‘Chicago P.D.’ Boss Says Season 14 Will Change Everything for Voight and Intelligence (Exclusive)
A cliffhanger ending will usher in a ‘season of change’ for everyone. Here’s what we know about Season 14 so far.
Dick Wolf’s police drama about the Intelligence Unit of the Chicago PD is returning for its 14th season of telling stories about the Windy City’s most heinous offenses: organized crime, drug trafficking, high-profile murders and more when Chicago P.D. returns on Wednesday nights this fall.
Showrunner/executive producer Gwen Sigan teases exclusively to Parade, “I expect that next season is going to be a real season of change for everybody, for these characters, for the unit, for the job itself, what that’s all going to look like. I think we have so many opportunities. Exciting storylines to play with, hopefully some new things to explore. And we’ve got a lot of different directions to play in.”
With that tease, and more below, here’s what we know about Season 14 of Chicago P.D.
What is the release date for Chicago P.D. Season 14?
Chicago P.D. will premiere on Wednesday nights this fall on NBC.
What time will Chicago P.D. Season 14 be on?
When Chicago P.D. returns for its 14th season, it will be back in its Wednesday night at 10 p.m. ET/PT timeslot.
Who is in the cast of Chicago P.D. Season 14?
Jason Beghe as Sergeant Hank Voight
Patrick John Flueger as Officer Adam Ruzek
Marina Squerciati as Officer Kim Burgess
LaRoyce Hawkins as Officer Kevin Atwater
Amy Morton as Sergeant Trudy Platt
Benjamin Levy Aguilar as Officer Dante Torres
Arienne Mandi as Eva Imani
What happened at the end of Chicago P.D. Season 13?
Season 13 wrapped with a bit of a cliffhanger, not life-and-death, but whether Imani and Voight would send Shari (Selin Çuhadaroğlu) to prison.
When the finale kicked off, despite the decades-long search for Imani’s missing sister coming to a head when she was located and brought into the Intelligence Unit, Shari claimed to have no memory of her sister. In fact, she insisted that she wasn’t kidnapped, and she refused to aid the team in tracking down Kirby, the man who abducted her when she was six.
To prove their family connection, Imani took Shari to her apartment, where she showed her all the mementos she’s kept of their life together. Shari pretended to believe her sister and told her where they would find Kirby, but only Imani and Shari could go.
Imani agreed, but when they got there, and Kirby was there, Shari sided with him. Luckily, Voight and the team had figured out that Shari was dangerous – the knife they had from a murder was hers not Kirby’s – and they arrived just in time to save Imani from Shari shooting her with her own gun.
“It’s become her whole life’s purpose to find her sister,” Mandi exclusively told Parade. “Her parents died looking for her. It probably had to do with why she became a cop, I’m sure of just this need to protect. I think she’s really just waited her whole life for this moment, and this moment has not turned out to be what she thought it was going to be.”
In the end, Imani lied to the investigators and told them it was Kirby who was going to shoot her, but she talked to Voight about the truth and they have to decide what to do. Will they put it on paper and send Shari to prison, or lie to try to rehabilitate her?
Are there any spoilers for Chicago P.D. Season 14?
According to Sigan, “Everyone’s leaving Season 13 with some big decisions, some big life changes, some big sort of momentous things that have happened. Ruzek, obviously, has just lost his father, Atwater’s got a baby on the way. Burgess and Ruzek are moving; they’re going to start fresh in a new area of Chicago. We have Torres, who’s just found his way back to faith, but what does that look like for him moving forward?”
One of the big decisions for Voight and Imani is whether Shari will end up in prison.
“Actually, I don’t think we ever get that closure, which is why the finale left us on such a cliffhanger, because we don’t really know if she’s going to go to prison or not,” Mandi said. “We leave it with Voight and Imani and this question of: Is my sister going to go to prison, or can we somehow keep this secret between us and find a way out of this? We know Voight has done things like that in the past, and can this be another one of those moments? Or does it have to come to light? We really don’t know.”
“We love the idea of keeping this cliffhanger open,” Sigan added. “And that they do have this opportunity, since they’re the only two people that really have all of the evidence at this moment, will they bury it like we’ve seen him do before? Or will they put it all on paper and let the chips fall?”
As for whether or not the series will continue to focus on a smaller number of cast members in each episode, Sigan says, “To be determined. I think we will continue to make it as character-focused as we can, which does lend itself to focusing on a character each week. So that probably will stick around next year.”
Is there a trailer for Chicago P.D. Season 14?
An official trailer for Chicago P.D. Season 14 has yet to be released but check back here. We will post as soon as it’s available.
How to watch Chicago P.D.
Chicago P.D. airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. Viewers can stream episodes the following day on Peacock.
Where to watch and live stream Chicago P.D. online
All 13 seasons of Chicago P.D. are available on Peacock.
How many seasons of Chicago P.D. are there?
Chicago P.D. premiered January 8, 2014. There have been 13 seasons of the NBC hit series. The upcoming season will make 14.
