[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Chicago P.D. Season 12 Episode 4 “The After.”]
The newest Chicago P.D. is a troublesome one for Sergeant Hank Voight (Jason Beghe): A previous case, the primary one he labored after his spouse’s dying, pops up once more, and it begins wanting like fixing it (there’s a copycat, working with the unique serial rapist) isn’t going to be really easy.
However then the search warrant they want goes by way of, due to a “confidential informant” … which, sure, as gave the impression to be the case after some earlier troubles, doesn’t exist and is a lie instructed by ASA Chapman (Sara Bues)—for Voight. It might’ve ended her profession and brought his with it, Voight argues when Chapman stops by his home on the finish of the episode. He doesn’t need her mendacity for him or defending him as a result of that’s not the way it works, he stresses. She argues that he doesn’t get to dictate her selections, and she or he made a selection, risking her profession for the lady who was held and for Voight.
However does Voight push again as a result of he doesn’t need her to change into him as a result of he is aware of he wants somebody who’s not like him in his life? “I don’t know if that was a aware factor, perhaps subconsciously, however I feel that there’s quite a bit that you can say, whether or not it’s true or not,” Beghe tells TV Insider. “Possibly he didn’t need her to [do what she did]. He’s a giver, he’s saving folks, he’s doing this, which is a sure sort of a strategy to categorical love. Even his brutality within the earlier seasons—it wasn’t simply because he favored beating the s**t out of individuals, he was attempting to guard and assist others, and he was that enthusiastic about it. I’m not justifying it. I’m simply giving the reason for what made sense to him.”
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It’s exhausting for him to be on the opposite facet of that. “There are some those who can provide however they will’t obtain,” he explains. “It’s sort of like rush hour site visitors: One course is flying at 85 miles an hour and the opposite one is jammed. And I feel that’s sort of a very good metaphor for the place Voight is. [He received] the love [from] his spouse Camille, so right here he’s now on this perhaps getting a possibility to sort of open up that lane and let a bit of site visitors by way of.”
Chapman additionally tells Voight she cares about him, she has emotions for him, and he doesn’t get to dictate these emotions. She doesn’t anticipate something from him, however she’s going to make her personal selections. However how does he really feel about her?
“All we all know is that final second. I’m not going to interpret that second for you, however going ahead, we’ll see—from what I do know of Hank Voight, if he was shocked about this, it’s not like he’s going to [go], ‘Oh, that’s loopy. No, get away from me,’ and keep away from her and be a toddler. He’ll confront it, be sincere as he can with himself and together with her,” says Beghe. “There’s quite a bit to think about that appears rational. And clearly she’s extraordinarily engaging and he respects her. And so we’ll simply have to attend and see what it’s that they arrive to create collectively.”
After their discuss, Chapman leaves for Denver for a few months for a federal case. And based on Beghe, there’s nobody who’s going to be filling that void of a sounding board for Voight, no less than not that he’s seen.
This season, Voight’s additionally coping with a brand new deputy chief in Reid (Shawn Hatosy), who so far isn’t interfering with the unit. For now, Voight doesn’t actually take into consideration him, however “he begins getting a bit of too pleasant and it sort of places up his spidey sense, his little antennae. And he could also be proper to surprise, WTF?” previews Beghe.
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Chicago P.D., Wednesdays, 10/9c, NBC
