Chicago PD Season 11 Episode 5 Spoilers: Will Atwater's Instincts Lead Him Down the Wrong Path?

Hiatuses suck.

But you understand what makes them worthwhile? Teases about what’s to come back!

They’re an ideal means of holding us over till the latest installment.

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And there’s a lot to stay up for with Chicago PD Season 11 Episode 5.

While the character-centric formulation proceed to irk our spirits every so often, it goes with out a shadow of a doubt that the collection by no means misses with Kevin Atwater episodes.

And fortunately, we’re gearing up for his first character-centric installment of the season.

The LaRoyce Hawkins followers like myself can rejoice over an hour that facilities on his character, because it has been some time since we have gotten to verify in with him on a extra private entrance.

And there’s a lot left to discover along with his character, particularly throughout this season, which takes a private strategy in fashion, peeling again layers to the characters and introducing us to totally different facets of their lives we did not beforehand have entry to.

When we final checked in with Kevin, it was throughout Chicago PD Season 10 Episode 19.

And that exact case was one thing he picked up after a capturing befell at the condominium constructing that he owned.

It was one other case that introduced him nearer to his estranged father, Lew, and so they continued to work by a few of their points and domesticate a relationship that Atwater had been missing for many of his life.

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This time, we are able to count on one other case to hit near dwelling for him. Fortunately, it will not have an effect on his dwelling or any of the property he owns.

The synopsis teases that he’ll become involved in a case that consists of a violent string of jewellery heists.

The Intelligence Unit is on excessive alert concerning these circumstances, particularly since the perpetrators use sledgehammers and do not appear to carry again.

Unfortunately for Atwater, the case can have a extra private flip for him when his confidence in his talents as a cop and an individual who can learn others nicely is shaken due to his interplay with somebody concerned with the case.

From the promo for the hour, Atwater will encounter a lady whom he feels is a witness to the occasions and even a potential sufferer.

Given that Atwater leads along with his Sympathetic Reflex and compassion when he takes on circumstances, it is unsurprising that he’ll have a good and tender strategy to how he treats this girl.

However, what could rattle him to his core is the prospect that this individual he felt was a sufferer seems to be a perpetrator or probably concerned.

The installment is titled “Split Second,” which may very well be in reference to a fast resolution which will price him or the case in the future.

It additionally may very well be a reference to a “split second” thought or evaluation he made that fully adjustments the case.

While it is not unusual for the title of the hour to nod at the theme, and it typically is a theme that performs by on multiple entrance, the greatest prediction is that it is an allusion to Atwater’s learn on this one woman concerned in the jewellery heist case.

Atwater prides himself on having good instincts and being considered one of the few unit members who would not leap to conclusions about individuals.

He’s identified for giving others the good thing about the doubt and sussing issues out earlier than assessing.

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But his blind spot could also be in seeing victims the place there are no; on this case, he could should confront that.

It’ll be attention-grabbing to see how he wrestles with that.

He needs to maintain his strategy the identical; it units him aside from his friends.

And we’d like extra cops like Kevin.

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But naturally, he may very well be perturbed by the idea of him getting one thing so essential fully improper.

The synopsis additionally says that he’ll flip to somebody sudden as he tries to work by his shaken confidence in gentle of those occasions.

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The prospects are countless with this. It may very well be a reference to somebody new into the fold or a blast from the previous like his father, Lew.

After all, we have witnessed Atwater’s discernment concerning his father and the way they rebuilt their relationship regardless of the snap judgments he made about his father’s motivations, which affected his notion of him for many of his life.

But on condition that a lot of Chicago PD Season 10’s arcs pertaining to Atwater centered on his relationship along with his father, it may very well be somebody totally different.

If we needed to hedge our bets on this, we would guess that the unlikely supply of help all through that is Hank Voight.

There’s a basic sense that Atwater and Voight have gotten nearer or feeling extra locked in on an expert entrance.

Atwater has been shining nicely as a cop and chief and tends to carry his personal nicely.

He and Kim Burgess have had vital and refined alternatives which have showcased how nicely they’ve developed as cops and confirmed how a lot they’re ripe for a promotion.

The Voight and Atwater moments have been refined, however it’s a first-rate second for it to come back to the forefront extra.

Voight has additionally taken a extra paternal strategy to checking in along with his unit members.

While he is not at the pinnacle of psychological well being and self-care himself, he seems extra cognizant in terms of his unit members.

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This shall be one other alternative for him to have a second with considered one of his unit members whom he considers household.

Given that Atwater shall be scuffling with an expert problem and presumably second-guessing himself and the way he reads individuals and scenes, Voight can be the individual to place him comfy.

A vote of confidence from his superior, who acknowledges his strengths and weaknesses and is aware of that Atwater usually has his head on proper, may do Atwater some good.

And if that is not sufficient, Voight is nice for powerful love, too.

We get a little bit of that alluded to in the promenade when he tells Atwater to show this mysterious girl’s involvement in the case.

Even although it is an Atwater-focused hour, one has to surprise if we’ll get even a passing reference to Dante Torres’ bitter chilly however horny interlude with a cartel spouse on a rooftop throughout Chicago PD Season 11 Episode 4.

He and Atwater associate up typically and are usually shut; it could get introduced up.

Or we’ll get a pleasant little joke about him standing in as Adam Ruzek’s Best Man, as we’ve not gotten any references to the Burzek engagement in an episode or two.

Regardless, we can’t watch for this all-new episode! How about you?

What are you wanting ahead to most?