Warning: spoilers are forward for the second episode of Will Trent Season 3, referred to as “Sunny-Aspect Up” and obtainable streaming with a Hulu subscription.
The primary two episodes of Will Trent‘s third season within the 2025 TV schedule have been spent displaying how Will‘s choice on the finish of Season 2 led to his scruffy self-imposed exile in Tennessee after which his journey again to Atlanta, the police division, and the three-piece go well with. None of that contain Angie, though the Season 3 premiere confirmed she did handle to keep away from jail time because of some luck after he arrested her.
In “Sunny-Aspect Up,” she bought her probability to talk to an APD committee and justify why she ought to get her job again. Erika Christensen delivered a terrific speech, and Angie is clearly not joyful in her menial safety job, however I am not so certain that the character ought to get to return again to her previous job simply but for a few causes.
The APD Board Made Some Legitimate Factors
Angie’s listening to was on her thoughts all through the episode, to the purpose that she was utilizing AI to attempt to draft the right speech to offer to the officers who would resolve if she has a future with the Atlanta Police Division. The immediate she gave to the tech was “Compose an announcement of regret for messing up as a cop.”
And the model of her speech began out sounding so much just like the AI variations, till she was interrupted by the officers who mentioned that all of them wished they might “return and cease the deaths of 5 individuals however this is not fantasy land,” and that what she did was “negligent” and her actions confirmed “an absence of respect” for her place.
So, Angie began to talk off the cuff and extra from the center, with Erika Christensen delivering an emotional efficiency as her character opened up in a final ditch hope to get again to her job. She mentioned:
You are proper. I grew to become a cop as a result of I needed to make the world safer. I needed to guard individuals who could not shield themselves. And I believed that is what I used to be doing with Crystal. I used to be very unsuitable. I take into consideration that mistake on a regular basis. I do know that I can’t let my private trauma intervene with my job once more. I am an excellent cop. I really like my job, regardless of my failures. I might actually… I need to serve. When you let me again on the power, I would be the finest model of myself as a result of that’s what the job requires of me.
All in all, Angie was way more convincing when she began utilizing her personal phrases as an alternative of no matter she may get from an AI immediate, and the speech is a superb begin to getting her again on the job. However Will Trent giving the APD officers the time to level out how deeply she’d tousled additionally leaves me unconvinced that she ought to be capable of get again to her previous job simply by advantage of an excellent apology and pitch.
She did mess up, and Season 2 ended on a devastating cliffhanger due to it. It might be a disgrace to lose these excessive stakes early on by her getting again what she misplaced with out way more than an impassioned argument. There’s a lot room for juicy drama earlier than Angie is again at APD, proper?
There’s Extra Story In Angie’s Safety Job
It is simply as properly that I ended the second episode of Seaosn 3 unconvinced about Angie being allowed again at APD, as a result of the promo for the following episode – referred to as “Discover a New Pond” – reveals that Angie will nonetheless be caught at her unsatisfying safety gig. That does not imply her speech may have been in useless, although, because the preview additionally drops some clues that she might need the chance to truly display how being an APD detective forces her to be the “finest model” of herself. Have a look:
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Apparently, John the clumsy handyman is much more sinister than he appeared in Episode 2, if the promo is something to go by! If our bodies are dropping on Angie’s safety turf and he or she’s going through down a nasty man, it might be her probability to indicate the APD what she will do moderately than simply inform the brass throughout a listening to. It would not appear to be it will be probably the most fun-filled story of a minimum of the primary arc of Season 3, however hopefully Will and Religion will ship their standard enjoyable now that he is again with the GBI.
Discover out with the following new episode of Will Trent on Tuesday, January 21 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC, forward of Kaitlin Olson’s Excessive Potential. You too can revisit earlier episodes streaming on Hulu now.