We had been promised a Platt-centric episode of Chicago PD, and we get that on Chicago PD season 13 episode 9. A simple favor ends up extremely personal for Trudy, and it turns into a mission for revenge.
Caution: This post contains SPOILERS from Chicago PD season 13 episode 9.
The episode starts with how Platt ends up getting roped into the case. A detective called McCay ends up checking in with her for a favor. He’s been working a case for the last two years, but ends up running into a dead end when his suspect is arrested but there’s no paperwork. That means he wasn’t charged, and Platt works her magic to figure out who it is.
While she manages to get the information, things take a turn the next day. McCay doesn’t turn up for the sting operation, so Platt goes to check it out. That’s where she finds McCay in a room with a gunshot to the head. Yes, it’s staged to look like a suicide, but we know from the promo that it’s murder.
Did McCay take his own life on Chicago PD season 13 episode 9?
When Trudy is told that it’s a suicide, she refuses to believe it. Sure, all the evidence backs it up, but Trudy knows this man, and she only saw him the night before. There is no way that he took his own life, and now she needs to prove that. One item that is missing is McCay’s phone, and nobody initially seems to think that’s odd. It’s sure to come up during the episode.
Because it’s a suicide, the usual honors for a line-of-duty killing aren’t given to McCay, but Trudy isn’t going to stand for that. She makes it clear that he needs them, and they will all thank her when it gets to the end of the episode, because we know that there was something shifty about this.
When the coroner finds evidence that the body was moved, Voight agrees that this wasn’t a suicide. It’s time for Intelligence to take on the case. You know when Intelligence is on the case that they’ll get to the bottom of it. Sure enough, CCTV picks up Rodriguez, a man McCay was after, close to the home. The death was staged, and it’s definitely murder.
Intelligence gets on the case, as the plot thickens
Wondering where the cell phone ended up? That never did turn up, but Imani shares that tech says it was turned off at 1:42 a.m. and that’s within the time of death window. While this is certainly personal for Trudy, it’s also a hard one for the others, as these guys are cop killers — and we know what they’re all like when it comes to cop killers.
When a suspect is pulled in, she shares that she was with McCay the night of his death. She “hit him up” at around 1 a.m. after McCay went to get a warrant. It turns out that Rodriguez found out there was a rat, and McCay knew that Rodriguez had moved everything out of the stash house. There was a lot more going on between Trudy leaving that night and the time the warrant was supposed to be served.
The woman caught was McCay’s CI, Anez, who actually liked him. This is when Anez shares that McCay was always a little drunk, and that included the night of his murder. Burgess takes it all in, as she tries to figure out everything that’s happened without hurting Trudy too much.
It does go back to McCay’s wife leaving with the kids that night. Burgess starts to wonder if there was something going on there, but Trudy isn’t willing to listen to anything that doesn’t fit the idea of murder. Anez does what she needs to do to get answers about Rodriguez’s new location, giving Intelligence the chance to move in.
It turns out that Rodriguez isn’t at the address given, and Trudy shoots the guy who rushes out of the back door, killing him before he can get answers. In her defence, he was going to shoot her, but it still led them to another dead end.
More evidence points to a murder and not a suicide on Chicago PD
Despite not finding Rodriguez at the house, they do find keys to a car. As they find the car, there’s blood inside and a GPS that could lead them to a place he’s been before. After all, the criminals always go to somewhere similar.
Burgess continues to push for the idea that it could have been suicide. The drinking and the failing marriage link to it, but Trudy continues to refuse to believe it. It also doesn’t help that the GPS shows Rodriguez at McCay’s at the time of death — and the blood in the car was McCays, further linking to that.
However, there’s an address that stands out to Burgess, a laundromat. Why would Rodriguez go there? Of course, rather than tell everyone that she is heading there and taking backup, she gives a one-off line to Trudy (who is dealing with something else) and heads over by herself. It’s there that she finds a phone, which is likely to be McCay’s. She’s lucky that someone else wasn’t there waiting for her!
Trudy learns the full truth about McCay's death
With all that, it’s time for Intelligence to move in on Rodriguez. One thing Trudy wants to know is if Rodriguiez pulled the trigger, or if someone else did. She probably isn’t going to get that answer, though. At least, not just yet.
Burgess, who had managed to get into McCay’s phone, talks to Rodriguez alone. She knows that Rodriguez didn’t do it, but he needs to tell her what really happened. Only she can help him, and it must all come from that video that Burgess didn’t play for us on the phone. What she does know is that McCay was likely already dead when Rodriguez got there, but he took the phone thinking the name of the snitch would be on there.
It seems like that is what happened after all, so now Burgess needs to get Trudy to understand that something else happened. It turns out that McCay recorded a goodbye video. This was a suicide, and it wasn’t forced. Of course, nobody wants to believe this, and Trudy has to watch the video to believe it.
After a whole episode of trying to find out who killed McCay, we learn the one thing none us wanted to. Our hearts break for Trudy as she learns she didn’t know McCay as well as she thought she did. This is going to sit with Trudy for the rest of her life, especially as she has to head to McCay’s wife to share everything that happened to him, and there’s a part of the wife that clearly already knew.
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Chicago PD airs on Wednesdays at 10/9c on NBC.