![]() ![]() “This isn’t just another crime series, Chicago P.D. This is the very thing that Sigan hopes will keep regular viewers tuning in week after week, and that will attract some new ones as well. It’s an episode that I believe viewers will always remember, for both its intensity and its emotional moments as well.” You hand it off and it becomes the cast and the crews, and you just hope that if everything goes right that it will become something memorable and I think it truly has. She adds, “This is one of those episodes where you write it and it's no longer yours. With all of that, and the limitations that we faced, I just have to say that I’m so impressed with what we managed to do. First, we had a moving train with lots of people on it, and then we had a this dark, deep well full of water. ![]() “It was extremely difficult because we had serious time and budget constraints - we’re a television show and not a big budget film - but we were definitely trying to tell a big budget story here. Speaking of putting in the work, Sigan says that shooting this particular episode, both on the train and in the well, required everyone on the team to really step up their game. But for something like this with Marina, in the way she portrays Burgess, she really had to help us build the arc to get to this episode, so it was a real collaboration between us.” “We talked about it, but as the showrunner I felt like we had to find a balance because there were certain things that I don't want the actors to play until they're on the page. Marina Squerciati, who plays Burgess, was made aware of the storyline for the 200 th episode at that beginning of the season, says Sigan. Sigan details the process, saying, “In the beginning we see her reluctant to do this, but then that changes and you see why she was reluctant and the very real fear that's at the bottom of it - she has this stigma in her head that if she admits that she has a problem what does that mean for her career, her livelihood? So, we discussed what that would look like and then we carefully constructed that journey.” Part of that help, comes from Burgess going to therapy. To me, that’s the most interesting, and definitely, positive part of this story.” One of those decisions she makes is to get help for her issues and in getting that help you see her grow. But, she points out that, “What we’re doing is really digging into Burgess psychology and showing how what’s happened to her in the past informs the decisions she makes. ![]() ![]() While "Trapped" was a triumph for Squerciati and a momentous episode for Burgess, it wasn't as thrilling as the 100th episode and it was a disappointment not to make it an event that featured all of the characters who made 200 episodes possible.Along those same lines, Sigan is aware that some viewers might take issue with the series focusing on female trauma. It would, however, have strengthened the episode – and been more fitting for the milestone of 200 episodes – had these interactions been more than brief. gave viewers were a sprinkling of Burgess and Kevin Atwater content, while Voight and Burgess worked together for a few coveted moments of screen time. These elements could have been explored by the other characters while Burgess and Ruzek were fighting for their lives on the subway.Ĭhicago P.D. There was a colossal lack of background information of clear motivation behind the suspect's actions. But the storyline itself was half-hearted. The plot's intensity was heightened by a passenger bleeding out whom Burgess had to save, and Ruzek had a high-stakes moment confronting the suspect. "Trapped" dazzled visually given the hindrances of setting most of the episode in a small space. ![]()
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