The season 3 finale of Will Trent that aired earlier this week dropped its fair share of surprises—Will's bio-dad! Angie's baby is okay and she wants to start a family with Seth!—but most of our favorite characters and Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) detectives came out of the climactic episode unscathed, apart from Michael Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) and Amanda Wagner (Sonja Sohn). Both characters are still alive by the time the credits roll, but that doesn't mean they are guaranteed to stay alive in the show's upcoming fourth season.
TVLine shared a post-mortem interview with co-showrunners Liz Heldens and Daniel Thomson about the finale and what's next for the show. The interviewer asked specifically if fans should be concerned about the future of Amanda and/or Michael, and what they had to say wasn't all that reassuring.
"I think that we should be concerned for those characters," Heldens replied.
Thomson followed by saying that "in any scenario, they're going to be different. They're going to be changed by what they've gone through."
The Will Trent season 3 finale hinges around the domestic terrorism group Founder's Front, who have devised a deadly bioweapon attack that unites the detectives of the GBI and the Atlanta Police Department (APD) to put a stop to it before countless die. Amanda gets shot during the episode and is rushed into surgery. The surgeons manage to fix her up, but they reveal that the next 48 hours will be critical for her future.
As for Ormewood, he manages to avoid getting shot by the terrorists, but when he returns home, we see him collapse in his kitchen and begin seizing, likely a result of his brain tumor.
It sounds like the writers have big plans for both Amanda and Ormewood's story arcs moving forward into the fourth season, which will premiere in early 2026 for an uninterrupted run of 18 episodes alongside The Rookie.
Wild theory time
I have a far-fetched theory about what could happen with Ormewood if the showrunners choose not to kill him off but keep him around and shake things up. Fans of Karin Slaughter's book series on which the show is based might recall that the Ormewood in Slaughter's novels is way different than the guy on the show. In the books he is a dirty cop and sociopathic murderer.
Maybe I've seen too many soap operas, but I can't help but wonder if the writers will consider using the brain tumor storyline to change Ormewood's personality, making him a little more similar to his book counterpart. As I said, this is totally out of left field and probably unlikely, but you never know!