CBS’s Tracker season two episode eight, the fall finale, opens on the streets of San Francisco. A car’s T-boned by a propane truck as a bystander films on her cell. Propane begins leaking and the car and truck are soon engulfed in flames.
Nine months later, Gina Picket’s sister, Camille (Floriana Lima), and Colter (Justin Hartley) have a drink at a bar. She asked him out, and her sister disappeared the last time they were at this bar. Camille wonders if he wishes they could return to before that happened. Colter confirms he hasn’t stopped looking for Gina, but shockingly, Camille wants him to stop. She realizes that what they had is over. Every time she sees him, she thinks of her sister.
Camille is sure Colter did what he could. Colter reveals he just asked an ex-cop friend for help.
Velma (Abby McEnany) calls and interrupts the date. A $15,000 reward is being offered for a case in San Francisco. The catch? The woman offering it says her brother isn’t missing; he’s dead.
Colter meets the sister, Alicia, and learns her brother, Lucas, died in a car crash nine months ago. Their mother is in the final stages of pancreatic cancer, and Alicia is a constant visitor at the hospital. Two days ago, she left her mom’s side for two hours, and when she returned, her mom insisted Lucas had come to visit. Alicia realizes it sounds sketchy, but her mom says Lucas told her he loved her, said goodbye, and left her with a peanut butter cup. Peanut butter cups have a special meaning to their family that no one else would know.
A nurse also saw a man with a cap pulled over his face. “Lou Reed” signed the hospital guest registry and Lou Reed is her mom’s favorite musician. Alicia shows Colter a sample of Lucas’ handwriting that matches the guest book. Colter asks if anyone would want them to think Lucas was alive, and Alicia can’t think of anyone. Lucas was working at a computer shop and saving for grad school when he died. Who would care about that?
There wasn’t much left of his body after the car fire.
Colter promises to investigate and calls Bobby (Eric Graise) to see if he can find out who visited the hospital. There isn’t any footage and Bobby wonders if that’s because Lucas is just dead. Bobby checks and sees that the computer repair shop where Lucas was working was broken into the same day Lucas supposedly went to the hospital.
Colter heads to the shop, and it’s quickly apparent that the clerk doesn’t think Lucas is dead, either. A World of Warcraft player popped up a couple of months ago, and the more they chatted, the more she believed it was Lucas. “I should know. The game was kind of our thing,” says the clerk. She also confirms they dated up until his death. However, she never asked the player if he was Lucas.
The security cameras went down before the break-in, and nothing was stolen. Colter’s allowed to look around Lucas’ old workstation and spots a handprint on the ceiling tile above his desk. He opens it up and a piece of blue tape is hanging down. Something was hidden up there, and now it’s gone.
Colter notices a dinosaur figurine is a camera. Apparently, Gary took over Lucas’ desk and was suspicious someone was stealing his snacks. They check out the camera’s footage and the clerk confirms the man who broke in is Lucas. He’s alive!
Bobby learned that Lucas called Stephanie Hollis, a well-known YouTuber, a bunch of times the week before his death. Lucas and Stephanie went to school together, and Stephanie was killed five days before Lucas. After her death, Lucas wiped all traces of her from his phone.
Colter wonders what they got into.
Next, Colter meets with SFPD Detective Goodwin (Jolie Jenkins) and tells her Lucas is alive. He’ll hand over the computer shop footage if she shows him the footage the bystander shot. Goodwin, the detective on Lucas’ case, agrees, and Colter watches the accident unfold. He spots a suspiciously calm man walking away from the scene, considering all the commotion. Colter thinks this man knew it would happen and that he helped Lucas stage the accident.
Bobby was able to track the unknown man’s movements on the night of the murder and grabbed his license plate. He’s the owner of a bodega in Chinatown. Colter checks out the man’s shop and there are signs of a struggle. No one answers when he calls out, and there’s a dead man on the floor.
Colter continues searching the store and discovers a setup for making fake IDs, complete with wigs and outfits. A noise draws Colter’s attention, and he turns to find a woman with a gun. Colter puts down his weapon and introduces himself, assuring the woman he isn’t a threat. She checks his ID and verifies it’s her husband lying dead in the shop. Colter guesses that Lucas asked for a fake identity and that visiting his mom wasn’t an ideal situation for her business.
Colter and Barbie Lee (Freda Foh Shen) agree her husband’s murder and the shop break-in right when Lucas reappeared isn’t a coincidence. Barbie whispers to her dead husband that she’ll kill the people who did this. She sets the shop on fire before the cops show up.
Barbie and Colter grab a coffee, and she admits she grew up in the fake ID business. Barbie explains that some people want their deaths faked, others just want to disappear. She doesn’t say who, but she’s got a supplier with dead bodies to put in place of the person who wants to be “dead.”
She’s never had someone she’s helped pop back up, and she didn’t expect Lucas to return. Barbie didn’t help Stephanie, so Stephanie’s death is real. Lucas came to her, scared, saying it was a life-or-death situation. Colter suggests that Lucas found something and shared it with Stephanie. After Stephanie died, he knew he needed to run.
Lucas understood the risks of resurfacing, and Barbie believes her husband’s blood is on Lucas’ hands. Colter promises to help find whoever killed her husband. Barbie’s okay with that, as long as she can take care of them once they’re found.
Barbie reveals Lucas’ new name is Isaac Newton.
Bobby calls Colter with news that Stephanie was teasing a big political scandal on her YouTube channel when she was killed. She had a secret source, and Colter thinks that it was Lucas. Maybe Lucas was fixing a laptop with incriminating information. Bobby has already checked Lucas’ appointment books; no politicians were listed. Colter suggests it might have been brought in by the family or assistant of a politician, and Bobby does a quick check. The assistant to Tim Crosby, a bigwig real estate developer running for mayor, brought in his laptop for repair.
Lucas found something that he passed on to Stephanie. After Stephanie was killed, Lucas knew he was next, so he went into hiding. Colter believes Crosby didn’t do the killing himself and he thinks it’s possible Lucas made a copy of the hard drive and is trying to barter himself out of the situation.
Bobby checks on “Isaac Newton” and learns he recently checked into a hotel.
Colter meets with Detective Goodman at the hotel, and the front desk says Isaac Newton is still upstairs. They head to his room just as two shots are fired. Colter busts the door down, but the shooter’s gotten away. Lucas was shot and is dead, again.
Lucas didn’t have anything on him, not even a wallet. Detective Goodman assures Colter she’ll take it from there and that they’ll get justice for the family. She steps away and makes a call, telling Crosby that Lucas is dead. She asks if it’s his guys and he’s not sure.
Bobby and Colter have been listening to the call because Colter has already realized that the detective is dirty. Crosby would be the sort of guy with a cop in his pocket.
Bobby and Colter have already seen what was on Lucas’ flash drive, which was disturbing. How did they get the drive? Well, Colter beat the detective to Lucas and staged his murder with Barbie’s help (and drugs that made him appear dead).
Detective Goodman and Crosby meet at a bar and don’t realize Colter’s seated nearby. Colter overhears them talking about who killed Lucas, and Crosby says it doesn’t matter because the problem’s been solved. Colter butts in and reveals he’s seen compromising footage of Crosby. Colter says he understands why they’ve killed to keep the footage hidden.
He stands up to show them the footage, and Goodman rises, yelling at Colter and acting as if her life is threatened. Colter reminds her of all the witnesses and takes out the hard drive, saying it’s the reason they killed Stephanie, Philip Lee, and Lucas Jones. Crosby claims they had nothing to do with Lucas but doesn’t deny the other two.
Suddenly, FBI agents reveal themselves from among the customers and arrest the detective and Crosby. Barbie’s also there and admits it feels good to see her husband’s killers brought to justice. She tells Colter that if he ever wants a job disappearing people, she’s got one for him. It turns out the episode’s title is the name of her company – The Night Movers.
Colter arrives at the hospital, and Alicia hands over the reward. Lucas is happy to be home and happy to be able to be with her mom before she passes. Lucas shakes Colter’s hand and tells him he wouldn’t be there without him.
Ex-detective Keaton calls and tells Colter he has something on Gina Picket’s case. Keaton says he’s sending an address and needs Colter there ASAP.
Episode eight ends with Colter meeting Keaton, and Keaton asking if he’s prepared to take this all the way to hell. Colter is, and Keaton leads him downstairs of a warehouse to a man who’s been badly beaten. The man’s name is Alex, and although he is barely conscious, he’s able to give Colter the name Wales. He knew Wales back in the day and knows Wales is bad news.
Keaton punches Alex in the face to get him to keep talking. Alex admits they got into something and didn’t have a choice. They were forced to do something. Colter demands the name of whoever forced them to do something. Alex says the man wanted them to call him Teacher. No one knew his real name. The Teacher knew things about them and held that over their heads.
Alex and Wales weren’t the only ones under Teacher’s control. There were a bunch of “pretty boys” who did his bidding. The Teacher wanted Gina and made Wales lure her to The Farm. The Teacher said he planted things there, but Alex has never been there.
Colter holds up a photo of Gina Picket, and Alex confirms that he saw her. Colter asks if she’s alive, and the fall finale ends before Alex responds. We’ll have to wait until episode nine airs on February 16, 2025 for Alex’s answer!
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