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Henry "Hank" Voight (Or simply Sergeant Voight or Voight) is the main protagonist in Chicago P.D and a deuteragonist in Chicago Fire. He is the son of Richard Voight and the father of Justin Voight. Hank is a Sergeant in the Chicago Police Department and the current chief of The District 21 Intelligence Unit.
He was portrayed by Jason Beghe, who also played Peter McCallister in Home Alone 4.
Appearance[]
Hank has many appearances throughout the Chicago franchise.
Hank's most known appearance: He is a tall middle-age man with a slim body built and wears a leather jack with a shirt inside. He also wears jeans with a pistol worn on the side. Hank wears a warm jacket when he goes out in Seasons 7 & 8.
His formal attire as a Sergeant in the Chicago Police Department is the standard dress blues for all CPD sergeants: The Chicago Police patch on the left sleeve has the lettering in blue, but the outer border in yellow, to separate it from the all-blue patch of lower ranked officers and all-yellow of those ranked above him, such as commanders, and the Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent of the CPD. The sergeant chevrons are located below the patch on the left sleeve and the Flag of Chicago patch on the right sleeve.
When on duty with cases and outside the 21st District, he wears the standard CPD bulletproof vest with "POLICE" in white on the back, with his last name, sub-branch of the CPD he is assigned to, and sewn on badge patch on the front.
History/Biography[]
Hank was born in Chicago, the son of the cop Richard Voight. Hank aspired to become a cop and follow his father's footsteps, as an officer. He has some friends often supported his goal and believed he will make it. When Hank was eight years old, his father was killed in a line of duty.
In his adult life, Hank married a woman named Camille and expected for twins but their daughter still born, leaving them with Justin Voight. Hank successfully claim his goal to become a cop in the Chicago Police Department and does his job as his best. He was partnered with Alvin Olinsky who would become his best friend. He was also partnered with Denny Woods 30 years ago but the two had a falling out but both maintained a mutual begrudgingly respect toward the other.
At the end of Season 3 of Chicago P.D., Hank finds to his horror that his son Justin had been severely beaten and shot, and left for dead in the trunk of an abandoned car. After being with Justin when he agrees to take him off life support and is with him when Justin passes, livid, he has some old friends track down the assailant and bring him to The Silos one stormy night, bound similar to how Justin was found with barbed wire. Once the assailant realizes who it was he had assaulted, he knows he's done for, and tries to plead with Voight. Unmoved, Voight tells him to "start digging", as he wants the scum to dig his own grave before Voight executes him in vigilante revenge. One of the detectives under Voight's command, Erin Lindsay, arrives and pleads with Voight to reconsider and show mercy, but Voight sternly tells her to leave. After she's gone, realizing he's not getting out of here alive, the scumbag loses the innocent act and attempts to spat in Voight's face with telling him off with the same thing he said to Justin, but is cut off mid-sentence when Voight executes him, then buries his corpse.
Unfortunately, somehow, word comes of what happened and reaches 21st District Commander Crowley, who takes Voight and Internal Affairs to The Silos to find the body, but Voight's men had moved the body earlier, so when the grave is exhumed, with no sign of Justin's murderer's corpse, Voight is, for the moment, cleared to return to duty.
Later, when more evidence regarding Justin's killer comes to light, Alvin Olinsky takes the heat for Voight and is incarcerated himself. Unfortunately, before Voight can find proof to have Alvin exonerated, Alvin is fatally stabbed in prison as part of a hired hit from the drug cartel he had threatened previously, and succumbs to his wounds. Voight soon tracks down the cartel kingpin who made the hit on Alvin, Carlos DeLeon, and without waiting for Carlos to threaten him with a gun, as Carlos begs and pleads for mercy, Voight executes him in cold blood. However, two witnesses who saw the whole thing call Voight out on when he tries to lie about what happened to Jay Halstead or Antonio Dawson when they join him and find DeLeon dead. More so, Denny Woods tries to bribe a witness to help put Voight away regarding Justin's killer, but the witness was working for ASA James Osha and Voight, and Woods is caught in his own deceit and arrested by CPD IAB officers. Voight is later seen on a rooftop drinking his sorrows away, punching a wall, and crumpling into a fetal position as he screams in anguish over Alvin.
However, Voight is later in trouble with Deputy Superintendent Katherine Brennan over the situation with Alvin, Woods, and everything else, and it gets worse when Superintendent Brian Kelton announces his intent to become the next Mayor of Chicago. Remembering that Kelton only got where he did due to being a dirty cop regarding stats during his earlier career in the CPD, Voight tries anything to expose Kelton and get him removed from the running, but Kelton always seems three steps ahead of Voight and his Intelligence Unit, especially after Kelton announced that one of his plans for the Mayor's office is to disband the CPD Intelligence Unit, meaning Voight, Halstead, Dawson, Lindsay, Burgess, Atwater, and the others, would have to be reassigned, potentially to other districts, separating them indefinitely. To further keep Kelton in the running for Mayor, Brennan also resigns as CPD Deputy Superintendent, taking the heat for Kelton so he can stay in the polls. Soon, despite all of Voight's efforts, Kelton wins the election in a landslide victory, and it seems it is curtains for the Intelligence Unit. However, that night, the CPD is called to Kelton's house for a "shots fired" call. When Voight's detectives enter first, they find the newly-minted Mayor-elect slumped on the floor, a look of shock frozen on his face, and his face and body riddled with several, fatal, gunshot wounds. Voight is seen driving away from the area as more units flock to the site.
Acting Superintendent Crawford immediately puts Voight and his Intelligence Unit at the forefront to find Kelton's assassin since, technically speaking, with Kelton dead, he could no longer make good on disbanding the Intelligence Unit since his policies for the Mayor's office went with him before they could go into effect. Voight later discovers that Brennan was Kelton's killer. When she confronted him about keeping good on his end of the agreement with her because she took all the heat for him so he could stay in the election, he laughs it off and says he doesn't need her anymore and to get lost. Angered, she took the gun from a CPD officer who died of a heart attack two weeks earlier that she had been helping at the time, and shot a shocked and surprised Kelton dead in cold blood for his betrayal, admitting to Voight that Chicago is better off without that scum in the Mayor's office. Thus, Voight allows Brennan to take her own life to avoid facing punishment for killing Kelton, but she is stopped by Halstead and Upton, and brought back to the 21st District to face justice. As Sergeant Trudy Platt takes Brennan into custody with Upton, Brennan thinks Voight called Halstead and Upton to bust her after he let her go to commit suicide, and believes he betrayed her. Once Brennan is gone with Platt and Upton, Voight furiously confronts Halstead for going behind him, and tells Jay that if he continues to disobey Voight and his decisions, Voight doesn't want him in Intelligence or the 21st District and to get out of his sight, before storming off in frustration.
Crossovers with Chicago Fire and Chicago Med[]
Voight is good friends with CFD 25th Battalion Chief, later District 4 Deputy Chief and then Deputy Fire Commissioner Wallace Boden. Whenever Boden and his firefighters, such as Kelly Severide or Matthew Casey, find something suspicious regarding a fire call they respond to, Voight is the first to be notified so his Intelligence Unit can work with Boden and the fire department to find the culprit(s).
Voight is also on good terms with Jay Halstead's brother, Dr. William Halstead, the chief on-site medical surgeon at Chicago Medical Center. When two CPD officers are shot and killed, despite Will's best efforts to save their lives, Voight takes personal interest in finding the assassin and bringing them to justice for killing cops. Will also did his best to save the life of Alvin Olinsky's daughter Lexi after she was critically burned in a factory fire Boden, Station 51, and other CFD units and CPD responded to, but she soon suffered multi-organ failure and passed away with her parents by her side in her final moments, making it personal for Voight to find and punish the arson who took Lexi and over 30 other lives to the grave by burning down the factory with them in it.
Personality[]
Hank is a brave man and always try his best to save people's lives. He always make plans to solve crimes and murder. He is very serious about his job. In another way, Hank cares about his son, Justin Voight and always give the best to him. Before pulling off the life support, Hank held Justin's hand and said that he did a good job and said goodbye to him.
He has been shown have a soft spot for troubled children, helping them and getting off the streets and making sure they have a chance at a better life. On some occasions, his generosity ends up being the cause of their undoing and death, and grief to Voight. So far, he has lost two of them, Hannah Cates and Darius, on different cases, though both committed suicide by cop.
He also shows genuine empathy to those who are wrongly accused and help out. This was seen when he apologized to a man that he accused of killing his family in Disco Bob and when he assured two teenagers who were accused of murder that he will find the culprit responsible in Sanctuary. In a crossover with Chicago Fire, he allowed Benny Severide to go home after he confessed to having involvement with the disappearance of man who kidnapped his daughter.
Trivia[]
- Formally, Hank's code is 5021 Adam but he's prefer 5021.
- Hank's badge code is 32419.
- Hank is on good terms with Olivia Benson of Law & Order: SVU.