'Will Trent' Season 3 Episode 14 “A Funeral Fit for a Quartermaine” Review
- Barbara
- 3 days ago
- 6 min read
This episode’s Flashbacks are interesting visuals that reveal Will and Rafael’s past. They are presented in five Acts.
The episode starts with a knock on Will’s door. It's Rafael, and he’s there to tell him Grandma Pearl died. She had a stroke, and passed before he could get to her. Rafael is visually distressed and brokenhearted over the loss of his Grandma. He’s clearly having a hard time dealing with the loss. He and his Grandma were making plans for Sonny's Birthday, and showed no signs of illness just the day before. Rafael can't tell his daughter her Grandma just died. Will gives him some advice on how to do that. Rafael can't function, and asks Will to help him with planning the funeral. He reminds Will that he knew her, and that a long time ago they were brothers. Will says yes and tells him we take care of Family. Will starts making plans. Rafael can only sit rubbing and holding Betty, as he silently cries.
The next morning at the GBI Office, Amanda chastises Jeremy, Will and Faith about making Faith’s son a CI. Will and Faith accept it and ask her if she’s ready for case plans. Faith begins with the breakdown of Jeremy and Rafael’s involvement in the DA’s Rico case. Emil Grant is the person behind the drug trafficking. They need to get evidence to prove it. Will says the timing is right because he’ll be with Rafael for the next two days helping him plan his Grandma’s funeral.
Amanda comments that the whole thing with Jeremy is a mess. She shares that Sunny’s been crying nonstop over the loss of her Great Grandmother. Amanda asks Will if he's ready to do this. He says Rafael needs to be stopped.
Act One’s Flashback takes place in 2004 and explains the backstory of how Will and Rafael became friends and brothers. They had a bombastic start. Grandma liked Will from the start. She calms them down, and goes to watch General Hospital, her favorite soap. It turns out they ALL Love watching it. They’re Super Fans!
Present Day, Ormewood gets into a car accident when picking up Max at school. This turned out to be a symptom of something more serious with Ormewood’s health. He isn't feeling well and stumbles into stuff in a chair, as he leaves the room. Will and Rafael meet at the funeral home. Will tells him he needs to write the obituary.
Act Two has Rafael and Will really becoming partners and close friends in the aftermath of Will getting fired from his job at a fast food restaurant. Rafael takes him to a storage locker and shows him a surprise. Rafael was already hustling, and finding ways to make money. Will tells Rafael the real value of his confiscated goods. Rafael says they are magic, and hugs Will.
Returning to Present Day, Rafael tells the funeral director, the funeral has to be fit for a Quartermaine. He gets frustrated when the director doesn't know who that was. Will explains detailed specifics. Will and Rafael nerd out on General Hospital as Super Fans do. The funeral director is infatuated with Rafael. Will just wants to finish the funeral planning part.
Will calls Faith to start her part of the plan. She gives Jeremy the go-ahead. He can't find anything on Rafael's laptop, but does discover something else.
At the police station, Captain Heller gives Ormewood a file to read his handwritten report. He can't. The captain tells him to re-write it or do it on a computer. Ormewood confesses he wrote it at Cooper’s basketball game. He says his wife, Gina, is working a new job, and unable to take the kids. This was another indicator of Ormewood’s serious health condition. Angie delicately asks if he's drinking again. He says no and walks off angrily.
Act Three Flashback shows Will helping sell expensive carpets out of their home garage. As Will and Rafael work out a deal with a customer, an angry gang shows up. This was an insightful memory for Will. Present Day, Amanda, Will, Faith and Jeremy are back in the conference room reviewing Jeremy's video of the money bin. Will realizes Rafael has always been involved in gangs. Faith volunteers to find the money bin.
At the church, Rafael and Will continue the set-up for Grandma’s memorial. They are updating each other on tasks, when Rafael asks Will if the GBI breaks into computers. Will says they do, but so do other government agencies and rival criminals. Will tries to help Rafael, but Emil interrupts them, and loudly tells. Rafael the money’s been moved, as they walk away.
Act Four Flashback shows Will and Rafael being tied up by the gang. Rafael apologizes to the leader, and promises to pay him back. The leader tells them they are now working for him. The leader wants the money Rafael owes them. Will doesn't approve of the deal. Rafael tells him to follow his lead, and he’ll get them through it. Words that will ring true in their future, again.
Ormewood turns in his re-written report to Captain Heller. He accepts it. Ormewood runs into Angie and knocks her down as he turns to leave. Ormewood has to rush out to pick up his kids. They are talking at the elevator when Ormewood passes out. He wakes up at the hospital ER, with Scott as his doctor. He needs to get to his son's play, but Scott says he has to undergo head trauma protocol because he hit his head on the floor. Scott later explains Ormewood’s X-rays to him, and tells him he has a tumor. Ormewood is hit hard by this news. He remembers his Dad died young, and doesn't want the same to happen to him.
Faith and Jeremy discuss Rafael's money bin at the GBI. He tells her how they move the money. Now everyone‘s looking for the money launderer and the money bin. She updates Amanda on their case findings. Amanda leaves to take Sunny to her Grandma’s memorial service. She and her Father, Rafael, give a moving eulogy. Rafael later thanks Will for all his help and they hug.
Faith tells Jeremy that Rafael’s fixer is dead. She calls Will and gives him the news. Will sees a coffin brought into another room in the church. He opens it and finds the laundered money. He says the killers are coming to kill Rafael and take the money.
Act Five Flashback has Will talking with the gang leader. He gives him his money and tells him he and Rafael aren't working for him anymore. They beat him when he walks away. Rafael kills the leader and tells Will he never wants to see him again. Rafael runs off.
Back to the Present, in the Church, Will pulls Rafael away to arrest him. He says it's for his own good. Will tells him he knows everything, and about the money, too. Will says he can put him under protective custody. Rafael wants a deal that includes no prison. Emil comes in and tries to stop Will. Both Will and Rafael realize Emil is the killer. They leap over the coffin to get away before Emil and his partners begin firing. They want the money. Will and Rafael are about to be killed when the FBI, SWAT and Faith come in.
Ormewood’s home watching an animal documentary when Max comes home. He shows them how he performed Mercutio at the school play. He’s Very Good!
At Will’s house, Sunny tells Amanda how she missed staying with her, and hugs her. Amanda tells her she's going to do great things. Rafael tells Will that Grandma Pearl kept a scrapbook on him. He thought Will might like to have it. Will looks through it and is amazed. He knows Rafael planned everything. He and Sunny are going into the witness protection program, and they don't know where they’ll end up. Will says Sunny won't mind their new situation because she's got her Father back. This episode cleverly intertwined the past and present moments of Will and Rafael’s lives. They did become brothers, thanks to Grandma Pearl. Faith and Will working together gets things done, and saves lives, especially Jeremy’s! Wonder what they find out about Ormewood’s tumor. Will and Rafael are General Hospital Super Fans was a cute twist that drew them together. This was a great episode!
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