The 5 most infuriating things Denny Woods did

5) Blaming Voight for his daughter’s shooting

In the Chicago PD season 5 episode “Anthem” we thought we might see a more human side of Denny Woods. When Woods’ daughter Brianna became the Intelligence Unit’s best witness in the case of the week, he had to set aside his issues with the team in order to try and do right by his child. Certainly, he could calm down and clear his head enough to realize they all wanted the same thing, right?

Uh, no. The episode took a harsh turn when Brianna defied her father’s words and wound up on the scene when Intelligence was trying to close the case. She found herself not only getting taken hostage as the situation went south, but she was shot in the resulting gun battle and finished the episode in the hospital. We don’t know how long she was there, but it wasn’t until a later episode we found out that Brianna Woods had survived.

How did Denny handle this? Did he express anger at his daughter for not listening to him and her putting herself in the line of fire? No, when Voight (Jason Beghe) tried to comfort him at Chicago Med, he blamed Voight for Brianna’s injury. It was a wonderful performance by Mykelti Williamson but it also proved there’d be no humanizing Woods or being able to reason with him.

Look, we get it. He was terribly upset at the thought that he could still lose his daughter or that she might be paralyzed. We’re not blaming Woods for his grief or anger, but to say it was anyone else’s fault was frustrating. Voight didn’t take his daughter to that crime scene. She has to take responsibility for her actions, and considering that Denny Woods’ whole crusade is about Voight taking responsibility for what he’s done, you’d think he would realize that.