February flashback: Chicago PD season 2, episode 13
By Deb Foster
Three years ago, Chicago PD got justice for Leslie Shay in Chicago PD season 2, episode 13. Look back at the episode in our February Flashback.
With Chicago PD taking most of February off for the Winter Olympics, we’re rolling back the clock and revisiting the Chicago PD episodes that previously aired this month.
Three years ago today we saw the end of a two-night crossover with Chicago Fire, which also ended the story of what happened to Fire‘s Leslie Shay (Lauren German).
Having been set upon the serial arsonist who killed Shay in the previous night’s episode of Fire, Intelligence swung into action in “A Little Devil Complex.”
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In a clever but ethically questionable move, Antonio Dawson (Jon Seda) and his sister Gabriela (guest star Monica Raymund) publicly confronted sole suspect Elliot Gish (guest star Robert Knepper, Prison Break) with their accusations.
When Gish essentially laughed them off, Antonio accused him of spitting on him and arrested Gish for assaulting a police officer. That enabled Chicago PD to put him in a room with Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) for another interrogation scene.
But this interrogation didn’t go as planned, and Gish wound up back on the street, which is where Chicago PD season 2, episode 13 started to get particularly dangerous.
Officers Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) and Sean Roman (Brian Geraghty) were assigned to follow Gish but he blew up their squad car, then actually stopped to deliver a pizza to Detectives Erin Lindsay (Sophia Bush) and Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer). You don’t see that every day. Or ever.
Undeterred, Linstead kept investigating and found out that Elliot Gish wasn’t actually who they thought he was. He had previously gone by Ross McGowan, the name of another firefighter killed on the job, and that was just one of his past identities. So who was this guy, exactly?
Voight and Antonio referred back to the interrogation and zeroed in on a remark from Gish about some arsonists being “men who will kill their own families.” They looked into previous fires, and discovered only one that had been started by a father with his son as the sole survivor. That told them Elliot Gish was really Trent Lamont.
But Lamont had already targeted Gabriela Dawson and locked her in an elevator before Antonio could warn her. Robert Knepper showed us how to play a psychopath with terrifying reality when Lamont poured gasoline into the elevator, prepared to light it and her ablaze while delivering his epic monologue. Fortunately, Antonio shot Lamont and freed his sister, and we breathed a sigh of relief.
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“A Little Devil Complex” gave us a satisfying resolution to what is possibly still the saddest and most shocking death in the One Chicago universe. Chicago PD season 2, episode 13 got what we wanted: justice in the murder of Leslie Shay and closure for us. We’ll still look back on it as both a nail-biter and the episode where we were finally able to let go.
Next: Revisit the Chicago Fire half of this crossover
You can re-watch Chicago PD season 2, episode 13 on DVD or iTunes. Check back all month long as we revisit the episodes that were throughout February!