[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Chicago P.D. Season 12 Episode 3 “Off Switch.
”] What Officer Kevin Atwater ( LaRoyce Hawkins ) needs is an off switch, and it seems like he may have found one by the end of the latest Chicago P.D. episode in the form of some fun with forensic psychologist Val Soto (Natalee Linez).
At first, Val is just a woman that Atwater meets and connects with at a cop bar while juggling messages from his family and tenants. They hit it off then, but they clash over how much to push a victim when it turns out she’s the forensic psychologist working with Intelligence on an armed robbery case. At the end of the episode, he goes to her house and apologizes, and she brings up his long list of to dos and how that “burns people out.
” Atwater is “very aware,” he says, and it isn’t the first time he’s heard that. “Do you have an off switch?” Val asks. That’s something he hasn’t figured out, he admits, and she kisses him.
“I have a proposition,” she offers, “How about for the next hour you come inside, turn off your brain, turn off your damn phone, and have fun with me? I won’t judge you, you won’t judge me, and we’ll do something just for us, to turn it all off.” He agrees. But is this going to be a long-term relationship for Atwater? Does he have time for something serious right now? That’s exactly what TV Insider asked Hawkins.
“I’m not sure,” Hawkins said. “I think Atwater’s in a pocket where he�.
