Will Trent Season 2 Episode 4: It's Easier to Handcuff a Human Being

The case takes Will and Faith to a small rural town where a murder has the locals reaching for the "Boo Hag" legend. A suspect is quickly assumed, but the connections the agents pull on reach back into the town's past and turn up surprises nobody bargained for.

On the home front, Ormewood investigates the murder of a TV star, and Amanda senses impending danger — a feeling the episode makes literal by the end.

Early in the hour Will is reunited with Percy, a fellow survivor of the foster system who now works as a private investigator. Percy hands over everything he could dig up on Will's long-lost uncle, Antonio Miranda, and drops a piece of news: their former foster dad — the man they called "Sleeveless Jack" — recently died of lung cancer. The mention of Jack's name triggers another hallucination of 12-year-old Will. "A mean old bastard," Percy calls him, before Will shows him the door.

Later, while working the case, Will hallucinates again — and this time he confides in Faith. "I don't know what's happening," he tells her. "I'm seeing... me. It's me when I was 12. He's been following me around." He explains that a foster dad named Jack killed his wife while Will was there — but he cannot remember whether he actually witnessed the murder. "My memory of that year is foggy."

Around the case: Angie helps Crystal secure a waitressing gig. Ormewood is surprised his partner is still in touch with Crystal after Crystal killed Lenny; Angie insists they are not in constant communication. Ormewood comes home to find Gina has packed up her belongings and left him — the note reads, "I'm sorry, Michael. I love you, but I have to go."

Amanda receives an ominous phone call from an unknown number: "Amanda Wagner, it's time to pay." It is followed by the discovery that someone has been inside GBI headquarters after dark and carved the same words into the elevator doors.

As the hour draws to a close, Will picks up the phone and leaves a voicemail for his uncle: "Hello, this message is for Antonio Miranda. I'm Special Agent..." He stops, and starts again. "I'm the son of your sister, Lucy. My name is Will Trent."

The Boo Hag case closes with the town's quick answer exposed as too easy — the connections running through the town's past produce surprises rather than the tidy suspect the locals assumed. The episode's real cliffhangers sit outside the case file.

Amanda is placed under a name-and-a-threat: a phone call — "Amanda Wagner, it's time to pay" — and the same phrase carved into the GBI's elevator doors after hours, with no suspect attached. Gina has left Ormewood with a note and no negotiation. And Will, having told Faith the truth about his hallucinations and what he does and does not remember of the year Jack killed his wife, finally acts on the family thread: his voicemail to Antonio Miranda starts with the bureau title he was taught to lead with and ends with the one that matters — "I'm the son of your sister, Lucy."