Chicago PD Season 10 Episode 4 Review: Dónde Vives

We obtained our first Dante Torres-centric, and Chicago PD Season 10 Episode 4 didn’t disappoint.

Benjamin Levy Aguilar continues to shine on this function, proving his star high quality and expertise at each flip. And Dante Torres has formally carved out his place within the Intelligence unit and the sequence.

His addition is likely one of the greatest choices in years.

Many of us had our speculations, and I’m completely satisfied to report that Oceanwater is every part we may have ever needed and higher than we imagined.

In Jay’s absence, Torres wanted a mentor, and there’s no higher, extra logical, and extra compelling alternative than Atwater.

They have similarities from what it is like as Brown/Black males, significantly serving as police, understanding the fraught historical past and experiences of BIPOC and regulation enforcement. They additionally know the precise battle of making an attempt to stroll that line as a person of shade and a police officer when most of the time, they appear like two issues that may’t co-exist.

Atwater and Torres’ understanding of the significance of their place and the bridge that they function as, or the duality of serving as a defend or a sword for his or her respective communities to guard them — be it defending their communities from the police and system, or defending the group from each other — it weighs closely on them.

It dictates how they function and transfer and every part they do as they acknowledge and share a mutual perception that they’ll make a real distinction and instill change from throughout the system.

No one else can information Torres via these issues, which made each single second of Atwater guiding him via this private case prime viewing. It’s one thing that each did a stellar job of additional introducing us to Torres as a personality and increasing Atwater’s function within the sequence.

Atwater simply takes to the mentor function, and you’ll inform it is the start of a wonderful relationship. Atwater has walked this path earlier than within the sequence, and as supportive because the unit is for him, there is no denying that Atwater walked this path alone.

It makes the moment bond he is shaped with Torres so particular and extra significant as a result of he will get to supply Torres with one thing he did not essentially have. And that is one other credit score to why the sequence thrives when the variety does.

Working in your hood goes to shake you up, however I obtained you on that, whether or not you prefer it or not, I obtained you.

Atwater

But they’re additionally completely different folks with a singular set of experiences, and they also convey one thing completely different to the desk, which retains issues refreshing.

The sequence being ten years in helps that narrative tremendously as a result of we have seen Atwater’s journey, how he has grown and advanced, and the way he earned each little bit of the expertise and the place to information a beginner like Torres in each manner.

Atwater’s progress juxtaposed with Torres getting his toes moist made their tales so intertwined and is one in all many causes this installment labored so effectively.

The hour requested ¿Dónde Vives? And it could as effectively have requested us who Dante Torres was. But who he’s — it is so inextricably linked with the place he is from and the way that can influence him as a cop transferring ahead.

People do not belief the police. Police do not belief the folks, so I deal with issues once I can.

Torres

He would not wish to select between his group and his job, and he is adamant about his capacity to keep up each, however he shall be making an attempt at each flip.

Everyone was asking who Torres was, and the hour confirmed us. One scene that stood out immediately was the easy depiction of him and his mom casually talking Spanish and having dinner collectively.

Representation is normalization, and every part about that second felt so genuinely genuine that it was refreshing.

It would not really feel like we have gotten this rawness, not less than persistently, with a personality’s private life, in a while. The private ingredient felt very true to what the sequence was once in its heyday.

Personal instances for the characters are all the time nice methods of exploring them deeper, and this was no exception. My coronary heart broke for Torres when he discovered Provi’s physique.

One can solely think about the guilt he felt over lacking her calls, studying that she was reaching out to him for assist, and he did not get to her in time to make a distinction.

We know that is his major aim, so proper out of the gate, it left him reeling and grappling with that exact failure because it pertains to his designated mission.

Torres is so dedicated to his aim that he virtually will get himself killed. He would not wish to shoot Brown and Black folks in his neighborhood. Instinctively, he desires to guard everybody one of the simplest ways he can, however he wants a little bit of a actuality verify about that.

It’s good that he can put within the work and typically reach speaking folks down or getting via to them, however he cannot put himself at such a danger that he pulls the set off too late. The penalties of his hesitation or the load on his acutely aware might be the distinction between life and demise.

Nothing can check a group and the place one stands in it like homicide. Provi deserved justice, and also you would not assume Torres doing no matter he may to search out the particular person accountable for her demise would trigger so many points.

However, the hood needed to invoke its personal type of justice, and it did not contain turning or confiding in Torres. They do not belief the police, and regardless of Torres’ standing there and his years of defending the neighborhood, they do not wish to belief him both.

The case spilled right into a gang angle with the 1-8, and the deeper into that the hour leaned, the tougher it was on Torres.

His greatest energy and weak spot are one in the identical, and he can join with folks through his humble roots, avenue cred, and repping the identical neighborhood.

The poor man should’ve recited his handle half a dozen occasions. It’s not one thing you would be accustomed to a cop doing due to the risks it poses to them.

But Torres assumes that danger for the sake of reminding everybody that he is one in all them, even when he is sporting a badge. Sadly, his mom does as effectively.

And the truth of that hit him full-stop when Romero knew what buttons to push. Even the implication of a risk is nerve-wracking when Torres’ mom lives there.

Her missed calls as a result of the smoke detector had Torres practically botching their operation. He was so fearful that somebody was coming after his mom due to him that he virtually coat them a lead, and issues obtained harmful for Mia.

You can perceive how she felt utilized by the tip of the hour. Clearly, they’d a detailed relationship with each other, and Torres in all probability did not lean into it sufficient upfront earlier than he resorted to checking her telephone for data and so forth.

The gang member beating Mia up was upsetting. Yes, a lot of it was due to Quico’s bullcrap, but it surely was irritating that a lot of this spiraled uncontrolled as a result of too many individuals had been afraid to speak whereas concurrently shutting Torres out.

Even the state of affairs with Quico was maddening. He knew who Provi’s killer was, however he saved it underneath wraps out of worry. But if the gang was coming to kill him anyway, then he ought to’ve come out with it so Provi may have justice.

Mia: You promised. You promised to assist him.
Torres: I do know.
Mia: Twenty years? My brother will get 20 years for felony homicide? Twenty years for not even pulling the set off? That’s your assist?

Quico’s personal actions led to Provi’s unlucky and tragic demise and his 20-year sentence for felony homicide. Despite every part, Torres protected him as greatest as he may, and Mia nonetheless obtained offended at him for it.

What extra may he have carried out? Unfortunately, the group and Torres aren’t aligned relating to what safety and taking care of them really seems to be like.

But if anybody forgets who he’s, the place he is from, and what he is about, his beatdown of Romero places some respect on his title.

Romero’s warning is one thing that Torres ought to in all probability heed, and I’m undoubtedly involved about him and his mom sticking round when everyone seems to be pissed at him.

She was calling me for assist.

Torres

It’s additionally regarding that Romero could retaliate for that beatdown. However, it is also doable that the transfer earned Torres sufficient respect that the gangs will not transfer into their territory or check Torres.

Everything about this installment was robust. We obtained extra perception into Torres, and he continues to impress.

All the little touches, from his saint card, tattoo, and even the irritating indisputable fact that he solely wears white tees, felt like these bits and items that put him into perspective.

It may’ve been a danger to have the most recent character carrying an installment immediately after the departure of a veteran, but it surely paid off.

It’s going to be actual unusual round right here with out Jay.

Ruzek

We had sufficient workforce moments sprinkled all through, particularly the little moments that confirmed every of them giving Torres recommendation in their very own manner.

They did not completely ignore Jay’s departure, despite the fact that it felt odd that we did not get the goodbyes. The small acknowledgments from the others that issues could be unusual with out Jay had been one thing.

And Hailey regarded a bit despondent and affected by Jay’s absence. But that is in regards to the gist of it. It was the extent of checking in together with her.

Over to you, Chicago PD Fanatics. What did you consider the installment? Did you benefit from the Oceanwater dynamic? How a lot did you want a Torres-centric? Sound off under.

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