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* PoorCommunicationKills: Throughout the first episode, Voight continually clashes with Violent Crimes, with their Lieutenant, Bruce Belden, annoyed that Voight doesn't share information - to which Voight retorts that neither does Violent Crimes. Towards the end of the episode, Intelligence rolls up to an apartment where they believe a drug dealer is going to be killed... and Violent Crimes rolls up, telling Voight they're following up on the car belonging to some cartel hitmen, which was spotted at the apartment. [[spoiler:It results in one Intelligence detective being shot in the neck, and pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Throughout the first episode, Voight continually clashes with Violent Crimes, with their Lieutenant, Bruce Belden, annoyed that Voight doesn't share information - to which Voight retorts that neither does Violent Crimes. Towards the end of the episode, Intelligence rolls up to an apartment where they believe a drug dealer is going to be killed... and Violent Crimes rolls up, telling Voight they're following up on the car belonging to some cartel hitmen, which was spotted at the apartment. [[spoiler:It results in one Intelligence detective being shot in the neck, and pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. [[LaserGuidedKarma Later, Belden makes a deal with Pulpo that enables the latter to get his hands on a run and ends with Belden]] and several other cops dead.]]
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* IdiotBall: Denny Woods comes ''very'' close to taking Voight down using Olinsky in jail as leverage. However, he fails to protect his leverage. The guard watching Olinsky gets bribed to look the other way and [[spoiler:he ends up dead]].
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* IdiotBall: Denny Woods came ''very'' close to taking Voight down using Olinsky in jail as leverage. However, he failed to protect his leverage as the guard watching Olinsky gets bribed to look the other way and [[spoiler:he ends up dead]].
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* IdiotBall: Denny Woods came comes ''very'' close to taking Voight down using Olinsky in jail as leverage. However, he failed fails to protect his leverage as the leverage. The guard watching Olinsky gets bribed to look the other way and [[spoiler:he ends up dead]].
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** Both are now permanently aborted with Olinsky's death and Antonio's departure.
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* IdiotBall: Denny Woods came ''very'' close to taking Voight down using Olinsky in jail as leverage. However, he failed to protect his leverage as the guard watching Olinsky gets bribed to look the other way and he [[spoiler:he ends up dead.dead]].
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* IdiotBall: Denny Woods came ''very'' close to taking Voight down using Olinsky in jail as leverage. However, he failed to protect his leverage as the guard watching Olinsky gets bribed to look the other way and he ends up dead.
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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: [[ConMan Curt]] [[MiserAdvisor Framingham]] in "Seven Indictments" NEARLY gets away from the Feds by doing this. He lures a brain-damaged homeless man named Leon Tremaine into a house and shoots him in the eye. He puts his watch and wedding ring on Leon's corpse, burning it with paint thinner before pulling the gas hose that blows up the house. But unbeknownst to him, Leon's friend [[ChekhovsGunman Marv]] tells Trudy about Curt. Intelligence then tracks Curt and his accomplice Jane to a motel and they're both arrested for murder]].
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** Detective Upton was inspired to become a police officer after her family's diner was robbed and a officer came to comfort them during the investigation. When she came to work for the Intelligence Unit, she found herself reunited with the officer who comforted her: Trudy Platt.
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** Detective Upton was inspired to become a police officer after her family's diner was robbed and a an officer came to comfort them during the investigation. When she came to work for the Intelligence Unit, she found herself reunited with the officer who comforted her: Trudy Platt.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The BigBad of "Profiles" and "Hiding Not Seeking" (a {{Crossover}} with ''Series/ChicagoFire'')... [[spoiler: An ex-reporter who was WronglyAccused of murder. And despite being cleared, he still lost everything -- his job, prospects, wife (who was even DrivenToSuicide by the stress), etc. -- due to the bad publicity. Now he's finally snapped and invoked ThenLetMeBeEvil, going on a MadBomber RoaringRampageOfRevenge against everyone he blames for ruining his life based on "fake news."]]
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The BigBad of "Profiles" and "Hiding Not Seeking" (a {{Crossover}} with ''Series/ChicagoFire'')... [[spoiler: An ex-reporter named Larry Shepard who was WronglyAccused of murder. And despite being cleared, he still lost everything -- his job, prospects, wife (who was even DrivenToSuicide by the stress), etc. -- due to the bad publicity. Now he's finally snapped and invoked ThenLetMeBeEvil, going on a MadBomber RoaringRampageOfRevenge against everyone he blames for ruining his life based on "fake news."]]" [[SympathyForTheDevil Even Intelligence has some pity for him, with Jay getting annoyed that Shepard's editor ruined the latter's career over fake news]].]]
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:Nadia, who gets killed in the ''Chicago Fire-PD-SVU'' crossover to make the Intelligence squad suffer.]]
** [[spoiler: Justin Voight, shot execution-style, trussed up in barbed wire, and left in his own car to be discovered by Hank]].
** [[spoiler: Justin Voight, shot execution-style, trussed up in barbed wire, and left in his own car to be discovered by Hank]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:Don't *** **** With My City.]]
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* ATeamFiring: A lot of the shootouts are this, with both the officers and the suspects missing each other but when bullets do hit their marks, it's usually the ones fired by the officers.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Usually, Burgess in her patrolwoman days getting on Platt's bad side.
** She and Atwater are warned to be very careful with a show car the chief will be driving in a parade. Three guesses what happens to it.
** When Ruzek (who jumped straight from the academy to intelligence) puts down some patrolmen, Olinsky decides he needs to know what it's like. Platt's "Oh, I've been waiting for this day" sets the tone as Ruzek has to ride with Burgess.
** Roman realizes a K-9 officer he and Burgess work with is his ex-girlfriend. He does an episode TitleDrop of "I should have called in dead.'
** When Roman suggests becoming a training officer, Platt decides to test him by having him "train" a "rookie"...Platt herself. Kim can only whisper a "good luck" as she leaves him.
*** Which is then turned around when Platt realizes not only is Roman serious about his TrainingFromHell routine but he's ''good'' at it...and then remembers all the stuff she's put Roman through for two years...
** She and Atwater are warned to be very careful with a show car the chief will be driving in a parade. Three guesses what happens to it.
** When Ruzek (who jumped straight from the academy to intelligence) puts down some patrolmen, Olinsky decides he needs to know what it's like. Platt's "Oh, I've been waiting for this day" sets the tone as Ruzek has to ride with Burgess.
** Roman realizes a K-9 officer he and Burgess work with is his ex-girlfriend. He does an episode TitleDrop of "I should have called in dead.'
** When Roman suggests becoming a training officer, Platt decides to test him by having him "train" a "rookie"...Platt herself. Kim can only whisper a "good luck" as she leaves him.
*** Which is then turned around when Platt realizes not only is Roman serious about his TrainingFromHell routine but he's ''good'' at it...and then remembers all the stuff she's put Roman through for two years...
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* DecoyProtagonist: The pilot has Julie Wilhite, Antonio's partner and a long-time member of the unit. She gets an intro with her husband and kids, works with the team well, set to be a regular face...and she's shot dead before the end of the episode.
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** The whole team is this in the season 5 finale trying to avenge [[spoiler: Al's]] death.
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* ItsPersonal: Happens a lot for the team, especially when it's a loved one in danger.
** When some crooks break into his home and almost kill his son's pregnant girlfriend, Voight is soon terrorizing half of Chicago to find the perps.
** In the third season finale, when [[spoiler: his son is shot and rendered brain dead]], Voight is offering a $90,000 bounty for whoever is responsible and woe to anyone in his path. As proven when the brother of the suspect is reluctant to talk so Hank ''shoots him in the leg'' to get him to squeal.
** When her sister Nicole is raped, Burgess personally works a sting on the guys responsible, ending with beating one of them into a bloody pulp.
** When some crooks break into his home and almost kill his son's pregnant girlfriend, Voight is soon terrorizing half of Chicago to find the perps.
** In the third season finale, when [[spoiler: his son is shot and rendered brain dead]], Voight is offering a $90,000 bounty for whoever is responsible and woe to anyone in his path. As proven when the brother of the suspect is reluctant to talk so Hank ''shoots him in the leg'' to get him to squeal.
** When her sister Nicole is raped, Burgess personally works a sting on the guys responsible, ending with beating one of them into a bloody pulp.
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** Upton in the beginning of 6x03 "Bad Boys".
** Burgess in the beginning of 6x16 "The Forgotten".
** Upton in the beginning of 6x03 "Bad Boys".
** Burgess in the beginning of 6x16 "The Forgotten".
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* MoodWhiplash: "Called In Dead" has Burgess and Roman having to ride with a K-9 officer who happens to be Roman's former fiancee. It's played for laughs with Burgess having to put up with the pair bickering all day long and in the final scene, they're still arguing over the breakup while they do routine house checks. Burgess finally screams at the pair to shut up as she rings a doorbell...and a shotgun blast goes off and the episode ends with her bleeding before the shocked pair.
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** Timeskip to Season 6, and by the end, all but Burgess and Ruzek are owners of products from Fiat-Chrysler. Voight gets a Dodge Durango SRT, Atwater a Charger Hellcat (although he's had it since Season 4), Halstead's rig is now a RAM 1500, and even Upton gets a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8.
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** Timeskip to Season 6, and by the end, all but Burgess and Ruzek are owners of products from Fiat-Chrysler.Fiat-Chrysler/Stellantis. Voight gets a Dodge Durango SRT, Atwater a Charger Hellcat (although he's had it since Season 4), Halstead's rig is now a RAM 1500, and even Upton gets a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8. Ruzek catches up in Season 8 with a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon.
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** Unfortunately, [[spoiler: "The Other Side" subverts that streak as Burgess, who's been shot and left for dead, manages to crawl as far as a nearby car but passes out from blood loss before Atwater and Halstead find her and rush to Med. Thankfully, she survies]].
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** Unfortunately, [[spoiler: "The Other Side" breaks that streak as Burgess, who's been shot and left for dead, manages to crawl as far as a nearby car but passes out from blood loss before Atwater and Halstead find her and rush to Med, and since this is the Season 8 finale it's left ambiguous as to whether she'll [[CliffhangerEnding make it out of surgery]].Med. Thankfully, she survies]].]]
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Both Voight and Olinsky. Technically speaking, so do [[spoiler: Ruzek and Burgess]].
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Both Voight Voight, Olinsky, and Olinsky. D.S. Miller. Technically speaking, so do [[spoiler: Ruzek and Burgess]].Burgess. Dawson comes dangerously close to doing this a couple of times.
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Like with any Creator/DickWolf production, the protagonists are always in the right no matter what morally or ethically questionable acts they commit and anyone who calls them out on it is always in the wrong.
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** Tracy Spiridakos played a character named Hayley with an abusive father in the 2013 thriller, ''Kill For Me''.
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** "White Knuckle" revolves around an alderman's drug-addled son being found covered in blood and holding a knife alongside his slain girlfriend. Deputy Superintendent Miller wants Voight to go ahead and just charge him while Voight at least wants the kid to sober up so he can give his side of the story. [[spoiler: Sure enough, it was the girlfriend's drug dealer who committed the murder.]]
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** "White Knuckle" revolves around an alderman's drug-addled son being found covered in blood and holding a knife alongside his slain girlfriend. girlfriend, making it seem as if he killed the girl. Deputy Superintendent Miller wants Voight to go ahead and just charge him charged immediately while Voight at least wants the kid to sober up so he can give his side of the story. [[spoiler: Sure enough, it was the girlfriend's drug dealer who committed the murder.]]
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** "White Knuckle" revolves around an alderman's drug-addled son being found covered in blood and holding a knife alongside his slain girlfriend. Deputy Superintendent Miller wants Voight to go ahead and just charge him while Voight at least wants the kid to sober up so he can give his side of the story. [[spoiler: Sure enough, it was the girlfriend's dealer who committed the murder.]]
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** "White Knuckle" revolves around an alderman's drug-addled son being found covered in blood and holding a knife alongside his slain girlfriend. Deputy Superintendent Miller wants Voight to go ahead and just charge him while Voight at least wants the kid to sober up so he can give his side of the story. [[spoiler: Sure enough, it was the girlfriend's drug dealer who committed the murder.]]
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** "White Knuckle" revolves around an alderman's drug-addled son being found covered in blood and holding a knife alongside his slain girlfriend. Deputy Superintendent Miller wants Voight to go ahead and just charge him while Voight at least wants the kid to sober up so he can give his side of the story. [[spoiler: Sure enough, it was the girlfriend's dealer who committed the murder.]]
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* VigilanteExecution: Voight regularly threatens suspects with this to get information from them, run them out of Chicago, or in the case of those who fit the CompleteMonster category, simply to show them how easy the justice system is compared to what it would be if he had his way. [[spoiler: When his son, Justin, and later, Olinsky are murdered, he coldly shoots their respective killers to death]].
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* VigilanteExecution: Voight regularly threatens suspects with this to get information from them, run them out of Chicago, or in the case of those who fit the CompleteMonster absolute monster category, simply to show them how easy the justice system is compared to what it would be if he had his way. [[spoiler: When his son, Justin, and later, Olinsky are murdered, he coldly shoots their respective killers to death]].
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** One episode has Voight putting a suspect into the trunk of a car. In ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', Beghe played a highway patrolman who gets forced into the trunk of his cruiser by the titular duo.
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** In "The Radical Truth", Burgess walks up on Ruzek after he has just shot the episode's VillainOfTheWeek and immediately questions what he (Ruzek) just did. After surveillance footage shows that it was indeed a good shoot, Ruzek chews her out for both this and for not backing him to the review team.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Several episodes deal with the officers having to shoot or use escalated force against someone in self-defense and it looking as if they killed or brutalized the suspect in cold blood. It doesn't help that nearly as many cases where this allegedly happens turn out to be exactly what it looks like ([[DramaticIrony to the audience]], at least) or that almost all of the latter instances directly involve Sgt. Hank Voight, who has a known reputation as a CowboyCop.
** An inversion happens in "Protect and Serve" where a shell-shocked cop shoots an unarmed college student he pulled over on a traffic violation and swears up and down, up to the climax of the episode, that the young man had reached for a weapon, despite numerous cell/smart/iPhone videos and the officer's own bodycam footage clearly showing otherwise.
** An inversion happens in "Protect and Serve" where a shell-shocked cop shoots an unarmed college student he pulled over on a traffic violation and swears up and down, up to the climax of the episode, that the young man had reached for a weapon, despite numerous cell/smart/iPhone videos and the officer's own bodycam footage clearly showing otherwise.
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** [[spoiler:Many, Ruzek among them, think or hope that the fact that Burgess is carrying her and Ruzek's child as a result of their post-"Infection" crossover romp means that they'll instantly become a steady item once more. [[RealityEnsues It doesn't]], and if anything, it makes things between them ''worse'' for a while. But Burgess does eventually tell Ruzek that she loves him (which she hasn't said to him since they were engaged) and that they'll always be a family now if nothing else. And then it's all cruelly rendered moot in "I Was Here" when Burgess gets viciously beaten and miscarries as a result.]]
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** [[spoiler:Many, Ruzek among them, think or hope that the fact that Burgess is carrying her and Ruzek's child as a result of their post-"Infection" crossover romp means that they'll instantly become a steady item once more. [[RealityEnsues [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome It doesn't]], and if anything, it makes things between them ''worse'' for a while. But Burgess does eventually tell Ruzek that she loves him (which she hasn't said to him since they were engaged) and that they'll always be a family now if nothing else. And then it's all cruelly rendered moot in "I Was Here" when Burgess gets viciously beaten and miscarries as a result.]]
