S02.E13: Neptune

[AnimeMania]

Colter travels to New York City to find a woman who vanished in the dressing room of an upscale clothing store.

Premiere Date: March 16, 2025    CBS     8pm

Jason Beaudoin as Chad Fist

Gabrielle Rose as Eileen Turner 

Alvina August as Clare Neptune

Oliver Rice as Logan

Brahm Taylor as Cleaner #1

Michael Adamthwaite as Cleaner #2 

[LexieLily]

Does every case have to be an overarching conspiracy and a front for something else? It was a decent setup, a woman disappearing from store dressing room, there were so many ways they could have taken this one.

I got the feeling from the end that there is going to be a follow up somewhere, the Big Bad Deputy Whoever is going to come after Reenie and Colter, and that wherever Claire actually is she isn't in Fiji.

The new hacker is cool and all but it's going on five episodes now without Bobby.

[Dowel Jones]

Alright, I have to go there.  If Claire is Neptune and Eileen is Jupiter, was anyone unlucky enough to be Uranus?

This was definitely a setup of Three Days of the Condor, but they did it well enough.  I think Claire should have kneecapped Eileen there at the end instead of whacking her upside the head.  I was surprised that the goofball that interrupted Shaw on the street wasn't a lookout for The Nefarious Conspiracy.

Just for reference, the coordinates given for Claire to plug in to the satellite tracker were for a spot in the ocean about 400 miles ESE of NYC. 

So did our hacker get his entire computer blown up internally by an uber-hacker from The Conspiracy?  I hope they address that next episode.

Whatever happened to the plot line about Colter's father?

[ahrtee]

I was kind of hoping they'd call Russell to deal with the the SuperSecret agency stuff.  (No, I knew Ackles wasn't going to guest star, but one can dream...)  

So...to recap just the beginning:  a customer walks out of the dressing room of a very expensive boutique in NYC through an "emergency exit" *that has no alarm!!!*  And despite the fact that she left her purse and phone behind, the police aren't interested.  And the man who winces at a thousand-dollar sweater is ready to hand out about $25,000 in cash to a stranger to find his wife (we know how Colter gets his cases, but how do they find him? It's too soon for him to put an ad in the paper...)  

Then, he "hides" in a supersecret high-end hotel suite, with multiple rooms and expensive furnishings, which should cost more than that sweater per night; and the bad guys find him within hours.   Or maybe minutes.

Oh, and not-Bobby manages to hack into this supersecret agency's files while Colter's waiting.  With not just one but several passwords apparently broken in minutes by some sort of software.  

I have to admit, when Bobby's cousin said that they were on to him, I thought (and maybe hoped?) that the badguys were going to show up and kill him, and we'd get Bobby back.  But no such luck.

 

Edited March 17 by ahrtee

[TheCathedral]

7 hours ago, Dowel Jones said:

I was surprised that the goofball that interrupted Shaw on the street wasn't a lookout for The Nefarious Conspiracy.

Whatever happened to the plot line about Colter's father?

The exchange with the "magician" was really weird, I thought he was a henchman too but nah just some NYC weirdo, it's funny how Colter never seems to grasp the concept of stealth!! I'm surprised the villain didn't spot him and she had no backup? wth

Colter's family mystery hasn't been mentioned in some time, I don't think he even mentioned his sister this season, his brother kinda vanished too after that horrendous alien episode..

 

Meh episode, it wasn't a spy thriller more like a spy snoozer, Colter killed another guy and I'm sure that we'll hear from the Big Bad Deputy again, maybe he'll share some intel about Colter's father! I like Randy, I hope that we get at least one episode with Randy and Bobby together.

Colter has been involved in so many shootings/high profile cases that he's probably famous by now so he doesn't even need ads! If a loved one goes missing who you gonna call????

[jessiebell]

I thought this episode was much better than the last few episodes - it kept my interest and the production company must have finally bought some light bulbs.

[Snazzy Daisy]

The parallel between Colter and Logan is family betrayal — finding out the people you love have lied to you.

Poor Logan. His wife lied, he gets kidnapped and stuffed into a closet, then being shot at. He's going to need a lot of therapy.

The COTW feels rushed. It doesn't have enough build-ups for me to care about Claire and Eileen.

TPTB seriously needs to provide an explanation re Bobby Exley. Am starting to worry about the actor's (Eric Graise) wellbeing.

[preeya]

19 hours ago, ahrtee said:

was kind of hoping they'd call Russell to deal with the the SuperSecret agency stuff.  (No, I knew Ackles wasn't going to guest star, but one can dream...)  

So...to recap just the beginning:  a customer walks out of the dressing room of a very expensive boutique in NYC through an "emergency exit" *that has no alarm!!!*  And despite the fact that she left her purse and phone behind, the police aren't interested.  And the man who winces at a thousand-dollar sweater is ready to hand out about $25,000 in cash to a stranger to find his wife (we know how Colter gets his cases, but how do they find him? It's too soon for him to put an ad in the paper...)  

Then, he "hides" in a supersecret high-end hotel suite, with multiple rooms and expensive furnishings, which should cost more than that sweater per night; and the bad guys find him within hours.   Or maybe minutes.

Oh, and not-Bobby manages to hack into this supersecret agency's files while Colter's waiting.  With not just one but several passwords apparently broken in minutes by some sort of software.  

I have to admit, when Bobby's cousin said that they were on to him, I thought (and maybe hoped?) that the badguys were going to show up and kill him, and we'd get Bobby back.  But no such luck.

 

The magic of television and the far-reaching imaginations of the writers/show-runners.

[ahrtee]

1 hour ago, preeya said:

The magic of television and the far-reaching imaginations of the writers/show-runners.

Well, some kind of imagination.  I'm not sure I'd call it far-reaching (though it certainly is a stretch!) 🙃

[surfgirl]

Well, at least this episode gets us back to the roots of this show again. It doesn't make up for the umpteen other shitty episodes this season but its a start.

Did the show runners and TIIC forget about his bri, sus, suss mom, and psycho dad?

[preeya]

8 hours ago, surfgirl said:

Well, at least this episode gets us back to the roots of this show again

Not necessarily; Colter is a "tracker." Running around Manhattan, in and out of posh hotels and boutiques is not what the root of the show intended. At least not from my point of view.

[surfgirl]

3 hours ago, preeya said:

Not necessarily; Colter is a "tracker." Running around Manhattan, in and out of posh hotels and boutiques is not what the root of the show intended. At least not from my point of view.

I meant the story part  but yes, nit the locale. We want our verdant PNW forests dripping with dew and rain. Please snd thank you. 

[MarylandGirl]

This one held my interest, too. But I admit I rolled my eyes when it turned out that she was involved in some sort of espionage thing (did they ever explain what the satellite did?). Couldn't there just be a case where, i don't know, she has some secret gambling debt or something more commonplace?

The writers need to watch some old Without a Trace episodes to learn various reasons that people can disappear that don't involve some larger conspiracy. Or maybe some eps from the first season of this show...

[Dowel Jones]

2 hours ago, MarylandGirl said:

...some sort of espionage thing (did they ever explain what the satellite did?).

Since she mentioned that the targets began with sites and moved up to people, I'm guessing that it was some sort of global positioning system that could pinpoint a target's location.  That information could then be used in destruction or assassination.  Being that whoever was paying her for the information was not aboveboard in their missions, you would think that this much destruction would have attracted notice throughout the world.

[surfgirl]

BYW, did we ever see anyone re position that atellite or whatever it was?

[proserpina65]

On 3/16/2025 at 10:58 PM, LexieLily said:

Does every case have to be an overarching conspiracy and a front for something else? It was a decent setup, a woman disappearing from store dressing room, there were so many ways they could have taken this one.

I got the feeling from the end that there is going to be a follow up somewhere, the Big Bad Deputy Whoever is going to come after Reenie and Colter, and that wherever Claire actually is she isn't in Fiji.

The new hacker is cool and all but it's going on five episodes now without Bobby.

At least it was a little more interesting than most of this season.

[Cowgirl]

Ugh.  Please please please set the episodes back in the West, in rural settings, with no overreaching conspiracy that is easily overcome! I'll take tea bag bullet hole blood staunching over this cloak and dagger garbage! Let Colter track down a missing valuable Amish quilt at the most, if you're going to keep it set in the East. He can horse whisper an Amish buggy horse and glean clues from its eyeline and demeanor.  

I just wrote a post two episodes ago, but writers, here are some ideas for you:  avalanche search and rescue, lost snowmobiler, desert recovery (kind of like the pilot epi, but with details filled in) people using their GPS take a snow-covered road and need to be found and rescued (Happens yearly hear in Wyoming, where I live, though the local sheriffs and S&R teams handle it well.), someone could be lost in wild horse country, there could be someone kidnapped from one of our rodeos, a kid could wander off from a campsite, a runner can be snatched from a back country trail run, or from one of those Ultra races that cover several marathons' worth of country. Danger from a wild fire or forest fire. Smokey Bear and Owlie could be missing and need to be found. The crying Indian (that's what Native Americans prefer to be called where I'm from) from the 70's pollution commercial could have descendants that stage a protest and a woman turns up missing. Anything but these stupid cloak and dagger cases we've been getting!

Edited Monday at 09:22 PM by Cowgirl

[nokat]

1 hour ago, Cowgirl said:

Ugh.  Please please please set the episodes back in the West, in rural settings, with no overreaching conspiracy that is easily overcome! I'll take tea bag bullet hole blood staunching over this cloak and dagger garbage! Let Colter track down a missing valuable Amish quilt at the most, if you're going to keep it set in the East. He can horse whisper an Amish buggy horse and glean clues from its eyeline and demeanor.  

I just wrote a post two episodes ago, but writers, here are some ideas for you:  avalanche search and rescue, lost snowmobiler, desert recovery (kind of like the pilot epi, but with details filled in) people using their GPS take a snow-covered road and need to be found and rescued (Happens yearly hear in Wyoming, where I live, though the local sheriffs and S&R teams handle it well.), someone could be lost in wild horse country, there could be someone kidnapped from one of our rodeos, a kid could wander off from a campsite, a runner can be snatched from a back country trail run, or from one of those Ultra races that cover several marathons' worth of country. Danger from a wild fire or forest fire. Smokey Bear and Owlie could be missing and need to be found. The crying Indian (that's what Native Americans prefer to be called where I'm from) from the 70's pollution commercial could have descendants that stage a protest and a woman turns up missing. Anything but these stupid cloak and dagger cases we've been getting!

You have a good season there that I would watch.

[statslady]

On 3/24/2025 at 7:13 PM, nokat said:

You have a good season there that I would watch.

same.  I hope showrunners have some lackeys reading these pages and some of this gets back to them somehow.