Will Trent Season 4 Episode 9: It Was a Meat Cute

A flashback to 2010: Ormewood arrests George Long, identified by a witness leaving a murder scene. Present day: the media reports Long faces execution in under 10 hours for killing Atlanta real estate developer Thomas Kelly and his wife. At the precinct, Joanne Drexel from Long's legal team drags in the witness, who confesses he lied about seeing George leave the scene. Ormewood — the responding officer — is frustrated: he may have contributed to a wrongful execution. Joanne accuses him of being too antagonistic and of benefiting from the arrest; Angie tells him to calm down.

With the clock running, the team rebuilds the case with Faith's help: only circumstantial evidence against George, no forensic proof he was in the Kellys' house, just the money found on him, his history, and the witness statement. Faith is not surprised to learn Ernie, Ormewood's mentor, was the lead detective — and shows no remorse. Thomas's autopsy bruises point to an altercation a week before his death. Ormewood lashes out at Amanda asking for help; she agrees, and warns him never to raise his voice at her again.

Around the case: Will helps Ava deal with Brett, a former NYPD cop hired by Ron Moffitino to retrieve an urn Ava stole — allegedly holding Meat Loaf's ashes. The pawn shop sold it to collector Murph Sanchez; Will and Ava lie their way into Murph's party, grab the urn, get thrown out of their self-driving cab mid-makeout, and break the urn accidentally — revealing an emerald stone inside. Ron confesses the stone is mob-connected: he was safekeeping it for an imprisoned friend and made a mob loan that went sideways when Ava stole the urn.

Will advises Ron to call the mob and say the deal is back on.

The case clicks: Faith's lead finds Christine — the woman Thomas kicked out of one of his apartments — married to the witness Harris's brother, the man who beat Thomas a week before his death. Worse, Harris knew his brother went back to kill Thomas and lied to protect him. The team arrests the brother and recovers the gun.

The wrongful-conviction clock stops in time: the recanted witness's lie unravels into the real solution — Thomas's killer was the brother of the witness who framed George Long, married to the woman Thomas had evicted. The gun is recovered and the brother arrested, with Joanne's deadline logic (the governor won't pardon without evidence of innocence) finally satisfied. For Ormewood, the episode is a reckoning: his mentor Ernie built the case on a lie, and Ormewood's name is on the arrest — Amanda's warning "never raise your voice at me again" comes with her help anyway.

The Meat Loaf urn caper closes lighter: the ashes urn was a stone's keeping place, the mob wants the emerald, and Will's advice — tell the mob the deal is back on — leaves Ron's debt story to resolve off-screen while Will and Ava's romance keeps compounding.