For Chicago P.D.‘s Kim Burgess, the trauma of being kidnapped, shot after which having her daughter kidnapped is beginning to meet up with her.
We noticed the bodily manifestation of that in Episode 8 together with her hand shaking proper after assuring Ruzek that forgetting her gun was the results of a foul day. When the present returns on Wednesday, Jan. 4 (NBC, 10/9c), Burgess will nonetheless be fighting the emotional and bodily fallout from these harrowing experiences.
“She is going to proceed to cope with it,” showrunner Gwen Sigan tells TVLine. “[It] will get to a degree the place she will be able to’t actually ignore it. She’s been on this house of denial in Episode 8 as a result of it’s scary. I don’t suppose she totally is aware of what’s happening together with her physique [and] doesn’t actually know why it’s taking place now.”
New episodes will see Burgess “push it away as a lot as she will be able to till she will be able to’t anymore and has to have a look at it.” That can result in new revelations, and it “shapes her in a brand new manner this season when she lastly confronts it and realizes, ‘That is one thing I’ve to need to cope with, [that] I’ve to determine and make a part of my life.’”
With that self-reflection comes a higher understanding of issues like her instinctual response to push Ruzek away. “We’ll get into that so far as what’s that, and why does she do it?” Sigan says. “It hasn’t at all times been there.”
As Burgess begins to cope with that trauma, it’s going to carry readability on how the Chicago cop reacts to issues and in addition “strengthen these bonds she has together with her daughter, and with Ruzek.”
“He’s like her accomplice in life, and once you get out of a few of that trauma, it’s about forming new attachments once more,” Sigan provides. “So we’ll get to see that she will be able to have some extra energy in these relationships and readability, and the way a lot they’ve been there for her.”
