Scott Foley is back at the center of Will Trent talk after Prime Video canceled It's Not Like That after a single season, and some fans are now pushing for Dr. Seth McDale to return in Season 5. The timing matters because Seth died in the Season 4 finale, and the cancellation has left Foley open for new work discussions right as viewers debate what the show should do next.
That reaction has not been subtle. On Reddit, fans began floating ways to undo Seth's death and bring Foley back, even though the character was declared dead after a car crash while driving Angie to the hospital, then collapsed from internal blood loss. One post asked, “What car accident?” Another suggested the Will Trent show runners should find a way to bring him back. The speculation quickly moved from wishful thinking to plot engineering.
Some fans wanted Seth to have gone on a top secret mission and only been presumed dead. Others argued that a villain group faked his death and kidnapped him. One fan went even further, saying Will could be hallucinating Seth next season. Those ideas may sound far-fetched, but they point to the same thing: viewers are not ready to let go of Scott Foley or Dr. Seth McDale, especially after the show also left room for grief by showing Angie's depression and Will helping raise the newborn after Seth's death.
The show did not depict Seth's death on screen, which has only kept the door ajar for speculation. Seth even appeared in a dream before he died, a detail fans have seized on as proof that the character could still be used in Season 5, whether in a return arc or in Will's mind. A linked report on Scott Foley's Will Trent exit marked the fatal finale for Seth McDale, but the latest fan chatter suggests the debate has now shifted from whether he is gone to how the show might reverse, reinterpret, or work around it.
For now, the cleanest answer is the simplest one: Season 5 is ahead, Seth is still dead in the show's timeline, and there is no confirmation that Foley is coming back. But the cancellation of It's Not Like That has changed the calculation around his schedule, and that is why the question will not go away until the show itself decides whether Scott Foley belongs in the next chapter.
