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 scuffling with the emotional and bodily fallout from these harrowing experiences.
“She will continue to deal with it,” showrunner Gwen Sigan tells TVLine. “[It] gets to a point where she can’t really ignore it. She’s been in this space of denial in Episode 8 because it’s frightening. I don’t think she fully knows what’s going on with her body [and] doesn’t really know why it’s happening now.”
New episodes will see Burgess “push it away as much as she can until she can’t anymore and has to look at it.” That will result in new revelations, and it “shapes her in a new way this season when she finally confronts it and realizes, ‘This is something I have to have to deal with, [that] I have to figure out and make part of my life.’”
With that self-reflection comes a larger understanding of issues like her instinctual response to push Ruzek away. “We’ll get into that as far as what is that, and why does she do it?” Sigan says. “It hasn’t always been there.”
As Burgess begins to cope with that trauma, it’s going to convey readability on how the Chicago cop reacts to issues and likewise “strengthen those bonds she has with her daughter, and with Ruzek.”
“He’s like her partner in life, and when you get out of some of that trauma, it’s about forming new attachments again,” Sigan provides. “So we’ll get to see that she can have some more strength in those relationships and clarity, and how much they’ve been there for her.”
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