'Chicago P.D.' S12 Ep 21 Recap: Voight’s Team Falls Apart in a Shocking Turn
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The Episode Opens in an Unexpected Place
The episode opens in an unexpected place, ASA Nina Chapman waking up on Voight’s couch. It’s quiet, a little uncomfortable. She apologizes, but Voight shrugs it off. They talk briefly, about her crashing there, about the classical music ringtone. Voight says it was his late wife’s and he just never changed it. They share coffee, but the peace is short-lived.
Crime Stats and a Disturbing Discovery
At the district, Voight gets the quarterly crime report. Murders in Longdale’s Little Village are down by 30%. It sounds good, but Dante Torres and the rest of the unit know better. They suspect Deputy Chief Reid is cleaning up the numbers by suppressing real investigations. Voight doesn’t argue, he just says they need to find the evidence to bring Reid down.
The Break Comes Through Mazo Otero
That crack comes in the form of Mazo, Jesús Otero’s son. Mazo is just 18, fresh out of high school. Otero’s done everything in his power to keep him clean, especially after losing his wife in a car accident five years ago. But Mazo’s been drifting. One minute he’s posting about Pokémon Go, the next he’s fronting like he’s in deep. When Intelligence gets a tip that he’s dealing heroin in Berwyn, they move in.
It goes bad fast. When officers approach, Mazo bolts. Kim Burgess gives chase on foot. Then he turns, fires a shot at her. Kevin Atwater reacts without hesitation, slamming into Mazo with the car and stopping him from getting away. They arrest him, cuff him, and haul him into a safe house in order to use him as leverage on his father. He’s scared but defiant, asking to make a call. Voight lays it out: attempted murder of a cop, drug charges. If he wants out, he needs to give up something big.
He stays silent.
Pressure on Otero Reveals a Bigger Threat
Voight brings in Otero. At first, Otero refuses to believe they have his son, until they put Mazo on speakerphone. The kid’s crying, apologizing. Otero tells him to stay strong and hang in there, but it’s clear he’s rattled. Voight sees the opening and presses. Otero admits Reid has been keeping the cops off his back. No cash, just control, burner phones swapped every week. When asked if Reid ordered the killing of Jesse Clark, Otero hesitates. One of Reid’s men “took care of it.” That’s all he says.
A Robbery, a Clue, and a Twist
Later, Ray and Otero are putting cash in bags. They are ripped for $750,000 in cash. Two masked men hit his basement and vanish. Voight re-watches surveillance from the funeral home and notices something — that Ray is texting someone right after the money’s taken. That’s when it hits him: they’ve been made. Reid has eyes on Otero, too.
Voight orders the team to pull back. They double-check all surveillance. At first, it looks like Otero is home. But then they notice a white van showing up twenty minutes before he gets there. They run the tag and track it through city cams all the way to a known meth farm in another town.
A Grim Discovery
Intelligence raids the place. It’s remote and quiet. They clear the house, the barn, the shed. Then Voight radios in — he’s found blood and disturbed ground. He tells the team to find shovels. They dig. And when they’re done, they find Otero, murdered, buried. Reid didn’t just tie up a loose end. He erased a threat.
Reid Strikes Hard and Fast
Just when you think it can’t go further, it does. Reid rolls in with police behind him. Torres is arrested, charged with official misconduct for a sexual relationship with his CI, Gloria Perez. Then Burgess is blindsided, stripped of her badge and suspended without pay for allegedly helping Torres cover it up. No warning. No hearing. Just done.
And then the final blow: Voight’s entire Intelligence Unit is officially disbanded. Reid reads the order aloud like it’s nothing.
“Do you have any questions?” he asks Voight. Voight just stares at him and says, “No.”
Reid has dismantled the team piece by piece. He took out their leverage, exposed their weak points, and went straight for Voight. And he didn’t just beat them — he erased them.
The Silence After the Storm
The episode ends not with justice, but silence. The kind that settles in when you’ve lost the whole game, and didn’t even see the checkmate coming. I’m not sure how the team will recover. Voight seems defeated and when Chapman goes to his house to try and help him, he leaves her just banging on his door.
This doesn’t look good for the Intelligence team.
I need answers ASAP. We will find out next week on the season finale.
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