'Tracker' Has 1 Unfinished Story Thread That Reenie's Subplot Has To Pay Off

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Michael John Petty

Published Apr 29, 2026, 7:24 PM EDT

Michael John Petty is a Senior Author for Collider who spends his days writing, in fellowship with his local church, and enjoying each new day with his wife and daughters. At Collider, he writes features, reviews, recaps, and conducts interviews. In addition to writing about_ stories, Michael has told a few of his own. His novella, The Beast of Bear-tooth Mountain,** **was released in 2023. His Western short story, The Devil's Left Hand, received the Spur Award for "Best Western Short Fiction" from the Western Writers of America in 2025. Michael currently resides in North Idaho with his growing family.

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Things are getting a bit heated on Tracker. "Alaskan Wild" begins with Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley) searching for the truth about his father in the Great North, and while that thread is certainly one we've been hoping the show would pull in earnest for some time, that's not all that this episode had to offer. Down in the Lower 48, Reenie Greene (Fiona Rene) continues working on her latest case — and there appears to be far more to this lawsuit than meets the eye. By the episode's end, Reenie not only receives photos of herself at various locations, but also finds herself actively stalked in public spaces. This can only mean one thing: "The Process" has returned.

"The Process" Is Almost Certainly Behind Reenie Greene's Latest Stalking

While there is absolutely no doubt that Reenie's latest threats are due to the shady business practices of Prader & Rockwell Properties Group (the company she's taking current legal action against), we can't help but think that the tactics involved go back a bit further to the beginning of the season. In the two-part Season 3 premiere, _Tracker _put Colter, Reenie, and Russell Shaw (Jensen Ackles) into the middle of a horrific digital blackmail ring called "The Process." The basic idea was that folks would be blackmailed by some unknown digital specter, forcing them to kidnap, kill, or otherwise perform other illegal activity as a means of getting their kidnapped loved ones back or blackmail erased. The problem was, it was a chain of individuals who were being controlled by a digital algorithm, so there was no real end goal in mind. While folks will remember that the Shaw brothers took down the clowns behind the AI-based operation — Don Schneider (Lenny Jacobson) and Philip Jost (Timothy Wallace) — and destroyed their servers, there is still one person out there who was name-dropped as an originator of "The Process" who knows all about its inner-workings: Gillian Meeks.

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QUESTION 1 / 10THE MISSION

01 You're dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.

ASomeone who already has three contingency plans running and is calmly working through all of them. BSomeone who reads the terrain instinctively and knows exactly how to use it against the enemy. CSomeone who keeps their nerve and their sense of humour when everything is falling apart. DSomeone who knows the history of wherever we are and what we're walking into. ESomeone with the right contact, the right cover identity, and the right exit already arranged.

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QUESTION 2 / 10TRAVEL STYLE

02 You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.

AOn foot through terrain no one else would attempt — I move where vehicles can't follow. BOn a motorcycle, a cargo plane, or anything else that gets me there before I think too hard about it. CIn something that belongs to someone else — borrowed, stolen, or improvised under fire. DFirst class, with a cover identity and a gadget that does something I won't explain until it's needed. EBy whatever means are available — I've driven, flown, and once arrived by camel. The destination matters, not the method.

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QUESTION 3 / 10UNDER FIRE

03 You're pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.

ADisappears into the environment, flanks them silently, and ends it before I've reloaded. BCracks a one-liner, grabs a fire extinguisher or a chair, and improvises something that somehow works. CProduces a gadget specifically designed for this exact scenario and uses it with infuriating precision. DPulls out a whip, a pistol, and an archaeological insight that somehow gets us out alive. ENeutralises the threat with maximum efficiency and minimum words — they were already three moves ahead.

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QUESTION 4 / 10DOWNTIME

04 The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.

AA bar with terrible lighting, cold beer, and absolutely no questions about feelings. BThe finest restaurant in the city, a bottle of something expensive, and a conversation that is equal parts brilliant and exhausting. CA local dig site, a museum after hours, or a long story about why that particular artefact matters to human civilisation. DPizza. Bad TV. Falling asleep halfway through a movie neither of you were watching anyway. EA debrief that turns into three hours of contingency planning that somehow becomes the most fun you've had all week.

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QUESTION 5 / 10COMMUNICATION

05 How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.

APrecise and minimal — tell me what I need to know and nothing else. Every word has a cost. BDeadpan and dry — keeping it light keeps me sharp, even when everything is on fire. CEnthusiastic and slightly chaotic — but always with useful information buried somewhere in the noise. DCalm and controlled through an earpiece, with a plan that covers every variable I haven't thought of yet. EBarely at all — silence is a language and they speak it fluently.

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06 Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.

AInfiltrate their inner circle, learn everything, and dismantle them from inside out before they know we're there. BStudy the historical pattern — every villain of this type has a weakness written somewhere in the past. CGet them talking. The more they monologue, the more time I have to figure out how to beat them. DGo through them. Directly. With as much force as the terrain allows. EFind the one thing they haven't accounted for — there's always one thing — and make sure we're holding it.

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QUESTION 7 / 10LOYALTY

07 Things go badly wrong and you're captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.

ACome in alone, quietly, and get me out before anyone knows they were there. BHave already been working on the extraction since the moment I disappeared — the plan is already running. CCome in loud, come in fast, and worry about the collateral damage later — I'd do the same for them. DUse every resource, every contact, and bend every rule until I'm out — they don't leave people behind. ECharm their way in somehow, bluff through the hard part, and still manage to look good doing it.

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QUESTION 8 / 10TOOLKIT

08 What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn't replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn't know you had.

ATechnology that shouldn't exist yet and the training to use it under any conditions. BSurvival instinct so refined it borders on supernatural — and the scars to prove it's been tested. CKnowledge of history, language, and culture that makes them invaluable in places where force is useless. DThe ability to walk into any room in the world and immediately become the most trusted person in it. EStubbornness that refuses to accept a situation is hopeless — and the improvisational skill to back it up.

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QUESTION 9 / 10THE COST

09 Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.

AA partner who never fully switches off — always watching exits, always calculating threats, even at dinner. BA partner who gets the job done brilliantly but has the emotional availability of a locked filing cabinet. CA partner who makes everything ten times more complicated than it needs to be — but who always comes through. DA partner who gets personally attached to every relic, ruin, and artefact we encounter, which slows everything down. EA partner who was not built for this and knows it — but shows up anyway, every time, without being asked.

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QUESTION 10 / 10THE LAST STAND

10 It's the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.

AOne line. Absolutely dry. Delivered like the world isn't ending. Then we move. BNothing said at all — just a look that means we both already know what has to happen. CA plan I don't fully understand that somehow accounts for everything, delivered in thirty seconds flat. DA piece of historical context that reframes the entire situation and tells us exactly what to do next. ESomeone who steps forward instead of back — because that's who they've always been.

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Rambo Your partner doesn't talk much, doesn't need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you've finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You'll never need to ask if he has your back. You'll just know.

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James Bond Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it'll take you a moment to remember what's actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You'll never be bored. You'll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

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Indiana Jones Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar's eye and a brawler's instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn't matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you'll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

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John McClane Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren't so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

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Ethan Hunt Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you've finished reading the briefing, and the plan he's settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn't exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

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Now, Meeks was only mentioned in passing in "Leverage," but it seemed significant that _Tracker _introduced the idea that there may be someone else out there with the know-how to recreate "The Process" once again. After all, if the intention was always to have Schneider and Jost be the human derelicts behind the psychological experiment, then why would the Tracker writers mention a third individual at all? It has certainly led us to wonder if "The Process" could continue beyond Schneider and Jost's operation, and considering Rennie has received not only photos of herself at various locations (seemingly in an attempt to frighten her off Prader & Rockwell) and has begun to notice her photo being taken in public, it seems not just probable, but highly likely**. These tactics, coupled with the creepiness of the guy who confirms that he knows Mel Day's (Cassady McClincy Zhang) whole name (something we didn't even know about her), all feel as if they were derived from the same warped, psychological playbook. If not, then it's just a real close coincidence.

Yet, the question remains: How does this connect to Prader & Rockwell? Right now, we don't know. In fact, we know very little about Prader & Rockwell and all the shady business dealings that occurred leading up to Maxine's (Kathleen Robertson) introduction and her bringing this case to Reenie. Most of what we do know came from former project manager Kurtis Lauper (Serge Houde), a few episodes back in "The Field Trip," who explained that the company framed him as mentally insane and conspiratorial for trying to uncover their shady business practices. The specifics of what those are are unclear, but it appears that Tracker has decided to bring Russell back at just the right time, especially if this really is "The Process, Round 2" — and we hope so.

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'Tracker' Needs to Follow Up with "The Process" Some Way or Another

However the Prader & Rockwell saga plays out, Tracker_ needs to revisit "The Process" at some point in the future. If this psychological algorithm isn't being used by the shady company in whatever their latest business ventures are, then Tracker ought to catch up with this Gillian Meeks character at some point down the line. The fact that "The Process" algorithm was able to uncover so much about Colter Shaw, despite his lack of an online presence, is not only a frightening thought but an interesting dilemma to play with. In the wrong hands, Colter's enemies might go after both his family and his closest allies.

Of course, Tracker is doing double duty right now in the overarching plotline game, dealing not only with Reenie's latest troubles (prompting her to buy a gun), but also Colter's investigation into the Chronostasis Institute. Indeed, "Alaskan Wild" also introduced Colter to Buck Avery (Michael O’Neill), an old friend of Ashton Shaw's (Lee Tergesen), who revealed that the DARPA-funded Alaska operation involved weather, the northern lights, and a mysterious accident. After Buck dropped a new name for Colter to follow, Dr. Serena Euckidge, I have to wonder if Tracker enjoys toying with its audience a bit too much. Either way, we're ready for whatever the show does next.