[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Chicago P.D. Season 10 Episode 16 “Deadlocked.”]
Only a lot can match into 42 minutes, and because it turned out, one of many scenes that Jesse Lee Soffer discovered probably the most difficult to direct in his Chicago P.D. episode ended up being lower.
Soffer, who exited the NBC drama earlier this season, returned to step behind the digital camera for “Deadlocked,” which introduced again the case from “The Ghost in You.” As Sergeant Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) took the stand for ASA Chapman (Sara Bues) within the homicide trial in opposition to infamous drug kingpin Arturo Morales (Robby Ramos), he observed one thing off about one of many jurors, Christopher Eagan. And so he and Detective Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos) went to his home; there, they realized that his spouse had been kidnapped. If he didn’t vote not responsible, they’d kill her.
Intelligence instantly set to work, and it was Voight who was the one to test on Eagan’s spouse once they discovered her and took care of the boys holding her. She was unresponsive and had suffered a head trauma and large blood loss, however she did stir a bit. Voight then met with Eagan to replace him and gave him his spouse’s bracelet, assuring him that she was steady (however being held for remark for the mind bleed) and the boys who damage her had been gone. Voight supplied to take him to the hospital instantly, however Eagan determined to remain to vote within the verdict. “I’m going to send that man to prison for the rest of his life,” he mentioned, thanking Voight.
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But there was a second lower proper earlier than that scene, Soffer reveals. “It’s funny because you would think that some action scene would be really challenging, but it’s not. It’s the nuances, it’s the subtleties. There’s a scene — it actually ended up getting cut from the episode — where Voight takes the bracelet from the victim to show her husband, to show Eagan,” he tells TV Insider. “And just the trickiness of tagging a moment that is part of the story you need to tell but making it organic and not leaving Voight’s perspective… It’s the things that you wouldn’t expect.”
And whereas a 60-page script does should be condensed right into a 42-minute episode, so “bits and pieces, chunks here or there get lifted to tighten it and make the story streamlined,” that was the one main second lower, the director says.
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