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The Thing About Heroes is the second episode of Season 5 of Chicago P.D. It is also the 86th episode of the series.

Summary[]

The Intelligence unit teams up with the FBI after a deadly bomb explodes during an annual street festival. The case turns personal for Burgess when an officer she helped trained goes missing after the explosion and evidence linking him to the bomb and a terrorist group mounts. Desperate to prove her friend's innocence, Burgess goes against Voight and the investigation to dig deeper on her own and discovers her friend was running his own undercover operation on the terrorist group.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Crossover Cast[]

Recurring Cast[]

Guest Cast[]

  • Corey Reynolds as Steve Burns
  • Ben Youcef as Officer Frank Toma
  • David Pittu as Mr. Toma
  • Jacqueline Antaramian as Mrs. Toma
  • Jilon VanOver as Bobby Rose
  • Sean Parris as Brian Mooney
  • Mahmoud Alshaikh as Azul Rahim
  • Salar Ardebili as Bashir Wateef
  • Ninos Baba as Mukesh Hassan

Plot[]

Burgess, Ruzek, and Atwater are working patrol at the annual street festival when Kim runs into an old patrol friend Frank Toma. Adam believes Toma is the one Kim is seeing, but she denies it, saying she is in a relationship with the Assistant US Attorney, Matt Miller. Meanwhile, Atwater witnesses a dark van being ditched in an alley near the festival by 2 men. When he approaches them, the men begin to run, and Ruzek and Atwater chase them. Kim checks the van, sees an explosive in it, and quickly clears the area with the help of Toma. During the chase, one of the offenders is hit by a car while the other escapes, and the bomb explodes, causing many casualties.

Voight sends Upton and Halstead to Gaffney Chicago Medical Center to get information from one of the offenders, Bashir Wateef, while the rest of the team goes to the neighborhood where the van was reported stolen. Due to the number of Arabic speakers there, Kim decides to get help from Toma, who is fluent in Arabic, but they can't seem to track him down. They try talking to Toma's partner, Bobby Rose, but he seems to have no knowledge of where his partner is. Concerned, Kim and Antonio talk to Toma's parents, hoping to get information on their son's whereabouts. They go through his room and find searches of Jihad website on his laptop, creating suspicion that Toma was somehow involved in the bombings.

Back at the district, Voight updates the Toma situation with the FBI team assisting in the investigation. According to FBI agent Steve Burns, Toma has been attending the same mosque as Wateef, which raised some red flags. Antonio and Kim continue to search Toma's room and find pictures of him with his boyfriend, Brian Mooney. When they track down Mooney, he says he has no idea where Toma is and is concerned, saying that Frank left a message saying goodbye. Mooney tells Kim and Antonio that Toma's partner had been tormenting him for being Muslim and gay, which depressed Toma.

Upton and Halstead question Bashir Wateef at Chicago Med and ask about Frank Toma. Wateef tells them that he knew Frank as "Jawean" and had no idea he was a cop. He knew Jawean from the mosque he attends and doesn't know how or if Jawean is involved. Hailey asks for the other offender's name, but Wateef stays silent. Losing his patience, Jay threatens to call the FBI, and Wateef gives them his partner's name, Azul Rahim. They get an address on Azul and go to arrest him, but during the arrest, Jay finds Azul's wife, Nadia, smashing a laptop with a hammer, and shoots her when she grabs a hidden pistol. They bring in Azul and try to get him to talk, but he demands to see his wife and lawyer. Realizing he has no idea that his wife is dead, Hailey and Jay use her as leverage to get Azul to flip. Azul tells them that Mukesh Hassan is the one that made the bomb and that he made another one, meaning there is another attack planned. Azul then requests to see his wife, as Hailey drops a picture of her corpse and coldly tells the shocked man his wife died for the cause.

The team believes that Hassan worked with Azul and Wateef and recruited Toma as their inside man. Denny Woods hears about the possible involvement of Frank Toma and shares the news with the public, causing hatred toward Toma and his family. The team finds a hit on Toma's car and heads to the location. Kim finally finds Toma, and they talk. Toma keeps telling her that he messed up and could have prevented those attacks. Seeing Kim's confusion, Toma gives her a letter and takes his own life.

Back at the district, the team goes through Toma's belongings that were on him at the time of his death, and Adam finds a bunch of jihad websites that are protected by passwords. After reading the letter Toma gave her, Kim and Antonio go to an apartment listed. Antonio is hesitant to go in without backup, but Kim, trusting Toma, decides to go in. Inside the apartment, they find more evidence linking Toma to Hassan's terrorist group, but after searching the place, their theory is disproved. Kim finds a journal with surveillance photos of Azul and Wateef and information about the attacks. She believes that Toma was doing his undercover investigation, trying to take down Hassan and his team. They find an address to a warehouse, and Voight sends the team there, believing that the next bomb might be at the warehouse.

When they get to the warehouse, it is empty, but one of Hassan's members is there, and he doesn't say anything about the location of the second bomb. Adam finally gets into the encrypted Jihad websites and finds out that the next attack is at a police graduation, but Voight senses it's a diversion. After going through the journal, Kim discovers that the second attack may be at a high school. The team heads there and is able to find the bomb in time, disarming it without any fatalities.

Even after the case is solved, Kim is still saddened that she couldn't help Frank and prevent his death. She decides to confront Toma's partner, Rose, angered at how he bullied Frank and threatens to end his job as police. Later, Voight asks Kim to leave Rose alone, claiming that it would also hurt her career, and she obeys. At the end of the episode, Voight asks Woods to clear Toma's name, and Woods tries his best to do so but reminds Voight that the damage is already done.

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Quotes[]

Voight: So we're calling this what it is. Terrorism.


Upton: You want to see your wife? Here. Don't be sad, she died for the cause.


Woods: You know, I admire you Hank. You always know when to fight and when to run. I guess that's why you've survived so long.

Voight: I never run, Denny. I just wait.

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