When One Chicago followers first met Hank Voight (Jason Beghe), it was because the antagonist on Chicago Hearth. Then got here alongside Chicago P.D., and we’ve watched him develop — not fully — from the person he was who did some shady, darkish issues. However he returned to that darkness in a serious means within the Season 12 finale.
This season of Chicago P.D. noticed Intelligence coping with a corrupt deputy chief, Reid (Shawn Hatosy), who, within the penultimate episode, organized for the homicide of a drug supplier whom Voight was engaged on flipping after which disbanded the unit and put them beneath investigation. Within the finale, Voight revealed the place Reid can be to the drug supplier’s son, who then shot and killed the deputy chief.
“We type of all the time knew that when Shawn signed on that it’d be a one-year factor, and what we actually envisioned that character as was this funhouse mirror to Voight as a result of that’s actually what we wished him to be. And the thought was he was going to be testing Voight at each single flip and type of testing, has Voight modified? Has he developed? Who’s he now?” showrunner Gwen Sigan defined to TV Insider.
“And to type of actually check that, we wanted to take it type of as darkish as we might make it and make the stakes as excessive as we might, which you see within the penultimate [episode]. That is the primary time that we’re principally kicked out of our places of work and are advised that it’s all going to be taken aside and principally stripped for items. So it introduced Voight to that place, and it felt like we wished to get him to his darkest place and see if he would take the bait and clearly his character did,” she continued. (The one one that might’ve stopped him? The late Olinsky.)
Voight put his plan into motion realizing that it might “value” him Chapman (Sara Bues). When the ADA tries to speak to him within the finale, he tells her, “I don’t get extra.” Then, as Reid was dying, he advised the sergeant, “You’re worse than me.”
For Sigan, “Reid’s assertion is one thing the viewers can query. It’s one thing that there’s numerous alternative ways to have a look at it. Is it true? Is it not true? And I believe it’s going to be rattling round in Voight’s unconscious for some time.”
Now, there’s a query of how that’s going to have an effect on him going ahead, and that’s one thing that shall be explored in Season 13. “Who is aware of what this man’s going to rise up to subsequent 12 months. I imply, he’s undoubtedly in an fascinating place and to see how the workforce goes to react to that as a result of the workforce has totally different relationships with him now than years in the past. So how is that going to all work out subsequent season?” asks Sigan.
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Chicago P.D., Season 13, Fall 2025, Wednesdays, 10/9c, NBC