Will Trent’s Ramón Rodríguez has heard your concerns about Will getting back together with Angie. “Some people say that these two shouldn’t be together, and some people say that these two are meant to be together because of what they’ve been through,” he told TVLine.

When Agent Trent unpacks more of his childhood trauma involving Sleeveless Jack in Season 2, Episode 7, it’s Detective Polaski who’s there to pick up the pieces and comfort her on-again, off-again boyfriend with a kiss. As a foster care survivor, no one understands his pain better.

“They have this bond because of what they’ve been through and what they’ve been through, and how they’ve always been there for each other through it all,” Rodríguez explains in the video above. “It connects them in a really deep way… for better or worse.”

After locking lips, Will admits that they had a good reason to break up… but he can’t remember what it was. Coming up in Episode 8, “we’re going to see that relationship continue to evolve,” Rodríguez teases. “But the big question is: Can it evolve in a healthy way?”

However, Will and Angie are feeling “optimistic” about the state of their relationship in Episode 8. “It feels hopeful,” the actor says. “Maybe there’s a way to work through this, and maybe there’s a way that we can commit to this. I think both sides are nervous, and I think that for things to really work out in a healthy way, they both need to be fully committed. They’re in a place where they want to at least try that commitment and… make it work.”

There are just three episodes left in the Will Trent-shortened Season 2—and, as Rodríguez puts it, things are going to get “really intense” and “really emotional.”

“In [Episode] eight, we’re going to see the culmination of the childhood trauma that Will has blocked out of his memory,” he reveals. “[It’s] pieced together—something meaningful and indicative—and it’s very intense. And we get a reprieve, we get a moment to come up for air, but very quickly [we’re] pulled back under again with a really intense twist. I don’t know how much I can say about it, but I will say that it’s a really intense ending [to the season] that I don’t think people will see coming, and it’s a case that pays off in a really hard way.”

“There’s a little bit of suspense, no doubt,” he continues. “Season 2, towards the end, when we piece together this whole idea of ​​what happened through this childhood trauma—this flashback, this memory that he blocked out—there are some things that [Will] gains, which is great, and there are some things that he loses, which is not great.”