Spoilers forward for Episode 4 of Will Trent Season 3, referred to as “Ground Is Lava” and obtainable streaming now with a Hulu subscription.
A key a part of Will Trent‘s three seasons to date has been the saga of Will and Angie. Their relationship was sophisticated sufficient already for the primary two seasons earlier than he arrested her within the Season 2 finale, and followers noticed within the newest episode that there’s loads of awkwardness within the 2025 TV schedule. They reunited for the primary time since he arrested her, and whereas I really feel just like the present needs me to root for them to get again collectively, I simply cannot.
That stated, I’ll definitely root for Erika Christensen and Ramón Rodriguez to share the display screen collectively. One among their scenes in “Ground Is Lava” had me floored, and their final was practically as highly effective.
The pair had been truly powering by the awkwardness of their earliest interactions in “Ground Is Lava,” which is spectacular contemplating what occurred the final time they met. (Maybe it is for the very best that she did not see him in his scruffy stage, although.) That modified about midway by the episode, when Will jokingly apologized that she needed to cope with a gluten free cake. That triggered Angie’s anger about what she felt he actually wanted to apologize for: getting her arrested for protecting up a homicide.
And what proceeded was a reasonably brutal battle between two individuals who liked one another deeply but additionally had some critical grievances with one another. Will insisted that she gave him no alternative; she argued that “after all” he had a alternative. He was pissed off that she did not really feel she may open up to him earlier than he arrested her, whereas she identified that him arresting her was proof that she was proper to not open up to him.
All of it got here to a head when she shouted that he’d blown up their life collectively, saying:
You blew up our life! We had been constructing one thing. We had been lastly in an excellent place. We had been speaking about having children!
Will wasn’t going to simply take her accusations with out standing up for himself. Simply as emotional as she was, he responded:
You suppose I do not know that? I fought for this relationship. For us. I needed it greater than something. A household?
And that wasn’t even the tip of it! He insisted that he hadn’t intentionally sabotaged them and “it killed” him to do it, whereas Angie simply needed to depart the room ASAP. When the door was lastly unlocked, she left with a parting shot of “Go to hell, Will.” Each had been on the verge of tears, and I used to be nearly able to pause my watch of the episode simply so I may rewatch that scene.
Ramón Rodriguez and Erika Christensen completely crushed it. Their characters’ relationship has by no means actually been terribly wholesome, and I am wanting ahead to seeing extra of Will with Marion and no matter Season 3 has in retailer for Angie and Scandal alum Scott Foley’s character, however dang it, the 2 are simply compelling to look at collectively. I can not assist however be conflicted on not significantly wanting their characters in a relationship however at all times invested when the actors work reverse one another.
I think about that they could have fewer intense scenes within the foreseeable future, although. The episode ended with each acknowledging that they missed their greatest pal, and Will expressed his hope that they “can by some means get previous this.” She would not suppose so, although, after having quite a lot of time to consider it. They reached an deadlock all these months earlier than, and so they cannot return. Angie might have summed up how I really feel about them of their ultimate scene collectively, saying:
We’re not lovers. We’re not… associates. We’re coworkers. We have been saving one another and pushing one another ahead and pulling one another again since we had been seven years previous. We are able to simply cease.
Will expressed that he is undecided he is aware of the way to simply cease along with her, and she or he responded with “Wilbur Trent, I launch you.” And if that was the final intense scene between them for some time, then I might say they ended on a robust observe. Apart from, in need of their characters being killed off, neither Ramón Rodriguez nor Erika Christensen goes anyplace, so it is probably solely a matter of time earlier than Will Trent revisits the saga of Will and Angie, for higher or worse.
See what the ABC drama has in retailer for them subsequent with new episodes of Will Trent on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET, forward of Kaitlin Olson’s Excessive Potential at 9 p.m. ET and The Rookie at 10 p.m. ET. All three can be discovered streaming on Hulu.