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At long last, Will Trent‘s deep-seated trauma is unlocked, and we at home come to understand why it is that our title character has been haunted by visions of his 12-year-old self.
It wasn’t just that Will found himself in the crosshairs of a violent foster father; he’d attempted to save his foster mother — the only foster parent who was ever kind to him — from an abusive relationship, and his heroic effort backfired.
In Season 2, Episode 8, we learned that 12-year-old Will hid Sleeveless Jack’s gun. One night, when Jack went after his wife Anna, Will loaded Jack’s gun and shot him in the arm. Jack, in turn, took his gun and aimed it at Will.
That’s when Anna intervened. She fought her husband in an effort to seize his weapon and protect Will. Jack then went and shot his wife dead. Will blamed himself and spent the next 20+ years attempting to block that night from his memory.
