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Previously on Tracker.

I was supposed to pick up my daughter
Haley. Now I can't get a hold of her or

ex. Lisa!

What is it?

Lisa!

You have to save my daughter.

Encryption, rerouted servers, ghost
loops. Nothing I've ever seen before.

did find the last phone call that she
answered on her personal phone. A guy

named Raymond Ackman.

So this is the guy that took Haley? I
had no choice.

They're going to kill my sister.

I just heard from my friend at the
Denver Sheriff's Department.

Harriet Ackman's body was found an hour
ago.

Yeah, what does that mean, Colton?
Nothing good.

Come on, Colton. Look, Haley's good. The
job is done.

Hey. You have interrupted the process,
and there will be consequences.

Good night, Hoppy.

This can't be happening again.

We have Nikki back.

We did everything we were supposed to.

They sent a text.

It said, welcome back to the process.

Your successor has failed.

What did you have to do?

I had to handle Achmed's sister.

We can't do this anymore.

We have to call the police.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I killed someone.

You understand?

And you know what happens to people who
try to go to the police? They'll run

away. They will find us and they will
tell Nikki.

Do you want to risk that? No.

Then we have no choice.

The only way out...

All right, Reena, keep me posted.

Reena's at the jail right now. She's
talking to Ackman, seeing if she can get

any more information on the process.

And the guy was terrified when we found
him. So was Lisa.

Random instructions via text was
threatening enough for them to be

risk their own lives.

What about the messages that we got?
What did the police say about that?

Yeah, they say that Ackman is a high
school computer science teacher capable

setting up the whole thing.

Oh, no. Something doesn't seem right.

Yeah.

Randy. Ha.

What's up, man? You must be Russell.

The legend is real. Must be Randy.

Legend is also real. Oh, well, thank
you.

Get us some T -shirts.

Can I start you off with something?

Oh, yeah. Hey, can I please get exactly
what he ordered, plus the extra side of

bacon, and biscuits, and gravy, and a
cinnamon roll?

Did you order enough food?

I'm stress -eating, man. All this work
I'm doing for you. What do you got?

Finally trace the sender.

Those messages you got.

The number was spooked using call
hopping, meaning that it bounced from

original source to dozens of locations
before it even got to you two. It took a

lot of grinding to go backwards, but
once I got to number 105, guess who it

belongs to?

Raymond Ockman at his home address.

So he sent the messages?

No. I think it's a mislead.

Just in case someone like me did a deep
dive. They want us to think that

Ockman's the source.

Because here's the thing. The encryption
from the sender to Lisa's burner phone

is, like, ultra -sophisticated.

So either Ackerman is a computer genius,
and I'm not saying a high school

teacher can't be, or we got something
completely different on our hands. So

process is real.

We got to find out who's behind this
game.

Put an end to it.

You want to be my lawyer?

Yes.

Raymond, do you understand what you're
being charged with here?

The kidnapping of Haley Rogers and the
murder of Kurt Foster, as well as your

own sister. But I would never kill my
own sister.

I was trying to save her.

And I could have if those two guys
hadn't interfered. Okay.

Okay. I believe you.

So who would do this to you, huh?

It's the process.

I already explained it to the
detectives. I had to follow

I am a victim here.

And why would the process target you?

I don't know.

But they seem to know everything about
me.

All right, let's do this.

Raymond, I need you to tell me
everything you know about this process,

From the very beginning. No detail is
too small.

So when was the first time they
contacted you?

I was coming home from a school swim
meet.

I think that was probably the first
time.

Yeah, this wouldn't make God.

Do you know him?

Oh, the guard?

No. Yes, you do. You just signaled him.
I saw you.

Raymond, I was just being polite.

Oh, my God, you're one of them, aren't
you?

One of who?

The people running the process.

I should have known.

Come here offering to be my attorney.

You wouldn't let me go.

Raymond. It's never that simple.

Guard. Raymond.

I'm done here. You can take me back.

Raymond, wait. No.

I can help you. Raymond.

This is strange. Here, look at this.
It's the only phone ping without an

address. Just coordinates.

Odd, right? I noticed that, too. So I
already looked it up. There's nothing

there. I'm going to just empty a patch
of land.

I mean, we're checking out. Where is it?

Two hours west in Eagle County.

Reena, what do you got?

Well, Ackman got spooked.

Everything was going fine until he
thought that I was part of the process

freaked out.

Well, they killed his sister. Maybe it's
that... They'd do the same to him.

Yeah. I mean, he did say that they would
never let him go.

She figured out how the process got our
phone numbers.

No, unfortunately.

Hold on a second.

He's got a text from Cal.

Lisa's awake at the hospital. He needs
with her. Okay, that's great news. Yeah,

I'm going to head over there now, see if
I can find out how she got tangled up

and all that.

All right, bye.

I'm going to go check out these
coordinates, see what we see.

Stay right here. Sit here and let my
food digest.

Sounds like a plan. Hey, uh, you think
Greeny would be down to guide me out

there? Do I think Greeny wants to be
your chauffeur? Probably not. No? I'll

her anyway. Okay. Good plan.

I love you, Hayley.

I love you too, Mom.

I'll see you later.

I don't know how to thank you for
finding her.

Maybe you could tell me how you got
caught up in all this.

Lisa, I know this isn't easy.

I'm just trying to get some information
so I can figure out what the hell is

going on.

This nightmare started when I got that
call.

Hello?

I have your daughter, Haley.

What? I'm only doing this because they
have my sister.

You'll be getting a text message soon
with the instructions you have to follow

if you want to save Haley. Who is this?

I'm a victim just like you. If you
follow the instructions, they'll let my

sister go.

You're a part of the process now.

I found Kurt dead.

At first I thought it was someone shady
from his world who did this.

But now I know.

I realized he was just

trying to stop that man from taking
Haley.

I needed money fast.

They warned me about being tracked. I
couldn't use my ATM.

Bank cards.

I knew Kurt had cash in his safe.

A biometric safe.

That's why you cut off his hand.

I am a surgeon.

I was desperate.

So I went to his apartment and I took
the cash and gone from his safe, bought

burner phone and texted the number I was
told to.

That's when the instructions really
started.

I just steal a car and go to a money
transfer place and wire $10 ,000 to an

account and pick up an envelope with a
key to an office.

I was supposed to find suite 109, pick
up a briefcase, and deliver it to a

location. Lisa! Lisa!

Then you showed up, and I never made it
inside.

Do you have any idea why you might have
been targeted?

They knew stuff about me.

Things I had done that I'm not proud of.

After Cal divorced me, I was in a...

Bad place.

Then I met Kurt, and I wanted things to
work out, so maybe I had blinders on.

I knew he was running a scam, and I
helped him get my coworkers and family

invest money with him.

I knew you wouldn't go to the police
because you didn't want to get caught

what you did.

I wanted to save Haley.

I felt like it was my fault that she was
taken because I was being punished.

I already felt so guilty. I couldn't.
Disobey the instructions and let her die

because of me.

Do you not think I'm a terrible mother?

I don't think that.

I don't judge.

I'm scared this isn't over yet for me.
Have they contacted you again?

No, but I think they must have people
everywhere.

Watching. Waiting.

Are we good?

This is for you.

I thought it was done.

No, we're never done. I thought it was
finished seven years ago. I was wrong.

How many people are involved in this? I
don't know.

Don't ask any questions.

Just know you can always be called on to
handle interruptions and loose ends.

Just do what they ask you to do.

You know what happens if you don't.

Oh, this is nice, right?

You, me, it's the open road.

See, aren't you glad I convinced you to
come along?

I'm not sure how you can be so relaxed
given the circumstances.

I don't know, I'm just kind of one of
those guys, you know, good at

compartmentalization.

You know, my worried part of my brain
does not mix with the part that has a

time. Yeah, maybe I don't have that set
of skills.

Haven't you got skills?

Hmm?

Okay.

I mean, you know, like you're resilient,
right?

Colter kind of told me a little bit
about what happened to you.

Did he?

Yeah.

And what about you?

You said you're between gigs?

Oh, uh, yeah, yes, I am.

So, you got a plan?

I don't know.

It usually just kind of hits me.

You know, like maybe I'll get some land
out in Arizona, start up a tactical gun

range. I like the dry heat.

What about you?

What about me? I definitely have a plan.

Does it involve that lawyer friend of
yours?

If you must know,

Elliot and I ended things last week.

Oh, no.

Are you okay?

Yeah. Sort of mutual, I guess.

Just processing everything we went
through.

Listen, if you ever want to talk about,
like, for real, I'm here.

I appreciate that.

Mm -hmm.

Because, you know, pretty scary.

There was this moment where I thought
this was the end, you know.

I mean, he could have died.

Yeah, but he didn't.

He didn't, and you made it through to
the other side, and that's what matters.

Yeah.

Well, if you want to talk about it, I'm
always ready to yak.

Because I know my brother, he's like
talking to drywall.

But I got you.

Okay.

Hey, let's hit the next gas station we
see. I need to hit the men's room.

What?

We just got on the road.

Well, I don't have to tell you. When you
got to go, you got to go.

Randy, what's up? Yo, you at the
location Lisa was supposed to be at? The

109? Walking there now.

Yeah, well, I hacked into the building's
tenant list and found out who's renting

it. This guy by the name of Jed Hu.

He prepaid for six months out, but this
guy's phone number's disconnected and

his home address does not exist.

I don't think the guy's real.

Oh, you there?

What's the door now?

See anything?

I don't think anyone's using the space.

What about the briefcase? You find that?

Not yet.

Got it.

The photos.

Of what?

Ackman and a high school boy.

Like one of his students?

Yeah, it could be. It's definitely an
inappropriate relationship.

Not the kind of photos Ackman would want
out in the open.

So this is what they're doing. They had
leverage against Lisa, and this is the

leverage they have against Ackman.

Hey, Randy.

You picture that briefcase I tell you?
Yeah, man, but don't expect no miracles.

I found the manufacturer, but the serial
number's pretty much obliterated.

All right.

Do me another favor, will you?

Check the tenant list.

See who else is on the first floor.

Checking.

Yeah, it's mostly empty.

There's a dry food exporter and a
dancewear company.

All right, thanks, Randy.

Okay.

Thanks for letting me know.

What was it?

Raymond Aukman is dead.

He was found hanging in his jail cell.

He killed himself?

That's what they're saying, but when I
met with him, he was scared. Okay, not

suicidal.

Okay, well, if the process got to him
there, then it has serious reach.

I mean, he was paranoid that one of the
guards was part of the process.

Maybe he was right.

I'm going to have the cops send someone
over to check on Lisa and Haley.

Yeah.

You good?

I thought I saw someone following us
earlier.

Wait, are you for real?

I haven't seen anybody, so either they
gave up or it was nothing.

But just to be safe, I think I should
drive.

Nothing against your skills. You're
great.

But, uh...

Just make me feel better, okay?

Yeah, all right, fine.

I've had this car like three months,
okay? So don't do anything rustly.

Yes, ma 'am. Thank you.

Ever tell you about that one time I
spent a year pretending to be a

an Irish pub in Moscow just to get some
intel?

You did not. Oh, yeah.

It was, uh...

You know, that story's gonna have to
wait. We got our tail back.

With the blue sedan?

Yeah.

Listen, I'm trained, okay?

I told you not to do anything, Wesley.

Hang on.

I'm fine

Hey, rise and shine.

Where am I?

I wouldn't worry about that.

Are you going to kill me?

That depends on the answers you give me.

I can't help you.

I think you can.

What does the process want with me and
my brother?

I don't know what you're talking about.

You think I won't lose this?

You're going to tell me the truth.

You understand me?

I know Randy around this guy's license.

What is this place?

It's a safe house.

I got resources.

How's Renee doing? She's okay. She's
trying to get more information on

death. I also got a policeman in full
detail on Lisa and Haley. If the process

finds out that Lisa's talking, it could
be in danger.

Good thinking.

The guy's in bad shape. Did you do any
of that to him? No.

No, it's a car accident.

Get anything out of him?

Not yet.

We're just getting started.

Uh -oh.

Well, now you're in trouble because the
enforcer's here.

Because I'm the nice one.

So?

We know you work for the process.

I don't.

You have to give me that.

Have you handled Russell Shaw? What if
we say no? You can't, or they're going

take my son again.

I don't work for the process, but they
make me do things, and I can't get out.

They targeted you?

Yeah. They took Mickey, my son.

But we got him back, and I thought we
were done. We tapped the next person,

he failed.

That next person, was that Raymond
Aukman?

So what? Then the process comes back to
you.

Yes.

You can be called upon at any time to
handle interruptions.

Anything that stops the process from
moving forward.

Like me and my brother.

All right, tell us who's running this
damn thing.

I have no idea.

I was told by the person before me that
the process has been going on a long

time, at least ten years.

From the hallway outside Ackman's cell.

He used the bed sheet as a noose to hang
himself.

Wait, hold on.

Look.

Ackman only leaves frame for a few
seconds.

That's not enough time for what
happened.

There was a guard posted in the
visitation room when I was here before.

Okay, Altman was very afraid of him.
Please, I'd like to talk to him.

He worked the morning shift. He was a
part -time temp, filling in for a

shortage. I need a name and address.

We don't give out confidential employee
information.

You will if you don't want to be slapped
with a civil suit for wrongful death.

Up to you.

All right, I got it. Another bicycle
hours.

So, uh, who's supposed to handle my
brother here?

I don't know. It could be anybody who's
ever been involved in the process.

Can't trust anybody.

Well, we're gonna stop it. You can't.
They will figure it out, and then my

in danger.

Please.

It's his birthday today.

Call your son.

It's his birthday.

Hey, buddy. It's Daddy.

Happy birthday.

Yeah, I know. I know I promised I'd be
there, but... Hey, I'll be back soon,

okay?

Why don't you save me a piece of cake?

Okay. Daddy loves you.

Thank you.

They know I do anything for Nikki.

What does the process have on you?

That's how this whole thing works,
right? Leverage? Yeah.

I stole money from my former employer.

Here you go.

What's it say?

It says the process may resume. You have
three hours to arrive.

What does that mean?

What does that mean?

There's a new target.

On the last link, Aukman failed.

So the process returned to me, and now I
have to contact the next target.

And if I don't show up, they'll kill my
son.

Yeah, Aukman didn't kill himself.

It just came from the jail.

Did you see the surveillance video?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was doctored.

we've got a problem. We have a jail
warden who is not motivated to

He basically shut me down because I'm
not technically Aukman's attorney, and I

don't have any jurisdiction there, so...
Hold on, Randy wants to talk to you.

Yo, Cole.

I analyzed briefcase orders that you
sent. Checked the serial number?

Yeah, I got what you want.

And I got some shipment information on
this model.

Good job.

No, Colter. You're supposed to say great
job, okay? Because it turns out that

they didn't sell a ton of these models,
but a bunch were sold to a Dr.

Susanna Tate at Southeast Colorado
University back in 02.

You get contact information on her?
Yeah, she's retired now, and she lives

outside of Denver. But I just sent you
the address, and, uh, oh, yeah, you're

welcome. Thank you.

Hey, Colter, tell Russell that I am
still mad at him, and I would like my

back, please.

Right, uh, about that, he's gonna need
your car for a little bit longer.

Wait, why?

Why?

Think it's best you don't know.

Yeah, this looks like one of mine.

I used to give them as welcome gifts to
my grad students.

It used to make them feel important to
carry their papers in a briefcase.

Like their work was valuable.

Exactly, Bill.

Top secret.

So much of our thinking can be modified
by little things.

You did a lot of research on behavioral
modification under duress, right?

Yes. Pretty far out there stuff.

It was, but I'm retired now.

What was it you were hoping I could help
you with?

What can you tell me about the process?

How do you know about that?

It's happening right now.

That's impossible. Three people have
already died.

So please, tell me what you know.

It was an experiment in a class I was
teaching about leverage and obedience.

Volunteers were either subject of
blackmail or the blackmailers themselves

made their victims follow strict rules.

It was short -lived.

So you ended the experiment.

Why is that?

One of the subjects ended up seriously
hurting her roommate.

It became too dangerous, not just for
the subjects. Several of the grad

that were on the project, they started
to exhibit out -of -bounds behavior.

What kind of behavior?

Power intoxication, increased capacity
for cruelty.

So I did the responsible thing, and I
ended it.

I buried the research, and I moved on to
new areas of study.

Do you think it's possible that one of
your old grad students continued your

research out in the real world?

I hope not.

I did have three students in particular
who strongly objected to my shutting

down the project.

And what were their names?

I've always remembered them because they
were so insistent. Don Schneider,

Jillian Meeks, and Philip Jost.

Schneider in particular worried me.

My study exposed something in him, a
kind of...

enforcing sadism.

He took pleasure in the rules of the
process and he felt like the subjects

deserved punishment.

The experiment ended. He continued to
reach out to me.

I blocked him. I told him to move on
with his life.

But I think I created a monster.

You were afraid of this guy?

Yes.

Do you have any idea where this guy
might be now?

I don't. I don't know. I lost touch with
all of them. I heard Jillian Meeks is

in London, but the other two, they could
still be in the area.

It's strange.

They didn't come after me.

They created a system where if someone
stepped out of line, they would either

blackmail them or kill them. You had no
way of knowing this was going on. But I

feel responsible.

They took your idea and they twisted it.
How long has this been going on? A long

time. Too long.

The important thing is we put an end to
it before anybody else gets hurt.

Well, we're here.

Now what?

We wait.

No.

Hey, um, I don't think I can do this
again.

We have to.

Here we go.

Scream, don't scream.

I'm actually here to save your life, but
you need to follow my instructions very

carefully. Do you understand?

Ruffalo, you all right?

Hey, yeah, so far so good. Process
doesn't know we're playing him. They get

with new targets?

Yeah. Yeah, that's a young couple,
newlyweds.

We pretended to kidnap the wife, and
then the husband gets his first text

message from the process on a burner
phone.

Let me guess, tell no one, deposit some
funds into an account.

Yeah, yeah. We're kind of slow playing
here, so he's going to make a transfer

a little bit, buy some time.

I think I might have found out who's
behind this.

Some former psychology grad students
have gone off the grid.

Get the sender's number, get it to
Randy.

I already did that. Yeah, that's what I
was calling. So he backtracked the spoof

number. One of the pings came from the
coordinates in Eagle County, where we

were going to go visit.

That can't be random, right?

Yeah, yeah, I agree. All right, I'll
meet you there.

Coordinators are about a mile up that
way. I figure it's better if we walk

there.

That's who we're looking for.

Got it.

There's so much for nothing being out
here.

How was that?

I got it.

I will not miss next time, I promise.

Nice to see you dead, man.

I'm not armed.

You don't want to charge?

No. Who is?

Shiner.

Give me a kiss.

Come on.

Don't move. It's over.

Are you going to shoot me?

Because that won't stop the process. It
doesn't need me.

Can I show you something?

What would you be willing to do to save
your mother and your sister?

Answer the question.

Which one would you save first?

I'm not here to play your game.

Oh.

You're afraid of the choices you would
make? Why did you do this?

I know you had your victims wire you
money, but this isn't just about you

getting rich.

There's more to it, right?

Dr. Tate says you're enforcing status.
This is pleasurable to you.

Dr. Tate?

That failed academic?

Aren't you curious how it all works?

We created an algorithm to select
targets automatically.

It's self -sustaining.

There's nothing you can do to stop it.
You're proud of this?

You want to be admired?

That's why you were sending me those
texts.

He wanted me to find you.

Come in here and see you.

Your power.

Your superiority.

You've been anonymous too long.

Even you can't beat the algorithm,
Coulter.

It chooses flawed individuals who would
rather not go to the police.

How well do you know your family?

What are the chances that someone has a
secret to hide?

Hey.

You alright?

Alright.

I got what I needed from him.

Was he trying to use Dory and Mom for
leverage?

Tried.

Didn't work.

You ready to do some damage?

Shut down the process?

Let's do it.

So, Don Schneider's been taken into
custody.

He's not talking, no surprise there. But
the FBI is doing forensic analysis on

the servers.

Good we didn't trash everything.

Yeah, and... Their IT specialists have
confirmed that you did stop the process.

Lace is very grateful to you.

How's Harith Holmes?

He's ready to answer for what he's done,
but he's glad his son is safe.

So this whole thing's really over?

Hopefully. I mean, the feds are trying
to track down his third grad student,

Jillian Meeks. You know, just to be
sure.

They haven't found her yet? I bet it's
only a matter of time. But anyway, I've

got to run. I've got to lunch with the
client.

Then I'll send you a bill for my car
repairs.

Hey, call me.

Anytime. I mean, any...

I have to talk about Echo Ridge's mom at
some point.

Yeah.

Well, I'm not ready to talk to her if
that's what you're asking. Well, I just

need to know what to tell her when she
asks me. Tell her, you know, that I need

more time.

Okay.

Yeah, take as much time as you need.

It's just, you know, family stuff.

The kind of stuff I like to sweep under
the rug and forget about. But that's not

your jam. That's fine.

No, it's not.

Oh, the phone number that you found in
Dad's journal.

You want I could look into that for you?

You'd do that for me?

Sure.

I don't have a hell of a lot on my
docket right now.

What is next for you anyway?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Maybe I'd like to be my own boss.

You know, maybe something adventurous.

You help people who need help, that kind
of thing.

Any tips?

I'm all ears.

You're asking for my advice?

Seems like you got a good thing going
here.

Yeah, it's not bad.

I mean, the Airstream's a little weird,
but, you know, you're doing all right.

The Airstream's cool, man. You know,
weird's cool.

I guess I just want to do something.

Use my skills for good.

Like the greater good.

Did you ever find out who painted your
nails?

What? Who painted your nails? The
monkey, Jakarta?

You know what? That's a story better
told over a beer.

Or several beers.

And you'd be buying. I know a spot.

Yeah? And steak.

They got those?

I'm in.

Sounds like a plan.