Chicago P.D.’s Benjamin Levy Aguilar Previews Torres’ ‘Worst-Case Scenario’ in ‘Very Tense’ Fall Finale
Torres’ affair with his informant on Chicago P.D. has already been exposed to Cook, but that’s just the beginning of the officer’s problems.
During this Wednesday’s fall finale (airing at 10/9c on NBC), Torres’ secret is at risk of being discovered by the rest of the Intelligence team, leading to a “worse-case scenario” that puts not only him in danger, but his colleagues, too, his portrayer Benjamin Levy Aguilar previews below.
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For starters, Cook’s life is in danger because Torres wasn’t honest with her about his relationship with ex-lover/informant Gloria, who has started to catch on to the fact that Cook is actually an undercover cop. At the end of last week’s episode, Cook and Gloria were nowhere to be found after shots rang out, which leaves Torres “feeling tremendously guilty and responsible” in the fall finale, Aguilar says.
Read on as the actor talks about Torres’ feelings for Gloria and his nascent bond with Cook.
TVLINE | Secrets are starting to come out for Torres now that Gloria’s come back into his life. What kind of repercussions is that going to have for him, professionally?
Oh, my God, it’s the worst-case scenario. He can go to prison. He can die. He can lose his badge. He can get other people [from] his team in prison. So the stakes are as high as they get, and it’s all because of him, all because of his own choices, but all because he was trying to save someone. That’s important to not miss. Definitely maybe some of the actions are reckless and maybe not thought-out, but sometimes, who has time to think things out when they happen in the spur of the moment, like when he saved Gloria from Perez, and he was getting tortured with a flamethrower on his neck last season. So sometimes, you don’t make the best decisions, and we’re only human, and now, he just has to try to navigate these consequences. There’s a lot going on, for sure.
TVLINE | Do you think he still has feelings for Gloria?
Absolutely. I think there’s definitely love there. If not, he wouldn’t care, and it wouldn’t affect him. He just believed she could be different. He believed that she could find a new life. But it’s very interesting how we tend to go back to what we know, and he can’t wrap his head around it, but love is there. It’s just one of those loves that it’s past the point of no return. Like, the love has evolved. It’s no longer, like, a love thing. [It’s] not a healthy love anymore. It’s impossible.
TVLINE | Does he feel a sense of responsibility or guilt for the position he’s put Cook in?
Absolutely. I felt it, as an actor, going through these next few episodes. I could feel the guilt, I could feel the fear, I could feel it all, and it was not comfortable, and I think that’s exactly how he’s feeling. He’s just feeling tremendously guilty and responsible, and it’s one of those things [where] you do something that’s maybe not right, and you hope to God that it doesn’t get worse, but it gets worse, and that’s where he’s at. He’s in the worst-case scenario, going through it.
TVLINE | I was talking to Toya Turner about how Cook and Torres connected on a deeper level in their first episode together. They really opened up to each other. How does this experience in the undercover episode and the situation with Gloria impact that bond that they’ve started to form?
Definitely something kind of gets a little broken — not to say that it’s not mendable. But having such a beautiful introduction and connection, and going so deep and him backing her and all that, and now he feels responsible, and he’s putting her life on the line, there’s a lot that comes with that, emotion-wise.
TVLINE | Speaking to Toya, it sounded like Cook’s going to be a little mad about it.
Yeah, you could say that. [Laughs]
TVLINE | There were some comments on their first episode together about the dynamic between them and could this possibly develop into something romantic. What are your feelings on that? Do you see any sort of romantic spark between the two of them?
Well, to be honest, I didn’t see it as a romantic thing. I just saw them as such good partners, one of those things that is so hard to come by. It’s just a beautiful, “I got your back.” There’s an instinct, this intuition, this true love beyond romance. It’s a true love of partnership. At least, that’s how I saw it, and I hope they keep exploring that. I think they work so well together.
TVLINE | The other relationship really impacted by the Gloria storyline is Burgess and Torres. Can you talk about what we’re going to be seeing between the two of them?
She’s definitely proven herself to be an incredible friend and partner. She didn’t have to do this. She’s covering for him, and she’s risking her life and her job to protect him, and that says a lot about her. Even though we don’t get to see, necessarily, that much of him being so appreciative, I’m sure he is. He’s just going through it. Like, he has no space to breathe.
TVLINE | How would you describe the fall finale in a couple of words? What kind of note are you leaving things off on?
Tense. Very, very tense. Yeah, there’s no room to breathe.
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