Will Trent Season 2 Episode 3: You Don't Have to Understand

A woman touches up her make-up and walks into an abandoned building to meet someone; a figure behind her pulls a bag over her head. The episode then moves to Angie passing her physical test and returning to the field, with Will showing up to take care of her and Angie pushing him to talk to someone about the explosion and Cricket's death — an offer he does not get to answer before the case call comes.

At the scene, Amanda is unhappy with Faith's late arrivals all week. Inside, the body from the opening is not the woman but a man; Trent's read of the blood leads to a second male victim shot three times, and a purse whose contents indicate the woman was pregnant. Reconstruction: the woman was the target, the first man attacked her, the second victim tried to protect her and was shot — and the woman killed her attacker by plunging the building's loose door knob into his back. The pregnant woman is missing.

The victims are identified as Isabella Altman, 22, and Conrad, an associate youth pastor at New Beginnings Community of Faith; no one knows the father of Isabella's child. Councilman Victor Carrey pulls Amanda outside to press for a quick, quiet resolution — the murder threatens his redevelopment plans. Isabella worked on Carrey's campaign the previous summer; Carrey, his wife and his assistant cooperate, but the councilman looks worried.

Trent digs into Reggie and finds the pastor is not who he claims: his real name is Leonard Parker, wanted in Philadelphia for a violent robbery that left an innocent bystander dead — on the run for 20 years. Reggie's prints are on the knife found at the scene; he says Conrad carried the knife for protection, and admits he knows where Isabella is — she is terrified, and he is protecting her. She had gone to the building to meet her baby's father and doubts the police will believe her; she fears the father could get custody.

Faith convinces Reggie to give up the location, but Isabella is gone when they arrive — someone got there first. The people who knew about the safe house lead to the councilman.

At the Carrey house the officers hear gunshots. Carrey runs out asking for help and does not get far: his wife Erin shoots him in the head. Isabella is inside, in labor — Will helps her deliver the baby, moved beyond tears, while Faith deals with Erin, who confesses she lost it after her husband got Isabella pregnant and ruined her plans to make him governor.

The B-case: Angie and Ormewood, partners again, catch the death of Ted — cardiac arrest in a sauna, with a lethal level of the fast-acting pain medication buprenorphine in his system. The coroner is sure someone poisoned him at Rubi Dreams Wellness Centre. Wolfgang, Ted's ex-business partner, is questioned after a melted plastic stone is found in the sauna; he explains Ted withdrew from their sauna franchise plans because his father was dying of cancer.

The last piece takes the detectives to a hospice and to Ted's brother Denny, who admits he killed Ted — Ted refused to help when their parents got sick while wanting his share of the will. Angie reminds Ormewood she is sober when he suggests a drink, and sends him home.

Will calls someone to pick up Reggie and promises to put in a word; Reggie says he is ready to make peace with his demons and hopes the same for Will. Will tells Amanda how cathartic it felt to help deliver Isabella's baby, and the episode closes with the two of them sitting silently in his office.

The main case resolves at the Carrey house. Erin Carrey killed her husband — the councilman who got Isabella pregnant and, in Erin's telling, wrecked the gubernatorial future she had engineered for him — and she confesses on the spot. Isabella, found in labor inside the house, delivers her baby with Will's help and is finally safe; Reggie's protection of her is explained, and his own secret — he is Leonard Parker, wanted in Philadelphia for a robbery-homicide 20 years back — is headed for a surrender Will says he will support.

The sauna murder closes with the coroner's poisoning read confirmed: Ted's brother Denny admits he killed him, telling the detectives Ted refused to help when their parents got sick while expecting his share of the will. The episode's last note belongs to Will: he tells Amanda how magical and cathartic helping deliver Isabella's baby felt, and the two sit together in silence — the show's picture of Will letting someone sit next to his grief without asking him to explain it.