Tonight on NBC their drama Chicago PD returns with an all-new Wednesday, April 16, 2025, season 12 episode 18 called, “Demons” and we have your Chicago PD recap below.
In tonight’s Chicago PD season, 12 episode 18 called, “Demons,” as per the NBC synopsis, “Voight and Chapman work together to uncover Deputy Chief Reid’s shadow dealings as Reid assigns Intelligence to a carjacking case.”
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Sergeant Hank Voight was no angel. He followed his own form of ethics. He even broke the law occasionally. He wasn’t a great cop, but he knew he was better than Deputy Chief Charlie Reid. Reid wasn’t just dirty. He promoted cops that he was blackmailing to control them better. He also got rid of anyone that wasn’t willing to play ball. He had a criminal informant back in Detroit that wasn’t giving him important information. Reid didn’t like it and that CI has since disappeared. He was never seen again after he failed Reid.
Reid then moved to Chicago to do the same thing. He likes having cops in his pockets. He likes having gangsters in his pocket too. He got in business with Jesus Otero. Otero was running his drug operation out of the funeral home he owns. He was new to the game. Reid helped him gain territory. He made sure to arrest his rivals and Otero stepped in to fill the drug void. Reid admitted as much to Voight. He also said that with one person in control, the violence would go down in the neighborhood. The worst part about it was that he wasn’t wrong.
The violence did go down once Otero started taking over. He was becoming a bigger name on the streets. His drug business were going well. He was paying off Reid and the whole time Voight was investigating him. Voight was doing so off the books. The only person he told about it was his friend in the State Attorney’s Office. She helped him get information on Reid from a contact in Detroit. It helped Voight figure out Reid’s next move. He knew that Reid wouldn’t be stupid enough to go into the funeral home.
Only Reid was photographed outside of it while he was in his car. He was seen with Otero the once. They haven’t publicly met up since and so Voight was trying to gather more information when an opportunity fell into his lap. There was a carjacking crew that stole one of the cars running Otero’s drugs. It was a lot of drugs. It was worth about half a million. The carjackers could live an easy life if they find those drugs and they were bound to find it. Crews like that tend to strip the car of its valuable parts.
They dumped it the second they got everything they could out of it. Which was usually within twenty-four hours. The cops had a day to find the car and get the drugs back. Reid ordered Voight’s team to take care of it. They were told to find that car. The plan would have been for Otero to take care of the rest only this crew couldn’t be disappeared like the informant. They killed someone. They shot the driver that was transporting the drugs. She was later found dead from that gunshot wound on a bus.
At first, the cops thought Otero killed her for losing that much product. They were wrong about that. She died from the gunshot wound inflicted by the carjacking crew and she didn’t want to call for help. She let herself bleed out rather than face Otero. The victim was connected to one of his men. She knew that the boyfriend would sell her out to save himself and so death was preferable. She wasn’t alone in thinking so. Officer Torres was thinking the same. He hasn’t been himself lately. He took a week off. He’s been showing up to work late.
Torres came into the office that morning with his arm in a sling. He said he injured it in a sparring match with his partner. It wasn’t broken. He just had to wear the sling for next few days while his arm healed. Voight wasn’t mad. He actually followed procedure by telling Torres he was benched until he healed up and Torres ignored that order. Torres ignored several orders tonight. The crew was spotted on the road. Torres got behind a wheel to pursue them. He was told to pull back. He ignored that order.
He was spotted. The crew tried to drive off and Torres was told to fall back. He again ignored an order. He tried the pitt maneuver to force them off the road. All it did was make him crash his car. The crew got away because Torres’s team was more worried about getting him help than they were about the car or the crew. They got Torres to a hospital. Voight couldn’t ignore the warning signs any longer and so he asked Torres what was going on. Torres has been struggling with insomnia. He hasn’t truly slept in weeks. And he took time off because he knew it would be a problem on the job.
Torres returned to work in spite of his poor health because he didn’t want to lose his spot. It was his fault that Voight got in bed with Reid in the first place. He had slept with a criminal informant and his team had tried to cover it up. They didn’t do a good job because Reid found out about it. He used that information to blackmail Voight and now Voight couldn’t publicly go against him. His team wasn’t wondering why they weren’t talking to Otero. The dead woman was connected to his crew. She was driving a car that no one would normally rob. They figured out this was tied in with Otero’s drug trade.
They thought they should talk to Otero to find out about his enemies. Or at the very least be told who knew about the shipment. They couldn’t do any of that because Voight’s own hands were tied. He couldn’t let it go on record that they were drugs in the car. It would lead to people demanding to know what happened to the drugs when the crew was found and the car was recovered. Torres had cost them their best lead. Reid couldn’t let that happen a second time. Reid visited Torres. He demanded that he fix the situation.
Reid told Torres about the drugs in the car. He claimed they needed that car to make their case. He pretended to be a friend and really he just wanted the drugs back. He told Torres that the best way to rid himself of his demons was to throw himself back into work. He pushed Torres to put his own life at risk. Torres thought he had to do it. He had to do what Reid said. He went looking for an informant. He found out the name of one crew member. He found out where he lived. He was outside of the man’s apartment when he called Voight.
Torres was messed up. Voight could see it. He didn’t take drugs, but he almost had. Torres admitted to Voight that nothing works. He can’t seem to reclaim his peace. He tried family, church, and even work. He was still struggling. He started struggling ever since that woman died. The one that got him in all of this mess. Torres confessed everything to Voight and Voight said he’d take it from there. He went into the apartment building. He met the crew member. The guy genuinely didn’t know about the drugs. They took the car because they were stupid. Not because they were smart.
The man that Voight arrested hadn’t found the drugs. He was also forced to reveal where he ditched the car. He was told to give up the location or spend a few hours with Otero’s men. The guy knew best to talk. Voight told his team to go pick the car up only they wanted answers. They wanted to know why they were looking for Otero’s drugs and not being told they were looking for drugs. Voight had to come clean with them. He admitted that Reid was blackmailing him. Reid had compromising information on this unit and for now they have to do things Reid’s way until Voight got them out of this.
They went to go pick up the car when it blew up. Otero didn’t need the drugs anymore. He somehow secured a new shipment and he was back in business. Reid probably stole drugs for him from an evidence locker somewhere. The drugs in the Toyota would have been used as evidence against him anyways. Voight butt heads with Reid. He told Reid to stay away from his team. So, Reid reminded Voight that he was in charge. Voight and his people were Reid’s team now. They did what Reid said. And there shouldn’t be any more confusion about it.
Voight solved the murder of the carjacking victim, but he remained under Reid’s thumb and his friend Nina had to remind him to do things by the book if they want a chance at taking Reid down.
THE END
