Will Trent Season 1 Episode 3 Insights and Highlights: A best-selling book series can be difficult to translate to television, but Will Trent has been successful in maintaining the characters’ core motivations and creating entertaining monthly mysteries.
In Will Trent Season 1 Episode 3, Will and Faith strengthen their partnership as they investigate a murder close to Lake Lanier. It was clear when Amanda joined them how fast the GBI had developed into a family if someone attempted to harm them. A 30-year-old cold case was diligently buried by the community, yet information can leak. The episode featured too many cliches, including racism anxiety, a dementia patient, a murder cover-up, and a crooked cop seeking retribution, even though the case-of-the-week kept us on our toes. Nearly all of Karin Slaughter’s plotlines seemed to have been incorporated into one episode by the authors. All of those tropes were useful, but if there weren’t so many of them, they could have been explored further.
At first, I believed Dale Merrick was responsible for the mayor’s homicide. Watching that boat burn while an elderly dementia patient apologised over and over was really painful.
Will: And they set his boat on fire. That’s dramatic. Do you think someone was making a statement, maybe political?
Faith: Or it was ghosts? It’s Lake Lanier. They got land and cemeteries that someone just plowed over them, and for what a tourist spot?
Of all the people, his plight caused my heart to break the most. To protect his family, he kept a secret for more than 30 years, and that shame devastated him. For persons with dementia, remembering facts can be difficult, but remembering what you are permitted to say and what you are not is practically impossible. He kept running into things. Only when he encountered the adult version of the infant he had saved all those years earlier did he come clean. He may have been so kind to Josie for that reason.
The fact that it took so long to determine this was a cold case and that so many people purposefully pointed the GBI in the wrong path contributed to the case’s frustration. Except for the bloody nail that Will discovered, most of the DNA was burnt along with the boat. The only thing they had was a toy automobile that connected the two homicides.
I wished Josie hadn’t been turned into a crooked cop. I actually appreciated her friendship with Faith and Amanda and the way she supported other powerful women in the law enforcement community. We require more female empowerment than the shock value of a vengeful filthy officer. I would have preferred if Josie had actually shot Otis to defend Faith and that she was searching for the fourth shooter to crack the case. She wanted justice for her family, which was understandable, but the Lake Lanier sheriffs at the time were dishonest.
Both Amanda and Faith’s attempts to reason with her were successful. Faith didn’t want to be forgotten, but Amanda insisted that Faith was part of her family and that nobody could hurt her family. Faith struggled the most with this murder case. She thought that the ghosts of the dead that no one wanted to know about haunted Lake Lanier. It was upsetting to see Faith shaken by the sound of firearms or a town because she always seemed to be a strong woman. Instead of having Will serve as Faith’s mentor, she and Josie connected via their shared experiences as black women on the force.
Nothing brings a couple closer together like a road trip and a night in a motel together. By the time it’s over, you’ll either be closer or despise one other. Even Faith’s son and Will have noticed that Faith seems more stressed out lately and needs more junk food. I had thought she might confide about whatever was troubling her when Will finally opened up about his time spent in foster care.
Given that even Angie had witnessed Michael’s fury and knew he used excessive force, it seemed as though he was accustomed to having his way. Given that he is now a family guy, that concerned me. Thank goodness Gina was blunt. Even though she adhered to etiquette, she wouldn’t let Angie to seduce her man.
Who could have missed Angie sprinting directly to Will’s right after realizing they both make identical errors? Angie used to have as many walls up as Will had, so it was a relief to see her finally let them down and talk about her one-night stand and her anxieties.
