Tracker Season 2 Episode 15 Reunites Colter With Familiar Faces for a Predictable Case

Critic’s Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

3.9

In the latest hour of Tracker, Colter reunited with some former associates on a case that tried so hard to be unpredictable but failed at every turn.

Tracker Season 2 Episode 15 had an interesting premise, with a fugitive on the run and a corrections officer as a hostage. Where were they going? What was the fugitive poised to do? What was the twist?

But as the hour droned on, the story heading exactly where you thought it would be was clear.

Any time Tracker starts with a super in-depth ‘and that’s what you missed on Glee‘ type of opening, you know you’re about to enter an hour in which you’ll need to remember many key moments from past episodes.

Since this series began, Colter has teamed up with many people, and some have stood out more than others.

He met Detective Brock during Tracker Season 1 Episode 9, and the two worked well together. Brock was a law enforcement officer who allowed Colter to help, which isn’t always the case, and the two formed a nice partnership that helped them find a missing girl.

Considering things worked so well before, it wasn’t surprising that she would call him up when her niece went missing, especially since Brock felt the pressure and blamed herself for Rachel’s predicament.

Tracker only shows us what they want us to see when they introduce the kidnapping or whatever causes the person Colter’s searching for to go missing. And that’s for obvious reasons, right?

The whole point of the ensuing episode is to figure out what the hell happened alongside Colter, but how things cut off right when Rachel got out of the truck was suspect at best.

You couple that with everything Brock was saying about Rachel having it tough growing up. As badly as you wanted to believe that she had turned things around as Brock insisted, the writing seemed to be on the wall the more information was discovered.

For starters, this was a very elaborate situation, from Justine’s ability to free herself to her seemingly dragging Rachel around with her to an underground bunker and then to a gas station.

Yes, they did have the help of a getaway driver, but there was something fishy about the whole situation as each new piece of information dropped.

Considering that this all stemmed from the prison, there would be answers within those walls, and I loved that Colter thought for a few moments he would waltz into the prison and get to the bottom of everything!

And how exactly was he going to do that? There was no way that would work, but I must admit, it would have been funny to see him try.

Deciding to send someone to the prison was an ill-advised plan because whoever was sent in was going in blind, and it wasn’t as if they were infiltrating a crooked spa or something laundering money.

They were going into a dangerous place, and they had one singular guard who knew to protect them if things went south.

Listen, I’ve been on the record stating that I don’t believe Billie and Colter should team up permanently because I’m much more interested in their rivalry, and I still stand by that after this hour.

But she was the right call for this situation, if only because she’s a quick thinker who can handle herself. Every time we’ve seen Billie, they’ve proven her to be highly intelligent and capable of protecting herself.

Even so, going undercover in a prison on short notice with very little information isn’t something everyone could do.

Reenie and Billie’s meeting for the first time under those circumstances was perfect because they got to size each other up in the most complicated situation.

Billie is a badass, and so is Reenie. It’s easy to see that Colter has a type: strong-willed women who don’t bend to Colter’s will.

The whole prison plot wasn’t all that necessary in the end.

Yes, Billie got herself in front of Mama Roach to find out that Justine’s stepmom had the money, and that’s what everything was about. Still, by the time she found that information, Colter and Brock were already onto Rachel and had the information about the Williams group.

It would not have taken them long to figure things out, but Billie’s intel saved them a few minutes, I guess.

Brock’s reluctance to see the worst in her niece wasn’t born from ignorance but from a place where she tried to see the good in people instead of always seeing the worst, and that’s the kind of detective you want in the world.

She wanted to save her niece, of course, but when it became apparent that Rachel wasn’t in danger the way she thought, I never thought for a minute that she was going to help Rachel escape or do anything other than bring her niece to justice, no matter how much it hurt her.

I loved the parallels they kept making to this case and Colter’s personal life, which, as we know, the series has always framed as a sheltered upbringing filled with lies.

It could have hardened Colter as Rachel’s upbringing did to her, but instead, he chose to take the valuable lessons he learned and turn them into something positive when he could have easily used his skills to do not-so-positive things.

Colter’s ability to solve a case in a single day is always impressive. Rachel and Justine’s staying fairly local in a stolen vehicle that no one seen, when you’d think the whole of that city and surrounding areas would have police checks or SOMETHING was television magic striking again.

Justine was a willing participant, but she also seemed to have a conscience, unlike Rachel, who was kind of evil.

The way she threatened Mama Roach, who clearly had more cache at that prison than Rachel ever did, felt a bit like desperation, as she felt the whole planning was slipping through her fingers.

Brock having to point a gun at her niece, someone she’d tried to help, had to be such an awful feeling, and I was so glad that scene didn’t devolve into actual gunfire because it would have been tough for Brock to come back from that.

The Brock and Colter team-up was successful yet again, but we have many other towns and cities in the continental United States to hit, so let’s maybe put a pin in Aurora, Vermont, for now.

The hour was always going to end with Colter and Billie in the same place, and it was not at all shocking that the two ended up in bed together.

Justin Hartley and Sofia Pernas obviously have a ton of chemistry, and there’s an attraction and tension between Colter and Billie built up over years of distrust but mutual respect.

But Billie had every right to be upset with Colter, even if, ultimately, she chose to go undercover. Colter didn’t force her into the situation.

Now that the two have given in to some of that tension, what’s next?

My money is on Colter waking up the next day, and Billie will have left, but will this open the door for them to have something in the future? Or was this one of those things they will act like never happened when they inevitably run into each other on another case this season or next?

We’ll have to keep tuning in this season to find out! Oh, joy!

Tracker Notes

• I don’t know whether the series thought that mentioning Bobby’s MIA status in the show’s timeline would keep us satisfied, but it didn’t! Is Bobby ever coming back?

• Even though Bobby is sorely missed, Randy remains a bright spot. My favorite thing each hour may be how he’s usually doing the most random thing when Colter calls. This time, he was shaving!

• Petition to get Velma out of Reenie’s office! I’m wondering if we will ever see her outside of there this season.

• This season is headed toward the end, and there has been absolutely no movement on the Shaw Family drama.

This was an average episode of the series, which has been pretty exceptional throughout its second season.

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Were you excited to see Billie back?

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