Chicago PD pushed Kevin Atwater to the edge again, while Hank Voight got some help. Find out what happened in our Chicago PD season 6, episode 13 recap!
This week’s Chicago PD episode gave one of the show’s most underused characters another chance to shine, but it also ran him through the wringer in an emotionally charged episode.
Wednesday’s installment “Night in Chicago” saw Kevin Atwater (LaRoyce Hawkins) once again working undercover to bring down a dangerous criminal and his entire enterprise. While he was under with the drug dealers, Atwater ended up in the crosshairs of some overzealous cops and someone paid the ultimate price.
Meanwhile, the case had political connections, as the tip that started the whole thing off came from a certain drug-connected Alderman. And a certain corrupt Superintendent was on the hunt, for mayoral endorsements and possibly something else.
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Crime and basketball
“Night in Chicago” opened in the middle of Atwater’s undercover operation, where he was playing pool with suspects with a surveillance van outside. Atwater was there to take down Phil Gamble, by getting in with his crazed right-hand man Daryl Ingram. If Daryl would just stop pointing guns at people for his own amusement.
Chicago PD revealed that the operation started with a tip from Alderman Ray Price (returning guest star Wendell Pierce), who wanted Phil and Daryl out of his ward. Price passed more info to Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) to help Atwater, talking about taking matters into their own hands before the two toasted one another.
That included that Daryl had one weakness: his 15-year-old brother Vance, whom Atwater cozied up to by pretending to recruit him for a basketball team. Daryl’s rage was tempered by a meeting with the coach Atwater claimed to work for, which was really just Atwater calling in a favor. That got Kevin “in” but he needed a way forward—so the action shifted back to Voight.
He went looking for Price, who was being wined and dined by Brian Kelton (guest star John C. McGinley), as Kelton was looking for his endorsement in the race for Mayor. Price was not going to have any of that, so Kelton left disappointed before Voight got the name of Daryl’s drug supplier and the address to his stash house.
Intelligence promptly raided it, and everyone learned that Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) speaks spanish, which was an awkward beat to end the first act of “Night in Chicago” on.
Daryl’s death
Burgess and Voight interviewed one of the women found at the stash house, and Voight agreed to get her and her family out of Chicago. He also updated Atwater, who went to support a brooding Daryl about the disruption of his business. Naturally, Atwater had another supplier whom he could hook Daryl up with!
With no other option, Daryl agreed to a meeting with an undercover Antonio Dawson (Jon Seda) and the two quickly made a deal. But as the two drove home afterward, they were pulled over by an overzealous patrol unit—and this was not part of the plan. This was two uniforms screwing up the operation as they started doing a little racial profiling.
And when they got a radio call about an unrelated robbery with suspects who just happened to be black, they pulled Atwater and Daryl out of the car and began to manhandle them. One pulled his gun on an upset Daryl, who refused to get on his knees and for that, ended up being shot to death.
So now what? Would they face any consequences for their actions, and how the heck was Atwater supposed to keep the case going with Gamble’s most trusted lieutenant dead? Not from the back of a patrol car, that’s for sure.
End of the road
Voight decided to leave Atwater hanging in order to preserve his cover, instead deciding to come over and be chummy with the uniforms. Chicago PD had him offer to drive Atwater back to the district, which gave a still-enraged Atwater a chance to unload the emotions he was struggling with.
After bailing Atwater out some time later, Voight cautioned him to calm down but Atwater had reached his breaking point. That led to Kelton’s office, where the Superintendent asked for his explanation of the entire situation. Another of Chicago PD season 6’s political moments ended with an enraged Kelton saying that Atwater could “go down” for the situation, while protesters had already gathered—including Ray Price.
Atwater gave his statement to IRT, while feeling guilty about how he “got an innocent man killed.” That made him incredulous when Voight insisted on seeing the tape of the incident first, pointing out Daryl’s criminal record. He also told Kevin that Kelton wanted to make him the fall guy for not identifying himself as a Chicago PD officer. But, of course, he could get out of the crosshairs by finishing the investigation.
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Back undercover, Atwater comforted a devastated Vance before getting Gamble to continue with the drug deal. As soon as the bags changed hands all of Intelligence was on Gamble to arrest him, which only led him to recognize who sold him out—and incorrectly assume that Atwater had set up Daryl to be murdered. That stung Kevin, who ruminated on how they had to catch the bad guys “no matter what it costs.”
With the operation done, Atwater finally watched the tape of Daryl’s shooting. He pointed out to Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) that the video didn’t have audio, so even though Daryl was reaching for the gun, there wasn’t complete context. But then Ray Price himself called Atwater to talk about what Kevin was going to say—because this was about “the future of Chicago” and Ray Price’s plan to run for Mayor.
That only made Atwater more upset, being pulled in two different directions by two people who could not possibly understand him. While Chicago PD didn’t show what he said to the brass, it did reveal that they deemed it a good shooting—when he said it to one of the racist officers before he beat him up, vowing to “get your badge one way or the other.” And he ended the episode putting a gun to the man’s head, so he could experience how it felt.
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