Chicago P.D. has had to close ranks before, but scrutiny this season is a little different. With updated technology, increased policing and the same old-fashioned attitude, Intelligence gets things done. Yet none of it means anything if they’ve lost the one key element needed for good policing: trust. Trust is a crucial part of solving cases, making convictions, and keeping faith alive in communities. What happens when you’ve lost that trust in a community? Worse yet, what happens when you have lost that trust among each other? That is unacceptable in a job where you trust another person with your life, and yet that is what might be happening.
In the middle of trying to bust up a drug ring, Ruzek’s informant Eddie is killed. Even as he lays on the ground bleeding to death, Eddie refuses to cooperate with the police. Every single person in the neighborhood refuses to talk about what they could have seen. All except Eddie’s brother Roland Garrett, He was a witness, but even he was terrified of coming forward. Intelligence’s promise that Roland would be fine if he cooperated means nothing. Roland shows up dead, and because it is Atwater’s neighborhood that all of this violence is happening, he feels the effects. This pain Atwater understands. Roland was just a nice guy managing a neighborhood store, trying to keep his head down. Even Atwater’s brother liked him. It’s easy for Atwater to defend his neighbor’s decisions when it isn’t his family involved. Except his little brother Jordan was a witness to Roland’s death. Voight can appreciate Atwater doing what’s right, but he knows what loss feels like. He doesn’t want that for his friend. Intelligence is Voight’s family, and if he has to let a case go to protect one of his own, he would. Atwater encourages his brother to do the right thing, but almost immediately he realizes that someone could be watching his family. The day may come sooner than Atwater thinks that he’ll have to be separated from his siblings.
In the frustration of trying to get answers from a citizen, Ruzek crosses the line in front of Upton. Upton may hate what Ruzek did, but she’ll be damned if his actions cost them this case, their unit, or any more lives. Upton can’t in good conscience falsify her statement to Internal Affairs if they ask her a direct question. She wants to be loyal, and Voight gives them a good story to go with, but with cameras everywhere, it’s not so simple to lie anymore. Though she covers for Ruzek this time, we know that she will never again compromise her shield this way.
Now is not the time for the unit to be turning on each other. Voight doesn’t want to believe it, but he might not have a choice. He has people coming at him from all sides. Antonio did jump right back in to Intelligence from the State’s Attorney’s office rather quickly.
Could he be a snitch for the State’s Attorney? We will find out in the coming weeks.
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