Editor’s Observe: The next incorporates spoilers for Will Trent Season 4, Episode 8.Over the course of its eight episodes up to now, Will Trent Season 4 has executed a deeper dive into Will Trent’s (Ramon Rodriguez) worsening psychological well being. He began off the season struggling to regulate to becoming a member of his delivery father, Caleb’s (Yul Vazquez) loving however loud household; he additionally hasa arduous time watching Angie (Erika Christensen) begin to construct a household of her personal with Seth (Scott Foley). In the course of the time soar between seasons, he’d additionally began working with a therapist, Dr. Roach (Margaret Cho).
The return of James Ulster (Greg Germann) solely brought about Will to additional spiral and battle to comprise his anger, and he even deliberate to interrupt his inflexible ethical code and kill Ulster. Will was interrupted and did not undergo with this, however Ulster has continued to hang-out Will all through the season, even after he was killed by Susan (Michaela Watkins). After Will virtually killed somebody once more in final week’s episode, it regarded like he’d be happening his darkest path but. As a substitute, he has a significant breakthrough in Will Trent‘s newest episode, and this storyline is in the end resolved within the easiest and greatest approach.
‘Will Trent’s Newest Episode Reveals Why Will Nonetheless Resents Caleb
In Will Trent‘s newest episode, “We’re Wanting For a Vampire,” Will winds up working alongside Caleb for the primary time for the reason that Ulster case. Though they left issues on good phrases, Caleb solely frustrates Will all through the episode. He pushes Will to get a brand new automotive, needs to spend extra time collectively, and always disagrees with him on how one can deal with their case. Caleb is dismissive and suspicious of their essential suspect, a vampire fanatic named Viktor (Devin Druid), whereas Will is deeply empathetic in the direction of him. The tipping level happens after Will has to spend their complete case listening to Caleb speaking about teaching his son’s Little League workforce. Will snaps and loses management, after which he punches Caleb.
Not like along with his earlier dissociative episodes, Will is conscious and current when punching Caleb, however he cannot management it. This rage bubbles over till he lastly explains to Caleb that it makes him offended to see Caleb give his different youngsters the proper childhood. Caleb by no means knew that Will existed, so it is not his fault that Will grew up the way in which he did, however figuring out this does not make it any simpler for Will to see his half-siblings get every little thing that he missed out on. Will has a breakthrough at this second: all of his current anger and childhood flashbacks are by Caleb getting into his life.
Though Caleb is form and cares about Will, he is a continuing reminder that Will’s traumatic and deeply painful childhood was preventable. Will opens as much as Caleb about this, they usually’re in a position to have a touching heart-to-heart after fixing the case collectively. Caleb tells Will that his not figuring out about his son, all whereas Will was struggling, is the nice tragedy of his life. By way of telling Caleb how he feels and understanding the place his anger is coming from, Will is lastly in a position to get management of his feelings for the primary time this season.
‘Will Trent’s Decision to Will’s Battle With “The Darkness” Is Excellent for His Character
All through Will Trent Season 4, Will has been struggling to reckon along with his “darkness,” significantly after Ulster instructed him that it made them the identical. Will simply may have gone down a way more sinister path this season, and probably gotten to a degree of no return. As a substitute, these previous two episodes have seen Will work by means of his previous and his anger in actually hopeful and wholesome methods. Final week, Paul Campano (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) assured Will that his points had been regular after a childhood like theirs and inspired him to maintain pushing previous the darkness to make use of his ache for good. This week, Caleb permits Will to really feel anger in the direction of him over the childhood he misplaced, even when it is misplaced.
Will Trent actually goes to darkish locations, however on the coronary heart of the present is the message that issues can all the time get higher. Thus, it is becoming for the sequence to wrap up Will’s battle with the darkness in a hopeful place. Will has all the time struggled along with his previous trauma, however he’d beforehand accepted that it was simply the way in which issues had been. Understanding that his life simply may have been totally different has made him really feel like all of his struggling was for nothing, particularly as a result of he had simply misplaced Angie, the one one that was all the time with him by means of all of it. Will nonetheless has rather a lot to work by means of, however understanding his anger and being validated in it can enable him to have extra management over that anger. It will then solely proceed to enhance his relationship with Caleb.
Will Trent airs Tuesdays at 8:00 P.M. ET on ABC.