In a world where loyalty is often tested and justice walks a razor-thin moral line, no partnership in Chicago P.D. has ever come close to matching the raw, unfiltered brotherhood between Hank Voight and Alvin Olinsky.
They weren’t just partners.
They were family.
From the earliest days inside Chicago’s Intelligence Unit, Voight and Olinsky operated on the same unspoken wavelength — willing to bend the rules, cross the lines, and carry the burden of decisions most officers wouldn’t dare make. While others questioned Voight’s ruthless methods, Olinsky understood them… because he shared them. The two men often stood shoulder to shoulder in morally gray territory, united by a singular belief: sometimes, justice demanded sacrifice.
But that shared code would ultimately destroy them both.
When Voight hunted down Kevin Bingham — the man responsible for his son Justin’s murder — grief overtook reason. Blinded by rage, he killed him in cold blood. And when Internal Affairs began closing in, it was Olinsky who stepped in to protect his longtime friend, helping cover up the crime in an act of ultimate loyalty.
It was a decision that sealed his fate.
A single strand of Olinsky’s hair left behind at the burial site tied him to the murder. He was arrested. Charged. And before justice could be corrected — before Voight could confess the truth to set him free — Olinsky was stabbed in prison.
He died during surgery in the heartbreaking Season 5 finale.
Voight didn’t just lose a partner that day.
He lost his conscience.
Wracked with guilt, the hardened sergeant was forced to live with the unbearable truth: the man who had always had his back… died because of him. Even years later, Olinsky’s memory continues to haunt Voight — appearing in visions during life-or-death moments, urging him to keep going when he’s on the brink of giving up.
Because some bonds don’t break.
They follow you into the dark.
Voight chose the job.
Olinsky chose Voight.
And in the end, that choice became one of the most devastating tragedies in Chicago P.D. history — a reminder that in the pursuit of justice, even heroes can become the cost.