Tonight on NBC their drama Chicago PD returns with an all-new Wednesday, February 26, 2025, season 12 episode 14 called, “Marie” and we have your Chicago PD recap below.
In tonight’s Chicago PD season, 12 episode 14 called, “Marie,” as per the NBC synopsis, “Ruzek grapples with his father’s worsening condition while Intelligence searches for an elusive serial killer.”
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In tonight’s Chicago PD episode, Detective Ruzek’s father has Alzheimer’s. He often forgets where he is. Or that he was retired. He used to be a cop like his son. The man known as Disco Bob was now living with said son and his family. It’s better for him that he lives with them. They prevent him from trying to cook or drive.
Ruzek even askes his father for advice on the serial killer case. Chicago Police were looking for a man that went by the name Thomas Cronin. Cronin gets with a single mother. He ostracizes her from her loved ones. He plays happy family with the girlfriend and the kids. And it works until he gets bored.
Cronin was dangerous when he was bored. He kills the girlfriend as well as her child. The one person he never hurt was Zoe. Cronin told her that he was her father. Evidence however shows she wasn’t a blood relative. Cronin got her somewhere and he’s been dragging all over the Midwest.
Zoe also knew all about the deaths. She thought they were taken away by the clouds and really Cronin was smothering his victims. He changed his MO the with the last mother and child because he got into a bad fight with his then girlfriend. He ended up stabbing both of them.
Cronin was dangerous. Zoe was the one person that could identify him. They had her moved to a foster home and everything was fine for a while. Then her foster mother called Ruzek. Sandy said the same car has been circling the block multiple times. Ruzek thought she was just being paranoid.
He agreed to stop by her house to check on Zoe and unfortunately he didn’t recognized the danger. He found Sandy stabbed to death. Zoe was gone. She was grabbed by a man in a white van and a neighbor got a license plate.
CPD put out an alert on the van. They later found it abandoned. They also saw that Zoe left a note. She wrote “my name is Zoe” and “help”. She wouldn’t have done that two months ago.
She was only fighting back now because she saw how toxic Cronin was. She’s been in therapy since the cops found her. She knows now that Cronin wasn’t a good father and she was trying to get away from him. Ruzek should have been focused on finding her, but his father kept getting in the way. Bob stopped by the office. He read Zoe’s file.
He told his son that he knew where Cronin would go. Cronin was injured in his fight with Sandy. Bob took Ruzek to Jackson street and he couldn’t remember why. Bob also took a gun from the safe.
He was getting far more dangerous with time. Ruzek took him to his back home. He was about to write off everything his father told him when he found the notepad his dad used. Bob was making sense. He just forgot about it. Bob was the one that figured out Cronin was using veteran hospitals thanks to one of his fake IDs.
There was a VA hospital right on Jackson. Ruzek went back there. He spoke to the doctor. Cronin’s injuries were more serious than the small hospital could handle and so Cronin ran off before the cops could be called.
Zoe was still with him when he saw the doctor. She wasn’t with him in a warehouse nearby. The cops caught up to Cronin and he wasn’t talking. Ruzek got so upset that he tried to torture Cronin for information about the little girl. Voight stopped him from killing Cronin.
There was no telling what he did with that little girl. They needed Cronin to talk. Cronin didn’t care about all the evidence against him. He was claiming that he got stabbed at a bus stop and two good Samaritans brought him to the VA hospital. Cronin only talked once they took the death penalty off the table. He told them that he left Zoe with a friend.
The cops goes to that woman’s home and there was no Zoe. So, the cops went back to the hospital. They saw that Cronin killed the police officer guarding him and that he killed himself. He hung himself with a towel and a door.
Cronin went to his grave refusing to tell them where Zoe was. It was his last act of control. He was burning in hell when Ruzek figured out how to find Zoe. Zoe has been leaving behind messages asking for help.
She left one at the VA hospital. She also wrote the words “mote”. The cops knew that was short for motel. There was an abandoned motel that wasn’t too far away. The cops busted down each and every door. They eventually found Zoe. Cronin had locked her up in the room because she tried to escape him.
Zoe was otherwise fine. She got a little scared when she was told her dad was gone. She didn’t know who she was without Cronin. Ruzek tried to help her by finding her real family. They ran Zoe’s DNA through an ancestry site. The cops found her grandmother that way. The grandmother’s name is Amy. Zoe’s real name is Marie. Her mom was Cronin’s first victim. And Amy has been looking for her grandchild ever since.
It won’t fix his father only Ruzek made sure Zoe would go to a loving home.
THE END!