Chicago PD season 6, episode 18 recap: This City
Chicago PD mixed gang warfare with political schemes in This City. Find out what happened in our Chicago PD season 6, episode 18 recap.
The latest Chicago PD went pretty much according to TV convention, which is to say that nothing worked out as planned.
Wednesday’s installment, “This City,” saw Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) working with a very familiar face when two generations of gang members fought for control of one neighborhood. Which is to say, Voight did what he always does, which is come up with extra-judicial ways to keep Chicago in one piece.
Maybe he wouldn’t have needed to do that, though, if the two candidates for mayor hadn’t been involved and one of them committed a massive blunder to further his own image. Seriously, when will the election end?
Click through this slideshow to find out what happened in the latest Chicago PD episode for each of your favorite characters, starting with:
Stuck between two sides
Gangs are a very common theme on Chicago PD, so “This City” was in familiar territory. But first, for yet another episode, the show decided to open with Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) and her new boyfriend Blair (guest star Charles Michael Davis). Blair, however, was still making it clear that he wasn’t a fan of Chicago. He was leaving in three weeks anyway. And who was Ginny, whose call he didn’t want to answer?
Answers would have to come later, though, as Burgess was called out to a new crime scene where Alderman Ray Price (recurring guest star Wendell Pierce) was waiting. He knew the murder victim, an ex-con named John Winton, and thought Winton’s death was the start of a gang war. He was proven right about 30 seconds later when there was another shooting just around the corner.
In the light of day, Superintendent Brian Kelton (recurring guest star John C. McGinley) finally arrived to talk about how everything needed to be stopped now. He did not like Price getting his hands in a police investigation, but Price told him that he believed Voight was the only person who could possibly negotiate a cease-fire peaceably. Voight was not that thrilled, until he got both Price and Kelton to agree they wouldn’t use this case for political ends.
Price brought Voight to the home of Eddie Brackton, the shot-caller for the older gang, who agreed to come to a meeting. But Brackton expressed skepticism about getting a bunch of teenagers to fall in line. Cue Antonio Dawson’s (Jon Seda) seemingly infinite list of contacts, who quickly turned up Eddie’s young counterpart Eric Wilson. Antonio and Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) confronted Eric, who refused to play ball.
But of course, Chicago PD has ways to make people cooperate…