Chicago PD season 7, episode 18 recap: Lines
By Kari Highman
Chicago PD put Vanessa Rojas on the hot seat when her past popped up in Lines. Find out what happened in our Chicago PD season 7, episode 18 recap.
This week’s episode of Chicago PD put Vanessa Rojas (Lisseth Chavez) in the middle of a major drug case when a past connection came back to haunt her.
In “Lines,” Rojas wasn’t the only one who made some awfully rash decisions, as her roommate and friend Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos) really went to bat to protect her colleague. Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) had to keep an eye over the two women while he tried to salvage what was left of their case.
Click through this slideshow to find out what happened in the latest Chicago PD episode for each of your favorite characters. Let us know what you thought of the episode in the comments at the end of this article.
One piece of a puzzle
Chicago PD opened with Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) on the scene of a crime that might involve Gael Rodriguez, the head of a drug trafficking organization. Voight was busy talking to another detective, who looked over the body—or what was left of it—of Isabel Pena, Gael’s girlfriend. Voight let the detective know that Intelligence was working over “the second” TJ, whom Vanessa and Kevin Atwater (LaRoyce Hawkins) were meeting at a club.
Chicago PD cut over to that exact scene, with Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) and Hailey Upton watching the rendezvous from a van across the street. Halstead got antsy and impatient, joking to Upton that he was going to “blow his brains out.” Upton said she’d be “the same way.”
Atwater and Rojas tried to convince TJ to talk, before Rojas spotted a guy at the other end of the bar. She told Upton she was going to go get another drink, and walked right towards the mystery man, while Jay and Hailey were confused and contemplated pulling the plug.
Upton was confident Rojas could keep her cover, and it turned out she was right. Rojas pulled the guy in and kissed him before he had a chance to meet her “work friends.” Upton questioned Rojas about him later; she said his name was Luis Reyes, and he was her ex-boyfriend. Had Rojas told Luis that she was a cop now? No, Rojas replied, he had no idea.
Intelligence was still targeting Gael, who was “hard as hell to pin,” according to Atwater. Voight told Halstead and Upton that they were taking the lead on the case, as the objective of the game was to bust Gael for drugs, but also to end the violence. Unfortunately, when they all geared up for a deal, TJ informed Atwater the deal was off.
That forced Intelligence to rely on a wire tap. “Everything might be something,” Voight reminded his team in a clever voiceover montage Chicago PD put together. A huge web was weaved on Intelligence’s trusty white boards, while Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati), Ruzek, Upton and Halstead were sent out to plant trackers on Gael’s vehicles. Then Halstead and Ruzek set up cameras inside of electrical boxes across from the places TJ and Gael visited.
While Rojas and Atwater were sitting on surveillance duty, she saw Luis on the camera footage. She chose to delete him from the film; it was a bold move, but would it catch up to her later in this episode? Of course it would.