How people change the minute you become suspicious of murder! Did Halstead do it? Of course not, but that doesn’t mean people don’t look at him just a little different. Halstead’s badge was revoked by Voight this week after Lonnie Rodinger is found dead. While Halstead’s on a temporary leave of absence, the rest of the intelligence unit is solving the next crime taking the streets of Chicago by storm.

Halstead’s cheery mood upon entering work quickly changed when he was accused in the murder of Lonnie, the next door neighbor that raped and murdered Ben Corson. While there’s no specific evidence against Halstead, there are pictures that show he followed Lonnie by car a little after 10 p.m, just an hour before he was murdered. Halstead gives up his badge until further notice and faces some temporarily negativity from his collegues Antonio is upset because he brought Halstead into this unit and Voight’s holding him responsible for Halstead’s actions. He confronts him to see if Halstead actually did it. When he realizes he’s innocent, he hands him Lonnie’s file to allow him to do some further investigation on what really happened. Like Voight said, if he can’t find his way out of this murder accusation, he shouldn’t be part of the unit.

Looking through the files, he finds a statement made by Lonnie’s father that Lonnie left home before 10 and he hadn’t seen him since. Except Halstead knows that statement is false because he was tailing Lonnie home at about 10:13 P.M. Halstead confront’s Lonnie’s father and makes him confess to the murder of his sick and disturbed child. Watching the father’s confession was really touching because you can’t help but feel bad for the guy. His whole life he protected his child, stood up for him, only to realize that everyone was right about him. After he found pictures on Lonnie’s computer of young boys about Ben’s age, the two got into a fight and he strangled his son with a belt. Than he took his body and dumped it outside, where police later found it. It must be really heartbreaking to kill you’re own child, but also to live with the fact that you couldn’t help him. And it seems like Halstead actually enjoys the fact that this happened a little bit. While it’s a messed up case for sure, if you look at it through Halstead’s eyes, this is something he’s wanted since Ben got murdered. It’s revenge. It’s justice being served.

Meanwhile, the rest of the gang was busy taking care of Dr. Elliot’s murder after they found his torso in another Simms car. Basically, Dr. Elliot was going to testify in a case that would incriminate a lawyer, Simms and Johnson. So the lawyer, who made a sex-tape with the men, asked them to kill Elliot so she wouldn’t lose her business. Johnston and Simms were responsible for producing meth in the city. The hunt to find Simms was a difficult one. Homie knew how to outrun the police that’s for sure! During their pursuit, Rozek gets shot in the chest and Lindsey stays behind to help him with the would. Finally,  Antonio pushes Simms off the trucks he’s running on and Voight shoots an unarmed man to keep him from running further. And that’s how it’s done in the corrupted city of Chi ladies and gentleman.

With one man down, Voight had to use Sumner much to his dismay. Well Sumner proved to be valuable to the team and even made her first arrest. Truthfully, forming a relationship with Voight isn’t the easiest. He doesn’t come off as a friendly, people loving man, especially since he’s suspicious of Sumner. Who is she really working for? Why did they put her in his unit? To watch and spy on him? Sumner doesn’t seem stupid though. She knows how things in this unit work and that sometimes, Voight does things against the rules of the law just to get them done. Plus, she makes a kick-ass addition to a team with only one girl!!! No, a team doesn’t need to be a girl and a guy, two girls working a lead can still make things happened! #Girlpower

There’s the intelligence unit and the two cops that work with the unit. Burgess helped them out trying to catch Simms at the gun show in Rosemont and was forced to use her weapon; something she’s never actually done before. Isn’t that kind of scary? A police officer whose never used her gun in an actual situation?? How are you policing my streets?!?! Rozek picked up on that and took Burgess out for a beer to explain to her how she can work her way up to intelligence. The chemistry between these two has been forming for a couple of weeks now and it finally happened! They kissed!! Obviously the minute it happened, Burgess felt horrible cause she doesn’t want to be a home-wrecker. Rozek on the other hand didn’t seem to upset or distraught at the fact that he just cheated on his fiancee. I mean, he didn’t insinuate the kiss, but it takes two to tango. Especially because he liked it. Being shot for the first time also made him reevaluate his life. Like does he really want to marry Wendy? I wouldn’t call this a case of cold feet, i’d call this a case of he’s not really in love with his fiancee. It’s also hard for me to feel bad for the other woman when the writers almost never show her. They don’t show what happens when Rozek leaves work, or if he is really lovey with his wife. I understand its a cop show, but I just want to get to know these people on a deeper level.

Kind of like Lindsey, whose busy making out with Severide after hours. It upsets me a little bit because I was still holding out for Lindsey and Halstead, even though Voight told them a relationship between co-workers was strictly out of the cards. Severide is also a co-worker right? He’s just from the fire fights side! I feel like the only reason this “rule” exists is because Voight thinks of Lindsey as his daughter and isn’t too fond on the man Halstead is. Cross-over episodes are really fun though so if these two are to be together, it’ll be fun seeing them date of both shows occasionally. And while Severide is a charming fellow and seeing Lindsey so into him was refreshing, what happened to his one-night-stand, sleeping with the new receptionist side? Is he really ready to change for her?

Chicago PD has proved to be one of the more effective cop shows. Two things I’d want to see when season 2 rolls around? First off, more personal life exposure (as mentioned above). Secondly, I think it would be a lot more realistic if the intelligence unit took on some longer cases. In real life, do cops really solve every case within 24 hours? I highly doubt it. Yeah, Voight knows everyone in town and uses his resources to the max when he needs to but I still like sometimes, catching the bad guy takes much longer!!! This would help turn the show into more of a procedural, rather than a stand alone episode cop show!