Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from Tracker Season 3, Episode 15.There’s a classic saying that dates back to the 12th century that is most commonly quoted as “no good deed goes unpunished,” and that’s an apt description of Tracker‘s most recent Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley) adventure. This week, Colter and Randy (Chris Lee) team up for a Midwestern adventure that starts off as a simple missing person’s case turned violent kidnapping — and the direction it goes will surprise you. “No Good Deed” certainly lives up to its name as the CBS drama continues to keep us on our toes.
“No Good Deed” Begins With the Disappearance of Randy’s Old Friend
This week’s episode begins in Minneapolis when Simon Boyce (Matt Murray), an old friend of Randy’s, walks outside his home in the middle of the night. As he looks around nervously, he ducks into some bushes when a mysterious truck pulls around the corner. It’s here we discover that Simon is under house arrest for hacking, and his ankle monitor keeps track of his every movement. Well, until it doesn’t. The next day, Reenie Greene (Fiona Rene) and Mel Day (Cassady McClincy Zhang) do the expositional download and reveal that Simon went missing. Although his monitor still shows that he’s at home, his mother, Mrs. Boyce (Jill Teed), can’t find him anywhere. Unsurprisingly, Randy flew out to Minnesota to catch up with Colter for the job — and Reenie is flying out next for backup.
Arriving at Simon’s place, Colter sees that Randy is taking this pretty hard. He and Simon haven’t been super close lately, and so Randy has internalized some of the guilt. But Colter won’t have it. Indoors, they speak with Simon’s mother, who informs them that her son has been missing for a while. As a parameter for his house arrest, Simon isn’t allowed access to the internet or any other technological items that may contribute to his old habits. So, Colter and Randy take a look around, and after scanning the perimeter, discover that Simon’s ankle monitor has been ditched in a nearby brush. But what’s especially interesting is that it looks as if it’s been cut somehow without going off, which either took a lot of skill or some help. “Either someone helped him, or he was taken,” Colter concludes. Looking into the chip on the ankle monitor, Randy tracks it to BJH Industries, which lies just outside of Minneapolis. Arriving at the address, Colter and Randy happen upon one of Simon’s old buddies, Bill Henderson (Reggie Watkins), who sent the chip to Simon.
However, that’s not all that Simon ordered. According to Bill, he also sent him several items just last week, including parts involve drone. As if by some technical magic that continues to border on wizardry, Colter and Randy track down Simon’s drone footage and peruse through his archive of cloud data, which definitely goes against his court mandate. They discover that he witnessed a kidnapping in the middle of his neighborhood, which appears to have gotten him in some trouble. Meanwhile, Reenie goes to talk to the attorney Jim Osmond (Andy Thompson), hoping to postpone the court date just a few days, but no dice. The attorney — whose wife’s identity was stolen the year prior by folks not far off the path from Simon — has no interest in doing anything other than punishing Simon to the full extent of the law. Overall, things aren’t looking good.
Colter and Randy Finally Team Up in ‘Tracker’ Season 3’s Latest Thrill
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Back in the truck, Tracker reminds us that these dialogues between Colter and Randy are always infinitely better when they’re in the same room together. But as they head to their next destination, the pair shift their focus from Simon to Reenie when Colter asks how she’s really doing. Randy tries to avoid dishing on his boss, but eventually folds and tells Colter what we already know: she’s covering up for something. The non-conversation is cut short, however, when the pair pulls up at the house in question — the same one where the kidnapping occurred. Colter goes indoors to investigate, telling Randy to stay in the truck, but Tracker‘s resident hacker has fancied himself a rewardist too and stumbles into the sights of a nearby nervous neighbor (Ryan Beil). It turns out, the neighbor has the wrecked drone, which would have been fine if Randy hadn’t revealed that he had seen the kidnapping footage, because it turns out the man knows the kidnapper in question, a man named Stone (Andrew Nadanyi).
In the neighboring house, Colter finds the drone’s remote control and turns on the monitor to find Randy staring at him from the other end. Back in the neighbor’s house, Randy finds himself in a pickle as Stone, the kidnapper, creeps up on our favorite hacker with a gun pointed at the back of his head. But before he can shoot Randy in the back, Colter arrives and disarms the kidnapper. The cowardly neighbor reveals that Stone was the mastermind, trying to shift the kidnapping blame to someone else. Colter goes with the homeowner downstairs to see where the woman, now identified as Bruna Pryor (Leah Gibson), was held. Was being the operative word here. It turns out, Bruna had escaped earlier that morning — and Colter deduces that she had help. Upon reviewing the ransom video of Bruna, Randy looks into the text thread between the kidnappers and her poor excuse for a husband. Elsewhere, we find out that Simon is with Bruna at a safe house of some kind. But while he’s concerned that she’s lost too much blood, she refuses to go to a hospital or get any authorities involved. So, when Bill arrives to try and help (after Simon borrowed her phone to text him), Bruna murders him instead.
Upon learning from Reenie that Bruna’s husband, Leon (Chris Walters), is a major fentanyl dealer wanted in several states, Colter and Randy begin to piece some things together. Although the Pryors have gotten good at covering their tracks, Randy pulls off yet another seemingly impossible cyber miracle and finds a location that may just be the one. Back at Bruna’s safe house, the outlaw holds Simon at gunpoint and gets him to cooperate. Her plan? To meet up with her husband, who left her for dead and, well, you get the picture. After Colter and Randy arrive at the apartment and find Bill’s corpse and phone, they use that information to track Bruna and Simon to the other side of town.
This Week’s ‘Tracker’ Concludes With a Colter and Reenie Reunion
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Things get a bit explosive when Colter and Randy trace Bruna and Simon all the way to the meeting location. Stopping the car, Bruna arrives to confront her husband, and a firefight breaks out between them. Colter pulls up and runs into the middle of the gunfire, hoping to pull Simon out before he’s killed. As Leon gets the upper hand on Bruna, Colter saves her life by shooting her husband dead, though he leaves her for the cops to deal with. After Randy pulls Simon out, they get him home safely.
Back at Simon’s house, the longtime friends are able to make amends after Randy wasn’t there before. No doubt, everything they went through more than makes up for it. Likewise, Randy thanks Colter for saving his life before, but our hero refuses to let him think about it again. But before “No Good Deed” comes to a close, this Tracker episode does what we’ve been waiting for all season: bring Colter and Reenie back together. The next day at the courthouse, Colter catches her after Simon’s hearing, which goes quite well for the former hacker. But as they leave the building, Colter finally stops and asks her if she’s okay. But what could be a real moment of vulnerability for Reenie turns out to be nothing but a tease. Instead, she refuses to admit what she’s been going through. Surprising us with one last twist, Colter offers to buy her lunch as they walk arm-in-arm toward a nearby diner.
