Soaring at the back of Chicago PD’s thirteenth season has been newcomer Eva Imani (Arienne Mendi) and the thriller of her lacking sister, Shari, who was once abducted on the age of six and is presumed to be a sufferer of trafficking. 

Sergeant Voight (Jason Beghe) has helped Imani paintings the case within the background over the season, and it got here to a dramatic and devastating conclusion on Wednesday, Might 13, 2026, in ways in which no person would have anticipated.

Showrunner Gwen Sigan tells HELLO! that the writing staff at all times knew the general episodes of the season would heart on Imani’s seek for Shari and that she “would not be what we have been anticipating to search out”.

“That, to us, thematically have compatibility with the season as a complete, gave us essentially the most to play with for Imani within the aftermath of it, and felt like a actually great adventure to painting numerous what is been going on with Voight and the opposite characters,” says Gwen. “This concept of being born or made, and our courting to violence.”

Audience noticed Imani in finding Shari after Lila, a intercourse employee, was once murdered, and the staff hooked up Shari to the sufferer. Episode 20 concluded with Shari  –  going through the identify Summer season – in custody and and not using a recollection of who Imani was once, or their connection.

During the finale, audience came upon that Shari had solid a deep bond along with her kidnapper, who had acted as her father in her more youthful years and was once now referred to as her husband. On the other hand, as Imani’s hopes of a good reunion pale away, Voight came upon that it was once Shari who had murdered Lila, and the episode ended with the pair confronted with the verdict to bury the proof or no longer.

That call will bleed over to season 14, says Gwen, no matter Imani and Voight make a selection to do.  “There are penalties to both [decision] and for the pair of them and the way they are going to paintings in combination,” she continues.

“Both they’ve this large secret and this factor that they wish to lie about, or actual stress of their courting as a result of if they do not do that factor, that implies that this lady’s most certainly in jail except the jury is going really easy on her. Both manner, there can be repercussions for the 2 of them.”

When audience met Imani within the premiere episode of season 13, she was once a lone wolf former ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) agent who joined the Intelligence Unit, with the only real goal of the use of their sources to search out her sister.  However what does Imani’s lifestyles seem like now her goal has been met?

Gwen means that we would possibly not have observed the closing of Shari.

“There may be such a lot in Imani’s lifestyles that I am involved in exploring now that she has discovered her sister,” says Gwen. “She’s performed the object that she set out her entire lifestyles to do, and the way does she transfer ahead along with her sister? What does that courting seem like?”

For Arienne, she has labored closet with Jason throughout season 13, a chance she calls “a deal with” and “easy”.

“We simply have compatibility actually rapid, actually early on; we had a equivalent humorousness and we  were given every different in some way that possibly I do not believe somebody anticipated,” she says. “It might have long past both manner, however it was once actually amusing. I feel we grew in combination and, and it made us tremendous shut.”

She is happy to now discover the alternatives that Imani is gifted with, as the remainder of the Intelligence Unit is now within the know. The actress has been buddies with Benjamin Levy Aguilar (who performs Dante Torres) for years, and that connection helped make her addition to the display a “seamless placement”.

“Being with they all feels so relaxed, they usually have been all so welcoming. It seems like I have been there for longer than I’ve, and it does not at all times occur that manner, so I think very fortunate,” she says. 

“I might luckily discover relationships in all places. I’ve my private courting with Benjamin outdoor of labor that now we have been so fortunate to get to discover on display screen as buddies, and that’s the reason been such a lot amusing, however I welcome the rest this is subsequent. I feel the alternatives and chances are never-ending.”