Will Trent

Will Trent – The Look Out

  • Title: Will Trent – The Look Out
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Betting a local cop he can solve a robbery homicide in a single night gets Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) into a jam when the obvious explanation, a gang of thieves making just these kinds of robberies in the same neighborhood, turns out not to be responsible. Showcasing a bit of our detective’s ego, “The Look Out” is a fun episode even if the return of the Angie (Erika Christensen) and Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) B-story crime turns out to be pretty forgettable. The episode also offers another example of how his on-again/off-again relationship with Angie prevents him from considering other options such as an artist (Julia Chan) turned suspect who he put in jail (but that didn’t stop her from flirting with him throughout the episode).

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Will Trent – My Stupid Detective Brain

  • Title: Will Trent – My Stupid Detective Brain
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Bodies found in the woods pointing to a serial killer torturing and killing his victims bring Trent (Ramón Rodríguez), Faith (Iantha Richardson), Angie (Erika Christensen), and Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) together to all work the same case. “My Stupid Detective Brain” continues to build on the partnership of Trent and Faith each sharing some personal truths with each other and playing on the animosity between Treent and Ormewood (who finds the killer first, only to nearly become his latest victim).

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Will Trent – Don’t Let It Happen Again

  • Title: Will Trent – Don’t Let It Happen Again
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The third episode of Will Trent takes some unexpected turns as a pair of recent killings tie back to the murder of a family decades before. Although the episode tips its hand a bit as to who the killer is, the reveal still works especially in how the climax affects Faith (Iantha Richardson). We get a little more bonding between Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) and Faith, a quick look at how Trent has grown attached to Betty, and in the subplot an old mistake comes back to bite Angie (Erika Christensen) leading her back to Trent for comfort. More murder of the week than the first two episodes, “Don’t Let It Happen Again” is a solid episode even if the show still hasn’t gotten me sold on its subplots yet.

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Will Trent – Pilot / I’m a Pretty Observant Guy

  • Title: Will Trent – Pilot / I’m a Pretty Observant Guy
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The first two episodes of Will Trent introduce us to talented, but hated, Special Agent Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) and a collection of equally damaged people, many of whom have long-term relations to Trent including his longtime friend and sometimes lover Angie (Erika Christensen), and a brand-new partner (Iantha Richardson) assigned to work with him in his job as an investigator for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The case they’ll work through involves an old frenemy (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) from Will’s childhood whose daughter is kidnapped.

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