Tracker

It's gonna be okay. It's gonna be okay.

I don't know if I can do this, Hal.

We should not be out here.

We don't have a choice.

Now, we'll get through this together.

But I need you to trust me.

: Okay.

- -

Did you hear that?

What the hell?

Buck Avery?

Hard man to find.

That's by design.

Colter Shaw.

Oh, I know.

Heard you been asking around about me.

So what's so damn important you came all the way up here

to talk about?

My father.

Ashton Shaw.

Spent some time up here.

Long time ago.

How well did you know him?

I knew him.

You have your father's eyes.

I know it.

He, uh...

he was up here about four months before he died.

About 20 years ago now.

Sir, I spent a lot of time, uh...

...trying to figure out what happened to him.

Came here to...

...find you, see if you could help me.

Come inside. Let's...

let's grab a seat.

Thank you.

-Home brew. -Yeah?

Uh, spruce buds as opposed to hops.

-But it gets the job done. -Mm.

- It's good. -

- -Acquired taste.

Yeah. Little bit.

Thank you.

I suppose, uh, you'd like to know

what the hell your father was doing up here.

I'm not sure I can help you, so...

So I've been going through all of his old journals, his notes.

And as far as I can tell, it looks like he was working

for the government at some point.

Yeah.

Yeah, go on.

He was a-a professor at Berkeley.

Something happened.

He got fired.

And, uh, he moved the entire family

to a compound in the middle of the forest.

And from then, um...

...everything changed.

A lot of those academic types up here.

My family rented cabins to 'em.

Mm. I mean, my father wasn't up here fishing.

No, but that's how I got to know him.

Used to guide a little bit.

Good outdoorsman.

I'm guessing he passed that down to you.

He did.

Yeah.

Looking through all of his notes, uh,

he was involved with, uh, something called

the-the Chrono Stasis Institute.

My family owns half this valley.

The land we leased to the government contractors had a...

a secret lab research facility right down that road.

Yeah, no, I looked into it. I-I didn't see anything.

No, you wouldn't.

They made us all sign, um, NDAs.

I probably shouldn't be talking to you about it now.

I'm just...

too old to give a damn anymore.

Well, anything you can remember, anything at all,

would be helpful.

Supposedly the whole thing was DARPA-funded.

-Mm. -And they were running experiments.

Weather, northern lights,

other weirder stuff.

I remember that they-they hightailed it

after the accident.

After the accident? Wh-What accident?

You'd have to ask Dr. Jukic about that.

Serena Jukic. She was another researcher

who rented a cabin from us.

She mentioned the accident,

but she didn't give any details.

A month later,

they shut the whole thing down.

Poof. Like it never existed.

And my father, he was up here when that accident happened?

Yeah.

He was.

But doing what,

I-I don't know. I...

try to keep my nose out of other people's business.

Uh, Dr. Jukic-- wh-what can you tell me about her?

Just that she's not the type you just look up on the Internet.

She was deep into whatever mess they were fooling around with

down at that lab.

Then she was gone.

I'm not sure that's what you're looking for.

But there it is.

Hey.

It-It's not what it looks like.

What are you doing?

This is my parents' truck.

I need to get inside and see if their boat tracker's

in there.

Their boat's missing. I'm worried.

I-I just need to find them.

Whoa, whoa. Hold-hold on a second here.

H-Hold on a second. Let me...

see if I can make your life easier here, okay?

Here we go.

I don't see a boat tracker in here.

Is that blood?

Think so. Yeah.

When was the last time you talked to your parents?

Yesterday when they were finishing work.

They buy excess fish off commercial boats and resell it.

So this isn't the first place you've looked for 'em?

Sorry, man. Who are you?

Colter Shaw. Your name?

-Ian Morrison. -Ian.

Some kind of rando Good Samaritan or something?

Not exactly.

No, uh, when people go missing

and there's a reward, I help find 'em.

Well, I don't really have any money.

We could worry about that later.

Why don't you catch me up to speed,

-tell me what's going on. -

They were supposed to pick me up at the ferry this morning.

Got back from school. They never showed.

I hitched it home,

couldn't find them anywhere.

Called, straight to voicemail.

And now their boat's missing?

Ian, is there anything in your parents' life that might...

help me understand why they would just disappear like this?

They've been really worried about money.

They-they got scammed and lost almost everything.

Dad's been desperate to get it back.

So you think your dad might've done something reckless?

That's what I'm afraid of.

I just want to find them.

I'll help you.

Hey, Randy. I'm looking for a boat.

I just sent you the registration number.

Great. I've got it.

You, uh, sticking around Alaska?

Uh, yeah, maybe for a bit.

Okay, okay. How'd it go earlier?

Interesting, to say the least. I got some information.

But right now, I really just need to find that boat.

Yeah, man. I got you.

All right, it's registered to a Hal and Vera Morrison.

-That's the one. -Wonderful.

Let's see where it is.

All right.

I got a signal off the boat's nav system.

It's stationary. About 15 miles northeast at a riverhead.

Just sent you a pin.

- -Thanks, Randy. Appreciate it.

-You got it. -

Yeah, right there.

Looks like a lot of backwater. Right?

Not a lot of access roads.

You think it's possible maybe they got lost,

-they got turned around? -No, no chance.

M-Mom grew up here.

They know this place like the back of their hands,

on and off the water.

What goes on there?

Nothing good.

Lot of off-gridders.

I hear some of the guys who run drugs off the boat

live up there.

You think your parents got involved in that?

I hope not.

I'm-a go find this boat.

Wait.

I can come with you.

I don't want to wait around doing nothing.

I understand. Why don't you go back

to your parents' place though, all right?

Maybe they'll show up. And in the meantime,

make some phone calls to some fishermen that they work with.

They give you any information, you give it to me, all right?

If I find anything, I'll let you know.

Okay.

Hey. Here's coffee.

Did the judge reject the motion?