Another week and another episode of Tracker is heading our way as Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley) ventures back west from last week’s pivot to the East Coast for a kidnapping story gone wrong. (Of course, if you can find a kidnapping story that goes right, that would be impressive.) As Colter stumbles into something that’s a big bigger than what he bargained for, our perceptions of what is happening in “Do No Harm” shift like the ground under his feet as he moves toward that inevitable confrontation in the woods.
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The cold open starts with a seemingly drugged Evelyn “Evie” Martell (Karen David) being forced out of a car by a male driver who has brought her somewhere she no longer wants to be. But before we can find out more, we cut right to the next morning where Colter Shaw is camped out in the woods somewhere. Doing his usual lone wolf thing, he combs through countless handwritten notes about those connected to his dead father. David Pearson. Walt Fleming. And Lord knows what other scribbled names on the page. Trying to piece something together, Colter’s brooding is interrupted by Randy (Chris Lee), who has found a new job for him in Kansas City, Missouri. Colter arrives in the “Paris of the Plains” and meets with Evie’s concerned sister Janie (Luisa d’Oliveira). She tells Colter that Evie has been acting strangely for the last few weeks and never came home last night. In fact, her car is still parked at the hospital where she works as a trauma surgeon. Colter wonders if it’s a suicide, but Janie holds out hope.
In the hospital, Colter goes inside and meets with Dr. Brett Hooper (Christopher Shyer), who tells the rewardist that Evie recently froze during an operation on someone who was in a car accident. It was a bit out of character, but Hooper believes in Evie and finished up the procedure for her. However, the doctor is concerned that Evie had fallen into substance abuse of some kind after catching her in the supply room, seemingly pocketing a specific drug used in sedation. To his dismay, Hooper gives Colter a few minutes with the security footage, but it turns out for the best when our hero spots Evie (wearing a wig) walking out of the hospital, covering her face to avoid being seen. Of course, in the magical world of Tracker, there isn’t a single person that Randy can’t find with a keyboard.
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A quick call to Randy reveals that the cab that picked Evie up took her to a bar called Aqua Farina, and Colter goes to investigate. While there, he speaks with the bartender who recounts Evie’s “good time” the night before. Unfortunately, like all good times, it eventually ended. After she began hitting it off with a regular named Josh Greyland (Stephen Friedrich), he offered her a ride home around 1:45 a.m., and the rest is history. History that Colter is trying to put together, that is. Like an angel on Colter’s shoulder (or in his ear), Randy finds out that Josh Greyland is an accountant at a local firm and soon scores his address. Upon breaking into the home, as one does, Colter finds plenty of broken glass, Evie’s wig, a bullet, and some blood at the scene. It’s almost like a set-up for a game of Clue, and Colter is starting to put together a crackpot theory of his own…
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Hoping to find Josh (and, by extension, Evie), Colter tries to get Randy to track his phone. However, as was the case with Evie’s cellular device, the SIM card is either destroyed or the phone itself is busted. Either way, Randy is forced to get a little creative, instead tracing the last-known location of his BMW, which was left in a public parking garage. But before we can catch up with Colter, Tracker dives into its secondary plot for a minute that speaks to the larger themes of this episode. While in her Denver office, Reenie suffers some serious flashbacks relating to her kidnapping that occurred in Season 2’s “Rules of the Game.” It’s only been 13 episodes since her former employer, Leo Sharf (Pej Vahdat), got Reenie into a bind that almost cost her, well, her life. It’s about time that Tracker finally dealt with the fallout of such a traumatic incident. Reenie was nearly killed, and would have been had Colter not arrived in the nick of time to save her. Now, she’s dealing with those memories, only to force them down and, with help from her assistant Mel Day (Cassady McClincy Zhang), prepare for Maxine’s (Kathleen Robertson) arrival.
Back in Kansas City, Colter scours the parking garage for Josh’s vehicle and eventually finds it at the very end of an empty row. Discovering more blood inside, Randy calls and reveals that Josh was in a car accident months ago when Evie was on call. Finding an empty vial of Lorazepam, Colter now believes that Evie actually kidnapped Josh and not the other way around. Calling Janie, he searches for some sort of connection between Evie’s alleged impulsive actions and Josh’s car accident. She tells him about a frat party that Evie attended in college, where she was assaulted. It’s then that “Do No Harm” briefly catches up with Evie, who has indeed kidnapped Josh and — having stripped him of his clothes and tied him to a chair — threatens to chop off something that won’t grow back if he doesn’t admit what he and his friends did to her.
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Back in Denver, Reenie and Mel meet with Maxine, who is anxious for the former’s answer about the real estate case in question last week. Reenie tells Maxine that she has already found one mysterious death, and she believes that she will likely find more, but the tough-as-nails lawyer (Maxine, not Reenie) doesn’t offer any further clarification. So, Reenie (strangely) accepts the case for a moment of what we can only assume is curiosity. However, her only request is that Mel be added to the team after all her hard work — and that Maxine’s firm will protect her if something goes wrong. Catching back up with Colter, he arrives at the cabin too late to grab Evie but finds a half-crazed Josh who explains his confession yet again to our hero. He also reveals that his old college buddy, Victor Christopher (Andy Favreau), was the other person in the room who assaulted Evie — and her next intended target.
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When Evie arrives at Victor’s place and aims a gun at him through his office window, she pauses upon seeing his wife, Andrea (Julie Lynn Mortensen), and their children inside with him. It’s a brief moment of contemplation (and possibly regret) on Evie’s part, but that idea soon slips away from her. Hoping not to disturb his family, she improvises, breaking into his house and following him into the kitchen. “I want you to pay for what you did to me, you and your sick friend Josh,” she tells him before recounting her horror story in gruesome detail. But before Evie can attack, Andrea hits her with a bat and leaves the house with the children, leaving Victor and Evie alone.
By the time Colter arrives, Victor and Evie are gone. As it turns out, Victor not only remembers Evie, but he doesn’t seem to show any remorse for how they treated her. Instead, he begins beating up Evie, telling her that she should have left it all behind her. Intending to kill her, he doesn’t get the chance when Colter shoots Victor dead, rescuing Evie from another horrid fate. Afterwards, Evie recovers in the hospital as Dr. Hooper and Janie watch over her. Janie wishes that there was more she could’ve done for Evie so that she didn’t have to carry the burden alone, but Colter reminds her that the best thing she can do for her sister is to just be there for her. It’s then that Colter gets to put that advice into action himself.
In the office that night, Reenie continues to wrestle with the memories of her captivity. It all comes flooding back to her: being bound and gagged, being threatened, and nearly being killed before Colter could kill her kidnappers. So, when Colter calls, she tries her darndest to put on a brave face. At first, she wants to debrief about work. She reveals that she convinced the DA not to press charges against Evie, and that Josh will be put away for a long time. Colter recognizes that there’s something off with Reenie and offers to be there if she needs anything. She refuses, of course (this is Tracker, after all), but it’s a sweet scene to end “Do No Harm” on that makes us yearn for the days when Colter and Reenie used to appear somewhat consistently on screen together. No doubt, letting Coler fly solo is for the best, but an occasional reunion couldn’t hurt either.
Tracker airs Sundays on CBS and is available the next day for streaming on Paramount+.
- Release Date
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February 11, 2024
- Showrunner
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Elwood Reid
- Writers
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Ben H. Winters, Hilary Weisman Graham
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Justin Hartley
Colter Shaw
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- This week’s mystery was both compelling and twisty enough to keep us guessing.
- Tracker does well to acknowledge Colter and Reenie’s respective struggles without making the whole episode about them.
- The Colter-Randy dynamic has somehow become stronger than the Colter-Bobby dynamic of yester-season.
- Still confused as to why Reenie thinks taking this job is a good idea…
- Wait, Evie isn’t going to do any time for kidnapping and torture?
