Chicago PD season 6, episode 4 recap: Ride Along

Chicago PD continues to stir up tension within Intelligence in this week’s episode. Here’s what happened in Chicago PD season 6, episode 4.

Things have been messy on Chicago PD all season, and what took place in this week’s episode made a volatile situation even more complicated.

“Ride Along” starts with Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) and Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos) still being flirty, just before Ruzek’s ex-fiancee Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) walks in. They all act like nothing weird is happening here.

Ruzek, who was trying to convince Upton to hook up with him again, offers to walk Burgess to her car. That means he’s there when Burgess is asked to meet with Deputy Superintendent Katherine Brennan (recurring guest star Anne Heche).

Brennan says the daughter of a VIP wants to be a cop, and expects Burgess to personally take her out for a ride-along. That means it’s time to be back on the street, while Kim is also thinking about trying to make detective.

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And also supposed to get Trudy Platt (Amy Morton) coffee. There’s the Platt and Burgess banter that the show has missed so much.

Chicago PD introduces Kendra, who tells Burgess she wants to be a cop to “make a difference” just before they get a call from Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer).

It isn’t Burgess’s job today, but she allows Kendra to talk her into responding anyway. The two find the car Jay is looking for, only to wind up in the middle of a shootout.

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Burgess leaves Kendra in the car while she goes to help a wounded victim; when she gets back, the girl is gone. Clearly Kim didn’t learn much from “Justice” three seasons ago!

Once the bullets have stopped, Intelligence gets onto the case while Burgess searches frantically for Kendra with some help from ex-partner Kevin Atwater (LaRoyce Hawkins). Chicago PD also is in need of more Burgess-Atwater scenes, so this is good, and it’s better when Burgess finds the girl at her mom’s apartment.

Unfortunately, Mom does not approve of Burgess choosing to take her daughter on an emergency call, and you know that’s going to get up the ladder to Brennan. Meanwhile, the rest of our heroes have identified the shooter as a junkie named Trent.

"Upton: This kid’s been getting a free pass his entire life."

Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) sits Burgess down and urges her to tell the review board the truth in her hearing the next day. Until then, they have a murderer to catch. Ruzek wants to make up some exigent circumstances to bust down the door, but then the suspect’s truck pulls up instead—with a woman inside who tells them where Trent is. That was easy.

Ruzek and Burgess go to the location, but Trent’s nosy brother immediately starts playing would-be lawyer, getting in the way of their questioning. Both of them insist that Trent is innocent while Burgess gets a call from Brennan, summoning her into her office.

The shooting victim will be fine but Brennan tells Burgess not to follow Voight’s advice; she’s a “female hero” and that’s good PR, so she should lie and claim Kendra wasn’t there. Does it feel like the script has been flipped to anyone else?

Chicago PD segues back to the district, where Intelligence comes up with a Plan B. There’s an auto body shop that Antonio Dawson (Jon Seda) thinks Trent could’ve been working out of. Everyone is chasing down the owner, during which Antonio injures his shoulder and Ruzek decides to hand out a slightly flirty compliment to Upton. After that, Antonio tells him this:

"Antonio: You say what happened. Cover-ups only worsen the crime."

That’s foreshadowing, because Burgess decides to take Brennan’s side, and tells the review board that she was alone in her patrol car during the shooting. While she does that, Atwater and Voight interrogate the shop owner—who claims he’s never met Trent.

He says he just buys merchandise, and identifies the woman he gets the stolen goods from as the one who was driving Trent’s truck earlier. Of course, she’s now on the run. The story gets worse as Burgess takes testimony from a witness who claims Kendra saw the shooter, which would then destroy her little white lie from earlier.

She runs directly to Brennan, who then acts like she never said anything about omitting Kendra, and is “confident” Burgess can find a way out of the situation—on her own, of course. Who didn’t see that one coming?

Halstead and Upton have managed to find their suspect, but too late; Chicago PD reveals that she has already overdosed and died. So what happens next? Trent still hasn’t firmly been connected to anything happening in this episode.

Ruzek and Antonio find themselves dumpster diving, but then they find a security camera nearby that reveals to everyone Kendra ran into the shooter. There’s no way Burgess can talk her way out of this now. On the way to interview Kendra, Burgess tells Atwater her whole sad story, and how she fears being fired because she lied.

"Burgess: I was trying to cover my ass, or kiss Brennan’s. I’m not sure which."

Burgess appeals to Kendra’s “make a difference” desire, and gets her to come down to the district for a photo lineup. She identifies Trent as the shooter. That may save the case, but Chicago PD still has to save Burgess’s bacon. Voight asks Platt to reach out to someone on her behalf.

Intelligence arrives at Trent’s brother’s house to find his brother shot and regretting how he tried to play psuedo-lawyer earlier in the episode. Trent stole his car, crashed it, and is now on the run. Burgess and Atwater track him to a local motel, where he’s already shot someone else. Burgess once again helps the wounded, before she gets to find Trent, who is barely alive.

After saving his life, too, Burgess decides that she’s going to return to the review board and tell the truth. Chicago PD closes “Ride Along” by showing us that Antonio is now popping pills, a la Kelly Severide, and with Burgess skating by the review board—but not by Voight. After he snaps at her, she goes to beat up her locker.

Platt reveals the cop in charge of the review board is a friend of hers, but cautions Burgess never to switch sides again. And at least now she’s getting the coffee.

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