It’s the episode we have all been ready for — Amanda Wagner’s character-centric.
At the tip of Will Trent Season 2 Episode 4, Amanda acquired a threatening telephone name, had a nail in her tire, and located one other message within the elevator.
Spoilers for Will Trent Season 2 Episode 5 point out that the assaults towards Amanda are private. Before the GBI can slender the suspects down a lot, Amanda is discovered hovering over a lifeless physique.
This particular person would not simply need Amanda to undergo; they need her framed for homicide. The race is on to clear Amanda’s identify and study who has a long-time grudge towards her.
This can be a enjoyable, deep dive into Amanda’s previous. If they delve into any of Amanda’s outdated circumstances, we’ll in all probability see the youthful Amanda (Sydney Park).
Amanda Wagner is a fierce feminine. She’s needed to work onerous to show that she was greater than her father’s daughter and she or he deserved to be a cop.
With her unhealthy mood and onerous coronary heart, she made a lot of enemies through the years. She was a tricky outdated chook who had been damage, did not belief many individuals, and had excessive expectations of others.
It’s not onerous to think about that she had a complete field of hate mail or that a few of it contained letters from present and former workers.
So usually, Amanda seems robust since that was how she was raised, and she or he’s placed on a plausible entrance in entrance of Will and Faith. In the promo, they sound virtually as damage as they do nervous that she did not open up to them earlier.
It could be a battle of curiosity for Will and Faith to dig into Amanda’s previous as soon as they discovered her with a lifeless physique, which we now have so many questions on.
Amanda is imply and difficult, however as legislation enforcement, she would by no means kill somebody until they attacked her first. It could be too straightforward for that to be her stalker, so he must be collateral harm in his quest to harm Amanda.
Those nails must have one other that means, too, like he is virtually actually making an attempt to drive a nail in her coffin. I’m virtually optimistic it is linked to an outdated case.
Maybe she despatched a assassin to jail, and now he is been launched 30 years later and needs revenge.
The predominant downside is that Amanda might not know who to belief anymore because the APD took over the case, and Will and Faith will in all probability battle Angie and Michael for management. It may really feel demeaning to Amanda to rely on her “surrogate” youngsters to rescue her.
But in actuality, she’ll have to reveal the reality to Will so he will help her. Their relationship is so fragile proper now that she’s in all probability not sure if Will can deal with studying any extra truths about her previous with out damaging their relationship additional.
This Amanda-centric will permit the collection to flesh out her character extra as we study extra about her time as a detective within the Eighties and what choices have haunted her for years.
It can be attention-grabbing to see how the current intertwined with the previous, like with the Will Trent Season 1 finale, and if the GBI will help Amanda transfer on from this.
While delving into Amanda’s previous is the episode’s central focus, Det. Ormewood additionally will get some consideration as he struggles with being a single dad. Connotations like these give single dads a nasty identify.
Fathers can care for his or her youngsters and work simply in addition to moms, but when they will present Michael struggling to get his youngsters off to high school, put together lunches, or maintain the home organized for a number of days, it appears to be like unhealthy.
It offers credence to Gina that she felt overworked and undervalued for working and operating a family. Maybe he’ll admire Gina extra after he sees how a lot she does, balancing each a profession and a family.
Now that Gina has left him, I’m afraid Michael will revert to type and grow to be offended and argumentative. That may have an effect on his relationships together with his youngsters and his job.
Erika Christensen teased in an earlier interview that the APD and the GBI mix forces to resolve a case round Episode 5, and so they do not cooperate properly collectively.
That would match with this case as a result of even when Amanda drives Will and Faith loopy generally, she’s household to them, and the 2 of them would do something to show her innocence and decide who is de facto after Amanda.
On the opposite hand, Michael enjoys sticking it to Will. While the boys have managed to tug an uneasy truce, his marital points may have him on edge and make him snap.
This may trigger Angie to referee the 2 males as she needed to in Will Trent Season 1 Episode 4, and so they’ve all matured since then.
Over to you, Will Trent Fanatics. What do you hope to see in “Capt. Duke Wagner’s Daughter?” Who do you assume has been focusing on Amanda? Has Michael turned to the darkish aspect once more?
We would love to listen to your ideas, so drop your feedback under.
Will Trent airs at 8/7c on Tuesdays on ABC and streams on Hulu the subsequent day.
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