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CHICAGO P.D. Post-Mortem: Jason Beghe on Voight’s Reaction to Chapman’s Confession

October 16, 2024 by  

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CHICAGO P.D. — “The After” Episode 12003 — Pictured: (l-r) Jason Beghe as Sgt. Hank Voight, Sara Bues as Asa Chapman — (Photo by: Lori Allen/NBC)

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Wednesday, October 16 episode of CHICAGO P.D.]

CHICAGO P.D.’s Voight (Jason Beghe) is used to being in control, but ASA Chapman (Sara Bues) threw the sergeant for a loop on the Wednesday, October 16 episode, “The After.”

Chapman came to visit Voight, and he confronted her over adding an imaginary CI to their warrant which allowed them to find an elusive suspect and close a long-buried close-to-home case for Voight.

“You could have ended your career, probably taken mine down,” Voight chided her. After she insisted no one would find out, he insisted, “You don’t lie for me. You don’t protect me.”

“Why not?” she pushed back.

“Because that’s not how it works,” he replied.

But Chapman wasn’t content with that. “I’m not in your unit, Hank, you don’t get to dictate my choices,” she insisted.

Voight was still frustrated: “So you risked your career?”

“Yes, for that girl, for you? Yes,” she replied. At his silence, she pushed further, “You can’t even hear it, can you?”

“What?” he asked.

“That I care about you,” she revealed. “I do, I care about you, I have feelings for you. And you don’t get to dictate those feelings.”

He stayed silent. “Look, we don’t ever have to mention it again and I don’t expect a damn thing from you,” Chapman continued. “But let me be clear: If I want to care about you, if I want to protect you, to risk what I want to risk, to make my own choices? I will. I leave for Denver tomorrow. See you in a couple months, Hank.” 

“He was shocked, and hadn’t thought about this,” Beghe tells Give Me My Remote. “He’s a gentleman, so that’s a vulnerable thing for her to say. Chapman also played it like she was very comfortable with it, which I think added to his discomfort. It was, ‘I have feelings for you. I can do whatever I want. Sorry, I care about you. You’re not going to stop me from caring about you, and that’s all there is to it.’ So it wasn’t like, ‘Please care about me, too.’ It was just an open, honest statement of her feelings.”

“Most people say, ‘I love you,’ and it’s more like, ‘Do you love me?’” he continues. “[Chapman is] basically just saying, ‘I love you.’ Or, ‘I’m interested.’ Which I think is the way that Voight is. It’s not complicated with Voight. He’s not duplicitous. He’s not slick. He’s smart, but he’s real direct, real honest and real simple, even if the answer is none of your business.”

Her feelings, however, throw Voight for a loop. “The funny thing is that Voight is so professional and kind of single-minded and respectful of women, I think that it had never occurred to him,” Beghe says. “It’s a bit of a shock to him because he hadn’t allowed himself to think that. I think it’ll be interesting to see how he processes this. And we’ll see.”

While Chapman is out of town, “I wouldn’t say that he sits there and goes, ‘Oh, I’m thinking about Chapman now,’” Beghe allows. “He’s a guy who deals with what’s in front of him. So we will see when she comes back.”

Voight also had a frank talk with a survivor whose case he closed about living a life post-trauma, how things get split into before and after; the woman had been in limbo while she was waiting for justice. For Voight, who has lived through countless traumas, is there an “after” trauma for him? 

“I think he is in the after,” Beghe says. “But life is not a destination. It’s a journey….and we veer off path. Same with Voight. Things are too hard to confront, so you cope, and you come up with this, and you have these kinds of psychological limps, but you want to learn how to kind of walk straight again. That’s just your job in life. But nobody ever walks straight, probably; the end goal is you can fly or something. We’re just working on being able to walk.” 

“The point is he’s just trying to show up authentically and be himself,” he continues. “This is an interesting opportunity for him to find out more about who he is.”

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