Editor’s notice: The beneath recap comprises spoilers for Tracker Season 2 Episode 7.

It’s not sufficient for Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley) to deliver a misplaced canine house on Tracker, Season 2 Episode 7. This week’s monitoring journey unfolds to disclose army secrets and techniques, misplaced artifacts, and a lacking particular person’s case that Colter simply stumbled into whereas fixing the primary thriller. Our hero’s skilled potential to be in the correct place on the proper time is unmatched.

The episode opens in Denver, Colorado. Whereas filling up his truck at a fuel station, Colter finds a canine named Barkley with a thorn in his paw. The canine has a leash and tag with an deal with on it, so Colter decides to take him house. Simple work for a seasoned tracker, proper? Incorrect! Whereas Colter buys provides and tries to make dialog with a depressingly apathetic fuel station clerk, somebody takes Barkley out of his automobile. Suspecting that one thing is up and the one that took the canine was not his proprietor, Colter stays on the case.

Then, when he will get to the canine’s house, he finds the door ajar. He pulls his weapon and, upstairs, finds the proprietor (Natasha Burnett) and her son Aiden (Aiden Stoxx) tied up and gagged. They inform Colter {that a} man carrying a masks broke in, held them hostage, took the canine, and left. The mother tells Colter later that she obtained a mysterious telephone name from a person providing to purchase Barkley from them earlier the day earlier than. However for the reason that canine is an emotional help animal for her son to assist course of his grief after his dad/her husband died, she refused.

Whereas the mom talks to the police, Colter bonds with the child – who’s considerably much less creepy on Tracker than Stoxx is as Sammy on Yellowjackets. (To not point out what occurs to Sammy’s canine on that sequence…) Aiden “hires” Colter to search out his pet with $187 of birthday cash. The cops, as is usually the case on Tracker, are initially not excited by Colter’s assist investigating the theft and wish him to go away the energetic crime scene. The cop additionally isn’t excited by the truth that Barkley has now been stolen twice. So Colter goes off on his personal, guarantees the mom to not fear in regards to the cash, and resumes the seek for Barkley.

Navy Secrets and techniques Reveal One other Kidnapping on ‘Tracker’ Season 2 Episode 7

Colter encounters so many new folks and conditions on this episode that he introduces himself out loud along with his first and final identify on 5 separate events. That’s an excessive amount of for a ingesting recreation! He first works along with his in-house hacker Bobby (Eric Graise) to determine who broke into the household’s home. This seems to be fairly easy work: Aiden’s gaming webcam was recording when the masked man broke into their home. Colter spots a barcode on a keychain the assailant had clipped to his denims, which leads the tracker and the hacker to a rental automobile service and the identify of the particular person at present renting the automobile: Max Miller.

On the alleged dognapper’s home, Colter finds one other door ajar and indicators of a wrestle. Pictures on the wall point out that Max Miller (Seamus Dever) is a married conflict veteran. Then, one other man assaults Colter: a army pal of Max’s named Nate Riggins (Dylan Bruce). They two shortly understand that they’re on the identical aspect, as Nate tells Colter that Barkley was once Max’s canine, and so they positioned him in a rescue when Max was in rehab. Yesterday, Nate says, Max known as him asking for the canine’s whereabouts. After he was knowledgeable, Nate says that he heard gunshots over the telephone and was unable to contact Max or his spouse Chelsea after that… so he additionally got here to the home to research. The 2 acknowledge the chance that Max might have been experiencing a PTSD episode, staged a house invasion, and harm his spouse, however want additional proof.

Bobby works on pulling up the GPS location of the rental automobile whereas Colter and Riggs go searching for clues. Colter makes use of what can solely be described as child detective methods to search out the identify “Lawson” imprinted on a pad of paper from a notice that was written and torn off. Riggs explains that Lawson was a shady personal contractor in West Africa who talked Max into serving to him steal Benin Bronze statues from an archaeological website. How very Indiana Jones! He additionally mentions that Max was questioned by DCI (Division of Felony Investigations). The 2 decide that Max wanted Barkley to assist him discover the statues as a result of he was most likely drunk when he buried them. Max used Barkley to cover contraband on a regular basis, Nate says, which might have been helpful info a couple of minutes in the past. However it’s tremendous, as a result of Bobby offers Colter a GPS replace and so they hit the street.

Within the woods, Riggs and Colter discover Max and Barkley trying to find the stolen statues. Max tells his pal that Lawson kidnapped his spouse Chelsea and threatened to torture and kill her if he didn’t discover them in 24 hours. He tells Colter that whereas they each stole artifacts, solely Lawson obtained arrested, and now blames Max. It’s by no means enjoyable to see male characters kidnap ladies to encourage male characters, whether or not it’s in a cartoon from the ’80s or an episode of procedural tv in 2024, and Chelsea actually will get the fuzzy finish of the lollipop on this episode. She barely has any traces! The blokes discuss rather a lot about how Max has been “on the straight and slim” since assembly her–implying that she’s the one protecting him wholesome and sober. That’s tremendous and good for him, however ladies/romantic companions are usually not substitutes for rehab and remedy (or emotional help animals like Barkley) on the subject of dependancy and PTSD! It’s a bummer to listen to characters say that out loud, however not shocking.

Barkley Saves the Day on ‘Tracker’ Season 2 Episode 7

In the meantime, Reenie (Fiona Rene) talks to a DCI contact about Max and Lawson. She learns that Lawson is a demolitions knowledgeable, needed for homicide, and bribed his method out of jail. This dude is scary. She warns Colter about how harmful Lawson and this complete factor is. This man needs revenge, and would possibly need extra than simply some statues. When Max lastly finds the statues, Colter tells Reenie, “The state of affairs simply obtained fluid,” to which Reenie appropriately responds “What?!” Colter… use your phrases! What do you imply it simply obtained fluid? He hangs up and begins making an attempt to speak the 2 veterans into going alongside along with his plan for how one can deal with Lawson. (If monitoring runs dry and Colter Shaw ever wants a backup profession, he’d be fairly good on a Hostage Rescue Crew.)

Colter volunteers to search out Chelsea whereas Riggs watches from a excessive vantage level and Max delivers the statues to Lawson. The kidnapper appears hesitant handy Chelsea over and even present proof that she’s alive. Lawson shoots Max within the shoulder and Riggs takes him down. However Colter couldn’t discover Chelsea in Lawson’s automobile, and now Lawson is lifeless. So who involves the rescue with the ultimate monitoring? Barkley, in fact! Colter offers the Very Good Boy a shawl belonging to Chelsea that Lawson left behind. The canine finds the lacking spouse in seconds. Teamwork at its best.

Colter Lastly Visits Reenie & Velma on ‘Tracker’ Season 2 Episode 7

On the finish of the episode, Colter returns Barkley to Aiden. He tells him to purchase his mom one thing good along with his $187 as an alternative of taking him. Contemplating that a few of the birthday cash doubtless got here from his mom within the first place, that looks like sort of an empty gesture to recommend to a child. Why not inform him to purchase the canine a gift? Barkley has been by way of it! Additionally, for these protecting monitor, as soon as once more, Colter Shaw nearly died and didn’t receives a commission.

However then, regardless of telling an unfazed Velma (Abby McEnany) that he wasn’t going to make it to Reenie’s workplace as deliberate earlier within the episode, he reveals up unexpectedly. It solely took seven episodes into Season 2, however lastly, Velma and Colter are in the identical place – and Reenie is there too! Does their joyful reunion flip right into a shock commercial for Amazon Prime? A bit bit, sure. Reenie and Velma purchased Colter a touch cam for his truck. However after they gush in regards to the delights of next-day supply, they present Colter round their new digs. Hopefully, Bobby will make it too for the (as of this second, imaginary) Tracker workplace Christmas get together.

Tracker airs on CBS on Sundays at 8:30 PM ET and next-day on Paramount+.

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