The concept of Colter Shaw at the club.
Of course, this hour had nothing to do with a club, not really. But the image of Colter showing up there for the big rescue was something I couldn’t get out of my head.
Sometimes you watch Tracker, and the biggest takeaway is something completely random, and that’s okay.
After the two-parter wrapped up with Tracker Season 3 Episode 10, it was back to business as usual with Colter searching for a missing kid in Queens during Tracker Season 3 Episode 11.
A major draw of Tracker is predicting what twist will appear in the case of the week, since things are often more complicated and nefarious than they first appear.
Ben seemed like a responsible kid, doing his part to help out with the family business, and his disappearance, at first glance, seemed tied to him leaving late at night with a large sum of cash more than anything else.
But that would be way too cut-and-dry, and the key to the whole case was that Ben was running an illegal operation, which was mostly glossed over for the whole hour.
Ben’s and Ellis’s hearts seemed to be in the right place, at least regarding the situation involving the girls they were helping. But there’s no way every fake ID and passport they produced was meant to help women escape predators.
It was a very minor detail, but it kept sticking in my mind because the actual gravity of an 18-year-old kid running this kind of operation was just not something anyone considered.
Though obviously, the most pressing issue was finding out who had taken Ben. And as the pieces started to come together, I began to wonder whether Ben had left on his own to help someone in need.
From his dad’s mention that Ben was an activist in the making and Ellis’s mention that he needed a car and seemed to want to help a woman, it wasn’t a bad guess to wonder if he was trying to help someone escape a bad situation.
Maybe this person needed the car and an ID, and they got into some trouble or something on their way out of town.
The missing phone may have been a genuine mistake, and Colter would track him down and talk him down from doing something he shouldn’t have, perhaps in the name of love or naivety.
The reality was something much more terrifying, as evidenced by the dead body that showed up in the trunk of his car.
I often wonder what would happen if Colter Shaw weren’t working some of these cases, because how was he able to quickly determine that the body was dragged from another car and put in there, and yet the detective was ready to put out a BOLO on Ben after being on the scene for seven seconds?
The dead girl made the search for Ben even more desperate, and if not for Colter’s quick thinking to see if they could find out where Nadia was when she took the picture for her fake passport, things probably would have stalled right then and there.
When Colter was stealthily making his way through that creepy house, I thought for sure he was going to stumble upon some kind of human trafficking ring, and his discovery was just as horrifying.
These poor women were being forced to perform on camera for these predators, and without identification, they basically had nowhere to go.
These cases are especially horrifying because they’re rooted in reality. This kind of exploitation happens to young people all over the world.
Ben was clearly trying to do a good thing by helping these girls break free, but something went terribly wrong along the way.
It wasn’t totally clear how Nadia ended up dead, at least not until Colter was able to determine who was running the cam operation in the first place.
Tracker often has Colter piece things together for the audience when the situation isn’t clear. Sometimes that conversation is with whoever he’s teaming up with that week, and here, it was with Randy.
Without Colter explicitly calling out that Eliza and Nico killed Nadia, Kendall saw it, and then went to Ben for help, which felt like a bit of a leap given the clues in front of him, but we were also running out of time!
Things were a little frantic to close this one out, and it felt rushed in a way Tracker hours don’t typically. But then again, most hours don’t have a defined B plot the way this one did with Reenie.
The image of Colter on that massive man’s shoulders, trying to choke him out, was most definitely not supposed to be funny, but alas, it was.
As we know, Colter’s never in any real trouble, but I kept waiting for that man to fling Colter aside because he was wildly muscular.
Ben truly was a good guy because it never even crossed his mind not to go straight to Kendall, and he’s lucky he found another good guy in Colter, who would never leave someone in trouble if he could help.
I’m thinking about keeping a tally of how many people Colter shoots dead and then never has to answer for before collecting his money! He’s got to be averaging at least two bodies per week.
He only tallied one this time, and Ben reuniting with his loving parents while bringing Kendall somewhere safe was the best-case scenario.
As I mentioned earlier, Reenie had a subplot about potentially teaming up with this new firm on a class-action lawsuit, and I have no clue where this will go, but my interest has been piqued.
Reenie’s such a great character, and her and Colter’s partnership is one of the show’s strongest parts. I do enjoy it when she’s given more to do than just be a lawyer on standby.
Tracker Season 2 had the whole plot with her shady client, and now we have a seemingly new shady entity to pit her against this season.
Max was the type of intimidating lawyer you’d see on Suits back in the day, but Reenie was intrigued by her offer, even if it seemed beneath her.
Max is clearly part of a large firm, and aside from being intrigued, Reenie may have thought this opportunity could help her in the long run.
Reenie is nothing if not forward-thinking and ambitious.
But Reenie traveling around to talk to potential witnesses? That seems like a colossal waste of her time, and the whole situation with Simone felt like a bad omen for this whole thing.
Early indicators suggest Simone got sick because of something happening at these construction sites. But if that’s the case, why was the information so well hidden that even Randy couldn’t find it?
And why does this firm want Reenie to be a part of this whole case so badly?
I smell a set-up of some kind, and I don’t like it!
Reenie just came out of a deeply traumatizing situation that almost killed her and ended her relationship, and now we’re throwing her into a new, shady business?
We just can’t win lately, Reenie fans!
Tracker Notes
- I need a job that allows me to have midday celebratory champagne for fun.
- We need a Keaton update soon. It’s assumed he made it through surgery, but is he doing well? Can they give us a throwaway line about his well-being?
- This is week 803353 with no movement on the Shaw family drama. And yes, that is an accurate number.
This was a perfectly fine Tracker hour, and I’m curious to hear your thoughts! Especially where you think this Reenie storyline is headed.
Drop your comments below so we can chat!
You can watch Tracker on Sundays at 9/8 c on CBS.
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