Is Atwater’s New Love Interest Sticking Around? ‘Chicago P.D.’s LaRoyce Hawkins Weighs In

[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.”