The dynamic between Chicago P.D.’s Deputy Chief Reid and Sergeant Hank Voight is “fractured” after their most recent case — and according to actor Shawn Hatosy, it’s only going to get worse.
“I think they’re both looking over their shoulder,” Hatosy, who plays Reid, exclusively told Us Weekly, noting that the new chief will continue to butt heads with Voight (Jason Beghe).
Warning: Spoilers below for Chicago P.D. season 12, episode 15.
During the Wednesday, March 5, episode of Chicago P.D., Reid implements a Violence Reduction Initiative and enlists Voight’s Intelligence Team to help monitor a gang-infested neighborhood.
When a shooting takes place, Voight’s team jumps into action to solve the crime, and Reid makes a few calls to expedite the process.
“It sort of tests the relationship, and Hank has to face the fact that he’s dealing with somebody that is gonna go and do something because he has dirt on somebody else,” Hatosy, 49, explained of the cat-and-mouse game Reid and Voight are playing.
The actor noted that Voight learns how Reid “operates,” which “creates a little bit of a tense relationship” between the pair. Reid obtaining a search warrant in a suspicious manner raises eyebrows for Voight and “puts things in motion” for him to “go down the rabbit hole and see who this guy is,” Hatosy added.
At the end of the episode, Voight realizes that Reid has “criminals in his pocket too.” Reid admits that he’d rather have a drug dealer in charge of the neighborhood — with no violent priors on his record — than four young kids selling dope, which didn’t sit well with Voight.
“You and me, we are exactly the same,” Reid tells Voight, which prompts Voight to go to his attorney friend and vow to take Reid down.
Even though Reid knows Voight’s team was complicit in covering up Dante Torres (Benjamin Levy Aguilar) sleeping with his criminal informant, Voight is ready to take back his squad his way.
“It can’t end nicely. It has to go somewhere, and it has to blow up,” Hatosy told Us of the trajectory for Reid and Voight this season. “It’s heading in a direction where it’s gonna blow up.”
He teased, “Once things blow up, where [do] the characters go? Maybe Reid is the one that never comes back, but something has to occur where these characters are affected, and moving forward it might change them.”
When asked what Voight needs to do to come out unscathed, Hatosy confessed, “I don’t know,” adding that showrunner Gwen Sigan has been “very tight-lipped” about Reid’s endgame.
Hatosy noted, “They’ve clearly set in motion that they want to take this guy down,” but Reid is “prepared” for what’s to come.
“Him knowing Voight and what he’s capable of and how he’s gotten to where he is. It’s gonna blow up,” he explained. “It’s sort of by design, so I’m excited to see how it turns out.”
Chicago P.D. airs on NBC Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET.
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