The most recent episode of Chicago PD is kinda painful with a complete lot of ick and Hailey Upton is on the heart of all of it this week.
And Hailey is…going by it. She’s nonetheless reeling with the lack of Jay and she or he’s doing her greatest to masks her grief and maintain all of it in, nevertheless it’s apparent she is just not doing nicely. Together with her husband being gone, with the case she has thrown herself into, with any of it, however bottling up her feelings and never displaying her weak facet is what Hailey does. Possibly she does it somewhat too nicely, however we see these partitions crumble the tiniest bit when she confides in Kim, (FINALLY — one other actual second between these two) and later we get one other between her and Adam. Whereas it’s not a lot of the workforce camaraderie we’re sorely lacking, (and desperately want) it’s one thing no less than.
This storyline we’ve fallen into with Hailey is nothing new for PD, nevertheless it’s one that’s nonetheless too actual and far too painful, and the best way she tackles it’s nothing new in any respect. She loves her job, and she or he cares drastically about folks, however these sorts of instances the place children are concerned is one thing that’s particularly horrific, and she or he makes it her one and solely precedence to determine all of it out.
She has buried herself deep on this one, foregoing sleep and caring for herself the best way she ought to as a result of she’s attempting so laborious to hyperlink the chief’s son to a intercourse trafficking ring. She’s obsessing over the lack of Abby, the case, and Sean. She is aware of he’s concerned and she or he’s doing the whole lot she will to make issues proper. She must make issues proper.
Within the midst of all of that, she’s nonetheless lacking her husband and may’t come up with him, and that to me at first appeared like a case of lazy writing syndrome. As a result of any Upstead fan, (myself included) will inform you that in no universe would Jay Halstead not discover a method to talk along with his spouse. Particularly after what they’ve been by, how they’ve been written from day one, and realizing they’re the loves of one another’s lives.
However then the logical a part of me tries to have a look at it from a unique perspective as a result of I’m nonetheless attempting, (struggling) to make sense of the best way Jay was written off. And what I’ve give you is that as painful as it’s that there isn’t any communication taking place between Hailey and Jay proper now, we’ve to recollect his leaving is a direct results of all of this. He’s not there to be that anchor for her, that voice of cause she generally wants to listen to that may pull her again when she will get too near the sting. His absence and the way she’s nonetheless studying to navigate that loss has develop into the catalyst in her obsession to carry down Sean, and that is the purpose. The one one which is smart to me. She’s on her personal now, and she or he has to determine the right way to be that anchor for herself.
And perhaps it’s what she wants proper now too, even when she goes about all of it flawed. A distraction from coping with the issues she will’t fairly get a grip on, some semblance of management when the whole lot else in her life has gone to hell. My one hope in all of that is that the tip will justify the means as soon as this arc involves an finish. That perhaps a number of the out-of-character nonsense that has been thrown at us may simply be value it someway.
Because the hour unfolds and the case goes sideways, Hailey finds herself even nearer to it…somewhat too shut. She must get an angle on Sean, so she goes to see him on her personal to get it, opens as much as him in a method she is aware of he’ll reply. She exhibits him that weak facet she likes to cover away and talks in regards to the ache she feels from lacking her husband, and he falls into it. Their dialog progresses and Hailey pushes till he lastly provides her what she wants, however all it does is carry her and the workforce to a different lifeless finish.
They’re left at an deadlock, the chief finds out his son is being investigated, however Hailey doesn’t let it go. She will be able to’t. And when the episode involves an finish, we’re left with a stare-down between Hailey and Sean, a bone-chilling understanding between the 2. He’s being watched and she or he desires him to understand it. He is aware of that she is aware of simply what he’s doing and the way he’s concerned, and the look of realization that flashes in his eyes as he stares at her gazing him is one which sends a shiver over you.
This storyline is darkish and harmful, and now the stakes are greater as a result of Sean is aware of he’s received warmth and the workforce is concerned, and now the chief is simply too, and Chicago PD’s monitor report tells me the final word finish is just not gonna be a reasonably one by any means. It’s gonna be messy and there’ll most likely be extra ache as a result of there at all times is. The damage is much from over with this one.
Chicago PD airs on Wednesdays on NBC.
