Disco Bob made fairly a large number for himself on Chicago PD Season 8 Episode 10.
The Ruzek-focused episode was a pleasant welcome again following a short hiatus. And it let our boy Patrick Flueger shine. However that is not likely stunning, is it?
Bob Ruzek’s 30-year profession with the CPD has been a bit strained, as has his relationship along with his son, Adam.
The 2 have not at all times seen eye-to-eye, however that is the factor about mother and father and children — there’s at all times a stage of affection there it doesn’t matter what occurs.
And Adam was in full-on protecting mode when Bob was kidnapped.
Pop’s, I hope you are first rate. Coming in with a woman!
Ruzek
He was prepared to do something to avoid wasting Bob as a result of, on the finish of the day, that is his father.
Nonetheless, Adam wasn’t naive both. He knew Bob’s vices, so he instantly went to Benny the bar proprietor considering that his father was focused due to his playing drawback.
When it was revealed that Bob paid off his whopping $80,000 debt, it was evident that his state of affairs was rather more severe.
Ruzek had low expectations for his father based mostly on his previous errors, however he by no means thought-about that his father might have been borrowing cash for a gang chief to pay again his dues.
You’d assume a cop would know higher, however Bob was determined.
When he could not pay again the cash, he was pressured to make use of his badge to search out the identify of a snitch and promote them out to the gang chief, Barela.
Bob’s state of affairs was unhealthy, nevertheless it was salvageable. That’s till he did the unthinkable and bought out his son!
Actually, there is not any getting back from that, and my guess is that Ruzek and Bob’s relationship will stay fractured from right here on out.
Besides, Ruzek tried to rally behind his father.
He knew his father made a mistake and did not have one of the best opinion round city, however he could not simply stand by and do nothing.
It is comprehensible that Bob wished them to chop Barela free as he threatened his entire legacy. He did not need his errors getting out as it will price him his pension, his advantages, and most significantly, it will taint the Ruzek identify.
His life’s work was imploding simply days earlier than his retirement.
Ruzek: What are you following me?
Burgess: Sure. Sure. Look, you had been clearly mendacity to Voight if you noticed that textual content at your dad’s home. I wished to be sure you weren’t doing one thing extracurricular, simply plain ol’ silly. Had been you?
But it surely wasn’t honest of Ruzek to ask Voight to show a blind eye. As Voight identified, this wasn’t simply an assault on Bob, it was an assault on the CPD.
Trying the opposite means was the equal of telling criminals you can purchase the police with sufficient dust on them.
Voight has at all times cherished Ruzek like a son, however I am glad he put him in his place.
His father’s errors weren’t his personal, and everybody who knew Ruzek knew his true character.
After all, Barela’s loss of life was the very best final result as a result of when he died, Bob’s secrets and techniques died with him.
But it surely was a stretch to counsel that Ruzek killed him on function to guard his dad or his household identify.
Ruzek was in a fragile mind-set and was spiraling a bit, so it is easy to imagine the “worst-case situation,” particularly if you see a person with two pictures to the again.
Nonetheless, Burgess of all individuals ought to’ve by no means questioned him. She is aware of him too effectively to doubt him. And but, she was the one one which did, at the same time as he maintained that it was a clear shot.
Voight: We’re speaking about buying and selling one life for an additional.
Ruzek: However one life is Merlin, who’s a gang member. He is a rat. Boss, you aren’t getting to the place that Merlin’s in by dwelling some clear life.
Voight: Adam. You aren’t getting to the place your father’s in by main a clear life. Do you?
Ruzek: No, sir. However he is my father. I’d make the identical commerce for you each time.
Voight might have thought-about that Ruzek took it too far, however he by no means crossed the road and stated it aloud.
He merely trusted him and waited till there was video proof, which superbly confirmed that Adam was telling the reality.
Regardless of his feelings operating excessive, he by no means allow them to get one of the best of him.
Barela pulled a gun on him and he fired three rounds in self-defense. There was little doubt about it.
Ruzek: The identify Ruzek’s going to stain this division, and I gotta lug that round lengthy after my dad is gone.
Voight: All of the people who matter, they know who you’re.
The state of affairs led to among the finest scenes on Chicago PD ever. Whoever wrote that highly effective speech deserves all of the reward, as does Paddy for these appearing chops. Whew, I nonetheless have chills.
Whereas I am not a fan of driving a wedge between Burgess and Ruzek (once more), I really like that he stood up for himself.
Over the course of the previous few episodes, Ruzek’s beliefs have been questioned numerous occasions.
He was accused of police brutality (when there was none), Atwater confronted him, and now, the one lady he is ever actually cherished thought he was able to killing a person in chilly blood.
That is sure to set anybody off.
However Ruzek was offended as a lot as he was disenchanted.
As he defined, when she arrived on the scene, she did not query if he was alright. As a substitute, her go-to was to ask him what he did, which insinuated that she believed he shot somebody with out benefit.
You recognize his coronary heart, Burgess. What the precise hell?
Ruzek: Kim, one of many many causes that I fell in love with you is that I felt such as you believed in me. Such as you believed in my in a means that no one in my total life has.
Burgess: I did.
Ruzek: Even me.
Burgess: I do.
Ruzek: I am not so certain.
Burgess: You need to see how what I stated made sense within the second. You need to see that.
Ruzek: I do not. After every little thing that you just and I’ve been by way of, there simply ought to have been one thing that held you again from the sting of assumption. Some type of guardrail that stored you from going over that ledge. I imply, if this case is reversed — I am you; you are me — and I run up on you, you are standing over Barela holding a gun. If I received near the ledge, nice, I would not go over. Not ever. Trigger I do know your coronary heart. And I do know that there is not a world during which you’d kill a person in chilly blood, that you just’d shoot him within the again as he is operating away. For what — revenge? For your loved ones identify? Come on. That is what you meant if you stated, “what did you do.” In that second, I would have thought you’d know my coronary heart. You are presupposed to know.
Burgess: I do know your coronary heart. I do. And I am sorry.
Ruzek: Thanks for stopping by.
I do not know what this implies for his or her future, although I am not counting them out simply but; I think about them.
It will take a bit for her to earn again his belief. I hope that by seeing him so uncooked and weak, she’s inspired to take a step again and do some soul looking out as a result of she crossed a fairly large line.
Burgess has by no means really misplaced Ruzek. Even once they weren’t collectively or once they had been at their lowest, he was at all times there for her.
Perhaps realizing that he may not at all times be there’ll power her to come back to phrases with what she actually desires?
On the finish of the day, Ruzek might have gained the case, however two of a very powerful relationships in his life had been fractured presumably past restore.
He was left disenchanted and betrayed by the individuals he loves essentially the most, and when Adam is hurting, I am hurting!
Additionally, I should not should say it, however I’ve to say it: the place is Makayla? Who’s watching her? Why did the present give Burgess a storyline about fostering a baby that is been sidelined for weeks?
The promo for subsequent week teases some sizzling and heavy moments for #Upstead. Are you prepared?
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