Chicago PD season 7 premiere preview: Doubt

What should fans watch for in the Chicago PD premiere? Get ready for Doubt with our Chicago PD season 7, episode 1 preview.

Tonight’s Chicago PD premiere picks up where last season left off, but it might also make One Chicago fans have a certain amount of deja vu.

“Doubt” has the Intelligence Unit investigating the death of police superintendent, and recently elected mayor, Brian Kelton (John C. McGinley). After spending last season antagonizing the team, Kelton was killed in the season finale.

The writers want audiences to think that Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) is the killer. He was last seen driving off, after Kelton’s body was discovered. Logically, that makes him the prime suspect.

But that could also be a fake-out on the part of the show. Voight being the murderer was set up so clearly, one could argue it’s too clear.

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Producers have to know that Voight saying he was going to see Kelton, and then being shown driving away right after fans saw dead Kelton, implies that he was involved in the murder.

Even moreso when one considers Voight’s track record; he’s killed before and has enabled other murders in the past. Chicago PD is either being incredibly obvious, or knowingly playing into the audience’s expectations—making them look left before the plot turns right.

Either way, this ought to be interesting.

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That’s because Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) is on point when Chicago PD returns. He’s essentially in the same position that Antonio Dawson (Jon Seda) was in last season’s premiere, and that ended up being a disaster. So what’s going to be different this time? Why are the writers going back and using the same setup?

Will Halstead get the respect that Antonio didn’t? After all, he’s suspecting Voight of committing a murder. Antonio also went against Voight, but he was telling the truth about something that really happened, so if anything Halstead’s position in this episode is less tenable since it’s not based on facts.

But the major voice against Antonio was Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger), and when “Doubt” opens, Ruzek will be behind bars—so maybe there won’t be anyone there to push Halstead. And Jay has a generally affable personality, too, so that could work in his favor.

Yet Chicago PD will have to show what makes one situation different from the other, or not. And it’ll have to explain Voight’s predicament; he may be the killer or he may not, but he’s clearly got something he’s not telling. In that sense, this premiere is business as usual.

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