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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Chicago P.D.<\/a><\/em> Season 13 premiere, \u201cConsequences.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n The title of the\u00a0Chicago P.D.<\/em> Season 13 premiere certainly is apt, with Intelligence paying the consequences of last season. The unit has been disbanded, Voight\u2019s (Jason Beghe<\/a>) working Rapid Response \u2014 which means he should only be responding to crimes in progress \u2014 Burgess (Marina Squerciati<\/a>) and Torres (Benjamin Levy Aguilar<\/a>) don\u2019t have badges, and Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger<\/a>) and Atwater (LaRoyce Hawkins<\/a>) are assigned elsewhere. But the team still manages to come together in the first episode.<\/p>\n When Voight catches a shooting, frustrated with Commander Devlin (Joel Murray<\/a>) from Internal Affairs dragging his feet on reactivating his unit, he works the case anyway, eventually bumping into ATF\u2019s Imani (Arienne Mandi<\/a>) while she\u2019s undercover. Voight calls in Burgess, who ends up saving Imani\u2019s life, then Ruzek and Atwater join Voight and Imani in working the rest of the case.<\/p>\n By episode\u2019s end, Intelligence is back up and running, everyone has their badges back, and Imani is the newest member.\u00a0But<\/em> to make that happen, Voight made an enemy out of Devlin, who was prepared to keep Intelligence shut down for good: Some of the guns that were part of the case traced back to the CPD, a batch that Internal Affairs never reported stolen. It would be embarrassing should that come out now, Voight points out.<\/p>\n Below, showrunner Gwen Sigan and star Jason Beghe unpack the premiere and tease what\u2019s ahead for Voight and Devlin, Burgess and Ruzek, and more.<\/p>\n Voight gets his unit reinstated, but it feels like his way of doing so could have made an enemy out of Devlin. Is that the case? What\u2019s coming up with that dynamic? It feels like it has to be so contentious after that.<\/strong><\/p>\n Jason Beghe:<\/strong> Yeah, I don\u2019t think that Devlin is thrilled. I don\u2019t think he feels like \u201cVoight\u2019s my favorite guy on the planet.\u201d He\u2019s an alpha male in his own way, and he just got alpha\u2019ed. So, I think that he is going to be determined to regain the upper hand.<\/p>\n Gwen, what can you preview about that?<\/strong><\/p>\n Gwen Sigan:<\/strong> Yeah, I think he\u2019s really \u2014 Devlin\u2019s an interesting character because I think he\u2019s very different than a lot of our bosses have been before. He\u2019s a pretty folksy sort of guy. He\u2019s a little more plainspoken. He\u2019s quieter, softer. He\u2019s come up from behind a desk; he hasn\u2019t been working on the streets, and so his motivations are very different than Voight\u2019s. I think he cares a lot about how he ends this job with as many friends as he can have at the end of this thing and with a full pension. So, having an enemy like that is very different for Voight. I think this guy is a little more quiet and sort of unassuming, and so it\u2019ll be interesting to see how he reacts and then what he does about it and how that differs from what we\u2019ve seen in the past.<\/p>\n Burgess and Ruzek start the season off happy. Things seem to be going great for them, but knowing the show, how soon before you start to challenge either or both of them?<\/strong><\/p>\n Sigan:<\/strong> No. They\u2019re happy. They\u2019re happy. I swear they\u2019re happy. Yeah, I mean, definitely we need conflict, so we\u2019re going to have some conflict, but I would say the conflict that they end up dealing with through this season is not with each other. It\u2019s really with situations that are normal life situations that I think everyone can relate to, but now they\u2019re dealing with them together, and maybe they\u2019re both bringing in different things to those decisions, their own perspective and backgrounds, and so I think it becomes a lot more about their family as opposed to just their relationship with one another. They also have a lot of things that come up through the job, and then how they deal with that together. So, they\u2019re in a good spot, but life will keep going, and they\u2019ll still have to go through some things<\/p>\n Voight tells Imani he\u2019ll give her a long leash. Why is he willing to do so so soon after meeting her?<\/strong><\/p>\n Beghe:<\/strong> I think there\u2019s just a real natural comfort and also an understanding of who she is, and I think subconsciously, probably, he understands that she\u2019s a good foil for him in that she\u2019s, in a sense, a mirror image of him. So, it\u2019s a good way for him to discover himself and do his job as a man and as an officer better.<\/p>\n