“Sometimes you forget that I’m the police. I worked the streets and I did it for a long time.”
At dinner, Platt warns her father to be wary of his new, much younger girlfriend. “Is she older than that bottle of wine? Oh my god, you’re checking the label.” Classic Platt. Love it. We also got a bit of insight into her marriage with Mouch, which was needed. Not much has been said about them since their wedding! But, before you can reminisce about how that adorable couple came to be, Platt is brutally attacked as she gets into her car. Maggie and Connor are on scene at Chicago Med when Platt arrives, and she soon goes into surgery with Connor. Speaking of Mouch, it was great to see him this episode. If you watch Chicago Fire, you know that Mouch isn’t given much conflict or heartbreaking moments. What a performance by Christian Stolte in this episode! I don’t think we’ve ever seen this side of Mouch, and not that I want his character to go through something like this again, but he can really deliver a stellar performance.
Back on the case, Voight believes Platt knew her attacker. After all, you don’t work twenty-plus years as a cop without making a few enemies. Working on possible enemies, Ruzek, Atwater, and Burgess learn from a convenience store worker that Platt was at dinner with her dad prior to the attack. Assumedly going to inform Mr. Platt of the attack, they instead find him…dead. In both cases, neither victim was robbed.
Erin, a much better detective than I, catches on to Platt perhaps not telling the entire truth. This leads them down the path of Mr. Platt’s new girlfriend, a lead Platt had been following on her own. The girlfriend (Natalie) and her ex (Leonard) are definitely shady. But alas! It’s a red herring. Yes, Natalie stole from Platt’s dad, but she and her ex-but-not-ex didn’t kill him.
“Who wants to go scare some guys?”
Here’s where everything comes together. Olinsky works an angle after discovering a hidden camera near the crime scene, belonging to a possibly-illegal gentleman’s club. After connecting Mr. Platt to the club, Olinsky and Atwater pay them a visit to take a look at the camera tape. The tape picks up a rare car, the car of the attacker. While visiting Platt, Burgess lets their leads slip, but did she really slip up? We know that Platt was lying about not seeing her attacker. So if she already knew who it was, did she need the car tip Burgess mentioned? Perhaps that was the last piece of the puzzle she needed? Either way, Platt takes matters into her own hands.
Wade MacGregor, a former associate of Mr. Platt, not only lost investments, but was sent to prison after Platt tipped off the detectives. But by the time the unit pieces this together, Platt’s already on the move. With a gun and shovel in tow, Platt goes after Wade. Part of me loved seeing Platt in action like this. We don’t get to see her out from behind that desk often! But the other part of me desperately wanted her to not go down this path. The Voight path.
Though I loved seeing Mouch and his relationship with Platt, my favorite aspect of this episode was how the attack affected Voight and Olinsky. Because it’s not discussed much, it’s easy to forget that these three have known each other and have been working together for twenty years. Think about it: we’ve seen this unit together for three years now, and they are close. Imagine what twenty years (not necessarily working in the same unit) would do.
Similar to the misdirect Voight caused in the last season finale (sending the entire team, except for Erin, to a different location), he tells Burgess to follow her leads to find Platt. But then he grabs his coat, because he knows exactly where she is. Sure enough, Voight finds Platt and a tied-up Wade, Platt contemplating killing him. What I love about this show is how it highlights the gray areas. Even someone as good and just as Platt can find her way to those gray areas, given the right motivation. Our decisions define us, good or bad. And one bad decision can change everything.Hands down, the best scene of the night was Voight and Platt. She pleads with him to understand why she has to finish what she started. But he won’t let her, because he knows her. “You’re not me, Trudy! You wouldn’t be able to live with yourself!” He’s essentially acknowledging the fact that he’s a killer and she’s not. And as she collapses into him crying, “He killed my dad!” you can see how close these two are and the trust there between them.
Line of the night: Connor tells the team good news
“She’s up, she’s alert, she’s kind of rude. All cylinders firing.”What did you think of the episode? Should the writers explore the relationship between Voight, Platt, and Olinsky more? Share your thoughts below!
