CBS’s Tracker season two episode 11 dives into Reenie’s relationship with Elliot and finds Colter taking on a case involving one of Elliot’s clients. Bobby, played by Eric Graise, remains missing and Abby McEnany’s Velma doesn’t appear in the episode. Instead, Colter calls Randy, played by Chris Lee, for help with this week’s missing person.
(Spoilers ahead!)
Elliot (Michael Rady) visits Reenie (Fiona Rene) at work, bringing flowers and claiming she’s too busy to remember to spend time with her boyfriend. He easily convinces her to take a break, and things are getting hot and steamy when Elliot gets a call from a new client. It’s serious enough that Reenie calls Colter for help.
Colter (Justin Hartley) is still traveling the East Coast and agrees to head to New Jersey. Elliot’s client Ivy Hale is desperate to find her missing son, Matt. He’s 23, works at a tech investment firm in NYC, and hasn’t been seen since leaving his cell phone at his desk two days ago. Ivy is offering a $50,000 reward.
Elliot reveals Ivy owns Ivy Bakes and recently got in trouble with the IRS. And just a heads up: she’s really intense.
Colter meets Ivy (Amy Pietz) at an Ivy Bakes shop and learns that she knew something was wrong when Matt didn’t show up for their normal dinner date. She went to his office and discovered he just walked out of his job before lunch. Ivy’s certain something’s up.
Ivy’s employee and cousin, Casey (Reilly Dolman), butts in and she shuts him down. She tells Colter she only hired Casey because he’s family. But back to Matt, he’s seeing a married woman that Ivy doesn’t approve of.
Before Colter heads out, he speaks privately with Casey. Casey doesn’t think Matt’s serious about the married woman. Ivy and Matt recently had a fight about it, and Matt told his mom to stay out of his life. Apparently, Matt said he was going to take a trip with a couple of friends from work. Casey thinks Matt’s with them. He would have left his cell phone behind because Ivy forced him to share his location. Matt hated that. Casey thinks this is all a “screw you” to his mom.
Colter’s next stop is at Matt’s workplace. The receptionist is a huge flirt and escorts him into Matt’s office. She doesn’t think Matt would have just ditched work, but he did take long lunch breaks by himself. She logs into Matt’s system and they pull up photos showing Matt with a woman sporting a huge wedding ring. The receptionist says she’s seen the woman a few times with Matt and thinks they were having an affair.
Colter believes the photos were shot in a studio and the woman might be an artist. He calls Randy (Chris Lee), who’s still subbing in for Bobby, and asks for info on Lucy Anderhausen. Randy quickly pulls up the details, including that she’s been married for two years. She has a condo with her hubby and rents a condo that’s just hers. The husband’s not on the lease.
Colter stops by the condo and notices water seeping out under the door when she doesn’t respond to his knock. He busts in and discovers she’s tied up next to the bathtub that’s overflowing. She reveals Matt was upset when she picked him up. They returned to her place and a woman knocked on the front door when she went to take a bath. The woman and a man rushed in, and the woman put a gun to Lucy’s face. The man tackled Matt while the woman tied her up and threatened to shoot her. She describes them as Middle Eastern. The woman compared Matt to a photo on her phone and confirmed they had the right person.
Colter wonders if her husband’s involved, and Lucy confesses she and her husband separated after they realized they got married too quickly. Colter suggests she call the police, but Matt told her never to call the cops if something happened to him.
Lucy picked him up at a hotel, so the hotel is Colter’s next stop. He asks the desk clerk if she recognizes a photo of Matt. She claims she doesn’t, but it’s obvious she does. When Colter steps away, she calls someone to warn them someone’s looking for Ivy Hale’s kid.
The man she calls shows up at the desk, and Colter follows him through the employees-only area when he leaves. He’s spotted when he opens a room occupied by men counting large sums of cash. He gets into a fight with a couple of men and almost has the upper hand when a man with a gun orders him to put his hands up. Colter keeps asking for Matt and explains Ivy Hale has hired him to find her son.
The two men with guns, Pete (Richard de Klerk) and Vargas (J.J. Soria), decide it’s best to call their boss for help with the situation. Colter’s taken to the parking garage and meets with Rick Lindell, a business competitor of Ivy’s. Of course, the “business” has nothing to do with baked goods. Rick wonders why Colter thinks they took Matt, and Colter explains that he followed leads that led him to this hotel. Rick reveals that Ivy gets a cut out of every racket in East New Jersey.
The men tell Rick that Colter’s seen their backroom, which means he’s seen too much. Rick orders his men to get rid of Colter, which we obviously know isn’t going to go well for them. (Rick should have sent more than two armed men.) Vargas admits he knows Matt and that he’s a good kid.
Colter’s forced onto his knees but tosses dirt and disarms Pete. Vargas leaves Colter alive and shoots Pete. Vargas never liked Pete and claims Pete’s a psycho who liked killing people.
Vargas is going to tell his boss that Colter killed Pete. Colter figures out that Vargas is the guy who met Matt at the hotel. Vargas admits they were friends growing up, but parted ways. Matt’s not involved in Ivy’s shady business. Matt’s a numbers genius and kept his nose clean.
Matt texted Vargas from a burner number and they met at the hotel. However, it turns out Matt also got a text that neither of them sent. Something weird is going on. Colter thinks someone is trying to get the Lindells and the Hales into a war.
Matt’s kidnappers pull out one of his teeth and take a Polaroid.
Reenie confronts Elliot about sending Colter into an incredibly dangerous situation. Elliot claims he knew nothing about Ivy’s criminal activities and would never have sent Colter into danger. He thinks Ivy called him about Matt because he’s the lawyer who knows her the least in the firm.
Colter informs Ivy that he knows about her second career, and she claims she got word that the Lindells took Matt. They called her and also sent the polaroid. She will do things her way now and doesn’t need Colter. The job’s canceled. Ivy refuses to listen when Colter explains that some third party is trying to start a war between her and the Lindells.
Ivy confirms she’s heading to a subway station with a bag of cash to make the trade.
Reenie and Elliot arrive with Colter’s truck, and Reenie says Elliot didn’t know about Ivy’s real business. Elliot was only brought on to clean her books. Colter explains there’s about to be an all-out war and that Matt is going to be killed by whoever is instigating it. Elliot truly believes Ivy was attempting to go legit, so he was brought on to help her with her books.
They need to find Matt to stop the war. Colter heads to the subway station and calls Randy to see if he can find the burner phone that sent the texts and called Ivy to make the exchange. Randy determines the burner phone’s location, but it’s not near the subway. The phone is in an abandoned machinery plant, probably where they’re holding Matt. Colter can’t be at both locations, so he calls Lindell’s man Vargas to help out.
Ivy shows up at the subway and discovers Casey’s the one behind the kidnapping. He’s upset because she’s going legit, which means he’ll never be able to take over her business. Ivy thinks they can work something out, offering him a partnership in Ivy Bakes. Casey doesn’t want a part of the bakery; he wants the illegal stuff that’s the real moneymaker.
Ivy agrees to turn everything over as long as he releases Matt. Casey takes the money but isn’t about to release her or Matt. He’s ready to shoot her when Colter shoots him first. Casey races off with Colter hot on his tail. Casey has no idea who he’s up against and Colter gets him to drop the knife he’s holding. Casey warns Colter he’s already told his accomplices to kill Matt if he’s not back by midnight. However, Colter knows the location and has help on the way to free Matt.
Casey decides the best option is to jump for his knife, which landed on the subway tracks. He electrocutes himself, putting an end to his quest to take over Ivy’s business.
Colter called Vargas before he went to the subway, and Vargas makes it to the abandoned building and kills the couple holding Matt. Colter receives a text saying Matt’s free, and Ivy’s relieved she’s got her son back. She swears she’s going legit and only wants to protect her son from this shady business. Ivy hopes she gets it right this time.
Ivy tells Colter she owes him one, but Colter doesn’t think he’ll ever need a favor from her. Ivy replies, “Oh, everybody says that until they do.”
Episode 11 ends with Reenie joining Colter at his campsite. She delivers his $50,000 and since it was acquired illegally, Colter will give it to charity. Reenie invites Colter to join her and Elliot for their weekend of escape rooms. Colter turns her down, and Reenie passes on an apology from Elliot.
Reenie admits sometimes she and Elliot have to work for dangerous clients. Colter warns Reenie to be careful before handing her a beer.
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