5 reasons Chicago PD season 5 should end with Hank Voight’s arrest

5) It’d be one heck of an ending

Every TV show season finale wants two things: a shocking ending that leaves the audience talking and, more often than not, a cliffhanger ending that will convince the network to renew the series for another season. Having Hank Voight arrested would accomplish both those ends for Chicago PD.

For more than 100 episodes, Chicago PD has let Voight largely get away with anything, up to and including the murder of Jason Bingham—the crime which started the chain of events leading up to Wednesday’s season finale. It’s almost become a running joke how he escapes consequences. In almost every episode, he does something that would be against the rules if not immoral, whether it’s physically harming someone who’s not cooperating or doing something a bit shady to push a case forward.

Voight is a walking version of that old saying “the ends justify the means.” And he can do it, because he’s got a team that looks the other way and friends like Judge Tommy Wells (John Pankow) whom he can ask favors of. After five seasons, that luck’s got to run out at some point. And when it does, it’ll be a huge discussion point among PD fans, if he had it coming or if all the good he’s done outweighs the missteps. (Too bad Chicago Justice doesn’t still exist.)

And then NBC would have to renew Chicago PD, because who wouldn’t want to see where the story goes after watching Voight be led away in handcuffs?