Chicago P.D. Recap Season Season 13 Episode 17 – Brandon Gill Returns as Rabbit for a Case of Betrayal
Brandon Gill Returns as Rabbit to Chicago P.D.
Rabbit was played by the actor Brandon Gill, who you may also know from projects such as Golden Boy, Radium Girls and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
And fans of the One Chicago drama have seen him before, as he first appeared in the Chicago PD Season 12 premiere, as Voight and Intelligence dealt with a dangerous gang that was lacing drugs with battery acid.
Voight took a personal liking to Rabbit, who he wanted to help get clean, and Gill is such a scene-stealer that you feel for him and want to see him come out onthe other side, despite always getting caught up in messy situations.
He was brought back in the season 12 finale to help make a connection between a drug dealer, as Voight aims to bring down Reid.
Chicago P.D. Season 13 Episode 17 Reconnect Rabbit and Voight
Rabbit knows that things are over for him the minute he sees Voight walk into the apartment, but honestly, it’s a good thing Voight was there since his former CI blew his hand up with a firework to crack open a safe that was stolen from a bar.
Voight is less concerned with the safe and the money, and more concerned with finding the perpetrators behind the heist because they plowed down a woman crossing the street and left her for dead.
Rabbit doesn’t want to talk initially, but Voight makes it clear that he has no choice—he’s working for him.
While Voight has a soft spot for Rabbit, he’s also very much aware that he could be playing him, and that concern is brought up by Imani, who doesn’t believe that Rabbit’s being completely honest with them. He took extra time in the house while getting the cash, his mic cut off the moment they would’ve gotten intel from Deon, the man staging the safe hits, and he claims not to know a man named Brusier, who was casually mentioned in conversation.
Rabbit, however, is adamant that he’s doing his best to help Intelligence with the case, but it all goes south when Rabbit agrees to hit a cannabis shop to steal a safe, and Bruiser shows up instead of Deon.
It’s immediately made clear that Rabbit has been protecting Bruiser because he’s dating him. He tells Bruiser to make a run for it because it’s a setup and then tries to get away himself.
You honestly have to give Rabbit credit for trying to find a way out of the situation. Though now Voight is upset because his loyalty is tested, and he gives Rabbit one more shot to course-correct.
Rabbit gets emotional, expressing that Bruiser is a good guy who is caught up in Deon’s mess because he feels like he owes him for raising him. It’s a classic wrong place and wrong time situation, as Rabbit reveals he’s only working with Deon to get him out.
This time, it’s evident that Rabbit is telling the truth, as he begs Voight to cut Bruiser a deal instead. When Voight questions why he would do that for him, Rabbit informs him that he knows, under the facade, Voight is a good guy who feels things.
And he’s not wrong. Voight wants to help, but his hands are tied. Bruiser may be a good guy, but he’s connected to a murder, which is something you can’t just brush under the carpet.
But Voight does one of the most ruthless things ever in this moment—he uses Rabbit; his trust and his loyalty (and I use that loosely), to nab both Deon and Bruiser.
He agrees to give Bruiser a deal, which convinces Rabbit to cooperate, and when they finally have everything in place, they arrest Bruiser and Deon. Rabbit realizes that he’s been betrayed and sort of loses control, grabbing a gun and pointing it at Voight. Voight tells Imani not to shoot, she’s on standby, and jumps at a moment to knock the weapon out of Rabbit’s hands before he does something he can’t come back from.
Because of his cooperation, Rabbit won’t be locked up for long, but the same can’t be said for Bruiser and Deon.
Voight knows this was the only way, but you can tell that turning on Rabbit weighed heavily on him. Rabbit was his own worst enemy, not able to get out of this lifestyle that haunted him.
Imani Gets a Lead on Her Sister
We’ve come to know a great deal about Imani through Voight, and it’s all leading to their most important case together—the lead on her missing sister.
Imani confided in Voight that a marine told her that he met her sister, who didn’t remember much about who she was but did think her name was Shari, working a corner in Chicago, which is what brought her to Chicago and Intelligence.
She’s been trying to hunt down the lead ever since, working the cold case off hours.
Voight offered his help, which Imani accepted, with the storyline hopefully unfolding before season 13 wraps up.
While Imani is desperate to find her sister, the information we did learn about Shari means that if she is successful, it’ll be very difficult to accept that the person her sister is now is not the person that she remembers.