Jason Beghe shows a review of the case Voight was unable to solve after the woman’s death

Sergeant Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) revisits a part of his past that was painful in the October 16 episode of Chicago P.D: a case he took shortly after the death of his wife.

In “The After,” ASA Chapman (Sara Bues) helps Intelligence with a sensitive investigation that brings up painful memories for Voight. Beghe hesitates to say the case “haunts” Voight, but emphasizes how hard it is on him. “It’s definitely hitting him in the face a little bit,” he tells TV Insider.

The case involves a “terrible” rapist with a specific modus operandi, Beghe said. “The episode begins where he is reminded of his wife, Camille, who died due to a leak in the basement, and so he has to clean up the leak and sees that the possessions he had in storage were being destroyed .Then very soon he hears on the radio about this woman in a very specific state of distress that is very similar to a case he worked 15 years ago, which he never solved, never had a suspect.”

This case was Voight’s first return after Camille’s death. “I knew he took the case before he should have gone back to work, but he needed the job because he didn’t feel the feelings. It was too much,” explains Beghe. “(He thinks) he didn’t get the bad guy and didn’t solve the case and do justice because he was mentally and emotionally inhibited by grief. All of that is now coming back.”

He continues: “It’s a chance for him to feel a little bit what the loss was like. The other half of his heart, maybe most of his heart, was taken away from him. It’s kind of like a sun that wasn’t able to cope completely. And so he found his set of solutions, including going back to work. Now, 15 years later, there is a chance to dip his toe in the water again.”

The season began with Voight moving from case to case after the departure of Upton (Tracy Spiridaks) and her near-death experience. Now, “it’s calming down a bit,” says Beghe. “But this experience changed him, and why try to define what that is? We don’t want to limit it. Let’s see But is it a coincidence that I have this level of vulnerability and exposure, or is there a connection, a relationship between the two, and what happens next and where will it go?

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Chicago P.DWednesday, 10/9c, NBC