aspect of it he is on. It is a distinctive friendship. I feel that they’re testing the boundaries of it. We see that in Episode 15 begin to occur, and additional down the street, it is gonna get much more fraught. [laughs] However thus far it is a fairly profitable friendship, I might say, a minimum of from Reid’s viewpoint.
In seasons previous, it would not have been shocking to see Voight pulling the identical sorts of sketchy strikes that Reid has been pulling in Season 12, which does make the dynamic simply that a lot juicier for longtime followers. The truth is, Voight very just lately reminded Atwater of his coverage of “inform me the reality so I can lie for you” as chief of the unit.
So, in mild of their friendship being fueled by dust and Reid stating within the promo for Episode 15 that he wants somebody he can belief, how a lot does the deputy chief really belief the sergeant? Shawn Hatosy answered that very query, saying:
I feel he totally trusts [Voight] simply due to the knowledge that Reid has on the group, and what occurred with Torres and the felony informant and the affair and the way they lined it up. Reid understands how a lot of a frontrunner that Voight is and the way wedded to his group he’s, so he’ll cease at nothing to guard his group. And I feel Reid is utilizing that and exploiting it.
The loyalty between the members of the Intelligence Unit normally pays off for them as they go above and past, with that occuring simply final week when Ruzek recruited his CPD pals to assist observe down Zoe’s household. Reid is profiting from it for his personal means, and it needs to be attention-grabbing to see if this implies Voight doing soiled work for him or Voight simply following his directions with out pushing again.
Whereas the connection between the characters is tense – to say the least – the actors appear to have a very good time filming the dynamic. Shawn Hatosy shared how one scene between him and Jason Beghe really needed to change because of the problems of a winter within the Windy Metropolis:
The final episode I did on Chicago P.D., it was minus 4. It was so chilly that we had a scene that was outdoors on the finish of the episode with me and Voight, and it was so chilly that they needed to put the scene in a automotive.
Tune in to NBC on Wednesday, March 5 at 10 p.m. ET for the “Higher Good” episode of Chicago P.D., with Shawn Hatosy’s return as Deputy Chief Reid. For a style of what is to return forward of the installment, take a look at the promo beneath:
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As at all times, Chicago P.D. wraps up NBC’s hit One Chicago Wednesday lineup at 10 p.m. ET, following Chicago Hearth at 9 p.m. ET and Chicago Med at 8 p.m. ET. The three exhibits make up a 3rd of the present nine-show Dick Wolf TV universe, though that whole will shrink with the cancellations of two FBI exhibits on CBS. I am not too fearful about any of One Chicago being cancelled, although; as of the tip of 2024, they had been NBC’s three top-rated scripted exhibits, simply forward of Regulation & Order: SVU.