Following 'Chicago P.D.'s' 'SVU'-Worthy Twist, Marina Squerciati Weighs In On The Show's Approach To The 'Code Of Silence'

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The third episode of Chicago P.D. Season 11 in the 2024 TV schedule ended on a very happy twist, with Ruzek proposing to Burgess in what Marina Squerciati described as a "perfect" moment. Most of the episode wasn't quite so straightfoward, however, as what seemed to a hate crime turned out to be a cop committing murder to try and cover up a sexual assault on a migrant woman. It was the kind of case that usually belongs to Olivia Benson over on Law & Order: SVU. The dirty cop had a simple request of Burgess when she arrived to arrest him, and the actress spoke with CinemaBlend about the choice her character made.  Officer Danny Alvarez joined the Intelligence Unit for the case of the week, seemingly because he was dedicated to tracking down the shooter who committed a hate crime right outside his precinct. Burgess connected the dots to realize that not only did Alvarez arrange for the shooting to kill the woman he'd raped (and who was pregnant), but he shot and killed somebody else who could have exposed him.

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00:00We had Burgess facing this choice of whether or not she should give the cop the easy way out

00:05after he was caught and let him shoot himself. Is that something that you think Burgess would

00:12have ever considered allowing? I think what I like about this show, maybe not, maybe not Burgess,

00:18but I will say I would like to think maybe in that there is a blue wall, there is a code of silence

00:27within the cops. There is good and bad within every cop, within protecting, you know, their

00:33brothers and protecting the streets. So I like that there's, there was some doubt that we're not

00:40just all good and the criminals are not always all bad. It's always complicated.

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