The Intelligence Unit of Chicago P.D. has been missing a member ever since the debut of Season 11 in the 2024 TV schedule, but that's about to change with the return of Benjamin Levy Aguilar as Officer Dante Torres. Last seen in the shocking penultimate episode of Season 10 back in spring of 2023, the character has been on furlough off-screen for all of the eleventh season so far. His first case back won't be an easy one on February 7, and the actor spoke with CinemaBlend about how prepared Torres is (or isn't) for jumping back into the One Chicago deep end.
In the fourth episode of Season 11, called "Escape," Torres will go undercover in a drug trafficking case after his return from furlough. It's safe to say that he's not easing himself back into the job, if his first case back is undercover with drug traffickers! When I spoke with Benjamin Levy Aguilar about the episode, he previewed how high the stakes are for Torres.
In the fourth episode of Season 11, called "Escape," Torres will go undercover in a drug trafficking case after his return from furlough. It's safe to say that he's not easing himself back into the job, if his first case back is undercover with drug traffickers! When I spoke with Benjamin Levy Aguilar about the episode, he previewed how high the stakes are for Torres.
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00:00How high would you say the stakes are for your character for this case when it picks up?
00:06When it picks up, you know, it's a regular case that he, you know, thinks he can handle.
00:11But the stakes, I mean, it's high because of the type of people we're dealing with.
00:18But it gets really, really high once he starts getting involved in more personal relationships.
00:26Is he rusty at all after being on furlough for a while or is he completely ready to get back into the action?
00:33Oh, he's ready. He's absolutely ready.
00:36It's just, it seems like, you know, his past and those relationships that come with it always seem to haunt him, you know.
00:47And the trauma or that other side that we saw in him on the 21st episode of last season, he thought it was gone.
01:02Maybe, you know, because sometimes it's kind of like when you're like, you feel like you're completely healed.
01:09And then someone comes into your life and it challenges you.
01:12You're like, oh, no, all these patterns are back or all these things are back.
01:15It's kind of like that. He thinks that he's OK. He's like done work. He focused on his mom.
01:20He was, you know, healthy, probably boxing, doing all these things and whatever.
01:26And then he comes back and it's like, I'm ready, you know, and he's not rusty, not in the skill set at all.
01:31But then relationships and all these human interactions come into play.
01:37And things, seeing things that trigger him that, you know, not to allow people to get hurt or whatever.
01:44And just he starts seeing these compulsiveness patterns, compulsive patterns coming back.
01:50So I guess in that sense, it's just, you know, I think he's going to have to navigate for a long time.