With less than six hours to go until the most intense season premiere of Chicago PD yet airs. With everything that transpired in the season finale in May, let's recap what happened throughout season 3, which was Chicago PD at its best.
In the beginning, Erin has left the intelligence unit after the death of her best friend (Nadia) death. She was hanging with her mother, Bunny. Of course, being with her mother isn't the best role model to be around. But when Voight and Co. get a case that went south when Halstead is taken, hostage.
Erin comes in and helps the team out. After being such a badass, he takes those guys down and saves Halstead. After that, she wants to get back in and takes Voight's Road to New Life, where she stays with him until she's well enough.
The Halstead-Erin relationship grew this season. We hoped for a road trip episode, but the two didn't happen due to creative discussions. So they scrapped that and added a crossover episode with SVU, which brought two of the most hated criminals in the last couple of seasons; one of them was Gregory Yates, and it got the Law & Order SVU team to help because it happened under their show.
Yates and Erin had a standoff as he tried to mess with her, but ultimately, she shot the man in his childhood home. I know it's creepy, right? It was that excellent and raw emotion played through that episode for Erin.
Meanwhile, Voight has had some stuff happening to him. Not only taking care of Erin but when an ex-con was released from prison, the one thing he was going to do was take Voight and his family out. Voight was at his Voight mode of attack. Voight and Al take him back in.
In one of the biggest crossovers of the season, both Fire, Med, and PD engaged when a house fire of a cancer patient who didn't have cancer, to begin with, has the staff at Med scratching their heads when they find more and more patients with the same condition, Voight and Co. comes in and looks through the details of each patient and found out that the doctor who treated them was the one that treated Voight's late wife.
Through that one episode, we saw Voight in a way we had never seen before. The emotional toll that brought him and Erin is so understandable. I heard stories and even saw videos, too. And not to mention that his son Justin had a twin brother who died at birth.
Season three also brought in the Law of Chicago as the cast of Chicago Justice made its Network Debut when Burgess and Roman get attacked, and she shoots what she thinks was the suspect, turning Chicago upside down again. Burgess and Roman were at the beginning of a relationship besides being partners as Burgess and Ruzek broke off their engagement because he couldn't comment.
After the shooting, it took Roman a while to get back, and Burgess got some inteexcitingexciting. But in the end, when the CPD decided that Roman could no longer be a beat cop, he moved to San Diego, CA. Burgess chooses not to go, which breaks their relationship.
Let's talk about the season finale; Voight has been hearing about his son being in town without hearing from him. He confronts him when Justin, his wife, and the baby are there having a family meal with Erin, too. Things look bright for Justin until during a case of a mother's death that had Justin's contact info.
That led Voight to get hold of Justin, but nothing. But when Erin and Voght got word of the suspect's car, they went after it. But what they found was Justin lying in the truck, lifeless. From that point on, Voight went a total 180 with rage. That led Voight to go rogue and try to find this guy until he got word of his whereabouts and misled the team as he took in the suspect, thanks to his fellow former cops.
When Halstead tells Erin about the false bust, she knows what is happening and drives to Voight's spot as he had the suspect digging his grave. He tries to confess, but Voight tells him to explore. Erin gets there and tries to ask him to bring him in, but the look on Voight's face in the rain gives such a look that he is gone and going to do this.
He tells Erin to get it so she doesn't get in trouble for this. She drives off as fast as she can, tears coming down. The suspect tells Voight about it all as he stops digging. That only made Voight walk up and shoot him. As Erin was driving, she could hear the gunshot go off.
Now we're into season 4. Will Lindsay tell Commander Crowley about Voight taking an act of vengeance after the death of his son, Justin? How will the team adjust to this, too?
"They're not excusing anything that Voight did, but they're also a little but appreciative," said executive producer Matt Olmstead in a TVLine preview. "Because when it all went down, he had them go (on) a goose chase across town to seal them off so they wouldn't see anything. In their minds, he protected them, and then he did whatever he did. So, for the most part, the unit is back to work, albeit on eggshells a little bit."
With that, Voight will have a more careful watch on Erin to see how or what actions she may or may not take against him.
"He cares for her. He doesn't want to pressure her to do anything she doesn't want to do," Olmstead describes it.
Whatever happens, it will take Season 4 to a new level of drama.
You can catch the return of Chicago PD tonight at 10/9c on NBC.
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