‘Will Trent’ resolves season 3 mystery about Will’s past

This text incorporates spoilers for Will Trent season 3, episode 14, “A Funeral Match for a Quartermaine.”

Rafael Wexford (Antwayn Hopper) was capable of deliver Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) again to Atlanta — and now we all know how.

The newest episode of Will Trent, “A Funeral Match for a Quartermaine,” lastly offers us solutions to the thriller launched in the beginning of season 3 — what’s the debt Will owes Rafael? Via a sequence of flashbacks, we be taught that Will and Rafael have been in bother collectively as youngsters when the pair tried to dump a truck of stolen rugs. After Will refused to cooperate with the criminals, Rafael shot considered one of them as a way to save Will — sending him to jail and solidifying his trajectory in direction of a lifetime of crime.

Within the current, it was Rafael’s grandmother’s demise that supplied a gap for Will to lastly put a cease to his quasi-brother’s legal exercise. Will arrests Rafael after he’s betrayed by somebody inside his group. However on account of info he had about different criminals, Rafael acquired a take care of the FBI to relocate someplace together with his daughter.

We spoke to Rodríguez about Will closing this chapter, the place he thinks Will and Angie [Erika Christensen] stand, and what’s forward as we close to the season 3 finale.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Now we all know what Rafael had over Will, which we be taught by means of flashbacks on this episode. Was there something you discovered about Will by means of this arc? Something that shocked you?

RAMÓN RODRÍGUEZ: What stays constant is we see, whilst a young person, Will had a code. He had a powerful North Star as to what’s proper and incorrect although he will get concerned with Rafael. He’s reluctant, however he does and he additionally nonetheless attracts his line when he tells these guys “we’re out.” I like watching that relationship. Grandma taking Will in and seeing issues in Will that he doesn’t even acknowledge in himself. Watching that relationship with Will and Rafael develop till they half methods actually informed us loads about who Rafael is in addition to what he was keen to do and the way he did defend and step up for Will in a really dire state of affairs. It was a deep lack of a friendship. He needed to go to jail. It was very severe, so we needed to ensure that the stakes felt proper.

What do you assume Will takes away from this reunion with Rafael? Have they got the closure they wanted?

From the second we launched Rafael in that first episode, he retains getting in bother and never making nice selections. Will finally ends up becoming a member of Rafael as soon as he sees Will actually is aware of rugs and there’s a possibility that they’ll reap the benefits of. For Will, at the very least emotionally, he actually cherished Rafael and we established early on there is a sibling vibe to their relationship. Now Will can lastly shut this chapter as a result of that is one thing that stayed on his thoughts and he’s held onto this relationship. There’s a debt. He can lastly now at the very least really feel like he had Rafael’s again.

Do you assume it’s a little bit tousled that Will used this chance to take him down? He was grieving.

We talked about that, too. It was a end result, issues have been all going on this route. It’s one other instance of Will [having to make] some actually powerful selections, like on the finish of season 2 when he needed to arrest Angie. Equally right here with Rafael, he did commit a criminal offense and so it simply occurred to be that issues have been culminating with the demise of his grandma, as tousled because it is likely to be and really feel. For my part, there have been plenty of instances that Rafael was doing issues [Will] may have busted him for a very long time in the past. For dramatic functions, it labored very well to make use of that emotional thread.

What are you able to tease about what’s forward for Will within the final episodes of the season?

What’s going to have a residual impact that I feel is nice and we focus on loads is Marco’s [Owen Trumbly] demise. I feel audiences are going to be actually glad with how we proceed that story. There’s going to be some extra private issues which might be going to return up for Will. I can say this in relation to Angie and almost about his personal identification, so we’ll have a few of that, which we’ve tapped into earlier than. It has been actually fulfilling to observe Will be taught the place he comes from.

Angie and Will begin the season fractured after her arrest, however their potential romantic reunion is one thing many viewers need. The place do you assume they at present stand outdoors of the romances they’re each at present in with different folks?

It was actually dangerous on the high of the season and so they didn’t also have a scene collectively for a few episodes. A really pivotal second was after Marco’s demise. To finish that episode to see there’s a knock on the door and who’s there? It’s Angie. For me that represents most likely on the deepest stage of what these two are about. No matter how you’re feeling, in the event you assume they need to or shouldn’t be collectively, they’ve such a historical past. They’ll present up for one another of their darkest, hardest moments. There’s at the very least an understanding of what their true friendship actually is and it’s been capable of stand up to loads.

One thing that was actually enjoyable to introduce this season was wholesome companions for each of them. For him to have Marion [Gina Rodriguez] and for her to have Seth [Scott Foley] is one thing we’ve by no means seen for them. What we’ve discovered is that they’re at a spot of a friendship and we’ll see what occurs after that.

Talking of Marion, Will was understandably impacted by Marco’s demise when his relationship with Marion was placed on pause, however he didn’t say “I like you” after she mentioned it first. The place does Will stand by way of his emotions for Marion?

Personally, it’s an amazing query, however that’s most likely gotta do principally with simply what occurred to him and never with the ability to course of what occurred to Marco. All of the indicators of her being an exquisite individual for him are there. It’s wholesome, it’s loving. She exhibits up for him and he exhibits up for her, so all of the elements are there that might present a very wholesome relationship, which is new for him. There’s most likely plenty of issues that Will hasn’t processed and that may be an enormous hurdle by way of attempting to maneuver ahead in something in a wholesome method. We’ve by no means seen Will take care of this till Marco’s demise. It’s the primary time we see him go discuss to a therapist. That’s one thing I discover actually compelling and attention-grabbing, and perhaps we’ll discover additional shifting ahead.

This interview has been edited for size and readability.

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