Will Trent (Season 1 Finale), Episode 13: Episode 13 of Will Trent’s season 1 on ABC, titled “Bad Temper and a Hard Heart,” has a meaningful title that might indicate some new character arc in Will Trent season 2. Episode 13 draws curtains on an eventful season. The ABC show proved its worth with exciting coverage of Trent’s smart detective work and deep diving into his traumatic past and identity crisis. One of the most appealing aspects of the storytelling was its maturity in tackling sensitive issues about human behavior and its complex nexus with crime.
Will Trent Episode 13 was undeniably the strongest episode of the series and an emotional sendoff for season 1. It really was a purposeful creative project and not some kitschy, commercially-driven adaptation of the heartful source material. We are at hand to break it down piece by piece for you in this recap and ending explainer of Will Trent Episode 13, the finale of Season 1.
Will Trent (Season 1 Finale), Episode 13 Recap:
Bad Temper and a Hard Heart
Will is still reeling from the realization of Angie’s kidnapping. But he is also deconstructing the events that led up to the abduction. All of this flows from his missing tape recorder. We see a version of events; how they transpired as Will looks for the tape recorder, which might have clues. The killer attacked Angie, but she managed to wriggle out. She had the opportunity to run but didn’t because the killer has Betty in his hands. To save her life, she risked her own. Both of them went for the gun placed on the coffee table, and Betty bit him.
How is Angie abducted? Why does she not escape when she had the chance?
Angie realizes she cannot take it from the killer and hides in the washroom. She puts Betty into the laundry bin and hides the tape recorder in the cabinet. She has given the police a physical description of the killer. They know he has a bite mark on his leg and what he smells like. Amanda also reinstates Will back on the case. He looks over the files from the 80s when Amanda and Evelyn were on the case. This includes Lucy’s file and his mother’s.
Looking at her bloody dead body, Will says, “This is the first picture I have seen of my mother.” Literal chills hearing that. Lucy was the third one taken, and, technically, she died in childbirth. She wasn’t murdered. But why would the killer keep her for so long? Will asks to meet the detectives on the case. Only one of them is alive as of now – Butch. The question about his father’s identity still remains.
What is the killer’s obsession with Will?
In 1986, we see the woman telling the detectives to check on a suspicious number plate. But they write them off. In the present, we see Faith and Ormewood working phones for tips from civilians. Most of them agree to have spotted a Gold Jaguar near the house of the victims, which was also seen in 1986. Will asks Faith to go through the old boxes of evidence for more clues. He thinks the killer is a sociopath who likes attention. The killer tries to run Will over near the dumpsters, but he jumps.
Will is camping at Paul Campana’s house. Paul knows the smell from somewhere but cannot place it. Butch comes to the office. Will takes apart the previous investigation as Juice wasn’t responsible for the deaths. Will notices something weird with Butch but isn’t able to interrogate him further.
Faith gets a lead, and Will talks to Mrs. Katie Treadwell, who claims to know something. The killer abducted her, and has been affected by it ever since. Her mouth was sewn shut, but she was able to get away by breaking the car glass. Will asks her to identify the killer from a line of suspects, but Kitty says the killer won’t stop until he wants to.
Is Detective Butch Bonnie the serial killer?
We see a visual of Angie being cuffed in a basement. Faith and Ormewood find a note in Ulster’s materials asking them to look into Butch assaulting the prostitutes. Amanda and Evelyn go to Ulster for confirmation. The detectives keep an eye on Butch. Ulster confirms that Butch raped the prostitutes if they wouldn’t listen to him, and he would get really rough with them. He used to choke them repeatedly. Ulster does not think he is the killer, though.
Butch pulls out a rifle as the three detectives corner him. Ormewood neutralizes him. They find Kitty’s body the next morning, confirming Butch isn’t responsible for the deaths. Kitty panicked and left the safehouse the previous night. Will is becoming more anxious and indignant with every minute passing. He dreams of Lucy consoling him and calming him down. He gets emotional thinking about the missed time with her.
Will Trent (Season 1 Finale) Episode 13 Ending, Explained:
Who is the serial killer behind the murders?
Will relooks at the files and recognizes that there is a clue hidden in two disconnected pieces of paper. Angie is able to get out of the cuffs and hits the killer. She tries to escape, but he catches on. She can phone Will, who now knows the killer’s identity: James Ulster. Ulster calls will to his house with some conditions like not telling the police and such.
How does Will figure out the killer’s identity?
Paul storms into the station and announces he figured out the smell. Amanda and Evelyn make the connection to Ulster. Will tells Ulster how he figured out his identity: through the wet notes that left ink at the back. Ulster narrates his obsession with Lucy, who is different from other prostitutes. Lucy talked about her family and brother to Ulster, but he isn’t Will’s father. Ulster is trying to exact revenge on Will for killing Lucy in childbirth. Now, he wants to kill Angie in front of Will.
Why did Ulster kidnap Lucy Morales? Why was she special to him?
But the GBI detective gets the upper hand and beats Ulster with his fists. He does not kill Ulster and arrests him. Angie does not seem completely alright and will have to undergo scans to know the actual extent of the injuries. But he is shocked to see Ulster has ingested poison – from the drinks he had before – and died. Will desperately tries to revive him, but he cannot. It turns out that Ulster is still alive but unconscious. Angie might have some form of paralysis but is out of danger.
What happened in the past with Amanda and Will?
It is revealed that in the past, it was Amanda who found Will from the dumpster and saved his life. But Amanda didn’t give up on Will. She kept him as her own for three weeks. But because of the times, she couldn’t keep him. Evelyn talks to Will about some unresolved issues. She tells him how he was named. Amanda named Will after her own father. It wasn’t Amanda’s fault what happened to Will. 19 years later, she found him when he was arrested. There is a cosmic connection between them. Amanda is Will’s true family.
The job gave her a “bad temper and a hard heart.” Will and Amanda bond in an emotional moment where they both realize what they have and what they missed out on. She gives Lucy’s necklace to Will, her last remaining legacy.
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