Will Trent just gave viewers a taste of the deep trauma that caused Will’s hallucinations in Season 2. In the Feb. 20 premiere of the ABC crime drama, Agent Trent was first visited by an image 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 it is yet, and we don’t know how it’s going to impact him, but we do know that it’s in the nature of a haunting atmosphere.”
Young Will returned in Episode 2, when his adult companion visited James Ulster in federal prison. He then reappeared in Episode 4, which aired Tuesday.
At the top of the hour, Will reunited with his former foster-survivor-turned-private-detective companion “Pee Pee” Percy. After Percy gives 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 recently died of lung cancer.
The mere mention of Sleeveless Jack causes Will to have another hallucination. He says that Jack is a “shithole old man,” but that he is very bad. “I would have had his throat slit a lot earlier,” Percy says, before Will shows him the door.
Later, while working a case, Will has another hallucination. This time, he believes 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 was stalking me.
“This foster father, Jack, killed his wife while I was there,” Will explains. But he doesn’t remember witnessing the murder. “My memories of that year are hazy.” And so we have more questions than before.
Among other major developments this week… * Angie helps Crystal get a waitressing job. Ormewood is surprised to learn that his partner has been in contact with Crystal since she killed Lenny, but Angie insists they weren’t in regular contact.
* Ormewood returns home to find his wife Gina has packed up and left him behind. “I’m sorry, Michael,” she writes in a handwritten note. “I love you, but I have to go.”
* Amanda receives an ominous phone call from an unknown number. “Amanda Wagner, it’s time to pay up,” the person on the other end of the line warned. It was later discovered that someone had entered the GBI headquarters after dark and carved “it’s time to pay up” into the elevator doors.
* As the hour drew to a close, Will picked up the phone and left a voicemail for his uncle: “Hello, this message is for Antonio Miranda. I’m Agent….” He paused. “I’m your sister Lucy’s son. My name is Will Trent.”
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