Will Trent Season 4 Episode 2: Love Takes Time

The two-part premiere resolves at the burned-out scene. Medical examiner Pete can't make an official call — all signs point to a Will/Ulster murder-suicide — but Angie reads the flip phone fused to the passenger's chest and knows the body isn't Will's. The scene was staged.

The rewind fills in the night: Ulster abducted Will at gunpoint; Will fought back, knocked him out, and threw him into the back of his Porsche. When the GPS pointed toward GBI headquarters, Will deliberately turned away — haunted by Ulster's past escapes and the lives left in his wake, wrestling with whether bringing him in is enough, or whether stopping him for good means murdering him. Before he can act, a woman intervenes: she drugs Will, frees Ulster, and hauls them both off in a trailer. She is Susan Barno — one of Ulster's many fiancées, and far more dangerous than he anticipated.

What follows is a warped psychological standoff as Susan toys with both men and mutilates Ulster.

Back at the precinct the team identifies Susan as a corrections officer with access to missing stun cuffs and a family-owned warehouse. Angie, rushed to the hospital with cramping and diagnosed with Braxton-Hicks contractions, tracks the lead despite Seth's reservations and arrives first. A confrontation erupts: Angie wounds Susan, Ulster is fatally shot, and Will is there when Ulster takes his dying breath — "See you soon."

In the final moments Caleb checks in on Will, sensing his son isn't being fully honest about what happened when Ulster was in the back of his car. He hopes the death brings Will relief; all Will can muster is an impersonal platitude about the world being a "safer place" without Ulster in it. Caleb accepts what little his son offers.

Ulster is dead — shot in the confrontation at Susan Barno's warehouse after the corrections officer fiancée proved deadlier than the serial killer himself — but the episode refuses to make it relief. Will's last exchange with the man who murdered his mother is an unresolved "See you soon," and his conversation with Caleb is a wall of platitudes: he cannot say whether he intended to kill Ulster in the back of that car, and he doesn't correct Caleb's hope that the death heals anything.

The staged-deaths mystery closes cleanly — Angie's flip-phone read proved the body wasn't Will's — and the premiere's other thread resolves gently: Angie's hospital scare was Braxton-Hicks contractions, not labor, even as it puts her in the field against everyone's reservations. The season's real question is now on the table: what Will is capable of, and what actually happened in the Porsche before Susan Barno interrupted.