CBS’s Tracker season one episode eight finds Colter (Justin Hartley) heading to Camden, Maine to take on the case of a missing dockworker named Ethan Sullivan. Sully’s fiancée, Daniella, is offering a $10,000 reward.
Sully’s been missing for two days, and the police haven’t come up with any clues to his disappearance. Colter wonders if Sully just got cold feet, and Velma (Abby McEnany) and Teddi (Robin Weigert) suggest he keep an open mind.
Colter speaks with Daniella and learns Sully’s smart and wants to get off the docks. Daniella’s parents stress the wedding is in two weeks, so they need answers now. They have already spent a lot of money, and now they need to come up with a $10,000 reward. The timing’s not great.
Daniella reveals Sully uses an old flip phone and its battery always dies. She assumed that’s what happened when he didn’t answer her calls. But it’s been two days, and he still hasn’t come home after working a night shift.
Sully was a troublemaker when he was younger, but he’s changed. However, there’s a guy named Ryan at his work who kept calling and they recently argued over the phone. Sully insisted it was purely work-related.
Daniella swears Sully was excited about the wedding. He even scheduled his tux fitting and cake tasting for this weekend. There’s no way he got cold feet.
Colter has a private chat with Daniella’s dad, Dwayne (Francisco Trujillo Avalos-Davidson), and he admits he’s not a fan of Sully. Sully has a lengthy criminal record and isn’t his first choice for a son-in-law. Colter believes people can change, but Dwayne doesn’t agree.
Daniella interrupts their conversation with the news that the sheriff located Sully’s car.
Colter, Daniella, and Dwayne meet Sheriff Miller (Darien Sills-Evans) at Sully’s car. After promising not to get in the way, Miller shows them the wreckage. It’s overturned and there’s blood inside. Miller thinks he was drunk and crashed, but Colter isn’t sure. He finds a necklace inside, and Daniella doesn’t recognize it. She refuses to believe he is cheating on her.
Colter deduces the blood in the car isn’t from the crash. The car was empty when it went over the embankment. The absence of footprints, depressions, or broken twigs/branches indicates that nobody walked away after the crash.
Colter locates a sandbag right outside the car. Sand inside the vehicle shows the bag was on the gas pedal when the car went off the road. The next step is to determine why Sully abandoned the car on purpose.
Miller and Colter speak privately, and Colter offers to share what he learns. Miller doesn’t reciprocate, believing Colter’s in it just for the money. Colter pleads his case, and they finally stop butting heads. Miller explains that COVID-19 devastated the town. Crime is up and people are getting desperate. Drugs have become a major issue, and Miller believes Sully screwed up again.
Colter suggests Sully’s disappearance might have something to do with Ryan Hopkins. He’s going to check him out while Miller runs the blood from the car.
Bobby Puts His Skill Set to Good Use
Colter rings Bobby (Eric Graise) for info on Sully and learns Sully’s cellphone’s last ping was at the docks two days ago. It’s dead, and it doesn’t have GPS tracking turned on. Bobby hopes to uncover more information by checking out Sully’s lengthy call log from the last few weeks. Colter asks about Ryan Hopkins and Bobby says his phone’s pinging at the docks.
Before he hangs up, Colter says he needs info on any women Sully recently spoke with.
Ryan (Shayn Walker) acts surprised Sully is missing and claims he and Sully are friends. He’d been calling him to see if he could get him some extra shifts. Ryan also claims he was out drinking beers with friends on Friday night when Sully went missing.
Bobby discovers Sully’s been speaking with Simone Dawson, an ex-girlfriend he went to school with. Sully called her twice on Friday, and she lives near his wrecked car.
Colter arrives at Simone’s place and notices the door’s been kicked open. He enters, gun drawn, and it looks like there was a struggle inside. Simone’s lying dead on the kitchen floor.
Miller and the cops join Colter in examining Simone’s place. Miller assumes that’s Simone’s blood in Sully’s car, and none of this looks good. Colter finds a drawing of the necklace from the car and figures out she designed it. Plus, she and Sully were friends, so he wouldn’t have needed to kick in the front door.
Colter believes someone followed Sully to rob the place. Miller requests that Colter not tell the family what they’ve found just yet.
Bobby discovered that Simone and Sully met at a restaurant on Friday. Colter questions a server who knows Sully and confirms he was there on Friday night. Simone was with him. The server wonders why he’s asking, and Colter explains Sully’s missing and Simone is dead.
Colter notices a young man named Zach (River Codack) has been listening to the conversation and confronts him when he steps outside to take out the trash. Reluctantly, Zach reveals a couple of guys came in after Simone and Sully. One man was scary-looking, and Zach believes his name is Clem. Apparently, he just got out of prison.
Sully wasn’t happy to see the guys, and he and Simone left quickly. The two men watched them leave and then followed them. The server breaks up the conversation and calls someone after Colter leaves. She informs whoever she is talking to that they have found Simone and the cops are searching for Sully.
Colter fills Sheriff Miller in on what he just learned, and Miller recognizes the name Clem. Colter talks his way into going with Miller when he speaks with Dougie “Clem” Clemens. Clem’s a bad dude who grew up with Sully, but they’d drifted apart.
No one answers Clem’s door, so Colter climbs in an open window. Inside, they discover a chair with duct tape on its arms. It appears that a struggle occurred before someone cut the duct tape. Miller theorizes Clem killed Simone and then tied up Sully. But why?
A coffee cup is still warm, so Clem must have just left.
Teddi sends Colter a photo of Clem (Anthony DeMare) and a copy of his arrest record. It’s lengthy and after Colter scans it, he’s certain Clem was running a stick-up crew.
Colter spots a car driving away and gives chase. It’s the server from the restaurant and she parks at the docks. She’s carrying a plastic bag when she knocks on a building’s door and Clem answers. She enters just as Ryan is exiting the building. Colter takes cover and watches as Ryan meets with Sully and an unknown man by a van. Ryan hands Sully a gun and the threesome gets into the van as Colter snaps photos from his hiding place. Clem joins them and the van drives away.
Daniella Sticks By Her Man
Colter shows the photos to Daniella and she’s sure that Clem and Ryan must be forcing Sully to do something. Daniella confirms Simone is Sully’s ex and that they remained friends. Colter breaks the news that someone just murdered Simone and that her murder is connected to this crew.
Colter believes Sully got sucked back into illegal activities, but Daniella insists that cannot be true. Daniella thinks Ryan was trying to get Sully to get him a job as a security guard at King’s Warehouse. Colter confirms that’s the same warehouse Daniella told him was closed because of maintenance. The warehouse is normally full of lobster.
Colter and Bobby sort through the clues, and Colter becomes convinced that drugs and/or guns are also flowing through the warehouse. Bobby quickly checks Sully’s warehouse keycard and sees that someone used it just 29 minutes ago.
Colter heads to the warehouse and finds Ryan sitting in the van’s driver’s seat outside. He slashes a back tire and gets the jump on Ryan when he goes to check it out. Colter puts him in a sleeper hold and once Ryan’s unconscious, he ties him up.
Colter continues looking around and discovers the injured gas employee, who was supposed to be doing maintenance, outside the warehouse. He calls Miller and asks for backup, explaining there’s a robbery in progress.
Colter doesn’t wait and begins sneaking his way through the warehouse. He spots Clem looking through boxes on the main floor. He creeps upstairs and peers through an office window. Inside, a man is holding Sully at gunpoint while forcing him to turn off the building’s security cameras.
The door’s unlocked and Colter bursts in. The armed man’s taken by surprise and Colter knocks him out after a brief fight. Colter tells Sully that Daniella sent him, and Sully fills in the blanks. Clem killed Simone in front of him when she fought back. He also threatened to kill Daniella if Sully didn’t follow orders.
Clem even showed Sully photos of Daniella in her car and at work to prove he meant business.
Colter ties up the thug as Sully reveals Clem is there to steal Fentanyl. Ryan told Clem the lobster pots were being used to smuggle it into the warehouse. Sully refused to be involved in stealing the Fentanyl, but they wouldn’t back down.
Clem’s gang followed Sully to Simone’s and then killed her and grabbed him. They forced Sully to wreck his car and stage it to look like he was cheating on Daniella and ran away. He swears he was being set up this whole time, and Colter thinks they were planning on killing him when he was no longer needed.
The gun Ryan handed him was just a test. While attempting to escape, he realized that the gun Ryan handed him wasn’t loaded. Colter suggests Sully grab the loaded gun from the unconscious guy. Sully agrees but changes the plan. He will not wait for the police. Instead, he’s going to make Clem pay for killing Simone.
Colter follows him, but Sully locks the gate, trapping Colter upstairs. However, Colter’s got some Parkour skills Sully knew nothing about. He makes his way to the ground floor, as Sully is about to shoot Clem. Colter tries to calm Sully down by asking him to think of Daniella. It doesn’t work, and Sully slaps Clem across the face with the gun. He orders Clem to turn around and get on his knees.
Colter continues to attempt to persuade Sully to think rationally, insisting he can leave his criminal past behind. There’s still an option to continue on the straight and narrow and marry Daniella. Sully finally comes to his senses and Clem runs off when Sully lowers his weapon.
Law enforcement immediately takes Clem into custody as soon as he runs outside.
The cops check out the warehouse and Miller reports this is the biggest Fentanyl bust the town’s ever seen. The Coast Guard is on the case and this bust should deter drug smugglers from coming near Camden.
Miller confirms Clem is going down on multiple counts, including murder. He thanks Colton for everything he’s done and then apologizes for misjudging Sully. Sully finally smiles.
Daniella’s mom and dad host a party at the restaurant and toast to a bright future for their daughter and Sully. Colter’s hung around for the party, and Sully admits that he feels like a weight has been lifted from his shoulders. Sully invites him to the wedding and Colter surprises him by handing over the necklace. Simone made it for him to give to Daniella as a wedding present.
They shake, and then Daniella asks for a minute. She hands over the reward and thanks Colter for everything he did. Sully puts on their song and Colter leaves as Sully’s placing the gorgeous necklace around Daniella’s neck.
SEASON 1 RECAPS:
- Tracker Season 1 Episode 1 “Klamath Falls” Recap
- Tracker Season 1 Episode 2 “Missoula” Recap
- Tracker Season 1 Episode 3 “Springland” Recap
- Tracker Season 1 Episode 4 “Mt. Shasta” Recap
- Tracker Season 1 Episode 5 “St. Louis” Recap
- Tracker Season 1 Episode 6 “Lexington” Recap
- Tracker Season 1 Episode 7 “Chicago” Recap
- Tracker Season 1 Episode 9 “Aurora” Recap
- Tracker Season 1 Episode 10 “Into the Wild” Recap
- Justin Hartley Discusses His Starring Role in Tracker
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