If anyone deserves to appreciate a sad girl anthem, it’s Officer Eva Imani, who has been through it.
Those tuning in for One Chicago Wednesdays this week may have noticed that Intelligence Unit newcomer Officer Eva Imani (Arienne Mandi) has some mighty fine music taste as she moved into her new Windy City apartment.
Officer Imani has been settling in quite nicely within the Intelligence Unit upon her Season 13 arrival, emerging as a squad room asset thanks to her whip-smart instincts and infallible dedication to closing cases. Imani has such a fire beneath her in part due to the trauma she navigated as a child, as Chihards learned earlier this season, Imani’s sister mysteriously disappeared when she was only 8 years old, and she’s spent every year since searching for her long-lost sibling, even becoming a cop to simplify the process.
Imani has moved around to track down her sister, and as she settled into her current digs during Season 13’s “Missing,” when viewers were treated to an emotional Billie Eilish needle-drop.
Eva Imani is a fan of Billie Eilish’s “when the party’s over”
Those who also love the way the One Chicago series weaves music into their emotional storylines may have noticed Billie Eilish’s 2018 hit “when the party’s over” from her debut studio album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? at the top of P.D.’s latest.
As Imani continues to get cozy at her new post at the Intelligence Unit, she found herself seeking the perfect apartment to set up shop, speaking to the landlord with the panache of someone who’s moved around professionally.
After quickly verifying she liked the space, Imani asked to move in that same night, offering to pay first and last month’s rent as well as the security deposit in cash up front. After enticing the landlord with her good credit score, he had no reason not to hand over the keys. Sure enough, Imani was there later that night, just a few meager belongings and a mattress strewn upon the living room floor.
She sat on the bed finishing some takeout, scanning through various photos of missing women and cross-checking them with a photo of her young sister with laser-like focus. Eillish’s melancholic ballad can be heard in the background as Imani completes this troubling nightly routine, but the never-ending search for her sister was soon interrupted by a troubling phone call.
Imani and Intelligence searched for a devastated mother’s missing son
After a call from a social worker friend, with whom she routinely checks in for updates about her sister, Imani caught wind of a distressed woman named Jemma (Donna Lynne Champlin), who claimed she had just been visited by her grown-up son, Ben, her boy who’d gone missing 18 years prior. After making an under-the-wraps house call, Imani learned that “Ben” had visited Jemma several times, always asking for money under the guise of helping him escape his clever captor.
A dubious Imani looked into this situation, and after verifying a man had, in fact, visited that night, realized Jemma was being exploited by someone familiar with her son’s abduction. After DNA testing proved the visitor wasn’t a match with her son, Jemma reframed the ruse as a potential lead. With Jemma’s help in the interrogation room, the Intelligence Unit was able to track and take down the serial pedophile responsible for Ben’s abduction.
Upon speaking with the assailant’s latest victim, Imani and Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) were troubled to hear that the captor had previously confessed to killing Ben. Imani and Voight then had the heartbreaking task of painting this full picture to Jemma.
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Despite presenting a detailed timeline of her son’s abduction, death the day afterward, and his body’s assumed disposal in the lake, Jemma remained fixated on the last detail: the cops’ inability to ever locate Ben’s body. Her son could have escaped, she argued. They couldn’t really prove the body tossed in the water was Ben.
Knowing she’d done everything she could to provide clarity, Imani was haunted as she and Voight politely bid farewell to a shattered Jemma. Imani confessed to her Sergeant that she’d never seen someone so delusional before, leading her to reflect on her own 20-year manhunt for her sister.
After becoming a cop and losing her parents, who never reunited with their lost daughter, Imani kept up their momentum, finding potential sightings that showed her sister being sex trafficked in Chicago. But with none of these leads confirmed, Imani seems to be lost on what to do next, helping anyone who understands this pain as much as she can as she awaits the next clue.
