The action drama Tracker seems to be taking an increasingly dark turn, leaving fans wondering how things will play out as the show continues. Now in Season 2, and already renewed for Season 3, the series follows Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley), a skilled survivalist, as he works missing person cases for reward money with the help of his team.
What Happens in ‘Tracker’ Season 2, Episode 16. In Tracker Season 2, Episode 16, “The Mercy Seat,” Colter trudges through the snowy wilderness of Montana in search of two young women who went snowboarding and never returned. He is joined by a search and rescue worker named Roger, played by The Blacklist’s Diego Klattenhoff.
As they split up to follow two sets of tracks, Colter finds one of the women named Shelly (Lexi Simonsen), who is suffering from hypothermia and disoriented from a serious head injury. Meanwhile, Roger finds the other sister, Brianna (Madison Lawlor), who went off to get help and lost her sister. With no working SAT phone and no option to travel with the women until Shelly feels better, Colter finds a spot for them to set up camp until they can find a way to call for help. While looking for firewood, Colter comes across a remote cabin and sees a woman dancing outside. Amelia (Ariana Guerra) calls out to her brothers Dash (Sean Depner) and Rufus (Jedidiah Goodacre), and they are cordial. They relent to Colter bringing the girls back, offering them food and a chance to stay warm until it’s safe to leave. Colter, however, is worried about Roger, who went to find cell service and hasn’t yet returned.
He sets out to search for Roger and finds him injured. Then, someone begins shooting at them. The girls and their three new friends are gone when they return to the cabin. As he investigates, Colter realizes something is wrong. He discovers the wires in the snowmobile were cut — the same snowmobile the brothers claimed wasn’t working. When he goes out back to the tool shed, he finds a dead elderly couple and realizes this was their cabin, and those people were not, in fact, off-the-grid digital detoxers, as they claimed.
As he investigates, Colter comes upon a nearby lodge where he finds Amelia.
She acts strangely, submitting to him as though she believes he will hurt her. He figures out that she was kidnapped as well and has been enslaved by the men and their leader, Father Eamon (Sean Bridgers), for years. He promises he will help her, but he needs her to distract them for a bit. She’s unsure whether to trust him, but Colter is Colter, and his smoldering gaze proves he’s one of the good guys. In the lodge, it’s revealed that Father Eamon is a vicious psychopath who kidnaps, tortures, and murders people. His two male followers bend to his will, completely brainwashed by him and this little cult that he has built. The two young women are terrified, especially when Father Eamon brings out the Mercy Seat. Brianna is forced to sit inside this oversized chair as Father Eamon viciously chokes her with his scarf, maniacally laughing as he watches her gasp for air.
Ariana arrives in the nick of time to serve coffee, but Father Eamon suspects something is up. She’s acting strange. By the time Colter arrives, sneaking around the corner of the lodge with a gun, Ariana is hanging from the ceiling with the scarf, struggling to breathe as her feet dangle above the floor. Colter makes eye contact with Brianna, who notices him, and she signals with the direction of her eyes where the two other men are in the room. Colter approaches, and a shoot-out begins. He manages to take down all three men and release Ariana in the nick of time before she perishes. Everything is going to be okay.
