Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley) has a job that requires a lot of mental and physical strength. Throughout Tracker Season 1, he fights his way out of difficult situations. His survival skills and willingness to fight have saved many lives, including his own. His search for missing people takes him to some of the most remote places in America, often in places where no one lives. With the Gulf Stream, he can traverse rough terrain to deliver aid. But even the truck has its limits, which are put to the test in Tracker Season 1, Episode 10 when he has to find two missing people in the middle of nowhere. The trailer for the episode teases something that sounds like something out of an aerial war movie like Top Gun.
This episode sees Colter travel to Idaho to help a father whose two adult children have gone missing. Colter’s direct connection to the case is through Reenie’s father, who was friends with the missing person. They went missing while on a plane when bad weather hit, and they were also carrying a mysterious passenger. The search takes Colter deep into the Idaho wilderness and on the trail of the children’s father, Gus McMillion (Gil Birmingham, Yellowstone). It’s unclear where the children went missing because the forest is so vast, but Colter has a rough idea. Getting to that forest will require some improvisation because it’s impenetrable. Luckily for Colter, the man whose children went missing owns an aircraft outfitter and has a plane. He offers to take Colter to that forest if Colter is sure he can jump out of a plane in flight. Will Colter find them, or has he overestimated his abilities?
For most of the season so far, Tracker has focused almost exclusively on the cases Colter is investigating, ignoring the family mystery that was revealed in the series premiere. Speaking with TV Insider, Hartley revealed that the show will focus on its first mystery with Episode 11. The episode will see the return of Colter’s sister Dory, who is a graduate student who went missing on campus and Dory is a professor. Hartley teased some shocking revelations, saying, “Colter finds out some things that mess him up. If that happened to me, I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night thinking that some people in my life have lied to me or are intentionally trying to deceive me. It changes his family dynamics quite a bit.”
Catch the episode on CBS this Sunday at 9 p.m. Stream previous episodes on Paramount+ and watch the promo above.
