Don’t You Dare Do This to Us, ‘Will Trent’!

We’re quickly closing in on the season three finale of Will Trent, and I think we’re going to get stuck with a health scare cliffhanger. In last night’s episode, ‘A Funeral Fit for a Quartermaine,’ Angie’s boyfriend — hot Dr. Seth McDale (Scott Foley) — diagnosed Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) with a brain tumor.

Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Don’t take Ormewood and his beautiful eyes away from us, Will Trent!

Look at Jake McLaughlin with those ridiculously long eyelashes and perfectly blue eyes. I rewatched Abigail this weekend and was struck by how much he and Angus Cloud look alike. They could have played brothers with those eyes.

Through the episode, which primarily focused on the death of Rafael Wexler’s (Antwayn Hopper) grandmother and the resolution of the Wexler storyline, there were instances and mentions of Ormewood having issues with his sight and being clumsy. I thought, “Oh, his peripheral vision is going. Ormewood’s gonna get glasses!” Until he passed out on the floor of the bullpen.

I’m not a fan of medical scares or pregnancy scares (looking at you, Doctor Odyssey) on my TV shows. Bones did it towards the end of its fourth season, when Booth hallucinated Stewie Griffin from Family Guy. That turned into a whole thing with dream sequences about alternate realities for the cast and questionable sock choices.

In last week’s episode of Will Trent, Will hallucinated a 70s disco sequence that involved the whole cast while he was waiting to be rescued from a cult where the leader (Deadwood’s Robin Weigert) had him drugged and tied up in a basement. It was very fun, but Will Trent is a glossy, fashionable copaganda show. It is not well suited for the same silly shenanigans that Bones pulled off with multiple fantasy episodes.

But it feels like the only other option is a Very Bad Thing happening to Ormewood. And I don’t want that! We love Ormewood! Show Ormewood, not book Ormewood. They can’t kill this man off or sideline him for season four. I won’t allow it.

While I don’t think this is a good show for fantasy episodes, they did a great job with flashbacks exploring the origin of Will and Rafael’s relationship in this episode. They found the perfect actor to play young Will with Andres Velez (Night Teeth). He absolutely nailed Will’s inflection, tone, and mannerisms. We’ve lived with these characters for three seasons, it feels like a natural time to learn more about their backstories (again, looking at you, Doctor Odessey.) We’re invested in their arcs and relationships now.

That is why it would be a disaster for tragedy to befall Ormewood. The man is already struggling with separation from his wife and single parenting. Plus, he’s living with Mitchell. Give the man some peace, and let us love him.