Chicago PD Season 13 Episode 9 Recap: Heroes

We finally got a Trudy-centric hour, but is it worth watching?

You can read our full thoughts on the matter in our Chicago PD Season 13 Episode 9 Review.

But for all the details and a full Chicago PD scene-by-scene recap, check things out below!

We open with what seems like chaos in the station as Trudy is getting slammed with things from other officers (we finally see glimpses of the other beat cops) and patrons coming in needing assistance.

She asks about Ruzek, and Atwater tells her about Ruzek’s father having issues and how they’ve been working skeleton.

An old colleague of Trudy’s, some guy named McKay from Narcotics, pulls her outside and asks for a favor. He needs help relating to a case and a CI.

She heads to McKay’s house after shift, speaking to McKay’s family on their way out. Trudy gives him reports on what happened to Diego, his CI and what happened between this guy and patrol.

McKay is thrilled with the information she gave him because it’s a lead, and he says he’ll have a raid the next morning. He asks Trudy to be there. But the next morning, McKay isn’t at the raid, and everyone is waiting for him.

She heads to his house looking for him. The door opens when she knocks, so she goes inside searching and calling out to him.

She finally finds McKay in a downstairs room, shot dead. Blood everywhere. And she goes to clear the scene. She then calls it in, and you can hear the emotion in her voice. Poor Trudy.

On the scene, they’re calling it a clear suicide, but Trudy is in denial about that and doesn’t believe it. Also, the cop in charge of the scene asks Trudy if she saw McKay’s phone, and he says that he’ll notify the family, but Trudy calls Kate, his wife, herself.

At the scene, they’re still trying to act like it was a suicide, and people are patronizing her. Trudy tells someone that she “barks first, and then she bites.” She calls Voight, and he initially thinks maybe it’s a suicide, too.

But she stands firm. At the ME’s office, the coroner says that his body was moved post-mortem, and Voight has her go looking for stuff. Trudy is incensed that someone murdered her friend and staged it to look like a suicide. She’s paired with Kim, and they head back to McKay’s house.

Trudy notices that a window that was closed the night before is open. And they start searching through the house for other clues. They find blood on the scene somewhere else.

Kim also finds photographic evidence of the guy McKay was investigating in the area of McKay’s home

The rest of the team is brought into this, and now they’re planning to break up the crack house that Los Gatos, the gang McKay was looking into, is holding up. It results in them having to chase down and shake down folks in the traphouse.

All the houses they hit, they don’t have any of their suspects, and can’t find any of the drugs because they cleaned house.

The one person Kim tracks down and catches says that she’s McKay’s CI. She’s Diego’s cousin. She met up with McKay at one in the morning, and she tipped him off that Rodriguez moved all of his drugs from the stash house because they suspected that it was a rat.

McKay knew there wasn’t anything in that stash house, then.

The CI says that she’ll figure out where they moved the drugs, and promises Voight, Kim, and Trudy of that, but it sounds concerning. If Los Gatos knew there was a rat, wouldn’t they potentially come after her?

They plan on wiring Inez, the CI, up. She’s helping because she liked McKay and says he reminded her of her dad, always drunk and always smiling. Burgess picks up on the “drunk” part.

While in the van with Trudy, Burgess asks Trudy about McKay’s drinking. She also had a gut feeling about why McKay’s wife, Kate, was leaving with the kids to visit a relative, if maybe it was because there were marital problems.

Meanwhile, a wired-up Inez goes to confront some of the Los Gatos about what happened and asks about Rodriguez. They tell her that Rodriguez is underground, and they tell her to chill out. But she doesn’t take no for an answer and pushes it hard.

Meanwhile, Torres is inside observing to make sure it doesn’t escalate. But it works. The guy gives her Rodriguez’s location, and the entire team heads there.

The inhabitants try to flee when the cops are there, and Trudy tells the one guy to put down his weapon, but he raises it to fire at Trudy, so she has to shoot him. He dies, and he can’t tell her where Rodriguez is.

But what does this mean for Inez? Won’t they know she’s the one who snitched?

They find a phone and an eight-digit number on the dead guy’s hand. They also find a fob for a car that’s the same SUV Los Gatos was driving. They sound the alarm and find the SUV with blood in it and Burgess runs GPS.

Burgess requested McKay’s personnel file, and he took a month off. Burgess and Trudy clash over whether this could potentially be suicide or murder because there is an epidemic of cops killing themselves.

Trudy shows her that Los Gatos stopped at McKay’s place during TOD, but Burgess is curious why they stopped at a laundry mat.

Burgess heads there to follow a lead and searches around. In a dumpster out back, she finds McKay’s phone. She calls Atwater, and he tells her that they got a new lead and that she should meet them at the next spot.

She asks him for the passcode to McKay’s phone, and he wonders what’s up, if she’s okay, and if she needs him. He gives her the password, and she says she’ll tell him if she needs something.

She puts the code in and finds the last video on McKay’s phone. It appears to be right before his death.

They get a lead on Rodriguez, find him at a gas station, and remove his weapon after Kevin goes all Beast Mode on him. Trudy confronts him about killing her friend before they throw him in the truck. Burgess shows up, sees Kevin putting him in the car.

She talks to Rodriguzes when Kevin gives her a minute, and she tries to get him to talk to her and tell her what really happened because she knows that he didn’t kill McKay. They’ve found drugs and narcotics at the gas station, so he’ll go down for that.

Burgess tells Rodriguez what her theory is and asks if it’s right, but he merely nods in agreement.

Later, Burgess asks Trudy outside. She shows her the phone and tells Trudy what happened in the video. Trudy demands to watch it.

She watches most of it, and McKay leaves a suicide video, crying and saying sorry to his family. Trudy breaks down because she’s a cop and feels like she should have seen it.

McKay killed himself before Rodriguez and Los Gatos got to his house. They went to his home, hoping to find out who the snitch was, but he was already dead. They wanted to get out of there, but they took his phone, hoping to find out who the snitch was, but then they dumped it when they couldn’t get in.

Burgess asks how she wants to handle things, and Trudy goes to Kate, McKay’s wife to break the news.

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