Will Trent Season 1 Episode 5: The Look Out

Will and Angie tear through the neighborhood hunting Betty, who slipped out after Angie left the front door open. The dog returns safely, but the argument doesn't: Angie blames Will's nitpicking, Will accuses her of looking for reasons to end things, and the couple breaks up again. At the GBI, Faith gets the call — her son Jeremy was at a club where a woman was shot. Jeremy is only slightly hurt in a stampede, and Faith is furious he was in a club underage.

The victim is Brooke, wife of club owner Chris Conlan, a former football star whose career ended with a knee injury. A thief snatched Conlan's necklace as the couple left, and the gun went off, killing Brooke. Convinced the shooter had inside help, Will bets a fellow officer he can crack it in one night, over the officer's note that it may tie into a string of midtown robberies. Will traces a social account called “Deux Peches” to Ava Green; he and Faith break into her apartment and arrest two men.

Ava maintains her innocence — she only posted places to visit, and the resemblance between her car and the getaway car was coincidence.

Club manager Pudge — Conlan's best friend — lies to the detectives, and when they return for follow-ups he is dead. Will finds his suspicious closeness to Conlan telling: Pudge never contacted Conlan after the shooting. The scheme beneath it all comes out: Conlan had insured the necklace and commissioned a fake replica for an insurance fraud, and asked Pudge to stage its public theft — during which Pudge accidentally shot Brooke.

Conlan's manager Lucas, secretly having an affair with Brooke, had swapped in a fully loaded gun, hoping Pudge would kill Conlan and leave Lucas with the money and Brooke; Will concludes Lucas killed Pudge to hide his role and recover the weapon.

The team asks Conlan to help lure Lucas and recover the loaded gun — not knowing Conlan himself killed Pudge and means to shoot Lucas and claim self-defense. Will realizes it in time, rushes in, and Conlan is dissuaded; both men are taken into custody. Ava, granted probation, makes her interest in Will plain, and he tells her openly he hasn't moved on from Angie.

Meanwhile Angie and Ormewood work the murder of wealthy realtor Sean Hinchcliff, shot while showing a house; a fraudulent rent-to-own operation, employees paid in cryptocurrency and owed months of salary, a hacked account drained after his death, and a side business with Gregory Pardee — selling NFTs of strip-club performers, which Sean sold out from under him — give Gregory the motive. At Gregory's arrest, Angie recognizes a frightened woman as a Zero Mile victim she failed to save in Vice — a potential witness.

The hour closes with Angie returning to Will's home after the day she's had, and Will inviting her in.

The club case closes in custody. The necklace shooting is resolved as an insurance fraud that went wrong: Conlan commissioned the fake, Pudge's staged theft killed Brooke, and Lucas's loaded-gun swap was meant to kill Conlan. The final twist — Conlan murdered Pudge and planned to execute Lucas during the sting — is stopped by Will, and both men are arrested. The episode does not disclose Brooke's ultimate condition or the cases' legal outcomes.

Two personal threads stay open. Ava Green, on probation, is told by Will that he has not moved on from Angie — leaving his breakup with Angie in a contradicted, unresolved state. And the Zero Mile thread gains a witness: the woman Angie recognizes at Gregory Pardee's arrest. The hour ends with Angie coming to Will's home after her difficult day and Will inviting her in — what happens next is not shown within the episode.