Here's How Jesse Lee Soffer's Jay Halstead Was Written Out of 'Chicago P.D.'
Here’s what happened in the episode with Jesse‘s Detective Jay Halstead:
Hailey wakes up one morning and realizing her husband Halstead never made it home the night prior and it’s revealed that he’s disappeared into the night with Voight for reasons not known yet.
Jay and Hailey do reunite in the morning, with him clearing the scene of an active robbery at a local pharmacy. While on the call, Halstead meets a good samaritan named Lenny who helps him clear the area of danger and ends up getting shot while risking his life to save a pregnant bystander. Lenny is admitted to the hospital as Halstead and Hailey are hot on the trail of the criminals.
In a shocking turn of events, Lenny turns out to be part of the crew of robbers who were looking to score pills. He begs Halstead not to tell his family what he did and let him die with his reputation intact.
After Lenny succumbs to his injuries, Halstead fights to protect the man’s reputation—much to Hailey’s dismay.
While taking steps to clear Lenny’s connection to the crime, Halstead bumps into one of Lenny’s criminal associates at a warehouse and a fight ensues. Halstead ends up stabbing him in self-defense just as his wife and Voight arrive on the scene. Hailey calls in the crime scene and creates an alternate chain of events with Voight to protect Halstead who is in shock. They’re all doing it again, lying to protect themselves.
The next day sees Halstead attempts to confess everything to Chief Patrick O’Neal but is unable to. Instead, he turns in his badge and resigns saying, “It was the right thing to do.”
He tells Hailey he’s changed and has taken a job with the Army and will be posted in Bolivia. Hailey is heartbroken, telling him that he just can’t leave.
However, he promises her that in 8 months, he will be back to her: “You have to let me go.”
At the airport, Halstead is met by Voight who tells him that he could’ve had any job in the department. “If you don’t want to be me…” he says to the fallen detective.
“It’s worse than that, I do,” Jay tells him back. “I do want to be you. But it’s like you always told me, I’m not and I shouldn’t try.”
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