An unexpected departure for the Chicago Police Department… until the 13th season of the franchise series created by Dick Wolf began in the United States on October 1, 2025 on the NBC channel, specialized media. term reports that one of the stars of the fiction will be temporarily absent from future episodes.
Patrick Fluger is temporarily leaving the Chicago Police Department
This is Patrick John Fluger, who, after the first episode of the detective fiction that started in 2013, slipped into the shoes of the character Adam Ruzek. As our American colleagues have shown, the actor is going through a difficult period on a personal level and has been drinking alcohol on the set.
This outing was clearly not planned for the Chicago Police Department teams. As such, the writers urgently need to look into future storylines to find a way to explain to the audience why a character is temporarily estranged from his dear colleagues…
Alcohol problems on set
In Season 13, currently airing on Atlantic, the squad awaits the results of Deputy Chief Charlie Reed’s (Sean Hattos) case, a situation that Voight (Jason Baggi) orchestrated…
As the team returns to action after the sweep, Ruzek and his wife Burgess (Marina Squerciati) focus on their marriage and family life while continuing to keep the streets of Chicago safe.
This is not the first time that the actor of the world of Chicago took time for himself and temporarily left the series. Not so long ago on the side of Chicago Fire, it was actress Taylor Keene (aka Kelly Severide), who left for ten months for personal reasons, and then returned to the fire department.
Continued in the Chicago Police Department…
Source: Allocine
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