Chicago P.D. hasn’t been simple on Ruzek in Season 12, beginning with the violent dying of an outdated buddy after which getting wrapped up within the heartbreaking case of slightly lady named Zoe, who had been kidnapped and surrounded by dying for all of her younger life. Zoe’s case wasn’t closed by the tip of her first episode early within the 2025 TV schedule, and P.D. is about to select it again up. The upcoming return to Zoe’s story jogged my memory of what Patrick John Flueger mentioned about working with younger Annabelle Toomey for the Ruzek/Zoe scenes.
The subsequent Chicago. P.D. episode is known as “Marie” and can air within the One Chicago cop drama’s regular 10 p.m. ET time slot on February 26. Per NBC, Ruzek shall be coping with his father’s well being going downhill whereas Intelligence is on the hunt for a serial killer, and the promo reveals that Zoe shall be kidnapped and in want of rescue. In her first episode from again in January (which is offered streaming now with a Peacock subscription), she linked with Ruzek greater than every other member of the unit.
And once I spoke with Patrick John Flueger on the time, I famous that Chicago P.D. has a knack for locating robust younger actors, together with Ramona Edith Williams as Makayla, to play very darkish storylines. The actor shortly chimed in with “We did it once more!” and went on to share what it was prefer to crew up with Annabelle Toomey:
She’s so good, she’s nearly intimidating. She’s so good. It simply made it simple. I might simply sit there and discuss to her. I believe she’s about eight years outdated. She’s taking part in six or eight, someplace in there, and I requested her how a lot she knew. A number of the time, dad and mom – as they need to – shield the kiddos from the broad scope [of scripts] and fairly frankly, she did not must know the entire story, however her grasp of what she wanted to do is surprising.
Anyone who watched her first episode, fittingly referred to as “Zoe,” can in all probability agree that the very younger actress did not must know all the small print of the serial killer storyline! Chicago P.D. is actually certainly one of Annabelle Toomey’s first huge reveals, after showing in a single episode of Chicago Hearth (as a unique character) and three episodes of The Bear. Suffice it to say that her characters on these two reveals hadn’t gone by means of what Zoe did! Flueger went on:
The director would come over and say, ‘Hey, might you possibly for this half take slightly little bit of time?’ She truly acquired informed to take slightly pause earlier than she responded to me in a single second, and it made it. It made the [episode]. And it was so uncomfortable as a result of she did not simply pause. She paused to the purpose the place I used to be like, ‘Did she neglect her line?’ However you may inform she did not, as a result of she was nonetheless so in it. [laughs] She blew me away. I am not gonna lie.
Based on the longtime One Chicago star, Annabelle Toomey was so good that it was “uncomfortable” to see her as Zoe. Patrick John Flueger clearly meant it as a praise, and the teen already appears to be a professional at heavy storylines even when she did not fairly know all the small print. He recounted a dialog he had along with her:
I am going, ‘Annie, you are fairly good at what you do, huh?’ She goes, ‘What do you imply?’ I am like, ‘You are form of a pure.’ That is our first day working collectively. She goes, ‘I do know.’ [laughs] And never in a imply means. She simply had that confidence.
It stays to be seen how a lot of a task Toomey can have within the subsequent episode, which considerations Zoe’s abduction. Her image is proven within the promo, however no new footage of Zoe herself. Hopefully that does not imply Ruzek and Co. are unable to seek out her by the tip of the hour. Have a look for your self:
Watch On
Tune in to NBC on Wednesday, February 26 at 10 p.m. ET for this new episode of Chicago P.D., or test it out streaming subsequent day on Peacock. As all the time, the community’s One Chicago block of reveals kicks off on Wednesdays with Chicago Med at 8 p.m. ET, adopted by Chicago Hearth at 9 p.m. ET, earlier than closing with the exploits of the Intelligence Unit.