As Chief Reid and Voight continue to butt heads on Chicago P.D., Torres is going to find himself stuck in the middle, according to actor Shawn Hatosy.
Hatosy, who plays Deputy Chief Charlie Reid on the NBC series, exclusively told Us Weekly that Reid is going to “keep testing their friendship with Voight” for the remainder of season 12.
The actor teased that Sergeant Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) isn’t going to be as hospitable moving forward. “Voight might be a little bit more resistant because he knows that Reid is an a—,” Hatosy, 49, said with a laugh.
Hatosy added that tension will cause Reid to have to “go around Voight” and “have a relationship” with Dante Torres (Benjamin Levy Aguilar), who is “a little more vulnerable” and “not wise” to Reid’s games.
“Reid has a scene with a vulnerable Torres, and he asks him to do something, which he then does,” Hatosy explained. “And that just sort of sends Voight sideways.”
He pointed out that Redi is “so damn smart, because he sort of understands where the holes are” and knows Torres could be a weak link.
Hatosy then revealed that like Reid himself, the actor “loves that dynamic” between the chief and Voight, who have been battling over who’s in charge all season.
“This guy comes in season 12 and he’s the boss, you know, he’s Voight’s boss. So he’s like, ‘This isn’t your team. This is my team.’ And I just love using that,” Hatosy explained. “Going into his office and putting my feet on his desk as I can, to see how it affects him. The fans love that, right? They love it when people mess with Voight.”
Earlier this season, Reid revealed that he knew Torres previously had an affair with his CI and that Detective Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) was aware of it at the time.
Reid told Voight that he would look the other way about the incident — which the whole team is now complicit in — but hinted there would be strings attached. Reid also pulled a few strings at the start of the season to keep Burgess on the Intelligence Team after receiving her detective shield, which she told Voight felt fishy.
“To my knowledge, it’s just another card to have in his deck,” Hatosy told Us of Reid’s choice to keep Burgess on Intelligence. “Because she’s pretty clean, right? She doesn’t have anything that she’s trying to, to hide. To me it just seems like, ‘Oh, here’s somebody that I can promote and use as I see fit.’”
During the March 5 episode, Voight told attorney Nina Chapman (Sara Bues) what Reid had on his team and asked for her help to bring him down once and for all.
“They’ve clearly set in motion that they want to take this guy down. I think he’s prepared for that,” Hatosy said, adding that Reid knows what Voight is “capable of” and “how he’s gotten to where he is.”
Chicago P.D. returns with new episodes on NBC Wednesday, March 26, at 10 p.m. ET.
