Chicago PD season 6, episode 21 recap: Confession

Voight’s big plan

Platt suggested a meeting with Katherine Bradley, and Voight gave her the same information on Kelton that he had given to Ray Price earlier in Chicago PD season 6, hoping she would publish a story about it before the election and torpedo Kelton. Bradley was interested, but said she’d have to interview the lead detective on the case Kelton had covered up first.

Meanwhile, Intelligence had found the black van, identified its plate and traced it to someone at the same restaurant that Hugo had worked at. The owner, Carlos, said that his van had been stolen—but he hadn’t reported it until an hour after the shooting happened. Furthermore, he said that Hugo had quit a week earlier.

But as soon as they left, Burgess and Antonio saw Carlos meeting with a drug supplier named Alex del Toro. Antonio explained Alex had killed one of his CI’s nine years ago and was connected to the Mexican cartels. Oh, and he also happened to own the restaurant, which made it obvious that the place was being used to launder drug money.

Recovering Carlos’s van, Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) questioned the man who’d located it. He didn’t want to describe the two men inside it, saying “it was dark” even though it was ten in the morning. That’s because the witness was in the country illegally. When Halstead threatened to turn him over to ICE, he changed his tune and identified Alex and Carlos.

Voight took all this information to Katherine Brennan (recurring guest star Anne Heche), who agreed to help make sure Alex didn’t leave the country. She also wanted to know why she was getting a call from Katherine Bradley. “You are making a mistake,” she warned Voight, and urged him to make peace with Kelton’s upcoming election. Uh, no thanks.

Instead, Voight went to interrogate Alex, who claimed he didn’t know Hugo and had an alibi, before his lawyer popped up. Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos) and Halstead didn’t get anything out of Carlos, and the witness failed to identify Alex in a lineup. But there was a reason why: somebody had just sent him a photo of his kids—in Mexico. Cut to Alex smirking while Chicago PD played ominous music.

With their only witness leaving the country, Voight ordered his team to hit the restaurant again and cause as much trouble as possible. Atwater found seven kilos of heroin under the floor of Carlos’s office, but just as Antonio was trying to pressure him again, Ruzek pulled Antonio out of the interrogation to tell him about their other problem.

It turned out that the detective who could verify the truth about Brian Kelton just happened to take a leave of absence, which would shoot down Voight’s plan to have that article published exposing Kelton. Voight needed Antonio and Ruzek to find the other man in order to save Antonio’s bacon. Antonio, though, had other ideas.