[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Chicago P.D. Season 12 Episode 15 “Greater Good.”]
Sergeant Voight (Jason Beghe) and Deputy Chief Reid (Shawn Hatosy) have very totally different views relating to what ought to be finished for the “better good” within the newest Chicago P.D. episode.
For this week’s case, Reid calls in favors to safe a warrant and to get a member of a gang to surrender one other’s location (that particular person was their killer). However, as Voight realizes, that occurs when Kaiden’s “lawyer” tells him that his sister’s useless — and he’s subsequent if he doesn’t speak. The sergeant additionally realizes that Reid had Intelligence assigned to Lawndale as a part of his Violent Discount Initiative to pave the best way for a supplier, Otero, to take over; he has him in his pocket, too. As Reid sees it, Otero doesn’t drop our bodies, so it’s higher to have him in cost within the space. An harmless was killed (the gang member’s sister), however as Reid sees it, it’s basic math: one for the numerous, for the better good. And since he and Voight are the identical, in his thoughts, the guilt he’s feeling is only a flicker of fog over his true self, says Reid.
Under, Hatosy breaks down the place Reid and Voight stand after that tense dialog and teases what’s forward.
Voight calls Reid out on what he did to get Kaiden to speak and that lawyer and his sister’s dying. How does Reid really feel about that? Does he respect that Voight goes after him like that and calls him out?
Shawn Hatosy: It’s so humorous as a result of once we filmed it, the final take we did, it was charged. And I haven’t seen the episode, however I think about it ended up in there, and Jason checked out me and was like, “Yeah, I don’t know. Is it too charged?” I mentioned, “I feel so. You referred to as me out.” And he mentioned, “I didn’t name you out.” And I mentioned, “However you probably did. what I imply? You probably did, and it is best to.” It’s simply an fascinating factor to see two people who find themselves so comparable form of navigate on this world. I feel for Voight to see any individual ready of energy above him now who operates the best way that he does, it’s going to current him with the query of, how am I going to police going ahead? It presents a fairly good moral query that he has to face. He’s form of wanting within the mirror, and he has to find out who he’s going ahead. It’s going to form his legacy. We all know what he’s finished prior to now. We all know how he’s operated. So now what’s it going to seem like for the long run?
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It appears like Reid doesn’t appear fearful, presumably due to what he has on Intelligence about Torres (Benjamin Levy Aguilar) and the informant and the cover-up. We all know how he labored in Detroit. However he has to know that Intelligence is form of a special stage than others that he’s handled. Is Reid involved that they’ll come after him?
I feel he must be, and I feel it might be silly of him to attempt to use leverage on a staff after which not anticipate any form of blowback. He’s a wise man, so I feel he’s ready. I hope so. He can be a foolish dangerous man if impulsively he simply form of wasn’t anticipating what was coming, particularly given what we learn about Voight. So I feel he’ll be a formidable opponent.
So he has some issues in place that we haven’t seen but?
Sure.
Do you assume he would possibly remorse not letting Burgess (Marina Squerciati) switch briefly as a result of then that might’ve been them with out one member of the staff? He’s the one who stored her in Intelligence.
I feel that that was a choice made as a result of she’s any individual who’s finally fairly pure. I feel it’s simply how he operates. It’s like, this can be a card I’m going to deal right here, and possibly I’ll use it later. It actually will depend on how she reacts to i,t and one thing tells me that she’s not any individual that’s going to be straightforward to govern, however I hope we use that going ahead.
On the finish of the episode, we see that Voight and Chapman (Sara Bues) need to deliver Reid down. What are you able to tease about how Reid would possibly react when he finds out? As a result of now there’s an ASA concerned.
Yeah. Going ahead, there’s one other occasion the place one thing the place Reid wants Voight to do one thing. He asks him to, “Let’s use this friendship once more to do one thing that I want.” And it doesn’t actually go the best way Reid must go on the velocity that Reid must go, and it’s form of in defending this Otero in Lawndale, which Voight hates. So as a result of Voight isn’t working the best way that Reid must, he goes round him, and he goes to Torres, and that could be a line that Reid is keen to cross. It units up a really good scene between Hank and Reid the place Hank is like, “Don’t go round my again and speak to my staff.” And Reid is like, “Yo, that is my staff. I’m your boss. You guys work for me.” Which I really like. I simply assume it’s simply such a incredible factor for Voight to should take care of as a result of he’s, what I imply? I feel the followers will hate Reid for that, which I’m all for. So it’s heading in a really disastrous route for this friendship.
Although Reid is corrupt, he’s nonetheless the boss of Voight. You possibly can’t ignore that.
You possibly can’t ignore that. And he additionally has dust. He has this dust that he can form of finish all of them at any second, which is incredible, I feel. So how will they cease this tyrant? I don’t know. We’ll discover out.
Reid has that second when he opens as much as Voight about his mom’s horrific, violent dying, and it’s heartbreaking and must be the reality as a result of I don’t assume anybody would lie about that. However with out that a part of his previous, do you assume Reid would nonetheless be the identical form of cop he’s right this moment?
I don’t assume he would — I feel that formed his choice to change into a cop. I don’t even know if he would’ve been a cop had that not occurred. And I imagine it to be sincere. I feel that this occurred, and it was tragic and horrible,e and it made him do what he did and promote the best way he promoted. And I feel policing is a troublesome job, and generally you want a warrant. So I feel that it form of helped him change into who he’s, and that’s form of like his DNA.
Jason mentioned that Voight is wanting right into a mirror when he seems to be at Reid, and we’re seeing how Voight has modified from the start through the years. Would possibly the identical be true for Reid? Might Reid change due to what he’s seeing in Voight?
That will be enjoyable. I feel so. I feel possibly it is a chance to vary his moral and ethical legacy. It definitely can be helpful to his future on Chicago P.D. [Laughs] As a result of who is aware of if we might survive like this. In all probability not. I don’t see how their relationship can go anyplace with Reid utilizing this leverage or this friendship and the best way that he has. And Hank can be very annoyed in Reid’s lack of transparency. He likes to be advised what’s occurring. He doesn’t wish to be lied to. Nor ought to anyone. So I imagine you’re proper, yeah, that might undoubtedly must occur for Reid to proceed.
Are you going to see something with Reid’s private life?
To not my information, no. I haven’t seen something like that coming down the pipe.
Chicago P.D., Wednesdays, 10/9c, NBC
