Spoilers forward for the Season 12 finale of Chicago P.D., referred to as “Vows” and out there streaming now with a Peacock subscription.
As anticipated for a finale that will contain Voight pondering his “mortality” and Deputy Chief Reid making an enormous transfer in opposition to the Intelligence Unit, Chicago P.D.‘s remaining episode of the spring 2025 TV schedule was fairly intense for a lot of the hour. It did finish on a principally excessive word, nevertheless, after the unit had been – to cite showrunner Gwen Sigan – in “a lot bother.” Once I spoke with Sigan in regards to the finale, I needed to ask in regards to the visitor listing for Burgess and Ruzek lastly tying the knot, in addition to why an episode referred to as “Vows” did not truly embrace any wedding ceremony vows.
The marriage was fairly conventional by One Chicago requirements, full with a lovely robe on Burgess, Ruzek trying dapper in his swimsuit, a stroll down the aisle, and loads of individuals within the pews. Occurring on the finish of the episode additionally meant that it could not be ruined by Reid crashing it, though Voight’s transfer in defeating the Deputy Chief did considerably bitter the nuptials when Chapman could not assist however deliver it up.
Nonetheless, Burzek lastly received to tie the knot, and we formally have the primary married couple on Chicago P.D. since Upstead’s premature finish. In talking with Gwen Sigan in regards to the newest wedding ceremony within the huge world of One Chicago, I requested about how the writers selected the visitor listing for the marriage. She defined:
Oh man! We had a want listing, and it was mainly, ‘Who can we get?’ [laughs] It is all the time a scheduling factor. It turns into a manufacturing factor, actually, on the finish of the day. If we may have each single member of One Chicago there, we’d have, however in fact, that is not essentially the truth. They’re working! They gotta defend the town. We have been actually excited to get Mouch as a result of it felt like, in fact Mouch must be there. He is with Platt. I imply, he is gotta be there together with her as her plus one. After which we have been simply hoping [for] as many as we may get, mainly.
Mouch was the one character from Chicago Fireplace or Chicago Med who joined the P.D. festivities, with Christian Stolte making an look not too lengthy after his eventful episode of Med. There have been no former P.D. stars who turned up both, though I hadn’t gotten my hopes up for that after a earlier Burzek improvement. Nonetheless, we noticed all the principle P.D. gamers in addition to Makayla and Bob Ruzek, plus a bunch of unnamed characters, so Kim and Adam had a full sufficient home to say “I do.”
Though if anyone hoped to really hear the “I do” after some prolonged vows from Chicago P.D.‘s longest-running couple, that did not occur within the Season 12 finale. When requested if vows have been ever even scripted for Burzek, Sigan shared:
No, you didn’t hear any. There weren’t [any scripted]. I believe there have been, at one level, maybe within the beat sheet define part, there have been so far as we thought we’d do some kind of voiceover and have their vows. It simply started to really feel just a little bit too tender and virtually too candy for the the tone we needed on the finish. With all of the stakes that we had arrange and all the pieces, it was only a bit too jarring to out of the blue be on this different tone. So, there was by no means any [vows] shot or scripted on a web page in an precise script kind.
Nicely, if the finale was going to slot in one final dialog between Voight and Chapman within the viewers of the marriage, then the ceremony could not be fully mild and fancy-free for followers to observe from residence. Voight’s choices that led to Reid’s loss of life and even put up mortem downfall have been a results of him falling again into some outdated unhealthy habits, and being dressed to the nines for a marriage did not cease Chapman from calling him out on it.
So, we did not hear how Burgess and Ruzek proclaimed their love for one another to lastly begin off their marriage. Nonetheless, seeing them surrounded by family members on the altar, we are able to at the least be pleased that they have been none the wiser that Voight and Chapman have been having a really totally different form of dialog a number of pews again. They’re married, and with no signal that Marina Squerciati or Patrick John Flueger is leaving the present like Jesse Lee Soffer did to throw a wrench in Upstead’s marriage, the great ship Burzek appears to be crusing sturdy into Season 13.
The marriage was the final that we’ll see of those characters for the subsequent a number of months, as summer season hiatus has formally kicked off. Followers can have the choice of rewatching earlier episodes streaming by way of Peacock, and NBC renewed all three One Chicago reveals to return to Wednesday nights within the fall. The Windy Metropolis motion is not going wherever regardless of different NBC cancellations like Fits LA and Night time Court docket, so it is only a matter of ready.