Will Trent Season 4 Episode 8: We're Looking for a Vampire

Trent's car breaks down during a visit with Caleb; as they bicker — Caleb coaches Calvin's baseball team, and has coached his other kids — a call comes in: a body at the drive-in. Avery lies perfectly placed, arms crossed, two puncture wounds on her neck, dead from exsanguination, at the center of a red pentagram. One officer wonders aloud if they are looking for a vampire.

The questions lead to Viktor, big on vampirism as a lifestyle, who skipped his shift: a random man hurled a milkshake at him, he went home to change, and he believes he is being set up. Trent agrees; Caleb wants to arrest him; they argue over GBI jurisdiction. Avery's belongings hold an address — Viktor's estranged father, draining a boar, who explains Viktor blames him for a life of crime that led to his mother's death, and that Avery was working to reunite them. Avery also had problems with her boss, Pam, and was thinking of quitting.

A parallel case finds Amanda caught in a robbery while shopping: she freezes, then saves a child and shoots one of the robbers — then locks herself in a changing room. Ormewood finds her and helps her through the panic attack.

Pam is selling fentanyl patches at the drive-in; a random search draws her fire, wounding Viktor in the arm. At the hospital, co-worker Landon helps store two film cases Viktor was returning — and Will remembers seeing three cases at the drive-in. What's in the third one leads to the killer: Landon, whose creepy stalker film of Avery ends the mystery — he killed her for rejecting him and tried to frame Viktor. Caleb finds Viktor overdosing in his coffin and saves him with Narcan.

Will punches Caleb — he is triggered that Caleb never coached him, never was there as a kid — then apologizes while acknowledging he is not ready to forgive. The next day Viktor has opened his heart to his dad again, which inspires Will: he admits he has struggled with the idea of having a father, is not ready to forgive the past, but is ready to get close — and insists on dinner. Amanda opens up about her PTSD to Ormewood, who shares his own story.

The vampire case closes human-sized: no occult, just a co-worker's rejection rage, a stalker film, a framed lifestyle-vampire, and a boss selling fentanyl patches at the drive-in. The resolution that matters is relational — Viktor and his father reconnect, and Will, watching it, takes his own step toward Caleb: not forgiveness, but proximity, over dinner. Amanda's changing-room panic attack becomes her first real disclosure of the PTSD she has been carrying since the Season 3 shooting.