Chicago PD season 7, episode 4 recap: Infection, Part 3

A sharp conclusion

Voight decides not to engage with Seldon’s game-playing. When Halstead believes he’s found a location where Seldon is holed up, he brings a small army to arrest him. The place is empty, but has the ultimate bad guy cliche: he’s spelled out his plans on the wall.

It’s no surprise that they involve that Oktoberfest parade that was mentioned near the start of Chicago Fire. But everyone’s so paranoid that nobody came to the parade; it’s just empty city blocks. So what will Seldon do? Chief Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker) thinks he’ll find another target.

Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) and Ruzek have constructed a timeline of the last six months in Seldon’s life, and Rojas (again) has a big tip: he lost much of his research funding, and the people responsible were BRT Health Industries—the same people who oversaw the university lab that was set on fire.

Burgess realizes Seldon was trying to prove that he’d found a disease that could kill the planet, and his way of proving it was to unleash it. His final target? BRT’s headquarters.

Everyone races there, as Will and the team at Chicago Med believe they’ve found a cure for the virus. They pull out all the stops to get it manufactured while Intelligence realizes that they’re a few minutes too late. A dead body falls out of the building. Seldon is on the sixth floor and he’s got hostages.

Leave it to Halstead, who got shot during the last three-show One Chicago crossover, to face off with him. Seldon is in a conference room with the hostages, several of whom he’s infected with the disease. It’s either that or he shoots them, which is a morbid catch-22. Jay tries to keep everyone calm, while pretty much the entire rest of the One Chicago universe arrives on the scene.

Jay buys time by offering himself up as Seldon’s next victim, even going so far as to cut himself so he can be exposed to the virus. But just before he’s supposed to infect himself, there’s Upton with her sniper rifle, creating a distraction that allows the rest of the team to enter the room. Voight shoots Seldon dead, while Will treats his brother and everyone else. Crisis averted.

Everyone finally gets to go home, and Chicago PD ends with the Burzek scene that’s been teased for a week. Adam asks Kim if she wants to go home with him, and she agrees. He takes her hand as they walk off together. Hopefully that’s not another fake-out from the Chicago PD writers.

Sharon Goodwin (S. Epatha Merkerson) wraps up the crossover with a narration as we see what happens to everyone else. Amanda is doing well and reunited with her grandmother, while Firehouse 51 has raised money for their favorite food truck owner to rebuild her restaurant. And the Halstead brothers are getting a drink together, as Chicago finally starts being a city again.

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