CHICAGO P.D. Post-Mortem: Benjamin Levy Aguilar and Toya Turner Break Down the ‘Contrition’ Cliffhanger

November 13, 2024 by Marisa Roffman

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[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Wednesday, November 13 episode of CHICAGO P.D.]

Intelligence’s investigation into Gloria (Yara Martinez)–and Cook’s (Toya Turner) undercover mission to get intel—fell to pieces on the Wednesday, November 13 episode of CHICAGO P.D.

At first, things were going well: Gloria was running a drug operation out of a restaurant (while using her sister’s first name and her own maiden name), and Cook infiltrated the space, winning over Gloria after she was able to disarm a man who was threatening them. But when Gloria and Cook were set to do a run together, Cook made a comment about the other woman not using the same route twice (a fact she learned in her UC debrief) that made a lingering suspicion click into place: Gloria realized her new ally was a cop.

Gloria fought back in her own vicious way: She revealed her affair with Torres (Benjamin Levy Aguilar) to Cook.

“It’s frightening,” Turner tells Give Me My Remote in the video below. “I think that Kiana, as she’s listening to Gloria, she’s crumbling inside. One, she’s losing the trust of the closest person that she has on this unit, which can just make her feel alone. And then two, her life is at stake at this point, too. I feel like she’s terrified, but she doesn’t want to ruin it either. She’s gonna try to fight through it and not get caught up. I feel like she’s terrified, she’s scared, and she’s angry—so angry.”

The revelation that Torres crossed this major line—which could lead to him going to jail if it was revealed—is “shattering” to Cook, Turner acknowledges. “I think they were like [crosses fingers], and I don’t know if they’re gonna be like that [now]. I wouldn’t be surprised if they weren’t like that for a couple of episodes to come. Yeah, the trust is gone, for sure. It’s gonna take a minute to build back up, I would say.”

Burgess (Marina Squerciati) was the one member of Intelligence who knew about Torres’ affair with Gloria prior to the UC operation, and Aguilar acknowledges he hopes there’s some kind of parallel between how Burgess and Cook deal with it in the aftermath.

“Trust is being broken in some way, [but] I’m hoping that this also has the opportunity, like with Burgess, to strengthen bonds,” Aguilar says. “Sometimes when we go through terrible, terrible things…the people that stay there with us, the relationships tend to grow or evolve in some way. But there’s also the potential that they can get destroyed and people get hurt because of his actions.”

“So the weakness and the strength of Torres is in who he is, what he’s grown to be,” he continues. “He has so much to add to the team, but at the same time, so many demons he still needs to take care of. This is [his] own weakness, but his own strength. That’s why he’s so unique to this team.”

But there were bigger problems in the immediate future: After Torres realized Cook was burned, he went to extract her…only to discover both Cook and Gloria were gone.

“[Torres is thinking,] ‘Oh my god, is she dead? What did I do? Am I going to hell?” Aguilar says. “Guilt—immense guilt and fear and panic and self-hate. Really the darkest of human emotions. This is truly the worst-case scenario of what he was thinking this could go…he’s in the turmoil of panic and fear, and high, high stakes.”

“Especially coming from a Catholic background…religious guilt,” he continues. “Guilt is magnified, because all of these things are happening, and he doesn’t know how to cope with them. He’s trying his best. He comes from such a dark past, and he really tries really hard to be a good person. And sometimes he ends up making maybe not the best decisions because of that…he’s just trying to save everyone.”

And the events of “Contrition” impact how Torres feels about Gloria “tremendously.”

“He thought he was giving someone a chance at life, a chance to be better, like he did after he left juvie and all the things that he did,” Aguilar says. “He decided to correct his life…and can’t seem to understand how someone would go…back to the same thing…He has love for her, and doesn’t understand, in some way, how she can go back, you know?”

But where does Cook stand after the disastrous undercover operation? “I think there’s going to be questions about her place on this unit,” Turner says. “I think there’s going to be questions about the dynamics of where she stands with not just the rest of the unit, but with Torres in particular. And how she navigates just not being angry or bitter towards what’s happened, not letting that spill over into the work.”

Of course, there’s another big question mark for Cook: “I don’t know if she’ll even survive it! Who knows?”

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

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