Scott Foley is back in the center of Will Trent conversation after Prime Video canceled It's Not Like That after a single season. The move sent Some Will Trent fans to Reddit, where they started pitching ways to bring Dr. Seth McDale back in Season 5.
“What car accident?” one Reddit post asked, and that reaction gets at the problem the show now has to solve. Seth died in the Season 4 finale, but the cancellation of Foley's other series reopened the discussion around whether the role can still be used.
Reddit and Scott Foley
Scott Foley's other series ending after one season changed the timing of the conversation, because it left him available just as fans started reworking the future of Will in Season 5. One poster wanted the show runners to find a way to bring him back, and another laid out a top secret mission storyline that would let everyone think Seth was dead.
That same thread moved quickly from suspense to soap. One fan argued that a villain group faked his death and kidnapped him, while another said, “Will [Ramon Rodriguez] is absolutely hallucinating him next season.”
Season 4 finale fallout
Dr. Seth McDale died in the Season 4 finale after a car crash while en route to take Angie to the hospital to have their baby. He later collapsed from internal blood loss at the hospital, which makes any return difficult unless the show treats the character as a dream, hallucination, or another non-literal appearance.
That is why the fan theories matter more than simple wishful thinking. Will already appeared in a dream before Seth died, so viewers have a built-in template for seeing him again without rewriting the crash itself.
Will Trent and Season 5
Angie experienced depression after Seth's death, and Will stepped in to help raise her newborn in her stead. A return would not just be a casting move; it would force the show to choose whether it wants to preserve that loss or lean into the kind of storytelling fans are already proposing online.
For now, the real test sits with Whether the Will Trent finds a path into Season 5 that uses Foley again without erasing the Season 4 finale. The cleanest reading is that the door is open for a dream, a hallucination, or some other limited reappearance — and that is exactly why the Reddit chatter is not fading.
