[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers about Will Trent Season 3 Episode 3, “Find a New Pond” (formerly titled, “You’re the One That I Want Watching My Back”).]
Issues have been maddeningly sluggish for Angie Polaski (Erika Christensen) within the early episodes of Will Trent‘s third season, whereby she’s been paying her dues for her main Season 2 mistake by working the guard shack at a rustic membership neighborhood.
The excellent news is Tuesday’s (January 21) episode makes all of it definitely worth the wait as we lastly get to see her fly (virtually) solo on a posh case of her personal making. The unhealthy information, although, is these hoping for Angie and Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) to reconcile could also be in for a for much longer haul, because the episode provides readability on each of their present mindsets about each other … and it doesn’t look good on both account.
The episode finds Will, Religion (Iantha Richardson), Amanda (Sonja Sohn), and the remainder of the GBI MVPs investigating the poisoning of a significant banking household that hospitalizes one among them and kills one other. The case requires the staff to trace down an estranged sister of this household who simply so occurs to be on the town on the time of the crime, interrogate a lovelorn assistant who’s making an attempt to make it in a aggressive world, and resolve some very disturbing allegations that have been about to return to mild concerning the unhurt brother. As is so typically the case, the decision’s been coming from inside the home, although, as one of many brothers was keen to poison himself to maintain damaging details about one other one from going public and ruining the household enterprise. (The spotlight of the case comes when the crew engages in slightly role-playing homicide thriller sport within the convention room, with masks and horrible British accents and all.)
The true meat of the episode comes when Angie begins doing slightly digging of her personal after a useless physique turns up on the golf course. At first, she’s extremely disillusioned to be taught that it’s simply the neighborhood swan who’s gone stomach up, however when she finds a human finger within the fowl’s mouth, issues lastly get attention-grabbing.
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After seeing {that a} member of the Waldorf Estates neighborhood named Alma, the mom of a really precocious swan lover, has suspicious bruises on her face, she swiftly connects two and two and goes to her home to hunt out the supply of each her accidents and the recent finger. She quickly finds that Alma’s brother-in-law David is the proprietor of that hacked-off digit and enlists a skeptical Michael Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) to assist her with the main points like fingerprint matches and DNA swabs of the proof.
Ormewood is reluctant to assist Angie get too blended up within the case since she’s nonetheless very a lot in jeopardy of not being restored to lively responsibility with Atlanta P.D., however when the tradition connects to a convicted rapist and assassin who simply so occurs to be the neighborhood repairman Angie’s trapped in a room with, nicely, he has no alternative however to become involved.
Angie actually places her neck on the road, actually talking, when she learns that David has been hiding immigration papers — and even bought bodily with Alma to maintain them — of the immigrant staff on the household’s poultry farm. After going to the filthy farm, she is confronted by David and will get into a really gnarly altercation with the suspect that ends together with her utilizing zip-tie cuffs to take him down. She’s quickly restored to her place — instantly resuming being Ormewood’s associate — and he or she comes again a hero, to wit.
With that, each Will and Angie are again of their strides, with Will’s buddies virtually keen to forgive him for his prolonged depart in Tennessee and Angie’s station mates cheering her on.
Sadly, although, the episode is a bit much less joyful relating to the standing of their romantic relationship. Not solely do they nonetheless not cross paths on this phase, however they each give us motive to doubt they’ll ever get again to a contented place collectively.
Angie says {that a} reunion with Will will rely fully on how a lot they should work collectively in an expert capability, however Will will get much more direct and tells Nico he doesn’t anticipate him and Angie to have a romantic future collectively. Though he does get a bit wistful over seeing Betty sporting Angie’s scarf, he’s even keen to “rip off the bandaid” and eat on the dinner desk that was their place in happier instances.
Maybe probably the most telling second is when Will shares this loaded remark concerning the brother who poisoned his personal self and household to guard their secrets and techniques: “Generally loving folks means letting them take accountability for the issues they break.” In different phrases, Angie is perhaps forgiven by the division, however Will isn’t there but (and should by no means be?).
Will Trent, Tuesdays, 8/7c, ABC