Again dwelling. Through the Wednesday, March 9, episode of Chicago P.D., Burgess (Marina Squerciati) and Ruzek (Patrick Flueger) discover their adopted daughter, Makayla (Ramona Edith Williams), protected and sound after being drugged and kidnapped for ransom.
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Final week, Burgess pleaded her case in courtroom to remain Makayla’s authorized guardian — and received — after her organic uncle utilized for full custody. Amid her emotional battle, Burgess revealed her issues to Atwater (LaRoyce Hawkins) about being a white lady elevating a Black youngster in Chicago after she had bother braiding Makayla’s hair.
“It was beautiful. I believe what’s cool concerning the present is it’s a small, massive second,” Squerciati solely instructed Us Weekly. “There’s a second the place an actual battle is how does this white lady who’s adopted a Black youngster braid her hair like her buddies have it? And it’s a giant emotional second, but it surely’s small. It’s the stakes to all of it. So it was an exquisite, unhappy second.”
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On Wednesday’s episode, tensions ran excessive as Burgess and Ruzek disagreed on their technique to seek out Makayla, with Burgess making the ultimate name after saying Makayla was “my” daughter, which rattled Ruzek. Regardless of ignoring Voight’s (Jason Beghe) preliminary orders to face down from a suspect, Ruzek and Burgess lastly discover her.
“I believe they each go into mama bear and papa bear alert. It’s type of full scale. I believe there’s a pleasant stability on the present of character’s private lives and the way in which they work. However on this it’s like, there’s no working. It’s simply type of myopic imaginative and prescient of discovering Makayla,” Squerciati instructed Us of how the story line unfolded. “The workforce [was] flanked up by a door in tactical place and [Ruzek] and I simply stroll in ignoring all the foundations. And I believe that that’s type of like the place we’re.”
For Ruzek, Burgess and Makayla will all the time be his prime precedence. “On the finish of the day, I believe she and Makayla, so far as I’m involved with Ruzek, they’re every part to him,” Flueger defined. “That’s the be all, finish all. After I go and I learn a script, after I learn these tales, that’s all it’s. It’s simply them.”

Burgess and Ruzek would possibly nonetheless be exes, but it surely’s their uncommon dwelling association and complicated dynamic that the costars discover probably the most compelling.
“I believe it’s nice. I used to be confused by it, since you don’t actually see issues like this on TV. And so at first I bear in mind being like, ‘Wait, they’re dwelling collectively, however not sleeping collectively? What’s taking place?’ It simply doesn’t [happen], that type of platonic love,” Squerciati mentioned. “However there’s a sexuality to it. It’s not represented that a lot. And I like it. It’s actually fascinating to play.”
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Flueger couldn’t agree extra. “My favourite factor about this relationship is, I believe it’s one of the practical relationships on display so far as adults are involved. It’s difficult. It’s not simple. They usually lean on one another and so they harm one another and so they beat one another up,” he chimed in. “It’s so totally different. When have you ever seen that earlier than? I don’t know if we labored it into that groove or if the writers did, or if individuals even are conscious that that’s the place our characters reside. All I do know is that it’s actually fascinating to play.”

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The actors imagine Burzek will in the end be endgame, however like their distinctive relationship now, it’ll be on their very own phrases. “Will they? Gained’t they? Properly, they may, however not going to in the way in which that you just assume they’re going to,” Flueger added. “I believe on the finish of the day, they’ll find yourself collectively, however I don’t assume it’s a straightforward highway to get there.”
Chicago P.D. airs on NBC Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET.
