[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for Will Trent Season 3 Episode 15, “The Most Beautiful, Fierce, Smart, Powerful Creature in the Whole World.”]
It’s a story of two cities on Tuesday (April 22) night time’s new episode of Will Trent. One is an island the place Amanda Wagner (Sonja Sohn) and Evelyn Mitchell (LisaGay Hamilton) are vacationing earlier than a homicide thriller emerges and ropes Religion (Iantha Richardson) and Michael Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) into the combination. The opposite is again in Atlanta as Will (Ramón Rodríguez) and Angie (Erika Christensen) individually cope with devastations that neither of them may see coming.
The island getaway plot is a principally enjoyable one — properly, not less than for individuals who survive it — and issues get slightly spicy, too. The resort resort Amanda and Evelyn are staying at is mushy launching with every kind of hiccups, together with a lifeless physique with a hand lacking. Amanda (whose youthful self was apparently nicknamed “Randy Mandy” for her bed room behaviors as Evelyn encourages her to get again into the saddle) instantly requires a lockdown. She surmises the stolen hand is supposed to be used on a biometric scanner for a secure, so somebody within the place have to be seeking to make a serious rating. Even with the case of the day in play, she nonetheless makes time to cozy as much as a good-looking male suitor, however, ruh roh, he seems to be a jewel thief — er, a retired one. As soon as he’s cleared of wrongdoing on this heist, he’s capable of assist with the case. With added help from Religion and Michael and an olfactorily-gifted pup, the staff figures out that the supposedly pregnant resort assistant is faking labor pains as a cover-up for her heist. Michael nonetheless has the matter of his prognosis to cope with, however this case, not less than, is closed.
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Will, in the meantime, has a lot larger issues on his fingers. Upon coming dwelling, Betty alerts him to an intruder in the home, and he walks in to discover a younger boy with a gun in his bag who seems to be the little brother of Marco, the child who was killed by a ricochet in Will’s officer-involved capturing incident. Will greets the kid with empathy and even tries to assist him with a family chore — altering the fireplace alarm battery because it’s out of attain — as he tries to be “the person of the home” within the wake of Marco’s demise. Marco’s mom comes dwelling and is none too happy to see her son’s shooter — cleared of wrongdoing or not — in her lounge and yells for him to go away. Nevertheless, she later involves Will to supply him phrases of forgiveness, even when the sentiment behind them isn’t actual, to set a very good instance for her surviving son. She does appear genuinely grateful when Will agrees to elucidate, intimately, what occurred that day and explains how he held and comforted Marco in his remaining moments. This story is much from executed, in fact.
Angie, too, has an emotional reckoning within the episode as she finds out her mom is hospitalized. First, we see a flashback to 2004 in a happier second between the 2 as her mom encourages her after she’s bullied by calling her the title phrase of the episode, “probably the most lovely, fierce, good, highly effective creature in the entire world.” It’s right here we be taught that Angie’s mother hates gray hair, and thus present-day Angie is determined to get her fingers on some hair dye upon seeing her mom unconscious on the hospital mattress with a head filled with white locks.
The subsequent flashback, this time to 2012, just isn’t so optimistic. On this one, Angie is now a rookie beat cop who’s speaking to her mom in jail. Her mother has been arrested for a DUI that landed two folks within the hospital, and she or he has lower than zero regret. Angie ultimately confronts her mom over the abuses she put her by means of as a toddler, saying, “Had been you my mom once you dropped me off at Steve’s home after I was 5 years previous and didn’t come again for 2 days? Do you need to know the specifics of what went down?” Angie’s mom is defiant as Angie calls for she admit to promoting her into sexual slavery as a tender-aged little one; as an alternative, she tells Angie cruelly, “Typically I feel when God gave me you, he was punishing me.”
Within the current day, Angie dutifully does her sleeping mom’s make-up and whispers, “Please get up. Everybody deserves one other probability.” Quickly, she does simply that (not less than, as Angie sees it) and tells Angie the issues she’s wanted to listen to for many years now: She was a horrible mom, and Angie deserved higher. Nevertheless, she additionally then drops a bombshell on her by saying that Angie has the identical dependancy affliction as she does — proper earlier than she falls into everlasting slumber proper in entrance of her. Angie is visibly devastated and her first act after leaving the hospital is to cease at an area bar for a glass of whiskey.
Angie’s already been by means of a lot lately. First, there was the scenario with Lenny, her former abuser, and Crystal, the lady who killed him (after which a bunch of others, too). Then, she was arrested by Will for that cover-up of Crystal’s homicide of Lenny, which induced a probably perpetually breakup. And now this demise, too? Oof. We’ll have to attend to see what the inevitable fallout will entail as the ultimate episodes of the season come by means of.
Developing, on subsequent week’s episode — titled, “Push, Bounce, Fall” — Angie will proceed to grapple with the aftermath of this loss. The teaser for the episode reads, “Will and Religion battle to clear an harmless girl’s title whereas uncovering a lethal drug ring. In the meantime, Angie spirals after a traumatic occasion, and Ormewood grapples together with his prognosis, not sure of how a lot to share with these closest to him.”
Then, for the Might 6 episode, on which Erika Christensen makes her directorial debut, the saga will proceed. Titled, “Why Howdy, Sheriff,” the episode is described like so: “Whereas investigating a homicide in a rural city and clashing with the native sheriff, Will uncovers shocking truths about his previous. In the meantime, Angie makes an surprising discovery, and Ormewood continues to wrestle together with his prognosis.” That would be the penultimate episode of the season earlier than Will Trent‘s Season 3 finale airs Tuesday, Might 13.
Will Trent, Tuesdays, 8/7c, ABC