CHICAGO P.D.: Gwen Sigan Teases ‘Tension’ for Voight, Halstead, and Upton in Season 10

CHICAGO P.D. season 9 ended with Voight (Jason Beghe) getting shot by his distraught informant, Anna (Carmela Zumbado)—who was then shot by his team, as Upton (Tracy Spiridakos) and Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) tried to protect their boss. And while Voight survived his injuries, Anna didn’t.

When season 10 picks up, “we’re coming in two weeks after Anna’s death, so everyone’s still really dealing with it—I would say especially our our three characters of Voight, Upton, and Halstead—and the tension of how that happened,” CHICAGO P.D. boss Gwen Sigan tells Give Me My Remote. “The fallout of how they’re each dealing with it is causing a lot of fractures between the three of them, and we’ll see that in the first episode. And then it continue.”

“As we love to do, it stays messy, it doesn’t get resolved,” she continues. “And Voight’s really still bleeding from this. He’s still dealing with the fallout, not only physically—because he was shot—but also emotionally because this was his CI and I would argue it’s someone who he was closest to in a really long time; we haven’t seen him open up to anybody in quite a while. So the fact that she died in the way that she did and he feels a responsibility, he’s going to carry that for quite some time and it will fall out in interesting ways throughout the season.”

The trio will have to manage their tension amidst a new team member, as Dante Torres (Benjamin Levy Aguilar) joins Intelligence.

“We are so excited,” Sigan gushes. “We obviously we had him on one episode last season, and we just all fell in love with him—he was so fun to write for. And Benjamin, who plays him, couldn’t be more talented and just a nice guy. He brings so much, and such a different perspective.”

“Dante is very young, he’s about 24,” she continues. “And he’s coming to the Intelligence Unit fresh out of the academy, really—he’s been a patrol officer really not very long. So he’s coming in and he’s got to figure a lot out. But he also has this freshness to him and this fully new perspective. He grew up in Chicago, he still lives with his mom in the same apartment that he grew up in as a baby. He’s got this really strong, tight-knit family and a very strong, tight-knit community. And he really knows who he is at a very young age. So that’s also coming in.”

As for how he’ll fit in with the team, “I think, in a nice way, he’s not coming in looking for validation,” Sigan previews. “He’s not coming in looking for a father figure. He’s coming in to do a job and he’s coming in to, hopefully, do it well, and to do it in a way where he doesn’t have to sacrifice any part of who he is and any part of where he comes from. Which, of course, for us, is very fun to play with, because we can test that quite a bit. And so you get to get into different areas of the city, different crimes with him. Just a whole new character to kind of fall in love with.”

Of course, it comes as CHICAGO P.D. is losing an original series star: it was announced over the summer that Soffer will be exiting the long-running NBC drama this season.

While the Halstead and Upton fans are (understandably) distressed, “I hope they will just continue to love that couple,” Sigan says. “I hope that we do it justice and that it feels like them, because I would argue they’re the loves of each other’s lives, and they will continue to be, and that is just something that they’re always gonna have. They have this very intense, definitely complicated [relationship], but that love was very true between the pair of them.”

CHICAGO P.D., Season Premiere, Wednesday, September 21, 10/9c, NBC

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