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‘Chicago P.D.’: Jesse Lee Soffer Reveals He Almost Made A Sneaky Cameo In Directorial Debut

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Jesse Lee Soffer has returned home to NBC’s Chicago P.D. but not as Jay Halstead. Instead, he’s making his debut as a director in tonight’s episode “Deadlocked.” The actor announced in late August his 10-season run on the Dick Wolf drama would conclude, making his final appearance on October 5.

News followed weeks later that he would reunite with the cast and crew in the director’s chair. “Deadlocked” is the continuation of “The Ghost Inside Of You” which aired on February 15. “This was the perfect episode for me to direct,” Soffer told Deadline during a recent interview. “I love this episode because it was like a throwback episode to old-school PD with Voight [Jason Beghe] going off the rails, Man on Fire kind of stuff, vigilante stuff, and living in the gray area off the books.

That’s the story we’ve been telling, especially the foil between Halstead and Voight, for so long—it’s something I really know deeply.

So to get to do that kind of story with Jason was really fun.” Soffer said it felt “really rewarding” to be reunited with his “tight-knit” family referring to the cast and crew recalling how much fun they had “goofing off” behind the scenes. “It was like I never left,” he said. “We were hanging out and we were goofing off, then we’re cameras rolling and we’re working bringing the scenes to life.

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