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[This story contains spoilers from season 11, episode seven of Chicago P.D, “The Living and the Dead.”]

For Sergeant Hank Voight, played by Jason Beghe, the proverb “the road to hell is paved with good intensions” comes to a painful, climatic conclusion during the final scene of Chicago PD’s March 20 episode, “The Living and the Dead.” The seventh episode in season 11 of the NBC drama ends with a stoic look from the conflicted police detective, as a barrel is pulled from a body of water that contains someone he cared for and tried to protect.

Since the murder of his son, Justin (Josh Segarra), in season three, Voight has worn that death like an albatross, spurring him throughout the seasons to take a special interest in certain brutalized victims in the city who are treated as castoffs. In episode seven, audiences watch Voight hunt for a kidnapper who tortured and mutilated a gay teenage boy named Noah (Bobby Hogan), who was introduced in episode six. Thrown out of the house because of his sexuality and plagued with pain and nightmares from the brutality of his ordeal, Voight sees something in Noah that reminds him of his troubled son, and perhaps sees a way to help the young man in a way that he couldn’t help his late child.

But Wednesday’s episode again ended in tragedy, as Noah was the body inside the barrel. Once again, viewers see that Voight is probably traveling down the dark vortex of loss, failure and vengeance.

The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Beghe to talk about Voight’s two-episode arc that will continue on in the coming weeks. Beghe also talked about the 25th anniversary of a near-fatal car accident that changed the actor’s life in some ways (and added to his famous raspy voice), as well as his deep-rooted Chicago connections and hopes for the future with Chicago PD.

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Why are there certain cases that seem to get so under Hank Voight’s skin he can’t shake them? This is certainly the case in episodes six and seven, with the brutal abduction of Noah. Why does Voight care so much about this case?

I don’t think Voight is aware of it consciously.

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