‘Chicago P.D.’ Preview: Nicole Ari Parker Says ‘Alphas’ Miller & Voight ‘Are Sizing Each Other Up’
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Since the start of Season 8, CPD’s new deputy superintendent, Samantha “Sam” Miller (Nicole Ari Parker), has been on a mission: police reform. Her collaboration with Hank Voight (Jason Beghe), the Intelligence Unit’s influential and rule-breaking leader, has concerned some Chicago P.D. fans who like Hank just the way he is.
“They’re allowed to feel protective, but a change is going to come!” Parker says. “These two alphas are sizing each other up because they know there’s no way to avoid the work they have to do.” The March 10 episode could be a tipping point.
It begins when a seasoned white cop, who’s partnered with a Black rookie, shoots a Black man during a tense traffic stop. Intelligence officers Kevin Atwater (LaRoyce Hawkins) and Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger), who are Black and white, respectively, are sent to arrest him.
“At every level, you have two perspectives of the situation,” Parker says. “That’s what makes this episode so powerful. It tries to pinpoint what [each person] sees in that moment.” Other factors, like time on the force, also come into play.
The situation escalates when the crowd of witnesses grows and Atwater and Ruzek come under fire — someone doesn’t want the cops and the accused to make it back to the station. But who? And which side of the law are they on? “You’ve got a lot of eyeballs on this,” Parker says. “Some are there to protect and serve, and some are there to destroy.”
(Matt Dinerstein/NBC)
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Leave Voight alone. Love him as is!!
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It's a tv show! It's fictitious! It's hollywood entertainment! Leave Voight as Voight,and stop this sensitivity crap! Or else you'll loose viewers and the show will go down the crapper.leave reforms to the real life law enforcement/politicians!
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I loved your response. It's just a television show and a damned good one. Lets not reinvent the wheel. Appreciate the art.
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Leave Hank alone. I am sick of every network trying to address every issue of the day, in every show. Every show wants to address police brutality; every show has to have a gay couple, a biracial couple, a 2 daddy (or mommy) family, and on and on. I realize that Hank bends the rules but it is always for a good reason. Half the country is not in favor of the trends. If a police officer is in jeopardy trying to make an arrest, why doesn’t the criminal get punished for resisting? The public has accused LEOs of shooting because they are scared. So, what? Officers that use excessive force need to be fired, but criminals need to understand that if they are breaking the law, they will not and do not deserve being handled with kid gloves. This “progressive” attitude that is taking over, is destroying our country. I am not progressive and I don’t need to be woke. I believe in “right and wrong”. I also am the proud grandmother of a biracial grandchild, so don’t form an opinion. Maybe we need to add -“Don’t do this at home” to the end of all shows.
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If you change voight I’m not watching
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OMG, stop this nonsense!!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! Stop dividing us further by politicizing every damn thing!!! People need to grow the hell up and stop with the victim mentality and being so offended by every damn thing!!!
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If Chicago PD goes full “woke” on this story line, it will lose fans in droves.
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I can’t comment on Hank without commenting on the Upton/Halstead romance. Am I the only one that don’t like this? She already had a romance with Adam. What are the writers going to do for her next? Give her a romance with Atwater and work her way up to Voight. She and Halstead had a great partnership/relationship like Burgess and Atwater. Halstead is my favorite actor and the romance between them seems so fake. It seemed more real with Camilla in the Rabbit Hole episode than it is with Upton now. Just don’t like seeing the writers make Upton the Intelligence Bunny.
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Just bring new episodes back. Tired of the reruns, and get Atwater his own honey, everyone else has had one. He had one and they locked her up!
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Leave hank voight alone.. the way he has always been since season 1 episode 1 is the way he needs to be. Stop with the childish drama
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Leave my favorite policeman ALONE!! THIS IS JUST A TV SHOW!! Please bring Al back😟🙄He had to go undercover... or his life had been threatened because of a big time case. He was the only witness. I do not want him dead. I love this show.
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Leave Voight as he is this show he dosent need to be changed you will loose alot of fans if u change him there is nothing to change he had always rooted for the underdog. He has always been fair with the victims. He dosent have Prejudice bone in his body in fact he goes against whites more then he does blacks so please dont change him. lay off
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Well i think that show is my hobby for depression i wish that i could watch the whole week and always is #1 best shows if they stops that show i would never watch shows again boight is my favorite love how he works
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This has gotten so ridiculous!! If this “New Gen” is going to alter “fictitious movies/series” then NO-ONE will continue to watch!! I understand that there are MANY “Hot Button” issues in the world but we All watch TV and Movies for ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES..... I DON’T want to watch the NEWS everytime I watch a MADE UP storyline!! 🙄🙄 Holy Crap will you ever lose MOST of your fans if you continue this storyline and changing Who Hank Voight is! 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ I will stop watching! I don’t watch many tv shows now anymore so it won’t be much for me to stop watching Chicago PD too! 😁🤷🏻♀️
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What happened to the Latina undercover cop from last season so much better and believable than Upton is.
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Losing interest in the Chi PD. Feels like WOKE subliminal messaging from Wolfe and the producers. I don't need the messages. It's a TV Show, fictional aka not real.. Upton another one bouncing bed to bed. It's a crime show not a afternoon soap. Plus her character is just way over the top. Changing the the dynamics is going to cost viewers. Stop already with the touchy Feely
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Hank is the best thing about the show. He separates Chicago PD from the other cop shows.
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Leave Hank alone but.......write in a fling with Sam and Hank. It's there...write it in. Brief or long term..either way.
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The new ones suck!!!!
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Hank is hank, you change him you change the whole dynamic of the show at that point I stop watching. Also I watch the show to be entertained not thrown into real life aggravations every single episode.
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Go ahead, start the changes(dramatically), and see how we’ll start switching channels soooo fast. Lots of us fans love the show but we also have options. I don’t resist change, our common denominator in life in America, but please! Come on! DO NOT
POLITIZE THE SHOW!
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I miss Lyndsay. Don't like Upton and Halstead together. She is too rough. No chemistry there. The writers are trying too hard. Just bring Lyndsay back.
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Come on writers, putting Upton and Halstead together is the best you can do. Absolutely no chemistry between them. Wish I could unsee that scene lol. This is my absolute favorite show but the storyline's are getting stale. I watch back to back episodes of alot of Dick Wolf's shows on the ION network and some CPD shows are full of twist and turns and great dialogue that you can't get enough of. While watching L&O reruns I saw a baby face Antonio/CPD as a detective, Brett Silvi/CF as a rape victim, and Upton, Ruzek, and Stella/CF on a 20 yr old L&O SVU as college students trying to cover up a rape. Then Sgt Platt/CPD was a lawyer on Blue Bloods. 🤔Ok, so I watch too much TV..
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The whole premise of Hank Voight and the Intelligence Unit is they are hard kick ass break the law (in a good way) kind of cops that get the job done and the bad people off the streets! I agree there are bad cops out there but if they continue to take the show in this direction I think they're going to lose a lot of viewers because that's the whole TV show is just how badass they are! I mean I get one or two episodes regarding this issue to make sure the issue stays in the forefront but to change the whole show and make it around this issue would be a negative for me and I don't know if I'll watch it anymore!
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I agree, It's best that he be allowed to be alone. Often times when something happens curiosity sets in and many doubters feel they need to know instead of trusting him to handle matters. Excuse his love life, Hank is alright, adding a relation for Voight iwill take things in another directon, it won't work because they're both strong forces.
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I'm looking forward to this episode. Fans love when these issues are addressed on our favorite show.
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