Editor’s Observe: The next comprises spoilers for Will Trent Season 4, Episode 7.After its intense two-parter that noticed the GBI and APD uncover a large pharmaceutical conspiracy collectively, Will Trent returns to normalcy this week. The GBI investigates a homicide case that takes them on the trail of trying right into a serial killer group, whereas the APD’s weekly case is a hilarious one involving a skunk. The episode additionally sees the return of one among my favourite aspect characters: Paul Campano (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), a former foster child who grew up with Will (Ramon Rodriguez) and Angie (Erika Christensen).
In Season 4, Episode 7, “Name Paul,” Paul returns for the primary time since Season 1 when his neighbor, Joelle Hornbaker – with whom he was having an affair – is murdered with a nail gun. Paul helps Will and Religion (Iantha Richardson) examine in what is among the season’s funniest episodes, in addition to one of many darkest. After protecting himself distracted for the final handful of episodes, engaged on a serial case brings up recollections of James Ulster (Greg Germann) for Will, inflicting him to have dissociative episodes.
In ‘Will Trent’ Season 4, Episode 7, A Troublesome Serial Killer Case Brings Again Paul Campano – and Reminiscences of James Ulster
Whereas investigating Joelle’s homicide, Will finds himself going too deep into the eventualities he often envisions to unravel a homicide. He cannot cease picturing himself because the killer in visions the place he enjoys it, and the place Ulster encourages him to embrace his “true nature” as a killer. Paul was Joelle’s neighbor, and he noticed a person leaving her residence across the time she was killed, which he exhibits Will with a hilarious drawing. Paul appears to be like very responsible as a result of he was having an affair with Joelle, and he broke up together with her the night time earlier than she was killed, however Will is aware of that he is harmless. Will and Paul have such a enjoyable and foolish dynamic, and it suits completely into this episode, particularly in distinction to Will’s a lot darker inside wrestle.
The GBI figures out that the nailgun that killed Joelle belonged to a person who was beforehand brutally murdered with a baseball bat, and clearly by somebody he knew. Will goes deep right into a imaginative and prescient to analyze these two murders, however it takes a significant toll on him, as he begins to really feel too intently aligned to the killers. Will is in a position to determine that each victims had been killed by a group of two killers. A well-meaning however misguided Paul makes an commercial by his enterprise to seek for the killer, however this simply makes him a goal, and the killer tries to shoot him. To maintain Paul protected, Will is tasked with letting him keep at his home. Angie comes over to go to, and the three of them have dinner collectively, they usually look again on their childhoods. Throughout this dialog, Will calls out Paul for bullying him as a child, however Paul insists Will began it by beating him up first.

Will is named in for one more case in the midst of the night time whereas he is having extra intrusive, violent visions. Will realizes that this case is the primary sufferer of those killers, who was murdered along with his personal hedge clippers. Will will get caught in a violent dissociative episode the place he nearly assaults Paul with the hedge clippers, pondering he is Ulster. Paul handles this very well and is ready to calm Will down with assist from Betty (Bluebell). Will’s subsequent clue makes him notice that all the victims had been utilizing jugs of water from the identical firm. The following morning, Will and Paul go to analyze on the water facility. There, Will meets the supervisor and one of many killers, Blair Anson. The opposite killer is a GBI crime scene specialist, Travis Nash. Will and Paul wind up in an intense confrontation with the killers, the place Will nearly kills Travis, however Paul steps in to hit Travis with a water jug, and Will arrests Travis.
Paul Campano is such an important character in any case, however his reappearance this episode is greater than only a enjoyable cameo. Due to his historical past with Will, he is in a position to join with Will and get him to open up in a approach that no person else can. Paul tells Will that Will beat him up as youngsters after he pointed a toy gun at Will, and Will realizes that this had triggered his PTSD from his former foster residence, the place he needed to shoot his abusive foster father. This was a dissociative episode that Will had forgotten, similar to he’d had earlier that day. In a weak second, Will admits how laborious it’s for him to “keep on the precise path” despite his previous trauma and dissociations. He tells Paul that he understands the killers, feels a whole lot of the identical rage, and even needed to kill Travis. Paul tells Will that everybody with their background has the identical wrestle, and that Will is selecting to make use of his ache for good. Paul encourages Will to maintain preventing it and doing the work anyway, although he acknowledges how a lot of a toll this takes on Will.
In ‘Will Trent’ Season 4, Episode 7, The APD Investigates a Homicide Involving a Skunk
Angie, Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin), and Franklin (Kevin Daniels) examine the suspicious dying of a driver who obtained into an accident, left his automotive, after which had an allergic response after being pepper-sprayed. All of the whereas, Ormewood and Franklin are stressing concerning the upcoming division softball sport, as a result of they will have to interchange Angie this yr as a result of she’s pregnant. They quickly work out that the driving force, Ben, was on Facetime along with his girlfriend, Luna, whereas driving. As a result of Ben wasn’t paying consideration, he hit a skunk along with his automotive – and it was a pet skunk belonging to a girl who calls herself the Skunk Mom on-line.
The APD brings the Skunk Mom in for an interrogation, and he or she admits that she broke Ben’s windshield with a rock after he hit her skunk along with his automotive, after which he began angrily coming at her, so she pepper-sprayed him. Angie and Franklin notice that the Skunk Mom did not kill Ben and that Luna’s story would not add up. Angie and Franklin convey Luna in, the place she admits that she got here to the scene of Ben’s dying and noticed him having an allergic response. As a substitute of serving to him, she killed him whereas he was having a response, as a result of he was planning to go away her for another person. The storyline ends nicely for everybody: with Luna getting arrested, the Skunk Mom bringing her therapeutic skunk to the APD with thanks cookies, and Ormewood and Franklin discovering Angie’s softball substitute in a brand new rookie named Sam Atkins.
Will Trent airs Tuesdays at 8:00 P.M. EST on ABC.

Will Trent
The most effective episode thus far in an already robust season, with each comedy and a critical character research.
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January 3, 2023
- Administrators
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Howard Deutch, Eric Dean Seaton, Holly Dale, Lea ThompsonPatricia Cardoso, Sheree Folkson, Bille Woodruff, Erika Christensen, Gail Mancuso, Geary McLeod, Jason Ensler, Mark Tonderai, Paul McGuigan
- This episode brings again Mark-Paul Gosselaar’s Paul Campano for a hilarious storyline that results in some vital conversations between him and Will.
- This episode continues with the deeper character research of Will’s character within the wake of his disturbing conversations with Ulster earlier this season.
- This episode could be very humorous, with sharp and intelligent dialogue all through.
