After
Severide found the pictures he got Detectives Lindsay and Voight from Chicago
PD into the mix. After realizing that her half-brother was in a few of the
photos, Lindsay called Detective Rollins from New York, the last known location
that Lindsay had for her sibling.
After
Lindsay and Jay Halsted arrived in New York, the search for Lindsay's
half-brother, Teddy began. They wanted to find Teddy not only to get him off
the street but to also shut down the child pornography ring, a live Internet
broadcast with a young boy (Henry) being forced to perform viewer requests no matter
how bad was just hours away.
After
tracking Henry to the youth center where he was last seen, the cops are led to
high school senior Jocelyn. She's a survivor of these perverts, and that's how
she knows Teddy. Last she heard about him, he was working at the piers.
Teddy
isn't in a good position; the piers are a hot spot for hustling. Teddy doesn't
want to help the cops. Benson, tried to connect with him by giving him an extra
blanket in his cell. She plays to his conscience, explaining that the men who
ruined him 10 years ago are still doing it to other children.
Benson
and Lindsay go to Jocelyn again, they mention how they found Teddy and how they
are trying to bust a sex ring. Jocelyn then runs off without saying anything.
It turns out that the same men, in addition to being assaulted by Teddy,
tortured her. When confronted by Jocelyn, Teddy tells her that he only did it
because he knew the other men would be much worse.
Benson
then finds out that the security guard at the youth center is a part of the sex
ring. He was found to be responsible for handing over kids form the center to
the child abusers in return for money. His excuse was he needed the money for
his own children, who were in college. When he went to run away Benson took him
down.
Voight
roughed up the security guard a bit, and even though he probably deserved it,
Benson stopped Voight. She even made a reference to her former partner,
Detective Elliott Stabler, who also had a hot temper. She said she wouldn't
tolerate Voight's behavior, especially because he has no jurisdiction in New
York and she wouldn't hesitate to lock him up if he did it again.
The
only way they could get Jocelyn to talk was through Benson and Voight
pretending to be Henry's parents. Once see spoke up, the police were able to
find the people that were doing this, they broke in the door of the hideout
where Henry was. They arrested the guy but then they found out the ring is
based out of Chicago not New York and its bigger than they thought it was.
And
then Jocelyn and Teddy remember a man who might be the one who captured Henry,
all they have is his name, everyone wants to track him down. They do find Bob
Clinton, just in time too. He was about to pin Henry down when they broke in
and took him to jail. When Clinton was taken in, a video feed shows that
another young girl will soon face the same things Henry did. Clinton says he
will only talk if they give him immunity, so Benson sends him down to the holding
cell while he 'thinks things over'. Clinton tells them there is someone higher
up running the show.
Then
back in Chicago Andrew Lewella (the man who was responsible for financing the
child pornography) and a police officer were shot. Surveillance footage
doesn’t show much, but then Roman notices a little detail about the killer, his
ear is disfigured. Then looking at Lewella’s payments, Rozek notices there’s
one payment about 5k a month that goes to some nursing facility in Oak Brook.
It’s suspicious because he didn’t have any family.
They
then visit the nursing home and are guided towards Mrs. Hughes, one of the
residents. She doesn’t know Lewella or that he is making her payments, she
thought her daughter Matilda was. They track down Matilda, who works at the
Department of Health and Children Services. But she hasn’t been heard from in 3
days. They go to her house to find her dead.
Back
at the precinct, the gang is going through files when Erin stumbles upon her brother’s
file. She never knew he was in the system nor did she know he was assigned to a
foster family for 2-months. The file shows that the Widing’s currently have two
foster children 9-year-old Amy and 13-year-old Chris. She and Rollins pay the
family a little visit, hoping to get some answers. Sam Widing opens the door
and tells them to wait so he can put the dog away. In that moment, Rollins gets
a call notifying her that Jill; Sam’s wife has been dead for a while, yet she’s
still listed as a foster parent on the file, obviously, suspicious. They enter
the house and find Sam upstairs with a gun in his hand, repeating, “I’m sick”
over and over again. They try to talk him down and let him know he can get some
help as long as he tells them where Amy and Chris are, but it doesn’t work. Sam
blows his brains out.
We
now know a Department of Health and Children Services employee was responsible
for funneling kids to foster parent Sam Widing. With help from Lewella they
were able to send the kids to New York from Chicago where Clinton took the
pictures and committed the abuse.
Roman
and Burgess took the picture of the shooter with the disfigured ear to
different MMA fighting rings and they finally get an ID on the shooter, Todd
Ledbetter. He’s got a warrant out for his arrest and he is also registered as a
sex offender. A witness tells them about a house he was last seen entering. As
they close in, Ledbetter escapes through the roof, jumping from building to
building. Eventually, Ledbetter tries to jump onto another roof but doesn’t
make it and falls to his death.
The
rest of the unit burst into the house and find the little girl; Amy, tied up to
a chair. Amy finds comfort in Lindsay’s arms. Amy tells them that the big man
took her brother Chris from the house. Latter Lindsay tells Voight that she
wants Amy to stay at her house until she finds someone she trusts to adopt her.
That goes against rules, but Voight asks Platt for the favor, to which she
agrees.
Lindsay’s
mom finds Teddy and convinces him to help. She takes him to the office where he
notices the man on the board. Matilda’s boss at the Department of Health and
Children Services! They bring him into Voight’s torture chamber because he
doesn’t want to say he is involved. Benson then comes down and tells him to
stop and let her handle it. She tells him that he can redeem himself, he can
turn his life around despite all the bad he has done and “still feel the sun”
on his face in jail. All he has to do is tell them where Chris is, which he
does. They find the second house and find Chris locked in a room, he is scared,
but he is safe.
The
deceased officers wife and daughter are picking up their fathers things from
the station. As they exit they are surrounded by a salute of officers who
gathered outside to honor the fallen officer.
Lindsay
then goes to Amy, and tells her that she found a nice family that she trusts.
Also they want to adopt her and her brother Chris. And Lindsay is going to join
them for dinner to meet the family and see Amy’s new room.