Chicago PD on NBC season 13 fall finale review

SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for Chicago PD Season 13, Episode 7.

The Chicago PD Season 13 fall finale also happens to be the NBC show’s 250th episode. That makes it doubly frustrating that it isn’t bigger. The series circles back around to a story everyone’s been waiting to finish, and then actually doesn’t finish it.

“Impulse Control” is the sequel to Season 13, Episode 4, “Root Cause.” Hank Voight sees his opportunity to take down Raymond Bell, the bad guy who escaped justice at the end of that episode. That open ending was clearly going to be revisited at some point, and this episode does reveal the full extent of Raymond’s crimes. He has many more victims than first suspected, and he is another one of those truly bad villains that Chicago PD has from time to time.

What follows is a pretty standard back and forth between Intelligence and Bell, with the team struggling to find enough evidence to get the State’s Attorney to charge him. (A Nina Chapman reference will make viewers miss actor Sara Bues all over again.) Along the way, Eva Imani connects with Bell’s granddaughter Julie, who reaches out to Eva for help.

That plot point is both a blessing and a curse. On the good side, it’s something else for actor Arienne…