Chicago PD Season 2 Episode 15

Did Burgess get promoted to Intelligence?

Is Burgess now part of the Intelligence team? She stepped up the wardrobe and when asked what she did, she smiled.

She definitely deserves it. Maybe she should have called for back-up first, but Intelligence are always going in before back-up. Roman kept trying again and again to keep Burgess safe, but in the end it was Burgess who saved them both.

Burgess has always been a good cop, but she’s never been this good. When faced with a really bad situation, she was able to think quickly on her feet. She did a lot of fighting with the bad guys. I didn’t think she had it in her to come out on top. It’s not like she’s had to fight like that before. She was really thinking out of the box to get them through this, she used a pen to kill one of them.

This was such an incredible episode. Burgess wasn’t so sure about Roman, until she saw how her getting shot affected him and then they bonded. And she wasn’t about the leave him to die. That guy planned on killing them both. Roman was going to sacrifice himself so Burgess could live and take them down.

This was probably the most intense episode I’ve ever seen from ‘Chicago P.D.’ and that’s saying a lot. After every obstacle they faced there was another. The writers kept us on our toes the whole way through.

I loved the shots of Roman struggling to help Burgess. He was clearly hurt and just about unable to do anything, but he kept pulling himself up and trying anyways. Between the way it was shot and Brian Geraghty’s performance, it was just superb. You really got a sense of how hard Roman was trying to protect Burgess.

I don’t blame her for falling apart afterwards. That was a very intense and emotional day.

Can we also take a moment to appreciate that it was a woman that saved the day. I enjoy when Erin is kicking butt and it’s really nice to have another strong woman on the show. It’s really nice for girls to look up to. Not saying that every girl has to become a cop now, but girls can be good cops too.

It wasn’t just Burgess that saved the day. If Ruzek wasn’t constantly calling Burgess, she would have had one more man to get through before getting her and Roman out. Ruzek had a really bad feeling. He wanted to go check it out alone, but Voight took the team. Voight likes to protect his own and clearly he conceders Burgess one of his own.

Intelligence didn’t see much action this week, but we did have some nice Jay and Erin moments.

Intelligence had been having a very slow day. They even had to get taser certified, where each of them were tasered. Erin even got to taser Jay.

Jay and Erin were getting a little too flirty in the office this week. If they want to keep their cover, they will need to tone down the flirting at work. Someone is going to catch on.

It was really sweet Jay talking about retirement plans with Erin. It may be a little too early for that though. I mean they still have to get Voight’s approval. And I don’t mean to have an in house romantic relationship. Voight may or may not be Erin’s father, but he certainly treats her like his daughter and cares for her like she is his daughter. If Voight doesn’t approve of Jay, they won’t end up together. Lets hope that Voight will give them his blessing. Though if he finds out they are hiding it from him, that won’t work in their favor.

Next week Antonio goes undercover and it may just turn him into a criminal. Take a look at the promo:

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The episode didn’t take long to get down to business.

This was an exceptionally good episode of ‘Chicago P.D.’. The intensity level is always high on this show, but this week it was just done so well.

It didn’t take long for the action to begin. Erin and Jay were taking a look at the suspect her mom tipped them off to. They had no idea what they were walking into. They followed the man and caught him in the act of robbing a check exchange. They blocked the door with their car and went in the other way. Erin and Jay were faced with bulletproof glass, so they used tear gas. The man tried to go out the other way with the hostage, but couldn’t because of the car, so he came back and Jay got a shot at him.

The victim, Sarah, informed them that the burglar had her husband and son.

Burgess and Roman headed to the woman’s house, but the two were already gone.

We get a little breather as Antonio’s old friend, Gina, informs them of the case. She’s been working on catching the duo for a while in Robbery Homicide. The man they have in custody, Nick Vosh, isn’t the only one working the check exchanges. Him and his partner are taking the manager’s families hostage. The more violent one was still on the lose and had already killed a manager’s wife.

This was all just in the beginning of the episode.

Erin finds out that there’s a reward for catching these men and asked her mother if she knew anything about the reward, Bunny said no.

The suspect escapes and the whole department comes together to hunt him down

All of Intelligence and Burgess and Roman were working very hard to find the missing man and son. Olinsky and Ruzek find the truck, but it’s too late. It’s sunk at the bottom of the river.

Olinsky asked Ruzek if he’s ever had to inform the family member before.

“That’s the one thing I didn’t want to learn on this job,” Ruzek said.

It was a very heartbreaking scene as Olinsky told Sarah that her husband and son were dead.

“How can a human being do that to another human being?” Sarah asked.

“Some men don’t deserve to be walking the earth,” Olinsky replied, but would later regret.

When Voight and Erin go to question Nick, you can see Voight rubbing off on Erin. They take the suspect outside to interrogate him, but the doctor tried to stop them by saying the patient wasn’t up for questioning. Erin said he was fine.

They toss the suspect in the snow and Voight puts his foot in the guy’s face and they get their answers.

This leads to them chasing down Jared Miko at a hotel. Antonio fought the suspect hand to hand until Jay punched Jared down and put a gun on him. It was a great fight, very brutal. The suspect was much bigger than Antonio, but he held his own.

Unfortunately, the suspect was short lived in custody. He took another inmate’s bracelet and snapped his neck. He was released mistakenly as the other inmate.

Voight goes back to Nick and finds out exactly where the suspect will be.

The team is moving in on their man.

This is when things really get good.

The whole team is chasing the man down, including Burgess and Roman. The man started firing at them and Roman pushed Burgess back. Intelligence came in behind them and Ruzek made sure Burgess was okay and then they split up to try to catch the man from two sides.

I just loved the team work. It’s really a team effort catching these criminals. And each intense scene up to this point has shown that incredible team work.

The scene where Burgess, Antonio and Ruzek were following Jared and shooting back at him is incredible. They are moving at a slow, deliberate rate. They move up and hide behind the next thing they can find. It was such an intense scene, because the intensity level is high, but the movement is slow.

They catch the man and Antonio just started punching him before putting the cuffs on. That’s not usually Antonio’s style, but he did get beaten up pretty badly by the guy before.

Antonio goes on a date with his old colleague as he starts to move on.

Just when you think the case is closed, Sarah comes out of nowhere and shot the suspect. Olinsky’s words rang too true in her ears and she couldn’t let the man live. I did not see that coming at all. When Olinsky found out Sarah shot the suspect because of his words, it appeared to weigh heavy on him.

Things all came back around to Bunny though. According to Jared, Bunny knew what they were doing and was charging them double for the trucks and asked for triple. When she couldn’t get the money from the criminals, she went to Erin so she could get the reward.

“I’d take a bullet just to come over to your house tonight,” Erin says to Jay.

She owes a bad man $30,000 and was hoping to pay most of that off with the $25,000 reward, but because of her suspected involvement with the case, the check exchanges won’t pay.

Voight stepped in and took care of Bunny’s debt, but he has a price. He wants her to stay out of Erin’s life. Voight sure does care about Erin.

Erin and Jay need to come clean to Voight. He’s done so much for her and he’s going to be hurt when he finds out Erin’s been keeping it from him. He’s really been a father to Erin and could he be her real father? Bunny said he’s been the better parent. Would explain why he’s looked out for her all these years.

It looks like the intensity level isn’t going to stop next week. Burgess and Roman are kidnapped and Intelligence has to save them. Take a look at the promo;

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Gabby get’s caught as the arsonist’s next victim.

Intelligence took a pretty interesting method in getting their man this week.

Voight said they needed to get under the suspect’s skin. Which they never really did. This guy was smart. He taunted them with what he knew the police already knew, but didn’t say enough to be confessing to anything.

Whatever you want to call the man, Adrian Gish, Ross McGowan or Trenton Lemonte, he was a career arsonist and had been getting away with it for a very longtime.

Intelligence got this case because Antonio’s sister, Gabby, called up her brother and asked him for help. Her partner, Shay, had been killed in a fire and her and Kelly found evidence proving it was arson. Unfortunately, the Fire Department decided not to pursue the prime suspect, Gish. While they were investigating they found that Gish was also responsible for a fire that Mills’ father was killed in and the Chief was burned in. Over all there was a big desire to get justice.

This is where Intelligence came in. If anyone can catch the bad guy, they can.

Getting under the man’s skin didn’t work as well as they hoped. Burgess and Roman’s squad car was blown up. Burgess wanted to follow Gish into the bathroom, but Roman said he left his phone so he would be back. He was back, but not before planting something in their car. Roman was definitely not on the top of his game this week.

Gish even enjoyed being followed. He went into a convenience store, picked up a lot of fire accelerants and walked up to the register. The other one was free and the cashier called Gish over, but he said he would wait. It turns on the cashier had been in a fire and you can only assume it was one that Gish set. After the conversation, Gish said he changed his mind on the merchandise.

The one thing that did work was following the trail of evidence. Alvin and Ruzek spoke to Gish’s boss and found out what college he attended. Then Erin and Jay spoke to one of his old professors and found out Gish wasn’t his real name. The real Gish died in an office fire.

Gish’s lawyer turned up and claimed Gish had his name changed from McGowan, but when Chief Wallace Boden heared the name he got angry. Apparently McGowan died in the same fire Mills’ father did and the Chief was burned in. So once again they had a false name.

The convenience store also shared some light on Gish’s past. He was burned on his arm. Erin took the conclusion that he was in a horrible fire when he was young and that set him off. That was true. They figured out which fire and went to his old home. The home was never re-built, but Gish had a house right next to it. They barged in, found pictures of Gabby and found a fake text to her.

It was a really close call saving Gabby. Antonio shot the man, but the lighter dropped. There was a moment when you didn’t breathe and then she caught the lighter and closed it.

Elsewhere in the episode, Platt was getting observed for a newspaper article, but when Burgess confronted her about being so nice, she claimed she was being observed because of a complaint against her. Burgess being the sweet girl that she is, told the reporter how great Platt is. Next thing she knows she’s quoted on the front page and is not happy about it at all.

I wasn’t enjoying Platt acting so polite, but her deception paid off in the end. The look on Burgess’ face was priceless.

How good is Erin’s mom’s lead?

So Erin still wants to continue things with her and Jay. Jay replied: ” I don’t know. I’m not really a sneak-around behind dad’s back kind of guy.”

Erin: “Says the guy that works undercover.”

Then Jay got serious and said he wanted to come clean to Voight, something Erin was not prepared to do.

After the case was closed we got another nice Linstead scene where they were getting hot and heavy again. So their sneaking around begins.

We got a little bit of a cliffhanger this week. Erin’s mom called her out of the blue and of course Erin was concerned, she’s expecting the worst. Her mother no longer works at the bar and is working at a truck rental place. She suspects a repeat customer of murder. Does she have any sense when it comes to crime or is she giving Erin a bad lead?

Next week Intelligence will track down this lead and it leads right back to her mother. Take a look at the preview:

Chicago PD Season 2 Fall Finale

Erin looking at Jay as she tells the unit she’s leaving.

I had a bad feeling when Roman and his ex partner were fighting. As Burgess walked up to the house I wanted her to stop. She rang the doorbell and got shot. Now we see why Voight doesn’t like in house romances. It leads to someone getting hurt.

But maybe Erin and Jay can actually be together now that she’s leaving Intelligence. But what does this mean for the show? Is Sophia Bush sticking around or is she leaving ‘Chicago P.D.’? She was the reason why I started watching this show. Not saying I would stop if she left, but I would really miss her.

Some of the midseason finales this December have been a little lackluster. Not ‘Chicago P.D.’. It really brought a great episode. I loved them breaking into the club to steal the drugs and it was a crazy ride trying to bring these guys down. It was everything ‘Chicago P.D.’ is known for.

Putting Olinsky’s wife in jeopardy made it that much more suspenseful. I was sitting there on the edge of my seat waiting to see how he was going to save his wife and not let the bad guys get the drugs back. He came through in the end, but I’m not sure how is wife is going to be felling about him now.

Between Antonio’s kid getting abducted and Antonio getting shot, it drove his wife away. Well he could have kept his wife if he left his job. There’s no way Olinsky is quitting his job. So where does that leave Olinsky and his wife?

On top of all the suspense, Erin gave us an answer to the task force job opportunity, which wasn’t what I was expecting. As great an opportunity as it is, I don’t want her to leave.

Then to wrap things up, the writers put Burgess’s life in danger. It looks like she could survive with that shot, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was her partner that got her shot. This opens up a lot of doors for writers when we return.

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Erin and Jay undercover at the sex club.

It’s this kind of stuff that gets people mad at how corrupt the police are, but Antonio is a good man and didn’t deserve to lose his job. I love how the Intelligence unit protect each other and take care of each other. I can see why Erin is having such a hard time deciding to take the task force job. Where else than Voight’s team will Erin be so well protected? It’s a family.

Will Erin take this great opportunity? Personally I would say it’s a no brainer, take the job. But that would mean Erin would be leaving the Chicago PD and I don’t want that. She’s the reason I started watching the show and she’s a great part of the cast.

I really enjoy anytime Erin and Jay partner up together and I’m still waiting for these two to get together. There hasn’t been much happening between these two since Voight said no in house relationships. If only Erin could defy Voight.

Is this the last we will see of Layla? It seems pretty convincing that she was behind her husband’s murder. They usually don’t get away, but she’s flying away into the sunshine.

The detectives are taking a little bit of a break over Thanksgiving and will be back December 10 fighting to get a lethal drug off the street. Check out the preview:

Chicago PD, SVU, Chicago Fire Crossover Event

If only watched the ‘Chicago P.D.’ episode, you really missed out on a very emotional and intricate case.

It started with pictures found in a fire that the Chicago Fire Department found on a call and it turned into a case that crossed two states. The case was bringing down a child sex trafficking ring.

Erin got emotionally involved when she found a picture of her brother when he was about 15. She hasn’t spoken to him for ten years.

I’ve never watched ‘Law and Order: Special Victims Units’ before so I don’t know how typical the episode was. There was a lot of investigative work and it was very interesting watching the case unravel.

Things heated up when the story crossed over into ‘Chicago P.D’. The show is known for it’s suspense and action and there was a lot of it. One by one they went through the suspects. They thought they were getting a break and then the suspects were either getting killed, killing themselves or dying when trying to get away.

The case was feeling absolutely hopeless till Erin brought her half brother back in. He didn’t believe he could help, but with his ID of the ring leader they were able to save a little boy.

It was a very dramatic scene with the terror in Teddy’s eyes as he looked at the picture of the man who terrified him. But the man peaked my interest as a suspect earlier. He told the cops that Matilda was dating a Gary Miller, but when Ruzek looked into the guy, Matilda had no contact with him. Anyone else think that was suspicious? I thought the guy was made up to remove suspicion, but no one ever looked at Mr. Van Camp again. Why? That was a major red flag to me and my first thought was to go back to him.

It was quite a three episode crossover event. The story didn’t start till the very end of ‘Chicago Fire’. It was more of a two episode cross over event really.

Other than those two minor details it was a great crossover event. Though I would have called it a ‘SVU’-‘Chicago P.D.’ crossover event.

Check out the episode for next week. The guy Antonio is supposed to be protecting gets killed while he’s on the job. He has to solve the murder or lose everything:

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These detectives go to extreme lengths to get their man. This time three of them went undercover in a prison, two as inmates and one as a guard.

I thought Antonio had the safest part as a guard, but when all the inmates looked at him like fresh meat, it was clear, he was in just as dangerous a situation.

Hollywood loves to paint a picture that there isn’t good communication between different police units. This time an ATF officer had their suspect cooperating with him and about to go into witness protection. He claimed the suspect was off limits, but what about the little girl that was murdered? Doesn’t she deserve justice. Atwater believed she did and this is where the Intelligence unit stepped in.

Did they even think of checking who the inmates were in the prison before they went in? Cops bust convicts all the time. They managed to get the job done before Atwater was completely found out, but not in enough time to not have to fight for his life.

Ruzek was great undercover. For a moment they thought all was lost and then he started a fight with Atwater so they could get their chance back. Olinsky was right to put Ruzek into Intelligence. And Atwater did a pretty good job using his street knowledge.

Roman and Burgess are working on weird little cases from week to week, but it is good character development for Roman. When Burgess and Atwater were partners, they seemed to have more interesting cases though.

Is Erin really going to take the job? She’s can’t leave the Chicago P.D.

Next week there will be a big crossover event with ‘Chicago Fire’, ‘SVU’ and ‘Chicago P.D.’ joining forces. Check out the preview:

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This episode did not turn out at all how I was expecting. When Voight’s safe gets taken, you assume he has something inside that he’s not supposed to have. He has gained a reputation for himself for being dirty, but it wasn’t the money or anything illegal he was desperate to get back. It was his wife’s wedding ring. Making Voight a lot more sentimental than he lets on. Or maybe the news of him being a grandfather has brought this new facet out in him.

So if everything was all on the legal side, why keep it in house? It would have made it a lot easier to find the two guys if he would have got the rest of the station involved. While everything was on the up and up, Voight didn’t exactly go by the book on the case. He has his place just out of town where he lives to take his suspects. He scares them into telling him the information. Not sure why feels the need for this, when intelligence has their own interrogation area and it’s pretty scary too.

I’m not sure what the whole point of Roman and Burgess’ little case was. They were just searching for a girl who stole her badge. What was the point of this little storyline? It seemed pointless.

Check out the preview for next week. They go undercover in a very dangerous case:

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I am a big fan of detective shows, but sometimes the cases can be a bit boring. Not on ‘Chicago PD’ though. There’s always a lot action and the cases are very mysterious. Every answer on this case lead to another question. The writers are pretty good at surprising you at every turn. It’s not like some cases that the first questioned suspect is the perpetrator. What’s also nice about this show is it’s not always murders they are solving. This time it was two missing girls.

Roman and Burgess make a great team. They haven’t exactly connected yet, but when it comes to getting the job done, they do it well.

I can’t believe Platt was mad at them for their innovative thinking and solving a homicide. It was so interesting to watch. They stuck by the rules and didn’t truly ask the woman who gave them the gun anything, but followed the clues and found the suspect. It was such a nice little side case. I’m still not sure why Roman won’t let Burgess in. She’s a good cop. There’s definitely something hidden about his character and I’m intrigued to find out what.

Finally we get a little background information about what happened with Antonio and his wife. It’s still not very much. So are they actually working it out or are they on the verge of a divorce and he just doesn’t want to tell his daughter that yet? For one he took the personal security job for extra money and the way he looked at the man’s wife, was not the way you look at another woman when you are married. This is a storyline I want the writers to go more into.

I’m rooting for Erin to win her little shoot out with Jay and if I could put money on it, my money would be on Erin too, just like Plait.

Check out the preview for next week. Voight has a personal attack on him:

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Every week the Intelligence unit put themselves in harms way to protect their city, I’ve never feared for one of the lives like I did on this episode. It was almost like the inevitability of Jay being killed was upon us and I think Erin felt the same way. She wasn’t seeing what we were seeing, which was probably even scarier. How long was JP going to wait till he took Jay’s life? The first episode of the series, the writers killed off one of the detectives and that kept playing in the back of mind. I was thinking can they really kill off Jay?

I enjoy shows that can get me on the edge of the seat thinking that a main character is going to die, when they really can’t die. This time though, it felt like Jay could really die.

So far this season we are getting a really good look at who Erin is. Each episode has given an in depth look of how her life was before Voight. This week she told a story about getting her mother a fix, her mom throwing up on her and Erin saying she had a drinking problem just to protect her mom. It’s amazing to think about the girl she was, to the woman she’s become. This is also good character development for Voight as well. He’ the reason she turned to out the way she did. It’s hard to think of him as a corrupt cop when he took Erin in and raised her.

Voight and Olinsky still seem to be playing by the old rules. They’re not really corrupt, they are just use to the old ways. I’m wondering if these old way have anything to do with why Roman has apparently met Olinsky before?

Only occasionally do we get to see Platt’s sensitive side and I never thought Nadia would be the one to bring that out. Nadia is becoming a very interesting character on the show. ‘Chicago PD’ is still very new and with episodes like this, it’s clear the show should be around for a while.

Check out the preview for next week: