Chicago P.D.‘s Marina Squerciati Talks Burgess’ Slow Recovery, Not Being ‘Wonder Woman’ After Kidnapping
This week on Chicago P.D., Burgess continues to recover after surviving a brutal attack that landed her in critical condition at Chicago Med. With her wounds still fresh, questions about Burgess’ future with Intelligence loom.
“I don’t think she really knows yet what she is going to do,” Marina Squerciati, who plays Burgess, tells TVLine.
Wednesday’s episode, titled “Rage” (NBC, 10/9c), takes place about two weeks after the kidnapping. Burgess’ colleagues, including Ruzek (who floats the possibility of her taking a desk job), are eager to have her back, but she isn’t quite ready to jump back into the action.
“I feel like people get the flu and are out of work longer than that, and she was brutally assaulted and shot twice,” Squerciati says of Burgess’ journey in the upcoming episode. “I think it’s a matter of Ruzek trying to give her the space she needs, but ultimately not giving her the time she needs to heal.”
It doesn’t help that she hasn’t received proper closure from the kidnapping. Although Upton and Voight know that Roy, the man who abducted her, is dead and no longer a threat, she still believes he’s very much alive and hiding out somewhere. This week’s episode will delve into Burgess’ mental state after physically surviving the traumatic experience.
“I love that in this episode, they let me carry out that pain, that mental anguish and that physical anguish and really work through it… that I wasn’t Wonder Woman the next episode,” Squerciati adds.
Two weeks later…..they aren’t even trying anymore are they?
And looks like the showrunner dragged out an old script from the season 7 miscarriage story & used it again… Burgess pushing Ruzek away…how original.
They’ve really put this character thru it the past couple of seasons. Between the miscarriage and this latest bit she deserves to go off the rails a bit.
I think it is absolutely unforgivable that Upton and Voight are letting Kim think Roy is still out there. She is already going through it and they are just going to sit back and watch.
And people want a friendship between the 2 females… yeah… I think I’ll pass on that contrived claptrap
I am so sick of Burgess and her drama. whyyyy am I so sick of her?
Marina is unquestionably one of the better actors on PD and I love Kim Burgess always being involved in the thick of the action. I can easily see Voight keeping mum about Roy’s death but it doesn’t seem in character for Hailey (another favorite of mine) to keep this knowledge from Burgess. I’m looking forward to a lot of tension and deception until the truth eventually becomes known to all members of the unit.
I am over Burgess and her drama. She’s become the new Lindsey where it’s all about her. This woman has been beat up I don’t know how many times, shot twice, kidnapped again don’t know how many times. And yet, she’s still there. She decided to adopt a young girl who’s been traumatized. At what point will she put her daughter’s well being over her need to be a cop? When does she say enough? Maybe she should take Trudy’s place (especially since since she’s only in an episode for about 3 minutes).