Antonio Dawson

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Antonio Dawson, portrayed by Jon Seda, is a fictional character in the Chicago franchise and is a main character in Chicago P.D. and Chicago Justice. He was introduced as a recurring character on Chicago Fire before the spin-off Chicago P.D. was created. He was previously the second in command of the Intelligence Unit of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and regularly appears on Chicago Fire as he is the older brother of Gabriela "Gabby" Dawson, a paramedic-turned-firefighter at Firehouse 51.

The character was first introduced in Chicago Fire as one of several recurring characters from the CPD who cross paths with the firefighters. In October 2016 Seda confirmed that the character will move to the third spin-off Chicago Justice, debuting in March 2017, after resigning from his position in the CPD to take up a job with the State's Attorney's Office.. he returned to P.D. in Season 5.

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Personal life

Dawson and his wife Laura have two children, Eva and Diego. His wife runs a restaurant which the children help in. However, subsequent events in Season 1 and Dawson's dedication to his job take a toll on their marriage, resulting in her leaving with their two children. They eventually divorce under acrimonious terms and she prevents the children from seeing their father for some time. Eva took it particularly hard and even resorted to running away to see her father. The custody issue was never fully explained on the show; the children live with their mother and Dawson keeps in touch with them by phone.

Dawson was raised Catholic and once quipped to Olinsky about being "in a confessional every other day" as a boy. A boxing enthusiast (like actor Jon Seda), he had a difficult adolescence and boxing was his outlet, as shown by the fact that he runs his own gym and moonlights as a trainer when off duty. His younger sister is Gabriela "Gabby" Dawson, a paramedic-turned-firefighter who is a main character on Chicago Fire. The siblings come from a large extended family and share a close relationship.

The character is frequently seen on Chicago Fire and was first introduced in the episode "Professional Courtesy" after Gabby and her colleagues from Firehouse 51 rescue a boy and his father in a car accident caused by a drunk Justin Voight, Hank's son. He is generally well liked by the firefighters at 51.

Before transferring to Intelligence, Dawson worked on the Vice Squad. His was partnered with the late Detective Julie "Jules" Willhite, with whom he shared a close friendship, until she was killed by drug lord Andres "Pulpo" Diaz in "Stepping Stone".

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In Chicago Fire

Antonio is a cop who takes pride in his job. He has been involved in numerous sting and undercover operations. Some of which include drug busts, high-profile arrests, and more personal cases. Dawson has a close relationship with his sister Gabriela Dawson, a paramedic for CFD. When Dawson is shot in a drive-by shooting and severely wounded, she makes a deal with Voight, who was incarcerated at the time, for information about who shot Antonio. When Voight harasses Lieutenant Matthew Casey and his then-fiancé Dr. Hallie Thomas, Dawson sets up a sting to arrest Voight. The arrest goes successfully and Voight is incarcerated. A few months later, Internal Affairs (I.A.) has Voight released and promoted to Sergeant of Intelligence at the CPD. In season 5, Antonio goes into a relationship with Sylvie Brett. At the end of "An Agent of the Machine", Antonio breaks up with Brett after she confronted him about the confrontation between her and his former wife, Laura, when she showed up to the firehouse to pick up her son. In "Down is Better", his father was stabbed. In "A Man's Legacy", he goes to the hospital to see him father. While in the hospital, he sees Brett with his sister, he talks with her indicating that the relationship is getting close to reconciliation. In "Foul is Fair", it was revealed that Brett breaks up with Antonio. At the end of "Hiding Not Seeking", after a long investigation, he and Brett are seen making out in his car.

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In Chicago P.D.

When Pulpo, a Colombian drug lord is arrested, Diego is kidnapped by a man named Mateo. Mateo demands that Pulpo be released or Diego will be killed. Antonio's devotion to his son is unwavering. Mateo attempts to take Diego to Indianapolis by bus, but Intelligence is able to stop him.

During his rookie years, Antonio had a partner, Sean Patterson. Sean had mistakenly filed double overtime pay, a minor infraction. However, Gradishar of Internal Affairs (I.A.) had Sean fired and took away his pension. The shame caused him to commit suicide a year later, leaving behind a wife and kids. Antonio has never forgiven Gradishar for using Sean as her way of climbing the corporate ladder. He also worked with Trudy Platt, now the desk sergeant at the 21st District, during his patrol years and saved her life when she was shot by pulling her out of the line of fire. During the shooter's subsequent interrogation, Dawson broke his jaw.

He was critically wounded when Pulpo's wife helped Pulpo escape, even though three other officers was killed in the aftermath. Unlike Voight, he has limits on how far he will go to catch a criminal, as shown by the fact that he asked Jay Halstead to stop Voight from killing anyone while on the hunt for Pulpo as he did not want it on his conscience.

In "Chicken, Dynamite, Chainsaw", in the locker room at the end of the night, Sean Roman tells him about his security business, and he takes Roman up on the offer to work. In "An Honest Woman", he was assigned to protect Asher Roslyn. In "Assignment of the Year", he didn't know Roslyn was a felon, until Roslyn was found dead and he was heavily involved in the murder. He confronted Roman about it and it was revealed that Roman himself didn't know about Roslyn's criminal history. Since Roman was heavily involved with the unit on this case, he had to cooperate with the unit in apprehending Roslyn's killer, who was his own wife - by seducing her errand boy, Terry, into committing the murder which allowed her to escape prosecution. During the course of these episodes, it was seen that his wife, Layla, was seducing him but he turned down her advances for his job.

In "A Little Devil Complex", he shoots and kills Trent Lomand after he traps Gabriela Dawson in an elevator with gasoline which was poured on her and holding the lighter, when she receives a false text from Sylvie Brett telling Dawson to meet her.

In "300,000 Likes" Antonio is offered a job as lead investigator at the State's Attorney's Office, which he goes on to accept in the next episode, "A Shot Heard Around the World".

At the end of "Reform", he gets the offer to return to Intelligence after his stint in the State's Attorney's Office.

In "Promise", with Dawson back in Intelligence, he takes on a case that involves the brutal murder of a young Latina woman who is suspected to be a drug mule for a drug cartel after he and his daughter Eva came up an crime scene and his daughter overheard an officer at the scene threw out a racist comment with regards to the victim in which he takes it personal. He was also partnered with Kim Burgess. During the investigation, the victim was ID'd as Gloria Morales. While searching the victims' apartment, Burgess and Atwater find her young son hiding in the closet. The unit soon discovered that she was an illegal immigrant working in an meat packing plant. Burgess and Dawson decide to go interview the workers in the plant. Burgess finds the victim's sister, at first she refuses to cooperate fearing for her safety until Antonio promises her protection. When the manager's son was arrested, Antonio goes to the plant only to find out that the manager (in order to protect his son) had placed a tip to ICE that the illegal immigrants was working there, and rounded up everyone including the victim's sister. Voight orders Antonio let the suspect go due to lack of evidence. The kid recognizes that the van was there the night his mother disappeared and the description matching another employee, Frank Lopez. But the time Antonio and Burgess go there to question him, he was gone along with the van. After his conversation with the Medical Examiner, he finds out that the victim that he found wasn't the first victim and he goes to store, only to know that the owner's niece also works at the plant and has disappeared and later found murdered. Voight tells Antonio which number in the lineup Frank will be (so that he can potentially tell Oscar). But Antonio can't bring himself to break the rules, and simply tells Oscar just to tell the truth. After the kid identifies the wrong person, the lineup was a bust. Voight angrily tells him to pick a case that he knows that there is a quick output. Antonio goes to the same store in the investigation and finds out that Voight was there. He quickly goes to the Frank's house only to find him murdered. Antonio goes to Voight to confront in his office, while he secretly wanted it to happen, Voight admits to having him killed. He goes home to his daughter.

In "Chasing Monsters", he had a one night stand with a visiting detective from El Salvador, Detective Marcella Gomez after two had mutual understanding that they separately are divorced. Kim grew suspicious of her but Antonio doesn't believe her. Antonio asks Marcella about talking to a detective in gang unit and she is honest about it. Kim, on the other hand, meets with Detective Keith O'Brien feeling she isn't getting the whole story. He tells a totally different story saying Marcella called him 2 months ago about El Lobo, not just the day before. When Antonio comes into the Squad room, Kim reveals everything they know about Marcella Gomez. Antonio is in total shock then believes her. At a house where Marcella was held up, Antonio asks Marcella to put the gun down. Antonio says it isn't worth it. Voight asks her to give him the gun but she says her life has been over since he killed her sin. She shoots El Lobo in the head and raises her gun at Antonio, who takes the shot and kills her. Kim checks on Antonio at the station, he apologizes, saying he was distracted and she is a good partner who was just looking out for him. Voight says she was on a mission and there was nothing he could have said that could have stopped her. The only thing that kept her going was that hate; he reminds Antonio that he did what he had to do. Antonio looks at her picture and throws it in the garbage saying he did what she wanted him to do.

Kill count

• Mateo (Diego's kidnapper)
• Jason Woodley (Kidnapper)
• Trent Lomand aka Adrian Gish/Ross McGowan (Serial arsonist/Killer of Leslie Shay)

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Appearances and Crossovers

The character is frequently seen on Chicago Fire as Gabby's colleagues sometimes ask him for help or advice and he is generally well-liked by the firefighters at Firehouse 51, and some after to get more information on investigations, and in Chicago PD, after his departure.

• Chicago Fire - "Professional Courtesy" (October 24, 2012)
• Chicago Fire - "Hanging On" (November 7, 2012)
• Chicago Fire - "Rear View Mirror" (November 14, 2012)
• Chicago Fire - "A Little Taste" (February 6, 2013)
• Chicago Fire - "Nazdarovya!" (February 13, 2013)
• Chicago Fire - "Retaliation Hit" (May 1, 2013)
• Chicago Fire - "Leaders Lead" (May 8, 2013)
• Chicago Fire - "Let Her Go" (May 15, 2013)
• Chicago Fire - "A Problem House" (September 24, 2013)
• Chicago Fire - "Prove It" (October 1, 2013)
• Chicago Fire - "A Nuisance Call" (October 15, 2013)
• Chicago Fire - "Joyriding" (November 12, 2013)
• Chicago Fire - "You Will Hurt Him" (December 3, 2013)
• Chicago Fire - "Not Like This" (December 10, 2013)
• Chicago Fire - "Shoved In My Face" (January 7, 2014)
• Chicago Fire - "Virgin Skin" (February 25, 2014)
• Chicago Fire - "A Dark Day (1)" (April 29, 2014)
• Chicago Fire - "Three Bells" (February 3, 2015)
• Chicago Fire - "We Called Her Jellybean" (April 28, 2015)
• Chicago Fire - "Category 5" (May 5, 2015)
• Chicago Fire - "Spartacus" (May 12, 2015)
• Chicago Fire - "Let It Burn" (October 12, 2015)
• Chicago Fire - "Your Day Is Coming" (November 3, 2015)
• Chicago Fire - "When Tortoises Fly" (December 1, 2015)
• Chicago Fire - "Short and Fat" (December 8, 2015)
• Chicago Fire - "The Path of Destruction" (January 19, 2016)
• Chicago Fire - "The Sky Is Falling" (February 2, 2016)
• Chicago Fire - "All Hard Parts" (February 9, 2016)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: "Nationwide Manhunt" (February 10, 2016)
• Chicago Fire - "On the Warpath" (April 5, 2016)
• Chicago Fire - "I Will Be Walking" (April 19, 2016)
• Chicago Fire - "Where the Collapse Started" (May 10, 2016)
• Chicago Fire - "The Hose or the Animal" (October 11, 2016)
• Chicago Fire - "Scorched Earth" (October 25, 2016)
• Chicago Fire - "That Day" (November 22, 2016)
• Chicago Fire - "Lift Each Other" (November 29, 2016)
• Chicago Fire - "One Hundred" (December 6, 2016)
• Chicago Fire - "An Agent of the Machine" (February 7, 2017)
• Chicago PD - "Seven Indictments" (February 15, 2017)
• Chicago PD - "Emotional Proximity" (March 1, 2017)
• Chicago Fire: "A Man's Legacy" (January 4, 2018)
• Chicago Fire: "The Whole Point of Being Roommates" (January 11, 2018)
• Chicago Fire: "Slamigan" (January 25, 2018)

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References

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