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 processing 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.
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 life, but I think having the story with her mother, and shining a light on what that relationship was like, and I think her resolution to do better by this child is really interesting. It’s a big challenge.
Daniel Thomsen: It’s outside my personal experience, obviously, but just as a viewer of the story, one thing that I hang on to, and really resonates with me, is that when we met the mother, and we saw the story of Angie’s childhood, you understand why Angie doesn’t feel worthy of motherhood. But the other thing that you just feel viscerally is that she’s already broken [the cycle]. She’s like, “I’m going to break the cycle.”
She thinks that she has all this more work to do, and I feel like she already has. I think that she is so worthy of having this kid, so when she made that decision, I was like, “Yes, let’s go. Let’s take on this next challenge, because you’re ready for it.” To me, the end of the season was just kind of catching Angie up to what everyone already knew, which is like, “Yeah, do this. You can be a mother. You’re not broken just because your mother was broken.” It was very moving.
Will Is Ready To Give Caleb A Shot In Season 4
Before I let you guys go, I obviously want to ask about Caleb and Will, because they had a much-needed talk during quite a hectic moment, which was such a great scene. What can you say about how that may have changed his perception of his biological father, and what that relationship could look like going forward to Will Trent season 4?
Daniel Thomsen: There are still a lot of decisions we have to make. I think that we think Caleb, in Will’s mind, has earned his way to the table in the sense that he’s going to give him a shot. They’re going to go and sit down and break bread, and Will’s going to meet the other people. It’s not just Caleb. There’s a little bit of a family ecosystem, as Liz has been saying. It’s like Will is going from his chosen family that he’s created to the family that he just gets now, and how that’s going to be a different type of trauma. Yeah, we have a lot to figure out, but it just feels like Will’s ready to try.
More About Will Trent Season 3
Based on Karin Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling “Will Trent” series, Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system. Now, Will uses his unique point of view in the pursuit of justice and has the highest clearance rate in the GBI.
