But there is another major unresolved issue on the series this season: the relationship between Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Fluger) and Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) and we would love to see a resolution of that as well. Things were going well for the couple. They had moved in together and were co-parenting Makayla (Ramona Edith Williams) up until their foster daughter was kidnapped. Then all hell broke loose. “I might be a little bit biased, but when Makayla was taken, Ruzek was right,” Fluger told Parade.com in this exclusive interview. “They were going to kill her and they were going to cut and run. He was right. I don’t know if the audience got that. It was more suggested than that point was landed, unfortunately for him, but he thinks he’s right.” So, in that instance, Ruzek wanted to do whatever it took to get Makayla back, police procedure be damned. It was a reminder that of all the officers on the Intelligence team, he’s the one that’s most like Voight was in the old days. So, he and Burgess got into a shouting match, and she insisted that they do things by the book, and when Makayla was finally recovered, Ruzek and Burgess broke up—again. “A couple of episodes ago where he went over to the house to talk to Burgess and she said what she said about things have been going well with Makayla, I feel like the audience took that harder than Ruzek did. Burgess took some hits for that, and I don’t think that’s how he felt about it at all. He felt like she’s looking out for the child.” It’s a first for Ruzek to put someone else before himself, but he wants to do that for Makayla, and also for Burgess. “That’s where he’s coming from,” Fluger said. “He knows he’s not a perfect human being by any means. Part of the reason that he loves Kim so much is because he looks to her as a compass, as a gauge of he’s gone too far and he’s not gone far enough. But at the end of the day, I really do think that he just puts this child first, which is really new for the guy.” As a result, at the end of tonight’s episode he makes Burgess an offer that we won’t spoil, but it is something that Ruzek feels will provide a sense of safety and security in Makayla’s life. “She’s never going to have the last name Ruzek and he wants to give her something that’s him,” he said. “He and Kim may or may not work things out. Historically, it sure seems as if they probably won’t, but whether or not it’s true, that’s something that he has in the back of his head.” What Ruzek is especially concerned about following the kidnapping and why he wants to provide Makayla with a safe haven is he is concerned that she is going to wake up one day and remember seeing her bio family killed right before her eyes or, despite being drugged the entire time, she will remember being kidnapped. “He truly is fearful of that and wants to make sure he sets her up, gives her some guardrails, gives her something to attach herself to that is positive that his heart remembers fondly,” Fluger concludes. Chicago P.D. airs Wednesday nights at 10 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. Next, Chicago Fire’s Hanako Greensmith on How Love May Cost Her Her Job in Firehouse 51
