Written
By: Michael Batistick
Directed By: Mark Tinker
The Plot: The fifteenth and final episode of the season. Lindsay finds herself being railroaded by Charlie Pugliese, who has some sort of information that would make her life (and that of her best friend’s) very difficult. Exactly what the info is, so far, we're not made aware, but from the look on Lindsay's face, it's damaging.
Directed By: Mark Tinker
The Plot: The fifteenth and final episode of the season. Lindsay finds herself being railroaded by Charlie Pugliese, who has some sort of information that would make her life (and that of her best friend’s) very difficult. Exactly what the info is, so far, we're not made aware, but from the look on Lindsay's face, it's damaging.
Dawson
comes back to work early, and his wife isn't happy about it. So much so that
they have a heated argument on the phone.
On the job, the Unit is investigating the theft of water-gel explosives from a construction site. A tip from a CI of Halstead’s identifies that Charlie, Lindsay’s friend, is involved, but Halstead decides not to tell his partner that yet. Instead, Halstead helps Ruzek and Atwater on another job that provided them the name of the behind the construction site robbery (and the murder of the security guard), a man named Kevin "Red" Radner and Charlie is involved.
Halstead encourages Lindsay to tell the truth, so she reveals the whole truth to Voight, and Charlie and his compatriots are arrested, and the water-gel explosives are secured. At that point, Charlie reveals the ace up his sleeve: he claims to have information about a murder, one that implicates Lindsay’s best friend, Annie – who is also the mother of Charlie’s young son. Lindsay counters, promising to protect her friend, and suggests to Charlie that if he wants any future with his son, he’d be wise to stop.
To that end, Charlie reveals that Radner was the triggerman on the security guard murder, and gives up his location. But Nadia makes a timely reappearance, and remembers the warehouse in question – Voight’s squad don’t – from her days as a prostitute. The team swoop in, but are spotted and a shootout ensues. Lindsay and Halstead pursue in their car and Lindsay shoots out the tyres, and kills Red whilst Halstead takes care of the driver.
Voight learns that Jin is the mole and confronts the tech wizard about it. Voight is seething, though Jin reveals that Stillwell is using him, blackmailing him and threatening to expose his father’s gambling debts, so Voight lets him go.
Dawson goes home and finds that Laura has left with their children, presumably as a result of their earlier argument.
As Atwater joins Intelligence, Burgess is partnered with a lazy and disinterested partner who would prefer to sleep on the job rather than catch crooks. She requests Platt to assign her a better partner, and when Ruzek goes to Burgess’ apartment, to console her after missing out on intelligence, things escalate between them and look set to end in the bedroom.
The final scene of the season is Voight arriving at a snow-covered location, presumably a park or something, where Stillwell is looking over Jin’s dead body.
My Thoughts: It wasn’t a huge surprise to learn that Lindsay’s old friend was a bad guy. What we know of her life – drug-addled teenager than Criminal Informant for Voight – before she became a cop, but the interesting thing was what he had on her. Turns out, it was information on a murder that Lindsay's best friend committed years before.
Lindsay sticking up for a friend, but it’s another example of how loyal she is. Sophia Bush does a great job balancing her steely edge as a cop with her empathy for her friends. I thought we’d maybe see Severide make an appearance, but alas, the crossovers will have to wait for another year.
Epic ending. Didn’t see Dawson’s wife leaving – it sort of came out of nowhere, off the back, presumably, of that one argument – and I certainly didn’t think we’d see Jin’s dead body at the very end. I figured he’d be flipped by Voight to look into Stillwell. So the real question now is who killed him? Hopefully we don’t have to wait too long into the premiere of Season Two to find out! If it’s gotta be a choice between Stillwell and Voight, I’m leaning towards the IA guy, but it could, of course, be completely unrelated.
On the job, the Unit is investigating the theft of water-gel explosives from a construction site. A tip from a CI of Halstead’s identifies that Charlie, Lindsay’s friend, is involved, but Halstead decides not to tell his partner that yet. Instead, Halstead helps Ruzek and Atwater on another job that provided them the name of the behind the construction site robbery (and the murder of the security guard), a man named Kevin "Red" Radner and Charlie is involved.
Halstead encourages Lindsay to tell the truth, so she reveals the whole truth to Voight, and Charlie and his compatriots are arrested, and the water-gel explosives are secured. At that point, Charlie reveals the ace up his sleeve: he claims to have information about a murder, one that implicates Lindsay’s best friend, Annie – who is also the mother of Charlie’s young son. Lindsay counters, promising to protect her friend, and suggests to Charlie that if he wants any future with his son, he’d be wise to stop.
To that end, Charlie reveals that Radner was the triggerman on the security guard murder, and gives up his location. But Nadia makes a timely reappearance, and remembers the warehouse in question – Voight’s squad don’t – from her days as a prostitute. The team swoop in, but are spotted and a shootout ensues. Lindsay and Halstead pursue in their car and Lindsay shoots out the tyres, and kills Red whilst Halstead takes care of the driver.
Voight learns that Jin is the mole and confronts the tech wizard about it. Voight is seething, though Jin reveals that Stillwell is using him, blackmailing him and threatening to expose his father’s gambling debts, so Voight lets him go.
Dawson goes home and finds that Laura has left with their children, presumably as a result of their earlier argument.
As Atwater joins Intelligence, Burgess is partnered with a lazy and disinterested partner who would prefer to sleep on the job rather than catch crooks. She requests Platt to assign her a better partner, and when Ruzek goes to Burgess’ apartment, to console her after missing out on intelligence, things escalate between them and look set to end in the bedroom.
The final scene of the season is Voight arriving at a snow-covered location, presumably a park or something, where Stillwell is looking over Jin’s dead body.
My Thoughts: It wasn’t a huge surprise to learn that Lindsay’s old friend was a bad guy. What we know of her life – drug-addled teenager than Criminal Informant for Voight – before she became a cop, but the interesting thing was what he had on her. Turns out, it was information on a murder that Lindsay's best friend committed years before.
Lindsay sticking up for a friend, but it’s another example of how loyal she is. Sophia Bush does a great job balancing her steely edge as a cop with her empathy for her friends. I thought we’d maybe see Severide make an appearance, but alas, the crossovers will have to wait for another year.
Epic ending. Didn’t see Dawson’s wife leaving – it sort of came out of nowhere, off the back, presumably, of that one argument – and I certainly didn’t think we’d see Jin’s dead body at the very end. I figured he’d be flipped by Voight to look into Stillwell. So the real question now is who killed him? Hopefully we don’t have to wait too long into the premiere of Season Two to find out! If it’s gotta be a choice between Stillwell and Voight, I’m leaning towards the IA guy, but it could, of course, be completely unrelated.
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