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Earlier this season, Chicago P.D. introduced a creepy foe for the Intelligence unit and Voight, in particular, when the Sergeant came up against an abusive father — and that was not the last time Voight will come face-to-face with the show’s new Big Bad.
In Episode 4, Voight and new Intelligence officer Imani were investigating a violent bank robber, who ended up taking his own life. But before he did that, Gary the criminal claimed that “he,” aka his father, Raymond, made him this way. Upon visiting Raymond’s home, Voight and Imani picked up on some red flags, including Raymond’s non-reaction to learning his son was dead. “There’s something wrong in that house,” Voight declared, putting an investigative alert on the father and alerting DCFS about the victim’s daughter, who was now living with her grandfather.
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Raymond will resurface in this Wednesday’s fall finale when Voight’s suspicions ring true following a violent break-in and lead the unit back to the man. “It is very thematic, especially for Voight and Imani, and it has this nice feeling of sort of diving into roots, diving into sort of generational violence and generational harm,” showrunner Gwen Sigan tells Soaps.com.
Sigan describes the character as “a really exciting Big Bad” and “very interesting.” “It’s been really fun to write. It’s dark, it’s weird,” she says. “It’s been a really different kind of storyline for us. It’s a little more psychological. It’s a little more Voight versus this guy, a little cat and mouse. It’s got a really great vibe to it and some really interesting themes to explore.”
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One of the issues Raymond likely brings up for Voight is his own past: In the same episode that Raymond was introduced, Voight found an envelope on his windshield containing a photo of a wounded young boy in a hospital bed. Imani later correctly surmised that the child in the picture was a young Voight in the 1970s. The below promo continues to hint at a thematic connection between Raymond’s behavior and what Voight went through growing up. “I’ve known many men like you, violent men,” Voight says in the video.
Meanwhile, Raymond is sure to make viewers’ spines tingle with the bad kind of chills this week. That’s all credit to the performance from his portrayer, Barry Del Sherman, which Sigan praises as “really great, really fun,” even if it majorly gives us the creeps.
Chicago P.D. airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on NBC.
