Tonight on NBC their drama Chicago PD returns with an all-new Wednesday, May 14, 2025, season 12 episode 21 called, “Open Casket” and we have your Chicago PD recap below.
In tonight’s Chicago PD season, 12 episode 21 called, “Open Casket,” as per the NBC synopsis, “The showdown with Deputy Chief Reid intensifies when Intelligence narrows in on Ortero.”
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In tonight’s Chicago PD episode, Sergeant Voight had his friend in the State Attorney’s office helping him. ASA Nina Chapman was helping him investigate Deputy Chief Reid. Reid was dirty. He was working with the gangs. He actually helped one gang member gain territory because he said it would bring down crime.
He pretended like he was being altruistic. The truth was that he was getting a cut of the profits. He liked owning people. He gets whoever he wants to do whatever he wants and he figured he was unstoppable. He might have been back in Detroit. It was whole different story in Chicago. Chicago was Voight’s territory.
The man that Reid was banking on was Jesue Otero. Otero was increasing his drug business. He was working with the cartels now and he was getting rich. Which meant Reid was getting rich as well.
Reid thought he had Voight under his thumb because he collected some evidence against Voight’s squad. He found out that Torres slept with a criminal informant. The same woman went on to become a drug dealer that the cops had to killed. Detective Burgess knew about everything. The whole team tried to cover it up in the aftermath and Reid found out anyways.
Reid was now blackmailing Intelligence into working for him. He doesn’t push it too far. He’s smarter than that. He asked Voight once to find out who stole a car full of drugs.
He asked them to arrest everyone else in a gang war besides Otero. It would help Otero increase territory. Reid assigned these tasks to Voight because it wasn’t a big deal. He used his inner circle for the bigger tasks and Voight hasn’t worked his way into the inner circle. Voight couldn’t fake it for no one. Not even for a case to bring down Reid.
Reid however was getting suspicious. He noticed that arrests and seizures were down. He told Voight to step it up or else he was going to stop betting on the wrong horse. Reid made sure that sounded like a threat. Voight heard him. His squad hasn’t been paying much attention to cases. They were focusing on bringing down Reid.
They were a little too focused on said subject. Reid noticed that Burgess skipped out on a debriefing and he was starting to ask why cases weren’t being closed. Voight told him that the numbers would go up because he got a lead on a new case.
The lead wasn’t on a robbery crew. It was on Otero. Otero runs drugs out of his funeral home. Torres was well enough to go back into the field and he snuck a camera into the basement.
They got a tip that Otero moved everything to the funeral home recently because his stash house was about to be demolished. With the cameras that Torres set up, they should get enough evidence against Otero to force him to flip on Reid. There was just one problem with the plan. They didn’t count on Otero’s son stealing a quarter key from his own father.
The son’s name is Rennie. Rennie just turned eighteen. His father did everything to keep him clean. He didn’t want his son involved in the family business. Rennie’s wife died in a car accident years ago and so it was just the two of them. Otero made sure Rennie went to a great school. He was supposed to have a better life. It merely wasn’t what Rennie wanted. Rennie stole drugs from his dad to sell on the street. He wasn’t dealing in his father’s neighborhood. He drove a little further away to do it. Detective Ruzek later bought heroin off of Rennie.
It gave them enough evidence to arrest Rennie. They moved in. Rennie tried to run when the cops announced themselves. He shot at them. They took him down with a car. It didn’t kill him. It injured his leg and Rennie was smart enough to not talk without a lawyer. The kid was facing thirty years in prison for all that he did.
The cops also didn’t take him to a holding cell. They took him to a safehouse. Voight then broke into Otero’s home hoping to make a deal. He didn’t care about Otero or the boy. He was willing to let the boy skate on the charges if Otero helped them bring down Reid.
Otero seemed to genuinely love his son. He was willing to work with Voight. They couldn’t get anything in writing because Reid would know. Otero simply had to trust Voight’s word.
Voight was notorious on the street and people knew he’d kept his word. Otero was willing to trust that because he wanted his boy back. He also knew that Reid was never going to stop. Reid assists him because he owns Otero. Otero was working for him. He wanted freedom and Voight was his way out. Voight later staged a rip on Otero’s business.
Intelligence stole seven hundred and fifty thousand from him. They knew that once Reid found out, he was going to call his friends and ask them to get the money back.
He did make a few calls. He called Tony Weston. His fellow cop. They go fishing together. Weston would have gone after the money by himself or with others. He just didn’t make a move to get the money back. One of Otero’s men had apparently betrayed him. He informed Reid about what happened. Reid realized it was a trap and he made a move. He grabbed Otero.
Reid was probably going to place someone else in Otero’s position. Otero was good as dead. Still, Reid didn’t kill him at his house. It gave Intelligence hope. They knew Reid grabbed Otero to get answers and he killed Otero not long after he talked. Voight found the body. His best lead on capturing Reid was gone.
Reid also retaliated against them. He launched an Internal Affairs investigation into Intelligence. Torres was arrested for misconduct. Burgess was fired for misconduct. Voight’s team was disbanded upon further review.
And Reid was going to be responsible for that review.
THE END!
