'Will Trent' Season 4 Brings Back a Fan-Favorite Characte...

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Let’s talk about Will Trent Season 4, Episode 7 delves into Will’s past trauma, while also bringing back Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Paul Campano to help solve a case.

‘Will Trent’ Season 4 Brings Back a Fan-Favorite Character in Its Best Episode Yet | Review Ram n Rodr guez as Will Trent standing in front of a map and looking upset in Will Trent Season 4 Episode 7 Image via ABC By Jennie Richardson Published Feb 17, 2026, 9:00 PM EST Jennie Richardson is a TV Features and Lists Writer for Collider, and a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing. In other words, she fr loves stories. (yes, really)

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After its intense two-parter that saw the GBI and APD uncover a massive pharmaceutical conspiracy together, Will Trent returns to normalcy this week. The GBI investigates a murder case that takes them on the path of looking into a serial killer team, while the APD’s weekly case is a hilarious one involving a skunk.

The episode also sees the return of one of my favorite side characters: Paul Campano ( Mark-Paul Gosselaar ), a former foster kid who grew up with Will ( Ramón Rodríguez ) and Angie ( Erika Christensen ). In Season 4, Episode 7, “Call Paul,” Paul returns for the first time since Season 1 when his neighbor, Joelle Hornbaker – with whom he was having an affair – is murdered with a nail gun.

Why This Matters

Paul helps Will and Faith ( Iantha Richardson ) investigate in what is one of the season’s funniest episodes, as well as one of the darkest. After keeping himself distracted for the last handful of episodes, working on a serial case brings up memories of James Ulster ( Greg Germann ) for Will, causing him to have dissociative episodes.

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