The cougar plot lives, you guys!
If you ever wondered if we’d revisit Gloria Perez and the complex relationship between her and Torres, well, we have our answer as Torres takes center stage during Chicago PD Season 12 Episode 7.
After Chicago PD Season 12 Episode 6, it’s apparent that Gloria hasn’t gone very far and that she may be running the drug game in the streets.
It’s bold of Gloria to be still in Chicago and taking up where her late husband, who she killed, left off.
It’s especially bold of her to do this, knowing that she served as a CPD informant and had a torrid affair with Torres.
But that also means she has some power and leverage, and she’ll likely want to use it as she sees fit.
You have to hand it to Gloria; she’s one hell of a schemer.
She got to take out her abusive husband, bang a hot younger cop whom she can blackmail, and run a criminal empire.
Mark me down as impressed and concerned.
Frankly, I would’ve preferred if we left Gloria’s storyline in Chicago PD Season 11 Episode 9 and not revisited it, at least not this soon.
It wasn’t the most compelling arc for Torres, and we didn’t learn much new about his character through it.
If anything, the redundancy of it all was grating, and his poor decisions regarding Gloria colored one’s perspective of him.
But alas, no one is perfect, and he’ll remain a forever fave.
Assuming, of course, he can get through this scandal in the making and keep his job intact.
As expected with anyone in the Intelligence Unit, Torres’s behavior could result in him losing his job and going to prison.
Because Burgess knew about his relationship with his confidential informant and pieced some things together, she could as well.
Burgess just got her shiny new detective’s badge, and she’s already facing a career-ending challenge.
Chicago PD Season 12 Episode 7 is titled “Contrition,” at least one of the images shows Torres speaking to a priest in church about what’s bothered him.
He’s remorseful about his actions, and penance is about truthtelling and confessions.
But can Torres really ‘fess up to his relationship with Gloria?
It’s one thing if she threatens him and he risks losing his job and going to jail, but we know damn well Torres will not want anything to happen to Burgess in the interim.
He’s not the sort who would want someone he cares about to take the fall or pay for his mistakes.
Torres and Burgess are in a tough position.
Whatever their latest case is, Intelligence has pieced together that she’s behind the drug game in the city.
Voight wants her head, as he’s adamant about the unit learning everything there is to learn about Gloria and acting accordingly.
But Torres is worried that if they pursue her head-on, she has the power to ruin him, his career, and Intelligence in the process.
It’s a sticky situation, not unlike others we’ve seen before, and this is Torres’ first time trying to navigate something like this.
The truth is that he needs to talk to Voight about it.
We know how Voight is when it comes to looking out for his people and ensuring that they’re protected in any way he can.
His signature motto is, “Tell me the truth so that I can lie for you,” and he stands on that.
Torres confiding in Burgess is one thing, as they’re both in this together.
Still, at some point in the hour, we can hopefully see Torres coming clean to Voight, taking whatever verbal lashing he must, and then figuring out how they’ll get out of this situation.
It would be surprising if Torres made it through the whole episode without confessing to Voight, and I don’t see a way around that.
Another interesting wrinkle is that it marks Cook’s first undercover job under Intelligence.
Based on the brief glimpse of Gloria in the promo, she’s sitting in the car with Kiana.
Cook is incredibly perceptive, and it probably won’t take long before she figures something out and pieces things together.
Hopefully, someone will give her some type of heads-up, but even if that’s not the case, what are the odds that Cook won’t figure out that there’s something else going on with Gloria?
We’ve seen how great her instincts are, and we also have seen the partnership that blossomed between her and Torres.
It’ll be interesting to see if she learns the truth and how it influences her views of him or her work on the case.
Cook seems like she’d do incredibly well undercover, but we haven’t seen her in that type of role yet.
So, it’s exciting that following up on the previous Torres-centric episode she shared with Chicago PD Season 12 Episode 4, we’ll be getting more of her in this one.
Inquiring minds would love to know if she and Torres will always have interconnected centrics this season.
And given that Torres has had almost back-to-back centrics, it’s officially become a task figuring out how they choose who to feature in each episode.
There’s no discernible pattern in how they’re playing out.
I imagine we’re due for another Ruzek and Atwater one, but it’s hard to say if that’ll happen.
And what are the odds we’d get something heavily Trudy-focused?
Gloria’s return could set up a longer-arching plot for the season if she’s the “big bad” who has an entire operation Intelligence must take down.
While I can’t say I was a big Gloria fan, it’ll be interesting to see if that’s the case.
Over to you, Chicago PD Fanatics.
Are you excited about the return of Gloria?
Do you think Cook will do well undercover? Sound off below!
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