Chicago PD season 8, episode 6 recap: Equal Justice
What’s the real crime?
Cut to later in the evening and another surveillance operation. Our team has eyes on a silver Lexus, which is the same color as the car seen speeding away from Sean Wade’s murder scene. Latrell introduces Jay to Dante as his old friend, but starts getting twitchy when he sees the silver car. He gets confrontational with Dante, and Jay decides to pull the plug on the moment, but not before Dante calls Latrell “a dead man.” Jay has to physically restrain an upset Latrell.
The next day Halstead pitches Voight about ways they can get Dante off the street. “That guy is hurting,” he says of Latrell, “and he just needs answers so he can move on with his life. And we can all relate to that.” Voight agrees to let him build a murder case against Dante. That means looking into Sean’s past and where he got a ton of money that his dad found. Interviews lead our heroes to another dealer as well as a woman named Erika that Sean had a crush on. Plus, they find out the Homicide cops didn’t exactly do their full jobs as they claimed.
They return to the original investigator and confront him with their new evidence, asking why he never found Erika. The guy talks about how much work he has and says “We chase cases we can actually solve.” This does not go over well with Halstead. He and Upton go looking for Erika, but when they see that her mother has a facial wound, she admits that they aren’t the only people searching for her daughter.
After Ruzek and Voight have a pointless chat with Dante, Chicago PD shows that Halstead and Upton have found Erika and brought her down to the 21st. She refuses to talk because she’s on probation. Then Burgess confirms Dante’s alibi, ruling him out as the killer. Instead, texts on Erika’s phone point to one of Dante’s associates named K-Mac just as Latrell shows up looking for Halstead. Apparently he went by Dante’s house.
Jay has to calm him down again, this time by telling him the money came from a part-time job he didn’t even know Sean had. Latrell is moved by Jay informing him that the money was to buy him an AC unit and thanks Jay for how he’s treated him.