It doesn’t take long for Detective Sergeant Henry “Hank” Voight (Jason Beghe) to show up at the crime scene. Rojas fills him in on everything she knows. She tries to explain herself to the detective sergeant, but Voight cuts her off. There is no need for explanations or apologies. There is a dead body, a dead person Voight correctly observes. The Intelligence Unit is taking the case. Voight gets Rojas and Atwater to pound the pavement and dig into Peña’s background.

The scene transitions to Rojas seated in her vehicle outside a church when Detectives Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) and Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos) shows up. The church looks like it’s being renovated. As the three of them enter the church, the building looks more like it’s been abandoned than under renovation.

The main sanctuary space is being occupied by homeless people. Alex Weiss (Adam Soule), a four tour Iraq vet, is one of the homeless people occupying the building. Even though this is fiction, in real life, there are people just like Weiss experiencing similar things. It’s a deplorably sad situation which shouldn’t exist. Weiss informs the detectives that it’s been about two weeks since he last saw Peña.

When Halstead asks if Peña had any friends, Weiss points the detectives in Sammy Logan’s (Luke Slattery) direction. Keeping himself separated from the other homeless people, Logan seems a tad reclusive. He prefers books over people. Logan tells Rojas and Upton that he had seen Peña the previous night. They had both attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

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Logan references a guy in a blue pickup truck. When asked if the guy was following him or Peña, Logan tells that they’re “hilarious.” When Logan suggests the guy following him is a CIA operative, it becomes clear to both Rojas and Upton that there is something seriously off with him.

Rojas, when Logan asks about Peña, informs him that his friend was murdered. Logan used to give Peña legal advice. In return, Peña would pay Logan in snacks. Noting what Logan said about giving Peña legal advice, Upton asks him if he’s a lawyer. He apparently attended law school for two years.

Later, at District, Upton informs Voight that she followed up on what Logan said about him and Peña attending an AA meeting. Security footage from the block shows them heading to the meeting. Logan’s story about the blue pickup truck rings true. In the security footage, Voight immediately notices, there is a blue pickup truck seemingly fooling both Logan and Peña. With the licence plate being visible, Ruzek runs it in the police database and gets a match to a blue 2011 Ford belonging to Joe Mason (Ray Austin).

Halstead and Upton, with Voight having dispatched them to stake out Mason’s residence, stand by for a warrant. When waiting for the warrant, Halstead sees the pickup truck arriving. As Mason heads to his residence, Halstead and Upton approach him. Even though Mason runs, with Halstead giving chase, the detective tackled him to the ground not far beyond his backyard fence.

At District, in an interrogation room, Voight presses Mason for information. Mason tells Voight that he caught Peña stealing coke from his truck. Whilst Mason admitted to going back to Peña’s place to retrieve is drugs, he wasn’t there to kill him. Mason just got his drugs and left. Rojas and Atwater check out the house where Mason said Peña was squatting.

There is a moment between Rojas and Atwater where she reveals something about her personal history. She told him that squatters typically leave windows unlocked, not the doors because that’s how they get in and out. Atwater’s bewildered facial expression leads Rojas to tell him that she spent some time on the streets.

Evidence found at the house points to Logan having lied. Could Logan have killed Peña? He becomes the primary suspect. Rojas and Atwater brief Voight on what they found when he arrives at the house. A neighbour saw a man matching Logan’s description the previous night around 10:00 pm.

Told to bring Logan in, Rojas and Upton head back to the derelict church. Logan isn’t there. Rojas, not liking Logan for the murder, tells Upton he doesn’t feel like a killer. An inspection of a closed wardrobe reveals the presence of bloodstained sneakers. It doesn’t take long for Upton to ask Rojas if Logan feels like a killer.

Back at District, with a picture of the sneakers in hand, Ruzek tells Voight that they are an exact match for a pair Logan owns. Mason has a strong alibi. Three witnesses place him at a party at the same time the murder went down. Voight has Rojas and Atwater get a subpoena for Logan’s medical records and speak to his caseworker.