Tracker

You're going to survive.

Hey.

You hear me?

You're gonna be fine.

My leg.

It really hurts.

Yeah.

Yeah, I bet it does, but listen, I mean it.

Everything is gonna be A-OK.

My God. I'm so cold.

Yeah, well, I'm sure you are.

I'm getting a little chilly myself.

You've been out here a lot longer than I have.

Your heart rate's beating double time, Jessica.

Your name is Jessica, right?

Uh, Jesse.

Jesse. Well, that's a good name.

I'm Colter, by the way. Hi.

Hi. Well, Jesse,

what I think we're dealing with here

is a good old-fashioned case of mild hypothermia.

You know, I actually had a friend

named Jesse when I was... was a kid.

He was a boy Jesse, though, not a girl Jesse.

Plus, he was a goat.

A goat?

Yeah, yeah. I had kind of a...

kind of a weird childhood.

Oh... oh, my God. Okay, no, no, no, no. Hey, hey, hey.

Don't look at your leg. Don't look at your leg.

Look at me. Look at me.

Okay? What I need you to do right now is not panic.

One thing my dad taught me,

besides how to track animals and people...

which is how I found you, by the way...

is how to survive.

And how you survive

is A, you make quick, smart decisions,

and B, you remain calm.

You never let panic take the wheel.

Never. You don't look at your leg,

okay? You look at me,

or you close your eyes if you need to.

Do you need to?

Yeah. Okay.

Can we just stay here?

Stay here? Yeah, I mean, I guess...

I guess we could stay here, we could wait

for a rescue team to come

and airlift you out of here on a stretcher.

Careful. Careful.

But this little excursion you went on...

just, it's a little off the beaten path,

you know what I mean? So...

I think we're talking maybe five hours?

Four, best-case scenario?

Meanwhile, that mild hypothermia becomes less and less mild.

So, we stay,

I put your odds of survival, leg intact, 15 to 20%.

But, but... Jesse, hey.

But if you let me stabilize your injury

and carefully carry you out of here,

those odds for you and your leg, they go way up.

T-They do?

They do. I'm talking 90, 95%.

I'm gonna scoop you up, okay?

Okay. Okay. All right.

Here we go. Thank you.

You're gonna survive. You're gonna be A-OK.

I'm gonna survive.

Let's get you home. Come on. Okay.

I told her, you know.

It's too risky. Hmm.

Told her, "You're not ready

for a multiday hike."

I said, "There aren't enough resupply points."

But Jesse, you know, she's... Badass.

She's a brave badass who wandered a little off course.

Happens to the best of us.

Well, I don't know how to repay you.

Just the reward money's fine.

I believe it was 50 grand?

Right. Yeah, no. Of course, man.

Cash is always welcome.

I also take checks. Venmo, if that's easier.

No, it's just, uh, I got to check in with Jesse's parents.

Uh, the reward was my idea, but they said they'd cover it

if, you know... when someone collected.

Well, as we discussed, Derek, a reward

becomes a binding contract at the moment of success,

so... Mm-hmm.

Jesse's parents, you say?

Mm-hmm.

Well, let's give 'em a call.

Hey, that was a quick one.

Sometimes the gods are with us, Velma.

How are things in Denver? You collect or what?

Yes, Teddi, I collected.

Cash?

Uh... Visa.

What did I tell you on the credit cards?

We get killed on fees.

You know what, hon, could you give him a break?

He did just save a girl's life.

I know, very proud, et cetera. Visa...

Avert your eyes, ladies.

Please.

I'm putting aside a grand of this haul

for maintenance. We're coming up on 10,000 miles

since you took that truck in.

Truck's running great, Teddi. Yeah.

'Cause I make you take the damn thing in.

No. Absolutely not.

I told you we cannot...

She's a rescue.

Her name is Pawla.

Like "Paw-la." We don't need another dog.

Don't you get it? We don't need another dog.

It's too many dogs. Colter,

is there such a thing as too many dogs?

Ladies, you got a new job or what?

I'm working on it.

Okay. VELMA: Hey, Colter.

Someone called for you. Wasn't for a job.

Uh, he said it was an old friend from...

Wait, wait, wait. What was that? Oh. Devil's Notch.

Devil's Notch, that's it. TEDDI: Yeah.

You want his number?

It is, uh, 682-555...

He called you? Yeah.

He said he was trying you but you weren't answering.

Did you tell him how to find me?

Come on, Colter.

You know me better than that.

If he calls again, ignore it.

Well. Someone's in a mood.

Hello?

Got a pen?

$20,000 offered for information leading to the safe return

of Gilbert Brown, age 14.

Believed to be in the company of noncustodial parent.

Edward Brown.

Subject last seen.

Friday morning, outside the family home

in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Reward offered by the mother and stepfather,

Sarah and Mark Riley.

Look, no offense, it's just...

You've gotten a lot of calls about the reward.

Yeah, one guy said Gil is back on his home planet.

Let me guess... he still wanted the money.

Yeah. That's not my deal.

Okay? I'm a professional.

This is how I make my living.

I earn rewards that are posted by police or by citizens.

Sort of an unusual job, though, isn't it?

I find it to be steady work, sir.

Everyone's looking for something.

Sounds cool.

It is cool, actually. Very cool.

So, uh,

I take no fees, no expenses,

and a reward becomes a binding contract only in success.

Sound good?

Okay.

You say Gil is with his birth father, right?

Yeah.

But Eddie isn't a part of Gil's life anymore.

We split when Gil was five, and...

we haven't had any contact with him since.

None?

Yeah. Right. Zero.

Zero.

Gil ever ask about him?

Yeah, sure, he does, but we tell him the truth:

we don't know where Eddie is or what he's doing.

Yeah, his lifestyle is not something

that Gil needs to be exposed to.

To be clear, I wasn't married

to, like, a murderer, or something, it was...

just a lot of drugs, petty theft.

You know Juul, the-the vapes? Mm.

Eddie did six months for robbing a Juul store.

That kind of thing.

If you're not in contact, how do we know he's with Eddie now?

Gil and his stepbrother share a room.

Yeah, he, uh, he left crazy early Friday on his bike.

I, uh, I heard him wake up, so I was like,

you know, "Where are you going?"

He said he'd see me at school

and that he was meeting his father for breakfast.

His-his real father.

Gil's always had this crazy idea about his real father.

I have tried to be

a good father to him.

You are a good father, Mark.

But not the one he wants.

Sarah will help you with anything you need.

You ready? Yeah.

Mm.