All language subtitles for Tracker 02x20 Echo Ridge [2025-05-11 20-00] uswcbs HQ

Previously on Tracker. I know you think
I pushed Dad off that cliff.

Dad! Russell!

What did you do?

I saw you there. There was somebody else
in those woods that night.

Mom, if there's something that you know
about Dad... Culture, for everyone's

sake, leave it be.

I got one hour before my next class.

You want to go through this now, or...
Mom know about it? No.

I can't help but think that there's
something in that box that's connected

what happened to Dad the night he died.

I'm here.

I just want to see that he's okay.

The hell?

You made a big mistake, Billy boy.

Please, I just want to...

Hey,

Randy, you get anything on that number
that I sent you?

Oh, yeah. I got it.

Registered to a David Pearson.

You run him down?

Mm -hmm.

He died in 2003.

Death was ruled an apparent suicide.

Same year my dad died.

What else you got?

As a scientist, worked at a research
facility in California.

But the weird thing is, couldn't find
any public grants or any documented

funding for any of his work.

Anything on his previous work?

Not much of any digital trail.

But what I did find was that the dude
used to live in Hampton, Virginia before

he moved to California.

Red flag.

Hampton? Mm -hmm.

Dude gave me straight -up government
vibes, man.

I mean, you know, Hampton is basically
Langley or whatever other government.

Super secret organization that can
scramble your eggs good.

Or, look, the guy could have just been a
lazy -ass academic hanging out in

Hampton. Just wanted to pick up sticks
and go to Cali.

I don't know.

Where'd you get the number anyway?

Guy's not missing.

My father.

He had the number hidden in an old
journal.

Strange things that hide, you know?

Must have meant something to him.

Yeah, so you want me to keep digging,
huh? For now.

Yeah.

I'm headed back home to Echo Ridge for a
job.

told me it's uh the owner of little fork
restaurant oh you about to get some

home cooking i don't know about your
mama but when i come home my mama throws

down i don't know it's not really my
mom's speed you know maybe i'm lucky i

some pancakes all right let me know if
you find out anything more on that

okay and please do me a favor keep this
between us of course man you got it

Sit. Come on.

I made pancakes.

Your father did the same thing. Standing
up, looking out the window, pacing.

Throw me crazy.

Sorry.

Long drive.

Thank you.

I guess the only way to get you to come
visit is a job.

I wish Dory'd come back and bring the
kids, you know, see where she's from.

Yeah. That's probably hard for her,
given what happened here, you know?

That was a long time ago.

Did the best I could.

You have her number, you know.

You want to talk to her, you could call
her.

Have you seen her recently?

Yeah, actually I did. I was driving
through Wyoming and we saw each other

few minutes, caught up.

Don't ask me about Russell.

You want to know how he's doing? I have
absolutely no idea what he's up to.

Yeah, nobody does.

Probably for the best.

It's good to have you back.

Actually, I gotta go meet Angela at the
restaurant here in a bit. Yeah, I saw

her when I stopped in at Little Fork.
She was real worried about her brother

Bill, so I gave her your number, told
her what you do. I hope you don't mind.

No, don't mind at all. Gives me a chance
to come home, check in on you.

I don't need to be checked in on, but
I'll take it.

You got any idea what happened to Bill?

You know, maybe he started drinking
again.

That rumor spread, and the whole town's
talking about it.

Yeah, yeah, I know how this place works.

No, it's not the same place.

Folks from the city have started moving
in.

Echo Ridge is changing.

Change can be good.

Not this kind.

You know, a sheriff busted a meth
cookhouse down by the old Sawyer place

month.

Things used to be... I don't know,
simpler here.

Sounds like you and I remember this
place a little differently.

I told Angela that you'd find him.

Here if you need me, but you probably
know this place better than anybody.

Yeah.

I gotta go meet her.

Thank you for this.

Hey, I'm doing laundry today, so leave
me whatever you need washed.

Thank you for that, but I'm fine. I can
do my own laundry. I know you can.

Doesn't mean I can't help out.

I don't get to do mom things for you
very often. Just let me have this.

My laundry. Okay. Thank you. I
appreciate it.

Enjoy.

Thanks for coming so fast, Colter. Yeah.

We've closed the restaurant since Bill's
been missing.

A little foreclosing is like closing a
church around here. It never happens.

I know.

Times are changing, I guess.

Come on in. Yeah.

It still looks pretty good.

That's nice of you to say.

Truth is, we've tried to keep up, but
everything gets a little older and

a little more often.

Coffee?

Black, please. Thank you.

You got rid of the old jukebox.

Yeah, I lost that fight.

But Bill's always doing what he can to
bring in new business.

Hell, we've got an impossible burger on
the menu now for the new folks in town.

We also took out the old video games in
the corner.

I noticed that.

I remember I used to beg my dad for
quarters so I could play. He used to say

was brain rot.

Never stopped your brother Russell. He
used to steal my tips off the counter to

get quarters and sugar packs to make his
Coke extra sweet.

Probably still does that.

Tell me what happened the night Bill
disappeared.

Anything strange, out of the ordinary?

My mother mentioned he might be drinking
again.

That's just gossip.

He was still going to meetings twice a
week in the church basement.

Trust me, I go with him.

No way Bill fell off the wagon.

People in this town like to talk.

Whatever you tell me is just going to
stay between the two of us.

What do you think happened?

Bill was obsessing about this man and a
kid that came through the restaurant

about six months ago.

This kid couldn't have been more than 11
or 12.

Poor thing looked a mess.

Did you get a name?

Chris McCain.

Bill found that out after.

He'd been looking into what happened to
him.

Okay, tell me about that night.

The guy with him, nobody'd seen him
before.

Got some real creepy vibes off the way
he was looking around the place,

that kid.

You know, he want him done.

You think he had the kid here against
his will?

He didn't try to run off, but he had
this broken look to him like he was

of the guy.

I'm going to the can.

Don't talk to anybody.

You okay, son?

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Is that your dad?

Sure everything's okay?

Yes, sir. I'm fine.

That fresh, Pedro?

Right out of the oven.

We make the best peach pie in the whole
state.

Look at that.

There you go.

I don't have any money.

Hey, what's that?

Here, right there.

Oh, look at that.

You have a silver dollar right in your
ear.

I know you're a little old for that one,
but it's the only magic trick I know.

It ties on the house, and you keep the
silver dollar.

Thank you, sir.

Son, if you're in any kind of trouble,
you just tell me, okay?

I didn't order any pie.

I'm sure I'm paying for it. Nope, nope,
no charge.

That's on me.

So, you live around here?

Mind your own business, old man.

How do you two know each other?

You all right there, Pedro?

Yeah, all good.

Hey, folks, I'm sorry.

Is everybody okay?

The guy must have drug Chris out of here
fast.

Did you get a name off a credit card,
maybe, or a description of the car?

Paid with cash.

Never saw his car.

Bill looked for him in the parking lot,
but nothing.

Bill searched chat rooms, missing
children boards, police, everything.

Finally, he learned that Chris had been
taken from outside San Francisco.

Lured away, was how he put it.

And this is the last place anyone saw
him? As far as we know, yeah.

Bill blamed himself.

Said he should have done something.

That's why he kept looking.

Did Bill find anything?

Said he thought he saw the guy.

Here in Echo Ridge?

Yeah.

About a week ago.

He even started talking about hiring a
private investigator. We don't have the

money for that kind of thing.

We have words about it.

And this was two days ago?

Yeah.

I have no idea where he went after he
left here.

I'm going to do everything I can to find
him.

What's good, Steve?

Randy clue you in?

He did.

Bill Weaver.

Go on.

Left his work in his truck a couple of
days ago trying to figure out where he

might have gone.

Oh, what's up, Colt?

Can you make any text messages or phone
calls after you left work?

Checking his phone records now.

I don't see anything suspicious.

Can you trace his last location?

Oh, you know what you should do? You
should reverse GPS off the cell tower.

Let me cook.

Okay, I got where he's been up until his
phone went offline.

I'm gonna get to you now.

Okay, yeah, I know where this place is.

There's no cell service up there.
Thanks, guys. I got what I needed.

It's got company.

No need to do anything stupid.

Too late.

You walked up on us, brother.

Catching fed vibes?

Mm -hmm. You're poaching timber on
federal land. I'm... I'm not here about

I don't care.

I'm out here looking for Bill Weaver.

He owns a restaurant. Everybody knows
him.

Drop it, Fit.

Leave him for me.

Say, get!

Colter freaking Shaw.

How long's it been? It's been too long.
Good to see you, Joe.

Get over here. What the hell are you
doing back in Exile Ridge?

I'm here on a job, you know. Oh, what's
that?

You gonna fight with my crew?

I had that handled. Yeah, yeah, sure you
did.

Well, you're looking good.

Oh, come on. I'm growing sideways and we
both know it, jackass. Come on.

I got coffee in my tent.

You can tell me about this job.

Sounds good.

Sorry about the boys.

It's got a little jumpy with you walking
up on them like that. You get it?

Still poaching, though, I suppose, huh?
Don't judge.

I know how it is. I do.

Actually, um... You know, my dad and I
used to come up here and cut firewood

when I was a kid. He called it, uh, what
did he say?

Borrowing government resources.

That sounds like him.

Yeah. No, we just take the deadfall.
Ain't nobody gonna miss that. I still

your mom from time to time.

Is she doing okay?

Uh, yeah. I know she's stubborn.

Doesn't want to leave Echo Ridge.

Hell, I'm still here.

I ain't going nowhere, either.

No matter what kind of riffraff rolls
in.

Same thing my mom said.

Yeah, but... But it's more than that.

What do you mean? Like, when you were
here, if a neighbor needed help, there'd

be a lineup of people ready to do it.

Now, people just keep to themselves.

Like, they're scared of each other or
something.

It's like at some point, when we weren't
looking, a darkness seeped in.

Maybe it was always here. We just
weren't paying attention.

Could be.

Hey, wait. Tell me about this job.

Yeah, Bill Weaver has gone missing.

Apparently he was obsessed with finding
this kid who had gone missing, and his

last known location was right here.
Yeah, he was here two days ago.

Got into it with my crew.

Would you mind talking to him?

Yeah, you bet. Yeah? Yeah.

Hey, Pedro.

Yeah, boss.

This is Colter Shaw.

His family's living on the South Ridge
for a long time. He's a friend.

I heard you got into it with Bill Weaver
the other night. That true?

You can trust him.

Yeah. He came up here wanting to talk
about something that happened back when

worked for him.

Back when that missing kid showed up at
his restaurant?

Yeah. He came up here talking crazy when
I wouldn't return his calls.

So what did he want from you? Wanted me
to help him.

Got mad when I said I wasn't going to
get involved.

Why didn't you want to help him?

Bill said he saw the guy he was looking
for with Ronnie Yates.

Okay.

A little context here. Who's Ronnie
Yates?

Yates runs muscle and distribution for a
meth operation.

Counties that cook up the meth, they
need someone to push it.

That's Yates.

I hear he's got ties to the Aryan
Brotherhood. He is a heavy dude.

Told Bill he was crazy. I wasn't
touching it.

And he said he'd take care of it and
took off. And that's the last you heard

from him? Yeah.

Tried calling him that night, straight
to voicemail.

So Bill thought the guy he was looking
for had ties to Yates.

Yeah. Where's Yates?

Well, no, no, no, no, brother.

Yates is not the kind of guy you just
roll up on. I'll leave your name out of

it. It's best to tell me where he is if
you know.

All right.

You know that old pizza place,
Timberline?

Yates is seeing a girl that works there.
But I'm telling you, if you go in there

asking questions, it is not going to go
well.

Depends on how you ask.

Ronnie Yates?

Yeah.

You have no idea what a big mistake
you're making.

I'm taking my chances.

I just want to talk.

Well, you got the gun.

Bill Weaver.

What about him? Come see you?

A lot of people come to see me.

A lot of people disappear that come see
you because he's missing.

That's not my problem. It will be your
problem if I find out you have anything

to do with it.

I don't.

The guy Bill was looking for took this
kid right here.

Is that your thing, kidnapping children?

Careful, I ain't into that.

You're slinging meth is all, huh?

Eh, do what I gotta do.

Why don't you just give me a name?

Who was Bill looking for?

It stays between you and me.

Murphy. Carl Murphy.

He work for you?

A little bit, here and there.

But he's not one of my crew.

What's he do for you?

Sometimes we use him to freelance loads
down into Bakersfield.

Drives a long haul. It's a trucker.
Yeah.

Did you tell him Bill was asking around
about him?

Yeah. Didn't ask what about him.

Just the fact that the old man's running
around asking questions.

It's not the sort of heat that I need.

But if Murphy is dealing kids, I'm going
to find him myself.

I'd appreciate it if you'd just stay out
of it.

Or what? Or maybe I'd come pay you
another visit.

Your call.

Hey. Hey.

Just got this. I know it's getting real
cold in here. You are too sweet to me,

thank you, but you don't have to take
care of me, okay? I'm good.

Are you really? Yes.

I'm just looking into this name Coulter
gave us, and he is not so good. Well,

Coulter will take care of it. He always
does.

You have something else you want to say?

Hey, Sheriff called again, and he's
being really persistent.

Are you going to call him back?

Eventually. I'm just, you know, a little
busy with Elliot recuperating and work

stuff, so... I get it.

You've been through a lot. Just know I'm
here if you need anything, okay?

I know. All right. Thank you.

Sheriff can wait.

I just need some space to think things
out.

Sculptor.

Hey. Hey. You find anything on this
Murphy? Yeah, I've got his file pulled

right here.

And? And I checked the VICAP criminal
database.

He's a registered sex offender.

So he's not working for a big trucking
company.

Exactly. He's licensed as an independent
commercial driver.

Means he doesn't have to report his
routes to dispatch.

This is the perfect setup for someone to
kidnap a kid and then disappear before

anyone knows what the hell is going on.

It's so dark.

I looked up some home addresses.

Nothing in Echo Ridge.

Any family there? His father owned
property just outside of Echo Ridge, but

been dead six years.

Send me the address.

Got it.

They see.

Did you get my targets?

Yeah.

I'm looking at them now.

I wish we weren't.

Where'd you get these?

Pictures came from Murphy's trailer.

Murphy's the guy Bill was looking for.

We need to run a search on these kids,
man.

Yeah, I'm already running it.

Damn.

Yo, this is a horror show.

All of them are hidden. Some kids are
coming up as runaways, but mostly it's

just desperate poster parents not
knowing what happened to their kid.

And they're from all over the country.

Miss Murphy was involved in some sort of
child trafficking network and wasn't

working alone.

And he found a bill at his place?

No, I think he spooked him. He took off.

There were definitely kids here
recently.

This is some sort of a stash house. I
think he's trying to ditch all the kids

has. I found pills here, which leads me
to believe he's drugging them to move

them. I need to figure out where.

Okay. How do we find him? I sent you a
photo of a receipt with a cell phone on

it. Can you trace it?

Looks like a burner.

Give me some time. I'll find the
location.

Thanks, Bobby.

Officer Pickens, long time. Sheriff
Pickens now.

Didn't think I'd see you back.

You've been running around chasing
rewards.

Back in town to help Angela.

Well, quite the mess you found, Phil.

They had an APB out on Murphy.

I think Bill flushed him out and that's
what got him killed.

Does Angela know yet?

Yeah, I told her. Tough phone call.

I'll make sure to swing by and check in
on her.

By the looks of the photos in his
trailer, Murphy was part of the child

trafficking ring.

Yeah, I don't think he's working alone.

My fear is that he's trying to offload
these remaining kids, so we need to move

fast. I got some feds coming in.

I'll let you know when we find
something.

Thank you, Sheriff.

Hey, Coulter.

I found Bill. It's not good.

And he did?

Yeah.

Yeah, he stumbled onto something pretty
dark.

Angela's gonna be crushed.

Name Carl Murphy mean anything to you?

No, it doesn't ring a bell. Why?

Probably one of Dad's carvings in his
trailer.

You have any idea how it might have
gotten there?

What is this about, Coulter?

Just trying to make sense of what's
going on out here. These people aren't

the...

They're not the kind of people that Dad
would have associated with. There was a

lot about your father I had no clue
about.

I don't want you leaping to conclusions.

Whatever happened to Bill has nothing to
do with our family.

Yeah.

Were you going to tell me about this box
you have in the airstream?

Dory was holding on to it, and she
passed it over to me. You didn't think

tell me about it? I would have if there
was anything to tell.

You went through with it.

There's nothing in there. It's just a
box full of junk.

Why can't you let this go? Because
there's something more to it. Or maybe

there's nothing.

I'm getting another call, Mom. I gotta
go.

Don't you do this.

It's about the job, Mom. I gotta go.

All right, go.

But when you get back, we have to have a
talk.

Yeah, I know.

Bobby, you got a location?

Got it. He pulled off an exit 313.

It's the near location.

Got it.

Looks like there's nothing out there but
an old farm.

One way in, one way out.

My guess is I'm going to encounter some
resistance.

Broadus is not the kind of place you
want to go without backup.

I'll figure something out. Thanks,
Bobby.

I tell you about crying.

That's a good boy.

We're going to go soon.

Get you someplace safe.

And you can cry all you want.

Maybe even your new daddy will like it.

Thanks for coming.

Said you needed help catching the pedo.

Didn't have to ask me twice.

I don't know what we're gonna find.

Murphy's definitely in there somewhere.
He's probably not alone.

Okay.

Come on. I know a back way in.

Holy crap.

Hey.

Get in there and I'm not going to raise
you.

Time up.

It's okay.

You're safe now. We're here to help.

Are you here alone?

No, they took Paul.

Where'd they take Paul?

The barn, I think.

What for?

I don't know.

It's my friend Joe. He's going to stay
with you.

I'm not going to let anything happen to
you, buddy.

Call the police. I'm headed to the barn.

Okay.

It's gonna be okay.

Told you when that thing happened to
you.

I don't want to go.

Shut up. It's gonna be fine.

Shoot that guy!

Whisper on the way. Get back to the
house.

Where are the rest of the kids you took?

Chris McCain.

Bill was trying to help him, so you
killed him for it.

You got a knife?

Yep.

This is my friend Joe. Every time you
don't answer my question, he's going to

take a finger.

Where is he?

Cut him.

Okay, okay, stop, stop, stop.

And it's Texas.

That's where the kids get sent.

I'll tell you everything. Just let me
go.

So, Bill was right all along, wasn't he?

Mm -hmm.

The kid, Chris McCain, they found him.

They found six other kids.

Now they're all back with their families
because of Bill.

It would have meant a lot to him.

We don't know what the little bird
brings.

We go down.

Can I make you something to eat?

One last meal in the house?

I can't.

I've got to take care of something.

I'll tell you everything. Just let me
go.

No, we're not done.

Look at this.

Where'd you get this?

I don't know.

Yeah. Look at that.

If you think long and hard, where'd you
get this?

Tell me.

Uncle gave it to me. Give me your name.

Name!

And we breathe it in.

There is no need to give.

Breathe it in.

There is no need to give.

Ain't no hour to be knocking on a man's
door.

I'd be within my rights to shoot you.

Carl Murphy's uncle?

Got nothing to do with him or any
trouble he got himself into.

I'm not here about that.

How about you give me a name?

Colter Shaw.

Ashton's boy?

Yeah.

I see it.

You had a question.

Go on, ask.

Found this in your nephew's trailer.

Told me you gave it to him.

My father carved that.

I know.

You know him?

I did.

Back in the day.

Your father didn't like people poking
around in his business.

And he was smart as all get -out, so
it's nothing to pull over on him.

Well, the county asked me to run power
up that ridge your family lived on.

Father didn't want that.

I was just doing my job, so I gave it
right back to him.

I don't know.

Maybe he respected that.

We got to talking.

One thing leads to another, and I helped
him install that wind turbine so he

could have power off the grid.

I don't remember you.

The turbine?

Yeah.

He taught me how to check the leads for
rat damage. Used to give me a dollar for

everyone I killed.

Yeah?

How was your old man?

Got a lot of ideas.

Crazy ones.

We got along okay.

I helped keep the county office back.

And one night we were talking.

I told him I liked these carbons he was
making, and he threw one at me.

Of course, it came with a lecture on
wolves.

But that's not why you're here, is it?

I spent most of my life trying to figure
out what happened that night.

Your father had a lot of enemies.

My brother said there was someone else
in the woods.

That night my father went over the
cliff.

That was you.

Say it.

Say it.

I was.

You throw my dad off that cliff?

I did.

It has something to do with the
government. I found a phone number.

Belonged to a scientist from Langley.

I didn't work for the feds.

I was just a lineman.

Why?

because she asked for my help who asked
for your help

your mother