R.I.P., Amanda Wagner.
Tuesday’s Will Trent culminated in the death of the GBI Deputy Director, played since Season 1 by Sonja Sohn.
“Amanda has been the character who has protected Will for as long as she has known him,” co-showrunner Karine Rosenthal told Variety. “So this gives us the opportunity for a completely new dynamic in the GBI, because her replacement will not have that same relationship with Will. Her death had the most impact on the most amount of characters. It really sets everybody reeling from this enormous loss. So it’s such a reset for our characters in a way that is painful but exciting for Season 5.”
Rosenthal, along with fellow co-showrunners Liz Heldens and Daniel Thomsen, told Variety that Sohn was made aware that her arc was coming to an end early in Season 4, and that she handled the news with “grace.” Added Thomsen: “Nobody gets to always exit their shows — even on the writing side — on their own terms all the time. It’s hard to do that with grace. So it was just very impressive. She is a total pro.”
How Amanda Wagner Was Killed Off Will Trent
In Season 4, Episode 15, titled “The Blank Expanse of Nothing,” Amanda was secretly working with the FBI to track down the Commander, the young man who met with Will in Episode 13 and gave him a burner phone that would put him in touch with James Ulster’s daughter, Adelaide Trevens (recurring guest star Mallory Jensen), who’d been holding Will’s uncle Antonio captive.
Amanda ultimately tailed the young man, and when she set out on foot to confront him, she was intercepted by an unseen assailant — possibly Adelaide herself.
All the while secretly in contact with Adelaide — and never telling Amanda that Ulster’s daughter had reached out — Will agreed to meet her at a bar. But when he tried to plant a tracking device on Adelaide, she vanished, only to call moments later and say she’d left him a gift around the corner. What he found instead was Amanda, dead in the street.
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