CBS’s Tracker takes the action to Queens in season three, episode 11. “To the Bone” opens with Ben, a waiter, finishing up his shift and helping out his co-worker by letting her take off. She invites him for a night out with their coworkers, but Ben’s too tired to party.
He tosses out the trash just as a car pulls up fast in the alley.
(The following is a recap of season three, episode 11, and there are spoilers.)
Colter meets Ben’s parents, restaurant owners Stath (Joshua Bitton) and Antonia Pateras (Sarah Strange), and learns that they haven’t heard from Ben since his shift the previous evening. He hasn’t responded to calls and texts, and it’s not like him to ghost his parents or friends. The police aren’t investigating it as a missing person’s case.
Ben didn’t make the night deposit, and it’s possible he was robbed. The parents acknowledge there have been recent changes in his behavior, but they believe their 18-year-old son is a good person and something’s wrong.
Colter looks in Ben’s locker as Stath explains his son’s been spending a lot of time online in the evenings. Stath also reveals Ben’s not interested in the restaurant business; he’d rather fight injustice and help people.
Colter finds a spent taser cartridge in Ben’s locker, and his dad admits he didn’t know Ben owned one. Stath walks Colter through Ben’s normal nightly closing routine and Colter notices the restaurant has a security camera facing the alley. Unfortunately, it’s not working.
Colter finds Ben’s phone and spots an unhoused woman eating a meal from the restaurant. It’s not open yet, so Ben’s dad thinks his son left a meal outside for her after his shift. Colter questions the woman, and she confirms Ben left it outside the restaurant’s back door. She reluctantly explains she saw a dark-skinned man wearing a leather jacket drive up, and he and Ben were fighting. She also saw the man put Ben in his car and then leave.
The woman believes it was a Coupe DeVille and Stath says one of his former employees, Ellis Brawner, owns one. Stath let Ellis go because he was stealing. Randy’s research turns up that Ellis had theft, assault, and a drug charge on his record. Ellis and Ben exchanged calls last night before Ben was taken.
Reenie meets with Maxine (Kathleen Robertson), a potentially huge client who’s familiar with Reenie’s work and thinks she’s a “killer.” Maxine’s firm needs Reenie’s assistance working on a case against a real estate development giant. She describes Reenie’s potential role as a sniper helping to take down the real estate company. Reenie thinks it sounds more like grunt work, and Maxine promises more clients down the road if Reenie works with them on this case.
Reenie agrees to do her research and consider the case.
Randy and Mel (Cassady McClincy Zhang) start the research process knowing that Maxine is going to want Reenie to contact potential witnesses who could testify against the real estate company.
Ellis doesn’t answer when Colter knocks, so Colter breaks into his apartment. Colter discovers a desk with dozens of passports and what looks like the equipment to make even more. Ellis arrives, catches sight of Colter, and quickly flees. Colter’s much too fast and grabs Ellis, demanding to know where Ben is. Ellis swears he and Ben are friends/business partners, and he took the fall for something Ben did; that’s what got him fired.
Ellis admits he and Ben have an ID business, and last night Ben called him to come to the restaurant. Ellis was already in bed, so he was upset when he met Ben in the alley. Ben took some IDs and bought Ellis’s extra car. Colter wonders why Ben would have used the money from the restaurant to buy a car, and Ellis doesn’t have a clue. Ellis describes Ben as stressed about some girl he was talking to on the phone.
Ellis hopes Ben’s okay and agrees to let Colter take Ben’s laptop. Randy connects to it and is shocked that Ben wrote his own code to keep everyone out. It’s going to take a little longer to crack it. Meanwhile, he tracks Ben’s car and finds it on a traffic cam from one hour ago near a scrapyard. That location is Colter’s next stop.
Colter looks around the scrapyard and finds a car with what looks like blood. He breaks into it and opens the trunk. A woman’s dead body is inside!
Colter calls in the cops and learns the victim is a woman named Nadia from Romania in the US on an expired tourist visa. The detective wants to put out a BOLO on Ben, but Colter insists Ben had nothing to do with it. Two sets of tire tracks indicate someone drove Ben’s car in and then took off in another car. Nadia’s body was dragged through the dirt into the trunk of Ben’s car. Whoever took Ben has something to do with Nadia’s murder.
Randy cracks Ben’s laptop and finds photos of Nadia. It appears Ben was working on making Nadia a fake green card. Nadia must have been the girl Ben was worried about, but they don’t have a good address on her. Randy determines from the metadata her photo was taken at a location five miles from the scrapyard.
Reenie’s first attempt to meet with a witness named Simone is a shocker. The witness is already dead, and her mother accuses Reenie of being one of “those people” who just won’t leave them alone. Simone’s mom insists Simone wanted nothing to do with any lawsuits.
It’s pitch black and pouring down rain when Colter arrives at the location five miles away. He looks around the property and enters an unlocked house, gun drawn. One room has a deadbolt on the outside, and he breaks the door down. It leads to a large basement with makeshift rooms where women stayed. Each room has masking tape with the names of the women who stayed there written on it. Colter finds Nadia’s room, and it looks like it was set up to record videos. There’s a shattered mirror, and near it on the floor is a cap from Ben’s restaurant.
We’re shown Ben (Ben Krieger) gagged and taped to a chair. A man pulls back his head and a woman with a knife says, “Okay, Ben, let’s try this again.”
Colter describes the rooms to Randy, who is sure that predators lured girls from foreign countries there with promises of making them models. They were forced to work for these predators and couldn’t leave because their passports were taken. Nadia was probably killed as an example to the other women.
Nadia’s been dead a few days, so why was Ben just in the room? And who is Kendall? (Her name was next to Nadia’s on the door.) Randy quickly confirms Ben made an ID for Kendall just last night. The conversation Ellis overheard was likely between Kendall and Ben.
There’s a laptop and a webcam in the room and Randy hacks into it. The video shows Ben fighting a man while yelling at Kendall to run. After Kendall fled, the man threw Ben into the mirror and then dragged him out of view. Colter now believes that Ben was trying to save Kendall, not Nadia, and was taken.
Colter’s still in the house when a man arrives upstairs. The man notices the broken door, but Colter hears him coming. Colter tells him to drop his weapon, which leads to a fistfight. After Colter gets him under control, the man confesses he was told to keep Ben alive so they could find Kendall. Colter tortures him into giving up the names of the people in charge, Eliza and Nico Watts.
Randy pulls up info on the siblings and learns they are suspects in three missing persons cases. All the cases involved women on tourist visas. Kendall probably discovered they killed Nadia, and they need to find her before she goes to the police. They’re holding Ben because he might know where Kendall is hiding.
Colter takes the man’s wallet, which contains a business card for Celebrities. Randy quickly determines Celebrities is owned by the same shell company that owns the house where the women were kept.
Colter pulls up to Celebrities and follows a delivery inside. He sneaks through the building and follows a muscle dude into the basement. Colter gets the jump on the much larger, more muscular man, and it’s a tough fight. Colter’s got the advantage of taking him by surprise from behind and knocks him out.
Ben’s still taped to the chair, and Colter quickly frees him. But Ben refuses to leave; he needs to save Kendall. Eliza and Nico got Kendall’s location from his burner phone and are heading there now.
Colter and Ben break multiple traffic laws driving to the address, as Ben reveals Kendall found Nadia’s dead body in the closet. She was too scared to go to the cops. Ben insists the women are victims being held prisoner. Kendall told him all the details and he needed to help them escape. He made Nadia’s ID first. Ben’s sure Kendall is at the motel they’re heading to because she doesn’t have anyplace else to go that’s safe.
Nico and Eliza barely beat Colton to the motel, and he tracks them to the parking lot. Eliza threatens Kendall with a knife, demanding to know who she told about Nadia. Nico spots Colter and begins shooting, but Colter’s much more accurate. He kills Nico and forces Eliza to drop her knife.
Kendall’s safe but scared to death.
Randy informs Reenie that Colter solved the case and shut down a predator operation. Reenie confesses there’s something weird about this case she’s working on, and Randy doesn’t understand why Simone’s recent death didn’t appear in his search. Reenie’s not going to pass on the job, but she is going to look into it more.
Colter reunites Ben with his parents, and Ben apologizes before introducing them to Kendall. His parents agree she can stay with them for a while.
Ben’s dad blames himself for not being open enough with Ben, but Colter assures him that’s not the case. Colter thinks Ben’s a great kid. Stath hands over the reward and says they’re in his debt.
“Enjoy your family,” says Colter, smiling as he walks away.
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