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 nasty day. When the present returns on Wednesday, Jan. 4 (NBC, 10/9c), Burgess will nonetheless be combating the emotional and bodily fallout from these harrowing experiences.
“She is going to proceed to take care of it,” showrunner Gwen Sigan tells TVLine. “[It] will get to a degree the place she will’t actually ignore it. She’s been on this area of denial in Episode 8 as a result of it’s horrifying. I don’t assume 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 till she will’t anymore and has to take a look at it.” That may 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 take care of, [that] I’ve to determine and make a 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 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 take care of that trauma, it’s going to convey 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 companion in life, and whenever 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 have some extra power in these relationships and readability, and the way a lot they’ve been there for her.”
