They did not reinvent the wheel right here by putting an Intelligence unit member in peril for the umpteenth time.
However many components of Chicago PD Season 10 Episode 20 performed out like an motion film befitting of the sequence’ model of “Motion Barbie” as Hailey fought for her life throughout a very darkish and gory scenario.
And by the top of the hour, after many Jay mentions, she realizes it’s time to quit the battle for her marriage with Halstead.
The hour was darkish, grim, and extremely gory. Hailey spent a lot of the hour lined in blood, slip-sliding in it midway via and searching just like the protagonist in an motion thriller by the installment’s finish.
They’d enjoyable with all of the blood packets, and the severed hand was particularly gnarly.
However amid all of the grimness as Hailey discovered herself in a dire scenario, every part went again to and mirrored on Hailey and her marriage to Halstead.
We have been watching the gradual demise of Upstead for almost all of the season, and it has been brutal, even for these of us who weren’t followers of the pairing.
Hailey has been on this bizarre and twisted limbo since Jay left, and he is spent most of that point away, barely taking any of her calls.
Halstead’s departure was already controversial and resulted in a less-than-ideal sendoff to the liking of many followers. If that wasn’t already powerful for a lot of, it is what they’ve accomplished to his character since he left that is been an particularly bitter capsule to swallow.
As somebody coming off New Amsterdam’s ultimate season, the place they fully and totally annihilated Helen Sharpe’s character in one of the egregious cases of character assassination in years, it genuinely sucks when that occurs to a beloved character.
Whereas I do not assume the problem with Halstead is in the identical realm as that with Helen Sharpe, it is nonetheless been an uncommon, notable occasion of some weird character selections after the actual fact.
You want extra time, I gave you that. You needed your time.
Hailey
On this installment alone, one knew it was dangerous when there was a short interval the place primarily based on how issues have gone to this point this season, it would not have been shocking if Lee was protecting for Halstead someway with this cash scenario or Halstead inadvertently was how Hailey bought dragged into this mess within the first place.
The truth that it did not seem to be a stretch speaks volumes about how the viewers perceives Halstead lately.
And so it was becoming that Hailey’s devotion to Jay, this ghost of a husband and a wedding that she has, is how she wound up zip-tied in a dingy lavatory of some form of entice home with a squirrely man who was far too consultant of herself.
Each Hailey-centric this season has tied again to how misplaced she is with out Halstead and the way she struggles to navigate her life with a husband who is not bodily nor emotionally there.
Kim: What if it has one thing to do with Jay?
Torres: I attempted him. He is off the wing for a bit. I do not assume they’re doing nicely.
Her loyalty to Jay is what prompted her to reply that cellphone name from Lee, and he or she went down a horrific path because of this.
Lee was a multitude. He was annoyed from the start. He barely needed to belief Hailey though he had contacted her. He bought them kidnapped, held onto beneficial intel the entire manner via, and jeopardized her life.
To assume he did all of this for a girl who did not give a rattling about him was enraging. It was onerous to sympathize together with his blind loyalty to somebody who did not deserve it and his stupidity.
He let Vicente and Eli chop off his freaking hand as a result of he was attempting to guard Jessica. Hailey was getting her ass whooped left and proper when she wasn’t kicking ass, that’s, and he simply acted prefer it wasn’t occurring and apologized with out giving her something to work with within the interim.
I believed if I bought the cash, she’d come again to me.
Lee
So most of the captive scenes with Lee had been so rattling irritating as a result of not solely did it seem to be Lee lacked any sense of survival, however he wasn’t attempting to maintain Hailey alive both.
It is like she was doing the lion’s share of the work to maintain them each alive and dealing in opposition to him within the course of. However Hailey is at all times fast on her toes, and he or she was nice at displaying her skillset adapting to every part thrown her manner as greatest as doable.
And one factor you will by no means say about Hailiy Upton is that she is not a fighter. She was kicking ass the entire manner via, placing all these nights of grappling and sparring with Torres to good use.
Attempting to get Lee to speak or share something was like pulling enamel. And Hailey’s expression when she realized she was on the verge of dying as a result of he was defending somebody he beloved was one in every of resignation.
Lee: I’m so sorry.
Hailey: I do not want an apology. I would like you to start out speaking.
She may perceive that place too.
It is unhappy that when Lee bought some battle in him and was keen to assist, pun not supposed, he bought killed attempting to assist Hailey.
It did not need to go that manner for him, and as if it wasn’t traumatizing sufficient that Hailey bought kidnapped and needed to hearken to him get his hand reduce off, she needed to watch him die, too.
Was the installment action-packed? Little question. Was Hailey a badass? Most undoubtedly, was Tracy Spiradakos nice in it? In fact.
However this sequence has relied too closely on traumatizing the hell out of the identical couple of characters past cause, and it is particularly obvious and agitating when it is the feminine characters.
How usually can we see Hailey and Burgess get put via the wringer like this? It is utter insanity at this level!
When Hailey was mendacity on the bottom after inflicting an accident and stabbing Vicente within the jugular, she was drenched in blood and seemed like Sissy Spacek in Carrie.
Solely Hailey’s superhuman coping mechanisms hold her from being a strolling open wound at this charge.
And this whole case was a painfully bloody, traumatizing, and lethal lesson in how she must study to let Halstead go.
Voight’s recommendation could not be higher and extra apt. If she’s the one one preventing of their relationship, it is time to let it go. It doesn’t suggest she loves Halstead any much less or did not give it a correct go.
I needed to cheer when he stated she wanted to like herself extra. As a result of completely nobody deserves to be going via a wedding like what Hailey is enduring.
Halstead is not speaking along with her in any respect. He is full-on checked out of their marriage, and he or she spends extra time speaking to his voicemail than him.
He is not behaving like somebody desirous to return or be along with her. Their relationship proper now’s totally one-sided. And once more, actually, nobody deserves that.
For Hailey’s personal well being and peace of thoughts, she wanted to let it go, as painful because it was.
She’s the one particular person on this marriage. Whereas that is not what she would’ve envisioned, she was nicely previous time to simply accept the message Halstead is sending together with his actions and shut that chapter till a time comes after they can have a correct dialogue and finish issues correctly.
In all of this, they’ve made Hailey a sufferer in her relationship with a person they spent the higher a part of ten years placing on a heroic, honorable, morally centered pedestal.
The switch-up is jarring, to say the least. And it is sacrificing ten years value of Halstead’s character improvement to prop up Hailey and make her sympathetic right here.
It isn’t that Halstead wasn’t a flawed character. Hell, we have cited all of the methods he was earlier than. However this explicit transfer feels so out of character and weird.
Nonetheless, I am glad Hailey took heed of Voight’s paternal knowledge. Hailey has been a shell of herself all season as a result of her husband deserted her.
She’s been clinging to this concept that he was coming residence, not transferring any of his belongings and nonetheless carrying that horrible utilitarian wedding ceremony band as an emblem of one thing that is simply not there.
Halstead has clearly moved on as he is determining what he wants and taking this time to seek out himself or no matter he is supposedly doing.
Hailey: Lee died for her. He would not give her up, not even for me.
Voight: You name Jay?
Hailey: No. He is nonetheless within the wire for one more 12 hours. He is not even going to know I am gone.
Voight: You recognize it is okay to let go should you’re the one one preventing. It do not imply you do not love him. It simply means you like you, too.
And he or she deserves to maneuver on as nicely. Hailey crying whereas taking off that ring felt like an indication of the Upstead chapter closing.
She watched Lee die for somebody he beloved who wasn’t matching his efforts; she needn’t do the identical.
One thing that emerged from this installment was the particular bond that she and Torres have shaped. The opening montage of their exercise periods was top-of-the-line scenes of the hour.
They’ve constructed up a rapport which is good to know since Hailey has been isolating herself from the others since Halstead left.
And Torres stays a breath of contemporary air and a terrific addition to the sequence. He immediately knew one thing was improper, and he did his diligence, checking each avenue in his try to seek out Hailey earlier than enlisting assist.
He would not be deterred from following his intestine both. And had he not been checking in along with her and in tune along with her course of, she may’ve gone for much longer with out the workforce realizing one thing was improper.
As soon as they found out one thing was improper, it was all palms on deck, and I like it when this unit goes to bat for one in every of their very own.
Voight seemed like he was out for blood, particularly when he noticed the video footage of her ambush. You may visibly see the panic and that change that goes off when he thinks for a second that he might be on the verge of dropping one in every of his individuals.
You felt to your core each phrase he uttered to Jessica, and also you knew he meant each menace.
Halstead is gone, however Hailey has her household by way of this unit, and that is one thing.
Over to you, Chicago PD Fanatics. How would you charge this Hailey-centric? Is that this the top of Upstead? Hold forth under.
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