Meanwhile, Chicago P.D. season 12 has seen Voight at war with Reid, amid his own internal battle. It’s up to fans to decide if the characters

are truly all that different, but it’s a question the series has posed in recent episodes. Their storyline comes to a head in “Vows”, and there’s

no doubt that the fallout will continue into next season. Coinciding with its title, the finale also features the long-awaited wedding between Burgess and Ruzek, but current events threaten to disrupt the festivities.

 

 

Andrea Newman: Great question. There’s some risky behavior happening on Severide’s part. He is all in to defend Pascal, but at the same time, he can’t help having a nagging feeling that maybe Pascal did have something to do with it.

They had that bond that came out of the Bishop incident early in the season, and he’s put his trust in this guy, and they’ve had each other’s back. So he’s all in and Van Meter is none too happy about it, but he’s going all in for Pascal. If Pascal goes down, Severide goes down. Those are the stakes.

 

 

Andrea Newman: Yeah, that’s been the dilemma from the beginning. Somebody is going to have to go, and that’s the mystery that must be solved. From the beginning of this season, the pressure has been on Herrmann because Boden handed him the crown at the end of last season and said, “You’re the next leader here. You just have to take these tests to get there.” Everybody’s been pushing for it, and Mouch needs it to happen for him to get where he wants.

And Pascal comes in, and he’s testing him and is pushing Herrmann all the time. And the one person who hasn’t stopped and said, “Should I be doing this?” is Herrmann. So that’s really where we’re at heading into the finale, is him not knowing what to do and wanting to support his best friend. And at the same time, they’ve come to be a family with Pascal as well. It’s not so easy to just say, “Oh yeah. We’ll kick that guy to the curb.” Pascal’s got his problems going on, but Herrmann does too.

Andrea Newman: I feel like this whole season has been a journey for both of them in the way that they didn’t have clear role models when they got married. They were like, “Our parents were terrible parents, so how are we going to be ever good parents?” Kidd has struggled particularly with that.

But having that journey this year where she got to talk to her cousin when he showed up and talk about her aunt’s pregnancy and the depression and realized when she articulated that, that she could move on from that. And same with the rollercoaster episode in the hospital where they almost got to adopt this baby, and they got this glimpse of what motherhood would be like.

Even though it was a tragic ending, and they didn’t get the baby, I think it really empowered Severide and Kidd as a couple and brought them closer together. They got a little glimpse of what each other would be like as a mother and a father. So, in my mind, she came out of that experience saying, “I can do this.” She’s empowered to the point of, “I can be a mother. However that happens, I can be a mom, and I’m ready for it.”