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Will Trent Season 3 Episode 14, titled A Funeral Fit for a Quartermaine, peels back the onion layers of Will’s long-kept liability to Rafael Wexford.
Via nostalgic flashbacks and a few confrontations, the episode unearths the secrets of the past that clash brutally with the present. What starts off with a funeral turns into a reckoning — not just with history that is quite personal, but also with serious consequences in the present.
Will Trent doesn't just explore crimes — it scrutinises character, allegiance, and love in its most complicated forms.
The brotherhood and the debt – Will and Rafael’s past unveiled in Season 3, Episode 14
Episode 14 of Will Trent Season 3 dives headfirst into some emotional grounds with the death of the grandmother of Rafael Wexford, Pearl (played by Marla Gibbs). Her funeral is the event that sets the stage for Will’s thinking about his past — a past that involves an extremely complicated brotherhood bond with Rafael.
The episode goes into flashbacks to Will’s teen years and it brings to light how his grandmom Pearl took him in and gave him shelter at a time when he had nowhere else to go, welcoming him not with rules but with General Hospital marathons and an abundant amount of kindness. Will recalls how
“She just let me stay…no questions. Just turned on the TV and sat next to me.”
Coming to Rafael and Will’s bond, it was built in harsh conditions — and in wrongdoings. When Rafael discovered a truck filled with ‘rugs’, it was Will who knew how to overturn this for them into profit. Their unlawful hustle brought in some quick money, and some quick enemies too.
When the people who had originally had the rug to themselves came for the brothers and their throats, Rafael saved Will’s life by murdering someone, an event that left Will everlastingly indebted to his brother.
This debt draws on much of Will Trent Season 3 on ABC, climaxing in Will using Rafael’s appeal for help with the funeral of their grandma as an opening to warrant his arrest — not out of punishment, but to safeguard him from an impending unfaithfulness from someone within his own ranks.
Present dangers and betrayals in the world of Will Trent
The present narrative of Will Trent Season 3 Episode 14 axles around the breakthrough of finding out that Rafael is being aimed at by someone extremely close to him. Jeremy, Amanda’s grandson and an important person in the investigation, gains access into Rafael’s business to expose that $4 million in drug money is hidden in a casket.
As Will and Faith come close, the plot of betrayal against Rafael becomes clear; Emil, who is Rafael’s right-hand man, is not only mindful of the money but also, in a twisted turn of events, means to kill Rafael to take it.
“Nothing is sacred to him,” is something that Faith says as Emil murders Rafael’s fixer, Kovich, and is now present at the funeral home, ready to strike again.
In the head-to-head Will Trent moment — something that’s always been a little bit dramatic and resolute — Will gets involved just in time, and though Rafael is distressed emotionally and literally, he chooses to survive for himself. He tells Will, while prioritizing his daughter’s safety,
“I’ll go into witness protection…”
It’s a powerful whirl, that ends Rafael’s arc not quite with redemption per say, but with the quiet nobility of a father doing the right thing at last for his daughter.
Michael Ormewood’s Turning Point – A case too close to home
While the limelight is often being shone on Will in Will Trent Episode 14 in Season 3, this episode also gives Michael Ormewood an occasional and extremely visible human arc. Usually recognized as the quipster detective, Ormewood is, all of a sudden, the focus of talk — by his own team as well as his own mind.
Frequent headaches and short-lived blindness lead to an earth-shattering diagnosis: a brain tumour triggered by shrapnel (a tiny piece of metal that fly around when bombs go off) from his military service days.
“He missed his blind spot,” Angie notes in a heartbroken state after he thuds into her accidentally.
Ormewood’s change is shuddering but also deeply significant. The proud father of two fears not just for his health but for the image he brings out to his kids.
“I don’t want regrets,” is something that he confesses, thinking about the goodbye he personally never got to say to his father. Will Trent quite often than not talks about trauma through the crimes it deciphers; here, the trauma exists within the detective himself.
Ormewood’s fight isn’t yet over — but the susceptibility he brings out reminds us that strength at times means asking for help.
A Funeral Fit for a Quartermaine is one of Will Trent’s most emotionally charged and complex episodes, an amalgamation of the past and present.
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From Will and Rafael’s ruptured brotherhood to Ormewood’s health emergency, the show continues to give precedence to character arcs and evolution over shock value.
As Will Trent gets closer to the finale of Season 3, it becomes clear that the densest mysteries are not seen in the crimes but in the pasts that sculpt the people trying to resolve them.
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