Riding the Intense of High Drama: Chicago PD Season 5 episodes 10- 15)

Season 5 of Chicago PD has been nothing but a rush of intense entertainment.

When the show returned in January the show picked up from it's fall finale of Ruzek trying to fix what he had done with his deal with Woods, who been trying to get Voight caught and fired. But Voight and Al figured out before even Adam could even come forward to Voight. But when Voight learns about it, he had Ruzek go along with Woods as if what happen here never happen so they could grab more information.

Ruzek gets put into a corner and keeps on doing business with Woods. But it's doesn't seem to be the end as the body of the man who killed Voight's son has been found at a construction site. Woods, with his cheesy grin, talks to Voight and given him updates of the process. Voight, in the meantime, can only do what he can to keep him and Erin, who moved the body there, away from being the suspects.

Meanwhile, Halstead's keeps his undercover job as his relationship with Camilla grows. But when someone gets killed, who happens to be an undercover agent, outside of the bar, Halstead tries to do everything he can to keep her away from trouble. Voight and Upton isn't too pleased about it (you think?) and forces him to get her to confess about what had happen to an undercover agent. But she gives a name and not only takes him down but Camilla down as well and it wasn't too pretty for Jay to do so, let alone apologizes as well.

Atwater gets kidnapped when he was checking on someone and is assume to be another drug salesman. But while being held up, he's with a man that even hates Atwater as it's the father of the son that he shot years ago. But after trying to talk about it, the two worked together to get out and does but Atwater comes close of getting killed.

Burgess not only deals with professional issues when Antonio gets close to a visiting detective that turns out to be a mother on revenge on a drug lord, who killed her son.  But also personally when her and the team take on a rape and murder case that hits close to home.

So far this season has been amazing and intense to watch with such great writing in developing these characters. The performances from the cast have been a home run with performances from Jesse Lee Soffer to Marina Squerciati and LaRoyce Hawkins. The Halstead storyline this season has been an emotionally wild ride to watch as he's dealing with personal issues that really dived into his professional.

So far I give this part of the season a 8.5/10.

And tonight's the epic 100th episode milestone but also the #OneChicago crossover with Chicago Fire.

You can catch Chicago PD Wednesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

The Thrill of the Hunt: The Blacklist "Abraham Stern (No. 100)"

Nothing like a milestone episode go hunting for a legendary treasure and give a throwback to a former blacklister.

When Red finds a famous penny that leads to a hidden treasure, he's over the moon for because well he loves a good mystery. But when he gets road sided by Abraham Stern, that penny is gone and Red gets the FBI to get it back. Unfortunately, there just to seem to be one more penny left for Stern to take and it's at a auction.

When Ressler and Samar get there to the auction, they were tipped that the penny might be counterfeit and gets placed in the police evidence lock room. With Stern gone, Red ask for Liz about how he could get something out of the evidence room and after she explains to him about it, she offered to go in there and plant some.

Of course, Liz would help her father no matter what, but in this case she's got a bit of road detour when she killed the man that knows who killed Tom. After cleaning up his apartment, the police get there and see the place clean and as they looked around they found a blooded cloth in the sink trash disposal. So with Red's penny at the evidence along with that bloody towel, Liz goes in there with backup in this case with Glenn.

As Glenn and Liz get there, Glenn suffers a heart attack and Liz goes in there and grabs not only the penny but the towel too. As soon as Red gets the penny, Red meets with Stern and talk about story behind the mystery. Stern tells him about how his father never had everything but when he died he left him with four pennies to find a treasure because he didn't want Stern to be like him. So after talks and gave a split deal, they learn about the pennies and that it gives a map to a place in Denver and a message that leads to the highest security banks in the world. 

As Red gets his team to help Stern, they go in but Stern has other plans with his money and places Red back in the truck. But if you know Red, he never gives up or should I say always has a plan B in place when his team comes in and gets the vacuum to suck up a vent that apparently leads to where Stern's money is placed and when they started grabbing, the vacuum machine turns on and sucks all the money to Red's van.

As soon as things were getting close to done, Red calls Cooper about that Stern is at the National Bank and tells him that he doesn't feel that he should go along with him. But as Red says "I know you always get your man." And they did.

As for Liz, she not only sneaks in the Police evidence lock up but also sneaks in the FBI files and grabs a file of one of the most deadliest blacklisters of all, The Stewmaker. She uses what the Stewmaker did to his victims and used it on the man that she killed. As his body was decomposing, she finds a plastic eye in the drain that has a message or something in it.

When she meets up with Red at a pawn shop, Red gives the only penny left and turned it in for what is Winston Churchill's hat. But the one thing they talked about was Liz pretty much going rouge to find Tom's killer and she asked him for help. Red responded with a yes and a new storyline begins for the rest of the fifth season it looks like.

"Abraham Stern" was, for it to be the 100th episode of The Blacklist, literally one to remember among shows that reach this milestone. It had just the mixture of what The Blacklist is all about with humor and thrilling drama and not to mention the twist of course. Near the end of the episode when Liz and Red talked about how she was handling with one of the men who helped killed Tom, Red talking to her about how dangerous it is. It seems that from that point we come to the opposite of where these two characters were in the pilot. The Red and Cooper scenes were amazing and so funny while the chemistry between Nathan Lane and James Spader was just undeniable and so good. Looks like the fun begins for the rest of the season.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch The Blacklist Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.

The Blacklist Abraham Stern (100th episode) Interview clips

We're just a couple of weeks away til the milestone 100th episode of The Blacklist. It's amazing that this show has made it this long on television and it's something to cherish. With that in mind, here's some interview clips from the cast about the show making it to 100 episodes and about the episode.

The Blacklist 100th episode will air Wednesday, January 17th at 8/7c on NBC.

Chicago PD "Politics"/"Monster (Fall Finale)"

"Politics"

The Intelligence Unit goes against the FBI in a case in this episode.

When a powerful congressman found unconscious with a dead young woman in his hotel room, Voight and the team thinks that the congressman might be set up. But here comes when the case gets really interesting as Burgess' new boyfriend, who happens to be a prosecutor for the FBI, makes things rocky for the unit to investigate and causes tension between Burgess, Voight and the boyfriend.

After learning that the congressman was set up and was drugged, they find a suspect, who happens to be on the FBI list for a while and they don't want Voight and his unit to mess it up. But Voight and Burgess play the FBI and get their suspect.

Meanwhile for a few weeks now, Ruzek has been the snitch that's trying to take Voight down under Woods' orders. Threatening to put his sister away to jail, Ruzek is running out of time to get something on Voight and has one last shot to get it.

"Politics" was a real thrilling and good drama. Watching Burgess and Voight's professional relationship on the FBI and Burgess' boyfriend. The writing was solid in the episode. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

"Monster" Fall Finale

In the fall finale, Ruzek makes a tough decision.

As the Intelligence Unit investigates a string of opioid overdose, that includes a daughter of a well respected Chicago Judge and a former officer that worked with Voight.

The deaths lead to an epidemic as it spreads into the family neighborhoods of Chicago. The case leads to one suspect but gets gunned down that happens to be from the judge, whose daughter overdose on opioids. Voight confronted the judge and got a confession, but instead of arresting him, he asked for a favor.

Meanwhile, its not or never for Ruzek to find something on Voight and he got something that'll take Voight down. Will or or won't he is the question and everything seemed to be leaning towards turning a video of Voight taking cash until he tells Woods to go screw himself and drives back to the house. There's where Ruzek and Al talk about the good old days (Four and a half years still seems long) and asked to join him on an intell. But that ride took a detour and drives to an abandon warehouse where, who else, Voight is comes out and walks up to Ruzek.

"Monster" was a very good fall finale episode that thrilling from the beginning to the end with a cliffhanger that's one to remember. I was stunned that Ruzek didn't turn Voight to Woods, thinking that he would put his family before his working family. But now might be paying a big price when coming face to face with Voight. The writing was strong and solid. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Chicago PD as they return tonight at 10/9c on NBC.

Chicago PD "Fallen"/"Care Under Fire"

"Fallen"

"Fallen" was a well written story about Upton's past and confronting an issue that she and Voight will have to keep for the rest of their lives.

When there's a multiple homicide, Upton is forced to work with a detective that she has a past with, but when they worked together and about to meet, he turns up dead after found shot in the head. Voight not happy how Upton wasn't there at the time. But when they dig deep in the case it takes a real turn when in fact that Upton's former partner actually killed himself and used a gun that was in evidence lockup.

Voight and Upton didn't tell anyone else about what really happen, not even to the the widow or the rest of the Intelligence Unit.

This was a really good episode that really enjoying the character of Hailey Upton, after not connecting with her since she was partnered up with the team since the end of last season. Tracy Sprindakos was amazing in this episode. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10

"Care Under Fire"

When Halstead goes undercover to stop an ex-military kidnapping crew from killing an innocent child. In order to get to the crew, he must befriends with one of the members, who happens to be an ex-military, along side with his sister as well. 

"Care Under Fire" was a strong emotional episode for Jesse Lee Soffer as it was one of his best performance episode in a while. The episode opened up well of Jay Halstead's background in the military and not to mention the relationship between him and Upton as I feel that they could be the next couple in this series. #Upstead?

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Chicago PD Wednesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

Chicago PD "Home"

Another week, another really good episode of Chicago PD.

When the Intelligence Unit busted a meth lab that's run by the gang leader Marshall Carter. But they soon uncover what is known as a re-homing scam for children that are adopted from foreign countries that are abandoned and then sold online. For one member of the unit, it gets personal as Atwater not only connects with the one child that was saved from the scam but it also has him making a decision about moving his siblings, Jordan and Vinessa, to a safer place outside of Chicago.

Meanwhile, Voight is still thinking that Antonio is still the one member of the team that might be snitching. But that isn't the case what so ever after what they've gone through the last time.

"Home" was a very good, emotional driven episode. It really had a god case of the week and gave a good story for Atwater to work out not only professional but also personally. The writing was really good and the performance from LaRoyce Hawkins was really good. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Chicago PD Wednesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

Chicago PD "Promise"/"Snitch"

"Promise: 

With Jon Seda back on PD this season, this is one of his best performed and well written story so far.

"Promise" was a well written character development for Antonio Dawson, as he takes a case that involves a brutal murder of a young Latina woman, who might be suspected as a drug mule. When Dawson's daughter sees the body, she asked him if he was going to help her and his response was indeed he will.

Now with a case like this, you would think that Intelligence would want to take it but as they investigate the case it just leads to roadblock after roadblock that even had Voight telling Dawson that enough is enough.

But when they get a suspect, they couldn't get one witness to speak out, and the case was dropped. But this is Chicago PD and you know if there was a strong lead that this suspect was the guy, you know he would be taken down some way, some how. And that happened with Voight confronting a gang, who happened to lose someone from the suspect and gave the address of the suspect's house. Dawson soon catches up and goes to the suspect's house to find him dead on his table with his stomach sliced.

This episode was one of Seda's best performed episodes. The writing was so good and the character development was good as well. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

"Snitch"

From a series of murders to even a suspect of a snitch on the team, this episode was one hour of can't miss drama.

"Snitch" was a well written, intense episode that really open a can of worms for what might be a long story arc of good television.  The case of the week as the Intelligence unit investigates a series of murders that has a personal connection to Atwater that points to his younger brother involvement. It was a good story that really had some emotions.

Meanwhile, Voight suspects that Dawson might be going behind his back once again. But I really don't suspect that Dawson is redoing what he did last time when he got Voight arrested.

The episode was really good with really good performances from the cast. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch Chicago PD Wednesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

True Relationship: The Blacklist "The Kilganoon Corporation"

This week's episode of The Blacklist was one to remember.

"The Kilganoon Corportation" might as well be best remembered for the character growth and understanding of what the relationship between Reddington and Dembe really means.

After Liz tells Red about her and Tom getting married in the previous episode, Red lays the next line of work of a human smuggling ring that he use to be a part of, but thanks to Kaplan I guess that ship had sailed. In order to stop, they must go undercover and send in Dembe, who really shines in this episode.

Putting his life at risk, Dembe does what it takes to find where they put these people that are just dying to leave the country because of war, law or freedom. Just as things were going well, Liz and the gang goes in to take down the men that are sending refugees. But one truck leaves just as the FBI move in and Dembe has it.

Red hunts for the driver of the truck that Dembe is in.  He does what he can to find Dembe, as you can understand that Dembe is the one true person that has shown Red the light of good and evil. This episode really revealed the meaning of the two.

With the truck stuck and only a few hours of air left, Dembe does what he can to have order in the truck without people killing one another. Also he was protecting a scared little girl who was separated  from her parents. But just in time, Red gets there and drives Dembe and the girl to the hospital for the girl to get treatment.

When the FBI get there, Ressler has a change of heart when he sees the refugees and tells Cooper that once you actually see it, it really takes a whole affect on you. Red and Dembe reunited the child with her parents.

Meanwhile, Tom gets a lead of where Pete is located. The so called girlfriend/fiance looked up her credit and sees that Pete purchased a few things at a local gas station. There they met and looked around, Tom search through the security cam and spots him and takes photos. They found a clue to where he might be, which happens to be in a motel.

There, Tom goes in and demands answers until it was too late and he gets knocked out cold. Later, he wakes up with a man speaking about the brief case. He too demands of the suit case, he kills Pete and the woman and threatens Tom. Tom gives Red to him saying that Red trusts him and he can bring Red to him. The leads one of Red's henchman to call and inform that there's a situation.

"The Kilganoon Corporation" was such a memorable episode, mostly the relationship between Dembe and Reddingotn. Yeah we know that Red saved Dembe but in return Dembe saved Reddington in the process of being a better man. That scene when Dembe had to go back undercover again and Red didn't want to and when all was agree, Dembe asked Red for one thing, one being to watch Dembe's family but it mainly to have someone watch him to care for him. That got me choking up a bit. Another memorable moment came when that little girl scared, Dembe comes and shows her a bunny rabbit out of a tissue and his hands, which was so so cute.

Also let's not forget Tom and his doing in this episode that happens to be in serious trouble at the end. Could this be the end of Tom when the fall finale comes tomorrow? Everything seems to point to that, but even though Red doesn't like Tom, I still think that Red will do everything he can to keep Tom alive for Liz. I just have that feeling. But with someone being so happy, it all has to come down sooner or later and sooner is coming fast.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch the fall finale of The Blacklist tomorrow at 8/7c on NBC.

The Blacklist "The Travel Agency (No. 90)"

This week's Blacklister isn't quite your normal to catch a villain kind but more of a capture before he's harmed as well.

"The Travel Agnecy" is another one good hour of television that leaves you wondering til the very end about this week's blacklister. With some twist and mostly coming near the end of the episode, one being that the blacklister isn't really all in the head as he's suffering from a relaps of memory (think of it as 50 First Dates). The blacklister is given the same assignment but killing those that were part of The Travel Agency.

The other twist comes when after watching the blacklisters get taken down, Liz gets thinking of what she really wanted to do, get married to Tom right here and right now at the end. As much as I loved the first non-wedding, this one was good enough.

While Liz and the team go after the blacklister, Cooper goes out his way to help a son of a friend out of danger and thinking that he's doing drugs again. He and Red team up and have a nice adventure in this episode that had they given demands on where the kid was by given the drug dealer the ulitmate high to even almost given their head blown off from the kid that they're saving.

I've every much enjoyed watching Cooper getting a nice story. We got to see him be a badass at times. There was a scene with Red given a speech about how the justice system protects the police officers no matter if they kill someone one accident or on purprose.

And not to mention Tom's search for Peter McGee, whos' taken the suitcase of bones. McGee's wife/girlfreind gets a message that she no longer knows the guy or ever met the man from a strange dude. And when Tom gets her to help him dig in Pete's computer and finds out that he's using her name for credit cards and such. That strange dude informs his boss about the girlfriend and Tom working together.

The episode had some very good moments from Red and Liz at the putt putt course to Cooper and Red during their adventure, Liz and the wife of the blacklister talks about being a mother,  and not to mention Tom and Liz getting married. I do wonder who the strange dude is talking to and how bad this guy is that he wants those bag of bones. I will say that with a small scene of Tom and Red talking about suitcase was chilling at times. I thought that writing of this episode was very good. Overall I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch The Blacklist Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.

Here's a promo for next week's episode:

The Blacklist "Ilyas Surkov (No. 54)"

This week's episode of The Blacklist gave a twist that not only comes in the middle but the end when someone makes a call.

When a bombing happens, Red informs Liz about an Intel of the event that is by an international terrorist group. When they search for a suspect that has ties with the head of the terrorist group, they get bumped by another team from the CIA.

They split the interviewing process for one another until when Ressler gets a call from Cooper that this CIA team is not at all any part of the U.S. Government, which turns into a shoot out til they capture one of the members who thought that they were actually working with the CIA.

After the interview, the left behind agent checks out with her story but shows Liz and the team of their headquarters that turns out to be abandoned. The suspect they are after turns out to be part of the CIA but got blacklisted and disappeared. He's set to take out someone who's about to blow up a Navy Ship but was stopped by Liz but turns out the suspect was right when he says the solider walking in was carrying a bomb.

Meanwhile, Nick was found dead from what shows to be a bombing and kind of blames Red for it, even though Red didn't know about it. Later in the episode, Liz, Tom and Red were at the funeral.

Red gets into the dog grooming business and gets someone, who happens to have the cuttiest bulldog in the world, to search for someone that worked with Kaplan. He gets the person's belonging that includes a cell phone and when he makes a call to a number that happens to been called and recieved many times, he hears Tom answering the phone.

"Ilyas Surkov" was a very good and entertaining episode. With the very intense twist at the end when Red calls and gets Tom on the other line, the one momnet or few happens to be the bulldog. That bulldog, Coco, was the cutiest thing that I've ever seen and she didn't have to do a whole lot. I just wanted to take her home after Red drives away. Anyway, the writing of the episode was very good and Spader was a good as ever once again. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch The Blacklsit Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.

The Blacklist "The Endling (No. 44)"

"Isn't there anything in the universe more powerful than a mother's love for her child?"

I really don't think there is and what this eposode of The Blacklist has shown that a mother's love can stand anything even for her dying child.

Red sees that someone has been killing anyone who is part of The Endling, meaning the last of in the world. What this person is trying to do is more personal than anything could ever be. When Liz and the team are searching they try to protect Princess Sonya that's in the town.

As they try to get to the Princess, things take a turn and the suspect escapes with the Princess' daughter. Asking the Princess about what would someone want with their daughter, turns out that the daughter has a rare blood that's known around as The Golden Blood.

They search for the anymore rare blood disorders and found one that's in the DC Hospital. As Ressler and Samar get there, the child that they were going to protect is gone. And soon findout who the suspect is, Nirah Ahmad, who happens to be the child's mother.

Liz gets Red for help and knowns who the doctor that's helping Ahmad and sees an old friend that fixed his left butt from a wild bore long ago. As soon as Red and Liz get there, Red talks to Ahmad with probably one of the most heartwarming messages probably of the week and gets her to leave the donors. They take her and the child to another location where Liz gets Nick to help, even though he doesn't want to but does.

The mother not only tries to save her child but gives her own life to save his as she shot herself in the head to give her heart to her child.

Meanwhile, Tom is getting worried that Pete might be pulling somethng after getting access into files thanks to Tom stealing Liz's ID number. Nick, who was done with Liz, Red and Tom, check on Pete and gets killed in Pete's apartment. The suitcase is gone and that Pete has gone rouge.

Red gets into a new style of B&B thanks to the mailman, who gets a list of homes of owners that leave for a vacation of so. A very good buiness indead I think.

"The Endling" is a very good episode with a very easy conecpt of a mother who tries to save her child from death and gives her own life to save his. Even though I probably have seen many of these kinds of stories before, it still shows an impact for me as a viewer. I thought Red's speech to Ahmad was really good and really stood out from other moments in the episode. Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch The Blacklist Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.

The Blacklist "Miss Rebecca Thrall (No. 76)"

When there's a spree of killer cops, Liz and the team investigates it and finds it shocking, while Red deals with his own issues and makes a deal that would make him killing two birds with one stone.

When Red sees that a good cop has been in the news for killing a man for violating his parole, he gets Liz and the team to investigate. There both Liz and Ressler interview the cop who shot the suspect and the cop's partner and figures out that the cop was lying about how many shots he took at the suspect.

They come to a conclusion of the lawyer that help with the cops' situation, happens to be the mastermind of getting them to kill those that needed to be killed and in return get a payment of whatever they need for their life or family situation.

Meanwhile, Red gets a couple of visitors that left him a message to see their boss, who happens to want Red's payment on guns that he promised to give but hasn't. So Red goes to the man that has a ton of money, Glenn.

Soon, Red meets with a business man who has gun products and buys him off, but comes to that they'll have to meet at his private airstrip, for which Smokey and his friend helps to make in time. But to make they each promise, Red gives the guy Tom to hold on to til they exchange.

As the airstrip gets done, the exchange happens and soon cops show up. Tom gets pissed at Red but turns out that it was all Red's idea to get the guns, return Glenn's money and keep the guy's airplane as his new place for him and Dembe to stay, while the other guys go off to jail.

"Miss. Rebbecca Thrall" was a pretty good episode. It was another good, fun and entertaining episode. As much as I do enjoy watching Red and Liz, I do have to say that watching Tom trying to get these bones looked at has really intriguing. It really don't have to be a whole lot to show. Spader was amazing as usual in this episode and so was even Diego Klattenhoff as his character has really gotten in trouble and is living on the dark side of his good man code. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch The Blacklist Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.

Code Word: Pumpkin! The Blacklist "Greyson Blaise" (No. 37)

The fun contuines this week on The Blacklist.

"Greyson Blaise" was just a fun and adventurious with a thrilling ending no doubt. The writing of this episode was so good with such memorable scenes and performances.

Red, Liz and the team pursue a billionaire, Greyson Blaise, who steals high price art and jewerly at night. In order to get to him, Red must meet and establish a partnership with one another. Red pulls Greyson in when he tells him that he has a famous painting that has been gone for nearly 30 years in his home in Itay.

But the catch is that Red doesn't have the painting or home in Itay so the team must rent a place and get the painting from who Red gave it too 30 years ago. But the painting was sold a while ago, so Red gets an old friend to recreate the paitning and delever it to the home.

You would think with the painting wouldn't get there that everything would fail into place, but it doesn't and when the painting shows up Red corrects Greyson that he doesn't have it but he does as in he is given the paitning to him. But here's where the catch comes in, Red calls the italian inspector and tells him that someone has taken his paitning and arrested Greyson.

While Greyson is arrested, Red and Liz head to Greyson's home and get his staff to check and throw away papers, hard drives and everything that Greyson owns. But Red and Liz leaves with a flashdrive, a penny and jewerly and brings them to Harold so they could arrest Greyson and bring him to the U.S.

Meantime, Tom searches for help on the bones in the suitcase. He goes to Nick for help to who the bones are and even though he didn't say yes at first at the end he does. Also he finds a man named Albert and when he gets his address, he sees him tied up in a chair bloodly beaten. Tom hears someone and hides in the closet and see Red and Dembe in the room. Red asked Albert about the suitcase but doesn't give a good answer and kills him. As soon as Red leaves, Tom ask Albert about the suitcase and meantions one name or word "Oleander."

At the end, we see Tom and Liz about to have dinner and Red comes in, who happens to be invited but has to go. Things get very intense between Tom and Red after Tom asked him about what has he been up to and left it at that.

This was such a good episode that as I said before was fun, adventurious and thrilling. There were a lot of memorable moments from Harold telling Liz about how to talk to Red (like a teenager), Dembe trying to get someone to talk by cooking him a meal, Liz's question about Red's outfit color it looks like pumpkin but it's Tuscan Sunset. Even the scene with Tom trying to get Albert's address was funny and mostly it was the dude who worked at the store. But the scene with Red and Liz going to Greyson home and telling the staff to do this and that was just hilarious. I could go on and on but I think I'll leave it there.

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch The Blacklsit Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC.

Never Give Up on a Friend: Chicago PD "The Thing About Heroes"

This week's episode of Chicago PD was as solid of an episode as they could have been for the second episode of the season.

When a van parks in a no parking area of a festival in Chicago, it explodes. The FBI and the Intellgence Unit works together to find who is behind the bombing and where the next bomb is set to go off.

When the team knows who's behind it and what country they are from, Burgess thinks that her friend and an CPD officer would help because of his background. That would be nice until they find out that he has been gone without a trace since the bombing and that doesn't look good for him at all.

The CPD points the blame to the officer and Burgess is the only person who believes that he didn't do it. And proves she did when she found out a place he was renting and keeping a notebook full of notes and photos like he was actually undercover being a part of a terrorist group. Sadly the officer was stresssed from not only the media that the CPD laid on him but the bullying as well he was suffering from his partner and captain, he takes his life and shoots himself in the head in front of Burgess.

But that notebook helped stop the second bombing in the end. But not it didn't end for Burgess who told the officer's parents how a hero he was. But it was confronting the officer's partner that really was a scene to see as she told the guy what she thinks and that his daddy won't be around to have his back. It did cause some riffs in the CPD that Hank had to tell her to let it be.

Hank did confront Woods about the CPD should give full honors to the officer but Woods doesn't think so at all. The two had a nice chat and Woods is amazed how Hank has been dealing with all of this and he tells him that it takes time to make a move and I'm sure we will be waiting when that happens.

"The Thing About Heroes" was really a good episode and mostly from the performance from Marina Squerciati that really stood out through the episode. The writing was so good and at times simple to follow but the twist that the officer was working undercover was a wow moment. Overall, I give this episode a 8/10.

You can catch Chicago PD Wednesday nights at 10/9c on NBC.

The Surprise and Shocker:Chicago PD "Born Into Bad News" Season Finale

In this season finale of Chicago PD, there's nothing but intense, emotion and even a surprise or two that will have you stun.

So, Erin is not quite herself since Nadia's death. She's turn to her mother and got into a bit of a relationship with an old friend. That didn't turn out the way we hope.

Erin wakes up hangover, late to work as well. Voight and the retired Captain had a meeting about his nephew getting in some trouble with another task force.

When Voight gives the intelligence the download of the situation. Erin comes in late and after talking about the whole situation, Voight ask Erin to come in his office. He tells her that he needs her to be on top of things, notice that she's been late. She tells him that she's fine and is on top.

Voight has a plan to get these guys caught but is going to need Erin to be part of it. She goes and meets with the unit. She asked them a question that grills them. She tells them that Voight has a job for them to do. They meet with Voight at a bar and they agreed on the job.

Erin goes with the guys as Voight and the gang are watching from all four corners of the house. They go in and threaten the dealer of his money. He only had a few thousand dollars but it was when the dealers child come outs and the leader of the group puts a gun to the child's head and threatens.

Erin took to heart to stop this and shoots the guy. Voight and the rest head in and takes down the guys, getting them on taking money and selling drugs. The charges against the group of cops didn't stick because of Erin not being there and not taking the drug test because she would fail.

Worst part is that Bunny comes in the Station and ask for Erin because she has a gift for her, a photo of her and Nadia. Boy did Voight had her removed from the building. The lady just can't take a hint at all. Erin  is grieving and she's using that to get close to her.

Voight finds out about Erin when she came back. He relieves her from her duties and goes home.

Voight gets a phone call from the retired Captain. He tells him that he has his nephew and that they need to meet with him until a gang circles them and shoots them. The nephew comes out alive.

Voight and the gang takes a look around. He then talks with the nephew of what he's hiding, because the one of the guys mention an address that they hit. The nephew took some money.

The gang makes a moves in on a Latin drug kings, demanding on where these guys are hitting. They mention that they're going to take out a lady cop, which is  Erin.

Erin gets home with bag of grocery and her friend is there with beer and booze hoping to have some down time. When they go in, the gang is there and hits her friend in the head.  Erin is like totally cool and scared.

Atwater and Roman get there in time, Atwater takes out one in the leg and saves Erin. Just before that scene happen, you can see Erin just in like she's embarrassed with what's going on.

The leader apparently wasn't there and Voight makes a one ride there to his house and they have a meet and greet. The guy leaves out almost a million dollars on the table and throws a deal to Voight about taking half of it and letting him go. That wasn't going to happen. Voight gets him to put the cuffs on and he's off to jail.

Meantime, there's been some shocking moments that I've left out. One of them was that Al keeps getting phone calls and messages from a old friend that turned out to be an ex-lover when he was married. But he gets a phone call from a girl in jail, apparently her mother is the one he worked with and turns out that she is Al's daughter.

The other came near the final scene when Voight looking for Erin. She's at her mother's bar drinking a beer. Voight talks to her and tries to convince her to come with him. She's been thinking that she can't do the job anymore, that people that she has cared about have gotten hurt.

Even Bunny got on it too. Erin can't do the job no more. Voight tries to take her out and than demands that as her boss to get back to work but what she did was that she handed in her badge. And oh my god season three will be something...


I felt more compelling towards Erin in this episode. She's in a bad state of mind right now. The death of Nadia has really taken a toll on her and the meaning of her job. I think I speak with all fans of this show that we all care for her.

Also I have to mention that there might be a CPD Wedding with Ruzek purposing to Burgess. Well, at least something happy has come out of this episode, right?

I enjoyed this episode a lot. So much emotion with Linsey's story line and some intense scenes with Voight having a nice heated chat with one of the drug kings.

All in all, I give this season finale a 9/10. And as for overall this season, I give this season 9/10 as well because this season was full of character development and exciting stories that just takes my breathe away and blows my mind.


Chicago PD will return in the fall. You can catch episodes, clips and other things of Chicago PD at nbc.com.

Love and Rouge:The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the Corner Store Crossfire" Season Finale

The season finale of The Mysteries of Laura shows not only that this is a police dramedy but also that it has some heart. The first 

In last week's shocking cliffhanger, Jake gets shot by an unknown robber. We cut to as Laura rushes to the hospital and demands to see Jake, as she's in a precarious state now. Laur Sees him as he exits the elevator and runs to him. Stop by the doctor; he tells her to wait in the waiting room and let him do his job, which she'll do for Laura.

Billy, Frankie, and Meredith are at the scene; Laura comes in and takes over by questioning the store clerk who saw it all.  Laura was determined to find Jake's shooter, even if she had to play a bit dirty.

The team arrested a DJ who had robbed a couple of other places. Billy and Laura questioned him and got him to spill some helpful information, even though he wasn't the shooter. They looked for the clerk at the shop but couldn't find him. But they did find his girlfriend, who's keeping their relationship on the down low because of his family. After she couldn't say much to Billy and Meredith, DJ was brought to talk to Laura, who was not in a perfect mood.

After spilling this, her boyfriend made a gun from the 3D machine and gave it to the shooter, asking for it. Billy and Meredith found the guy and got him to talk, but it was too late that he gave the gun to the shooter earlier.

They found the guy near the JFK airport at an auto shop. In that scene, Laura was bound to get answers and even took on a tall and big guy. But with him looking at another person, that gave Laura a hint that he's the guy. Of course, the guy ran but didn't get any further as Laura turned on the car wash machine and captured the guy.

It turned out later that he wouldn't use the gun but deliver it to another person. Someone was going to use it in the courthouse. They sweep the place until Laura knows and sees it through the security cameras of the person, a mother who lost her child to this guy on the trail.

Laura and the gang rush into the courtroom and talk to the mother down. Laura looked like she was relieved that this case was over. After the case, we see her talking with her dad about how she's been excellent as a single person and expects that she and Jake are divorcing.

Jake comes out of his coma; not only did he suffer from a gunshot to the chest, but suffered a head injury. He might not remember any after he says things like when Jake asked Laura to give him one last chance to be the husband and father he can be. Laura did admit that she still loves him. She tells her boyfriend that they might need a break, and he agrees and tells her that he'll be waiting.

Laura then comes in and sees how Jake doesn't remember that she brought his seat pillow to him. She walks out for a bit and sees everyone in the room that this family//this dysfunctional family is probably the best thing she has.

This episode starts quickly, like I saw in the previous episode, and then cuts to Laura in the ER. Emotions run high in the beginning for the first half hour. I couldn't get enough of Debra Messing's performance; she was in a more serious role.

It was a case of revenge from a mother who lost her child and wanted to take out the murderer that I didn't see coming.

Overall, I give this episode an 8/10; it was perfect. Robert Klein came back as Laura's father, funnier than ever. It wasn't a disappointment at all.

Overall, this season, I think it's been one of the best new series in a while. I don't care what other people may say about it. This series is excellent as it is. I find it to be like that Saturday Evening Mystery show. It's a simple series that you can sit, relax and follow. Debra Messing is unique, and so is this cast.

The series will return in the fall regularly, on Wednesdays at 8/7c, still part of the Woman Crush Wednesday with Law & Order: SVU and Chicago PD.