Spoilers forward for Episode 17 of Will Trent Season 3, referred to as “Why Hey, Sheriff,” and out there streaming now with a Hulu subscription.
Will Trent’s third season has been airing on the 2025 TV schedule, and nonetheless retaining followers on the sting of their seats. Because the procedural will get nearer to its season finale airing subsequent week, all of the stops have been pulled, and we already received some large surprises. However the newest episode delivered what is likely to be the most important shock of all of them, and it concerned fairly the essential new character. The ep additionally marked Erika Christensen’s directorial debut, and she or he defined why filming that day was fairly scary.
Christensen has portrayed Detective Angie Polaski throughout all three seasons to date, and was excited to deal with double duties for the season’s penultimate episode as director. Regardless of this being her first shot, Christensen went all out (particularly resulting from scheduling points) because the Sverance solid member Yul Vazquez arrived to shake issues up as Bradford County Sheriff Caleb Rousard, and he definitely shook issues up because it was revealed that he was Will’s organic father! Dun dun dunnnn!
Christensen informed TVLine that filming each his introduction and the large reveal, mixed with different components, amounted to fairly the scary day. However she additionally famous that it was good, saying:
The most important day was the day the place we shot each our introduction to Caleb, in entrance of the [house], after which that entire crime scene culminating with the cat and the damaged glass. There was rather a lot to shoot. And I had my coronary heart set on that reveal of Caleb — giving him form of a villain’s introduction — after which we have been all simply, like, ‘Oh, God! What number of issues may go improper with the cat and the stunt on the crime scene?
The reveal got here after a free cat trampled over a criminal offense scene, leading to a door being damaged and glass shards slicing the officers, together with Ramón Rodriguez’s titular character and Caleb. This then led to blood samples being examined by forensics and revealing the truth that Caleb is, in reality, Will’s organic father.
Directing a scene that initially doesn’t look like a giant deal however turns into one of many largest plot twists, if not the most important plot twist, of the sequence will be intimidating. Since Will Trent was absent from the autumn lineup final yr, and Season 3 did not premiere till January, this was hopefully precisely the form of game-changing shock that helps justify such hiatuses.
Not solely was filming the reveal a giant ordeal, however your entire crime scene sequence took plenty of work to drag off. Christensen recalled what it was like filming on the location, together with all the things that went down with that cat, and nonetheless managing to place all of it collectively.I can solely think about the way it was seeing all of it come collectively, each on-screen and off. However as she attests, it was positively a gaggle effort.
However everybody stepped up — the stunts and results, everyone. Even the cat was such a professional! And the actor [Michael Hanson] who performs Deputy Kenny simply killed it. It was good. However going into it, that was the most important, scariest day.
Having nailed such a really chaotic scene that was then bookended with a surprising reveal, Christensen additionally recalled what it was like filming the scene between Will and Caleb when all was mentioned and carried out. Because the newly found data was an enormous blow to each of them, their interactions have been a bit awkward at first, however Will ultimately got here round to the concept. Christensen liked seeing all of it go down, realizing how essential these preliminary connections are for the long run. As she put it:
After which it was actually gratifying to discover the scene the place Caleb involves Will’s home. I liked that. I really like that a lot as a result of they’re not probably the most geared up males to take care of the state of affairs that they discover themselves in, so discovering the dynamics, and what sorts of feelings would come up for them as they attempt to relate to one another — or, in Caleb’s case, making an attempt to narrate to Will —and Will inadvertently being gained over by the tip of the episode…. They find yourself no less than growing respect for one another.
There’s nonetheless the finale that followers must look ahead to because the thrilling sequence continues, so there will definitely be extra to come back from this new father-son relationship, in addition to the upcoming fourth season. What’s going to come from it’s unknown, however it sounds prefer it was simply as fascinating to look at it movie in individual because it was to look at it on-screen, particularly since Christensen was directing such a giant second that may change Will Trent shifting ahead.