Voight’s Reckoning: How Reid’s Murder Could Finally Trigger the Chicago P.D. Arc a Decade in the Making

For over ten seasons, Chicago P.D. has walked a razor-thin line between justice and revenge — and no character embodies that line more than Hank Voight. But with the shocking murder of Reid in Season 13, the long-simmering arc fans have waited for may finally be unfolding: Voight’s reckoning.

From the moment Reid appeared on the scene, tension followed. But few expected it to end in blood — and even fewer expected Voight to once again take justice into his own hands. The brutal off-books move has rocked Intelligence to its core, reigniting the central question the series has danced around since Season 1: how far is too far?

For years, Voight has been both hero and antihero — a man willing to bend, break, and bury the rules for what he calls the greater good. And fans, despite the body count, have stuck by him. But Reid’s murder changes things. This wasn’t about protecting a victim or saving a partner — this was personal, raw, and possibly the moment Voight crossed a line he can’t walk back from.

Writers have slowly built to this moment. Season after season, Voight has been haunted by the ghosts of those he’s lost — Olinsky, Justin, Lindsay — and the moral compromises he’s made to protect his team. But with Internal Affairs circling and Intelligence members growing more divided, the cracks in Voight’s empire are finally showing.

Could this be the arc that forces Voight to face consequences? Will his own unit turn against him? Or will he go down swinging, believing he was always right?

One thing is clear: the murder of Reid may not just be the end of a character — it could be the beginning of the end for the man who’s defined Chicago P.D. for over a decade.

The reckoning has begun. And this time, even Voight may not escape unscathed.