Love at first whistle? Chicago P.D.’s intense crimes and expert detectives are the center of the present — however the complicated romance between Kim Burgess and Adam Ruzek is what retains many followers coming again.
Viewers first noticed sparks fly between Burgess (Marina Squerciati) and Ruzek (Patrick Flueger) throughout season 1, episode 8, whereas Ruzek was in one other relationship. Their banter, nevertheless, made it clear that one thing romantic might transpire between them down the road.
“That is full horses—t,” Ruzek quipped within the episode whereas helping with crossing guard duties alongside Burgess, who insisted he was “doing it incorrect.” She proceeded to point out him the precise method to navigate visitors, saying, “You gotta get your hips into it … like this.”
Ruzek bought an enormous grin on his face and responded, “You’re type of stuffed with it you recognize that?” Burgess, for her half, simply smiled and replied, “Am I? Or am I superior at it.”
By season 2, the coworkers have been in a critical relationship and Ruzek popped the query. “I wished to maintain this casual, so I assumed, you recognize, ‘What’s extra casual than the locker room?’” he joked throughout the “Born Into Dangerous Information” episode, which aired in Might 2015. “I wish to spend the remainder of my life with you. You and I are freaking superior. I do know that is fast, however I don’t care as a result of I like you.”
Whereas Burgess mentioned “sure” on the time, she later referred to as off the engagement and went again to being buddies … form of.
“They’re two grownup individuals who have an timeless love for each other,” Flueger solely instructed Us Weekly in October 2019, alluding to a doable spark for the characters throughout season 7. “He’s all the time going to be a bit of in love along with her, no matter whether or not or not they’re in a full-functioning relationship.”
Squerciati teased that whereas the pair’s onscreen personas would face a “life-altering” occasion collectively, she instructed Us, “I don’t assume that is endgame but, however it’ll check them.”
Burgess introduced throughout season 7 that she was pregnant with Ruzek’s youngster. Her world later crashed to a halt when she suffered a miscarriage — and the loss threw one other wrench within the pair’s romantic relationship.
The next season, the cops have been as soon as once more examined when Burgess determined to undertake Makayla throughout season 8. Ruzek, for his half, ultimately stepped up and began serving to her coparent the little woman.
“On the finish of the day, I believe she and Makayla, so far as I’m involved with Ruzek, they’re the whole lot to him,” Flueger solely instructed Us in March 2022 of their new household unit.
Followers bought an actual style of what’s to return for the couple throughout season 10, episode 17, which aired in March 2023. Through the present, Burgess introduced Ruzek to her remedy session and the duo lastly talked about their true emotions for each other.
“Possibly there have been some occasions the place I felt extra, wished extra, and she or he didn’t really feel the identical manner or need the identical issues. However you regulate, I regulate, we adjusted and work by way of it,” Ruzek confessed in “Out of the Depths.”
Burgess tried to reassure him that wasn’t the case, however she couldn’t get the phrases out. “I used to be too scared and numb,” she instructed him as soon as they bought again residence. She then initiated a passionate kiss and the pair had intercourse — seemingly confirming they’re again on.
The actors, in the meantime, teased in March 2022 what a Burzek marriage ceremony would possibly seem like down the highway. “I believe, like, they might invite Voight [Jason Beghe] over to marry them after which have some chips after which, like, by no means discuss it once more and simply be collectively,” Squerciati solely instructed Us on the time. “They’d do one thing unconventional or one thing. I simply really feel like they’re greatest buddies. They’re type of married already.”
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