Will Trent Season 4 Episode 4 Recap: Dancing, Deception, and Death
- Barbara
- 8 hours ago
- 6 min read
Dance, Dance, Dance until you die. A victim falls dead while playfully competing with a rival couple dancing the night away. Poisoned, but how? This is a head-scratching case that has Faith stuck on how it happened. Will can only agree on the cause of death and that he really needs to improve his Spanish. This started out as a light-hearted, fun night out which quickly, mysteriously turned into a murder. They have no weapon, and the victim didn’t ingest the poison through food or drink. That’s what Will and Faith do, investigate and solve the unimaginable. You'll be surprised at who the murderer really is.
Angie and Ormewood use tried and true real detective work, record research and stakeouts to find their murder suspects, along with help from two forensic symposium students. Tonight's episode had lots of murder mystery and crime-solving involved. It was definitely Watch Worthy!
Flashback to His Roots
Will has a flashback to the time he began learning his native language, and revisited his family roots. He returned to Puerto Rico with his uncle and Betty to visit his Mother’s home and relatives.
Present day, at a dance club, Sorenda’S, filled with dancing people at an afterparty, unwinding. They were enjoying the electric atmosphere of dancing that seemed to radiate through the room. The dancing becomes a fierce, friendly competition between two couples. Shocking everyone, one of the young women collapses, dead.
When Did Dancing Become a Lethal Weapon?
Enter, Will and Faith. Will does his unique thing by getting on the floor with the dead woman, and trying to find out what could have caused her death. Faith begins interviewing all the people in the club. She finds a couple, Ramos Delgado, Cultural Attache from Colombia and his wife, Isabella. Ramos sponsored Catalina’s visa, the dead woman. Faith introduces them to Amanda. Ramos asks if they suspect foul play. Faith is unsure.
She goes to ask Will and Pete for a preliminary update. Both Pete and Will agree the victim was poisoned. They explain and show her the facts. It was a fast-acting poison, and was not delivered by injection. Faith wants to send everyone home, but Will objects. He says they need to talk to everyone before they leave. Faith tells him they don’t have time to get an interpreter. Will accepts the challenge and puts his two years of Spanish lessons to the test. He is critically critiqued by someone speaking English. The Bogota Power Couple, Ramos and Isabella Delgado, speak eloquently in Spanish, leaving Will a little out of his depth. Isabella notices, and quietly asks her husband to speak to them in English. Ramos was explaining how wonderful a dancer Catalina was, and that there were people jealous of her ability. She was exceptional.
Catalina’s dance partner, Javi, can’t believe she’s dead. Faith asks him to tell them everything he can remember. Will asks if she ate or drank anything, and Javi states Catalina didn’t like eating or drinking anything when dancing.
After they interview Javi, Will asks Faith if she notices anything different about him. At first, she doesn’t, then does see it. He changed the color of his trademark suit. Faith really sells how much of a difference and change it makes for Will. Will and Faith playing off each other, exchanging sarcastic remarks, as terms of semi-endearment is cute.
They are interrupted by their next interviewee, Bon Bon Chiffon. Bon Bon immediately notices Will’s new attire, and compliments him on it. He’s the emcee and also dances salsa. He adamantly states people have got to stop getting murdered around him. He was obsessed with Catalina, but didn’t really know her. He showed them where Catalina did her makeup.
Death by Contouring
Will and Faith skillfully go into investigation mode, like they can do instantaneously at any crime scene. Bon Bon is curious and asks Special Agent Will Trent why he didn’t tell him he was Puerto Rican. Will questions Bon Bon how he found out, as he carefully checks everything at Catalina’s makeup station. Bon Bon interrogates Will about his heritage, and Will tells him his Mom was Puerto Rican. Don’t know how or why, but Bon Bon assumed Will’s Dad was German. Faith jumps in and adds Will does seem to appear a little like he’s German, because of his tight emotional control. Bon Bon says he’s also Puerto Rican and Will is totally his opposite.
Faith gets everyone refocused on the case, while Will pays close attention to the different makeup jars on Catalina’s station. He notices one is different, and suggests maybe the poison was absorbed through the skin. They need to get the samples to the lab. Faith asks Will if they can release the hostages/witnesses. He says no.
Will goes to the dj area, picks up a mike and tries to address everyone in the club. Faith is embarrassed for him, as he starts pushing buttons, playing loud music over the speakers, and getting cries to turn it off from the crowd. He finally finds the elusive button, and is able to speak without musical accompaniment. He thanks everyone, and tells them how much longer they will be there. The crowd is not amused, and Will keeps pushing buttons.
I’m AWAKE
Angie and Ormewood are in the elevator about to start their day at the police station. Ormewood is barely awake. He had to chaperon Max and his friends at a sleepover, in his one-bathroom house. Angie says it sounded like torture. Captain Heller meets them as the elevator doors open. He hurriedly tells them about the professor from a forensics science symposium that’s there now. He told her she and her class could go through one of their cold cases. They're in the press room waiting to tell Angie and Ormewood their findings. Angie and Ormewood immediately object, as Captain Heller tries desperately to run away. They are not happy.
The two forensics class members give Angie and Ormwood the highlights of the case they investigated. The cold case is on Beverly Rutledge, a 63-year old woman stabbed in a woodworking studio in April 2003. The halfway house nearby was accused of the murder. The two students say the prime suspect was not the murderer because the DNA didn’t match. They split up and investigate the crime scene and research the old case files.
Dancing and Cold Cases Closed
Faith tells Will what the lab results were for the makeup. The tox screen found aconitine poison residue in her body makeup. Will says they have talked to every dancer except one, Roxy Vazquez. Bon Bon says Roxy’s a Drama Queen and the best dancer there. Roxy used to dance with Javi, but Catalina took him from her. If Roxy and Javi dance together again, they could win the dance contest and win the $100,000 prize. Faith goes to talk to Javi and Will talks to Roxy.
Will goes to see Roxy and introduces himself. She teaches him how to dance. He questions Roxy while she shows him how to salsa. He notices some bruises on her leg and she dodges his questions. Isabella interrupts them to tell him Faith is looking for him. Javi tells them he killed Catalina.
Is Javi guilty?
Is Will a good dancer?
Do Angie and Ormewood solve the cold case?
What does Will see that proves they haven’t found their killer?
What did Angie and the student find that helps solve the case?
How do the students do on a stakeout with Angie and Ormewood?
This episode gives you two criminal cases and follows them separately to find the murder suspects and peace for their victims. Love the way the two cases follow through their investigative work. The stakeout is so funny, and dance club murder is great. It’s interesting how Will’s therapy is introduced in his case story. It reveals how he feels unconnected from his native people and language. He is known as “the man from nowhere”. His therapist encourages him and tells him to stand up to the killer. This is a very good episode that tricks you into thinking they found the murderer, but you are totally wrong. Quite a good whodunit. I liked this episode, and it held my attention until the end.
I give it 4.8 Stars out 5.
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