Tracker Season 1 Episode 10 Recap: Into the Wild

Colter searches the Idaho wilderness for a case close to Reenie on Tracker Season 1 Episode 10, “Into the Wild.”  

The beginning of the episode shows Colter taking a much-needed break from work after his last case. Reenie is able to find him anyway, however, thanks to some help from Teddi and Velma. She shows up unexpectedly — while Colter is in the shower, no less — because she needs his help.

Gus, a friend of her father’s, owns a remote outfitting business in Idaho, and he’s had a plane go missing. His son, Hank, and daughter, Madison, were on the plane with a client named Walter Bratton when it happened. 

Colter isn’t one to turn down a job, so the two head to Idaho to visit Gus (played by Gil Birmingham). It turns out that it’s a pretty random coincidence that Rene stumbled onto Gus’s problem in the first place. She tells Colter she was calling him to book a trip for her dad, and she could tell something was wrong from the sound of Gus’s voice. 

It’s a good thing she knows someone who has the perfect skills to help.

Is it too much of a coincidence? Probably. But it’s a way to have Colter and Reenie working together again, which seems significant to the story.

When Gus describes everything that happened before the plane disappeared, it becomes clear there something more was going on. Yes, there was a storm, but Gus’s children and the client were already off course before it vanished. 

Colter asks if there’s a way to get to a debris field they spot, and the answer is yes — if he can jump out of a plane.

And of course he can. He doesn’t even hesitate at the idea, though Reenie seems concerned about it. 

He jumps out of the plane with ease, too, and perhaps with a little smile on his face as he lands easily in the debris field. 

Meanwhile, Gus and Reenie are back at the outfitting agency when a strange man comes looking for Walter. He’s gruff and suspicious, and he won’t give his own name. He also has a penchant for chewing gum, which seems like a minor detail — but is actually a bit of foreshadowing.

When the man learns the plane with Walter on it has gone missing, he just says he’ll check back in.

It doesn’t take Colter long to find the missing plane in that debris field, but what he discovers makes matters much more complicated.

There’s no sign of Gus’s children, but he finds a dead body that he assumes is the client. Based on the wound, the man was likely shot with Madison’s gun.

Then, while he’s on the phone with Reenie, Colter finds a transponder on the body, and after he sends over a photo of him, Reenie and Gus confirm this isn’t the client after all.  

Reenie starts looking into some details of her own when she hears gunshots and discovers Gus has been attacked. The mystery man had returned and managed to steal a plane, but not before taking a shot to the stomach, thanks to Gus. 

Reenie warns Colter of the danger as he continues to track the missing group, and the more he discovers, the more dangerous things seem. 

He finds Madison first. She’s injured — she jumped to get away from Bratton — and she reveals that Bratton “has Hank” because he needed help carrying a large sum of money. Bratton paid Hank $5000 to change the flight plan in order to have them land just over the Canadian border.

It turns out that Bratton stole money from dealers in Reno, and they’re trying to find him so they can get their money back. 

So, Colter needs to find Hank before they do. But in trying to get some help for Madison and the ranger’s office, he runs into the same mystery man who stole Gus’s plane — who they now know is named Valtz. 

Madison tells Valtz everything he wants to know while they’re being held at gunpoint, but Valtz shoots at them anyway, hitting Colter in the shoulder.

That still isn’t enough to stop Colter, though, and really, it seems like just another reason for him to take his shirt off. He has the ranger place tea bags on his wound and then he powers through, meeting back up with Reenie to continue looking for Hank.

They get Teddi and Velma on the phone, who are both fascinated by the tea bag solution and worried that Colter won’t just go to a hospital. Teddi and Velma, of course, have been helping from afar all along.

Colter and Reenie head to Pinewood Cabins to locate Hank and Bratton, where they both stumble upon dead bodies. Colter finds Bratton dead, along with the man who was likely there to help him disappear. Then, he follows a blood trail to a cabin where Hank is hiding.

Valtz isn’t far behind, which means Colter and Hank are forced to hide instead of get away. Thanks to quick thinking from Colter, they manage to hide beneath the floor boards. It’s not a perfect plan, considering there are cracks between the boards that could allow them to be seen. 

It’s reminiscent of A Quiet Place with the way Colter and Hank have to lie there in complete silence. Valtz searches for them and eventually gives up and grabs the money, but on his way out, he reaches for a stick of gum.

When he drops the wrapper, he nearly spots Colter and Hank beneath the floor and, more significantly, pushes the wrapper through the floorboards instead of picking up the trash.

With that, Valtz seems to figure out that they’re under the floor, but Colter’s prepared for that moment too. He takes the perfect show when Valtz is standing right over them. 

It’s another win for Colter, and Gus offers something more than just the monetary reward.

He also offers Colter and Reenie a “special weekend” for the two of them, on him. He tells them to pick any date, and he’ll make sure they have the whole lake to themselves. 

Colter tries to interrupt, seeing as Gus seems to have the wrong idea about the two of them, but Reenie insists they take him up on it. At the very least, she says she’ll beat him at fishing — biggest catch wins the weekend.

The smile on his face suggests there’s still something between these two, and Gus seems pleased that they’ll take him up on the offer. 

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