Season 8 allowed Burgess to connect with a little girl who went through a terrible trauma of her own, which got the Intelligence officer reconsidering what kind of mother she would have been if she hadn’t lost that future with Ruzek.
Marina Squerciati has opened up about Burgess in Season 8, including how she continues to deal with her trauma and her new dynamic with Ruzek.
Chicago P.D. returned to NBC in 2021 to raise the emotional stakes in a big way for Kim Burgess, whose major arc last season took a tragic twist and she had to find a way to deal with the trauma of the miscarriage while still doing her job.