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This one hurts. Hailey Upton put an finish to her marriage with Jay Halstead within the Chicago P.D. season 11 premiere. She signed the divorce papers and despatched them off. Ever since Halstead left Intelligence for a brand new job, his relationship with Upton was by no means the identical. Hollywood Life spoke completely with government producer Gwen Sigan about whether or not or not Upton will get additional closure about ending her marriage.
“I think there’ll be more emotional closure for sure and the hope on the other side of it,” Sigan mentioned. “We’ve lived a lot in the pain of it and the struggle of needing to let go of something and how difficult that’s been. But we will get to the other side of it and feel some closure and feel that love. That relationship was not bad. That relationship was just something that couldn’t live forever, but that will see Upton transform and get to a better place.”
Obviously, Upstead followers need to know if that is actually it for Hailey and Jay. “We have no plans right now of him returning to the show, so there’s nothing right now,” Sigan revealed. “But I would never say never to anything. I think 20 years from now what those characters are doing, they might be together in my mind. They just have so much love for each other.”
Tracy Spiridakos introduced her exit from the present forward of the season 11 premiere. However, Sigan promised that Tracy is “in the full season.” Sigan added, “She will connect with characters again and be brought back into the family of the unit. We’ve got some really fun characters coming in for her to play up against and those will also be a part of that journey of new self-discovery and new transformation.”
While Tracy can be within the full season, Sigan has began to consider what Intelligence will appear to be with out Upton. “We’ve been speaking about it, however I feel the unit goes to be fairly lean with out Tracy. So sure, I’d love to have the ability to form of add one thing new and totally different. It at all times provides the present some freshness and additionally provides our characters somebody new to play in opposition to, which is in fact enjoyable. So sure, hopefully, we’ll have some new characters coming in.
At the tip of season 10, Ruzek was shot on the job after going undercover. Ruzek was rushed into surgical procedure within the ultimate moments of the finale. Getting again on the job shouldn’t be going to be a simple journey for Ruzek in season 11.
“We love the idea of playing it with him as realistically as we could,” Sigan famous. “Most of the time if you’re shot on the job, it’s a very long process to get back on the job. The second episode we’re calling ‘Retread,’ which is the real process in the CPD. You have to retread. You have to pass everything again. You have to pass physical tests. You have to pass all of the written tests again. It’s a long process.”
She continued, “For someone like Ruzek, whose self-worth is so tied to his job. His job is him. His job is his blood. It was his father, his grandpa, this guy is third generation police. And so to suddenly not have that and not have the physical ability to just feel in your body you’re the same person because the physical rehab that we didn’t get to see that happened in the 6 months offscreen was not easy. And then just mentally that knowledge that you miss the job so much, and you have this hole. What do you do to fill that hole that used to be filled with that job is such an interesting place to be. We really dive into it in episode 2, into his headspace, and into sort of that spin out of mentally what do you do, and then seeing Burgess have to be that rock for him and him have to find his way out of it is a really nice, satisfying story in episode 2.”
When it involves Atwater, Sigan teased that his journey can be “different” than something he’s gone by way of earlier than. “We saw last season him unite with his father. We’ll get to see Lou again this season, which we’re really excited about,” she informed Hollywood Life. “We’ll see how that relationship has progressed. He’s got this really impactful storyline of when you have so many things going on in your life, you’re accountable to so many people, you’re responsible for so much, and you want to be so many things to so many people, can you sustain that forever? And what would happen if something were to occur that shifts that and that you can’t be responsible for? It’s an interesting place to put his character, and I’m very excited about it.” Chicago P.D. airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on FOX.
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