[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for Will Trent Season 3 Episode 4, “The Floor Is Lava.”]
Welp. We knew it was going to be an emotional curler coaster as soon as Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) and Angie (Erika Christensen) labored collectively on a case, however we didn’t realize it’d be this gut-wrenching.
On Tuesday’s new episode of Will Trent, the 2 joined forces on a case involving a focused taking pictures of a person in his house. Issues obtained off to a clumsy begin instantly once they needed to play a sport of “The Flooring Is Lava” on the sufferer’s sofa to keep away from disrupting footprint proof, and issues solely obtained weirder from there.
Because it turned out, the shooter was considered one of a number of lonely individuals who frequented an Alias messaging board (sure, actually) and had been duped into pondering they had been being recruited as CIA operatives who might kill individuals with impunity and steal state secrets and techniques. In a second, associated incident, the sufferer wasn’t fortunate sufficient to outlive the assault, however engaged on the case produced some really wonderful moments on the group. There was Michael Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) cosplaying as a particular agent within the interrogation room after which there was the second with him and Angie explaining, in superb element, what Alias was about. And it was really wild when Angie discovered Marion Alba (Gina Rodriguez) popping out of Will’s workplace in considered one of his shirts — although the reason was harmless sufficient, as she merely wanted to borrow one for courtroom after getting a stain on hers, her face stated all of it.
Issues took a flip into sadville, although, when Will and Angie discovered themselves unintentionally locked in a restaurant whereas ready for his or her takeout orders. The dialog began out light-hearted sufficient, however Will stated he was “so sorry” to Angie for getting a gluten-free cake throughout her return occasion, and he or she turned immediately miffed. There was a distinct apology she wished to listen to, after all. That’s when issues obtained critical, with Will and Angie buying and selling barbs about who was incorrect within the arrest and Angie finally screaming, “You blew up our life!”
“You blew up our life,” she then repeated. “We had been constructing one thing. We had been lastly in a superb place. We had been speaking about having youngsters.”
When Will stated he knew that and “fought” for his or her relationship to work, she accused, “Did you do it on suggest? You sabotage it?” Will, after all, denied doing so, however Angie left on horrible phrases by saying, “Go to hell, Will.” And one way or the other, that wasn’t even probably the most devastating dialog they’d within the episode.
The casework continued, with the group monitoring down the supply of the Alias board recruitment to somebody promoting these secrets and techniques to overseas actors. After a dramatic sting operation led to the arrest of the suspect, their purchaser, and two individuals who had been additionally satisfied they had been one way or the other secret brokers, Angie visited Will’s workplace to drop off her paperwork and so they had another — presumably ultimate? — dialogue of their private ache.
“I simply miss my finest good friend,” Will instructed her, to which she agreed. However when he supplied, “I hope we are able to one way or the other get previous this,” she demurred.
“I don’t suppose so Will,” Angie stated by way of tears. “I’ve had quite a lot of time to consider this… You probably did what you needed to do, however the whole lot is completely different now, and it’s not going again to the way it was earlier than.”
Angie then continued, “We’re not lovers. We’re not pals. We’re coworkers. We’ve been saving one another and pushing over and pulling one another again since we had been seven years outdated. We are able to simply cease.”
When Will countered that he didn’t know how one can transfer on from her, she replied, “You’re already shifting on. You simply don’t notice it but. Wilbur Trent, I launch you.”
And with that, Will and Angie’s breakup is cemented for the close to future. Gulp!
Will Trent, Tuesdays, 8/7c, ABC