For the final time this season, let’s recap Chicago PD.
If you want my thoughts on the finale, then you can check out my Chicago PD Season 12 Episode 22 Review.
In the meantime, here is a play-by-play.
Voight shows up at, and IA has completely destroyed it and removed all of their stuff. They trashed the place, including his pictures of Olinsky and everything. They shooed him away.
Torres is sitting in a crowded prison and seemingly dissociating.
Reid gives a press conference announcing the news. He says that Intelligence is disbanded and under investigation, and people are either stripped of their powers or temporarily shifted to patrol.
Atwater is at home avoiding Val’s calls. Burgess is emotional at home. Kiana is picking up her father’s prescription.
Chapman shows up at the station to talk to Voight as he’s watching them tear his office and the bullpen to shreds. She wants to talk to him, but he’s avoiding her and shutting her out, which she calls him out on.
She reminds him that he’s not alone and that they must devise a plan to counter Reid.
Voight has everyone meet them at an empty warehouse. Burgess shows up with Dante; she has no issues bailing him out. They figure out a plan and what to look into next, starting with Otero’s murder.
Kim is struggling and anxious. She breaks down in the car with Ruzek, talking about not being happy and everything. She has so much going on; she doesn’t want to get married in a week. Ruzek tells her they can wait to get married and do whatever she wants.
They go to the safe house to talk to Renny. He tells them that he only saw Reid meeting his father once, and he was with another cop, a Latino guy.
Ruzek heads downstairs to make a call, but he notices the guy who was watching them is gone, and something is off. Shots are fired through the window, and a car takes off.
They have to get out of there and take Renny out of there. Burgess calls Voight to update him as Ruzek drives erratically and tries to find a safe place to go.
Voight heads to the safe house and cleans up the scene, grabbing the bullets and shell casings. He manages to arrive before the police show up, but back at the warehouse, he tells everyone he doesn’t know how Reid figured out where the safe house was.
Reid texts Voight and tells him to meet him while Voight has the others looking into things.
Voight meets with Reid and goes off on him for coming after his officers. Reid says that if Voight, Dante, and Kim turn in their badges, he’ll let the others work patrol and collect their pension as long as they stay out of his way.
Voight declines it, obviously.
Kiana gives Voight a lead on the drug dealer who may have had the gun used to shoot up Burzek, etc. Voight tracks down the squirrelly CI, Rabbit, and next thing you know, they’re at a bar. He cracks on, how bad Voight looks, and Voight asks him how long he’s been clean.
Rabbit says he got clean alone and didn’t get there on his own. Juan shows up, and Voight sends Rabbit away to protect him. Voight is ready to rough up Juan until he gives information about who has the gun.
Juan tells him that the cops have the gun. Cops pulled him over and took the weapon he had.
Burzek shows Renny a picture of a corrupt police officer, who IDs him as the guy with Reid.
Voight explains their evidence to Chapman, but it’s not enough.
They try to get info on the cop and figure out he was a perfect mark for Reid because he was desperate, had a wife with cancer, etc.
Voight arranges to meet him and traps me there under the guise of meeting his CI. Joseph doesn’t want to talk at first as Intelligence surrounds him.
He is about being a cop. Joseph says that there is no law and order anymore, just lawlessness, and that they’d rather have cops’ badges than let them protect the city. He seems to be a loyal Reid fan and agreed to an arrest. It seems like he’s playing Voight.
Sure enough, Voight and Ruzek are in the car, ready to bring him in. Joseph makes a move on them, causing them to crash the car, which flips over and falls below.
Ruzek and Voight crawl out of the car. Joseph is dying, and Voight tries to get him to stay alive and keeps working on him, but Joseph dies. Kiana calls it in, even though it’s off books, and the ambulance is coming, but it’s too late.
Voight is barely keeping it together. He has them clean up the scene because it has to look like an accident. He takes Dante’s car and tells them to get back to command. They uncuff Joseph.
Voight gets Reid’s attention as he sits at the crime scene. He stares at an award Olinsky received that he must’ve taken from the office as he waits for Reid to join him in the car.
Reid tells him they won’t find anything on it, that it was an officer-involved crash, and that he was likely working a case. Voight tells Reid that if he turns himself in, he’ll give him a chance at dignity. Reid says the deal doesn’t stand, and he’ll get Voight and his whole team’s badges. He tells Voight to give in.
Voight is back at the warehouse, and everyone is bickering as they debate what to do next. He seems to be dissociating.
Voight gets a text message about a preliminary meeting with IA in the morning. He walks out, and Chapman follows him. She tries to appeal to him and doesn’t want him to do something he’ll regret, but he brushes her off.
The next day, he shows up for preliminaries. He’s about to head inside when Reid shows up. As he’s ready to taunt Voight, Renny shoots Reid several times, hitting him in the neck.
Voight pretends to try to stop Reid’s bleeding, and instead, watches him bleed out, and Reid realizes what he’s doing and laughs, telling Voight that he’s worse than him. He dies.
They arrest Renny, and interrogate him, and he shares that Reid killed his father and says he has all this information to prove that Reid was dirty and worked with his father. He says Silva, Otero’s secondhand man, can back him.
Silva says the same thing and asks for a deal in exchange for all of his evidence.
They talk to Voight and want all the evidence they acquired on Reid. Voight shares this news with everyone at the house and tells them it’s over.
They know something else happened and that there’s more to it. Nina, in particular, doesn’t buy that it’s just that simple, and Kiana doesn’t seem to at first either, but they all move on.
Ruzek tells Burgess that they shouldn’t have postponed the wedding.
Next, everyone arrives at the church. Torres has a moment where he seems emotional, stepping into a church again.
Chapman sits next to Voight, and she talks to him about what happened. She outlines everything she knows he did, including telling Renny what to say, telling him Reid killed his father, and putting the pieces in place to send him after Reid.
Chapman comments on Silva getting a deal and his brother getting released from prison the day after he goes in.
She tells Voight that she thought he was better than that. She’s sly and says she knows him. She’s emotional and cries, but he’s unapologetic, and it’s clear that she really doesn’t know him at all. He doesn’t deny anything.
The wedding starts up. Kim walks down the aisle to Adam, and the episode ends before they even exchange their vows.
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