What needs to happen before Chicago PD season 5 ends
Chicago PD returns on Feb. 28, so what do we need to see when it does? Here are three things that need to happen before Chicago PD season 5 ends.
We’re less than a week from new episodes of Chicago PD, so it’s time to think about the rest of the season.
Chicago PD is the furthest along in the One Chicago universe, with the next episode being Episode 15, so we should be well on the way to wherever this season is ultimately headed.
And while a lot has happened this season, there’s a lot more that could happen, maybe hasn’t happened enough, or needs to happen at all.
We’re looking back at everything that’s happened this season and come up with a short list of what we think needs to happen before the end of Chicago PD season 5. Check out our thoughts and let us know yours in the comments.
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1) Atwater’s family reunion
If Kevin Atwater (LaRoyce Hawkins) doesn’t get a happy ending when season 5 is over, we’ll riot.
While it’s been great to see more screen time for LaRoyce Hawkins this season, it’s come through having Atwater just kicked when he’s down. He had to send his siblings to Texas, then he got kidnapped and beaten up. The man deserves a break.
He needs his family back. While “Home” made a good point about their safety, surely that can be resolved somehow (maybe with a huge gang bust). Atwater’s parenting to his siblings is one of the things that makes his character unique, and he even said it this season: he needs them. They are part of him. He can’t get a love interest, his BFF Burgess is off doing other things, so at least bring the dude’s family back and give him something to hold onto.
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2) More of Hailey Upton
Before the season ends, we need more of Hailey Upton. Tracy Spiridakos has been phenomenal in her first full season, and proven she really belongs in the Intelligence Unit.
But aside from “Fallen” we haven’t seen any real Upton-led stories. We still don’t know that much about her past. Most of what she’s done has been supporting her partner Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer). Which is awesome, and Jay definitely needs the support, but we want to see Upton getting her own character development, too.
There are quite a few things that could be done with her character, like continuing to explore how her moral hard line is challenged by working in the morally questionable Intelligence Unit. So it’s not that there’s not stories to tell, or places she could fit in. Upton just hasn’t been able to come totally into her own yet, and we want her to because we think she’ll be even more impressive when she does.
3) Voight vs. Woods once and for all
The battle between Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) and Denny Woods (recurring guest star Mykelti Williamson) is the season-long arc for Chicago PD. Which means that when Chicago PD season 5 ends, this story had better end. Period. Completely.
Mykelti Williamson is a wonderful actor, so we get why PD brought him back this season to be the engine of the whole “reform” idea. But there’s only so much of Woods taunting Voight and Voight snarking Woods that we can take before somebody needs to do something. If we’re going to tell this story over the whole season, it needs an ending—and a big one, like perhaps these two just fighting it out in a parking lot and getting the acrimony over with.
Woods as a character hasn’t developed, either. So if he doesn’t get put in his place this season, after he essentially skated following the events of “Grasping For Salvation” it’s going to make the CPD look pretty dumb. He needs to be put in his place, and we need a resolution to a cat and mouse game that’s already a bit long in the tooth.
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What do you think needs to happen before the end of Chicago PD‘s season? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
Chicago PD returns Feb. 28 at 10/9c on NBC.