After the past few episodes delivered some emotional updates for its characters, Will Trent season 3’s finale has left some in worse states than ever. The season’s ending, entitled “Listening to a Heartbeat”, kicks off as Atlanta is hit by a mysterious biological attack from a domestic terrorist group, causing chaos throughout the city. While Will, his team at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Scott Foley’s Seth race to save lives, their efforts will be hindered by a deadly hostage situation from the terrorist group.
The Will Trent season 3 finale also saw some of its characters dealing with changes in their personal lives, particularly Erika Christensen’s Angie, who has been grappling with whether to keep the child from her and Seth’s surprise pregnancy, and Will also dealing with the reveal of Yul Vazquez’s Sheriff Caleb Roussard being his biological father.
By the end of the episode, Angie has decided to keep the baby, leaving Will conflicted amid his ongoing feelings for her, while also giving Caleb a chance for an emotional conversation. However, it also saw Sonja Sohn’s Amanda in the hospital after being shot and Jake McLaughlin’s Ormewood fainting due to his brain tumor.
In honor of the episode’s airing, ScreenRant interviewed Liz Heldens and Daniel Thomsen to break down the Will Trent season 3 ending. The showrunners offered cautious updates on the fates of Wagner and Ormewood from the cliffhanger finale, as well as why Angie elected to keep hers and Seth’s baby, how that will impact her relationship with Will going forward, and how his and Caleb’s conversation will affect their dynamic going into season 4.
Wagner & Ormewood’s Ambiguous Fates Should Not Be Taken Lightly
ScreenRant: You guys have left me kind of worried at the end there, I’m not feeling super great after Will
Trent season 3 finale. Wagner’s life is on the line, how worried should we be?
Daniel Thomsen: I think we tried our best to really remind the audience how much she means to Will, and that, in a world where a lot of stuff is changing in his life, she might be the only constant, so it would be the worst possible time to lose her. So, in that sense, I think you should always be worried.
You didn’t stop there, though, as we got Ormewood collapsing on the floor, and we don’t know if he’s going to be okay. If he does survive, how is this event going to make this tumor, and what’s happening to him feel more real going into the next season?
Liz Heldens: We’re still creatively figuring things out. He is a character whose strength and physicality are a big part of his identity. So, it’s interesting to think about him trying to recover, trying to get back to a version of himself that he recognizes. But yeah, we started this notion of a brain tumor in an episode that Dan wrote, and then we wanted to bring it to a real crisis.
Daniel Thomsen: I think, for me, what I’m excited about with Ormewood is in losing some things about himself that he thought were core to himself, he’s going to discover some new parts of himself. And the other thing that I’m really excited about is all this season, and going back to last season, he’s had to adjust to being a single dad, and he’s kind of taken that on as a soldier would. It’s a duty, and he’s not going to drop the ball, and he’s really been doing his best, but he’s had some emotional intimacy game with his kids a little bit.
But I think this is going to be a seismic change for how he’s going to have to deal with his kids, and can’t just be super dad. I think that’s a really interesting way to take a cop who kind of started his journey with us as a very closed-off, almost performative masculine dude, and now, he can’t do that anymore. He’s got to be somebody different. I like exploring that.
Angie Keeping Her & Seth’s Baby Is Going To Lead To Some Major Changes For Her
I also want to talk about Angie. Obviously, it seems like she is keeping the baby. What would you say really solidified that decision for her during the finale?
Liz Heldens: We had a line that we took out where she’s in the airshaft, and she’s crawling along. We only took it out for time, but she’s like, “Alright, your little reverse psychology worked.” I think, when presented with the idea of losing the baby, it just made it very clear to her that she wanted the child. Even though it was not necessarily something she planned, or is going to be perfect in any way, she just decided that she wanted the child. And I am personally really excited to go on that journey with her.
Is it possible that this will bring her some happiness going forward?
Liz Heldens: I think it’ll bring her something different going forward. I have two children. It’s a big, messy, hard, wonderful journey, and I am interested to see Angie’s life change and open up in a way that she can’t control as much as she can. She has her little way she relates to the men in her
