‘Chicago P.D.’: Tracy Spiridakos Previews Upton’s ‘Intense’ Underwater Rescue

Meredith Jacobs February 21, 2022, 2:00 pm

Tracy Spiridakos as Detective Hailey Upton in Chicago PD — Lori Allen/NBC

Tracy Spiridakos spent a lot of time underwater for the February 23 episode of Chicago P.D.

In “Still Water,” Detective Hailey Upton is out for a jog when she witnesses a horrible car crash and risks her own life to save the passengers. “I feel like everyone in the unit would probably have a similar response to jump in truthfully,” Spiridakos tells TV Insider. “Selfishly, I’m happy that it was me ’cause it was a lot of fun. It was a really cool episode.”

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And when she says “jump in,” she means it: Upton jumps into the river to try to save whoever’s in the car. As you can tell from the photos above and the behind-the-scenes video below, it’s night, it’s Chicago, and it’s freezing. In other words, it looks brutal.

“It was definitely intense,” Spiridakos says. “The jumping into the river, truthfully, was not me. It was my stunt double Kelli [Victoria Scarangello] who jumped in, and she’s amazing. There’s a couple different water sequences: There’s the going into the river, there’s the going under, which is the tank that we shot when we were in Los Angeles, [and] there was another pond portion of it where we were coming up out of the river.”

She continues, “They were challenging, but really cool at the same time. I think the L.A. portion of it was really amazing just getting to see this giant tank with this car submerged. The stunt team that was there was incredible, just made me feel super comfortable, and we played in the water for two days straight.”

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With that time, “I got really used to opening my eyes underwater, which I am not good at and kept opening my eyes and then inhaling ’cause you open your eyes and then there’s the stinging that happens,” she admits. “It was a process, let’s just say.”

But there’s more to the car crash than Upton originally knows, and Intelligence must track down the man responsible. “We find out a little bit more about the victims in the car and it takes the whole team coming together and trying to solve how the accident happened,” Spiridakos previews.