Chicago PD season 14, episode 4 begins with quite an unexpected start, as we don’t pick up the episode following a member of the Intelligence Unit. Instead, we meet a young officer, Officer Watts, who ends up catching a scene that puts him in Intelligence’s crosshairs.
Voight, Burgess, Imani, and Ruzek arrive at the scene as Watts walks them through the stashhouse scene and the victim. Watts suggests that their victim likely took the gig looking for some quick money and wasn’t deep into the operation. They move outside to where the getaway car was parked, and Ruzek finds a wrapper that Watts recognizes from a corner store around the corner.
Watts and Ruzek follow up on the lead and speak with the corner store owner, a man named Jackie, who Watts has a good rapport with. While Jackie doesn’t want to give them answers, Watts talks him into turning over the security footage from a secret camera on the scene. The footage shows three young men in the store who seem to be low-level slingers for the Corner Boys.
Voight instructs Ruzek to run the footage through facial recognition to see if they can get a hit as he dismiss Watts. Once outside, he gets an earful from his partner, who makes it clear he wants no part of this case, and neither should Watts. However, it’s clear that Watts isn’t able to shake things.
Back at the precinct, we finally piece together why Voight wants Intelligence to work this case as Imani questions whether he really thinks someone from this crew played him and was behind LaSean’s hit. Voight isn’t sure, but he wants to work this case just in case. Ruzek and Burgess arrive and reveal that Watts’ instincts were right, as this does seem to be an inside job with three lower-level guys ripping off their boss.
As Intelligence works the case, we cut to Watts, who is looking into the case off the books as his shift ends and looks into the same suspect Intelligence has honed in on: Trez Brown. Burgess and Ruzek attempt to track down answers by pressing Trez’s mom for information about his whereabouts, as Watts tries to get answers another way by visiting another kid from the neighborhood who points him in the direction of where Trez likes to hang out.
Watts ends up arriving at the arcade just as Intelligence rolls up and he enters the building before they can stop him. He ends up spooking one of the suspects, who races outside into the alley while another young man inside the arcade fires at Voight and Burgess. Thankfully, Watts is able to disarm him before anyone is injured.
Voight, Ruzek, and Watts process the scene and find the phone and ID of one of their suspects. Voight calls Watts down with him to interrogate the shooter, who refuses to give them anything, which is when Watts makes it clear his buddies won’t make it, and now he’s heading to prison after shooting up the street. He points out how he’ll be on the same prison block as the guys he stole from, who will make his life hell, and when he finally realizes the mistake he made, it will have been too late. He convinces the young man to give them the code to unlock the phone, which Voight passes off to Imani to look into.
After sending Imani off to run the phone, Voight presses Watts on why he’s out working the case, as he makes it clear he just wants to help. To his surprise, Voight sends him home, but when he hears Voight come over the radio with an update about the lead, Watts heads out to the house where they suspect the stolen cash is. He radios to Voight, who accepts his help, but Voight makes it clear he’s to hold the scene and wait for them to arrive.
Watts arrives first, and there are no signs of offenders at first. He finds the stolen minivan parked behind the house and informs Voight that he suspects there is a kid in the house, as Voight remains steadfast that he hold anchor until they arrive. Knowing that a kid could be in the house and be in danger, Watts ignores Voight’s order and gets out of his car and approaches the house. As he nears the building, he hears fighting from within and enters the home via a broken screen door.
Inside, we hear a man interrogating a woman who is adamant she doesn't know anything about stolen money. Watts bursts into the room where two armed men have the young woman and her son at gunpoint.
Intelligence finally arrives and Voight tries to reach Watts on his radio, but he doesn’t answer. Inside, Watts tries to defuse the situation and assures the suspects that he can help them, but first they have to let the kid go. Watts sets his gun down and works to talk the two young suspects down. He calls through and tells Intelligence to give them a subtle message about the situation as they move in on the house. As tensions continue to escalate, Ruzek takes a shot and kills one of the armed suspects, allowing Watts to disarm the second.
The following day, during rollcall, Watts is held back and sent outside, where he finds Voight waiting for him. It turns out that Watts' actions on the case impressed Voight as much as his record, but there is a gap in it that he presses him on. Watts reveals that he's unable to legally speak about the sealed records, which is good enough for Voight, who offers him a position at Intelligence.
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