Spoilers forward for Episode 16 of Chicago P.D. Season 12, referred to as “Seen and Unseen” and out there streaming now with a Peacock subscription.
The main target of Chicago P.D. shifted over to Burgess in “Seen and Unseen” within the 2025 TV schedule, as she struggled with all of her duties as a newly-minted detective on prime of a troublesome homicide case, planning a marriage, and parenting Makayla with Ruzek. If that wasn’t sufficient, the case itself relied on her reminiscence after the taking pictures occurred in a diner that she frequented, so Burgess was heaping further stress on her personal shoulders.
Happily, the stress wasn’t sufficient to upset the graceful crusing of the great ship Burzek for too lengthy, and he or she got here to a really candy realization about priorities earlier than the ultimate credit rolled.
Burgess And Ruzek Are Planning Their Wedding ceremony
Regardless of marriage ceremony planning not getting a ton of display screen time in Season 12, Chicago P.D. clearly is not marrying Burgess and Ruzek off through an elopement like Upstead’s marriage ceremony a number of seasons earlier, and “Seen and Unseen” was the primary large look into their plans for the nuptials. The duo have a marriage planner who presumably could be very busy off-screen whereas Kim and Adam are fixing crimes every week. The hurdle that crossed over into their work lives in “Seen and Unseen” was the visitor checklist, with Adam placing collectively his half (at about 80 folks) whereas Kim could not prioritize hers.
And it simply appeared like increasingly issues stored leaping up for them because the episode continued. On prime of the marriage planning, the roof was leaking, Ruzek’s dad was ailing, Burgess was overworked, and Makayla was combating schoolwork. The couple was bickering greater than we often see of them, and I used to be slightly apprehensive that “Seen and Unseen” would finish on rigidity.
Then, Burgess hit her breaking level after a name with Deputy Chief Reid, who continues to trigger issues for Intelligence, requiring extra paperwork from her. So far as I used to be involved, it wasn’t wanting good for her to have a contented ending at residence within the last minutes of the episode. Generally, it is good to be unsuitable!
Burgess Realized What Issues Most
As she sat all the way down to her pc for extra hours of paperwork, Burgess flashed again over her encounters with Ruzek from the episode to comprehend that she was neglecting their relationship and never acknowledging all of the work he was doing whereas she targeted on her report.
In a neat trick, Chicago P.D. performed by way of the identical scenes from earlier within the episode, however with barely completely different angles to point out Burgess realizing what she’d missed the primary time round. So, she went residence and shocked her fiancé with information that she’d booked them a weekend on the 5-star Langham resort in downtown Chicago, dropping a beautiful little speech on him:
What I imply is we’re planning this marriage ceremony and we’re getting married, and I simply received promoted and I made detective. I do not need my recollections of this era of my life to be of stress. Our life… It is okay. Quite a bit’s positive. It is life. We’re good. You and I, we’re actually good, however I do not wanna miss issues, as a result of I really feel like I am lacking issues.
It might have taken them twelve seasons to get right here, however I nominate Burzek because the One Chicago couple with the most effective communication! Ruzek clearly responded properly to her speech, and the credit rolled with them fortunately getting an early begin on what Ruzek dubbed their “saucy weekend.” The marriage is going on, the happily-ever-after remains to be on the books, and my suspicion that their large ceremony will not occur as deliberate does not essentially imply catastrophe if I am proper.
Why I Assume The BIG Wedding ceremony Would possibly Not Occur
Fortunately, my doubts about Burgess and Ruzek tying the knot with an enormous ceremony aren’t about anyone getting chilly ft or a battle splitting them up or Voight inflicting relationship issues a la Upstead. (No, I do not nonetheless have a grudge about Voight messing with Upton and Halstead’s relationship. I am undoubtedly, completely, utterly 100% over that. Not protesting an excessive amount of in any respect, proper?) After I say that the “large marriage ceremony may not occur,” I fairly actually imply that they may not be capable to have their BIG marriage ceremony.
The completed visitor checklist apparently hit 120, with Ruzek telling Burgess that the planner broke the information that “there is not any approach we’re becoming 120 within the yard,” so that they’re “gonna should make some brutal cuts.” Plus, it would not be a marriage within the One Chicago world if one thing did not go awry. The latest weddings on Chicago Hearth have been Stellaride and Brettsey, with the previous getting married on a ship after dropping their venue and the latter getting married in a fish retailer after ready too lengthy for a venue.
Chicago Med‘s Ethan and April did get a beautiful church marriage ceremony, however that will have at the least partly been resulting from Brian Tee leaving the sequence and simply getting a contented sendoff with Yaya DaCosta’s return. The Manstead marriage ceremony fell aside earlier than anyone may even strategy the aisle, although! And as for Upstead on Chicago P.D... properly, the one hope for a contented ending for them is an off-screen reunion after their divorce.
All of that is to say that I anticipate one thing to go very a lot not in response to plan for the Burzek nuptials, together with them not getting that large 100+ individual marriage ceremony they’d needed.
Why I Assume A Wedding ceremony Will Occur
I do suppose that the knot shall be tied earlier than the credit roll on Season 12, although. Marina Squerciati shared that she was “stupidly excited” attempting on marriage ceremony attire for the present, and a latest set of photographs on her Instagram web page embrace a marriage invitation itemizing the ceremony as “Could 25, 2025 AT 3 O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON.” The actress was additionally nonetheless sharing pics of marriage ceremony robes as lately as a number of weeks in the past:
Whereas her large episode aired stay on March 26, Squerciati shared on X (previously referred to as Twitter) that she was “nonetheless on set with Paddy filming the finale.” Does that imply she and Patrick John Flueger have been filming a contented ending to the finale proper at that second whereas “Seen and Unseen” was taking part in on NBC? Okay, possibly not, however I am feeling good a few Burzek marriage ceremony taking place in some type or different. Even when one thing does derail their best-laid plans, certainly the characters would not wish to delay since Ruzek’s dad is not doing properly.
Plus, if we assume that every one needed knots shall be tied, we will have enjoyable speculating about who makes the minimize on the visitor checklist. Disco Bob will hopefully be readily available, and I have been speculating that Adam’s sister may seem as properly. It would be good if Burgess may have some household readily available, and naturally there are many One Chicago characters who may make fan want lists as marriage ceremony company.
In fact, the solid filming finale scenes does not imply that NBC is anyplace close to out of Season 12 episodes, and the subsequent one appears to be like prefer it’ll be a tough one for Atwater in his personal relationship. Try the preview:
Watch On
Catch new episodes of Chicago P.D. Season 12 on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET, following Chicago Hearth at 9 p.m. ET and Chicago Med at 8 p.m. ET. The wait remains to be on for NBC to announce renewals for the 2025-2026 TV schedule, however hopefully excellent news about the way forward for One Chicago shall be introduced sooner moderately than later.