Season 13 of Chicago P.D. ended with a death, a trip to the hospital and Imani almost dying at the hands of her long-lost sister, Shari — but who was accused of murder?
Warning: Spoilers below from season 13, episode 21 of Chicago P.D.
Showrunner Gwen Sigan exclusively told Us Weekly that the “huge cliffhanger” of whether Sergeant Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) will send Shari (Selin Cuhadaroglu) to jail for murder will hang over him and officer Eva Imani (Arienne Mandi) going into next season.
“We’ll definitely answer it next season of what they decide to do,” Sigan confirmed. “I love that nobody else really has all the information right now. It’s just these two. They’re sort of at this desolate location making this decision.”
She teased, “If they do make the decision to do this, is that even saving somebody?” pointing out that Shari is “so shattered at this point” that jail time or getting off scott-free could both have massive repercussions.
“What does this young woman’s life look like after this? How could she heal if there’s this huge secret? And this huge thing that she did that she can’t kind of repent for?” Sigan pondered. “So it’s interesting. We will answer it next season.”
During the Wednesday, May 13, finale, Imani and Voight hunted for Shari’s captor, Russ Kirby (Lucas Caleb Rooney), who abducted Shari when she was 6 years old, while Imani tried to trigger memories for Shari from their childhood.
Shari appeared to be loyal to Kirby and was unreceptive to Imani’s claim that they are sisters until Imani brought Shari to her apartment to show her trinkets she’d kept.
As Imani worked to bring Shari back into the light, Voight and the rest of Intelligence were trying to find Kirby, who they believed stabbed and killed a prostitute named Laura when she and Shari allegedly stole from their Johns while under Kirby’s control.
Everything came to a head during the second half of the episode, when Shari agreed to take Imani to Kirby’s hideout — but no one else could come. Imani was ambushed by Kirby and Shari was caught in the middle.
After Kirby realized that Imani had been telling Shari she was her sister, he yelled at Shari to kill Imani “just like Laura,” revealing that Shari was the one who stabbed the woman, not him.
When Shari pointed a gun at Imani, Imani knocked it down and tried to choke Shari into submission.
Arienne Mandi. Elizabeth Sisson/NBC
Kirby briefly got away, before Voight and the rest of the team stormed the building and Voight smashed Kirby’s head with a door, killing him in front of Shari.
Shari went dead in the eyes after seeing the man who she called her adoptive father — and later her husband — die. Before they took her to the hospital for evaluation, Imani discovered that she’d slit her wrists in an attempt to kill herself.
“I was never who you thought I was. I was always his,” Shari said in the ambulance.
While Shari did survive, her life is forever changed — because of Kirby and because she is a killer. Voight, however, only told Imani that he knew the truth about Shari stabbing Laura.
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The episode ended with Imani asking Voight, “Will my sister be charged with murder?”
“We don’t know what’s happening,” Mandi, 32, exclusively told Us of Shari’s fate and how it will affect Imani’s life. “Regardless, it’s going to challenge [Imani’s] in her professional life as a cop, it’s going to challenge her as a sister.”
The actress confessed that Imani’s “moral compass is going to be completely just turned inside out, upside down” no matter what Voight decides.
“It’s so tough when you’re when your personal life gets blended in with your work,” Mandi explained, adding that Imani’s “whole purpose of being in Chicago, her whole life purpose for the last 20 years, has been finding your sister.”
Now that she’s done that, it has become “tricky” for Imani and her job.
Sigan, meanwhile, teased that there are many layers to peel back with Shari and her and Imani’s story as sisters isn’t quite over.
“There is a piece of her that is that 6 year old. Whether she remembers it or not, it lives in her, and her sister lives in her,” Sigan said of Shari. “The other part of her is this part that was raised by this man and abused by this man, and that that lives in her too. … I think those two things are warring against each other.”
The showrunner noted that next season there is “so much” to play with, including learning who Shari is “without both of those things.”
“Who is she now that he’s gone and now that her sister is a grown woman too? Who are they 1778751016?” Sigan told Us. “I think it’s a really interesting question, and something that certainly we have a lot of room to explore.”
Chicago P.D. returns for season 14 on NBC in fall 2026.
