[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Chicago P.D. Season 12 Episode 3 “Off Switch.”]
What Officer Kevin Atwater (LaRoyce Hawkins) wants is an off swap, and it looks like he could have discovered one by the top of the newest Chicago P.D. episode within the type of some enjoyable with forensic psychologist Val Soto (Natalee Linez).
At first, Val is only a girl that Atwater meets and connects with at a cop bar whereas juggling messages from his household and tenants. They hit it off then, however they conflict over how a lot to push a sufferer when it seems she’s the forensic psychologist working with Intelligence on an armed theft case. On the finish of the episode, he goes to her home and apologizes, and he or she brings up his lengthy checklist of to dos and the way that “burns individuals out.”
Atwater is “very conscious,” he says, and it isn’t the primary time he’s heard that. “Do you have got an off swap?” Val asks. That’s one thing he hasn’t discovered, he admits, and he or she kisses him. “I’ve a proposition,” she gives, “How about for the subsequent hour you come inside, flip off your mind, flip off your rattling telephone, and have enjoyable with me? I gained’t choose you, you gained’t choose me, and we’ll do one thing only for us, to show all of it off.” He agrees.
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However is that this going to be a long-term relationship for Atwater? Does he have time for one thing severe proper now? That’s precisely what TV Insider requested Hawkins.
“I’m undecided,” Hawkins mentioned. “I feel Atwater’s in a pocket the place he’s simply letting go, letting go of sure boundaries that he normally has and simply seeing what occurred, exploring the way it feels to only be a bit unfastened in sure areas of his life and it would assist him tighten up different areas. As we develop and develop as adults and as leaders in our particular job, whether or not you’re a dad or mum, whether or not you’re a brother or what have you ever, it’s like their rhythms connect to those obligations, and typically the easiest way to essentially deal with your duty is to permit your rhythm to sort of circulate in a approach that not simply supplies steadiness, but in addition concord.”
That’s what Atwater is in search of and desires proper now, “how do I harmonize all of those completely different pockets in my life, much more so than simply discovering steadiness? I need one to work for the opposite to work for the subsequent to work shifting ahead. And in order that’s been enjoyable. That’s enjoyable to now have a personality that offers me the grace to have the ability to let go of sure issues so I can maintain on to others healthily.”
With Intelligence “so locked in case-by-case”—we noticed within the premiere how Sergeant Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) has them shifting, shifting, shifting—all Hawkins may say about any upcoming scenes for Atwater with Burgess (Marina Squerciati) or Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger), two friendships which have persistently been highlighted over time, is that they’re on the best way.
What he can say for sure is arising is, after the seeds planted in “Off Swap,” a “lighter Atwater, an Atwater that’s capable of pull as much as work and contribute in a approach that feels not simply extra protected and wholesome, but in addition that simply flows,” previews Hawkins. “I’m within the pocket for my group. You’ll see individuals on my group actually struggling and new members of the group being launched, and so that you’re going to only see a really supportive Atwater.”
The star has a really apt description for his character. “I’ve all the time imagined—properly, lately, I’ve achieved my greatest to think about my function because the invisible bridge for the entire unit, the bridge that you simply don’t know is there, nevertheless it’s undoubtedly there. And I’m not in your approach, however on the best way to no matter you may want.”
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Chicago P.D., Wednesdays, 10/9c, NBC
