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A Material Witness is the ninth episode of the first season and the 9th overall episode of Chicago P.D.

Summary[]

In responding to a call, Atwater and Burgess discover a gunshot victim and the only witness is Lexi Olinsky. The shooting is tied to a Latin gang. To protect Olinsky's daughter, Voight takes the case from the Gang Unit. Ruzek pulls up Burgess to help with an undercover mission that he hopes will help solve the case.

Plot[]

Voight, still cuffed, sits face to face with his new IA contact, Stillwell. This guy's song sounds familiar - he wants unbridled cooperation - but does he have more bite than Gradishar? He releases Voight with a threat for more jail time if things don't go his way.

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While District 21 buzzes about Voight's arrest, a gang shooting sends Burgess and Atwater across town - and to the sole witness, Olinsky's teenage daughter, Lexi. To keep her from testifying (and becoming a surefire target to the gang), Voight and Olinsky usurp the investigation from the Gang Unit despite the protests of Detective Stark who's assigned to the Gang Unit and hunt for the likely suspect, a gangbanger named Calaca hooked up with the Latin Priests. But before the case gains traction, a foursome of executed Latin Priests are found in a field. This isn't just about territory anymore - this is an all-out gang war.

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A tip leads Lindsay, Voight and Antonio to bust down the door of rival gang leader T-Mac, a member of the G-Park Lords with his eyes on killing Calaca. Once Lindsay chases him down, T-Mac caves to pressure from Voight and promises to stop murders. In other words, Intelligence buys some time to land Calaca. Problem is, when Lindsay and Antonio discover a front for PCP - the Latin Priests' drug of choice - they find irrefutable evidence of torture... including Calaca's pinky finger.

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Ruzek ropes in Burgess for an undercover stint working as a naïve tourist in Millennium Park. Her goal: get a phone stolen by the Latin Priests so Jin can track it back to their secret headquarters. She nails the task with ease, but then her phone ends up as a dead end, stolen by a harmless old lady's foster son with a kleptomania problem. Later, Ruzek receives some distracting (and salacious) picture texts from his fiancée. While his guard is down, a thief snatches the phone and Ruzek chases him on foot, almost losing him on the CTA. When he relocates him, Ruzek follows the kid all the way back to the house he and Burgess visited earlier. Turns out that old lady supervises a group of foster kids who all steal phones for the Latin Priests. She reluctantly gives Ruzek an address to the gang's headquarters.

Intelligence raids the Latin Priests' warehouse and pulls Calaca into custody. But even Voight's untraditional form of interrogation goes nowhere - this guy's been arrested 15 times and never ratted on the gang. Unfortunately, that guarantees Lexi will have to testify if the case goes to trial. She reassures her worried father that, despite the danger, it's the right thing to do. As Ruzek and Voight bring Calaca to a police car that's awaiting outside the station, the criminal subtly implies he might target Lexi. Voight, not willing to have that occur proceeds to slam Calaca against the car's bonnet and while holding the gangster's ear, he informs him there's not a cellblock in five states where there isn't someone who owes Voight a favor before telling Calaca that if anything happens to Lexi, Voight will have Calaca's new prison boyfriend turn him inside out for a stick of gum before he kicks Calaca into the patrol car.

This contrasts with another call from Stillwell that brings Voight outside of town to a body, strangled to death. One look and Voight knows why he's there - it's Lonnie Rodiger, the kid who skirted a murder charge that Halstead obsesses over even after Voight's repeated attempts to warn him. Stillwell makes himself clear: Halstead better have a good alibi.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Recurring Cast[]

Guest Cast[]

  • Timothee Baltz as Peterson
  • José Ramón Rosario as Uncle Papo
  • Joey Auzenne as Calaca
  • Samuel A. Brice as TMac Pierce
  • Ed Flynn as Detective Stark
  • Anne Jacques as Grandma Mandy
  • Greta Oglesby as Rhonda Thompson
  • Daniel Pinder as Michael/Skateboard Kid
  • Peter Oyloe as Kenneth
  • Kimm Beavers as Kayla Pierce
  • Kaitlyn Caldwell as Tamara Pierce
  • Peter Reinemann as Ornery Guy
  • Susan Moniz as Wife
  • Fernando Albiar as Vendor

Videos[]

Quotes[]

Voight: (to Halstead) Don't push me, or I'll have you turned out of the department like that. (snaps fingers)


Ruzek: Lady, I'm going to hogtie you with handcuffs so fast that your dentures will spin, now give us an address.


Voight: (to Calaca) There isn't anyone in the five states that doesn't owe me a favor. If anything happens to that girl, I'll have your new boyfriend turn you inside out for a stick of gum.

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