Will Trent Season 2 Ending's Major Twist Explained By Showrunners

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Summary Crystal is revealed as a serial killer with Angie assisting her, complicating Trent's bond with Angie.

The idea of Crystal as a killer came from pitches during season 2 planning.

Will Trent hesitated in making his decision about Crystal, unsure of his future with Angie.

Will Trent co-showrunner Liz Heldens gives a detailed explanation of the season 2 finale twist. Emerging as a solid hit for ABC, and based on the novels by Karin Slaughter, the crime drama gets a boost from the relationship between the titular Trent and homicide detective for the Atlanta PD Angie (Erika Christensen). But their bond is complicated in the closing episode of season 2, which reveals that Crystal (Chapel Oaks) has been the one to go on a killing spree and that Angie assisted her at one point.

In an interview with TV Insider, co-showrunner Liz Heldens broke down the Will Trent season 2 finale twist. Read Heldens' comments below:

I think the idea of Crystal came last year when we came back for Season 2, and we were trying to sort of pitch a shape to the network. One of our writers, Kath Ligenfelter, who co-wrote the finale, said, “Oh, she should come back and be a serial killer.” And then we were all like, “Shut up. That’s crazy.” As so often happens, no one had a better idea. But we really liked that Angie did something last year that she really thought was for the best, and she really thought she was not allowing her former foster father to claim another victim’s life and to ruin another person’s life, and she thought by taking the blame for killing Lenny last year that she was righting a wrong, and that came back to haunt her. Because I think what’s so nice about the way it ended up is you can really understand everybody’s point of view in the story. I think anybody would understand why Angie did what she did, and people can understand why Will has to do what he does. And so it just seemed like a really great long arc to pay off for us. [On Will hesitating about his decision] Yeah, I think he absolutely did. I think he walked down the hall and into the elevator, and I think he didn’t know what he was going to do. When he says to young Angie in his office — like, “I don’t know if I can do that” — he really doesn’t know if he can do that. And I think for a moment he contemplates the whole future with her if he could just let this go.

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Source: TV Insider