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‘Elsbeth’ Season 3 Episode 10 Preview and Air Date

Tony Award nominee Andrew Rannells guest stars as a former dancer on season three’s winter finale of CBS’s Elsbeth. Episode 10, “A Hard Nut to Crack,” will air on Thursday, December 18, 2025 at 10pm ET/PT.

“A Hard Nut to Crack” Plot: When an avant-garde choreographer’s “Nutcracker” rehearsal turns deadly, Elsbeth leaps into the cutthroat world of New York ballet. Sarah Beckett and Anju Andre-Bergmann wrote the episode and Ron Underwood directs.

Carrie Preston returns to star as the titular character. Wendell Pierce is also back as Captain C.W. Wagner for the series’ third season.

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Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni and Andrew Rannells as Harris Parson in ‘Elsbeth’ season 3 episode 10 (Photo: Michael Parmelee © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

Elsbeth Season 3 Description:

Emmy Award winner Carrie Preston returns as Elsbeth Tascioni, the cunning yet unconventional consent decree attorney working with the NYPD to track down New York’s most well-heeled murderers utilizing her unique intuitive insight. The critically acclaimed series enters its third season with fresh cases, new characters, and unexpected challenges for Elsbeth and the 11th Precinct, led by her boss, Captain C.W. Wagner (Pierce).

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Wendell Pierce as Captain Wagner and Ben Levi Ross as Teddy in season 3 episode 10 (Photo: Michael Parmelee © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)
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Carrie Preston and Molly Price in season 3 episode 10 (Photo: Michael Parmelee © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)
Carrie Preston, Andrew Rannells and Willow McConnaughy
Carrie Preston, Andrew Rannells, and Willow McConnaughy in season 3 episode 10 (Photo: Michael Parmelee © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)
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Carrie Preston, Molly Price, and Andrew Rannells in season 3 episode 10 (Photo: Michael Parmelee © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

‘Disclosure Day’ Teaser Trailer: New Details on Spielberg’s Alien Film

Three-time Oscar winner Steven Spielberg revisits the possibilities of extraterrestrial life with Disclosure Day, which just unveiled its first teaser trailer. Spielberg’s latest sci-fi project has been kept mostly under wraps, but the two-minute teaser confirms the iconic director’s fascination with UFOs hasn’t waned since 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

The sci-fi thriller stars Emily Blunt (The Smashing Machine), Josh O’Connor (Wake Up Dead Man), Colin Firth (Lockerbie: A Search for Truth), Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters), and Colman Domingo (Sing Sing).  Frequent Spielberg collaborator David Koepp wrote the screenplay, based on an original story by Spielberg. Spielberg directs and produces, with Kristie Macosko Krieger also serving as a producer. Executive producers include Adam Somner and Chris Brigham.

“If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people,” reads Universal Pictures’ synopsis. “We are coming close to … Disclosure Day.”

Disclosure Day will open in theaters on June 12, 2026.

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Emily Blunt in ‘DISCLOSURE DAY,’ directed by Steven Spielberg (Photo Credit: Niko Tavernise © Universal Studios)
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Josh O’Connor in ‘DISCLOSURE DAY,’ directed by Steven Spielberg (Photo Credit: Niko Tavernise © Universal Studios)

Christina Aguilera Celebrates the Holidays with a ‘Christmas in Paris’ Special

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‘Christina Aguilera: Christmas in Paris’ (Photo © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

It’s been 25 years since Christina Aguilera dropped her Grammy-winning holiday album, My Kind of Christmas, and Aguilera’s celebrating the anniversary with a Christmas in Paris special. Christina Aguilera: Christmas in Paris will air on CBS on December 22, 2025 at 9pm ET/PT.

The one-hour holiday special airs immediately after Everybody Loves Raymond: 30th Anniversary Reunion Pt. 2

CBS offers this description: “Filmed in front of an intimate audience above the Musée du Quai Branly, Aguilera performs both holiday classics and her career hits against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower, fashioned into a shimmering Christmas tree. The spectacle includes exquisite costume changes and appearances from remarkable special guests Sheila E. and Yseult. Between songs and Parisian vignettes, Aguilera shares her thoughts on love, motherhood, reinvention, and her career’s artistry.”

The special is directed and executive produced by Sam Wrench and produced by Vertigo Live in association with Roc Nation. 

‘Ghosts’ Season 5 Christmas Episodes Preview

This week’s new back-to-back Ghosts episodes celebrate “Ghostmas,” with a two-part storyline that finds Sam finding out what life would be like if she never gained the ability to see ghosts. Season five, episodes nine and 10 – “It’s a Wonderful Christmas Carol” parts one and two – will air on Thursday, December 18, 2025 beginning at 9pm ET/PT on CBS.

Larry Wilmore guest stars as Walter Storm, and Caroline Aaron reprises her guest-starring role as Carol.

“It’s a Wonderful Christmas Carol: Part One” Plot: Sam’s big Christmas Eve TV interview with Walter Storm (Wilmore) takes an unexpected turn. Meanwhile, Trevor and Patience bond over their mutual disinterest in celebrating Christmas.

“It’s a Wonderful Christmas Carol: Part Two” Plot: Sam gets a glimpse of what her life would be like if she could never see the ghosts. Both episodes were directed by Richie Keen.

Season five stars Rose McIver as Sam, Utkarsh Ambudkar as Jay, Brandon Scott Jones as Isaac, and Richie Moriarty as Pete. Danielle Pinnock is Alberta, Asher Grodman is Trevor, Román Zaragoza stars as Sasappis, Rebecca Wisocky plays Hetty, Devan Chandler Long is Thorfinn, and Sheila Carrasco plays Flower. 

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Román Zaragoza as Sasappis, Devan Chandler Long as Thorfinn, Danielle Pinnock as Alberta, Rose McIver as Samantha, Caroline Aaron as Carol, and Richie Moriarty as Pete in ‘Ghosts’ season 5 episode 9 (Photo: Bertrand Calmeau © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

Ghosts Series Description, Courtesy of CBS:

Ghosts is a single-camera comedy about Samantha and Jay, a cheerful freelance journalist and chef from the city, respectively, who threw both caution and money to the wind when they decided to convert Woodstone Mansion, which Sam inherited, into a bed & breakfast—only to find it was inhabited by the many spirits of deceased residents who now call it home.

The departed souls are a close-knit, eclectic group that includes a saucy Prohibition-era lounge singer (Pinnock); a pompous 18th-century militiaman (Scott Jones); a ‘60s hippie fond of hallucinogens (Carrasco); an overly upbeat ‘80s scout troop leader (Moriarty); a cod-obsessed Viking explorer from 1009 (Chandler Long); a slick ‘90s finance bro (Grodman); a sarcastic and witty native from the 16th century (Zaragoza); and a society woman and wife of a 19th-century robber baron who is Sam’s ancestor (Wisocky), to name a few.

The opening of the B&B and Jay’s new restaurant are a source of intrigue, anxiety, and curiosity among the spirits, but they will gladly put up with the commotion as long as they can continue to interact with a living inhabitant.

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Rebecca Wisocky as Hetty, Richie Moriarty as Pete and Brandon Scott Jones as Isaac in “Ghostmas” season 5 (Photo: Bertrand Calmeau © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)
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Román Zaragoza as Sasappis, Brandon Scott Jones as Isaac, and Devan Chandler Long as Thorfinn in “Ghostmas” season 5 (Photo: Bertrand Calmeau © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)
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Brandon Scott Jones as Isaac, Betsy Sodaro as Nancy, Utkarsh Ambudkar as Jay, and Sheila Carrasco as Flower in season 5’s “Ghostmas” (Photo: Bertrand Calmeau © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)
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Román Zaragoza as Sasappis, Danielle Pinnock as Alberta, Richie Moriarty as Pete, and Asher Grodman as Trevor in “Ghostmas” season 5 (Photo: Bertrand Calmeau © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

‘CIA’ Preview: First Look at Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss’ New Series

Lucifer‘s Tom Ellis and Chicago Med‘s Nick Gehlfuss team up to star in CBS’s new drama CIA. The first-look teaser sets up the dynamic between Ellis, as a CIA agent who marches to his own beat, and Gehlfuss, playing an FBI agent who prefers sticking to the rules.

Season one also stars Necar Zadegan (Mayor of Kingstown) and Natalee Linez (Power Book III: Raising Kanan).

CBS offers this description of the upcoming new addition to their primetime lineup:

“When by-the-book FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman (Gehlfuss) is loaned out to a clandestine CIA/FBI task force, he finds himself teamed up with secretive and roguish CIA case officer Colin Glass (Ellis). Together, they will work covert operations in New York, uncovering international plots, terrorist cells, and geopolitical secrets.

On CIA, Bill will learn the rules of this murky world on the fly as Colin leads him deeper into spy games where only one thing is clear—their work keeps America safe, even if no one will ever know what they did in the shadows.”

The latest drama from Emmy-winning executive producer Dick Wolf will premiere on February 23, 2026. New episodes will air on Mondays at 10pm ET/PT. 

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Poster for ‘CIA’ (Photo: Mark Schafer © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

San Diego Film Critics 2025 Winners: ‘Sinners’ Named Best Picture

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A scene from ‘Sinners’ (Photo © 2025 Warner Bros. Ent.)

Sinners earned 12 nominations from the San Diego Film Critics Society and emerged from the December 15, 2025 voting session as the big winner. Sinners scored four awards—Best Actor (Michael B. Jordan), Best Director (Ryan Coogler), Best Use of Music, and Best Picture—followed by Weapons and It Was Just an Accident with two each. In all, the San Diego Film Critics Society gave 20 films at least one award.

2025 San Diego Film Critics Nominees and Winners

Best Picture

HAMNET
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
MARTY SUPREME
Runner-up: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
WINNER: SINNERS

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
WINNER: Ryan Coogler, SINNERS
Runner-up: Yorgos Lanthimos, BUGONIA
Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Chloe Zhao, HAMNET

Best Actor

Timothée Chalamet, MARTY SUPREME
Leonardo DiCaprio, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Runner-up: Joel Edgerton, TRAIN DREAMS
WINNER: Michael B. Jordan, SINNERS
Wagner Moura, THE SECRET AGENT

Best Actress

WINNER: (Tie) Jessie Buckley, HAMNET
WINNER: (Tie) Rose Byrne, IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU
Renate Reinsve, SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Emma Stone, BUGONIA
Eva Victor, SORRY, BABY

Best Supporting Actor

Benicio del Toro, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Jacob Elordi, FRANKENSTEIN
Runner-up: Sean Penn, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
WINNER: Stellan Skarsgård, SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Jeffrey Wright, HIGHEST 2 LOWEST

Best Supporting Actress

Odessa A’zion, MARTY SUPREME
Runners-up: Nina Hoss, HEDDA
WINNER: Amy Madigan, WEAPONS
Runners-up: Wunmi Mosaku, SINNERS
Teyana Taylor, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Best Comedic Performance

Will Arnett, IS THIS THING ON?
Runner-up: Molly Gordon, OH, HI!
Liam Neeson, THE NAKED GUN
WINNER: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, ETERNITY
Tim Robinson, FRIENDSHIP

Best Youth Performance (For a performer under the age of 18)

WINNER: Cary Christopher, WEAPONS
Shannon Mahina Gorman, RENTAL FAMILY
Runner-up: Jacobi Jupe, HAMNET
Alfie Williams, 28 YEARS LATER
Nina Ye, LEFT-HANDED GIRL

Best Original Screenplay

Ryan Coogler, SINNERS
Zack Cregger, WEAPONS
Runner-up: David Koepp, BLACK BAG
WINNER: Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt, SENTIMENTAL VALUE

Best Adapted Screenplay

Runner-up: Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, TRAIN DREAMS
JT Mollner, THE LONG WALK
Maggie O’Farrell, Chloe Zhao, HAMNET
WINNER: Will Tracy, BUGONIA

Best First Feature (Director)

Drew Hancock, COMPANION
Scarlett Johansson, ELEANOR THE GREAT
Ben Leonberg, GOOD BOY
Runner-up: Kristen Stewart, THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER
WINNER: Eva Victor, SORRY, BABY

Best Documentary

BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN
Runner-up: BILLY JOEL: AND SO IT GOES
JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME
WINNER: ORWELL: 2 + 2 = 5
PREDATORS

Best Animated Film

ELIO
WINNER: KPOP DEMON HUNTERS
Runners-up: LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN
PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS
Runners-up: ZOOTOPIA 2

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
LEFT-HANDED GIRL
THE SECRET AGENT
Runner-up: SENTIMENTAL VALUE
SIRAT

Best Editing

WINNER: Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, MARTY SUPREME
Barry Alexander Brown, Allyson C. Johnson, HIGHEST 2 LOWEST
Affonso Goncalves, Chloe Zhao, HAMNET
Runner-up: Andy Jurgensen, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Stephen Mirione, Patrick J. Smith, F1: THE MOVIE

Best Cinematography

Autum Durald Arkapaw, SINNERS
Runner-up: Michael Bauman, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Dan Laustsen, FRANKENSTEIN
WINNER: Adolpho Veloso, TRAIN DREAMS
Lukasz Zal, HAMNET

Best Production Design

Runners-up: Hannah Bleachler, Monique Champagne, SINNERS
Cara Brower, Stella Fox, HEDDA
Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton, HAMNET
WINNER: Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau, FRANKENSTEIN
Runners-up: Kasra Farahani, Jille Azis, THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS

Best Visual Effects

WINNER: AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
Runners-up: THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS
Runners-up: FRANKENSTEIN
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING
SUPERMAN

Best Costume Design

Alexandra Byrne, THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS
Runners-up: Ruth E. Carter, SINNERS
Runners-up: Kate Hawley, FRANKENSTEIN
WINNER: Paul Tazewell, WICKED: FOR GOOD
Malgosia Turzanska, HAMNET

Best Sound Design

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
Runner-up: F1: THE MOVIE
FRANKENSTEIN
SINNERS
WINNER:  WARFARE

Best Use of Music

Runner-up: HEDDA
K-POP DEMON HUNTERS
MARTY SUPREME
WINNER: SINNERS
SIRAT

Best Stunt Choreography

BALLERINA: FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK
WINNER: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Runner-up: SINNERS
SUPERMAN

Best Ensemble

WINNER: BLACK BAG
JAY KELLY
THE LONG WALK
Runner-up: SINNERS
WEAPONS

Breakthrough Performance

Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another

Special Award for Body of Work

Josh O’Connor, Wake Up Dead Man, The Mastermind, The History of Sound, Rebuilding 

Special Award: Best Animal Performance

Indy the Dog, Good Boy

‘Fallout’ Moves Up Its Season 2 Premiere

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Ella Purnell as Lucy MacLean in ‘FALLOUT’ season 2 (Photo Credit: Lorenzo Sisti / Prime
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Fallout fans have one less day to wait for the arrival of season two. Prime Video’s upped the premiere date from December 17, 2025 to December 16 at 6pm PT. 

The sci-fi action series based on the incredibly popular game premiered in April 2024. The eight-episode second season will release new episodes on Wednesdays, leading up to the February 4, 2026 finale.

The Exosphere of Sphere in Las Vegas was the appropriate venue to help spread the word of Fallout season two’s early arrival:

 

Returning season one stars include Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Aaron Moten (Emancipation), Walton Goggins (The White Lotus), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), and Frances Turner (The Boys).

“The new season of Fallout will pick up in the aftermath of season one’s epic finale and take audiences along for a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas,” reads Prime Video’s synopsis. “Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.”

Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner created the series and serve as executive producers and showrunners. Additional executive producers include Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, Athena Wickham, Todd Howard, James Altman, and Margot Lulick.

Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films produce in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.

 

‘Stranger Things 5 Volume 2’ Trailer: We’ve Been Wrong About the Upside Down

Netflix’s official trailer for Stranger Things 5 Volume 2 turns the world of the Upside Down upside down. “This whole time, everything we’ve ever assumed about the Upside Down has been dead wrong,” says Dustin, confirming this second part of the final season is going to knock our socks off. 

New photos were released from Volume 2 along with the trailer.

Stranger Things 5 Volume 1 premiered on November 26, 2025 and Volume 2 debuts on Christmas Day at 5pm PT. The final episode will premiere on New Year’s Eve at 5pm PT, both on the streamer and in select theaters.

Season five stars Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, Noah Schnapp as Will Byers, Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers, and David Harbour as Jim Hopper. Sadie Sink plays Max Mayfield, Natalia Dyer is Nancy Wheeler, Charlie Heaton is Jonathan Byers, Joe Keery is Steve Harrington, and Maya Hawke is Robin Buckley.

Rounding out the ensemble are Priah Ferguson as Erica Sinclair, Brett Gelman as Murray, Jamie Campbell Bower as Vecna, Cara Buono as Karen Wheeler, Amybeth McNulty as Vickie, Nell Fisher as Holly Wheeler, Jake Connelly as Derek Turnbow, Alex Breaux as Lt. Akers, and Linda Hamilton as Dr. Kay.

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Vecna in ‘Stranger Things 5 Volume 2’ (Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025)

“The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished—his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding,” reads Netflix’s synopsis. “As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming—and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone—the full party—standing together, one last time.”

The Duffer Brothers created the series and serve as executive producers along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen.

Discussing Will’s epic twist at the end of Volume 1, co-creator, writer, and director Ross Duffer said, “We’ve always known that Will has a connection to Vecna and the Upside Down. In season two, we started to delve into it, but one of the earliest ideas in the new season is, ‘What if Will were able to harness this connection and use it against our villains?’ We also felt it very natural to re-center the story on Will. He was the kid who was taken in season one, so it felt right for the story to come full circle. If anyone [was] going to be the key to ending Vecna, it needed to be Will.”

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Noah Schnapp as Will Byers, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, and Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers in Season 5 Volume 2 (Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX © 2025)
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Linnea Berthelsen as Kali, Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, and David Harbour as Jim Hopper in Season 5 Volume 2 (Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025)
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Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson in Season 5 Volume 2 (Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025)
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Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield and Nell Fisher as Holly Wheeler in Season 5 Volume 2 (Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025)
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Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson and Joe Keery as Steve Harrington in Season 5 Volume 2 (Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025)
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Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler, Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers, Joe Keery as Steve Harrington, and Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson in Season 5 Volume 2 (Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025)
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Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair and Priah Ferguson as Erica Sinclair in Season 5 Volume 2 (Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025)
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Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler in Season 5 Volume 2 (Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025)
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Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley, and Noah Schnapp as Will Byers in ‘Stranger Things 5 Volume 2 (Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX © 2025)

‘Tracker’ Season 3 Episode 9 Recap: Winter Finale Ends on a Cliffhanger

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Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw and Brent Sexton as Keaton in ‘Tracker’ season 3 episode 9 (Photo: Darko Sikman © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

CBS’s Tracker season three, episode nine heads to Tacoma, Washington, and opens with a murder. A man checks on his cattle in the dead of night and doesn’t have time to react before being shot twice.

(This is a recap of season three, episode nine and contains spoilers.)

Reenie (Fiona Rene) is working on a case that she believes would be perfect for John Keaton to check out. The timing’s perfect since Colter (Justin Hartley) has just arrived in Tacoma to meet up with Keaton. He promises to pass Reenie’s request on to Keaton.

Keaton (Brent Sexton) needs Colter’s help because he hasn’t heard from his old partner Nat Dobbs in a couple of days. He popped into Nat’s house and there’s no sign of him. Keaton describes Nat as a sucker for broken women, but his latest ladies haven’t seen him. He has a bad feeling about this, and Colter agrees to help.

Nat’s house is unlocked and the sliding back door is slid open. Colter glances around and finds cat food in the trash. Keaton hasn’t seen the cat. Colter keeps looking through the trash and finds a newspaper article about the murder in the opening scene. Keaton doesn’t know why Nat would have ripped it out of the paper.

Randy (Chris Lee) calls with news that Nat’s phone is offline and sends Colter the phone’s last known location from two days ago.  Colter and Keaton discover it pinged at farmer Clive Sherman’s house, and Colter believes Clive’s murder must have been important to Nat.  Keaton has no idea why.

Colter confirms Clive was a dairy farmer and wonders why he would have a new excavator 100 yards or so from the barn. There’s no reason to have one, so Colter thinks it was brought in after the murder; someone was searching for something specific. It’s possible that “someone” was Nat.

There are lots of footprints around the excavator, and Colter spots a place where the ground is more compact. Colter uses the excavator and digs up the compacted area, uncovering a dead body that’s not Dobbs. Just feet away is another body, and it’s possible there are more. Whoever killed Clive knew about the killing field, and that person might have grabbed Hobbs while he was searching the area.

It turns out they’re right. Nat (Dean McKenzie) was taken and is currently tied to a chair and gagged. Nat’s kidnapper places a wire around his toe, rips off his gag, and asks who sent him to the farm. The man doesn’t believe no one sent him to the farm and demands to know where “they” are. Nat continues to deny any knowledge of the place, other than what was in the papers. That earns Nat a shock that causes him to scream in pain.

The police scour the area and reveal the freshest body is a week old, and some are as old as six months. It’s definitely a body dump. Keaton introduces Colter to the officer in charge, and she has no idea why Nat would have been investigating the murder.

Apparently, all the dead people are criminals. The cops have identified three bodies so far and they each have long rap sheets.

Keaton and Colter aren’t welcome to assist with the investigation and in fact Keaton is summoned to Police Commissioner Ross Beaugard’s office. Keaton thinks he just wants his input on the case.

Reenie ran the dead criminals’ names and there doesn’t seem to be a connection. Randy discovered the murdered farmer was making huge deposits every month, up to $100,000. They all come from shell company Oak Park Holdings, which belongs to Zhan Menassian, an Armenian crime boss in charge of Tacoma’s south end.

Reenie recognizes the name and he’s a scary dude. It seems Zhan was using Clive’s farm to dispose of bodies. They must have had a disagreement that resulted in Clive’s death. Nat must have put the pieces together and got taken.

Randy tracks Zhan’s driver, his nephew Narek, and Colter heads to its location. Meanwhile, Keaton meets with Ross (Grimm’s Sasha Roiz) and Ross asks what they’ve got so far on the murders and Nat’s disappearance. Ross confirms Zhan Menassian’s involvement and that the Russians probably killed Clive to rattle the Armenians. Ross claims he’s putting his best guys on the case and wants Keaton to step aside. Keaton reluctantly agrees.

Colter takes a seat in the back of Zhan’s car and disarms Narek. Colter demands a meeting with Zhan and orders Narek to take him there. They arrive at Zhan’s location and Narek warns Colter there will be bodyguards. Narek’s shocked when they approach the door and it’s open.

Narek calls out for help and Colter knocks him out. Colter looks around and quickly discovers Zhan dead on the floor. He calls Randy and asks about security cameras. Randy can’t find one, but Colter finds one hardwired and follows the cord. It leads him to a storage room. Colter finds a locked cabinet with the security system, and Randy has him send photos of the router’s back. Colter escapes unnoticed as the bodyguards arrive.

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Brent Sexton as Keaton, Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw and Dean McKenzie as Dobbs in ‘Tracker’ season 3 episode 9 (Photo: Sergei Bachlakov © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

He meets up with Keaton and together they watch as Randy taps into the security system. The footage shows Nat confronting Zhan, appearing to shoot him before seizing his phone. But Colter notices a reflection in the window and Keaton confirms it’s contract killer Emile Lang (Mark Engelhardt). Keaton believed Lang was dead, and Randy shows he’s been off the grid for five years.  

Colter wonders if Nat is working with Lang, but Keaton knows Lang is a lone wolf. Randy sees Zhan’s phone is still pinging and that’s where Colter and Keaton head next. Colter believes Keaton isn’t telling him everything about Nat, but Keaton doesn’t want to talk about it.

Colter and Keaton arrive at the phone’s location and find an overturned car and Nat in dire condition nearby.  Nat’s in shock and as Colter calls 911, Nat tells Keaton that Lang killed Clive. He wasn’t working for the Russians. Nat indicates where Zhan’s phone is and apologizes before dying.

Colter tracks Lang as Keaton remains on the scene and calls the cops. It’s still daylight as he follows the blood trails, but it’s pitch dark when we see Lang carjack someone and steal a getaway car. It’s also pitch dark when Keaton makes the call to Ross to tell him Nat’s dead, breaking the news even though dozens of cops have been on the scene for hours.

Ross is surprised Nat said Lang wasn’t hired by the Russians. He says he’ll meet Keaton at the scene. Colter calls with an update that Randy discovered a Honda was carjacked nearby, and Keaton heads out to pick him up.

Lang stops in a store to pick up duct tape, a tarp, and a rifle.

Randy provides an update that the Honda is heading to a lake just as Lang enters a home pretending to be a worker checking on a gas leak. After the man lets him in, the homeowner gets a text saying, “SOMEONE KNOWS. GET OUT.” He races to his safe and gets his gun, but Lang is just steps away, suggesting they have a talk.

Colter and Keaton arrive at the house, which Randy says belongs to Bradley Weitz (Trevor Hinton), an accountant. They approach, guns drawn, and find the door unlocked. Colter finds Bradley’s housekeeper tied up and gagged, and she reveals Lang took Bradley to the garage. She also reveals Lang was asking about Cassie Lindstrom, a name she doesn’t recognize.

Keaton looks around outside and spots the Honda as Colter walks through the garage. He finds Bradley dead, shot in the back of the head. There are dozens of file boxes in the garage, but Colter doesn’t have time to look at them. Shots are exchanged outside and Colter runs out just as Lang drives off. Keaton’s been shot and tells Colter to follow Lang. Colter refuses. There isn’t any cell service, so his first priority is getting to a hospital.

Neither Reenie nor Randy can reach Colter, and Reenie’s worried because she found old records indicating Nat was on the take and getting paid by Zhan.

Keaton’s in horrible shape and apologizes for getting Colter into this as they head to the hospital. He manages to say Cassie Lindstrom might be related to the cop Lang supposedly shot at a nightclub.

Colter begs Keaton to hang on as they head to the hospital. Suddenly, shots ring out and Colter’s car is hit. It drives over an embankment and flips over onto its hood. And that’s it for the first part of Tracker season three. Episode 10 is scheduled to air on March 1, 2026.

‘FBI’ Season 8 Two-Part Winter Finale Preview

CBS’s FBI season eight heads into the winter break with a special two-part storyline. Episode nine, “Lone Wolf,” will air on Monday, December 15, 2025 at 8pm ET/PT. Episode 10, “Wolf Pack,” follows at 9pm ET/PT.

Part 1, “Lone Wolf” Plot: As the holidays approach, the team finds three slain sex workers inside a brownstone—they uncover the murderer has a larger plan in place that they must rush to stop. Meanwhile, Jubal receives a concerning call from his son Tyler.

Part 2, “Wolf Pack” Plot: Chaos erupts in the city when an attack disrupts cell, internet, and emergency services. As the team races to uncover the culprits, they learn the group responsible is a radical accelerationist movement fixated on resetting society.

Missy Peregrym stars as Special Agent Maggie Bell, Zeeko Zaki plays Special Agent Omar Adom “OA” Zidan, Jeremy Sisto returns as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, Alana De La Garza is Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille, John Boyd stars as Special Agent Stuart Scola, and Juliana Aidén Martinez plays Eva Ramos.

FBI Season 8 Episode 9
Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie Bell, Zeeko Zaki as Special Agent Omar Adom ‘OA’ Zidan, and Thomas Philip O’Neill as M.E. Mosbach in ‘FBI’ season 8 episode 9 (Photo: Bennett Raglin © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

FBI Season 8 Description, Courtesy of CBS:

FBI is a fast-paced drama about the inner workings of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This elite unit brings to bear all their talents, intellect, and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep New York and the country safe. Born into a multigenerational law enforcement family, Special Agent Maggie Bell commits deeply to the people she works with as well as those she protects.

Her partner is Special Agent Omar Adom “OA” Zidan, a West Point graduate via Bushwick who spent two years undercover for the DEA before being cherry-picked by the FBI. Overseeing them is Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille, who operates under intense pressure and has undeniable command authority.

The team also includes Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, the nerve center of the office whose ability to easily relate to and engage with both superiors and subordinates makes him a master motivator, as well as Special Agent Stuart Scola, an Ivy League-educated Wall Streeter-turned-FBI agent. These first-class agents tenaciously investigate cases of tremendous magnitude, including terrorism, organized crime, and counterintelligence.

Jeremy Sisto
Jeremy Sisto as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine in season 8 episode 9 (Photo: Bennett Raglin © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.)
Juliana Aiden Martinez and John Boyd
Suzy Jane Hunt as Janice Stroud, Juliana Aidén Martinez as Eva Ramos, and John Boyd as Special Agent Stuart Scola in season 8 episode 9 (Photo: Bennett Raglin © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)
Missy Peregrym
Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie Bell in the winter finale (Photo: Bennett Raglin © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.)
Zeeko Zaki
Zeeko Zaki as Special Agent Omar Adom ‘OA’ Zidan in season 8 episode 9 (Photo: Bennett Raglin © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

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