[2] During the Season Premiere, Will is first seen processing Bea (Danielle Cormack) when she is brought into Wentworth Prison.
[9] A calmer Will returned for Season Two, as he believed Meg's killer, Jacs Holt, had paid the ultimate price with her own life and moves on with prison nurse, Rose Atkins.
[2] Leading up to the finale of Season Two, Bea has a battle with Franky where she slashes her wrists to avoid cuffing.
[16] During the time trying to prove his innocence, Joan Ferguson plants the murder weapon in his garage and then presumably tips off the police.
Will then helps Bea and Franky rescue Joshua and Ferguson from a fire in the prison that was started to cover up Jess Warner's death.
[18] In Season Four, Will has been promoted to Deputy Governor and becomes a target for Kaz Proctor and The Red Right Hand as the one-sided rivalry with Ferguson continues.
Bea forces Ferguson into stabbing her 13 times, providing the evidence needed to keep her incarcerated.
Kaz is confident an officer is involved and blames Will, first to Vera and then informs the women why he had been suspended.
On their arrival back at Wentworth, she thanks Will for saving her life and tells him things could possibly be different between the two of them from there on, Ferguson sees it, unknown to them.
Kaz convinces Allie to talk but is blackmailed by Ferguson through Jake, threatening Franky's sister.
Privately, Will talks to Kaz and confesses his complete loss of faith in the system and tells her he is leaving Wentworth.
Vera briefly holds a grudge against Will for her permanent demotion from governorship by Channing, still unaware Will was right.
After that conversation and a brief chat with Linda, Will makes a discovery and realizes Jake killed Nils Jespers for Ferguson.
In the final scene, it is revealed Will has teamed up with Jake and Allie and is burying Ferguson alive to end her reign of terror and avenge Bea.
In Season Six, Will regains his Deputyship whilst his personal life unravels after burying Ferguson alive.
Kaz caringly holds Will's injured hand after he trashed the workshop when 'he heard Ferguson' but he still does not want to talk.
They quickly bond over loss and engage in a sexual relationship, and he feels better but it is short-lived once Vera has a stalker that appears to be Ferguson.
Will's hallucinations worsen but he is comforted by Marie once again after mistaking an inmate for Ferguson and scaring everyone at the cafeteria.
Vera albeit initially shocked remains supportive of Will but demands to go to the burial place to make sure she really is dead and so does Jake.
At night the three go together and find a rotting corpse, unaware to them they are being watched and photographed by the mystery person.
In the Season Seven premiere, Will is asked to be acting governor after Vera is taken hostage by a junkie inmate.
Will has stated that he wants to resign for the third time, after knowing Marie received a 15-year sentence and decided to rekindle her relationship with Allie.
Will lets the women hold a memorial service and he lifts the lockdown, and he tells Marie how Kaz was killed and that she should go into protection.
Will becomes furious later when Kosta is found with drugs and then the hoodie used in the murder, he witnesses alongside Vera, Marie becoming top dog.
He later is seen talking with Marie in the slot and being completely horrified that drugs were found in her cell and that he says he cannot release her.
Will, now with police, back up and the attorney general (Michael Heston) has no choice but to do as Sean says to avoid more casualties.
Rita confesses to Will she is an undercover cop that was sent to Wentworth to investigate Marie and whoever is protecting her through blackmail files.
Rita and Will quickly bond over the death of Liz and her undercover job at Wentworth being complete thanks to him.
In a shocking finale reveal, Rita sees from far homeless people, one of them being Joan Ferguson, Will's longtime nemesis that he buried alive at the end of Season Five and believes to be dead.
In both 2014 and 2015, Robbie Magasiva was nominated for Most Outstanding Male Performance in the ASTRA Awards for his role as Will Jackson.