Chicago PD season 7, episode 6 recap: False Positive
By Kari Highman
Is Marcus innocent? Or guilty as charged?
Jay went back to Marcus and tried one more time to let him confess, but he wouldn’t budge. He then went to Platt with an idea: have Marcus sweat it out in county lockup. Conditions there were a lot harsher, which hopefully meant that Marcus would confess sooner.
Things never went as planned though, as Marcus was attacked in county, and put into a coma. While going through prisoner mugshots, Jay recognized a banger as Peter, one of the men they interviewed earlier from the neighborhood. Apparently Peter turned himself in on an unrelated charge, only so he could kill Marcus.
This shocking turn of events made Jay question if he went too far. He talked to Voight, who reassured him that he was “a good cop with a good heart,” and that’s what mattered. When Vanessa Rojas (Lisseth Chavez) and Kevin Atwater (LaRoyce Hawkins) found Rueben Jones (another person connected to Marcus), more evidence of who Marcus really was came to light.
Marcus was never in the gang life. Rueben knew Marcus since he was a kid, they grew up together. When Upton and Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) came back from interviewing the young boy Jay found, they told the team that he did hear the door get kicked in from the house. This was important information, because that meant their suspect gunned Ray down and killed the kids, all while already being inside the stash house. It was no robbery, it was an inside job.
That was slightly good news, as it meant Marcus was officially cleared from their suspect pool. Trudy was the bearer of bad news as she sadly announced Marcus passed away from his injuries sustained in county. Jay was understandably broken up about the news, as it solidified the fact that an innocent man paid for something he did not do; and Jay never wanted that to happen.