Doesn’t every mayor carry his laptop along with him to an interview and then leave it open where anybody can access it? Yeah, sure! And, of course, Will knew just what directory to look in and copied the files in a nanosecond. Oh, puhleeze, writers.
I know this will never happen but Will should have gone straight to Abe and told him that EJ was blackmailing him. They could have set up something phony for Will to take back to EJ and he’d think Will had followed his instructions.