Tracker Season 2 Episode 6: Trust Fall

The following Tracker Season 2 episode 6 recap contains plot details.

"Trust Fall" sends Colter into the Snoqualmie National Forest in Washington state after four friends — Cooper (Andres Velez), Sam Gibson (Dejan Loyola), and the married couple Monika (Holly Curran) and Jason Lewis (Jean-Luc Bilodeau) — vanish from their campsite, leaving behind phones, food, and a knife missing from Sam's sheath with blood in his tent. Lauren Wright (Amanda Wong), who was supposed to join the trip but missed it for a business dinner, posts a $25,000 reward. Colter quickly finds Sam, whose leg is impaled on a branch after a drunken fall; Sam heard two high-powered rifle shots around dawn but blacked out and does not know what happened to his three friends.

At a nearby waterfall, Colter meets Keaton (Brent Sexton), a retired Tacoma police officer who heard the shots during a blue supermoon and has spent years hunting a serial killer he believes is responsible for two shooting deaths a decade apart within a five-mile radius, both with the same caliber and both during a blue supermoon. Keaton's "theory" is concrete, not vague: he has shell-casing evidence and a pattern. The two men find shell casings on the trail and locate Marcus Wilson (Haig Sutherland) — a man who has been in and out of mental institutions his entire life and believes the mountains belong to him — with a rifle. Marcus shot at the campers, and Keaton believes Marcus killed the three missing friends and moved their bodies the same way he moved his earlier victims. The episode's title, "Trust Fall," is realized in Colter's decision to trust the obsessive retired officer — a choice that lets the immediate case move forward, even as the decade-old serial-killer question stays open.

The Tracker Season 2 episode 6 ending explained: The retired officer's serial-killer theory is not vaguely "partially validated" — it is concretely confirmed that Marcus Wilson shot at the campers (shell casings are recovered) and that he is mentally ill and believes the mountains belong to him. Sam is found alive, impaled on a branch after a fall. Keaton (Brent Sexton) believes Marcus killed the three missing friends (Cooper, Monika, Jason) and moved their bodies the way he moved his earlier victims, and the immediate shooting case is moved forward on that basis. What stays open is Keaton's broader decade-old serial-killer theory — whether Marcus is responsible for the two blue-supermoon shootings from years past — a thread that will recur when Keaton returns later in the season tied to the Gina Picket case.