“Everything Leads to the Cross of Christ”
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What You Need To Know:
CHICAGO P.D.: Faith is a satisfying conclusion to an earlier episode. It’s riveting and emotionally powerful. It also has multiple references to faith and Christianity. CHICAGO P.D.: Faith is a great TV episode with an inspiring, soul-stirring ending. It not only shows the power of faith, but the final scene points to the Cross of Christ. The last scene takes place in a church where the hero keeps looking at the large golden cross hanging prominently on the wall. However, the episode has some foul language, brief fighting and images of a water damaged skeleton and blood. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children.
Content:
Very strong Christian, moral worldview involving police detectives in Chicago engaged in finding justice for a murdered woman and her late husband, who was falsely accused of her murder, where references to faith and divine providence ultimately lead to a Protestant Christian Church with a golden cross prominently displayed, which seems to give some strong comfort to the story’s main hero, a Catholic police detective who’s been undergoing a crisis of faith (in the story, the hero goes from being unshaven and depressed to being clean shaven and reinvigorated as he solves a major case and helps the daughter reconnect with her late father and honor her late mother);
10 obscenities (some h, a and d words), but no profanities;
Some strong and light violence includes some scenes from a previous episode where a van crashes into a car, and a man is shot by a sniper, with scenes from the episode being reviewed where police chase a suspect and wrestle him to the ground, police detective fights a suspect, police wrestle another suspect to the ground who tried to drive away in a car, crime scene images of a pool of blood on the hardwood floor in a living room, and images of a skeleton that was wrapped in a blanket that police skin divers find in a small truck under water;
No sex;
No nudity;
No alcohol use;
Man smokes, and police grab a suspect in a dark warehouse where people are using drugs, and a crime case of two murders leads to another murder case involving a young truck driver who was transporting drugs for his gang but was murdered by a suspect trying to hijack the truck for the hidden drugs; and,
A case leads to a drug deal rip off and lying and corruption are exposed.
More Detail:
In the last season, Torres suffered a blow to his Catholic faith when he reached out to God to help him during a crucial moment of intense fear, but the fear overcame him.
In Episode Six of this season, titled “Send Me,” a prison van transporting a convict named Odell Morgan, convicted of murdering his wife six years ago, accidentally hits Detective Dante Torres’ car. The driver had a heart attack and lost control of the vehicle. Morgan proclaims his innocence to Dante, but he takes Dante hostage at gunpoint and demands Dante help clear his name. As Dante’s colleagues in the Intelligence Unit hunt Morgan, they and Dante come to believe Morgan may have been right about a frame-up and set out to uncover the truth. When Morgan stumbles from his injuries during the crash, Dante takes the gun away from him. However, he allows Morgan to confront his brother-in-law, Carter, whose testimony was the thing that put Morgan in prison.
Dante holds Morgan back from hitting Carter. As Morgan questions his brother-in-law, Dante sees that Carter won’t look Morgan in the eye. Dante questions Carter himself, and Carter confesses he lied about seeing Morgan carry a rug from the house, presumably with his wife’s body in it. Carter also confesses that someone called him up on a burner phone they gave him and forced him to lie and told him what to say. They showed photos of a gun pointed at the head of Carter’s sleeping son to get him to lie.
The Intelligence Unit arrives to take Carter for questioning while Dante rides in the ambulance with Morgan to the hospital. However, a sniper shoots Carter to death, and Morgan dies at the hospital. The episode ends with Dante promising Morgan’s adult daughter, Dominique, that he’s going to work on finding out who killed her mother.
Episode 10 opens with Dante pondering Morgan’s case file on a bulletin board, with Morgan’s last words to him echoing in his mind, “What are the chances that I crashed into you?” However, Dante’s reached a dead end. His new colleague on the Intelligence Unit, Detective Eva Imani, offers to help him, even though they would have to work off hours. Dante tries to turn down her offer, but Eva replies, “You could just say thank you and let me.” Dante smiles and says, “Thank you.” Eva tells Dante that working a cold case is like “an act of faith.”
As the detectives work the case, their investigation leads them to a murder that happened on the route Morgan’s wife, Simone, walked home from the mini mart where she worked. They decide she could have seen the murder of a local gang member driving a commercial truck with a hidden load of drugs. The murder happened the night before Simone went missing, leaving lots of blood on her family’s living room floor. Her brother testified he saw her husband, Morgan, carrying a rolled-up rug to his car.
Dante, Eva and the other detectives work the drug murder case. It leads them to two former gang members, who then lead them to a surprising suspect. It also leads them to the location of the mother’s body, and the episode ends with Dante attending her funeral at a medium-sized church with a golden cross on the wall.
Both CHICAGO P.D. episodes dealing with the case of the wrongly convicted husband and father are well worth watching. Both episodes are riveting and emotionally powerful. Also, both episodes have many references to faith and Christianity. However, the second episode, “Faith,” has a final resolution to everything. Justice is finally achieved. Even better, the final scene takes place in a Protestant church where the Catholic hero struggling with his faith can’t keep his eyes off the large golden cross hanging on the back wall behind the altar.
Here’s the upshot of all this. Dante has been questioning his faith. Last season, he suffered a crisis of faith when fear and the past got the best of him, and he felt abandoned by God despite all the encouragement he was receiving from his own priest. As he admits to Morgan’s daughter, Dominique, nothing was making sense to him anymore. However, when she asks him what happened, he tells her, “I met your father,” and adds, “He never lost his faith. He just kept going.” Inspired by her father’s faith, Dante just keeps going, and, with help from his colleagues, they find the culprit who murdered her mother and uncle and framed her father. Ultimately, though, Dante’s journey of faith leads back to the Cross of Christ.
CHICAGO P.D.: “Faith” is a great episode with an inspiring, soul-stirring ending. It may not give the final word on Detective Dante’s journey, but it’s a satisfying stopping point. However, the episode has some foul language, brief fighting and images of a water damaged skeleton and blood. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children.
