Who Took Burgess's Adopted Daughter Makayla on 'Chicago P.D.'?

May 2024 · 3 minute read

Kim Burgess won custody of Makayla on 'Chicago P.D.', but in a twist of events, the little lady was once kidnapped. Who took her?

Toni Sutton - Author

Audiences have been first presented to Makayla Ward (Ramona Edith Williams) in Season 8, Episode 3 of Chicago P.D. Officers Kim Burgess and Adam Ruzek in finding her in the midst of the street, just having witnessed her father homicide her entire family. Burgess straight away bonds with the little girl, who stays with Kim whilst authorities search for a dwelling relative. At the top of the episode, Makayla goes to are living together with her cousin Kathy, though we later be informed this association is temporary.

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Two episodes later, Burgess unearths out that Makayla has landed in a group house and comes to a decision to undertake the little lady herself. Unfortunately, their happy home comes to a screeching halt when Makayla's uncle seeks felony custody of her in Season 9.

Though Burgess seems to have her work minimize out for her in courtroom — in spite of everything, Theo Morrison, the uncle in question, is a blood relative with monetary security and a stable process — Burgess is in the long run awarded custody. However, when she and Adam return house, they find the babysitter has been brutally assaulted and Makayla is nowhere to be found. Who can have taken her?

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Who took Kim Burgess's adopted daughter, Makayla, on 'Chicago P.D.'?

Obviously, Burgess and Ruzek are fast to leap to conclusions (as are audience participants) — it will have to were Theo, proper? Even despite the fact that he appears to be a just right man, he has a bit of of a checkered past. Remember when he showed up at Makayla's school and handed out stickers through the gate? Sketchy, to mention the least.

However, in Episode 15, we be informed that Theo is in reality no longer answerable for Makayla's kidnapping — however he is being burdened for ransom cash. Theo is introduced in for wondering, where he sooner or later reveals that the kidnappers have instructed him to provide them $1 million in trade for Makayla's release. Naturally, additionally they need him to keep the cops out of it.

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Although he's first of all hesitant to work with the authorities, Theo ultimately is of the same opinion to cooperate. The crew then discovers that Tariq (Makayla's biological father, who is liable for her circle of relatives's murder) is the only in the back of the kidnapping. Apparently, he organized the abduction with a view to repay his jail money owed.

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Luckily, Burgess, Ruzek, and the workforce are ultimately ready to trace Makayla down to a close-by junkyard, where she's unconscious behind a automobile, having been drugged through Tariq's conspirators. She in the end wakes up and is taken away to protection in an ambulance. As she's being loaded up, Burgess asks Theo if he'd like to sign up for them on their option to the health center — indicating that despite their historical past and the court case, she nonetheless desires him to be eager about his niece's lifestyles.

There's no way things are completely easy peasy throughout, however with a bit of luck, home existence will finally start to settle down for each Burgess and Makayla.

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