Exclusive: Will Trent Star Ramon Rodriguez Reveals What’s Next After Tragic Death in Season 2 Premiere
Will Trent season two returned on Tuesday, February 20, and it opened with a bang. Literally.
Episode one saw Will, a special agent for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, take over a case after a car explosion, only for the team to realize that a series of car bombs had been planted across the city, with all of the intended victims having ties to the local prison and a brutal gang.
But the episode ended in tragedy, as Cricket, a bomb disposal expert (played by This Is Us’ Susan Kelechi Watson) who sparked a potential change in Will (Ramon Rodriguez) with her daring attitude, died as she bravely saved the rest of the crew by carrying a timed bomb into a secure area.
After a life filled with blows, Ramon tells HELLO! that he hoped her death would force Will to admit that he was capable of opening up to someone new.
“When I saw Cricket [in the script], I was like, ‘Oh, this is something different.’ He didn’t want it and he wasn’t looking for it but it just presented itself and he was so excited,” he said. “They have this whole experience together and it’s great – and then it’s over. Closure is one of his coping mechanisms. It’s how he survives, by compartmentalizing but everything is complicated; everything from what he’s learned about his childhood to Cricket’s death.
“It’s all having an impact, psychologically, emotionally, but he keeps burying everything under the rug but when [it’s] all exposed? “That’s going to be interesting because he’s been hit after hit.” “I hope so,” he continued when asked by co-star Erika Christensen, who plays Angie Polaski, if there’s some value to be found in the short time Will and Cricket have been in a relationship. “Will is someone who’s not open to those opportunities and this takes him by surprise,” Ramon added. Elsewhere in the episode, it’s revealed that Angie’s police partner Michael Ormewood (played by Jake McLaughlin) was worried that his wife was cheating on him, but his worst fears came true. As Ormewood now faces the realization that his marriage may be falling apart, Erika shares that the relationship between the two will change as well. “A police partner relationship is actually quite an intimate one; “Within the constraints of this situation, you have to spend a lot of time together in a professional capacity, but eventually you get to know everything about each other’s lives and dirty little secrets are revealed,” the Parenthood actress said. “In the first season, Faith was trying to reach out to Ormewood, saying, ‘You have some responsibility to this person, you know?’ and in the second season, Angie is starting to realize that maybe she has to be there for him, and not just say, ‘Get out of my face,’ all the time.”
