Tracker Season 2 Episode 16 recap: The Cult in the Cold

Tracker Season 2 Cover Image. (Image via.  TV Promos/Youtube)
Tracker Season 2 Cover Image. (Image via. TV Promos/Youtube)

In Tracker Season 2, things take a frightening turn as Colter Shaw faces his most troubling rescue in Episode 16, The Mercy Seat. What starts as a snowy investigation for two missing sisters turns out to be a petrifying stumble into a deadly cult in the Montana wilds.

The latest episode of Tracker Season 2 adds an ominous deepness to Colter’s journey, mixing it with suspense, survival, and mysteries.


Into the wild: Colter’s chilling rescue turns sinister in Tracker Season 2

Tracker Season 2 continues to extend the frontiers when it comes to facing danger, and Episode 16 takes things to an all-time high when Colter Shaw (played by Justin Hartley) answers a call from a friend, asking him to help find two disappeared snowboarders—sisters Shelly and Brianna—lost in the unsafe Bob Marshall Wilderness.

The rescue mission starts off in a fairly regular manner, at least by the established standards of Tracker Season 2. Colter takes a separate way from his partner to help search both trails in search of the two missing girls.

Suddenly, he comes across one of them. He finds Shelly, but not in a state he would’ve liked. She came across as having being concussed, and hypothermic. Not too far away from where Shelly was found, her sister Brianna is found by Colter’s friend, but things now begin to unwrap faster than before.

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As anticipated in Tracker Season 2, it’s never just an easy rescue. A broken SAT phone, deteriorating weather, and creepy stories from Brianna lend the episode a mysterious tone.

Once Colter’s friend goes off towards the cell service area in the woods, one of the girls argues that she came across a man having worn antlers in the woods—a bothering detail Colter at first does not pay much attention to.

But when Colter discovers an off-grid cabin lived in by a few young adults stating that they prefer to live a tech-free environment, something clearly does not sit right.

The strange trio—Amelia and the two “brothers,” Dash and Rufus—welcomes the group affectionately. Yet, Colter’s inner gut feeling tells him that something is clearly wrong, especially when they brew up conversations about Roger still being out there in the woods.

This is again where tension spiked in Tracker Season 2. Colter, for some reason, leaves the two girls with the trio to go in search for his friend. He finds his friend injured in the forest, the target of a boobytrap.

But the worst shock wave still waits for them back at the cabin when they realize that the girls and the trio are now gone—along with the only working snowmobile.

To make things even worse, Colter finds the murdered property holder buried and hidden in a shed. This isn’t a rescue mission anymore—it’s an out-and-out nightmarish story.


Truths Uncovered: The Dead Zone and a Forgotten Victim

Tracker Season 2 has slowly unwrapped Colter’s past, but this episode blows the whistle on the harrowing past of the snowy terrain itself.

It turns out that Shelly and Brianna weren’t just on a normal snowboarding trip for funsies—they were documentarians researching and looking into a string of vanishings in what locals worryingly call the “dead zone.”

The area has an unattractive history, with lost hikers and a photographer gone AWOL leaving behind a million of questions. This particular piece of the puzzle is what turns the rescue mission into a much bigger mystery.

While Randy and Bobby pick up on Colter’s SOS through radio, Reenie tries to steer her own shady works on the side involving a morally doubtful ally, Leo Sharf.

His connections may be beneficial, but they also pull her into murky waters. When Colter’s circumstances on the other hand becomes more dire, Reenie appeals Leo’s help to organise a helicopter.

Back in the woods, Colter is successful in repairing one of the broken snowmobiles and finds Amelia instead at a massive Gray Hollow Lodge— deviously well-hidden. Colter finally asks for the truth.

Amelia comes clean about how she herself was kidnapped years ago and brainwashed into joining the group. The character Father Eamon, a religious fanatic, is behind all of the madness.

During the final moments of episode 16 of Tracker Season 2, a final confrontation takes place and Colter rescues all the three girls (including Amelia) just in the nick of time, while Brianna gets a moment of feeling the power, when she stabs Rufus with a fork kept hidden underneath her napkin.

One of the craziest and scariest rescues in Tracker Season 2 finally comes to an end.


Reenie's shaky alliances raise red flags

While Colter fights literal monstrosities in the snowy area, Tracker Season 2 doesn’t forget and side track its emotional and political nuances. Reenie’s association with Leo is turning out to be more dangerous as the episodes progress.

With her moral compass quivering, she’s inching nearer to arrangements that could eventually cost her everything. The reference of Grimes, Leo’s archenemy, sets the stage for further conflicts that go beyond the wilderness.


Tracker Season 2 episode 16 brings forth one of its most haunting episodes with The Mercy Seat. As Colter delves into a rescue mission that at first goes haye-wire, the show deviates into some newly explored horror-thriller territory, exploring a cult, finding two missing persons, and surviving the wilderness.

With secrets coming undone in multiple ways, Tracker Season 2 proves it's more than just a survival tv drama. If this episode is any hint to the things to come, the season finale is bound to be an explosive watch.

Edited by Deebakar