We lastly received an Upton and Rojas group up on Chicago PD Season 7 Episode 18, however it wasn’t what any of us had been anticipating.
Each girls tried to take issues into their very own palms and ended up on Voight’s dangerous facet, which, in the event you bear in mind from my evaluate of Chicago PD Season 7 Episode 17, is not a pleasing facet.
Whereas Rojas had a number of anxiety-inducing missteps this episode, which largely stemmed from a liked one being concerned in a serious case, a lot of Voight’s anger was directed at Upton.
And he or she deserved it.
I do not know what received into her, however the place was the Upton who all the time retains Halstead in test?
As a substitute, she received personally concerned within the case as a result of she needed to assist Rojas and made an excessive resolution that triggered Voight. (Followers had been in all probability happy to see that he is nonetheless received it!)
Voight was upset for a number of causes. For starters, as a result of Upton was a superior who ought to have identified higher.
And in contrast to Rojas, who instantly acknowledged that what she did was mistaken and apologized, Upton by no means felt dangerous about it.
She naively assumed she had the identical authority as Voight.
Her judgment was clouded by her want to place Gael away and get Reyes the deal, so she did what she needed to do and planted faux proof with out displaying any regret.
Whereas Gael deserved what was coming, it wasn’t Upton’s place to plant proof merely to get justice. That units a harmful precedent.
Cops must be held to a normal and uphold an ethical code. If Upton is so comfy crossing this line as a result of it advantages her and a good friend, will she be capable of see the road the subsequent time round?
If she had achieved it with Voight’s permission, it could have been a barely completely different story since Voight would have taken the rap. Plus, he is able to make such calls, however she particularly went behind his again and made the choice herself with out even looping him in.
Then, as an alternative of proudly owning as much as it, she defined that she thought it was what “he would have achieved” figuring out rattling effectively she stored it a secret as a result of Voight would not have allowed such habits.
Pissed at her? No, I don’t even know her.
Reyes
Voight has by no means needed his unit to go down the identical path he has, and I like that he did not suppose twice about displaying her powerful love.
It reveals that there are some guidelines he will not break, but additionally, that he cares sufficient about Upton to intervene.
Now, I do not watch Regulation & Order: SVU, however it could be actually nice if she really received to guest-starred on an episode since he volunteered her to the New York group. Does anybody know if that is taking place?
Since Rojas was personally concerned within the case, it made us robotically extra invested within the plot as a result of the stakes had been larger.
If this man’s anymore cautious, I’m going to blow my brains out.
Halstead
Whereas it was clear that Rojas and Reyes went manner again and had a deeply private connection, their relationship wasn’t instantly clear and it was onerous to see why she was so keen to place her profession on the road for him.
It would not have been plausible if it was simply an ex and even an off-again-off-again boyfriend, however Rojas felt like she owed Reyes as a result of he was the one who gave her a second probability.
He took the autumn once they had been stealing vehicles, which allowed her to have a contemporary begin and make one thing of herself.
You’ll suppose she’d need to present that off, however Rojas surprisingly by no means informed him that she was a cop, which additional sophisticated the scenario.
She did not purposefully attempt to mislead him, however that is the way it got here off when he noticed her standing there in the course of the drug bust.
And actually, Voight’s ruthless for forcing her to be the face of the arrest. He was testing her to see if she was keen to make the last word sacrifice for her job, which she was.
Rojas was just too afraid to confess that she’d stored her new life a secret as a result of the reality meant she’d lose Reyes.
She was mendacity to herself for a very long time pondering she might have one of the best of each worlds, however these two paths had been finally going to coincide.
Their life had been too completely different now. Even Reyes knew that when she mentioned they “know the identical folks,” and he informed her “not like that.”
She needed to maneuver ahead together with her life, however she did not need to let go of her outdated life.
It is extraordinarily troublesome to get what you need whereas additionally being pressured to say goodbye to what’s acquainted, and Rojas was pressured to do it below excessive circumstances.
I do not know why Rojas thought it was a good suggestion to go undercover in her outdated neighborhood the place somebody might have simply acknowledged her, however I am going to chalk that as much as an oversight.
Upton: Vanessa, you’ve informed the folks in your life you’re a cop, proper?
Rojas: I don’t actually have lots of people. Simply him, actually. And no, he’s received no thought I’m a cop.
On the brilliant facet, her want to guard him reveals she’s “trip or die” for the folks she cares about, which is an effective factor for Upton and the remainder of Intelligence.
Whereas Reyes’ consequence wasn’t nice and their relationship probably will not bounce again — he even mentioned he by no means actually knew Rojas contemplating he thought she labored at a midway home — it might have been a lot worse for him.
I would prefer to suppose he’ll use the second probability that Rojas and Upton gave him — which was primarily Rojas’ manner of repaying him for all he is achieved for her — to start out a brand new life.
Whereas Upton could have poorly picked her battles on the episode, I liked how she talked Rojas as much as Reyes and informed him that she was recruited to the town’s “elite group.”
I am all about girls supporting girls!
Plus, these two have been dwelling collectively for 8-months now, and we have been lacking out on key bonding moments between the women.
I used to be beginning to marvel after we’d see their roomie-status utilized in an episode.
Often, gang and drug bust episodes are, effectively, a bust, however this one was approached creatively and in a manner that allowed the unit to work cohesively.
Look, Vanessa, consider me, it’s actual easy. I do know it’s not straightforward, however it’s actual easy. There’s a transparent line between cops and criminals. You selected to be on this facet, that was your alternative, your name. No person chased you. You suppose I give a rattling about your previous? That’s going to make you a very good cop, possibly an important cop. Someday, but when Luis reveals up at that purchase tomorrow, we’re going to arrest him. It’s actual easy.
Voight
Not solely did it anchor to a private story with Rojas, which allowed us to get to know her higher, however it additionally launched a brand new manner of fixing the case — the wire.
We have by no means seen Intelligence deal with a case utilizing this methodology, and it was a pleasant break from the procedural formulation.
The result was a thriller until the very finish.
Gael was a troublesome arrest as a result of he was extraordinarily cautious about who he allowed into his operation and stored his palms clear always. There was completely nothing tying him again to any of the ugly crimes together with his girlfriend dumped in acid.
The make-up and costume division clearly had a number of enjoyable with that one and knew we might be disturbed.
Do you suppose Upton was proper for planting the proof?
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