Martin Watts is the main antagonist of the Chicago P.D. episode "Hit Me".
He was portrayed by Erik Jensen, who also portrayed James Turner in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Biography[]
Past[]
Watts went to the police academy with Trudy Platt and they became good friends. He rose up the ranks to become detective in robbery/burglary division and earned himself a good reputation among his colleagues. He later got married to Virginia and had a daughter Jenny who he was very close too.
At some point, he got shot on the job and his injury left him out of commission, requiring him to undergo surgery and therapy to regain his mobility. Upon recovering, Watts found himself in heavy debt and struggled to pay it off, unknown to his family. Despite all his hard work to the job, his pension was not able to pay medical needs. Watts then turned to a dark path by approaching burglars Clayton Howard and Franklin Haynes (who he previously arrested before), having realized crime had better pay and recruited them in a robbery plots. Watts had told Howard to pretend to be a cop and rob people, while splitting the profit even. Howard accepted the terms and decided to rob casino winners, who had the best chance of bringing in loot while bringing in his other friends Elizabeth McKenney and Gerard Garner, to help him in his plan. While the crooks did the robberies, Watts would monitor their activities and pretend to be dedicated to dismantling them but in truth giving heads up whenever his colleagues got close to the crew.
"Hit Me"[]
After Howard assaulted Kristie Bradford, a recent casino winner and she reported him, this led to Intelligence of the 21st police district to set up a sting and ended up arresting Garner. After Garner was offered a deal to give up his conspirators. He agreed after seeing Bradford's injuries and informed Intelligence it was Bug who recruited him in this scheme and Bradford confirmed that Bug attacked her.
Watts caught wind of Intelligence investigating and he came down, where he reunited with Platt and spoke with Voight. Deputy Commander Emma Crowley ordered Watts to cooperate and take down this crew of fake cops. After seeing them catch a lead, Howard attempted to kill Officers Kim Burgess and Sean Roman. A BOLO is put on him for attempted murder of cops and murder of Franklin Haynes after his corpse was discovered.
Howard was found at McKenney's house, with both being arrested by Roman and Burgess. A detained Howard soon implicated Detective Martin Watts, the same cop helping Intelligence as the mastermind. His house was searched and his wife revealed he wasn't present, and their daughter was at a friend's house. Intelligence found a stash of cash and learned he was armed with a shotgun.
Watts realized it was a matter of time that he'd get caught and after saying his goodbyes, he hid out in a rented trailer. He hunkered down in a trailer, and it was swarmed by cops, with him awaiting a confrontation. Platt decided to meet him, as she knew him most and he let her in after she dropped her weapon to prove it. Holding her at gunpoint, he firmly told her that he wouldn't go down and she asked while taking a drink what brought them to this point. He revealed the motive for the robberies and declared he was owed more after he got shot. Trudy related because of her injury and how she believed she failed but changed after she became a desk sergeant. Tearful, Watts told her she was lucky as she has something to fall back on while there's no going back for him, bemoaning that he turned to crime. He voiced how his greed led to a woman getting assaulted and a man being murdered. His guilt nearly causes him to commit suicide, but Platt talks him down by reminding him of his family and he reconsiders. He has Platt give him a new bottle of booze and after she does, he gives her his weapon and surrenders. He is brought in cuffs and Platts hands him to Det. Antonio Dawson. He attempts to apologize but Dawson has him stay silent and takes him away before the media arrives.
Watts is ultimately incarcerated for his crimes of proxy murder, proxy assault, robbery, and conspiracy.
Victims: 1[]
Franklin Haynes: (Accomplices): Shot in the head by Clayton Howard: Martin Watts played a big part in the robberies as he was the one who gave Franklin Haynes and Clayton Howard all the cop stuff.
