Colter Shaw Runs Into A Real-Life Horror Movie

“Colter Shaw Runs Into a Real-Life Horror Movie”

Editor’s be aware: The under recap comprises spoilers for Tracker Season 2 Episode 16.

Two trackers diverged in a wintry wooden, and fortunately, the Tracker villain of the week couldn’t journey each. Power in numbers served Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley) effectively regardless of a couple of dicey moments in Season 2, Episode 16, “The Mercy Seat.” What begins as a reasonably regular rescue mission results in a remote-ish household with a historical past of creating hikers disappear. Was there a 2-for-1 deal at Paramount for tales involving satellite tv for pc telephones, snowy wild, youngsters disappearing, and creepy antlers? Between this episode and the occasions of Yellowjackets Season 2, it is on the best way to changing into a sample. There’s even a personality on Tracker this week who talks concerning the wilderness offering victims… let’s get into it.

Colter Shaw Joins Search & Rescue on ‘Tracker’ Season 2 Episode 16

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The episode opens with Colter and a search and rescue employee named Roger (Diego Klattenhoff), on the lookout for two younger feminine snowboarders within the Bob Marshall Wilderness, Montana. They discover tracks getting into two totally different instructions and break up up. Colter instantly finds Shelly (Lexi Simonsen), and his buddy simply as shortly finds her sister Brianna (Madison Lawlor). Shelly is struggling badly from a head damage, and each women have hypothermia. They can not be moved off the mountain till she will get higher. Plus, the SAT cellphone is smashed.

Colter places his survivalist abilities to work. He builds a campfire so the ladies can heat up. Brianna tells a scary story match for the crackling glow: she and her sister separated as a result of she noticed a person sporting antlers within the woods and tried to comply with him. The search and rescue man heads again in the direction of cell service, and Colter goes on the lookout for extra firewood. He isn’t gone lengthy earlier than he runs right into a cabin with electrical energy and a woman, Amelia (Ariana Guera), not a lot older than Shelly and Brianna, dancing on the porch. The lady knocks on the cabin, and two brothers named Sprint (Sean Depner) and Rufus (Jedidiah Goodacre) jovially emerge. They welcome the three of them into their house and serve them soup. However when Colter mentions that Roger continues to be on the market, they share some furtive seems to be.

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Now, we have had loads of hints about Colter’s unconventional childhood on Tracker. We all know his upbringing lacked quite a lot of regular actions. However has he by no means seen a horror film earlier than? How does he not instantly clock that one thing is off concerning the younger adults residing off the grid on a “digital detox” in a cabin? Certain, the truth that Depner performed the antagonist (and extremely named) Brett Weston Wallis on Riverdale and Goodacre performed Dorian Grey on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina makes it extra apparent to the viewer. However nonetheless! Given the aforementioned Yellowjackets parallels, it is actually a miracle that the protein within the stew was really elk and never one thing worse.

Colter leaves the ladies with these strangers to seek for Roger on foot, which once more appears deeply irresponsible. Certain sufficient, he finds Roger bleeding within the woods. He acquired injured by a visit wire. Then somebody begins taking pictures at them! They handle to stumble again to the cabin, however would not you realize it… the ladies and the “digital detoxxers” are gone with the one working snowmobile. Not solely that, however some pictures in a drawer point out that it was not of their household in any respect. Colter goes out again and finds the lifeless our bodies of the actual house owners in a device shed.

A Native Legend Covers a Sinister Reality in ‘Tracker’ Season 2 Episode 16

Cousin Randy (Chris Lee), who’s lastly reunited with Bobby (Eric Graise), calls Reenie (Fiona Rene) with some issues about the place their boss has disappeared to. Randy discovered on-line that this space is called the “dead zone,” and quite a lot of hikers have gone lacking. Shelly and Brianna weren’t simply there to snowboard. They have been doing a little monitoring of their very own, scouting the realm with plans to make a documentary a couple of lacking nature photographer.

Colter repairs the remaining snowmobile and leaves Roger within the cabin to search out the ladies. He finds Amelia outdoors of Grey Hole Lodge, which is actually means too massive for an allegedly distant location. There are two tales and an attic! How is that not straightforward to search out? He learns from the younger lady that she herself was kidnapped by the household that lives within the lodge eight or 9 years in the past. Brianna additionally kneels in entrance of him and means that he desires to harm her, indicating that she might have been brainwashed into submitting. She says that Father Eamon, performed by Sean Bridgers — who performed an analogous kidnapper function in Room — is who they actually must be nervous about. Certain sufficient, Eamon is contained in the lodge terrorizing the ladies. He is a non secular fanatic. He is the one who wore the antlers within the woods. Amelia goes again inside and performs alongside whereas Colter makes use of a radio to name for assist.

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In the meantime, Leo Sharf (Pej Vahdat) arranges a dinner assembly with Reenie. We additionally be taught that his assistant or affiliate, Francie (Kaylah Zander), is pals with Reenie’s boyfriend, Elliott (Michael Rady), and that they really helpful her for this place. That is an extra pink flag on Elliott for these rooting towards that relationship. They discuss vaguely about one thing Reenie shouldn’t be conscious of but… so secretive, this man!

Nevertheless, when Leo involves Reenie’s workplace with “fire” takeout, they appear aligned of their objectives. He desires to take down a former companion known as Grimes and Reenie shouldn’t be essentially towards it, despite the fact that he’s a legal responsibility and Reenie would not need Velma (Abby McEnany) to know something about him. Grimes is a foul dude, so Reenie’s morals will not be completely compromised by what Leo is asking of her. However then, Randy and Bobby obtain an SOS textual content from somebody they assume is Colter through radio. They relay this info to Reenie, who asks Leo if she will be able to borrow use of a helicopter to get him out. So now she owes him a favor.

Again on the lodge, Father Eamon places on “Shambala” by Three Canine Night time, a track some tv followers would possibly affiliate with the Dharma Initiative on Misplaced, and asks for the titular “mercy seat” – a wood throne. Eamon leaves Shelly, whose head damage shouldn’t be correctly therapeutic, at his eating room desk and swings Brianna round. With Rufus and Sprint’s assist, he places her within the seat and begins to strangle her with a shawl. However Colter, who has at this level despatched his SOS to Randy and Bobby, is now free to go upstairs and rescue all three women. Brianna, who hid a fork below her serviette, offers backup. She assaults Rufus whereas Colter shoots Sprint and Eamon. So, to recap: Colter Shaw might have quickly made Shelly and Brianna’s state of affairs worse by taking them out of the wilderness and into the arms of a murderous household cult. However he managed to rescue them and one in every of their earlier victims, Amelia, within the course of. That evens out to a job effectively finished, proper?

New episodes of Tracker Season 2 premiere Sundays on CBS.