Chicago P.D. ’s Kevin Atwater finally has a new love interest in Valeria “Val” Soto — but actor LaRoyce Hawkins is playing coy about the TV couple’s future.
Warning: Spoilers below for Chicago P.D. season 12, episode 3.
During the Wednesday, October 9, episode of P.D. , Atwater (Hawkins) had instant chemistry with Val ( Natalee Linez ) after meeting at a bar, but he didn’t get her number.
Luckily, Val, who is a forensic psychologist, got called to help on an Intelligence Unit case and they were reunited. “I don’t think it’s fate, initially. I think it does kind of fluster him at first, and then he’s even more distracted,” Hawkins, 36, exclusively told Us Weekly of the character’s reunion, adding, “It turns into an unexpected essential situation.
” Atwater is under a lot of pressure during the episode with his building tenants showing up at work and their only eyewitness constantly changing her story. After the eyewitness ends up beaten in her home, Atwater goes off on Val, blaming her for letting the woman leave the station. However, once they get the bad guys — and the woman is on the mend — he realizes that Val was not to blame.
“I was way out of line,” Atwater told Val during the final scene, showing up at her house to apologize. “I forgave you as it was happening,” Val revealed, before calling him out for always being so distracted and constantly focused on other people’s happiness. “Do you have an off switch?” she asked, to wh.