CBS’s Tracker season two episode 14 takes Colter to a small town just outside of New Orleans. 15-year-old Anton Crawford was supposed to take the bus home but never showed up. His father, Deon, tried to get the police involved, but the department’s understaffed. A teen missing less than 24 hours isn’t a priority.
Deon puts up a $10,000 reward after his girlfriend, Detective Veach, suggests he hire Colter Shaw to search for Anton. Deon works nights, and Anton normally texts him to let him know his whereabouts. He hasn’t texted, and Deon’s worried something serious happened. Anton goes to a private school for musically talented students, and he doesn’t have many friends. Bullies might be targeting him.
Anton’s not the only teen to go missing recently. Kevin Perkins lived a couple of doors down and went missing. His body washed up a week later. Deon rejects the official explanation of Kevin’s death as a robbery. He describes the area as having a “darkness” that most people don’t see.
Colter (Justin Hartley) meets with Detective Veach (Marci T. House) at Anton’s last known location. Veach reveals there have actually been three dead teenagers over the last five years. They’re all from the same neighborhood.
She hasn’t searched the area yet, and she’s helping Deon on her own time. Veach has lived in Marrero, Louisiana, her whole life, and she agrees with Deon about the darkness. “You don’t see it at first, but it’s here. You stay around long enough; it will get you,” explains Veach. Her decision to stay stems from wanting to help out the kids in the neighborhood.
Colter spots fresh tire tracks and a reed from a saxophone. There’s blood on a nearby metal post. A security camera looks out over the area, so Colter calls Randy (Chris Lee) and asks if he can hack into the convenience store’s camera. Randy pulls up Colter’s location, and in seconds, he has the footage. He shares it with Colter and Veach, and it shows teens attacking Anton. Veach recognizes the teen who hangs back as Cal, so of course that’s their next stop.
Colter forces his way into Cal’s apartment, and after being threatened with a trip to the station, Cal agrees to talk. Cal admits his friends like to bully Anton but claims he didn’t do anything.
Colter notices a towel covering a laundry basket and discovers it’s covering Anton’s saxophone case and other possessions. Cal flees, but Colter catches him and demands to know what he did to Anton. They return to Cal’s apartment, and Cal confesses that he and Anton are actually friends. He’s holding on to Anton’s belongings, keeping them safe. None of his friends are aware he and Anton are close.
Cal brought Anton back to his apartment after the beating and gave him a change of clothes. Anton didn’t stay and claimed he had somewhere to be. One of the items Anton left behind is a songbook, and inside is a note from Sherry. Cal reveals Sherry’s an older lady Anton was hanging out with after school. They jam on music together, and Cal says Anton always acted weird when he asked him about her.
Veach learns Sherry is a pianist and has a rap sheet for fraud and drug possession. Sherry’s records are sealed, but it appears she also beat a kidnapping charge. Colter calls Reenie (Fiona Rene) for help accessing Sherry’s records, and she promises to get on it.
But first, Reenie has to deal with Leo Sharf, one of her wealthy clients. His visit is unexpected, and Leo admits he has his fingers in a lot of pies. He also employs lots of lawyers but considers Reenie a “killer.” She’s passed his tests, and next, he wants her to work on Sheldon Grimes, one of the founding partners of his company. Leo needs leverage on Sheldon, and he assures Reenie there’s something to find. He doesn’t want a contract drawn up and hands her a burner phone.
Reenie reminds him there are limits to what she’ll do. Leo replies by doubling her hourly fee and adding a “healthy” retainer.
No one responds at Sherry’s home, so Colter and Veach enter through an unlocked door. The bedroom looks like someone packed in a hurry. They spot the shirt Cal gave Anton, but there’s also a suit on the bed. It appears Anton changed before they left. Veach thinks Sherry groomed Anton and that he’s under her spell. Colter suggests maybe he went with her because he didn’t have a choice.
Sherry’s car was spotted at a jazz club, so Veach and Colter speak to the club’s owner, Hugo. Deon told them Anton never mentioned the Sax and Shaker Jazz Club. Veach thinks that if anyone can help them, it’s Hugo.
Hugo is enjoying a drink at the bar as the club fills up and is pleased to see Detective Veach. He confirms he knows Sherry and that she plays the house piano. Sherry played last night, but Jessica, the house manager, says she no-showed tonight. Veach explains Sherry might be involved in a kidnapping, and when Colter brings up Anton’s name, Jessica acts weird. She reluctantly admits that Anton wanted to earn extra cash, so Jessica’s been paying him under the table since he’s not 16.
Both Sherry and Anton worked last night, but Jessica didn’t see them leave. She also didn’t see them talking to anyone suspicious. Colter looks through the old building, convinced it has hidden doors and exits. (A lot of buildings in the area that used to be speakeasies do.)
They find an old passage used by bootleggers along with pictographs on the walls. Shoeprints indicate it’s still being used, and there’s a new lock on a door. Colter breaks a window and unlocks the door, and inside are more pictographs along with rose petals on the floor. Veach explains that the area practices old, dark magic, not voodoo, which the pictographs represent.
Colter discovers a dead body hidden behind a hay bale.
The cops arrive and confirm the dead girl is 15-year-old Gabriella, and she died from a poisoning or overdose. Veach doesn’t think Anton is involved, and Colter recalls spotting a Bible on Sherry’s nightstand. He doesn’t think she’s mixed up in dark magic.
Reenie calls and explains that the victim’s testimony in favor of Sherry led to the dropping of her kidnapping charges. She was protecting the kid from an abusive parent, not trafficking him. She had help from her brother, Father Jesiah Chevelle, who hid the teen in his church.
Colter’s certain Sherry was helping Anton escape from something that was happening in the building. They escaped to her place and are in hiding now. Colter believes Sherry took Anton to her brother’s church.
Hugo confirms Sherry has a brother who’s a priest at St. Paul’s.
Colter inspects the piano inside the secret room and finds a copy of an old dark magic manuscript. Veach recognizes it and recalls that practitioners used it as an instruction manual for rituals—summoning, torture, and sacrifice. Veach thinks the manual means that someone out there believes it works.
The manual also shows a wedding ceremony and claims whoever performs it obtains immortality. Veach spots a symbol and recalls the kid, Kevin Perkins, pulled out of the lake had a tattoo with that symbol. This means there’s a connection between the murders. Veach pulls up a photo of the dead girl in the alley, and there’s a drawing of that symbol on the wall by her body.
The rituals require three steps: into the water, the spilling of blood, and a wedding sacrifice. The bride and groom must be virgins, and the dead girl they just discovered was the bride. Anton changed out of a suit at Sherry’s place, so he is obviously the groom.
Veach discovers Father Chevelle is the priest at Sacred Heart, 20 miles the other way. That means Hugo gave them the wrong location on purpose and is trying to beat them to Anton.
Anton and Sherry clean symbols off their bodies as Sherry admits Hugo tricked them. Sherry was told she was playing at a VIP party, and Anton believed he was just acting as a groom in a performance. Anton saw Hugo poison Gabriella and just wants to go home. Sherry assures him they need to stay hidden so that Hugo can’t find them. They need to trust her brother.
Suddenly, a shot rings out. Hugo shoots Father Chevelle and yells for Sherry and Anton to come out of hiding. Colter and Veach arrive and don’t wait for backup. They split up and search the church. Sherry leaves her hiding place and finds her dead brother. Hugo orders her to take him to Anton or else, and Sherry refuses.
Veach and Colter approach, weapons drawn, while Hugo holds a gun to Sherry’s head. Sherry tries to get away, and they all begin shooting. Sherry manages to escape, but Veach is shot in the abdomen. Colter has Sherry put pressure on the wound as Veach tells him to save Anton and forget about her. Hugo and Colter exchange gunfire, as Hugo insists he’s going to live forever by killing Anton.
Hugo makes his way back to Veach and Sherry’s location, but Colter gets the drop on him from behind and takes him down. Colter has Sherry call an ambulance. They can’t feel Veach’s pulse!
Anton emerges from hiding, uninjured. Colter holds Veach and says, “Come back to me.”
Deon and Anton reunite at the hospital where Detective Veach’s recovering from being shot. Thankfully, she’s going to be fine. Deon thanks Colter and Veach for rescuing his son, and they insist Sherry played an important role too. She’s the one who kept Anton safe until they could rescue him.
Deon hands Colter the reward, and Colter suggests they should put the $10,000 toward establishing a program at Father Chevelle’s church for kids in the community. He gave his life to keep kids, including Anton, safe.
Colter tells Veach that it’s because of her that Hugo’s gone and the families got justice. She is breaking through the darkness and helping the community.
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