Tracker airs tonight on CBS with an all-new Sunday, March 24, 2024, season 1 episode 6 called “Lexington,” and we have your Tracker recap below.
In tonight’s Tracker episode as per the CBS synopsis, “Colter reluctantly teams up with his nemesis, fellow reward seeker Billie Matalon, to track down a missing racehorse.”
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In tonight’s Tracker episode, Colter Shaw found himself in Lexington, Kentucky. He was after the reward money for a missing horse. The horse’s name is Argo. His owner has put a lot of money into his training. He was set to place in an upcoming race. He doesn’t even have to win said race. His stud fees alone could pay for everything else if he merely places.
This included paying the reward money as well his own maintenance. The owners of this horse were set to make a lot of money and someone tried to sabotage that by stealing the horse. His owner has taken out two hundred and fifty thousand dollars as a reward for his return. And he had a suspect on who could have taken the horse.
Hugh Lazlo thought it was his ex-wife that stole the horse. He said Tina had changed. She was dating a sleaze by the name of Redford James and James’s horse was the frontrunner in the upcoming race.
Hugh thought his ex-wife sabotaged him so that her boyfriend could win the prize. Hugh was so sure his ex was involved because the horse’s pedigree papers were stolen along with the horse itself. It technically doesn’t matter if the horse was returned if the horse doesn’t come back with those papers. The papers were what Hugh was going to use to charge people for stud prices.
If he couldn’t prove the pedigree of the horse, no one would pay him to father more horses. Hugh told Colter to check James’s house and he said that by finding the pedigree papers they prove he was involved.
Only Colter searched James’s home. James was throwing his annual Lexington Gala. His home was opened to visitors. Colter snuck in with a tux he managed to find on the fly. He spoke to James. He also spoke to Tina. She still partially owns Argo. She said she would never hurt him. She loves the horse.
Other members of the gala were owners too. Argo was held by four people. Hugh, Tina, Stuart Tyler, and Kenji Tomine. Kenji owned the larges stake in the horse.
He stands to lose the most money if that horse along with those papers weren’t found. It just didn’t make sense that three out of the four owners would attend a gala thrown by the man that allegedly stole their horse. Tina told Colter that Hugh was bitter. She said he focused on work so much that she left him and now he was out to get her boyfriend when he’s done nothing wrong.
There was also a bigger issue besides the horse or the papers. Colter ran into another rewardist. Her name is Billie Matalon. She was gorgeous and she’s beaten Colter to other rewards. They teamed up once, but it ended with her cutting him out of the deal at the last minute and him running away from the thugs while she kept the money to herself.
Billie was why Colter doesn’t like working with other people in the field. She was also hard to ignore. She told him right away that James wasn’t their thief. He refused to believe her and he verified for himself that James wasn’t the thief.
Colter broke into James’s safe during the gala. He found out that James made a special kind of bet. He bet on several horses for the race and that included Argo. He wouldn’t have put substantial money on a horse if it meant he loses money in the end. Someone else stole the horse. Billie used her looks to get close to Colter.
She convinced him to work together on this one. She said the reward was large enough for both of them to get paid and so he fell for her act in spite of his friends telling him not to trust her.
Colter teamed up with Billie. They went back to Argo’s holding pen. They figured out that Argo wasn’t loaded into a van. He was ridden off the property. There were only three people that Argo allowed to ride him. One was Tina. One was another guy quickly ruled out. The third was his former trainer, Dan Flynn. Flynn was fired by Hugh for drinking on the job. He supposedly moved out of town. He fell on some tough times. Colter and Billie working together had proved he stole Argo. They tracked him down to an abandoned farm. And there they found Flynn’s body.
Flynn had been murdered. He stole the horse and then someone stole the horse from him. They also took the papers. Colter found a syringe at the crime scene. He googled the medication on it. It was a horse tranquilizer. Something that only a vet could prescribe. Billie went to see Argo’s vet. Colter went to talk to Hugh again.
He thought Hugh might have been contacted or involved in Flynn’s death. He was wrong. Hugh was genuinely concerned for his horse. Tina was as well. They didn’t steal Argo or had anything to do with Argo’s vet visits.
Billie found something while rummaging through Argo’s medical records. She found out that the horse was so doped on painkillers and steroids to force him into racing that he could no longer stud. He was infertile. He was also deathly ill. He shouldn’t have been in any race and that could be why he was stolen.
Someone was trying to hide the fact that they’ve been doping Argo for months. It had to be one of the owners. Colter just didn’t think it was either Hugh or Tina. Those two seemed to care for the horse and whoever was doping him wanted a payday. And was prepared to kill the horse to get it.
Someone called the tip line about the horse. They said they saw Argo at an old barn. Colter told Hugh that he’d check it out and it was an ambush for Colter and Billie. They went into the barn. They got locked in. Someone set the place on the fire intending to kill the both of them. They got out by the skin of their teeth.
They then had Exley looked into the owners. It turns out Stuart Tyler has shady business dealings. He owned several shell companies and one of that owns the horse. And so he’s been forcing the horse to win to get a payday.
The horse couldn’t go on like that forever. The fact that he was at death’s door would have been noticed by his next race. Stuart couldn’t have that and so he paid to steal the horse.
If the horse wasn’t returned, the owners still get paid the insurance money. The same money that would go away if the insurance company finds out the inhumane treatment of the horse. Stuart never cared about the animal. He didn’t realize that by simply letting the horse be and be trained that he could still have gotten the money. And legally at that.
Stuart bought some farmland a month ago. Colter and Billie went there. They found the horse and Billie got taken prisoner. Stuart held a gun on her. He forced them to load up Argo.
He planned on selling Argo overseas to a buyer who didn’t know about the horse’s health condition. And Billie was able to overpower Stuart long enough for Colter to get his gun.
Argo was returned to Hugh and Tina who put their grievances aside to care for the horse. There was no reward money because the FBI froze Stuart’s assets and that included the reward money. Meaning all of this was for nothing for the rewardists, but Colter and Billie were back on speaking terms after five years and so they now know they can work together.
THE END!
