Will Trent (Season 1), Episode 7: Episode 7 of Will Trent’s season 1 on ABC is rightfully titled “Unable to Locate.” The episode’s central plot revolves around a missing shipping container that Will and Faith are tasked with hunting down. Time is of the essence as the container has crates full of guns, and it coincides with the heavy militarization by a radical rightist group. The episode also provides a glimpse into Will and Angie’s past, allowing us to understand them both better individually and collectively. The dynamic between them has always been somewhat of a mystery, but this episode craftily unravels it.
But the title has even significant connotations about how our beloved detectives are so close and yet so far. They have been unable “to locate” each other’s love until now through a series of misfortunes and missed opportunities. There is a strong sense of looking at the present through the prism of the past in this episode concerning these two. The ending of episode 7 of Will Trent’s debut season is even more shattering and presents a dubious cue for what comes next. We are at hand to explain all of it to you in the piece below.
Will Trent (Season 1), Episode 7 Recap:
Unable to Locate
There are two timelines – the past and the present – and three different settings – two in the present and one in the past – in this episode. For the sake of clarity, we have decided to divide the three settings for you according to the timelines. It will also make the job easier for you to follow the story and understand the little nuances.
Will and Faith find a missing shipping container (Present)
At his house, Will finds the instruction pamphlet that comes with a pregnancy test. He wonders if Angie is with the child. More importantly, he perhaps might have the chance to become a father and set his life straight. Amanda shows up unexpectedly at his house. She puts him on a case with Faith to hunt down a missing shipping container stolen from the Atkins Co. Container Yard, which is also its last known location. This incident coincided with the Confederate Front (CF), a neo-nazi liberal front, recruiting more members and planning a show of strength. The missing shipping container had guns. Amanda thinks the group stole the container. If they have it, they have enough guns for a small militia. Faith arrives too at his house, and they straightaway head toward the yard.
Babs is the shift manager at the yard. Faith tries to talk to Will about the pregnancy, but he isn’t willing to. Taki is the person looking into the maintenance and inventory on the ground, and Babs points toward him for more clues. The previous day, a truck came, but it wasn’t in the yard. It also had the perfect waybill for the container and took the concerned container. Will notices that something is wrong with the 8s on a container. When he investigates, one of the numbers comes off.
He deduces that the people forge whatever containers they have to steal before creating a waybill with a matching number. Will thinks it is one of the workers. Behind the containers, they find a hand sticking out from under the sewage pipe.
The victim’s name is Jed Pipski. He is the logistics coordinator at the yard. He is having an affair with Babs, which she admits to when the police bring her in for questioning. She tells them a wake is being organized at The Truck Stop, a local bar the staff frequents. There, they will find Craig McDonald, the forklift operator at the warehouse in the yard. He has a CF tattoo. Angie is not ready to accept the pregnancy. Will takes her into a room and says to her that he is ready to take on the responsibility of raising the family if he is required to. But Angie gets defensive and even says to him that the baby might be someone else’s. Will is hurt and leaves. She is scared and feels she isn’t prepared. She’s a junkie trying to get her life together.
At the club, Craig and Taki have a fight. Will goes to confront Craig. But he has his CF mates, and they jump on Will, trying to kill him. One of them lands a severe blow to Will’s head. When they look for him, Will hides under the terpene cover at the back of a pickup truck. They soon disperse, fearing Will has called in for backup. Faith cannot find him and panics when she finds his gun on the ground. She calls it in. Amanda sends a search party and asks Faith to focus on the missing guns. Angie doesn’t find him, and Amanda informs her of his situation.
She gets emotional and concedes to Betty that Will has always been there for her. He always sees the good in her, despite the mess she creates. How could he see a family with her? She’s not ready for the responsibilities; she still eats cereal out of the box! What if she is angry at her kid like she is at herself?
Will wakes up in the truck, which belongs to one of the CF members. They are near a warehouse and are unloading the guns. Will’s phone’s battery is dead. Faith brings Taki to the station. She presses him to give up the CF. Taki concedes he was only doing it for the money, not some ideological battle. She will frame him if he doesn’t give them up. He finally gives up and narrates the entire story to Faith. Jed saw Craig and Taki picking up the container, and Craig beat Jed to death. He went with Craig to a warehouse to get paid. Faith takes the address. She finds a person there who tells her the location of the guns.
Ormewood and Angie solve a sneaker shoot-out (Present)
Angie and Ormewood investigate the case of a dead black man in little five points. He was shot three times in his chest and stomach. His name is Roland Wynder, and he participated in a sneaker sale at Lou Lou’s. The owner of the shop where Roland bought the sneakers says that another reseller of sneakers called Pun’kin maybe be behind it, as she has created a ruckus before. Someone came in, ran to the store, and stole the sneakers from Roland.
After Angie leaves, the store owner says to Ormewood that he owes her to solve the case as quickly as possible. It is affecting her store’s reputation. Ormewood is mum and does not say anything to stand up for himself. What does she have on him? Jerry Kilargis, the store owner opposite the sneaker store, is an eyewitness. He says the shooter’s shoes drew his attention. They were basic shoes like tennis shoes, something called Bobos in colloquial terms.
While Ormewood wants to close the case as soon as possible and put the blame on a potentially innocent man, Pun’kin, Angie digs deep. She narrates her take on the case to the captain. She finds that Roland was arrested. Roland went to jail with his friend Billy Thompson for aggravated assault. Roland testified against him to get an early release, and Thompson came out a couple of weeks ago. She says the shooter was wearing Bobos, whereas the man they apprehended wore rare Nike sneakers. Bobos were prison issued from the state penitentiary. Pun’kin never went to jail, but Roland did.
As it turns out, Angie’s suspicions were right. They arrest Billy, and he confesses to killing Roland. Ormewood apologized for throwing a glass at the wall when Angie started poking holes in his theory. He wanted to wrap up the case swiftly because the owner had a video of Michael beating a guy after the guy kneed him in the groin. He has been doing her favors ever since to keep her quiet. Angie understands and says everyone has their situation to deal with.
Angie and Will in 2001 on a road trip (Past)
We finally get a peek into how Angie and Will were in the past. It is brief and recounts a specific period, but it is insightful. The year is 2001, and we see both of them sneak out with the keys to Mrs. Flaneery’s car. Their destination is Florida, and it is the first time either of them has been out of Georgia. They live in a foster home but not together. In Angie’s home, a man forced himself on Angie. He raped her, and she became pregnant. They are going to Florida to get an abortion.
Angie is reluctant to go to the cops. The balance of forces is against her. The rapist has done it before as well, but she will be branded the trouble-causing slut. Will says he will kill him, but Angie gets upset. She says she will kill him instead, and Will doesn’t need to throw away his life like that. They care too much about each other. Angie is scared about the abortion. Will says she should etch-a-sketch the memory out of her mind. She wasn’t at fault for what happened. No more foster homes for them. They should stick together and ride it out. Before the police show up, they kiss. They promise to be with each other after Angie gets the abortion, and Will drives them back.
Will Trent (Season 1), Episode 7 Ending, Explained:
Why does Will keep the tape inside the drawer?
Will discovers the CF members will take the guns and open fire at a peaceful protest for taking down a confederate statue. The rifle Will picks up is unloaded, and he is caught in a bad situation. He records a message with the details of the CF mission and a special message for Angie, saying he loves her and she’s the most wonderful woman in the world. He plays a punt and takes one of the member’s hostage to force the others to drop their weapons. They do, and Faith shows up with backup to take them down.
Faith is relieved and even gives will a small hug. Angie takes a test. It is a negative. Will embraces her. Received and sad. Will removes the tape from his recorder and hides it in his clothes drawer. The tape has her confession about Angie. Will keeping the tape in his drawer out of Angie’s sight is an indication that he feels he is not ready to be with Angie yet. At that moment in the warehouse, Will was the most vulnerable he had ever been.
He held an empty gun against 20 belligerent men, each armed with loaded automatic weapons. Seeing how they did not hesitate to kill him, Will knew the probability of him making it out alive was less. That is why he recorded the message as a last hurrah and confessed to it that he loves Angie. He was sorry they fought. He would “love to raise a baby with the most amazing woman he has ever known and the only one who has truly known him. I love you. Don’t take Betty to the pound.”
Angie’s test comes out negative, and Will feels the only chance for them to truly be together like family is gone. It might come again someday, but that was not the right time for them to think about a future together. They are broken in their own ways, and even though they have been together their entire life, something just does not click. Love is the central theme of all great tragicomedies, and it plays a significant part here.
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