Chicago PD on NBC season 13, episode 2 review

SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for Chicago PD Season 13, Episode 2.

It’s fitting that Jesse Lee Soffer directs Chicago PD Season 13, Episode 2, because “Open Wounds” ends with Dante Torres on the same path that Soffer’s character Jay Halstead once walked. Torres, upset and feeling lost, hooks up with someone he shouldn’t — like Halstead did in Chicago PD Season 5’s “Rabbit Hole.” The specific circumstances are different, but years later, Torres is equally self-destructive.

One has to feel for the character, who’s been going through it for a very long time now. Torres’ previous ill-advised fling with Gloria, which was a polarizing storyline to begin with, set the stage for a collapse that has been so prolonged it seemed like an exit storyline. Torres has been so miserable that it felt like he was going to be written out in the same way as Antonio Dawson: a good character taking a hard fall. Surprisingly, Torres is still around — it was Kiana Cook who ended up leaving — but he’s still trapped in the same state. And based on the ending, he’s not coming out of it any time soon.

This is not criticism of actor Benjamin Levy Aguilar, who continues to give his absolute best to everything he’s given. Even though Torres has…