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Chicago PD: Was Miller’s behavior in this episode super-weird?

Deputy Superintendent Samantha Miller (recurring guest star Nicole Ari Parker) has developed a relationship with Hank Voight (Jason Beghe), but Miller’s actions in the latest Chicago PD came off more than a little strange.

“Impossible Dream” saw Miller bring Officer Andre Cooper (Cleveland Berto) to Intelligence’s latest crime scene and ask Voight to accept Cooper into his unit as a “personal favor” to her. When Voight pointed out that the unit is very small and very elite, the Deputy Superintendent changed her tune slightly and told him she could just assign the other man to his unit instead.

It got even more awkward when Cooper admitted to Voight that he didn’t know what was going on either; Miller had simply told him to get into her car and not explained where they were headed.

It’s nice that Miller wants to help out a young cop who’s getting a bad break, but there were much better and less uncomfortable ways to handle it. Couldn’t she have set up a meeting at her office and pitched Voight the idea there instead of interrupting an active case? Shouldn’t she have asked Cooper what he might want first and then approached Voight?

The simplest explanation is that this was the easiest way for Chicago PD‘s writers to work this plot point in, by integrating it into the top of the episode rather than doing a separate scene with Miller later on. But it came across as her making things awkward for everyone and not exactly professional either.

And we’ve said it before and we’ll say it one more time—where’s Superintendent Jason Crawford in all this? Miller has a boss she should be answering to, or is Crawford just letting her run around and do whatever she wants?

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