CHICAGO P.D.: Episode 13.10: “Faith”

Here is the decision. This tenth episode of Season 13 is, by our source's measure, a great hour of television — riveting, emotionally powerful, and built on something rare for a network cop show: a sincere, soul-stirring thread of Christian faith. It resolves a case begun earlier in the season, delivers justice, and ends in a church where the hero can't take his eyes off the cross.

The cautions are modest. There's some foul language, brief fighting, and crime-scene images — a pool of blood, and a water-damaged skeleton pulled from a submerged truck. That's why the guidance is caution for older children rather than a green light for the whole family.

So if you're a teen or adult who enjoys a smart, emotionally honest police thriller, this one rewards you — and it earns its faith without preaching it. For the youngest viewers, wait a few years. Watch it, and don't miss the final scene.

Detective Dante Torres of Chicago's Intelligence Unit is struggling with his Catholic faith. He's also haunted by a cold case: a man named Odell Morgan, convicted six years ago of murdering his wife, who never stopped insisting on his innocence — or losing his faith that the truth would come out.

Now Dante is staring at that case file on a bulletin board, out of leads, with Morgan's last words echoing in his head. A new colleague offers to help work the cold case off the clock. She calls it "an act of faith." Where that faith leads is the heart of the hour.

Four stars, and here's what they mean: this is top-tier network drama. Our source calls both the earlier episode and this one riveting and emotionally powerful, and singles out "Faith" for delivering the resolution the story had been building toward — the case closed, justice finally achieved.

What lifts it above a standard procedural is the emotional and spiritual weight it carries. The investigation is genuinely gripping, but the payoff is Dante's arc: a man who went from unshaven and depressed to clean-shaven and reinvigorated as the case cracks open. The final scene, set in a church, lands the emotion the whole hour has been earning. Our reviewer notes it may not give the last word on Dante's journey, but it's a deeply satisfying stopping point — and an ending that stirs the soul.

For a mainstream NBC crime series, "Faith" carries a strikingly strong Christian and moral worldview. The whole hour is built around police detectives pursuing justice for a murdered woman and the husband falsely accused of killing her. References to faith and divine providence run through the investigation, and they lead — literally — to a Protestant church with a golden cross displayed prominently over the altar.

The heart of the episode is Dante's crisis of faith. Last season, fear got the better of him in a crucial moment, and he felt abandoned by God despite his priest's encouragement. Nothing made sense to him anymore. What turns him is not an argument but an example: Odell Morgan, who "never lost his faith. He just kept going." Inspired, Dante keeps going too — and the case breaks. His journey of faith leads him back, in the end, to the Cross of Christ, where he can't keep his eyes off it.

That image is the episode's quiet sermon: a weary, doubting man finding his gaze pulled back to the cross. It's the same pull Scripture describes — "looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith" (Hebrews 12:2). Morgan's stubborn hope, held through six years of wrongful imprisonment, is faith as endurance: "the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1).

This is network television doing something it rarely does: telling a gripping crime story that takes faith seriously and lets its wounded hero find his way back to the cross. Riveting, moving, and quietly bold. Mind the language and crime-scene images with younger kids — but for teens and adults, it's worth watching, and that closing scene is worth the whole hour.