5 reasons Chicago Fire needs to fix Brettonio next

3. Antonio is due for a storyline

At least Brett has had stuff going on, but since Antonio returned to Chicago PD after the end of his brief tenure on Chicago Justice, he’s been incredibly underused. Reuniting Brettonio on Chicago Fire would give him something significant to do and be a way to move his character forward.

We had high hopes that Antonio’s experience working in the State’s Attorney’s Office would give him a new storyline this season, especially given that the theme of Chicago PD season 5 is about police reform and what is or isn’t legal. But that hope has so far been in vain; the biggest issue he has had came in “Promise” when he found out Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) had taken justice into his own hands.

The other Antonio-centric Chicago PD episode was “Chasing Monsters” and that was one of the season’s weaker installments, where he inexplicably fell into bed with a foreign detective whom he barely knew and then had to turn on when she went rogue. It felt nothing like the Antonio Dawson that One Chicago fans know and love.

So while all this stuff has been happening around the Intelligence Unit, with bodies being found and Voight possibly having to turn himself in for murder, Antonio has largely been a supporting character. Restarting his relationship with Brett wouldn’t enhance his screen time on PD, but it would give him at least some direction to travel in this season and hopefully next.