Remember that old rhyme they used to say when we were kids?
“Secrets, secrets are no fun. Secrets always hurt someone.”
Or maybe that was just a thing in my household! But either way, the sentiment still stands, and it almost feels like the tagline for Tracker.
So often, Colter gets cases involving people with secrets. Or at the very least, there’s something that someone doesn’t know, which is tantamount to a secret, albeit potentially in a different font.
In Tracker Season 3 Episode 16, Colter was in Buffalo, looking for Finn, a husband, who went missing at the worst possible time.
There’s, of course, no good time to go missing, but when your wife is 8 months pregnant and surely exhausted, stressed, excited, and experiencing so many other emotions, it could be considered a truly bad time.
From the short snippet at the beginning, we saw an injured Finn and someone pointing a gun at him, but what kind of stuff was a soon-to-be-father into that would have him staring down the barrel of a gun?
Tracker loves to introduce these very random websites and apps for whatever purpose they need (with my personal favorite being Find My Whip), and here it was an app called Pwr Up, which apparently sent electricians out on potentially dangerous or questionable jobs.
How an app like that exists, who truly knows, but Finn was seemingly using it to fund his whole life after losing his job and not telling his wife, Grace.
Lying is lying, and he had no business lying to Grace for months, yet even knowing that, he tried not to stress her out, and he obviously had no idea he was being stalked and would soon be walking into his worst nightmare.
Trying to figure out where the twist in every Tracker hour is going to come in is part of the fun of the series.
And while it was probably obvious that whatever happened on that abandoned job site didn’t result in Finn’s death, everything involving Colter in the woods with two random men trying to bury a body was priceless.
Those men were just trying to bury their mistake, thinking no one was going to miss this dead man who shouldn’t have been on the job in the first place. Instead, Colter Shaw came out of the shadows and ruined everything for them.
Being an electrician is a dangerous business, so why they had that man up on that ladder in the first place was on the others there that should have known better, if we’re being honest.
But alas, that man died, and understandably, Finn wasn’t down with just discarding the guy like he didn’t matter, so the police didn’t get involved.
Imagine then getting into a fight with a man trying to scare you into silence, that man even pulling a gun on you, and that still not being the worst part of your evening.
When Colter got to Paolo, and he gave him his version of what happened in that building, I just kept wondering how that would have led to him getting his leg broken. It did not add up!
The last thing I expected was for the man to get run over by a car, but that was just the beginning of the twist.
There was no way Finn was having an affair, just based on the way Grace described him and the fact that he was taking these odd jobs just to make ends meet. Yes, he was lying to her, but he didn’t seem like a cheater, and I’m glad the plot moved on from that thread quickly.
Though moving straight to an old, jilted lover felt very anticlimactic.
An old significant other struggling to move on and setting an elaborate scheme in motion to trap their ex and start anew is not a new story, and nothing about this one really sets it apart from something we’ve seen a few times over.
I don’t think Paolo set out to kill Finn when he pulled that gun on him in the street, but we also don’t know how that would have played out had Adelle not intervened.
She obviously had some kind of plan to get Finn back into her life permanently, but the opportunity to nurse him back to health was as good a chance as ever to start making plans for this future she wanted.
Adelle was not well, and when Colter was walking through her house with all the evidence that she’d been plotting against Finn, it was sad and scary. Especially because to her, she was helping Finn.
When Adelle was talking to Finn, you could tell that she truly believed that she was doing something good for Finn. She was saving him from this marriage and this child that he couldn’t possibly want.
And when he opened up to her about losing his job, speaking to her as someone he believed he could trust in that moment, she truly saw it as him asking for a way out, not as an innocent moment of vulnerability as he likely intended.
Finn, going from understanding and trying to appease Adelle to then full-blown turning on her, didn’t even stop her from wanting to execute her plan to “save” him. And you just knew that in order to do that, he was going to go after Grace.
Part of Colter’s job involves luck, and it sure was lucky he found that little brochure that would take him right to where Finn was being held hostage!
Adelle and Finn’s conversation in that bedroom was way too long to be inconsequential, so when Adelle lured Grace into her car, I knew they were going to that bridge Adelle was waxing poetic about earlier.
It was a place that held deep meaning for her, but it also held a sense of pain. And it felt like she wanted to reframe that place, as disturbing as it is to think about, into a place that helped her get Finn back.
The final standoff was scary because there was just so much pain and fear radiating off Grace, and hearing Finn saying that hurting her and their baby was essentially killing him, too, was genuinely heartbreaking.
It was almost like that was the thing that broke through everything for Adelle, allowing her to step outside herself for a moment and see what was right in front of her.
When Adelle made the move to stand on that bridge, my heart sank because I thought she was going to jump, and Colter was going to be a second too late. You could see on his face that he wanted so desperately to save her so she could be helped, not see her jump to her death.
Framing the camera so we couldn’t see Colter grab her arm until the last second was a nifty little trick, and it had me gasping!
Per usual, we didn’t see much of the fallout, but I hope those sirens ringing in the background were headed to the scene to take Adelle to a place where she could face the consequences of her actions and receive the care she clearly needed.
Elsewhere, we got our usual few minutes to check in with Reenie, and I did not think that the person who would get through to her even the tiniest bit would be Mel, someone who seemingly barely knows her outside of that office.
Side note, were we supposed to remember who Mark was?
Was he the guy she hooked up with in New York way back at the beginning of the season?
Whoever he was, he came into that office with heart eyes, and Reenie could absolutely not be bothered with it.
Reenie’s been throwing herself into work as a means to avoid a lot of complex feelings about what happened to her during Tracker Season 2, and that’s been clear as day.
But hearing her talk to Mel about her family felt like we were peeling back the Reenie curtain for the first time in a while. Mel opened up to her, and she felt comfortable enough to do the same.
Reenie being the doer and the one who kept it all together sounds very on brand for Reenie, and it’s not uncommon for some people to fall into that role.
If everything falls apart and everyone panics, then no one will be saved. But if even one person can calmly step up to try and make a difference, then maybe all hope won’t be lost.
Reenie is that person.
That quick conversation, and Reenie’s awareness in it, felt like a big first step for her in starting to deal with the emotional fallout of what happened to her.
And meeting up with Mark, forgoing the grind, even for just one evening, was nice to see. It was still a form of escapism, but it felt like a step forward.
For that night, she was allowing herself a moment to just indulge. She got to take the night off from being the person always holding everything together.
Tracker Notes
- Everyone knows I love the Shaw family drama, but it’s been so long since we’ve had any real movement, I basically forgot who the men Colter and Randy were talking about were! My guess, though? This will lead Colter to FINALLY have another conversation with his mother.
- I still can’t get over those electricians trying to bury a body in the middle of nowhere, and here comes Colter Shaw with a gun.
Only a few more episodes left this season, people!
What do you think we’re in store for as this season comes to a close?
Let me know where you think things are headed next, and what you thought about this one in the comments below!
You can watch Tracker on Sundays at 9/8c on CBS.
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