[Warning: The following post contains spoilers for Will Trent Season 3 Episode 2, “Sunny-Side Up.”]
The 2-part opening occasion for Will Trent Season 3 got here to a happy-ish ending on Tuesday’s (January 14) episode.
Following the occasions of the premiere, which noticed the homicide of a police officer who was able to cooperate with a DA investigation and the eventual abduction of gang chief Raphael’s daughter Sunny, Will (Ramón Rodríguez) and Religion (Iantha Richardson) put their beef apart to work collectively on the case.
After discovering Sunny’s caretaker murdered, they study that she was kidnapped by one among Raphael’s rivals, a gang chief, and shortly study that he, too, has been murdered. Amanda (Sonja Sohn) suspects somebody linked to the police could be the one one courageous sufficient to take him out, and he or she’s proper.
After the GBI arrests a low-level (and low-level intelligence) operative of the automotive theft ring linked to the cop-killing, they’re in a position to join with Sunny instantly by way of her specialised gaming machine and discover out she’s been taken to a police secure home. Marion (Gina Rodriguez) identifies Sunny’s captor as one other officer on the lethal occasion, and Amanda talks her by way of the way to escape her abductor’s automotive. As he tries to chase the woman, he warns somebody on the telephone that if he goes down, they are going to, too. Issues shortly escalate right into a firefight, by which Will takes a bullet to the chest (however isn’t badly injured because of his vest), and the cop-turned-perp is arrested… and shortly killed off whereas in custody. Will quickly connects the dots and realizes it’s the mayor herself who’s on the prime of this felony enterprise, and he or she will get arrested.
For Will, it’s a little bit of a full-circle second, as he’s been largely villainized by different police for delivering officers previously, and it helps him really feel higher about returning to the road of obligation as soon as once more after his prolonged getaway.
As Ramón Rodríguez informed TV Insider, “Clearly, it’s an enormous a part of his objective of why he does what he does, is to tackle corruption and felony exercise… He didn’t have any individual there to actually shield him and assist him as a child. And so I believe that serves as an actual objective for him now in life. And so when he sees or learns that the mayor’s corrupt and what the mayor’s concerned in, that’s an enormous deal, and I believe that does examine an enormous field for him. I believe that serves the aim of his job life and work life.”
Certainly, on the conclusion of the case, when Raphael says he hopes Will will return to Tennessee now that the case (which Raphael himself summoned Will again for) is solved, he declines, saying boldly, “I believe I’m going to be sticking round for some time, and it’s Particular Agent Will Trent.”
About that declaration, Rodríguez defined, “By the tip of Episode 2, we type of see him put that swimsuit again on, and one thing about it feels proper once more. And I believe he realizes that is what he’s meant to do — no less than for now.”
That doesn’t imply there aren’t nonetheless loads of issues forward within the new season. Rodríguez warned that relating to Will’s relationships — “with Amanda or with Religion and even with Angie and Betty” — there will probably be “friction” that performs out all through the brand new season, “the place relationships are falling out and in of his life and dealing and never working.”
“There’s gonna be struggles and there’s going to be different drama, or else it wouldn’t be an excellent present,” the actor and govt producer teased of what’s forward.
Will Trent, Tuesdays, 8/7c, ABC