Chicago P.D. Review: Ruzek Chooses

Chicago P.D.’s Intelligence Unit is known for going off book. Sometimes the book goes right out the window. As a perfect example, look no further than Jay Halstead dating the sister of an informant under his alias’s name. It’s not as if Voight hasn’t crossed the line and wouldn’t be deserving of an Internal Affairs investigation, but the fact that Denny Woods is leading this investigation is a joke. The hypocrisy is unbelievable, second only to the pressure he puts on Ruzek by threatening his sister and nephew. Denny is not clean by a long shot. He’ll take Voight down by any means necessary, even if it means planting the evidence to do it. There is such irony in that, considering the level of hypocrisy going on in this week’s case.

The opioid crisis comes front and center when the latest victim is a soccer mom who also happens to be the daughter of one Chicago’s most prominent judges. Judge Tommy Wells is one of Voight’s oldest friends, so Voight will take this as far as he needs to take this to get justice for Wells’s daughter. Wells is a different man than Voight, which is why he became a judge. Even in the middle of his worst nightmare, Wells recognizes that the opioid crisis goes beyond his daughter. Other parents have lost their children because of it. He’s willing to make a deal with the smaller fish in order to get the big fish. The big fish turns out to be a doctor named Dr. Macy, who is running the ring with his cousin Frank Barrett. Intelligence gets the doctor to flip on his cousin, but there’s one slight hiccup.

Before Voight flipped the doctor, he flipped the dealer who sold Judge Wells’s daughter the drugs-the same man who Wells made a deal with to get the big fish. And guess who owns a revolver without outdated bullets only a cop could get ahold of? If he wanted to, Voight could make an arrest. But Voight tries very hard not to be a hypocrite. That’s the biggest difference between him and Denny. How could he judge Tommy Wells for killing the man who killed his daughter, when he got the same kind of justice for his own son? He won’t rat on Wells, but he does need a favor.

Denny is done playing games with Ruzek. Making Ruzek purposely plant cash at a crime scene as bait for Voight is the last straw. Ruzek does indeed get evidence against his boss. Despite the threat of 5 years in prison over his head, he can’t go through with it. Voight is his family. Intelligence is his family. He will not turn on them, even if it means throwing his life away. But he doesn’t have to tell Voight the truth, because Voight already knows.

What will become of Ruzek now that Voight knows he almost betrayed him?