Will Trent Teases a Major Character Reveal: Who Is Antonio Miranda?
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Will Trent just added a branch to the Special Agent’s family tree.
In Season 2, Episode 2 of the ABC crime drama, serial killer James Ulster (who may or may not be Will’s biological father) revealed to Will the name of his only living relative — Lucy Morales’ brother, Antonio Miranda.
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“It’s not Morales?” Will asked of his uncle’s surname.
“You’ll have to ask him why,” James answered.
And it’s safe to assume that he will. Special Agent Trent has already started a case file for Antonio Miranda, as seen in the closing moments of Tuesday’s episode:
In a new interview, executive producers Liz Heldens and Daniel Thomsen reveal to TVLine that viewers will meet Lucy’s brother/Will’s uncle in Season 2. “By around Episode 4, he’s kind of like, ‘Enough, I think I just have to reach out,'” Heldens says. “It’s something that he’s very nervous about, in a way that we find very endearing.
“He needs to reach out to this man, and it’s very exciting because Will is [typically] surrounded by women,” the EP points out. “That’s what [Will Trent novelist] Karin Slaughter created. That was her intention, and it has made this character so interesting. I think a lot of women connect to Will because he is surrounded by women, he listens to women, and he really respects women. But it’s fun, as we’re writing toward the end of the season, to ask ourselves what it looks like when Will has a really charismatic, male role model. What does that feel like with someone who is different from him? That relationship is going to be very emotional… and awkward.”
Adds Thomsen: “Season 2 is going to be about his exploration with his uncle, and we’re not going to turn back to Ulster in this [10-episode] chapter.” That means we won’t necessarily have an answer about Will’s father by season’s end.
“I don’t know that Will has figured out what would ever get him to take the [paternity] test,” Thomsen suggests. That question will eat at him, though — and as visions of Young Will continue to haunt him, and he “starts to lose control of this thing that he has always been rewarded for, [which is] how he is able to look at the world in a certain way and control it and solve crime,” the titular agent will begin to question everything: “He wonders what’s underneath the hood, and I think that is what [eventually] leads back to Ulster.”
Asked if there’s anything else they can say about Young Will, Heldens will only tell TVLine that Will’s visions represent a “trauma knocking on his door,” and viewers will continue to learn more.
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