Tonight on NBC their drama Chicago PD returns with an all-new Wednesday, March 26, 2025, season 12 episode 16 called, “Seen And Unseen” and we have your Chicago PD recap below.
In tonight’s Chicago PD season, 12 episode 16 called, “Seen And Unseen,” as per the NBC synopsis, “Burgess’s memory recall is put to the test following a deadly incident at her local diner.”
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In the next Chicago PD episode, Detectives Kim Burgess had so much on her plate. She was planning a wedding with her fiancé. They had to do pickup duty for their daughter and her friends. She also had to do paperwork for Deputy Chief Reid. She tried to do the papers thing at home.
Only she forgot their neighbor’s teenage son was practicing for the battle of the bands at his high school. She couldn’t work with all that noise. She ultimately got back into the car and drove to the nearest diner. It was quiet there. She got endless coffee refills. And she didn’t have to cook her own meal.
The diner was better than home. Burgess visited that diner constantly over the next few days. She saw all the regulars. She knew all the staff. She loved it there.
It was her safe place until one day it stopped being safe. Someone shot up the diner. Burgess saw a man running away one night. He tried to warn her. He told her to run too because there was a shooter on the loose at the diner. He didn’t know it, but Burgess was a cop. She wasn’t going to run from a scene. Not when she was carrying her side weapon.
Burgess went into the diner. She tried to look for survivors. Sadly, it was too late to save anyone. She also never saw the perp. The cops later tracked down the witness that tried to warn Burgess off. He didn’t go into the diner.
He saw the bodies from the glass door and ran. The police were still going to look into him to rule him out only no one thought he was guilty. Burgess also ran point on everything that happened at the diner. This case became personal for her. She wanted to know who would do that to everyone. She was friendly with those people.
She knew one was a college kid worried about a class. She knew the waitress was nice. She knew the regulars. She spoke with some of them. Burgess was never let this one go. She had her unit looked into the murders. They identified one of the victims as Gabriel Basco. He used to run with a gang and it seemed like he still owed them money.
They were sending threatening text messages to him. It said pay up or die. The cops thought his old gang followed through on that threat. They might have tracked Basco back to the diner. And killed the witnesses after they took out Basco.
It was all very messy, but it would line up with the theory that they wanted to make a message out of Basco’s death. Burgess saw Basco arguing with another Latino man one night.
They got into the same car. She remembered the first two letters of the license plate because it reminded her of her father-in-law. Disco Bob. Or DB in the license plate. The cops found that car. It belonged to Jose Garcia. He has an active bench warrant out for his arrest. They used that to detain him and they later questioned him about the diner.
Garcia had no idea what they were talking about. He wasn’t their guy. He said Basco did pay up. He paid off his dues and he was running straight now. Garcia also had an alibi for that night. He took his girlfriend out to a fancy restaurant. There were plenty of cameras at the place.
He was on the other side of the town during the murders. Only Garcia was still useful. He saw some guy mumbling to himself on the night he got the money from Basco. He also thought he saw a gun in the man’s hand. Garcia gave Burgess a description of this man.
She recognized who he was talking about. She remembered one guy constantly griping about life at the diner. The waitress used to listen to him to make him feel better. He might have taken that some other way. His name is Neal. Burgess remembered the waitress calling him Neal.
She used that to go look for his fingerprints at the diner and she got his full name. It was Neal Rodgers. His prints were in the system because he was a teacher. The cops went to his home. They saw he was bleeding from a wound on his stomach. It was enough to arrest him.
Neal was put in a room. He initially refused to talk. He didn’t even want a lawyer. He just wanted to be problematic and Burgess realized he hasn’t always been that way. Neal went into that dinner every night ordering the same thing. He never liked it. He always complained about it. It turns out Neal’s wife died two months ago.
He let the house fall apart since then. He refused to write her eulogy. He also ordered her favorite meal every night even though he hates it. He was working his way to killing himself and he didn’t go through with it because he realized he wanted to live. That night convinced him that he wanted to live.
Burgess soon realized what happened. She stopped treating Neal as a suspect. She instead used him as a source. He was there that night. He knew who the shooter was. He said that the waitress called Marge was having marital problems with the husband Jeff. They were fighting over money.
Marge was taking as many shifts as she could while her husband was supposed to look for a job. He never got around to it. He chose instead to rob a place. Marge found out about it. She tried to report him anonymously to the cops and somehow he knew she ratted on him.
Jeff went to the diner angry. They got into a huge fight. Basco tried to step in. Jeff got his gun off of him. He killed his wife. He started killing everyone else because they were witnesses. Neal was injured during the shooting. He ran home and he got lucky because Jeff didn’t know where he lived. And by shooting Neal, he convinced Neal that his wife would want him to survive.
Neal’s testimony was all they needed because they went after Jeff. There was a shootout. Jeff was killed at the scene and so everything was for nothing. He killed a bunch of people to keep money he never got a chance to spend.
If anything, they found out he didn’t steal enough. He had gambling debts he couldn’t pay off. The whole thing just reminded Burgess not to take anything for granted. She got a hotel room for her and the fiancé. They enjoyed the weekend full of escapism while their daughter was safe with a babysitter.
THE END!
