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One Chicago’s 5 most WTF relationship moments

By Brittany Frederick

CHICAGO MED -- "Shaky Ground" Episode 309 -- Pictured: (l-r) Nick Gehlfuss as Will Halstead, Torrey DeVitto as Natalie Manning -- (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC)
CHICAGO MED -- "Shaky Ground" Episode 309 -- Pictured: (l-r) Nick Gehlfuss as Will Halstead, Torrey DeVitto as Natalie Manning -- (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC) /
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CHICAGO P.D. — “Last Minute Resistance” Episode 419 — Pictured: (l-r) Sophia Bush as Erin Lindsay, Jesse Lee Soffer as Jay Halstead — (Photo by: Matt Dinerstein/NBC) /

1. Jay Halstead, Erin Lindsay and Jay’s ex-wife

The very definition of WTF moment came to us from Chicago PD, when it killed off the show’s central relationship by revealing that Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) had a previously unknown ex-wife!

The bewildering Abby turned up in Chicago PD season 4 when she showed up to have Jay sign their divorce papers; audiences were told they’d gotten impulsively married well before he came to Chicago or gotten involved with Erin Lindsay (Sophia Bush). But despite her reason for coming, at the end of her episode Abby was trying to put a move on Jay anyway.

Though Jay showed better judgment than his brother Will and rebuffed Abby’s interest in getting back together, he still went back to the place he shared with Erin and declared that he was moving out so he could work on some personal issues that Chicago PD never made truly clear until this season.

In the interim, Jay and Erin not only broke up—despite the fact that all Jay did was ask for space, not the end of the relationship—but he then decided to propose to Erin, even though at the time they weren’t even a couple any more.

Now, let’s be fair. We know that Chicago PD had to find some way to bring an end to the Linstead ship, because Sophia Bush left the show after season 4. But according to Bush’s comments later, the writers had advance notice she was leaving. And they fumbled this to the point it wrecked the ship instead of just concluding it.

Why pull a random ex-wife out of Jay’s history? How does her return suddenly make him recall issues he needs to deal with? Why does he then not actually deal with them (sans one scene that was deleted and only appeared on YouTube) until next season? And if they’re broken up and he’s got so much stuff to handle, how does he then suddenly decide he needs to marry Erin?

Absolutely nothing about Linstead’s conclusion made sense. It would’ve been perfectly fine, and a lot simpler, if Jay had simply decided to propose to Erin—and she made the tough decision to say no, she loved him but needed to get a fresh start outside of Chicago. Fans would have understood that, and Jay would have, too.

Instead, one of One Chicago’s favorite ships ended badly, and Linstead fans will always have that sour note in their memories, unless Sophia Bush returns to give more closure to their story. It was a wrong turn that should have, and purportedly could have, been avoided—and that’s what makes it the most WTF moment in the history of One Chicago ships.

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What do you think is the biggest WTF moment for any One Chicago relationship? Let us know what you’d put on this list in the comments.

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