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As posted by a “Chicago P.D.” fan on Reddit, a summary for the Season 10 episode “This Job” notes that the I.U. team is helped out on a case by a detective named Borkowski (Tom Lipinski), one of ‘Ruzek’s old friends.’ But turns out that Borkowski butted heads with Ruzek and Dante Torres (Benjamin Levy Aguilar) after he beat some information out of a witness, and then used threats to cover up the incident.
Apparently familiar with other instances of Ruzek and “old friends” working a case, u/CatherineG18 wrote in the above Reddit thread, “If I had a nickel for every time ‘an old friend of Ruzek’s’ helped out the team in a case but ended up creating conflict with them, I’d have four nickels…which isn’t a lot, but it is weird that it’s happened four times.” This prompted u/MIssPlum66 to reference Ruzek’s rapid advancement from the Police Academy into the prestigious Intel Unit, saying, “And he joined intelligence from the academy. ‘Old’ school friend?” And, in a nod to Ruzek’s own policing methods sometimes stepping over the line, another Redditor speculated, “Guessing [Borkowski] is gonna have a very black and white way of policing seeing as he’s an old friend of [Ruzek’s].”
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As for Ruzek’s spotty record as a cop, Patrick John Flueger stuck up for his character, telling TV Line, “He does have different tactics. But he’s doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, or at least, what he believes to be the right reasons.”
