After a formidable debut final week that netted a record-setting 18.4 million viewers, Tracker returned for its second episode tonight, constructing on the intriguing premise specified by the pilot and delving deeper into Colter’s previous as he labored towards monitoring down one other misplaced soul.
Whereas viewers discovered quite a bit about Colter Shaw’s backstory within the pilot, he misplaced his doomsday prepper father by the hands of his personal brother who’s now making an attempt to succeed in out to Colter for a mysterious motive that has but to be revealed. A lot of Colter’s life nonetheless stays shrouded in thriller.
The episode opens with Colter’s mom, Mary, discovering a post-it notice in her house stating, “I’m watching you.” She retrieves a firearm from a protected and investigates a shed on the premises, which as soon as served as her late husband’s workplace. She discovers that it has been ransacked.
She instantly calls Colter, who inspects the scene. The 2 fluff it off as children, however there’s clearly extra to Colter’s mom than he realizes. She is harbouring secrets and techniques, which is hardly a shock provided that, in simply two episodes, viewers have found that the Shaw brothers have lots of secrets and techniques of their very own.
Colter’s case this week takes him to Missoula, Montana, the place he assists a household in finding their lacking grownup son, Jackson Cheong. Jackson is a younger accountant who left his job, his residence, emptied his checking account and cancelled his mobile phone. The household reveals that Jackson has been courting a lady named Rebecca, who’s 20 years his senior and concerned in shady enterprise. After speaking with Bob, Colter learns that Rebecca was beforehand arrested for fraud and tax evasion and that Jackson has taken out a life insurance coverage coverage for which Rebecca is the beneficiary.
Colter rapidly discovers that Jackson has fallen beneath the affect of what seems to be a cult led by Rebecca known as “Constructive Gentle,” which entices people with the attract of enlightenment, as they’re brainwashed into giving up their loves and their cash to the group’s chief, Seth.
On the Constructive Gentle compound, Rebecca agrees to let Colter converse with Jackson, on the situation that Colter first meet with Seth, who holds a standing akin to that of a prophet. An unsettling session with Seth hits Colter a bit of the place it hurts, as Seth has clearly performed his analysis and brings up Colter’s painful previous along with his father. The dialog reveals that Colter doesn’t know why his father give up his job earlier than shifting the household into the woods, and that Mary is holding a secret about his father’s true identification. Being the recluse that he’s, Colter is just not taken with unpacking any of his previous trauma, although viewers are positively taken with studying extra about it.
Regardless of his discomfort, Colter makes it via and speaks with Jackson, solely to find that he has been fully brainwashed by Constructive Gentle and has no real interest in returning house. Regardless, Colter offers Jackson his contact info and is stunned when he will get a textual content from Jackson that night time, asking to satisfy. Given Colter’s intelligence, it’s stunning that he didn’t anticipate it being a lure. Reasonably than assembly Jackson on the designated location, he runs into Rebecca, who confronts and warns Colter to remain away. In the meantime, Velma and Teddi have discovered that Constructive Gentle kills individuals who attempt to depart and Jackson is extraordinarily invaluable to them as their accountant. There is no such thing as a probability they’ll hand him over simply. He is aware of an excessive amount of.
Fortunately, Colter isn’t one to again down from a problem so he persists and manages to get via to Jackson. After Colter takes down Rebecca, Seth and their beefy safety guard, the police apprehend them, permitting Colter to return Jackson again to his household. Whereas incomes a paycheque could also be Colter’s principal goal for doing what he does, viewers are rapidly studying that there’s a real satisfaction that comes from Colter seeing the folks he tracks, joyfully reconnected with their family members. As Colter will get in his truck to go away, he opens up the file on himself that he acquired from Seth, however viewers should not privy to what’s written in it.
As a procedural drama, the episode definitely delivered. It cleverly balanced the event of Colter’s story arc with an interesting case of the week, nevertheless it lacked continuity. Colter’s brother spent a lot of the pilot making an attempt to come up with him with Colter avoiding him in any respect prices, but this wasn’t even touched on this week, not even a missed textual content or cellphone name. Although it’s inevitable that this can be addressed in some unspecified time in the future, it was positively odd that there was no point out of his brother on this episode, contemplating it was a principal plot level of the pilot. It’s turning into clear that the depth of Colter’s character can be step by step uncovered, with the author’s selecting to sprinkle bits of his backstory throughout varied episodes. It’s protected to say the identical is true for his mom and brothers, whom now we have but to satisfy.
Your flip, Tracker followers! What are your ideas on tonight’s episode? What’s Colter’s mom hiding from him? What do you assume he has but to find out about his father? Share your ideas under and interact with me on ‘X’ @MiddleofCanada.
