Ramon Rodriguez

OF WILL TRENT ON ABC

Q: How do you feel “Will Trent” balances continuing stories and whatever the mystery of the given week’s episode might be?

A: Each character has something going on in their lives, and that’s the part we’ve tried to serialize, the character arcs. Hopefully, there is an evolution to each of these characters throughout the season.

Q: What do you think of the special connection between Will and police detective Angie Polaski (played by Erika Christensen?

A: She is absolutely rooted to his history, and vice versa, and that has its pros and cons. They’re kind of like active triggers for each other, which is interesting, and that’s the push-andpull that we get to play with. It’s a complicated situation that they both have to endure and work out, one way or another.

So much of Will is shrouded in mystery, we get glimpses of other sides of him through people like Angie ... and again, vice versa, since we only get other sides of Angie through Will. And that’s fun, to see who people are with other people in their lives.

Q: You’re also a producer of “Will Trent,” as is Karin Slaughter, the author of the novels the show is inspired by. What has that job entailed for you?

A: They came to me with the project fairly early on, and we got to have a lot of conversations about it. I went through the “Will Trent” books and thought, “Wow, there’s something really interesting there.”

When you do a series, it’s like a marriage in so many ways, hopefully a long-term relationship that you go into with good intentions. This was a matter of, “Are we seeing things the same way? Do we feel like this is the right partnership? What is this going to look like?” It’s like a dating process, feeling things out and seeing if you can inspire each other in an interesting way. And I’ve had great partners on this. We’ve collaborated a lot.