Chicago P.D. Season 13 Episode 6 "Send Me" Recap

This episode opens with Torres in a state of quiet struggle. You can tell he’s still carrying some weight from everything he’s been through, but there’s a glimmer of stability, he even seems to have a girlfriend now. Trudy asks him to run a simple errand: grab some papers and take them to the courthouse. It seems mundane at first, but of course, in Chicago PD, nothing stays calm for long. This small task is the catalyst for a whirlwind of chaos that follows.

Torres is on his way when a prison transport van crashes directly into his car. Inside the van the driver seems deceased and in the back is a patrol officer that is gone as well. Torres has a head injury as he is assessing the scene when someone comes up behind Torres it’s Travis, an inmate being taken to his attorney’s office. He was a part of the accident and when the door unlocks because of the crash he gets out, but the crash leaves him severely injured. Torres immediately realizes that Travis needs medical attention. He tries to convince him to go to a hospital, but Travis refuses. Travis has said to Torres he needs to clear his name he is innocent and It’s not a coincidence that the transport can slammed into his car. Even badly injured, Travis is determined to keep moving. They’re on foot, with Travis trying to get to a car so he can continue his plan to clear his name. 

A tense moment unfolds when a woman steps out of a nearby building. Torres instinctively tells her to run and call 911. She panics, drops her purse, and flees. Travis, still determined, picks up the bag and is able to steal her car. Once in the car, he forces Torres to drive to a grocery store to pick up medical supplies. The cashier immediately senses that something is off. Leaving Travis collapses from blood loss. Concerned, the cashier calls in a report of a strange altercation to the police. We can see Torres is torn with what to do when Travis collapses. In the next scene we see Torres cleaning up and Travis coming to. Travis says you must believe I’m innocent. Torres asks why he says that. Travis tells him if you thought I was guilty I would have woken up surrounded by cops. Torres says he will help him if he thinks that his brother in law Carter will tell him the truth. We learn that Torres took him to his church. The priest helps Torres with his computer and gives him his car to use as well, no questions asked. On the computer Torres accesses the police database to try and find Carter. 

Meanwhile, the emotional core of the episode is Travis himself. He’s been in prison for five years for a murder he didn’t commit. His wife, Simone, was killed, and his brother-in-law, Carter, lied about the events that night, sending Travis to prison. Torres can see just how distraught Travis is. Despite his injuries, Travis is resolute, he cuffs Torres and tells him he will help clear his name. It’s a strange but poignant partnership: Torres wants to help, but he’s also aware of the legal tightrope they’re walking.

Voight, Kevin, and Burgess arrive on the scene quickly. They request and review security footage, which clearly shows Torres helping Travis. Voight, as always, is pragmatic, he quietly instructs the team to keep the footage under wraps, for them only. It’s a tense and clever way of showing how the law can work outside the usual channels when lives are at stake. Voight trusts Torres and knows he has to be helping Travis for a reason. 

The tension ratchets up when they confront Carter. The episode makes it clear that Carter’s lies were deliberate, and the consequences have been catastrophic. Carter’s deception has caused years of injustice, and Travis and Torres are determined to get the truth. Violence and danger are never far away. Travis keeps asking Carter why he lied. They keep going back and forth. Torres calms down the situation and asks Carter why can’t he look Travis in his eyes. Carter just keeps saying he shouldn’t be there. Travis begins to talk. He says you know me, I loved your sister and you are my daughters his father. Why did you go this to me?

Carter breaks down in tears and says he had no choice. Carter says Trey threatens his wife and son and that is one of the reasons he left them to protect him. Carter says he couldn’t protect his sister and it’s been eating him up inside. From the information accessed on the computer Boight and the team show up. Torres tries to explain to Boight and he lets him know they get and followed his tracks. They are going to try and prove Travis is innocent. As they clear the scene and put Carter in the car to take him to the district to get his statement shots ring out. Carter is shot, escalating the urgency and making the stakes incredibly personal. No one can tell where the shots came from. 

Travis still needs medical attention and an ambulance arrives on the scene. Carter didn’t make it. In the ambulance Travis talks to Torres about getting Carters confession. Torres tells him we will work the case no matter what. Travis says they haha to call his daughter because she still believes that he killed her mother. Travis goes into a crises. Torres says to concentrate on him and try to breath. At the hospital Burgess sleeps Torres that they had to be watching the house Carter was in and the shooter was in the wind. They don’t know who it could be or who Carter was talking about. Just then the doctor comes out and tells Torres that Travis did not make it. Torres is hurt but determined. This has been a long day for him and as he tries to finally go home for the evening it seems he just can’t. Torres pulls all files about Travis’s case and starts investigating. 

Torres decides to make a stop at Dominique’s house, Travis’s daughter.

She lets him know that she has already been informed of her fathers passing. Torres lets her know that’s not why he stopped by. He lets her know there is new evidence and that her father did not kill her mother, but Torres lets her know he and his team are now working the case to clear her fathers name. At first she is hesitant but Torres is convincing and he asks if he can come in to explain to her what’s going on. It’s a quiet, emotional scene, showing just how personal this battle for justice is. The episode doesn’t just deal with crime and chaos, it dives into the human stakes, the families torn apart by lies, and the lengths people will go to protect their own.

What makes this episode work so well is how the personal and procedural collide. From Torres’s simple courthouse errand to the van crash, Travis’s injuries, the stolen car, the grocery store altercation, and the tense confrontations with Carter, the story moves at a relentless pace. Yet, amid all the chaos, it never loses sight of the emotional truth: Travis is innocent, and the fight to prove that is deeply human.

This episode is a masterclass in tension, emotion, and pacing. Travis’s determination, Torres’s loyalty, and the creeping threat of danger make it an edge-of-your-seat watch. By the end, you’re left thinking about lies, justice, and how far someone will go to protect the truth. It’s a reminder that in Chicago PD, nothing is simple, everything is personal, and every action carries weight.

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