Pete Chin

Pete Chin is a medical examiner whose work sits at the evidentiary center of Will Trent's fourth season, played by Kurt Yue. He first appears in Season 2 and is credited across Seasons 2, 3, and 4 — twenty-eight credited appearances in all, seventeen of them in Season 4 alone, where his findings repeatedly decide what the team's cases even are.

His Season 4 work begins at the burned-out scene of the two-part premiere. With everything at the scene pointing to a murder-suicide involving Will Trent and the serial killer James Ulster, Pete cannot make an official call — and his inability to close the question is what allows Angie to keep looking, reading the flip phone fused to the passenger's chest and knowing the body is not Will's. The scene was staged. Pete's caution at the scene is the hinge the whole premiere turns on.

From there his reports carry the season's cases forward. When salsa dancer Catalina collapses dead on the floor of a club, Pete and Trent agree she was poisoned — the poison turns out to have been in her makeup, which belonged to Roxy, the real intended target. When a woman is found exsanguinated with neck punctures at the center of a red pentagram at a drive-in, Pete reports she overdosed on a fentanyl patch before being drained, redirecting a case that looked occult toward the people around the victim. In the fraternity case, Pete's findings push the investigation back a year: gold speckles from Golderkranz drinks, and a kid who died after a wild DK party about a year earlier. His exhumation of Barry Evers — dead of staged hypothermia, mouth taped shut, gold flakes in his stomach — converts a campus cover-up into a murder case.

The season's most consequential autopsy is Amanda Wagner's. Pete's report establishes that Amanda did not suffer long — the stab wounds were fatal, but she collected enough DNA under her fingernails to identify her killer: one of Adelaide's followers, a school teacher. And in the premiere's aftermath hour he is again the man who cannot answer: Angie finds Ethan's body missing from the morgue, which Pete has just returned from court to discover gone.

Across the season Pete is written the way medical examiners mostly are on television at their best: the person whose patience with a body sets the limit on everyone else's theories. He does not chase suspects or run stings; he tells the team what the dead can support — a poisoning, a staged overdose, a year-old exhumation, DNA under fingernails — and the difference between the case the team wants and the case the evidence allows is usually the distance between Pete's report and the detectives' first read.

Pete Chin is the medical examiner of Will Trent, played by Kurt Yue. He first appears in Season 2 and is credited across Seasons 2, 3, and 4 — 28 episodes in all — with his largest presence in Season 4, where his findings repeatedly determine what the team's cases actually are.

His work is the evidentiary hinge of the season's biggest stories: at the burned-out scene of the Season 4 premiere he cannot make an official call on the apparent Will/Ulster murder-suicide, leaving Angie room to prove the scene was staged; his findings push the fraternity case back a year and turn an exhumation into a murder; and his autopsy of Amanda Wagner recovers the DNA under her fingernails that names her killer.

recurring

Pete Chin's on-screen relationships are professional: he works the autopsy and examination side of the GBI's and APD's cases, agreeing findings with Will Trent at the salsa-club death, reporting the fentanyl-patch overdose in the drive-in case, and delivering the autopsy that identifies Amanda Wagner's killer. His interactions are with the detectives who depend on his calls — Angie among them, the officer who discovers Ethan's body missing from his morgue.

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• Role: recurring
• Shows: Will Trent
• Seasons: 3
• Episodes: 28

• Love Takes Time — S4E2

  Pete cannot make an official call at the burned-out scene — the medical ambiguity that lets Angie prove the deaths were staged.

• You're Only as Sick as Your Secrets — S4E10

  His findings push the fraternity case back a year, and his exhumation of Barry Evers exposes staged hypothermia and gold flakes in the stomach.

• Our Last Dance — S4E16

  His report establishes Amanda didn't suffer long, and that the DNA under her fingernails identifies her killer.

Season 2

Source: Season 2 · S2E3

Season 3

Source: Season 3 · S3E2

Season 4

Source: Season 4 · S4E2 · S4E10 · S4E16

Who is Pete Chin in Will Trent?

Pete Chin is the medical examiner whose reports anchor the team's cases. He first appears in Season 2 and is a central forensic presence in Season 4, from the staged Will/Ulster death scene to the autopsy that identifies Amanda Wagner's killer.

Source: S2E3 · S4E2 · S4E16 Unreviewed draft

Which seasons of Will Trent does Pete Chin appear in?

He appears in Seasons 2, 3, and 4 — credited in four episodes of Season 2, seven of Season 3, and seventeen of Season 4.

Source: Season 2 · Season 3 · Season 4 Unreviewed draft

How many episodes of Will Trent feature Pete Chin?

RecapHub's credit data lists 28 credited appearances across Seasons 2 through 4.

Source: S2E3 · S4E17 Unreviewed draft

When does Pete Chin first appear?

His first credited appearance is in Season 2, in the episode "You Don't Have to Understand" (S2E3).

Source: S2E3 Unreviewed draft

Who plays Pete Chin?

Kurt Yue plays Pete Chin.

Source: Season 2 Unreviewed draft

What did Pete Chin find in Amanda Wagner's autopsy?

His report establishes that Amanda didn't suffer long — the stab wounds were fatal, but she collected enough DNA under her fingernails to identify her killer: one of Adelaide's followers, a school teacher.

Source: S4E16 Unreviewed draft