[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Chicago P.D. Season 12 Episode 14 “Marie.”]
Chicago P.D. delivers an intense conclusion to the two-parter that began in “Zoe” with the most recent episode. Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) could be very very like Intelligence’s chief, Voight (Jason Beghe), in his pursuit of the serial killer who as soon as once more kidnapped a younger lady, often known as Zoe (Anabelle Toomy).
Cronin (Eric Sheffer Stevens) manages to search out Zoe in foster care and kills the lady who had been watching over her earlier than taking off together with her. However by the point the unit traces their steps, he’s bleeding out and Zoe isn’t with him. Ruzek has no downside hurting him extra to attempt to get him to surrender Zoe’s location. Actually, it takes Voight yelling at him that it’s “sufficient!” and Burgess (Marina Squerciati) pushing him again for him to cease. That’s one thing we’re used to seeing from Voight, so how does he really feel about it coming from Ruzek?
“What Voight desires out of his workforce is for his workforce to be themselves. And that may be a very Voight-like conduct. However of all of the folks that have ever been on the workforce, Ruzek is extra like that than any of the opposite characters; naturally, that’s a part of who he’s,” Beghe tells TV Insider.
“And in the event you’ve seen, Voight used to slap folks and do issues that had been manner outdoors the traces. He’s type of reined it in and that’s a part of the brand new policing and he has to vary and evolve and finally, he desires to do his job effectively. He understood which you can’t do this anymore, so he needed to discover different methods to do his job effectively, and he doesn’t need Adam to fall into that lure both,” he continues. “So in that second, I believe Voight understood his response, however he additionally understood, I gotta soar in and get him out of the way in which of himself and that we will get to level B with out that.”
This received’t essentially result in Voight keeping track of Ruzek going ahead. “I don’t assume Voight thinks like that. He’s not a worrier,” explains Beghe. “It’s solely within the final couple of seasons the place he’s truly began to type of have actually any self-reflection. A little bit mantra Jason has as an actor and as an individual is, ‘It’s good to have an interest versus attention-grabbing, proper?’ And Voight could be very , but additionally, even when he seems to be at himself, he’s not attention-grabbing. He’s not like, ‘Oh, I really feel unhealthy.’ It’s extra like, ‘There’s an issue, there’s a fault, there’s a weak point. How can we repair that? How can we resolve it?’ So it’s the identical together with his workforce. It’s not like, ‘I don’t such as you, you’re a foul individual.’ It’s simply this, ‘We are able to’t do, cease.’”
Cronin doesn’t quit Zoe’s location, even as soon as they provide him a deal; he sends them to the fallacious location. However earlier than then, he talks and talks and talks about nothing for therefore lengthy that Voight leaves Ruzek within the hospital room with him and goes and will get the aforementioned deal.
That scene “was so advanced,” notes Beghe, who praises Stevens’ efficiency. “You bought to see this conman, this liar, this psychopath, and this charming man and this simply full liar, psychopathic, narcissistic [guy], and that man nailed that.”
He additionally raves about Toomy, revealing he advised her mom the identical factor he advised Haley Joel Osment‘s, that she is “unbelievable. That’s gifted.”
There may be excellent news for Zoe by the episode’s finish. With Intelligence working laborious to determine her, they’re in a position to find her grandmother, who involves get her and divulges her title: Marie.
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Elsewhere within the episode, as a lot as he desires to have his father (Jack Coleman), who has been recognized with Alzheimer’s, residence with him, Ruzek realizes that he can’t present the care he wants. By the tip of the episode, Bob’s shifting right into a care facility close to Ruzek and Burgess’ residence. However what’s so heartbreaking is that after Ruzek tells him that, Bob asks him to remind him of his title.
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