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Found family, lost footing is a phrase that quietly defines “Our Last Dance,” even as the episode barrels through its casework. Amanda’s (Sonja Sohn) absence destabilizes the team in ways the script barely pauses to acknowledge. The hour moves too fast for grief, too fast for connection, and the people who should be holding each other up instead feel scattered, shaken, and off balance.

“Our Last Dance” – WILL TRENT. Pictured: Ramon Rodriguez as Special Agent Will Trent, Erika Christensen as Det. Angie Polaski, Jake McLaughlin as Det. Michael Ormewood, Iantha Richardson as Special Agent Faith Mitchell. Disney/Wilford Harewood. © 2026 Disney. All rights reserved.

A World That Keeps Taking

The most resonant line of the episode doesn’t come from Will (Ramon Rodriguez) or Faith (Iantha Richardson). It comes from Faith’s mom, Evelyn Mitchell (LisaGay Hamilton), sitting beside Amanda’s body states: “You always took care of everybody. It’s time for us to take care of you.”

It’s a gorgeous, aching moment — and ironically, it exposes what the episode itself struggles to deliver. The hour gestures toward care, grief, and found family, but the plot machinery is so rushed and so determined to reach the Will vs Adelaide showdown that the emotional architecture never gets the space it deserves.

“Our Last Dance” – WILL TRENT. Pictured: Erika Christensen as Det. Angie Polaski, Ramon Rodriquez as Special Agent Will Trent, Jake McLaughlin as Det. Michael Ormewood, Todd Allen Durkin as Captain Heller, Iantha Richardson as Special Agent Faith Mitchell. Photo: Disney/Wilford Harewood © 2026 Disney. All rights reserve.

A Rushed, Predictable Endgame

Let’s be honest: the outcome was never in doubt. Adelaide was always going to die. Will was always going to be the one to pull the trigger. The writers treat this inevitability like a twist, but the tension evaporates long before the final confrontation.

The middle act is especially muddled — a blur of acolytes killing each other, a bankruptcy subplot, a liquidated trust, and a lawyer middleman. What?  Suddenly Franklin (Kevin Daniels) knows where Ulster’s money that Adelaide wants. This revelation feels like a narrative shrug. The episode wants to be a conspiracy thriller, but it plays more like a speed‑run — a messy middle built for one purpose: to shove Will and Adelaide into the same scene, or more accurately, onto that park bench.

“Our Last Dance” – WILL TRENT. Pictured: Kevin Daniels as Det. Franklin Wilks, Jake McLaughlin as Det. Michael Ormewood, Iantha Richardson as Special Agent Faith Mitchell. Photo: Disney/Wilford Harewood. © 2026 Disney. All rights reserved.

This should have been a defining Faith and Will episode. Amanda’s death is a seismic loss for both of them, and the show knows that — but it doesn’t slow down long enough to let their grief collide or cohere.

Faith is present, competent, and emotionally attuned, but she and Will feel strangely distant. The tragedy that should bind them instead exposes how little time the show has invested in deepening their bond this season. The episode gestures toward found family, but the procedural urgency keeps pulling the camera away.

Our Last Dance” – WILL TRENT. Pictured: Ramon Rodriquez as Special Agent Will Trent, Christina Wren as Caroline. Photo: Disney/Wilford Harewood © 2026 Disney. All rights reserved.

The Investigation: Savant Mode, Flashbacks, and a Warehouse Chase

Will’s “savant” moments are back in full force. He and Faith find the car Amanda was using. Will asks Amanda for help, then he notices things that help reconstruct her murder site. Some of it works. Some of it feels like narrative duct tape. 

For example, did we really need the flashback to Amanda’s murder? The emotional weight was already there. The visual reenactment undercuts grief rather than deepening it.

The warehouse sequence is serviceable. Will pounding the bartender into pulp is one of the few moments where the episode slows down long enough to let rage breathe.

The Commander scenes aren’t especially compelling, but they are oddly satisfying — Will slices straight through the man’s willful delusion about how much Adelaide valued him, and his line (‘Amanda was my Adelaide, with one difference: she never tried to kill me’) lands with a quiet brutality.

Commander’s (Braelyn Rankins) despair, his realization that he’s disposable, and his decision to give up the names of the acolytes is the closest the episode comes to thematic coherence. Care vs. abandonment. Loyalty vs. manipulation. Survival vs. sacrifice.

Her final gambit — “kill yourself and I’ll tell you where Antonio (John Ortiz) is” — is melodramatic, but it does reveal something true: she and Will are connected by trauma, but not by destiny. Adelaide’s correction is the episode’s sharpest line:

“Someone saved you.”

“Our Last Dance” – WILL TRENT. Pictured: Jake McLaughlin as Det. Michael Ormewood, Ramon Rodriquez as Special Agent Will Trent, Iantha Richardson as Special Agent Faith Mitchell. Photo: Disney/Wilford Harewood © 2026 Disney. All rights reserved.

It’s the only moment where Adelaide feels like more than a plot device. And then the chase happens: Faith corners her, Adelaide kneels, and Will shoots her from behind. The show tries to frame this as morally complicated — as if Will might have acted out of unchecked rage, the same fury that drove him to pummel the bartender earlier. 

The ambiguity evaporates the moment he approaches her body. Adelaide was reaching for a gun hidden in her shoe. Will didn’t execute her; he protected Faith. The writers want the moment to feel ethically thorny, but the predictability of the setup drains it of real power.

The train yard rescue is tidy, almost too tidy. Antonio’s absolution — “I have breath in my lungs because of you” — is meant to lift Will, but it barely dents the guilt crushing him.

The final image of Will alone in his office, shrinking into the dark frame, is the episode’s most honest beat. He has now lost two mothers to violence. The found family is fractured. The grief is bottomless.

The episode begins and ends with Amanda — zipped into a body bag, honored in a solemn walk, toasted by her colleagues. Evelyn’s tribute is perfect:

“She was mixed race, bisexual, entered the police force in the 1980s and, Jesus.”

“Our Last Dance” – WILL TRENT. Pictured: Iantha Richardson as Special Agent Faith Mitchell, LisaGay Hamilton as Evelyn Mitchell. Photo: Disney/Matt Miller. © 2026 Disney. All rights reserved.

Amanda was a rare character: sharp, layered, and unwavering in her moral compass. There was nothing murky about her ethics — she was crystal clear about right and wrong, even when the cost was personal. Her strength came from conviction, not compromise, and the show will feel her absence not because she was morally complicated, but because she was morally certain in a world that rarely is.

Our Last Dance is an episode with enormous emotional potential that gets swallowed by the need to wrap up a villain arc quickly. It’s rushed, predictable, and occasionally muddled — but it still lands a few devastating blows.

The tragedy is real. The grief is real. The execution is uneven.

So, reader — how much darker will the writers make Will’s world? Share your thoughts in the comments. 

Rating: 7 out of 10