Will Trent Season 2 Episode 1: Me Llamo Will Trent

The episode opens in an Atlanta suburb: a man starts his car and is killed by an explosion. Elsewhere Will sits in a Spanish class — he is learning his mother's language to feel closer to her — until Amanda calls him away: she fears the bombing is terrorism, and the mayor, the media and the federal agencies are all demanding answers.

At the scene Will spots a diamond earring on the ground and orders Ormewood to bag it, over their usual bickering. Cricket Dawson, a bomb expert joining the team, reads the device: the bombing was targeted, not terrorism. She admits she is a fan of Will's work, and Will keeps being distracted by visions of his younger self — a memory of foster kids begging for help while the foster parents argued.

Will talks to the victim's wife and works out her husband was not the target: the bomber confused the houses and the cars. The real target is Arthur Highsmith, an accountant on the same block who drives a maroon car. Arthur refuses protection, denies having enemies, and admits only to money troubles. He is carrying a bag he claims holds socks; Will is sure it holds cash.

A blue car skids up outside the cafe where Arthur is eating and opens fire. The bag's money flies everywhere; Arthur grabs what he can and tells Will the truth — blackmailers demand half a million dollars a month, or they will kill his son, who is serving time in prison. A week earlier a woman at the bank told him she was being extorted the same way and suggested they team up. Faith says they will trace her through the bank footage; she is identified as Emily Chu.

Emily is reached mid-drive and told there is a bomb in her car. Cricket works the device while Will keeps Emily talking: she has been paying to protect her brother, and she reached out to other families in the same prison support group — the police rush to save three more targets. Cricket disarms the bomb, and Will asks her out.

Faith follows Luke Sullivan's lead to the bombers' workshop, where she and Cricket find the bomb-making materials and an encrypted message sent 18 hours before the first blast — its language and code confirm Will's theory that the operation is run from inside Georgia State Prison. Searching the impounded blue car, Will and Faith discover it holds a second bomb. The building is evacuated; Ormewood finds his son moments before the blast. Cricket carries the bomb away from the other cars, but the device's collapsible socket resets a timer each time she defeats a switch, and it detonates.

She is killed.

Around the case: Angie, still carrying nerve damage from her injuries, forces her doctor to sign her clearance papers by threatening to tell the medical board about their relationship. Ormewood, suspicious of his wife Gina's hours with the neighbor, plants a tracker on her car instead of asking her; she confirms the affair. Will turns Cricket down when she states her interest directly — unprofessional, he says — and after her death he refuses every attempt to slow him down.

He dresses, and leaves for Georgia State Prison to meet James Ulster, the man who has been sending him unwanted gifts and who killed his mother.

The bombing case is cracked as an extortion ring: prisoners' families were being bled for cash under death threats, with the orders relayed from inside Georgia State Prison. The evidence that proves it — the encrypted message and the bombers' workshop — costs Cricket her life when a second device in the impounded blue car detonates; she carries it clear of the other cars and does not survive.

The final movement belongs to Will. Cricket died mid-conversation about the unwanted gifts Will has been receiving from James Ulster — the serial killer who murdered his mother — and about Will's fear of taking the DNA test that would tell him whether Ulster is his father. Amanda tries to make him stop working. He does not. He dresses and leaves for the prison to meet Ulster face to face, which is where the season is pointing when the episode ends.