Will Trent Season 1 Episode 9: Manhunt

A protest chants “Justice for Andrew” outside the court, where Sam Laporte — the convicted killer of officer Andrew Bly — is holding to his innocence. In the crowd's chaos he grabs a key and opens his cuffs. Faith is in the courthouse ladies' room injecting insulin when gunshots ring out; she calms the elderly Bonnie before going to look, and Sam takes her hostage in the hallway. By the time Will and Ormewood arrive they are gone. The director's framing establishes history: Faith arrested Sam once, seven years ago.

Faith's declared diabetes forces a stop; Sam locks her in the trunk, she escapes it but is caught, and they switch cars as the police arrive half an hour late.

Sam insists he did not kill Andrew and counts on his alibi friend to prove it — but the friend is already dead at the house, and Officer O'Hara, arriving, opens fire and kills the wounded man instantly, then holds Faith at gunpoint, radios the station identifying Faith as the shooter, and claims she and Sam are working together; Sam convinces her to flee rather than stay and explain. Amanda does not believe Faith killed anyone and threatens to pull Will off the case when he objects to the department's line.

Will and Ormewood rework the scene over O'Hara's defensiveness and jurisdiction-card pulling, and their fight over whether Will should back down ends with Ormewood realizing Will was right. Faith gets a message out through Betty's social-media account, which Nico relays to Will by phone.

On a stakeout for another case, Angie spots her former foster father Lenny Broussard — who raped her and got her pregnant at 15 — and does not tell Ormewood; shaken, she goes to an AA meeting hoping to hold her sobriety and her sense of control, then has Ormewood run Lenny's address through the system without asking why. Amanda and Will secretly interrogate Andrew's widow at Will's house: she never believed Sam killed her husband, and says O'Hara kept her isolated and was acting strange.

Andrew, it emerges, had been investigating O'Hara for corruption and kept a file on him; Will and Ormewood dig it up from Andrew's old yard.

Angie brings Lenny in on disorderly-conduct charges; he apologizes for raping her at 15 and getting her pregnant, an apology she does not buy, and she cannot hold him. When he leaves, his new family picks him up — and Angie sees he has a stepdaughter now, fearing the worst for the girl. At the remote cabin, Faith and Sam trade stories about how they first met; after she bathes, Sam tries and fails to flee. Amanda races to reach them before other cops go trigger-happy; O'Hara finds them first and fires at the window, Faith and Sam share a kiss, and Faith kills O'Hara.

When the other officers arrive, she and Sam surrender. Amanda takes Faith home; Will is relieved to have his partner back safe; and Sam's conviction is overturned — though because he broke laws escaping, he still faces legal consequences.

The frame-up collapses. Will and Ormewood recover the corruption file Andrew Bly kept on Officer O'Hara, and at the remote cabin O'Hara — who had already murdered Sam's alibi friend and framed Faith — opens fire; Faith kills him, and when the other officers arrive she and Sam surrender. Amanda takes Faith home, Will gets his partner back, and Sam's conviction for Andrew's murder is overturned — though the episode is explicit that his escape leaves him facing further legal consequences.

What stays open is Angie. She has told no one that she saw Lenny Broussard, the man who raped and impregnated her at 15; his apology went unaccepted, he walked out to a new family with a young stepdaughter Angie fears for, and when Will finds the nonalcoholic beer and asks what happened, she deflects with “a tough day.” The episode ends with her secret intact and the threat in Lenny's household unresolved.