Good to Meet Who?
“Good to Meet You, Malcolm” is Will Trent in its candy spot: a character-first hour wrapped in two intersecting investigations, buoyed by humor, romance, and simply sufficient heartbreak to maintain the emotional stakes taut. This episode is aware of precisely what it’s doing—spotlighting GBI Particular Agent Religion Mitchell (Iantha Richardson) at her most open, most hopeful, and due to this fact most weak.
Religion Mitchell, Hopeless Romantic and Licensed Keeper of the Actual
Atlanta’s courting pool is outwardly a wasteland of males who assume “repair my parking ticket” is a meet cute. Religion is mid–block and delete on a courting app nonstarter when the universe lastly throws her a bone: a devastatingly good-looking stranger, Malcolm (DeVaughn Nixon). He approaches her with allure, curiosity, and the form of consideration that makes a girl overlook she had plans to go residence alone.
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| “Good to Meet You, Malcolm – WILL TRENT. Pictured: (l-r) Iantha Richardson as Religion Mitchell, DeVaugh Nixon as Malcolm. Photograph: Disney/Daniel Delgado Jr © 2026 Disney. All rights reserved. |
Three hours later, Religion is swept right into a fantastically choreographed entanglement, the form of tastefully steamy rom com second that claims: sure, the woman nonetheless has it. And sure—anybody who’s been watching this present instantly thought: What is her roommate Detective Michael Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) going to say about this? The reply arrives close to the top of the episode.
Oh, he observed she hasn’t slept at residence for 3 nights. He’s quietly, virtually tenderly, involved. Michael’s stakeout dialog with Particular Agent Will Trent (Ramon Rodriquez)—asking whether or not Religion appears joyful—lands with stunning emotional weight. Micheal’s not jealous; he’s protecting, however in a manner that’s distinct from Will’s intuition to defend his accomplice. It’s a beautiful beat.
The Love Bomb Heard ’Around the Police Station
Malcolm is the form of man who rents out a movie show, provides an apple dessert, and screens Say Something as a result of it’s Religion’s favourite movie. It’s intoxicating. It’s additionally suspiciously excellent.
So, when Will calls Religion to warn her that Malcolm is a confirmed suspect in APD’s corporate-espionage case, the heartbreak is instant. She’s floating, however Will, who genuinely believes she’s joyful, bursts her love bubble. The reality lingers, then sinks, leaving Religion questioning what to do subsequent.
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| “Good to Meet You, Malcolm – WILL TRENT. Pictured: (l-r) Ramon Rodriquez as Will Trent, Iantha Richardson as Religion Mitchell. Photograph: Disney/Daniel Delgado Jr © 2026 Disney. All rights reserved |
The GBI Case: Homicide within the Matchmaking World
Religion and Will’s case is a pointy, well-paced procedural anchored by Religion’s instincts. The homicide of Sawyer Jennings, a high-end matchmaker, opens a window right into a enterprise mannequin that prices males $50,000 and girls solely $5,000. Sawyer’s enterprise accomplice, Liv Somerman (Marguerite Moreau), calls this pricing mannequin “custom,” however Religion calls it what it seems like: the distinction between matchmaking and prostitution.
The actual story is uglier. A rich consumer, Brody Evans (Logan Michael Smith), assaulted potential match, Anna Martello (Greyson Chadwick). When Martello reported the offense to Jennings, he promised her that Brody can be dropped from their consumer roster. Sadly, Jennings didn’t know that his accomplice, Somerman, had already taken $100,000 from Brody to bury the assault. Jennings threatened the association. And immediately, Jennings was useless.
Though Brody shortly turned an individual of curiosity, he had an hermetic alibi. So, Will and Religion flip their consideration to Somerman. Their investigation dismantles Somerman’s spin-class alibi with methodical precision. It’s basic GBI work—clear, credible, and satisfying.
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“Good to Meet You, Malcolm – WILL TRENT. Pictured: (l-r) Marguerite Moreau as Liv Somerman, Iantha |
The APD Case: From Financial institution Heist to Company Espionage
What begins as a simple financial institution theft and homicide shortly mutates into a company espionage nightmare. Whereas digging in, Detectives Polaski and Ormewood encounter the close to suicide of the person tied to the mysterious protected deposit field. That man—Wyatt Fernsby (Marc LeVasseur)—lifted confidential recordsdata from his employer, Biosentia Prescribed drugs. Paperwork value killing for. And, as Fernsby proves, value dying for.
After all, this crime leads straight to Religion’s new millionaire hotelier hookup, Malcolm. The case isn’t solved but, which provides the episode a serialized pulse and leaves Religion’s emotional arc dangling till subsequent week.
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| “Good to Meet You, Malcolm – WILL TRENT. Pictured: (l-r) Sonja Sohn as Amanda Wagner, Ramon Rodriquez as Will Trent, Iantha Richardson as Religion Mitchell. Photograph: Disney/Daniel Delgado Jr © 2026 Disney. All rights reserved. |
Humor, Banter, and the Pleasure of Ensemble
This episode is deeply unserious in all the appropriate methods.
Michael Ormewood is again in full rotation—put up chemo, put up most cancers, feeling unbelievable, and cracking jokes about having “superpowers.”
Franklin (Kevin Daniels) and Captain Heller’s (Todd Allen Durkin) stroller constructing fiasco is peak office comedy.
Will and Amanda (Sonja Sohn) clowning Religion for utilizing Amanda’s identify on dates—full with Will dubbing her “Amanda Chiquita”—is strictly the form of affectionate ribbing that makes their office hum.
Pairing Particular Agent Will Trent with Detective Michael Ormewood to trace down the financial institution robber who wore the Cheetah masks (aka Preston Willis)? Impressed. Their dynamic is contemporary, barely awkward, and layered—particularly when Will’s little digs at Michael’s machismo and his supposed “superpowers” slip out. They learn as microaggressions to me. Is it jealousy as a result of Michael will get to work with a really pregnant Angie Polaski (Erika Christensen)? Or is it merely that Michael’s extra bodily imposing?
And did anybody else clock how unsettled Will appeared within the elevator when Religion was making an entire manufacturing out of Angie’s child bump? He’s clearly making progress in remedy, however he’s not able to graduate simply but.
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“Good to Meet You, Malcolm – WILL TRENT. Pictured: (l-r) Ramon Rodriquez as Will Trent, Jake |
Remaining Ideas
“Good to Meet You, Malcolm” delivers every part a Will Trent episode ought to: a Level Break-style, high-stakes heist with the financial institution robbers swapping animal masks in for the masks of useless presidents. The episode additionally has character growth, humor, romance, and a remaining twist that hits Religion onerous sufficient to depart viewers genuinely frightened about her emotional and bodily well-being.
There’s a lovely, virtually porous high quality to Religion and Mike’s relationship now—a direct results of residing collectively via his sickness. Their development is a reminder that one of the best TV characters don’t keep static; they carry their scars. That shared historical past offers each second between them a soulful, weary intimacy. The identical has all the time been true for Angie and Will.
I really like this episode, and I proceed to respect the craft of this standout present. For me, it’s a simple 10 out of 10.
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Lynette Jones