In the Feb. 20 premiere of the ABC crime drama, Agent Trent is visited for the first time by a vision of his 12-year-old self. “Something else from his childhood is coming up,” series star Ramón Rodríguez told TVLine at the time. “We don’t know what yet, and we don’t know how it’s going to impact him, but we do know that it has a haunting quality.”
Young Will returns in Episode 2, when his adult friend visits James Ulster in federal prison. He then reappears in Episode 4, which airs Tuesday.
At the top of the hour, Will reunites with his foster friend turned private investigator “Pee Pee” Percy. After Percy has given Will everything he can dig up about Will’s long-lost uncle Antonio Miranda, he informs Will that their former foster father, nicknamed “Sleeveless Jack,” has just died of lung cancer.
The mere mention of Sleeveless Jack is followed by another hallucination of young Will. Jack, he says, is a “shithole old man,” but he’s still there. “I cut his throat a long time ago,” Percy says, before Will shows him the door.
Later, while working a case, Will hallucinates again. This time, he confides in Faith.
“I don’t know what’s going on,” he says. “I might be losing my mind. I’m seeing… myself. It was me when I was 12. He followed me everywhere.
“This foster dad, Jack, killed his wife while I was there,” Will explains. But he can’t remember if he witnessed the murder. “My memories of that year are hazy.” And so we have more questions than ever.
Among other big developments this week…
* Angie helps Crystal get a waitressing job. Ormewood is surprised to learn that his partner has kept in touch with Crystal since she killed Lenny, but Angie insists they haven’t been in regular contact.
* Ormewood returns home to find his wife, Gina, packing up and leaving. “I’m sorry, Michael,” she writes in a handwritten note. “I love you, but I have to go.”
* Amanda received an ominous phone call from an unknown number. “Amanda Wagner, it’s time to pay up,” the person on the other end warned. It was later discovered that someone had entered GBI headquarters after dark and carved the words “time to pay up” into the elevator door.
