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CHICAGO P.D.: Gwen Sigan Previews Trouble with Reid and Insight Into Cook’s Background

January 7, 2025 by  

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CHICAGO P.D. — “Friends and Family” Episode 12009 — Pictured: (l-r) — (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC)

CHICAGO P.D.’s Intelligence unit has a powerful new enemy when the show returns on Wednesday, January 8: Deputy Chief Reid (Shawn Hatosy).

Though Reid had expressed a clear interest in the unit all season, what is motivating him has been a mystery. But, now, Voight (Jason Beghe) knows that Reid knows the unit’s big (current) secret: Torres (Benjamin Levy Aguilar) crossed a romantic line with his informant, Gloria—and Burgess (Marina Squerciati) knew about it and didn’t report the information. 

As for what Reid’s silence will cost them all? That’s still TBA. “It definitely set us off on a crazy new track for the second half of the season,” CHICAGO P.D. showrunner Gwen Sigan teases to Give Me My Remote. “We’re in a lot of danger, right? Like, at the end of that episode, Reid basically says he knows everything. It’s a huge threat. The fact that he’s not reporting it, it shows that there’s other motivations here. Obviously, he wants Voight in his pocket. We don’t know why. Voight doesn’t know why.”

“And I think the fun thing about it, to me, is that Voight is this guy that’s usually pretty omniscient, right?” she continues. “He’s usually pretty all-knowing and can get a good beat on somebody. But Reid is more formidable than that. He doesn’t know what Reid wants. And as the episodes go on in the second half of the season, you’ll see that it’s a bit more of a cat-and-mouse game. He doesn’t know who Reid is, and it takes a while to figure out those real motivations and how much of a threat this guy really is.” 

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CHICAGO P.D. — “Friends and Family” Episode 12009 — Pictured: (l-r) Jason Beghe as Hank Voight, Shawn Hatosy as Deputy Chief Reid — (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC)

Understandably, Voight is unnerved. “Voight doesn’t like having somebody who, yeah, can ruin him, and the whole Intelligence unit whenever he feels like it,” Sigan previews. “So it’s going to be a really interesting, dramatic, high-stakes relationship between those two.”

Spiraling in a different way is Torres, who watched Gloria die in his arms in the midseason finale.

“The guy’s had a had a rough start of this season, and it just keeps going,” Sigan previews. “I think this event and everything that came out of it—Gloria dying and all these things—triggered a lot in Torres. And it triggers stuff all the way from back in his childhood. So we get to see some of that play out. I wouldn’t say [he’s] actively dealing with the trauma and the fallout, but certainly having some symptoms from it. And certainly having to address it in some way.”

“The way we’re sort of articulating it definitely comes out a bit as a crisis of faith and a bit of an existential crisis for him of ‘Who am I?’” she continues. “[For him, he’s wondering,] ‘All of these things that I built to make sense of my life and my mistakes, and these things that I’ve done—what if it’s all a lie?’ And where does that put him? It’s a bit of a descent for him and [Aguilar]’s been amazing in all of it so far, so I’m excited to see where we can take it.”

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CHICAGO P.D. — “Friends and Family” Episode 12009 — Pictured: (l-r) — (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC)

More immediately, Torres will have to contend with new Intelligence member Cook (Toya Turner) feeling betrayed she trusted him to have her back during an undercover operation with Gloria without being truthful about his real history with her.

“Episode 9, coming back, it’s such a fun episode,” Sigan teases. “It’s really exciting, and it’s got a lot of adrenaline and action, but it’s really all built to tell a bit more about [Cook’s] background and get to know her. And so we’ll meet some members of her family, and we’ll get to see those relationships and how they’ve shaped her.”

“It also tells you a little bit about why maybe she’s not the most trusting person to everybody,” she continues. “It also could explain a little bit why she feels betrayed by Torres. So we’ll see a couple moments between the two of them through that first episode.”

As for the rest of the unit, “I think it’s one of those things that’s going to take time for everybody to sort of forgive [Torres],” Sigan allows. “But in my mind, because he is so ashamed and accountable, and he is feeling so much guilt, I do think the unit is a bit more empathetic towards him and not holding a grudge, maybe in the way that they would if he was not accountable. And so I do think eventually they’ll find their way out of any sort of sourness that came out of all of that…But it certainly has repercussions for him.”

CHICAGO P.D., Wednesdays, 10/9c, NBC

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