ABC is bringing the pages of Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent ebook collection to life in a tv present of the identical title. The collection follows the character of Will Trent, a particular agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI). His previous doesn’t make him the hottest amongst the different characters, however he’s profitable. Learn on for a recap of the collection premiere of Will Trent.
The premiere introduces Will Trent as a singular GBI agent
The Will Trent premiere begins with Abigail, performed by the marvelous Jennifer Morrison, on the cellphone along with her husband, Paul, performed by the iconic Mark-Paul Gosselaar. She is understandably upset that he cheated on her with their coach. However as she’s strolling into their home, Abigail sees damaged glass and deduces that somebody has damaged in. Regardless of Paul’s pleas, she enters the dwelling to examine on their 16-year-old daughter, Emma.
Inside, Abigail finds a bloody man standing over what seems to be Emma’s useless physique. They stumble down the stairs, and Abigail will get the higher hand. She strangles the unknown man to demise along with her tennis racket. Girls and gents, we now have our first homicide case.
The following scene exhibits Will Trent, who simply took down a gaggle of corrupt law enforcement officials, making an attempt to drop off his useless neighbor’s deserted chihuahua, Betty, at an animal shelter. However when he finds out it isn’t no-kill, Will retains Betty. As they drive away, viewers see that somebody vandalized his automobile with the phrases “rat,” “snitch,” and “traitor.”
Will’s boss, Deputy Director Amanda Wagner, picks him as much as take him to the aforementioned crime scene. There, Will begins studying the crime scene and realizes he is aware of the sufferer’s father. When Paul arrives, he identifies the girl’s useless physique as Emma’s pal Kayla, not Emma.
Will deduces that Kayla’s killer stabbed the man Abigail later killed, and he took Emma. The police determine the useless man as Adam Humphrey, a freshman at a neighborhood faculty.
The search is on for Emma and the killer
Elsewhere in the premiere of Will Trent, the episode introduces viewers to Detective Angie Polaski, who’s at present working undercover and is allegedly a recovering drug addict. Nonetheless, she takes medication whereas making an attempt to bust a vendor.
After surveying the crime scene, Will discovers that whoever kidnapped Emma additionally took her automobile. Angie finds the automobile whereas ready to bust the provider, and she or he calls Will to inform him the place it’s. It’s clear that they’ve historical past collectively. However that’s a narrative for one more time, we guess.
Detective Michael Ormewood arrives at the crime scene and is visibly upset that the GBI pulled him away from his murder case to search for a “trust fund runaway.” And he clearly dislikes Will. However as Ormewood’s coming, Will leaves together with his new accomplice, Detective Religion Mitchell, to have a look at the automobile. They discover blood in the trunk, and a digicam from a music studio pointed immediately at the place the automobile is.
A dyslexic man working at the studio lets Will and Religion take a look at the videotapes. They present that the suspect switched automobiles and a second kidnapper drove away with Emma.
Ormewood digs deeper into Adam’s life and finds out he was buddies with Emma, not Kayla. Whereas utilizing power to interrogate Adam’s roommate, his accomplice, Kenny, has a stroke.
Will and Religion alternate some heated phrases whereas sitting in site visitors. And Will realizes that Religion’s mom was one in all the corrupt cops he busted. At the GBI workplace, Will and Paul get right into a bodily combat when Will means that Paul was sleeping with Kayla. And he shares that they grew up in the identical foster dwelling collectively.
The take care of Angie’s provider will get pushed again due to the police presence. However she nonetheless will get one in all his goons arrested in the Will Trent premiere. And the police captain later assigns her to be Ormewood’s accomplice in murder to take her away from the vice division.
Who’s the killer in the ‘Will Trent’ premiere?
Towards the finish of the Will Trent premiere, Adam’s roommate confesses to Will and Religion that Adam was sleeping with Emma. And somebody threatened him to steer clear of Emma — he would depart intimidating notes, which Adam’s roommate exhibits Will and Religion. The message signifies that the perpetrator has dyslexia, main the companions again to the man at the music studio, Warren.
Will and Religion return to the studio, the place they discover Warren excessive on medication and locked in the recording studio. He confesses to killing Kayla and says his accomplice instructed him to kill himself. Warren shoots himself in the head, main the investigators with no leads. However Will and Religion make amends and conform to be companions going ahead.
At his home, Will finds Angie sitting on his sofa — she has a key. The present reveals that Angie was in the group dwelling with Will and Paul. Will and Angie even have a romantic previous, which is obvious once they begin making out. When she takes his shirt off, there are seen scars on Will’s chest and again.
Later, when the police ship Will a few of Emma’s faculty information, we discover out that Will has dyslexia. And Paul exhibits up at Will’s doorstep in a bloody shirt. He claims that he shot the man who kidnapped Emma.
Will Trent airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on ABC. Followers can watch the premiere of Will Trent on Hulu on Wednesday, Jan. 4.
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