‘The Gilded Age’ Season 4 Episode 2 Ending Explained: Who Tried to Kill George Russell? Morgan Spector Explains Train Daddy’s Wild Choice

The second episode of The Gilded Age’s fourth season reveals that Will Morris was behind the attempt to kill George Russell. His motive stems from the ruin of his family after George refused to help Will’s father, Patrick, who later died by suicide. The revelation connects the new season’s danger to a feud established in the show’s first season.

George keeps Will captive while weighing whether to kill him or hand him to the police, who could have him executed. Will’s mother, Anne, pleads for her son’s life, echoing the earlier moment when Patrick begged George for mercy. George ultimately spares Will, with actor Morgan Spector suggesting that a conversation with Bertha about their own son Larry helped George imagine the situation from another parent’s perspective.