THERE'S A CITY FULL OF PEOPLE, SLEEP WITH ONE OF THEM!

Why isn't the intelligence unit featured on Chicago P.D. one massive, ongoing headache for the human relations department?  Sometimes I think the show should really be called Ruzek and Burgess and Halstead and Upton.  Once upon a time, the first two were engaged to be married, but that came undone, and there's more scoring on the rebound than we've seen of the Blackhawks lately.  "As for Ruzek and Upton, there wasn't any movement on that front, but we can assume they are still sleeping together."  Or not, or the various participants in this four-way corner are attempting not to get on the train.

The triangle does not have to be this forced.

Within seconds, Ruzek flopped from trying to hook up with Upton to asking Burgess if he can walk her home.

Based on his jumpy attitude, Burgess should have picked up on something between him and Upton.

I hope Ruzek doesn't play both women, the only two women in the unit, at the same time.

I'd lose all respect for him.

But he is, even with some additional women in supporting roles.

Why would you want anything personal -- fling or otherwise -- to jeopardize yourself or the team?

The job requires everyone to work together, trust each other, and handle tough and emotional cases.

Even hurt feelings or a break-up can put someone in danger.

And realistically, friends with benefits don't exist. Even when two people are casually hooking up, feelings get involved, and things get messy.

Anything can happen in a cartoon, which is what the Chicago series has become, with the fishing off the company pier confined to the firehouse or the emergency ward or the precinct, even with all these cast members interacting on crossover episodes.  There's a thousand ways things can go wrong.  And plot complications.

I don't see #Burzek's reconciliation happening anytime soon either.

Admittedly, it was a little bit of a low blow to have Burgess find out about Ruzek and Upton's relationships by walking in on their flirty little moment.

For people who are trying to be lowkey about their romance, they really are not lowkey.

I enjoyed Upton and Burgess' heart-to-heart, but I didn't understand Upton's reasoning for keeping it from her.

That Upton didn't want to come clean about the romance because she once dated her Sgt., and people thought that was the only reason she got promoted was a lame excuse.

At the firehouse, there's a dual problem, with Severeide keeping Kidd at a distance in an attempt to make her promotion to lieutenant seem less corrupt, and that's not going to go well either.

It's the precinct that I want to focus on, though, where the turntables turn.

Ruzek cannot be mad that Upton moved on if he's having a baby with his ex.

I was surprised by how quickly Burgess told Ruzek.

I expected her to grapple with the decision or at least push it off till she found the right time to tell him, but coming out and saying it proves she respects him.

And it's not like Burgess could have talked it through with anyone else on the team. Rojas is too new, and Upton is the baby daddy's ex.

It's a new season, finally, after lots of delays recording the show, and it's shaping up as Ruzek and Burgess and Halstead and Upton, at least for now. "Everyone on the team has either lost a child due to the job or has chosen to remain a lone wolf out of the fear that the job would inevitably bring loss and pain. "

So far, though, every attempt by a civilian to get involved with a first responder has gone badly.  The script writers telegraph those, in increasingly cartoonish ways.  Thus far, neither human resources nor Me Too have been heard from.