Trapped
Season 10 • Episode 14
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Chicago P.D. Episode 200 “Trapped.”]
Chicago P.D. celebrates a milestone with a two hundredth episode that leaves Officer Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) no alternative however to face her PTS from when she was shot — first when a automotive backfires, then when she’s on a subway practice in a tunnel with a person bleeding out, and eventually on the backside of a properly, making an attempt to rescue a child.
It begins when Burgess is at dwelling, with Officer Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) and her daughter Makayla. The automotive backfiring makes her flash again to when she was shot and saved herself, and Makayla finds her on the ground, shaking. Ruzek sends the younger woman to mattress and tries to speak Burgess via respiration. After that, Burgess tells her therapist she’s been tremendous, and so she desires to cope with what’s taking place now and return to being “fine.” Her therapist then tells her about PTS, describing it as resulting in selections made out of concern and pushing away the folks you like, in addition to trapping you with out you recognize it’s there till one thing modifications that.
It’s instantly after that session that Burgess and Ruzek, who’d been ready outdoors and urges her to not push him away, hear a gunshot and chase the shooter and sufferer onto a subway practice. What follows is Ruzek chasing after the shooter and in the end dropping him within the tunnel, whereas Burgess stays with the sufferer as he bleeds out — and making an attempt to save lots of his life whereas every part round her (together with his blood staining her shirt and arms and the pictures exchanged between her companion and the offender) reminds her of her personal trauma. When Ruzek finds her, the sufferer (later recognized as Jamie) is useless and she or he turns her focus to discovering the shooter. When she waits within the morgue to speak to the ME, her arms are shaking.
Intelligence’s investigation leads them to Jamie’s uncle, Aaron. But why would he shoot his personal nephew? As they uncover, Aaron and his spouse have been preserving their son, Lucas, in a wall within the shed; there’s a pillow and blanket — and a few blood. Jamie should have came upon. But the place’s Lucas now? Aaron is MIA and his spouse gained’t speak.
Traffic cameras choose him up, and Burgess and Ruzek break up as much as search the realm. It’s Burgess who finds Aaron’s truck and Lucas in a properly. When she goes down to assist him, Aaron shoots down at them, then closes them in. And so even whereas triggered and speaking herself via respiration, Burgess has to assist Lucas. When he can’t make it up the ladder, she should climb, and by the point she pushes the rocks holding the duvet down on the properly off and will get out, Ruzek finds her — Aaron’s useless — and climbs right down to Lucas.
After these occasions, Burgess returns to remedy. She can’t really feel like this, like she’s getting shot over again and bleeding out each time she hears a gun goes off, she admits. “I can’t be who I want to be with this, not for my daughter, not for Adam, and I can’t be a cop,” she says. “They bench cops for this. I can’t not do this job. I don’t ever want to not do this job. You said I’m trapped. But I can’t be trapped.” And so she and her therapist are going to “work on getting [her] free.”
What will that work seem like? We’ve seen that Burgess nonetheless did her job, even whereas being reminded of what occurred to her, however will anybody else from the unit know she’s working with a therapist? If the flawed individual within the CPD finds out, she may very well be benched. And would possibly this “work” result in a giant step for Burgess and Ruzek, given the therapist’s point out of PTS resulting in pushing folks you like away?
Chicago P.D., Wednesdays, 10/9c, NBC