Tracker (2024) s02e05 Episode Script

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[WOMAN] I'm a poor
wayfaring stranger ♪
I'm traveling through
this world of woe ♪
What if there's no sickness
toil, nor danger ♪
In that bright land to which I go ♪
I'm going there to see my father ♪
I'm going there to no more roam ♪
I'm only going over Jordan ♪
[CONTINUES HUMMING, STOPS]
Hello, you.
What's out there?
Something's coming, isn't it?
Something bad.
[TWIGS SNAPPING]
[BIRDS CAWING]
[WHIMPERS]
[PANTING]
Velma. What do ya got?
Emmaline Trace, 16 years old,
went missing yesterday
from Pryor, Kentucky.
Her brother, Jasper, put up the reward.
Now, it's only 5K.
And before you even say it, I know,
we would barely break even.
Brother? No parents?
Died in a house fire 10 years ago.
Brother got parental custody,
so it kept her out of the system.
[COLTER] How'd you find this one?
[VELMA] I was on the
message board and it popped up.
Something about it just
reminds me of where I came from.
It seems like you're
pretty near the area.
But you don't have to
take this if you don't want to.
No, I understand.
Colter, it's just something about her
picture, and the post from her brother.
I'm guessing nobody's
gonna be chasing this reward.
Send me what you have.
I'm a few hours away.
I'll leave as fast as I can.
[CELL PHONE BEEPS]
He's going to take the job?
Yeah.
I felt kind of bad asking him,
but I just got a feeling about this one.
You don't talk much about your family.
- Did Colter tell you?
- No.
I just picked up
on some clues along the way.
[VELMA] Hmm.
- I don't mean to pry. I just
- [VELMA] It's fine.
It's not something I really
advertise, but I never knew my dad,
and my mom was
institutionalized when I was 12.
- Prison?
- No. The other one.
Oh, that's tough.
My sister had to step up and raise me,
and she was basically a kid herself.
And I'm sure she was happy to do it.
I know Colter wishes he could
have done more for his sister.
I don't know. I just think that there
are some people that are raised
and some people that are forged.
And in my experience,
those kinds are way more interesting.
[FLIES BUZZING]
[COLTER] You think this has to do
with your sister's disappearance?
[JASPER] It was dropped on our
porch day before she was taken.
There've been others
Rabbits, raccoon, even a cat once.
Someone's sending a message.
Yeah.
People here didn't exactly take
kindly to outsiders coming in.
You came from Tennessee?
Yes, sir. Six months ago.
The outfit I work for does
mine safety and inspection.
Not the most popular job out here.
The locals think you're
threatening their livelihood.
No doubt.
Mining ain't what it used
to be, but it's good work.
Union work.
And people kill to protect these jobs.
If something happened to
her 'cause of what I'm doing, I
When was the last time
you saw your sister?
Yesterday morning.
I was leaving for my shift.
She was sitting on the couch,
face in a book.
When did you notice she was missing?
The school called,
said she wasn't there.
She ain't the type to just skip class.
So I raced home,
and her backpack was
sitting there with her phone,
and I just drove around
all night looking for her.
- Call the police?
- [SCOFFS]
Yeah. Yeah, they said
she must've ran off.
Mr. Shaw, the police, they got
sons and they got cousins in the mine.
They ain't any different.
Did Emmaline like it here, in this town?
[EXHALES] You know, she
never really had many friends.
She kind of keeps to herself.
Yeah. I mean, moving was tough, but
She wouldn't leave me,
not after everything
that we've been through.
I'd bet my life on that.
I really think something
bad happened to her.
There's something here.
You see that?
Looks like plastic from a car
turn-signal light, doesn't it?
I think this animal was hit
and it was moved here.
Did you notice anything
when these animals were dropped off,
anything at all? A truck?
No. They were always just
waiting here when I came home.
You know which days?
Yeah. I would always
try reporting it, but
Like I said, the police
weren't too sympathetic.
Um, look, I know the reward isn't much.
- But
- Hey
I'm gonna help you.
I'm gonna do whatever I can
to bring your sister home.
[OPENING THEME MUSIC PLAYING ♪]
Bobby.
What up, C?
Check your inbox, will you?
And I don't have good cell
service here, so we gotta be quick.
Well, you know me.
Quick's my middle name.
All right. You want me to
find who collects roadkill
for the Department of Transportation
in Ferland County, Kentucky?
That's a new one.
Run it against the dates
I gave you, will you?
A government website.
Not that easy.
That's why you get paid the big bucks.
[CHUCKLES] You said it, not me.
Okay. Got it. Guy's name is Jim Wheeler.
Looks like he's working
for all three of those days.
What do you have on him?
It turns out the hiring standards for
county roadkill
collection are pretty low.
Wheeler's got a couple of
DUIs, domestic violence charge,
but he never did time.
Can you get his location from his phone?
I've got questions, but sure.
All right, sending you the coordinates.
Looks like he's on his route now.
Thank you.
[DOG GROWLING]
Jim Wheeler.
I'm looking for Emmaline Trace.
Happen to know where she is?
And why would I?
Well, there were a collection
of dead animals
dropped off at her place,
all while you were on shift.
I'm guessing not a coincidence.
[DOG GROWLING]
Must have fallen off my truck.
She's gone missing.
Now I know you ain't police.
Ain't county neither.
And if you're a Fed, well,
I got nothing to say to you.
I'm just trying to find the girl.
Her brother thinks
she might be in danger.
That might be that, uh
It might be that trouble
found her for a reason.
What reason would that be?
I got a cousin that works
with her at the Icy Cone,
says she's seen the devil
acting through her.
I don't need none of her kind
around here, that's for damn sure.
Is that why you've been
dropping roadkill off at her place?
Maybe.
You're lucky that's all.
[DOG GROWLING]
[WOMAN] There you go.
Enjoy.
Hi there.
- Can I help you?
- I hope so.
I'm looking for Emmaline Trace.
I've been hired to find her.
She's gone missing.
You work with her, right?
Yes, sir.
Well, I I mean, I did for a bit.
Emmaline don't work here no more.
We fired her last month.
- Why is that?
- I'm afraid that's confidential.
Since you ain't a paying customer,
I'm gonna have to ask you to leave.
Right. Um
In that case, I'll have a black coffee.
Go do the restock, Barbara.
Delivery just came in.
I take it you're not
a big fan of Emmaline's.
I've seen enough to know I don't
want no part of what she's into.
What's that?
Witchcraft.
- You believe in that?
- Be foolish not to.
Now, you have a nice day.
- Enjoy.
- Thank you.
[PHONE RINGING]
Hello. How can I help you?
Your boss doesn't seem to
like Emmaline very much, huh?
Says she's, uh, into weird stuff.
I heard the rumors.
And, yeah, I mean, she's
strange, but she was nice to me.
Covered my shift when Mom got sick.
How was she strange?
Like most people, when on a break,
they'll go out back
and go on their phones.
She walked around in those little trees.
What was she doing?
Nothing, just looking at
plants, talking to herself.
But Tess didn't like that too much.
I probably should go back.
Tess might start wondering.
If there's anything that you could
tell me that would help me find her?
It'll stay between the two of us.
Well, it could be because
of what happened with Shirley.
Shirley McCannis.
She kept missing work, so
they gave her job to Emmaline.
About a month or two back,
Shirley's husband Travis came in,
was cursing like hell at Emmaline.
Upset that Emmaline replaced his wife.
Maybe, I don't know.
I was doing inventory in the freezer.
After, Emmaline
was crying and carrying on.
Tess fired her after that.
Said she could have no more trouble.
Do you know where the McCannises live?
Down by the old lumber mill.
But you don't want to mess with Travis.
Got a temper.
What the hell is going on?
Oh. Nothing. Thanks for the coffee.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
Drop the hammer.
Now!
Get Get the hell off my land.
Where's Emmaline Trace?
I don't know what you're talking about.
I saw your truck. The rope, the blood.
I shot a buck yesterday.
What do you want with Emmaline?
She's gone missing.
I know you went
to her work and had words.
- Maybe more?
- I would never hurt that girl.
I owe everything to Emmaline.
Yeah? Well, explain that to me
'cause it doesn't look that way.
Talk.
Me and my wife Shirley've been
trying to have a baby for years.
A few months ago, the doctors
told us she had ovarian cancer.
Almost wrecked me.
Emmaline heard about it,
came around talking
about she could cure her.
When I heard, I went off the handle.
I went to where she worked,
told her to stay away from my wife.
The last thing I needed was some damn
witch girl giving Shirley false hope.
Emmaline tried to heal your wife.
Tried?
No, she did.
I was wrong.
Shirley, she's pregnant,
and the doctors can't
find any sign of the cancer.
That girl? She's a miracle worker.
This is what Emmaline gave your wife?
Said she foraged for it
here on the mountain.
- Who else knew Emmaline was a healer?
- Not a soul.
- She hadn't even told her brother yet.
- Really?
But I'll say this,
a small town like ours,
secrets have a tendency to get out.
Did she say where she was foraging from?
No. Like I said, she was just
real cagey about the whole thing.
- Just wanted to help.
- Chicken of the woods mushroom in here.
It grows on deadfall oak.
I used to mushroom hunt along
the creek behind Emmaline's place.
Lots of dead oak.
Only no one goes there now.
- No one goes there now, why?
- That's drill clan land.
People know to stay off of there.
Drills
They like their privacy,
if you know what I mean.
Ah. Yeah, well, Emmaline's
not from around here,
so I don't think she'd know that.
Do me a favor, can you
Can you show me where that is?
- Around there. Mm-hmm.
- Yeah?
Thank you.
[DOOR CREAKING]
[LINE RINGING]
- [JASPER] Hey.
- Jasper, it's Colter.
I need you to come look at something.
Any idea why Emmaline
would want to hide this from you?
Yeah, 'cause she knew
I wouldn't like it.
Why is that?
Her mom was a healer.
Some folks thought she worked miracles.
Others thought she had the
devil in her, wanted her dead.
Do you think the house fire
that killed your parents,
someone targeted your mother
because of what she was doing?
Yeah, I do.
Never told Emmaline that,
but it's the truth.
People do horrible things
because of superstition.
There's no dust.
Those jars were removed recently.
[COLTER GRUNTS]
The handwriting on this letter doesn't
match what's on the walls of the desk.
It's from our mother's journal.
I didn't even know Emmaline kept it.
[WINDOW CREAKING]
I think Emmaline's hurt.
Blood.
Yeah.
Yeah, it looks like someone
took her out by quad.
This property backs
up to drill clan land, right?
Tell me what you know about them.
Um, just rumors.
They, um They live off-grid.
- They can jerry-rig guns.
- Survivalists?
No, no. They used to supply
weed to the whole region.
But with medical marijuana going
legal, they got into darker stuff.
Cops won't even touch them.
Your sister might've seen
something she wasn't supposed to.
Whoa!
Don't move.
Bang stick.
It's a shotgun shell, rigged to blow.
You step on this thing,
ruin your whole day.
The whole trail's probably
lined with them all the way out.
This trail lead to a road?
Afternoon.
Heard there's good hiking up here.
You're in the wrong place.
- Road's out.
- No other way in there?
[MAN] No, sir.
Best to just
turn around and head back.
You might try Copper Valley.
Some nice views there, I'm told.
Well, thanks for the tip.
- [ENGINE STARTS]
- Have a good day.
[MAN 1] Come on, we don't have all day.
Tally, come on.
[MAN 2] Get back in the house.
Stay here.
Come on!
Keep moving. Get inside.
[MAN] Better watch the temperature.
[[Suspenseful music playing]]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[MAN] Gideon, we have to talk right now.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES ♪]
[MAN] Shipment's come in.
Need a hand here.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC INTENSIFIES ♪]
[MAN] Nice shot, Axel.
She's seen too much.
What if it's true, Gideon?
It's a helluva thing
to gamble on, little brother.
I had to do something.
And if it don't work?
Kill her, for all I care.
All right, then.
Let's take her to Big Pop.
[MAN] Shipment's ready.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC INTENSIFIES ♪]
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[AXEL] I know. That's why
we've got a problem.
[MAN] Don't make it worse, boys.
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
[[tense music playing]]
[GASPS]
[GROANS SOFTLY]
[MUTTERS]
[WOMAN HUMMING]
[HUMMING CONTINUES]
to see my mother ♪
Emmaline.
I'm Colter Shaw. It's okay.
It's okay. I'm here to help you.
How did you get in here?
Your brother hired me
to find you. We need to go.
No, I can't leave. Their father's sick.
- That's why they took you?
- Yeah.
They found me in the woods.
Made me bring all my things.
He's gonna die if I don't do something.
It's not safe for you here.
- They said if I help him
- It's not your responsibility.
Yes, it is.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- We gotta get you out of here.
- No.
They'll kill you if they find you.
[AXEL] talk like that.
- It'll work.
- [MAN] It better.
[AXEL] It's time.
[AXEL SNIFFING]
Come on.
[[mysterious music playing]]
[MATCH STRIKES]
[MAN BREATHING WEAKLY]
[EMMALINE] Let the spirit
of the mountain come forward.
Make me your vessel.
[GIDEON] Wait. What's that?
- [SPLUTTERS] No.
- Careful, he's choking.
[SWALLOWS HARD]
Now we just need to wait and be patient.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Are you here, Spirit?
Pass through me.
[RATTLING]
Pop?
Come, Spirit,
and relieve Roy of his pain.
What the hell is going on?
- [[mysterious music playing]]
- [RATTLING CONTINUES]
[GIDEON] Pop?
- What are you doing to him?
- Pop?
[GIDEON] You're hurting him!
Stop it!
[RETCHES]
Pop? Pop? What the hell did you do?
Get your filthy hands off of him!
- Pop!
- You damn faker!
- I need more time.
- I'm gonna kill you!
- [GUNSHOTS]
- [YELPS]
- Run!
- [GROANS IN PAIN]
Gideon!
[GUNSHOTS]
Go, go, go!
- Don't stop! Go, go!
- [GROANS]
[GUNSHOTS]
[GROANS]
[EMMALINE SCREAMING]
[MOTOR REVVING]
[PANTING IN PAIN]
- What happened?
- I stepped on something
- and it exploded.
- All right.
Bang stick. All right.
Let me see. All right, listen.
The quads can't get here
'cause of the fallen trees,
they've got to go around.
It won't take them that long.
We got no service.
The main road's not too far away.
I don't know what happened.
- I tried to help him.
- Lucky this didn't take your leg off.
Listen, I gotta get you someplace safe,
where we can hide
and dress this properly.
I remember we passed
some kind of abandoned store.
- I don't know if I can make it.
- You can.
- I'll help you. We'll do it together, okay?
- Yeah.
Put your arm around me.
You ready? Let's go.
There you go. You got it.
I got you.
There we go.
Come on.
[GROANS]
[EMMALINE PANTING]
We gotta get you inside.
I see something here.
- [EMMALINE] Okay.
- All right.
Come on.
Here we go.
Okay.
[[ominous music playing]]
- [GROANS SOFTLY]
- [COLTER HUFFS]
No service.
- How you doing?
- Never better.
- Yeah? Good.
- Yeah.
Okay. Right here.
Right here.
Let's take a look at that leg.
Yeah.
Here we go.
This'll work.
[CLOTH RIPS]
This will hurt a little bit.
I'm not gonna lie.
Okay. You're okay.
You know, when we were young,
my sister used to make potions
and things like that all the time.
Said she was cursing us.
Deep breath.
- There you go.
- [CLEARS THROAT]
- Did it work?
- Well, the jury's still out, I would say,
but she was very convincing, and
stubborn.
I should've gone with you
when you told me to.
You did what you thought was best.
Sometimes that's all we have.
We have to make it to town on
foot. You think you can do that?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
The back door's
where we're headed, okay?
You and me. Come on.
- Here we go. All right.
- Yeah.
- Ready? All right.
- Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, of course.
[CLANKING]
We're gonna make it to the front.
It's the only way in or out of here.
[MOTOR REVVING]
What do we do?
Hide. They don't know where we are.
We'll sneak out behind them
once they move.
[CLIP DISCHARGES]
Oh, no.
Yeah, I got one bullet left.
We'll just have to be really smart.
[AXEL] Ethan.
You go that way.
How do we get past them?
The important thing is not panic.
Never let panic take over.
Trust me?
- Yeah.
- Yeah. Come on.
Here. Here we go. Right here.
You stay absolutely silent.
I'll be right back.
Wait. Don't go.
Look.
You take this, just in case.
Okay?
I'll be right back.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[[intense music playing]]
[GRUNTS]
What the hell?
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[ETHAN CHOKING]
[CHOKES]
Yeah.
[CREAKING]
[WHISPERS] You hear something?
[GASPS]
It's just me.
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
We gotta get out of here
as quickly as possible, okay?
We're gonna stay low and stay quiet.
- All right?
- Yeah, don't worry.
- I can do it.
- I know you can.
Come on.
- Come on.
- Hmm.
Let's go.
- All right? Okay.
- Mm-hmm.
- [ARROW SHRIEKS]
- Oh, my God!
- [GROANS]
- [YELPS] Oh, my God!
Come on!
- Come on!
- Let go of me!
I found you.
- Let me go!
- Quiet!
Or I will kill you right here.
- [COUGHS]
- [AXEL] No, no, no, no.
He ain't earned no easy death.
Move.
He'll bleed out.
No!
- Let go of me!
- [AXEL] Shut up!
- Get off!
- [TALLY] You're ours now.
[EMMALINE] No! No!
[DRIPPING]
[GROANING]
[GROANS IN PAIN]
[EXHALES]
[GROANS, SIGHS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GROANING]
[EXHALES]
[GROANS]
[GROANS]
Please don't do this.
[EMMALINE GROANS]
[CLANGING]
[COUGHING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
Colter!
[GROANS]
[EMMALINE] Colter. Come on.
[COLTER GROANING]
Say something.
Now, this is the point
where I watch you bleed out
and then I take her.
It's just him. We can take him.
[GROANS] I'm not gonna make it.
[ATV APPROACHING]
I'm not gonna make it.
[GIDEON] Axel?
Are you in there?
Gideon.
- Gideon, what are you
- It's Pop.
He's alive.
No, more than that. He's
He's awake, moving around.
The girl.
She healed him. It's a miracle.
You were right to bring her to us.
You got your miracle. Please, just
Let her go.
No.
She belongs to us now.
We paid in blood for her.
I wouldn't do that if I were you.
Why the hell shouldn't we?
Because as easily
as I healed your father,
I can curse him, too,
and your entire family for generations.
No. That's a damn lie.
I got the blood of your family
lying right here.
All I gotta do is mix it with mine
and call on the Spirit.
I'll do it.
He'll die.
[SOFTLY] No.
Come on, Axel.
It ain't worth it.
He's dead anyway.
[COLTER BREATHING SHAKILY]
[MOTOR REVS]
Colter.
Okay.
[GROANS]
Come on. Come on, come on.
Yes.
[LINE RINGING]
You'll be all right.
[RINGING CONTINUES]
[SIGHS] You'll be fine.
You hear me? Colter?
[ECHOING] You'll be okay.
Okay?
You'll be fine.
You're gonna be fine.
Spirit, enter this place. Save this man.
Slow your roll. We gotta
get you to the hospital.
I'm stable, aren't I?
By some miracle, yes.
Emmaline!
- Emmaline!
- Jasper! Hey.
I was so worried.
I thought I'd lost you.
[SPLUTTERS] We should
check on him, though.
[BOTH] Yeah.
Easy. Hold on.
- Thanks.
- Mm-hmm.
Uh, you mind giving us a second?
- Make it quick.
- Yeah.
- Hey.
- Hey, Colter.
I I can't thank you enough.
The police, they're
raiding the drill place now.
Good. Good.
How's the leg?
Yeah, I'll survive.
- How about you?
- Oh. Uh, you know.
Same.
I owe you.
Something tells me we're even.
They say it's a miracle I'm stable.
You wouldn't know anything
about that, would you?
Uh-huh.
[GROANS]
Were you really gonna curse
their entire family?
Oh, that?
- No, I just made that up.
- Uh-huh.
It's like what you said
about your sister.
Sometimes all you
gotta be is convincing.
- [OFFICER] Gotta get this moving.
- Pretty good.
Let's keep going.
- Come on. Mm-hmm.
- Thanks.
[JASPER] It's all right.
I am a poor ♪
Wayfaring stranger ♪
Traveling through this world of woe ♪
[VELMA] Okay, hold on.
Did you say, "arrow"?
Okay, not an actual arrow.
You did not discharge yourself
from the hospital.
[COLTER] I'm fine.
I'm on my way to pick up
the reward money now.
[BOTH] Colter!
I'm fine.
Dude. I am really sorry
I brought you into this mess.
It's okay. And you were right.
It was personal.
For me, too.
I'm going there to see my father ♪
I'm going there ♪
No more to roam ♪
I'm only going ♪
Over Jordan ♪
I'm only going ♪
Over home ♪
[LINE RINGING]
[DORY] Hey, you've reached
my cell. You know what to do.
Hey, little sister.
I was thinking about you.
I wanted to, uh
Just give me a call.
[CLOSING THEME MUSIC PLAYING ♪]