Made a Wrong Turn is the second episode of Season 4 and the 63rd overall episode of Chicago P.D.
Summary[]
On the hottest day of the summer, the Intelligence unit investigates the case of a missing woman in a notorious African American neighborhood. Meanwhile, Platt is threatened by Commander Fogel over her decision to have Tay reassigned to the 21st District, and Mouse announces his plans to reenlist in the Army Rangers.
Plot[]
The episode begins with newly paired Officer Kim Burgess and Officer Julie Tay out on the streets. Of course the ride starts out well, until they get a call of an “auto being stripped” and they take the call.
Burgess and Tay chase the man who was inside the vehicle, but end up losing him down an alley. Atwater and Halstead arrive on the scene and offer to help. Burgess produces an ID the guy dropped, and it belongs to a woman who lives in North Brook; when Tay calls in the plates, the car is registered to a Sara Murphy and Halstead finds fresh blood in the car.
Just as Halstead discovers the blood, a woman comes out of her house screaming for help because there is a white boy who looks almost dead on her back porch. The man’s wallet says he lives at the same address on the woman who owns the care. They rush him to Chicago Med. They believe they have a carjacking that went bad and now have a missing girl.
Back at District 21, Sgt. Voight and Lindsay small talk, but beat around the real issue. Ruzek bring everyone up to speed on the case that fell into their laps after discovering Nathan Ward’s badly beaten body near his fiancé, Sara Murphy’s car. Neither one of them have any type of record, but CPD have put out a Missing Person’s report to find Sara.
Just as Chicago PD’s Intelligence Unit is discussing the case, Commander Crowley interrupts them, saying there have been 60 shootings this week, 12 of them fatal. She says she isn’t going to be politically correct, what they have is a WHITE woman missing in the heart of a BLACK ghetto. She wants them to assume the worst, and that Sara has been abducted, so she tells the team to do whatever they need to do to find her, but do it carefully!
Commander Crowley pulls Sgt. Voight aside and tells him she means it when she says be careful, because there is a lot of eyes on the police right now. Voight tells her that to him it doesn’t matter, if it was a black girl missing on the North side, he would go about it the same way he is now.
Halstead and Lindsay are riding together and Lindsay tells him she doesn’t want to move in with him, she wants him to live with her. They meet with Sara’s parents at the hospital who inform the detectives that they had dinner with their daughter and Nathan, and separated around midnight. Dr. Choi comes out and informs them that CT scans say Nathan has some brain swelling and bruising, but it looks like he didn’t suffer any serious brain damage.
Dt. Lindsay asks if there is any reason Sara or Nathan would go into South Austin. Sara’s father gets angry and says they should be looking for his daughter instead of questioning them. She reassures them that there are 100 cops looking for her right now. Sara’s mother just pleas for them to bring her daughter home. Voight is out on the streets organizing the search, informing the officers that Sara has been missing for over 12 hours and they need to search everything and everywhere.
Voight tells the officers, “It is NOT us versus them.” He continues, “Do not to buy into any of the crap on the news; there are a lot of good people in this neighborhood who don’t see us as the enemy. Clear your heads of all that nonsense and do your job!”
Atwater joins a few of the locals at the park, offers them some money and says he would do the same if it was one of their kids. They take the money and inform Atwater that if the car was picked clean, they need to go to Lou’s Liquor because everything goes through Lou.
Atwater and Ruzek go into the store and grab the two guys that were trying to take off, one of them is only 15-yrs-old; who is in possession of a brand new expensive cell phone, the kid admits he found it in that car. He has no idea where Sara is, but he saw Nathan speaking to a guy named Hudson, who has a record a mile long.
Voight is no longer playing games, when they find Hudson, they learn that Nathan was in their area to buy some drugs. Hudson says that Nathan was the one screwing around. He was giving Hudson fake money, and he had to pay, but he swears Sarah was never with him. When Nathan is confronted he swears he left Sarah in the car.
While Chicago PD officers are looking everywhere, Voight and Olinsky come upon Bobby Trent, who is not only wearing a bulletproof vest, but he also has a sticker on the back window of his vehicle that resembles all police vehicles. Voight orders him to leave the scene. Meanwhile, back at District 21, Sgt. Trudy Platt meets with the Commander who forced Officer Tay into the lowest position possible for an officer, and he orders Platt to put Tay back at that job or she will regret it. He screams and orders her in front of all the officers in the station.
Mouse is having a difficult time with mobile for Voight and is considering going back to the Rangers in Afghanistan, where they need a com specialist. Halstead is shocked to hear it, but Gurwitch says what are his options, to join the Police Academy and be a rookie at his age. Halstead asks Mouse if he remembers what it did to him last time, how he couldn’t sleep and ended up with an addiction to pills. Halstead says before he makes a decision, they need to talk about it.
Just as Voight is getting a thank you from one of the residents for putting his grandson in prison, Gurwitch arrives to tell him that Sara wore a watch that he could track and he tracks her to a hotspot for drug addicts and the homeless. Unfortunately, they find the watch and a patch of her hair, but she is nowhere. After a witness tells them, he saw a black male over 6 foot 4 drag her into a van and assaults her for over 30 minutes.
After someone smashes the windshield of Burgess and Tay’s police vehicle, they get information from someone in the neighborhood who is willing to help the police. They quickly learn that Bobby Trent, has been in the area, recording all kinds of things, including that night. Trent, who has been acting like he is an undercover officer, recorded the entire thing and Sgt. Voight and Dt. Olinsky retrieve the evidence. Trent swears that he'd have sent them this evidence but is silenced after Voight roughs him up a little bit and Olinsky tells him if he doesn’t stop recording the violence or be at any more crime scenes, Trent will feel firsthand that kind of violence.
Chicago PD Intelligence Unit find out who they are looking for, Kenneth Waddell a violent sexual predator who also did time for drugs and they find his van is inside a secure community named “The Gardens”. The Gardens is completely protected by G-Park Lords, so they'd have no access, but Voight says they’re going through the front.
Once there, the residents and G-Park Lords see Intelligence arrive, guessing they are cop. Voight tells the crew about Kenny, and they said they know all about his activities but let him stay after he supplies money and they will deal with him, though Voight tells them it’s too late as he took a girl. He tells them if they don’t help, he will call SWAT and that could lead more to trouble but it can be avoided if his unit is let through. The G-Park Lords hesitate but ultimately agree, saying Kenny is a sick dog that needs to be put down, and reveal exactly where he is.
Intelligence finds him inside one of the buildings, when Kenny discovers them, he runs out and stays inside one of the rooms, shooting at the cops and threatening to kill Sarah if they came close. Voight manages to see Kenny holding Sarah hostage through a hole, then Hank orders Halstead into the room behind Waddell while Dawson talks to him to kill time for Halstead to be in position. Strong arming Sarah tightly, the frantic Kenny blames her for his predicament because of her need for drugs. Kenny declares to the cops that they would have to kill him and Sarah, because he won't go back but Antonio continues talking to him, while Halstead positions himself with a shotgun in his hands. Kenny decides to kill Sarah, but Voight sees an opportunity, as Halstead confirms his status. On Voight's order, Halstead shoots Kenneth through the wall, he is down for the count and Sarah is saved.
At MED, Sarah is taken to the hospital, where she thanks the cops for saving her and doesn't want her parents to know why she was snatched but Lindsay give her a look that confirms they know. When her parents arrive, Sarah prepares for the worse, but they instead embrace her, relieved she is okay.
At the precinct, Mouse meets with Voight and informs him that he plans on leaving and go back to Afghanistan to serve his country. He asks Voight to lie for him to clear his criminal record so he can go back. The scene ends before with it unclear whether Voight will lie for Mouse or will Halstead convince Voight to not help him go back to Afghanistan.
To end the hectic day, Erin and Jay are celebrating living together, although disagreeing on where things should go.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Jason Beghe as Sergeant Hank Voight
- Jon Seda as Detective Antonio Dawson
- Sophia Bush as Detective Erin Lindsay
- Jesse Lee Soffer as Detective Jay Halstead
- Patrick John Flueger as Officer Adam Ruzek
- Marina Squerciati as Officer Kim Burgess
- LaRoyce Hawkins as Officer Kevin Atwater
- Amy Morton as Desk Sergeant Trudy Platt
- Elias Koteas as Detective Alvin Olinsky
Crossover Cast[]
Recurring Cast[]
- Samuel Hunt as Greg Gerwitz
- Barbara Eve Harris as Emma Crowley
- Li Jun Li as Julie Tay
- Ian Bedford as Commander Ed Fogel
- Michael B. Woods as Bobby Trent
Guest Cast[]
- Sam Straley as Nathan Ward
- Amanda Rhodes as Sarah Murphy
- Norm Boucher as Ron Murphy
- LaNisa Renee Frederick as Bebe Willis
- Jordane Christie as Michael Hudson
- Brian Nelson Jr. as Smiley
- Antonio St. James as Kenneth Waddell
- Di'Monte Henning as G Lord Shot Caller
- Mesiyah Oduro-Kwarten as Teen
- Cynthia Von Orthal as Debra Murphy
- Michael Brunlieb as Homeless Man
- Ron O.J. Parson as Elderly Man
- Barbara Blomquist as Elderly Woman
- Wesley Toledo as Driver
- Phil Rice as Andre
- Arthur-Angelo Sarinas as Loo
- Paul Springer as G Lord Lookout
- Jimmie Allen as Westside Hustler
- David Saunders as Security Officer
- Sage Lorinne Miskel as Young Girl
- Aidan Traynor as Passenger
- Summer Powell as Resident 1
- Sheedz as Resident 2
Quotes[]
Lindsay: The longer you lie to us, the worse it is for your fiancée, who's out there scared and alone.
Lindsay: I'm completely in love with you and you're the only person I can trust right now.
Crowley: Chicago already has enough of a PR nightmare.
Atwater: Thought I told you not to chase a black kid unless his shoes ain't tied.