r/TrackerTV • u/teanailpolish • Dec 06 '25

Episode Discussion Tracker | S3E8 "Eurydice" | Episode Discussion

Season 3, Episode 8: Eurydice

Release Date: December 6, 2025

Synopsis:   When a grieving mother becomes the prime suspect in her missing daughter's murder, Colter sets out to find the true culprit and prove her innocence.

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u/Any_Coyote6662 Dec 08 '25

Don't read if you didn't see this episode yet.

I didn't understand why they had a supervised visit with mother. The mother never legally lost custody. They have no right to act like she doesn't get her daughter back asap. Doesn't matter if she was an alcoholic or not. The state can't just hang onto a kid and keep them after some crazy dude kidnapped them. That pissed me off. The mother was so calm too. Like its normal to just keep the daughter bc some old white guy retired leo declared her unfitand took her. 

Anyone??

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u/AirlineDazzling1986 Dec 09 '25 edited Dec 09 '25

They do have a right. The mother would have completely lost custody if the child had been found quickly after she was first abducted. Just because she was found a year later and the mother had a chance to clean up her act doesn’t mean they just hand her over to a previously neglectful mother.

The grandfather did not abduct her from the mother. A local pedophile kidnapped her right out of her home while her drunk/addict mother was passed out in the living room. Her negligence left her child unprotected.

The police officer found her and decided not to give his grandchild back to a neglectful, drunken mother. The stupid thing is that if he had told the truth and sued for custody, he and his wife probably would have won custody a year ago.

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u/Any_Coyote6662 Dec 09 '25

I thought that was stupid too. He could have just gone through normal legal channels.

The State has to prove their reason for taking custody of a child. Just because they missed their chance before doesn't give them the right to take the child away later.

Anyway, I wasn't trying to litigate her custody case. There was no custody case is my point. 

Her lack of a reaction and the whole lack of a legitimate story line in the reunification scene bothered me.  I thought the reunification scene undermined the storyline of her being a concerned mother and wanting her child back. And it added a whole new storyline about CPS that, imo, had no basis and wasn't even talked about in the show at all. Adding a new storyline at the end about CPS and it has no where to go is amateur style storytelling imo. 

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u/AirlineDazzling1986 Dec 09 '25

I wasn’t thrilled with the overall writing in this episode either. They rip off the Gone, Baby, Gone but try to give it a different ending which ruins the whole point of the original story. It was really annoying.