‘Chicago P.D.’: Jason Beghe Previews Revisiting Case Voight Failed to Solve After Wife’s Death
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Sergeant Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) revisits a part of his past that was painful in the October 16 episode of Chicago P.D.: a case that he took shortly after his wife’s death.
In “The After,” ASA Chapman (Sara Bues) assists Intelligence with a sensitive investigation that drudges up painful memories for Voight. Beghe hesitates to say that the case is “haunting” Voight but stresses how tough it is for him. “It’s definitely smacking him in the face a little,” he tells TV Insider.
The case involves a “terrible” rapist with a specific modus operandi, Beghe previews. “The episode starts where his wife who had died, Camille, is brought into his mind because of a leak in the basement, and so he has to clean up the leak and sees that possessions that he was holding in storage were getting destroyed. Then very soon he hears over the radio about this woman in a very specific state of distress that’s very similar to a case—too similar to a case that he worked 15 years ago, that he never solved, never had a suspect.”
That case was Voight’s first back after Camille’s death. “He knew that he took the case before he should have been back to work, but he needed the work because he couldn’t feel the feelings. It was too much,” explains Beghe. “[He thinks] that he failed to get the bad guy and solve the case and effect justice because he was mentally, emotionally inhibited by the grief. All of that is now coming back.”
He continues, “It’s a chance for him to feel a little bit of what the loss was. The other half of his heart, maybe most of his heart was snatched from him. That’s a kind of an alone that he just wasn’t able to fully confront. And so he came up with his set of solutions, including going back to work. Now, 15 years later, there’s a chance for him to kind of dip his toe back in the water.”
The season began with Voight moving from case to case after Upton’s (Tracy Spiridaks) departure and his near-death experience. Now, “he’s calming down a little,” says Beghe. “But that experience changed him, and why try to define what that is? We don’t want to limit it. Let’s see. But is it a coincidence that he has this level of vulnerability and exposure, or is there a connection, a relationship between the two, and what’s next and where will he go?
Do you think Voight’s doing better now than at the beginning of the season? What are you hoping to see ahead for him? Let us know in the comments section below.
Chicago P.D., Wednesdays, 10/9c, NBC
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I want to see Voight back to his old self,also this new way of doing the series it absolutely terrible. Re_incarnate AL. 💯
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We love MR. BEGHE and he,s always improving.one things for sure without him you have no Chicago PD respect to the rest of the cast but let's be real Voight is Chicago PD I love this show and most of the cast miss eryn and Al
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I'm hoping they do not have him end up with Chapman. Yeah I know they are both adults but she's old enough to be his daughter and he's old enough to be her father. If they want Voight to have help coping with everything that's going on, they can bring Alvin and Justin back as ghosts or hallucinations for Voight or they can bring his grandson back to Chicago, I would like to see Daniel again. But Voight ending up with Chapman is a terrible idea for the show, she would literally have influence over him in every single case and they would probably not catch all of the suspects, because Chapman doesn't like the way Voight does things. There is too much romance in the show already Ruzek/Burgess and Kevin and hopefully his new found love.
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Hopefully this will resolve some of his issues. However, I can only hope their plan isn't to hook him up with Chapman. There are quite a few reasons that this would be a bad idea....last but not least he's old enough to be her father. I After watching this show since the beginning and seeing what they have done with the wonderful characters they have destroyed, not sure. I am not sure his character should ever go this way, and then you have all the other romance on the show. So glad that Atwater might have a chance for something.
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I want to see what happens show it please
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I want the old Voight back, solves the crimes n gets tough when he has to. N gets a great intelligence team to back him up n support him. ❣️
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I don't want to see voight and champagne together at all they don't make a good couple at all
Voight is just working through his truma and needs to process everything he still miss his late wife
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