Things were rough when Season 12 ofChicago P.D.premiered in the fall of 2024,following the Season 11 exit of Detective Hailey Upton(Tracy Spiradakos), and theshocking death of a character in the 2024 premiere. Fans also noticed thatKim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) was missing from the first two episodes, only to show up in Episode 3 as if nothing had happened.
The actress revealed why her character was absent in a special New Year’s Eve post revealing that she had had her second child following a secret pregnancy. “This is the REAL reason I wasn’t in the first two episodes of #ChicagoPD,” she wrote.
Squerciati explained that 2024 “was a big year” for her, writing that “I thought I handled being a pregnant working mom with grace.” Fans were nervous that she was leaving the show like other cast members, but she squashed any speculation back in November 2024 when speaking withThe Hollywood Reporter:
“Actually, we all have two episodes off. So mine just happened to be the first two episodes. Nothing happened. Everyone had conspiracy theories. I’m fine.”
Her character is currently engaged to Adam Ruzek(Patrick John Flueger) with speculation they will be married by the end of Season 12. Ruzek is also dealing with the death seen in the Season 12 premiere.Burgess also became a Detective Grade 1in the sixth episode, “Pawns.”
TheOne ChicagoCrossover Event withChicago Fire,Chicago Med, andChicago P.D.
Coming at the end of January is theOne Chicagocrossover, as the three shows come together in a three-part, one-night event. The casts ofChicago Fire,Chicago Med, andChicago P.D.will team up in what producers are calling, “a three-hour action movie.”
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The last major crossover event between all three shows happened in October 2019, so fans ofOne Chicagoare thrilled about the new crossover. Wolf Entertainment and co-executive producer Anastasia Puglisi explained (viaNBC) that there is a lot of coordination between the writers, producers, casts, and crews of all three shows, along with the City of Chicago itself. “We’re thrilled to have the best talent in every department to meet this challenge,” she said.
NBC also released a plot synopsis of the three-episode event, which sounds like a 1970s-style disaster film with multiple characters and storylines:
“When a gas explosion rocks a high-rise, Chicago’s first responders come out in force to rescue hundreds of civilians. It’s the calamity beneath the surface, however, that sends our heroes on a race to save 40 people trapped deep underground, including two of their own.”
Chicago P.D.
District 21 of the Chicago Police Department is made up of two distinctly different groups: The uniformed cops who patrol the beat and deal with street crimes, and the intelligence unit, the team that combats the city’s major offenses, such as organized crime, drug trafficking and high-profile murders. Leading the intelligence team is Sgt. Hank Voight, a man not against skirting the law in the pursuit of justice. Demanding and tough, only those who can take the heat survive under Voight’s command. Take Det. Antonio Dawson for example. Despite a troubled history with his boss, Dawson has ambitions of running the unit. If that means facing off against Voight every day, he’ll persevere. From the street cops with dreams of moving up to the elite crew who are already in, “life on the job” is a daily challenge.
