Chicago PD: Season 1 - Episode Eleven - "Turn The Light Off"

Written By: David Hoselton
Directed By: Nick Gomez

The Plot: Lindsay is out doing some shopping and she runs into Nadia, who had last been sighted walking away from the rehab place Lindsay suggested she check into. As a result, it’s frosty between the two. Elsewhere, Halstead spends the night with a red-headed girl.

Voight’s unit investigate what he calls “a massacre”, a giant bank robbery in which the thieves stole $8 million and killed everyone bar two. They learn that one witness, Lukas Perko, lied around the gunmen and reveals that he actually recognised one, a member of a Croatian gang.

At the lair of said gang, they find a pile of bodies, and suspect that a rival gang is cleaning up loose ends. Ruzek and Olinsky are tailing a guy who gets set on fire and incinerated in his own car, in broad daylight.

Voight and Antonio chat with Perko's imprisoned brother Dominik, and discover it was Dominik who planned the robbery heist. Furthermore, he reveals that his cellmate was a part of The Latin Kings. Rolo Ramirez is the head guy, and Burgess must go undercover with the Nadia – she’s been off cocaine for a month – as hookers to ID Ramirez. They do so, but not before Nadia is tragically forced to do a line of coke to maintain their cover, and to avoid Burgess from having to do the drugs.

Ramirez is captured, but another man, Gustav Munoz, brutally beats Burgess and manages to escape after a footrace. Voight and Olinsky use their somewhat questionable methods to get Ramirez to reveal where the $8 million is.

It is revealed that the woman Halstead is seen with early in the episode is the daughter of the boy who was killed by Lonnie Rodiger, and Halstead visits their house for dinner. Ruzek is forced to pose as Platt’s fiancé to ensure her rich father continues to pay for her very expensive apartment, and makes the mistake of assuming she is gay. Platt assures Ruzek that she’s definitely not.

Commander Perry announces to Voight that despite getting Ramirez, CPD are unhappy that Munoz got away, and they plan to use Pulpo – the guy who killed Willhite and kidnapped Antonio’s son – as bait. Voight and Dawson are both incensed.

My Thoughts: The scenes between Ruzek and Platt are fantastically awkward, especially when Ruzek tells Platt that she should come out to her father. Easily the funniest moments on Chicago PD so far. Although, it’s a little disturbing that Platt revealed that she’d been with most of her Academy class. Ugh, there’s an image I didn’t need in my head.

I had a feeling Nadia would return to the storyline and she has. It was tough watching her have to give up a month’s worth of sobriety by snorting cocaine, but it was noble that she did it before Burgess had to.

Obviously the bombshell is that Pulpo is being pulled out from whichever rock they’ve been hiding him under since killing Willhite in the opening episode. Voight and Dawson are absolutely against it, so it’ll be interesting to see how it goes down. I guess Pulpo was too good of a character to keep out of action for too long.