Chicago PD season 5, episode 10 takeaways: Rabbit Hole
Did Chicago PD’s midseason premiere take Jay Halstead for a ride? Was its cliffhanger enough? Here are our Chicago PD season 5, episode 10 takeaways.
The return of Chicago PD on Wednesday answered one question and left us with several more after we found out just how deep a hole Jay Halstead had fallen into.
Season 5, Episode 10 was called “Rabbit Hole” and dealt with Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) as he learned his girlfriend was a drug dealer who may have been involved in the murder of a DEA agent, while Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) set straight Halstead and Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) after learning of both’s mistakes.
If you missed any of this Chicago PD episode or just want a refresher on the events we’re talking about, you can catch up with our “Rabbit Hole” recap.
Here are our Chicago PD season 5, episode 10 takeaways:
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1) Jay Halstead learned a hard lesson
Or at least we hope he did, because “Rabbit Hole” brought an end to a storyline that gave Jay (and the audience) more grief than anything.
It’s easy to see what Chicago PD wanted to do with the Camila storyline; it wanted to show us a Halstead who was uncharacteristically out of control, who made bad choices for once, and who then found himself in a tough situation.
But it was also easy to see that storylines like this have been done a lot on TV cop shows, and that for this show in particular, it just never clicked. There didn’t ever seem to be genuine chemistry for Jay and Camila; instead, it seemed like a random hookup, which was only reinforced in this episode when she used sex to keep him at the party.
For her to say she loved him felt hollow; for him to say it back felt rushed, especially since we’re talking about a character who just lost the woman he wanted to marry less than a season ago. And was anyone really surprised when she turned out to be not just a drug dealer, but an active player in the business?
It was a heavy-handed storyline, but hopefully that also means Jay Halstead got a heavy dose of reality and will wise up in the rest of season 5.
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2) Hailey Upton is one heck of a partner
We’ve made no secret of the fact that we are Hailey Upton fans, and the Chicago PD midseason premiere proved that she’s the partner Jay Halstead needs right now, because she was there for him in several big ways.
“Rabbit Hole” saw Upton unafraid to call out Halstead when she could tell that he was sleeping with Camila, and the trouble that it would get him into. At the same time, she showed the loyalty that fans would expect, and gave him a fair opportunity to deal with Camila himself rather than just turning him in to Voight outright.
But just like she did with Ruzek, Upton was unafraid to be tough with her colleague. And just like in the Ruzek situation, Upton also went behind her colleague’s back to do what needed to be done in order to protect him; in this case, getting Camila to keep quiet about Halstead so his indiscretions weren’t made public. She might be the new kid, but Hailey Upton has definitely proven her worth to the Intelligence Unit.
3) This isn’t the season for cliffhangers
This One Chicago season has done quite a few cliffhangers now, and every subsequent episode has rushed through them. Chicago PD opened with Ruzek in trouble and moved past that quickly in favor of Halstead’s story, after Chicago Med skipped past its cliffhanger after the teaser in the season premiere, and Chicago Fire likewise did a time jump in its premiere.
Every show has had a cliffhanger this season, but none of them have spent a lot of time paying them off. Maybe it’s time to stop those for awhile?
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Chicago PD airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on NBC.