Chicago P.D. Producer Responds to 1 Big Complaint Fans Have With Season 12 Finale

One of the producers of Chicago P.D. recently responded to fans' complaints over the Season 12 finale. The episode, which focuses on Burgess and Ruzek's wedding, didn't contain their vows.

Per TV Insider, Chicago P.D. showrunner Gwen Sigan talked about why this crucial scene never made it to air and whether fans can expect to see Burgess and Ruzek's vows down the line. Unfortunately, it's not good news. "Probably not, no," Sigan said of the possibility to see more of the wedding. "I mean there’s a version of this, yeah, sure, where we could jump back into the wedding, but I doubt it."

She also elaborated about why the episode was titled 'Vows' without showing the actual vows in the wedding scenes. "We thought a lot about writing the vows for sure. I think as we were going through the process of sort of putting all these storylines together, you have this very high-stake situation for Voight, for the full team. In so many ways, this is really a Voight episode, and so to also want to marry it with this wedding was tricky, and we wanted the right tone," Sigan explained.

It came down to wanting to pair a happy scene, like the wedding, with the more emotional scenes that Chapman (Sara Bues) and Voight (Jason Beghe) experienced. "[T]he vows themselves are so sweet that it just felt like it wasn’t the right juxtaposition. It felt like it was a little too jarring. So that’s kind of why we ended up going in this direction that we chose to really lean more into this conversation between Chapman and Voight."

With Sigan saying it's unlikely that the series will return to the wedding in the future, fans can at least rest easy knowing there's no cut footage of the vows that just never made it to air. "They’re definitely not shot. We definitely didn’t shoot anything," Sigan confirmed. "So yeah, they’re not just hanging out for us to put out there, but who knows? You never know, I suppose, where we could take the next season."

"An Interesting Dynamic": Chicago P.D. Showrunner on Season 13's Story

With Burgess and Ruzek now married, Sigan also talked about how Season 13 of the hit police drama will change up its dynamic. While the showrunners haven't begun working on actual storylines just yet, Sigan is excited to see how the newly married couple's dynamic plays out on screen, comparing it to another Chicago P.D. couple. "I think it’ll be really fun to write a married couple. We haven’t had a married couple on the show, really, since Halstead and Upton were married, but their marriage was very fraught."

Burgess and Ruzek's more blissful marriage will offer Chicago P.D. new ways to push its characters outside their comfort zone. "[T]his will feel a little bit different. And yeah, I think it’ll be a challenge, and I think it will be just an interesting dynamic to see play out at home," Sigan shared, "but also at work and sort of what they could be pushed into, because they have that stability at home, kind of taking risks at work could be really fun and different."

Season 12 of Chicago P.D. is now streaming on Peacock.