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Dear Lord, what a stupid way to send off Jay! I realize Jesse Sofer wanted to expand his acting chips and move on, but to have the characters surreptitiously and impetuously move to Bolivia was ridiculous. The guy is a married man, with a supposedly solid commitment to his wife and for him to move on after his life becomes challenged by his actions and his demons shows his commitment was pretty shallow. And for Hailey to just cry and accept that was just plain unrealistic. His enmeshment to his boss seemed implausible as Hank has proven time and time again he beats to his own questionable drum. I hope we don't have a whole season of her angst and rage. The acting was solid and it was directed well.

Favorite scene with

Detective Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos) - Jay telling her that he Resigned and is Leaving for Bolivia that day. At least Jesse has the Option to Return to the Show.

Officer Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) - Telling Jay that he shouldn't have Promised what he did.

Sergeant Trudy Platt (Amy Morton) - Her scenes.

Chicago P. D. is Back and it Rocked!!!

My Mom got me Hooked on this Show. I usually don't Review TV Shows. But the Chicago Series is now my Ultimate Favorite Series. Watching Last Season's Reruns got me through the Long, Hot Summer and Really Helped me through some things.

I Love Every Single Character.

Jay!!!! My favorite character ! He knew he had to leave that's why he did. He couldn't cover up things anymore. Interested to see how the team reacts.

Right before leaving for Bolivia, Halstead confessed to Voight that he saw himself turning into his boss-something that scared him.

"You don't wanna be me," Voight said.

"No, it's worse than that," Halstead answered. "I do. I do wanna be you."

"Hailey and Voight's relationship gets interesting moving forward," she says. "They are both a bit alone and lost in the world right now, and whether or not they want to admit it, there are a lot of unsaid things lying there between them: blame, guilt, anger, tension. The irony is that they are in this together, and they have been for some time. Hailey's the one that calls him out, Voight's the one that calls her out, they care about each other, and they're both reeling from Halstead leaving."

This fine episode finds Halstead and the crew investigating a string of violent pharmacy robberies. In one particular case, the gang kills a pharmacist and a bystander pulls a weapon and joins the fray and goes after the robbery gang. He is shot, hospitalized, and in bad shape. He's a veteran and his army buddies are gathered at the hospital and talk to Halstead, telling him how the guy worked bomb disposal in the Middle East and was a fine soldier. It turns out that he was having personal, emotional, and financial problems and that he was a paid lookout for the robbery gang, but when the robbery turned violent, he broke ranks with the gang and went after the shooters. Halstead, who we know was a Ranger who also served overseas, tries to help the guy and his family. Halstead is conflicted and must decide what to do.

Let's be honest, Chicago PD isn't the edgy show it was in earlier seasons (I wrote in a previous review that the writers have pretty much smoothed out all of Voight's rough edges) but even so, there are occasions where the show sort of flashes back in time to when it was much gritter. "A Good Man" is a pretty good example of that.

Jesse Lee Soffer is fantastic as a conflicted and dark Detective Halstead. The guy is clearly in a horrible place. Not often Voight is lost for words, but he was at one memorable point in this episode after something Halstead did. Jason Beghe was great in this scene, too.

Some of Soffer's best work throughout his entire run with the show comes in this episode, ultimately his last - to this point, anyway, and look how often Jesse Spencer has appeared on Chicago Fire after he supposedly left that show - that puts the former US Army Ranger back amongst military types during a string of armed robberies of drug stores. The standard of writing and acting has been high thus far in the show's tenth season.

Jay has been on Chicago PD from even before day one because he was on Fire first. They changed his entire character overnight just to facilitate this poorly done exit. If they wanted to go this route it should have been paced out more over several episodes. They only introduced the circumstances of his exit with about 8 mins of showtime left.

Even beyond Jay's exit, the actual plot was boring and predictable. It was clear that there was more to the story than the "good samaritan" was telling. And they somehow managed to give an anticlimactic end to a case that wasn't even interesting.

Very disappointing all around.

Hailey and jay were already struggling and them together was always weird.. they were ok together as partners.. she developed some feelinds... and then he reciprocated.. ok then he got all emotional wanting to marry her after a couple of months or whatever, she was unsure... now they are there.. but again they got estranded because of voight

of course, the dynamics.. the same we got from the 2 and with rusak and burgees.. when the women have a case that rings home, they break the rules, they smash suspects and if the guys try to calm them down, they flip, they get agressive with them.. but when it is the opposite, dude has a case that is personal, they get a bit into it, and either burgees or hailey get on the moral highground judging, making faces (hailey) and surely, they are always right and the guys wrong.

Halstead is regretful because he killed the guy but not what he did to save the family.. or maybe everything but it was triggered by the death of the random dude..

I like that chief of police.. he knows who the real bad people are.. and he tried to help jay but he did not want to be helped..

and the end.. stupid... if he did not want this dark thing over him anymore.. he would ask hailey to go with him somewhere else lol.. not just decide to go somewhere else for 8 months and leave her there.. pretty selfish..

and ridiculous way of sending off a character that was, after voight and trudy, the oldest.