The tenth season of the American police procedural television series Chicago P.D. premiered on September 21, 2022, on NBC, for the 2022–23 television season. The season concluded on May 24, 2023. The season contained 22 episodes.
Still reeling from the death of informant Anna Avalos, Voight faces a new threat as he tries to keep the neighbourhood clean from drugs as new wrinkles develop in the Upton, Halstead and Voight dynamic while the team gets a new chief and receive awards for their efforts in bringing down drug kingpin Javier Escano.
A convicted murderer - with the testimony of Ruzek - manages to hijack his prison van after the trial and kidnaps one of the guards. The intelligence unit teams up to find him and the kidnapped guard, only to discover things aren't what they appear to be while Burgess pushes Ruzek due to his motives in this case, creating tension between them as Dante Torres officially joins Intelligence.
The team investigates a string of brutal pharmacy robberies and after Halstead gets into a fight with a suspect, stabbing the man to death, he makes a life-changing decision.
Note: This is Jesse Lee Soffer's final appearance.
Upton's lone pursuit of a teenage girl who's disappeared leads Intelligence into the dark web of human trafficking while Chief O'Neal becomes involved after learning his son, Sean is connected to the missing teenager.
Upon learning evidence against Sean O'Neal has surfaced, Intelligence work in secret to build a case, only to discover Sean is more dangerous than they expected.
In an attempt to divert Intelligence from investigating his son, Chief O'Neal diverts them to a dead fish case that soon grows complicated with difficult memories being triggered for Burgess.
After making a shocking discovery, Intelligence edge closer to bringing down Sean O'Neal which has O'Neal's father, Chief O'Neal making a decision that threatens the case.
Intelligence investigate a series of brutal home invasion robberies with the team pairing with Detective Borkowski, an old friend of Ruzek's and as the case progresses, Torres finds himself clashing with Borkowski when it becomes clear the two men have different styles to policing.
While on a surveillance of a funeral, Atwater and Burgess partially witness a reckless drive by ambush shooting that kills the pastor and a gang leader. Atwater is forced to renew his relationship with his, recently released from prison, father who can identify the shooter.
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"I Can Let You Go"
Gia-Rayne B. Harris
Teleplay by : Scott Gold Story by : Gwen Sigan & Scott Gold
In Chicago PD's 200th episode, Burgess and Ruzek are stuck on a crowded subway train after a horrific shooting and the team uncovers dark family secrets as they piece together the mystery. Burgess is trapped inside a hole with a young boy and has a panic attack. Later, she deals with PTSD. She is comforted by the team and Ruzek as she gets back to normalcy.
The team investigates the poisoning deaths of a family who shared space in a building that housed a meth lab that has a connection to Samantha Beck. They devise a ruse to ingratiate Ruzek with Samantha as he goes undercover to infiltrate the Becks' operation.
Voight takes the stand for ASA Chapman in a high-stakes murder trial against notorious drug kingpin Arturo Morales. When it becomes clear that Morales and his henchmen have compromised a juror, Voight and the team work furiously to ensure justice prevails. The team gets assistance on a case.
The team is challenged on a new case involving a convenience store robbery and beating, and the evidence leads the team to an unusual pair of suspects, revealing a dark personal drama and another potential victim. Burgess continues to make progress, therapeutically addressing her past trauma issues.
Atwater's world falls apart when a shooting at the building he owns in Burnside results in a dead boy, and Atwater must confront his relationship with his dad as they continue to work together.
After attending a baptism in his neighborhood, Torres finds himself in the midst of a murder case that hits close to home and threatens to expose his troubled past and his association with the murder victim, a local gang leader Ariza. As Torres struggles to reconcile his old life with his new one, Voight keeps a watchful eye and decides to keep Torres on, after learning the truth from Torres about his checkered past.
As Richard Beck's timeline for a deadly terrorist attack moves up, Samantha panics causing Ruzek to break cover and arrest her. The team then scrambles to get ahead of Beck's unprecedented scheduled attack, which would result in innocent school children getting killed. Meanwhile, Ruzek is shot at Sam's home, by her son Callum, during their extraction and then he is left to die. When the team arrives Ruzek is immediately rushed to Chicago Med for surgery. Beck attempts to escape using his grandson as a shield, but Atwater fatally shoots him.
Production
Development
On February 27, 2020, it was announced that NBC had renewed Chicago P.D. through a tenth season.[23] The season is set to contain the two-hundredth episode of the series.[24]
Casting
In July 2022, it was reported by Deadline Hollywood that Benjamin Levy Aguilar, who plays Officer Dante Torres, had been promoted to a series regular after first appearing as a guest-star during the previous season.[25] The following month, it was revealed by Variety that Jesse Lee Soffer, who had portrayed Detective Jay Halstead since the series debut in 2014, would be leaving early in the tenth season.[26] Soffer made his final appearance with the third episode of the season, "A Good Man", on October 5, 2022.[27]
Awards
On March 7, 2024, Episode 21, "New Life", won a MovieguideAward for "Best TV for Mature Audiences".[28]
Release and marketing
On May 16, 2022, it was revealed that the series would keep its Wednesday 10:00 PM ET timeslot, continuing to lead out of fellow Chicago franchise series Chicago Med and Chicago Fire.[29] On June 29, 2022, the season was given a premiere date of September 21, 2022.[30] After previously being available to stream on Hulu, all episodes from the season will begin streaming exclusively on Peacock the day after each episode airs on NBC.[31]
Ratings
Viewership and ratings per episode of Chicago P.D. season 10
