Will Trent showrunners Liz Heldens and Daniel Thomsen mentioned the longer term influence of Ormewood’s collapse within the season 3 finale. After almost getting gunned down by the Founders Entrance and subsequently rescued by Will, it seemed like Ormewood was out of the woods. Nevertheless, within the remaining minutes of the Will Trent season 3 ending, Ormewood’s imaginative and prescient grows blurry, and he collapses, doubtless on account of his tumor. Religion calls an ambulance, and Ormewood’s destiny is left hanging within the stability.

ScreenRant’s Rachel Foertsch and Grant Hermanns sat right down to interview Heldens and Thomsen concerning the many surprising occasions of the Will Trent season 3 finale, together with the Ormewood cliffhanger. The showrunners revealed that, whereas they’re nonetheless making an attempt to totally determine his storyline, they needed to make the disaster very actual for Ormewood. Being a comparatively new single dad and now coping with a critical well being downside has utterly shifted Ormewood’s sense of self, which Heldens and Thomsen are excited to discover. Try the change under:

ScreenRant: …we obtained Ormewood collapsing on the ground, and we do not know if he will be okay. If he does survive, how is that this occasion going to make this tumor, and what’s taking place to him really feel extra actual going into subsequent season?

Liz Heldens: We’re nonetheless creatively figuring issues out. He’s a personality whose energy and physicality are an enormous a part of his identification. So, it is attention-grabbing to consider him making an attempt to recuperate, making an attempt to get again to a model of himself that he acknowledges. However yeah, we began this notion of a mind tumor in an episode that Dan wrote, after which we needed to convey it to an actual disaster.

Daniel Thomsen: I feel, for me, what I am enthusiastic about with Ormewood is in shedding some issues about himself that he thought had been core to himself, he will uncover some new components of himself. And the opposite factor that I am actually enthusiastic about is all this season, and going again to final season, he is needed to regulate to being a single dad, and he is form of taken that on as a soldier would. It is a obligation, and he is not going to drop the ball, and he is actually been doing his greatest, however he is had some emotional intimacy recreation along with his children slightly bit.

However I feel that is going to be a seismic change for a way he will should cope with his children, and might’t simply be tremendous dad. I feel that is a very attention-grabbing technique to take a cop who form of began his journey with us as a really closed-off, nearly performative masculine dude, and now, he cannot do this anymore. He is obtained to be any individual completely different. I like exploring that.

What This Means For Ormewood In Will Trent Season 4

He May Radically Change As A Character… If He Survives

The hits simply hold coming for Ormewood. After splitting up along with his spouse and enduring a prolonged custody battle, Ormewood was recognized with a mind tumor in Will Trent season 3, episode 14, which causes him to break down within the finale. Nevertheless, whereas he very nicely could not survive season 4, Liz Heldens and Dan Thomsen’s feedback level to him residing, as they appear desirous to discover new sides of his character.

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Ormewood has already undergone a considerable arc. He is a far cry from the philandering, corrupt cop we noticed in season 1, and he’s now an infinitely higher father to his children since changing into a single father or mother. Season 4 will doubtless see Ormewood’s surgical procedure getting pushed up on account of his collapse, which can additional rock his identification, leaving him extra bodily susceptible than he has ever been earlier than.

Our Take On How This Will Change Ormewood’s Character

He’ll Be Susceptible, And Might Flip To Religion For Assist

Assuming he will get the surgical procedure early in Will Trent season 4, Ormewood might be coping with quite a lot of bodily and psychological trauma — he additionally nearly obtained shot to loss of life, on high of every little thing else. His intuition could also be to retreat and put up partitions round himself like he had earlier than, however on condition that he and Religion have bonded as roommates and single dad and mom, we expect Ormewood’s new vulnerability will convey them even nearer. Hardship has set Ormewood on the trail to changing into a greater man, and it is doubtless that’ll proceed in future Will Trent episodes.

Will Trent

Launch Date

January 3, 2023

Writers

Daniel T. Thomsen, Liz Heldens, Karin Slaughter