Tonight on NBC their drama Chicago PD returns with an all-new Wednesday, May 7, 2025, season 12 episode 20 called, “Black Ice” and we have your Chicago PD recap below.
In tonight’s Chicago PD season, 12 episode 20 called, “Black Ice,” as per the NBC synopsis, “Ruzek witnesses a tragic accident on an icy bridge, leading Intelligence into a dark, sinister case involving sex trafficking.”
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On tonight’s episode of Chicago PD, Detective Adam Ruzek was with his father when Disco Bob said something that didn’t make sense. Bob brought up a bank account. He said it was in Florida. Bob got a letter about the account and he didn’t know where it was. Bob suffers from dementia.
He truly couldn’t remember where he put the letter or the details about his secret bank account. Ruzek had no idea what he was talking about. He was taking care of his dad’s things. He thought he knew about all the accounts. He just never heard about the Florida one. He was also wondering why he didn’t know about this supposed letter.
Bob was staying at a care home. His letters all come through the front desk. Ruzek asked the nurse on the desk if his dad got a letter and she said he hadn’t gotten one recently.
She was a good nurse. Ruzek liked her and so he knew she wasn’t lying. His dad just might have gotten confused. There might not be another account at all. His dad had mentioned owing people money because of a trip. Ruzek said they took that trip years ago. It was a little sad that his dad was slipping away. The detective was leaving the care home late one night when he almost hit a guy.
The guy that came running into the road. Ruzek apologized. He noticed the crazed look in the man’s eyes. He asked him if he was okay and the other guy didn’t answer. Ruzek could have ignored things. He could have gone home to his family, but he stuck around because he saw that the stranger was heading towards the bridge.
Ruzek went after him. He asked him again if he was okay. He offered to help if he wasn’t. The guy went over the bridge and Ruzek grabbed his hand. He tried to rescue him. The stranger wanted to be rescued because he yelled out that he didn’t want to die.
Unfortunately, his panicking caused Ruzek to lose his grip on the stranger. The man fell. He landed on solid ice. It was like hitting concrete. He died instantly. He was later identified as Frank Bailey once Ruzek found his wallet.
Ruzek had gone down to the ice to check him. He wanted to make sure that he was gone. He also noticed a few other things while he was down. Frank’s body showed that he had bene stabbed before he fell off the bridge. The ice then started to crack from underneath him. He barely managed to save himself. He couldn’t save the evidence.
Frank’s body went into the water.
Ruzek had to call for CSI as well as divers. They needed to get the body back. They also had to find out what happened that night. Frank’s widow was Evelyn. She has two kids. Her youngest was still a baby. Frank had photos of his family in his wallet of them. They live in a good neighborhood.
Frank wasn’t connected to anyone in the neighborhood where he died and his wife was too distraught to answer questions. She truly lost it on the cops. She slapped Ruzek. She was getting hysterical and it was a bit odd that her daughter never once came to check on her.
The little girl looked about seven. She was old enough to be curious about a mom screaming and crying. So, why wasn’t she curious about her mother’s hysteria? Ruzek pushed that oddness away because there were other concerns. The baby started to cry. Frank had no known enemies.
Frank had apparently told his wife that he was working late. His wife said he’s been working late a lot lately. It happened ever since their baby was born and the baby was under a year old. Frank’s car was eventually found. It gave them some answers.
Frank wasn’t working late after all. He was parked not that far from a rave. It was an underground rave. The partygoers needed a secret code to access the building and there was blood on the floor that none of those people noticed.
Ruzek noticed it. He followed the bloody footprints to secret rooms in the basement. The cops found beds there and someone was smart enough to take the sheets with them. It was a trafficking ring. There were girls being trafficked from out of the basement at these raves.
Frank got stabbed while he was on the bed. There were some outside surveillance cameras. He ran out of that rave bleeding. He was chased by one guy who stopped chasing and went back into the rave to collect his trafficked girls. They looked under eighteen. It turns out Frank went to the rave specifically for those girls.
His friend had given him the access code to the rave and he also mentioned that the girls will be there. The friend was Steve Bartlett. He claimed he never used the other service for the raves. He got the number from another friend and passed it on to Frank after Frank asked.
It didn’t sound anything like the Frank his wife was talked about. Ruzek thought the same. Frank worked at a firm. He has no debt. He owns his house outright. He didn’t seem the type to join the rave scene much less take part in forced prostitution. Yet, that’s what he did. The detectives got the phone number for the pimp from Steve.
They traced it. They got a location. They also got its phone records to see who has been calling this number for “services”. The cops later raided the house. They found some of the girls with johns and not all of the victims wanted to be rescued.
These pimps breaks these girl down to such an extent that she couldn’t imagine freedom. Not even when it’s staring at them. They don’t run. They don’t cause trouble. They get used until they’re killed or the pimps throws them away like trash. They found one of the enforcers. He tried to take out Ruzek and one of the girls tried to help him.
There was a cop literally in the room during a raid and she still sided with one of her abusers. Ruzek was able to fight back. Burgess also came to help. They arrested the enforcer.
His name is Anton. He lives with his girlfriend. She was pregnant and so Ruzek used that to get Anton to break. Unless he never wanted visitation to see his child, he had to talk. He said the guy running the girls was Dmitri Salton. Salton was arrested once for domestic violence against his ex-wife.
He was in charge. He was also a possible murderer. Anton saw him covered in blood on the night Frank was killed. He also gave them a location on how to find Salton. Salton took two of the girls to a truck stop. He was leaving with them when he got arrested.
The girls once again saw freedom. Only they still tried to escape in Salton’s car. They just didn’t know how to accept help. They needed therapy and possibly deprograming.
They also got arrested for trying to flee the scene. Salton was later questioned. He said he stabbed Frank after Frank tried to choke out a girl. He could have killed her and so Salton defended her. He was still bad guy. He just wasn’t as bad as someone willing to choke out an underage prostitute. Frank’s family will never be able to live this down.
Ruzek went to go check on his dad. Bob owes some fees from closing his bank account in Florida. It wasn’t much only it was necessary. Bob emptied his account of everything so that he could put it in a trust fund for his granddaughter, Mack. He wanted her set for life. It also takes some of the burden off of Ruzek and Burgess. They were cops. They weren’t rich. Their daughter could go to college with that money.
THE END!