....and her name is Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) who undertakes an extra shift and works alongside fellow officer Danny Alvarado (E. J, Bonilla) at a refugee shelter located just a block from the Chicago Tribune. You can tell that the refugees from Venezuela have set up shop because of the many tents on the sidewalk. Kim had just gotten through saying goodbye to her main Man Of Men, Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger), before going to work. She's welcomed by Watch Commander McAlister (Will Clinger), of course. No sooner does Kim get settled in, there's a drive-by shooting that leaves a number of refugees wounded and one of them, a young woman named Raquel Bolivar, killed. Leave it to Sergeant Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) to assemble the rest of the team and track down the responsible malefactors. Voight's gruff voice send shivers down the spines of criminals in the Windy City, makes them want to depart Chicagoland and never come back. There's a chase through an automotive junkyard that results in one of the criminals named Aaron Marshall (Blair Jasin) getting killed by Danny Alvarado, even though Kim Burgess wanted him alive. Dead punks can't provide vital information, you see. Alvarado was being trigger-happy. Burgess is so wanting to know what's up with that. A potential lead was gunned down. Kim tells Voight that there's something sketchy about Alvarado, like maybe the latter knew the shooter in question. And that Alvarado covered up for drug dealer Aaron Marshall. There's a witness named Gabriela Baez (Asa Osorio) who got scooped up with the rest of the refugees and they were hauled away in a chartered bus, and Kim Burgess needs to find her in the worst way. It turns out Raquel Bolivar died pregnant! And that a cop got her in the family way! The plot is thickening. It further turns out that the bad cop in question is none other than Danny Alvarado, who arranged for Aaron Marshall to kill Raquel Bolivar and then shot and killed the latter before he could blab. For once, it's not one of them white supremacists. It's a bad cop. I don't know about illegal human beings, but I do know about illegal immigrants. And just when Gabriela Baez is about to be Kim Burgess' main witness, she's hauled away by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who claim that there were illegal drugs amongst the refugees, and it sounds like a frame job cooked up by Alvarado. All this to cover up the fact that the very bad cop impregnated the late Raquel Bolivar. And he sicced ICE on Gabriela Baez. In the end, Kim apprehends Danny and keeps him from taking his own life, and gets Gabriela out of custody and gets her fake immigration papers. And this episode ends on an upbeat note: Adam Ruzek proposes marriage to Kim Burgess, and she accepts! Third time's the charm. About time. A fine episode, liberal overtones and all.
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