8.7/107 votes#1 - Start Digging
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/25/2016
In the Season 3 finale, the team investigates the murder of a single mom who was in contact with Voight's now-reformed son, who was himself brutally assaulted. Meanwhile, Roman makes a major decision and Crowley plans to make changes within the unit.
Director: Mark Tinker
Writer: Craig Gore
8.5/106 votes#2 - Born Into Bad News
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/20/2015
Retired Commander Perry enlists Voight and the team to help extract his cop nephew from a unit of corrupt officers who are robbing drug dealers. When things go bad Voight must take down a younger, more violent version of himself. Meanwhile, Lindsay struggles to stay clean. At the same time a woman from Olinsky's past reaches out to him.
Director: Mark Tinker
Writer: Craig Gore
8.4/107 votes#3 - Life Is Fluid
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/2015
A bust to bring down a heroin kingpin goes horribly awry. Olinsky reveals a dark secret from his past, and Halstead tries to get through to a spiraling Lindsay.
Director: Arthur W. Forney
Writer: Craig Gore
8.4/108 votes#4 - Forty-Caliber Bread Crumb
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/2016
While out on a bank run for his off-duty security job at the dispensary, Halstead and his co-workers find themselves under attack by a violent robbery crew. Meanwhile Roman, Burgess, Antonio, Halstead, Ruzek and Atwater follow-up on a lead and track down a potential suspect.
Director: Jann Turner
Writer: Craig Gore
8.3/106 votes#5 - Fagin
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/2017
When the team is called to an in-progress bank robbery, they come across Detective Hailey Upton trying to take over the crime scene with her Robbery-Homicide unit - butting heads with Voight in the process. As the robberies continue to be executed around the city, Lindsay is forced to make a decision in the heat of the moment.
Director: Fred Berner
Writer: Craig Gore
8.2/109 votes#6 - The Docks
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/14/2014
As Antonio’s life is now in question, Voight and Platt open up about their pasts. Jin is caught while tinkering with Voight’s computer and uses the only scapegoat possible to keep him in the clear. At the same time with Charlie back in town Lindsay realizes she’s going to have to come clean about a few things. Halstead finally gets answers he’s been wanting about Voight’s and Olinsky’s past.
Director: Nick Gomez
Writer: Craig Gore
8.1/109 votes#7 - At Least It's Justice
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/2/2014
Halstead's badge is revoked when Lonnie Rodiger is found dead; Severide and Clarke find Dr. Elliot's torso; Sumner tries to prove herself; Lindsay shares a moment with Severide.
Director: Michael Slovis
Writer: Craig Gore
8.0/108 votes#8 - Get My Cigarettes
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2014
Intelligence begins to look into a string of murders where the victims have a dollar bill pinned to their chests. Thanks to some digging by Ruzek, Voight learns his friend was involved in some shady business dealings. Antonio and Halstead follow-up on some leads that help focus in on the culprit and motives for the murders. Burgess and Roman investigate a series of house break-ins and get some help from Desk Sgt. Platt.
Director: Arthur W. Forney
Writer: Craig Gore
8.0/109 votes#9 - Called In Dead (1)
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/2014
A friend of Nadia’s leads the intelligence unit to a huge heroin bust. Unfortunately this bust results in Olinsky arriving home to find the suspects are holding his wife. Voight and the team think they’ve found a common thread with the suspects but it’s not who they think. Meanwhile Burgess and Roman are given an assignment where they get paired with a K-9 officer, Jenn Cassidy who is Roman’s former partner and girlfriend.
Director: Alik Sakharov
Writer: Craig Gore
8.0/107 votes#10 - Don't Bury This Case (II)
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 1/3/2017
Severide is brought into the District for questioning after his car is found to have caused a deadly crash. As the investigation gets underway, the team works to uncover a group of car-jackers who may be the key to Severide's innocence. The crossover starts on Chicago Fire S05E09 Some Make It, Some Don't (I).
Director: Cherie Nowlan
Writer: Craig Gore
8.0/106 votes#11 - Favor, Affection, Malice or Ill-Will
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/22/2017
When Lindsay is tipped off about a grieving father looking to avenge his daughter's death, Olinsky goes undercover as a hitman-for-hire. With Gang Intelligence lacking enough evidence to arrest the original gangbanger in question, the team works to reinvestigate the case. Meanwhile, Ruzek comes back after finishing his undercover assignment only to have Voight knock him down to patrol duty.
Director: Holly Dale
Writer: Craig Gore
7.9/107 votes#12 - The Three Gs
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/8/2015
Led by Olinksy, Intelligence hunts down an elusive Chinatown gangster.
Director: Sanford Bookstaver
Writer: Craig Gore
7.9/108 votes#13 - Made a Wrong Turn
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/2016
Intelligence investigates when a young man is beaten and his fiancée is apparently abducted. Lindsay surprises Halsted with a big question. Cdr. Fogel takes Platt to task for going over his head to have Tay assigned to District 21.
Director: Fred Berner
Writer: Craig Gore
7.7/106 votes#14 - You Never Know Who's Who (2)
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/2015
The team investigates a band of rogue operatives.
Director: Lin Oeding
Writer: Craig Gore
7.7/107 votes#15 - Looking Out for Stateville
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/20/2016
Voight arranges for his former cellmate, Eddie Little, to be a CI in an effort to bring down a major cocaine supplier. Burgess makes a major move regarding her relationship with Ruzek. Roman develops a plan to help fund Platt and Mouch's wedding.
Director: Fred Berner
Writer: Craig Gore
7.6/107 votes#16 - Rocket Fuel
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/25/2019
The SWAT team discovers a new version of PCP with ties to an escaped drug dealer who created a version that ravaged the city decades earlier. Tan’s personal ties to the case emerge when he brings in his mentor, Ben Mosley, the former lead detective on the original drug case, to help. Also, Chris weighs a major decision regarding her romantic relationship with Kira and Ty, and Hondo’s patience is tested by his new familial responsibilities.
Director: Laura Belsey
Writer: Craig Gore
7.5/108 votes#17 - K-Town
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/18/2018
Hondo teams up with an old DEA friend, Special Agent Katrina “K.C.” Walsh, on a task force aimed at unmasking the secret leader of a fentanyl drug smuggling ring. Also, Jessica and Michael Plank, president of the Police Commission, begin implementing her new law enforcement community initiatives.
Director: Omar Madha
Writer: Craig Gore
7.4/1010 votes#18 - Thirty Balloons
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/2014
Atwater and Burgess are given a new patrol car, but are challenged with keeping it brand new. A run in with a psychotic woman leads the Intelligence Unit to discover a drug smuggling operation which has put several girl’s lives in peril. Voight’s overprotective act with Lindsay leads her right where he doesn’t want as she also helps to keep Justin out of trouble. Meanwhile on stakeout, things get tense between Olinsky and Ruzek as Olinski tries to teach him the finer points of surveillance.
Director: Karen Gaviola
Writer: Craig Gore
7.3/107 votes#19 - Never Again
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/2018
The SWAT team tries to determine the next diamond dealer to be robbed by a group of highly organized thieves executing heists across downtown Los Angeles. When Hondo is emotionally affected by a suspect’s death during the case, he seeks comfort from his mother. Street worries that his SWAT training academy instructor has a personal vendetta against him. Chris contemplates an unorthodox relationship offer from the new woman she’s dating.
Director: Marc Roskin
Writer: Craig Gore
7.3/106 votes#20 - 1000 Joules
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/2018
The SWAT team sets out to recover dozens of DNA evidence kits stolen from an LAPD crime lab and bring in the crew responsible, after a close friend of Hicks is harmed during the theft. Financial strain at home makes it difficult for Deacon to focus on his role as leader of the SWAT division’s annual holiday toy drive.
Director: David Rodriguez
Writer: Craig Gore
7.3/107 votes#21 - Ekitai Rashku
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/29/2020
Hondo, Deacon, Tan and Commander Hicks engage in a manhunt across Tokyo when they escort an extradited fugitive to Japan, where he escapes local custody. Back in Los Angeles, the rest of SWAT search for any contacts the criminal cultivated while hiding out in Los Angeles, and Street isolates himself from the team as he deals with family issues.
Director: Billy Gierhart
Writer: Craig Gore
7.0/108 votes#22 - Erin's Mom
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2015
Bunny comes to Lindsay concerned about a suspicious repeat customer at her husband’s rental company. This lead brings Intelligence into a case which robbery-homicide has been working for months.
Director: Mark Tinker
Writer: Craig Gore
7.0/108 votes#23 - Never Forget I Love You
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/2015
The discovery of a headless body in Lake Michigan points to Hank's mob connections. Roman risks everything to help a grieving mother.
Director: Terry Miller
Writer: Craig Gore
7.0/1011 votes#24 - Armory
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/12/2018
As Hondo and SWAT work to de-escalate a hostage situation in which an ex-convict is holding a local family captive, the mission takes a dangerous turn that impacts the team. Also, when Street tires of his complicated romantic entanglements, he agrees to let Chris make over his online dating profile.
Director: Rob J. Greenlea
Writer: Craig Gore
6.9/1013 votes#25 - Cuchillo
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/9/2017
Hondo and the SWAT team spread out across Los Angeles in pursuit of four escaped convicts, including a violent criminal Jessica helped bring to justice, before department rival Mumford and his team beat them to the collars. Also, Hondo’s new role as team leader is called into question when Street displays a flagrant disregard for SWAT protocol.
Director: Billy Gierhart
Writer: Craig Gore
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"Start Digging" is the best rated episode written by Craig Gore. It scored 8.7/10 based on 7 votes. It was directed by Mark Tinker. It aired on 5/25/2016 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Born Into Bad News".