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2 | [[caption-width-right:1000:GBI Agent Will Trent is on the case.]] |
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4 | ''Will Trent'' is a 2023 DetectiveDrama series produced by Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany. It's also streamed by Hulu. Based on the Karin Slaughter novels, it stars Creator/RamonRodriguez, Creator/ErikaChristensen, Creator/IanthaRichardson, Creator/JakeMcLaughlin and Creator/SonjaSohn. The show has aired two seasons. On April 2024, ABC renewed the show for a third season. |
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6 | Will Trent is a foster child who grew up in Atlanta, being abandoned by his parents. He's also known to be a dyslexic. In spite of this, Will's recruited into the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). He worked alongside the Atlanta Police Department (APD) despite JurisdictionFriction, partially because both [=LEOs=] work from a single building. |
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8 | Will works alongside Faith Mitchell, an APD officer who's reassigned to the GBI; Angie Polaski, Will's friend who grew up in the Atlanta foster care system and an APD plainclothes officer with Michael Ormewood, also a detective who sometimes butts heads with Will. But when push comes to shove, they'll put their differences aside to solve a case. |
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11 | !!This series includes examples of: |
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13 | * BulletproofVest: The APD and GBI use ballistic vests, not wanting to take a chance that they'll be shot in a case. |
14 | * CategoryTraitor: Most of the APD views Will as a rat because he exposed corruption within the department. |
15 | * DirtyCop: [[spoiler:The FBI agent assigned to a murder case in "Residente o Visitante" was acting on orders from a prominent real estate developer.]] |
16 | * EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Will and Angie both grew up in the same group home, as did the father of the kidnapping victim, Paul Campano, in the pilot. |
17 | * FramingTheGuiltyParty: [[spoiler:"Capt. Duke Wagner's Daughter" reveals that Amanda framed Chuck Murray for drugs after he tried to rape her in a traffic stop. She mentioned that he was involved in other rape cases.]] |
18 | * JurisdictionFriction: There's no love between the APD and the GBI, partially 'cause Will was involved in a GBI-led case that led to the arrest of several DirtyCops working in the APD. |
19 | * MythArc: Angie's been trying to investigate one of her ex-foster fathers who sexually abused her in order to prevent him from doing the same thing. [[spoiler:He's killed in "Bill Black".]] |
20 | * PrisonRiot: In "It's the Work I Signed Up For", Will [[spoiler:and James]] are locked up in prison due to a riot that started. |
21 | * SecretKeeper: Faith eventually learns about Will's dyslexia and promises to keep it a secret. In return, Will keeps mum about her diabetes diagnosis. |
22 | * ShoutOut: |
23 | ** "It's Easier to Handcuff a Human Being" has references to Freddy Kruger and the (various) Ex-Wives reality shows. |
24 | ** "Have You Never Been to a Wedding?" has Faith telling Will that he looks like James Bond (likely the Craig version) based on his white tuxedo. |
25 | ** "Residente o Visitante" has more references to James Bond and Humphrey Bogart. |
26 | * SlapSlapKiss: Will and Angie constantly fight, and Angie regularly insists they won't work out as a couple, but always come back to each other. |
27 | * StupidCrooks: The triplets from "Don't Let It Happen Again" ultimately reveal which one of them killed a security guard by getting into an argument over splitting a Twix bar with the SerialNumbersFiledOff. If that's what it took, it appears the three brothers have maybe a 1/12th of a brain between them. |
28 | * SWATTeam: The APD and GBI utilize their tactical units whenever they get a case that would lead to confronting armed suspects. |
29 | * TerribleIntervieweesMontage: OnceAnEpisode, a quick montage of witnesses providing less-than-helpful information plays, usually followed by a dumbfounded reaction from the police characters. |
30 | * WhamEpisode: |
31 | ** "Bill Black": [[spoiler:One of the foster kids Angie spoke to killed the same foster father Angie knew, who sexually abused her, by stabbing him in the neck. Angie covers up her act.]] |
32 | ** "A Bad Temper and a Hard Heart: [[spoiler:Will finds out that James Ulster, the lawyer who helped female prostitutes in the 80s/90s, was the serial killer who operated at the time and killed Will's biological mom, Lucy. She was a prostitute at the time.]] |
33 | ** "Capt. Duke Wagner's Daughter": [[spoiler:Amanda is stalked by Chuck Murray for playing a ''role'' in arresting him in 1995 by framing him for drugs after he tried to rape her in a traffic stop.]] |
34 | ** "Do You See the Vision?": [[spoiler:Will led the arrest on Angie for covering up the death of her foster father.]] |
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