Things were going well for them ever since Burgess took in Makayla (Ramona Edith Williams) and planned to adopt her. Makayla was definitely going to be her daughter, but then Burgess and Ruzek decided that he would live with them and be a fulltime father figure. That was until Makayla was kidnapped, and they had one of their biggest fights ever. Burgess wanted to go by the book to locate Makayla, but Ruzek was his usual hotheaded self and had no interest in keeping things legal if it would prevent them from getting Makayla home safely—so things were said. And the things that were said were not things that would soon be forgotten. “I think things were said that can’t be unsaid and that that schism will always be there,” Squerciati told Parade.com when asked if she sees any healing in their immediate future. “I just feel like there’s these fissures that will exist no matter what. Can they get past them? I’m hoping. But they were brutal to each other. That doesn’t just go away. I mean, that is there forever. So, I’m hoping that they can get past it, but I don’t know.” When it comes to Makayla, Burgess is a total mama bear, so she will fight to do what she thinks is best for her little cub with the same passion she brings to saving innocent lives as a cop. “I feel like now comes either healing or separation,” Squerciati said. “I feel like at this point it’s either they figure out how to move forward in Makayla’s best interest as a couple, or in Makayla’s best interest not as a couple. I think that’s at the forefront of their decision making, which is as it should be when you have a kid.” There is still another third of Chicago P.D. season 9 to play out and, according to executive producer Gwen Sigan, the “Burzek” story will continue to play out. “It’s just a new element of their relationship, a new space to navigate,” she said of what they are currently experiencing. “They’ll find ways through it, and also, hopefully, we’ll see them on the other side of it as well.” Makayla’s kidnapping wasn’t the first time that Ruzek had been reckless, nor will it be the last. He is more like Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) than any other member of the team, and we all remember what happened to the man who was responsible for Voight’s son’s death. On tonight’s episode, as Ruzek and Burgess struggle to move on from the emotional aftermath of Makayla’s abduction, Ruzek takes on another case involving a young girl. One of his favorite high school teachers asks him to search for his daughter, which leads the team into a serious drug investigation. “Emotionally Ruzek is coming from a place where he was in this very tense situation at home and he was dealing with a lot of the aftermath of what happened with Makayla,” Sigan said. “We wanted to write it in a way where he was presented with this opportunity by someone he knew from his past to save this person’s daughter, and what that emotionally would mean to him when he was in that space.” As a result, Ruzek acts rashly because he wants to put a family back together, even if it isn’t his own. “If there was any recklessness in that episode, it was coming from this place of wanting something to go right, wanting to fix something,” Sigan added. As for what it means for Burgess and Ruzek continuing to work together in the future, Beghe weighs in on Voight’s opinion, which is pragmatic. Voight understands that people have arguments, but he believes that the family that comprises the Intelligence team will endure. “As a kind of patriarchal figure, they’re grown children, so he’s not changing diapers, but he cares and he tries to become aware,” Beghe commented. “He lets them find their own way more than before as they have grown. But he is there to nudge either in a way that they’re not aware of, or if need be, call them into the office and have a heart to heart or a fist to face, whatever it is. But he does it out of love. He’s totally invested and cares about them personally and professionally because they’re married together.” Chicago P.D. airs Wednesday nights at 10 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. Next, Check Out Our Arresting Guide for Season 9 of Chicago PD
