‘Chicago P.D.’ Recap Season 10, Episode 3: Halstead’s Emotional Exit

That’s it for Jesse Lee Soffer on Chicago P.D.

Wednesday’s episode of the NBC drama marked the actor’s last outing as Det. Jay Halstead in an emotionally-charged hour that noticed him depart Intelligence.

Within the episode, Halstead acquired right into a scuffle with a suspect and stabbed the person to dying. He refused to go together with Voight and Upton’s cowl story and turned himself in to Chief Patrick O’Neal as an alternative. He then turned in his badge and took one other job within the military main a squad that tracks down the worst drug cartel targets. He was set to take up put up in Bolivia.

The military is “black and white; good and unhealthy. It’s no extra of this,” he informed Upton. They’d little time to say goodbye as a result of he was imagined to fly out that day. Halstead assured Upton that they’d get via it as a result of it will solely be for eight months, possibly a bit of longer.

“You’re the love of my life,” he added, “and if I’m yours, you then’ll know that you must let me go.”

On the airport, Voight additionally bid his farewell. That’s when Halstead informed the sergeant, “I do wish to be you. Nevertheless it’s such as you’ve all the time informed me: I’m not, and I shouldn’t strive.” And with that, he acquired on the airplane.

Soffer introduced his departure from the Dick Wolf procedural in August: “I wish to thank the unimaginable followers for his or her unwavering help in the course of the previous 10 years and wish to specific my deepest gratitude to Dick Wolf and everybody at Wolf Leisure, Peter Jankowski, Matt Olmstead, Derek Haas, Michael Brandt, Rick Eid, Gwen Sigan, NBC, Common Tv, my fellow castmates and our unimaginable crew,” he stated in a press release on the time. “To create this hour drama week after week has been a labor of affection by everybody who touches the present. I’ll all the time be pleased with my time as Det. Jay Halstead.”

Halstead’s exit additionally places a damper on #Upstead, the romantic pairing between him and fellow detective Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos). The duo formally acquired collectively in Season 8 and secretly wed on the courthouse in Season 9. For Upton, Halstead’s absence is “positively going to be a huge impact for her character this season when she is with out him,” showrunner Gwen Sigan beforehand informed TVLine.

The EP famous that they’d “such an fascinating relationship, and it’s been that manner for the reason that starting… They’ve this factor collectively. It’s like they know what one another’s pondering. They’ve all the time supported one another. They’ve gotten in so many conditions which were so traumatic, and but they’ve had one another’s backs. Even their marriage is constructed on this have to get via one thing, to have the ability to be one another’s anchor and to maintain one another regular.”

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