Chicago P.D. Season 12, Episode 5 ‘Water and Honey‘ is an excellent episode for Dante Torres and Kiana Cook dinner, and an episode that breathes a bit of life right into a present that has began to really feel stale. The case isn’t necessary, it rarely is in procedurals, what issues is that this hour proves that this present might be greater than Voight and greater than the identical dynamics we now have come to depend on.
That’s not solely an awesome factor, it’s a crucial factor. The present has misplaced two major characters within the final two years, and it’s by no means about changing them with the identical, nevertheless it’s about discovering new methods to inform tales individuals discover fascinating. Chicago Fireplace and Chicago Med have managed to do this higher than Chicago P.D. And this hour, in fact, doesn’t clear up all this present’s points. Nevertheless it looks like a step in the suitable course, nonetheless.
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WELCOME TO THE TEAM, KIANA COOK
Some issues simply work. It’s exhausting to clarify why. Actors have chemistry, storylines take off and typically it’s exhausting to foretell what is going to go properly and what received’t. However Kiana Cook dinner at all times felt like she was going to slot in with Intelligence and in her first time interacting with the complete workforce, it’s simple to see that she does. That she is going to. That there’s a spot for her on this workforce.
That is particularly necessary in mild of her on the spot reference to Torres, who has at all times felt like a person on an island on this workforce. Kim, Adam, and Kevin have already got a bond, one which’s been cast via a few years of being there for one another. And Kiana can clearly come and turn into a part of the unit, nevertheless it’s good to see that her very particular first connection outdoors of what we noticed with Adam is with Dante. That grounds her with the workforce, nevertheless it additionally grounds him and makes him really feel much less like an outsider once we’re in the course of group dynamics.
It is just the start, in fact. The story of those characters is way from over. But when that is the start, then it bodes properly for what comes subsequent.
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SO THIS IS WHO YOU ARE, DANTE TORRES
We knew some issues about Dante Torres, already, in fact. However contemplating how lengthy he’s truly been round at this level, he’s nonetheless principally an enigma. And a part of that’s that the present misplaced the character that had the most effective connection to him proper after they introduced him on in Jay Halstead, so it was exhausting to inform private tales with him until he was in the course of it.
On this hour, although, due to the case, and due to the presence of Kiana Cook dinner, we see a distinct aspect of Dante. We study part of his previous we didn’t know earlier than. And we get a glimpse of what he may very well be …with a accomplice. It’s not all we would like, however it’s far more than we’ve gotten. And contemplating the door has already been opened, it’s doubtless we are going to be taught rather more so long as these characters are allowed to work together.
Like acknowledges like and, in some ways, Dante and Kiana are the identical. In some ways, although, they aren’t. Their paths have been completely different, and the methods they react are completely different as properly. However maybe, even these issues might be good for them. Maybe they will complement one another. And I don’t even imply that in a romantic means, I feel.
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Chicago P.D. airs on Wednesdays at 10/9c on NBC.