‘Will Trent’s Amanda Is Traumatized by Another Shooting (Recap)

[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for Will Trent Season 4 Episode 8, “We’re Looking for a Vampire”]

Amanda Wagner (Sonja Sohn) has barely been capable of stand on her personal two ft — fairly actually talking — after being shot final season, however Tuesday’s (February 24) episode put her proper again into the road of fireside.

Amanda, who took a bullet within the chest to guard Angie (Erika Christensen) throughout the APB hostage disaster of the Season 3 finale, she has been grappling along with her accidents and subsequent limitations — together with the undesirable presence of the bold performing director who’s been filling in for her — ever since. But on Tuesday’s episode, she tried to return to her comfortable place and do some procuring at a swanky vogue boutique.

It quickly grew to become a nightmare, although, after she heard bullets and screams ring out and located a safety guard shot to loss of life by a masked assailant within the retailer. The shooter noticed her crawling close to a show and pointed a gun proper at her head, and Amanda closed her eyes in a second of panic… till a bit of lady got here out of the dressing room, confused by the sight, and Amanda leapt into motion, disarming one of many perps and sending the opposite operating out of the door.

After, Amanda holed up in a dressing room, crying to herself till Michael Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) arrived to speak to her via it.

“I’m not a hero. I froze. I almost died, again,” Amanda mentioned. “No, no, you stopped a violent situation. You saved a girl’s life. Yes, you did, and now you’re in shock, and that’s a completely normal response for something like this. Trust me. You just need a little oxygen and some water. I’m going to help you, OK? C’mon. I got you,” Ormewood mentioned in response.

That did not assuage her emotions of trauma, although. Later, whereas within the rest room, she hallucinated the robber bursting from a stall and placing the gun to her head once more — this time, pulling the set off. Luckily, Faith (Iantha Richardson) walked in, acknowledged her battle, and helped her stroll out — staying at her facet because the deputy director gleefully informed Amanda there’d be an inner affairs investigation over the capturing.

After the case of the day was solved — after the GBI discovered a sufferer who was drained of her blood, a man who believed he was a vampire grew to become a key suspect, however confirmed to be harmless — Amanda determined to show again to Michael for some phrases of knowledge.

Knowing Michael was a struggle veteran, she requested him, “You saw some action in Afghanistan, right? … How did you … when you got back, did…”

Although she could not end her query, he knew what she was asking and responded with, “Well, at first, I couldn’t talk about it. I didn’t want to relive it, so I ignored it. All that did was make me angry. I got to the point where I’d look in the mirror, and I didn’t know who the hell I was looking at. And then Gina, she found a meeting that I could go to, and that helped. I actually think if I’d have gone earlier, my marriage might’ve been better. I might not have done some of the things I’m ashamed of now. Yeah, talking helps.”

Then, Amanda continued her assertion that she “froze,” saying, “When that man had his gun to my head, I knew I was dead. I froze. In that moment, I froze. And it got killed me.” However, Michael identified that is not what really occurred and inspired her to say what actually did transpire.

“A child appeared… I protected her. No one else died,” she mentioned. At his prompting, she then completed by including what occurred to her, “I lived.”

It was one other emotionally poignant second buried in a chaotic case for Will Trentnevertheless it was a needed one for certain. Up ’til now, Amanda has appeared unbreakable, however now we all know the depth of her struggling — and that she has individuals who can and need to assist her via it.

It’s additionally the fruits of a promise govt producer Liz Heldens made when teasing Season 4 earlier than its premiere, as she mentioned, “With both Amanda and Ormewood, we wanted to challenge ourselves to show the ripples and the repercussions of being so severely wounded in the line of duty and what it means to have brain surgery and chemo… He’s defined himself by being masculine and capable, and that’s kind of his thing, and they’re both kind of diminished, and we’ve had fun playing with that pairing later in the season, and so we’re really excited by the work that both of them do actors have done season this.”

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