Spoilers ahead for Episode 10 of Tracker Season 2, called “Nightingale” and available streaming now with a Paramount+ subscription.
Tracker put Colter Shaw on a case in Minnesota with a big potential payday in the latest episode of the 2025 TV schedule, but he was still shaking off the events of the midseason premiere and the confirmation after ten long years that Gina Picket was dead. Over the course of the hour, he discovered that the suspected murderous kidnapper (played by 9-1-1: Lone Star‘s Jim Parrack) was neither a murderer nor a kidnapper.
By the end, before he collected his $50,000 reward, Colter got a message from an unexpected source that I suspect means he’s on his way toward being ready to reconnect with Dory… based on Justin Hartley’s comments, anyway! Let’s start at the beginning with “Nightingale.”
What Colter Needed To Hear
Colter was withdrawn enough at the start of “Nightingale” that Velma could tell over the phone that Gina was still on his mind after he’d been so determined for so long to find her, but he perked up once he was on the case to track down Ben, the alleged kidnapper, before the worst could happen to the missing Angela. Ben’s grandmother was certain of her grandson’s innocence of the deaths of two bikers and a cop, and against all odds, she was correct by the end.
Ben hadn’t kidnapped Angie; he’d saved her from a biker who was the real killer of the other three men. They were in hiding together, and Colter was captured long enough to pick up on some survivalist tendencies that he and Ben had in common from how they were raised. Colter didn’t dive deep into the Shaw family lore while chatting with Ben, but he clearly saw some parallels.
And when all was said and done, they even agreed that they might have been friends under different circumstances. The person who had the message that Colter needed to hear wasn’t Ben or Angie, though, but rather Ben’s grandmother. She told him:
You two are quite similar, you know. Well, I know what Ben had to go through to make him that strong. Whatever happened to you, or whoever, they must’ve done something right.
While it wasn’t a grand speech from somebody who knows his whole story, he looked on the verge of tears when he heard those words from the woman who had hired him. It was a very sweet moment not just between the characters, but between the actors as well. Colter needed to hear that sentiment from somebody, and perhaps it hit him even harder to get it from a person he’d just met.
