Trackdown: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Trackdown Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Outlaw's Wife
Sep 12, 1958
The town's women want Hoby to make an outlaw's wife (who just returned to Porter) leave town.
The Set-Up
Sep 26, 1958
Henrietta's new gentleman friend is only using her to setup an alibi for a bank robbery.
A Stone for Benny French
Oct 3, 1958
Hoby tracks down Benny French who was the only member of the Morgan Larker gang who escaped from the bank robbery.
Trapped
Oct 10, 1958
Hoby is held prisoner in a shack during a blizzard by the wife of husband and wife outlaws to care for her sick husband.
Matter of Justice
Oct 17, 1958
One of the outlaws who held up the Butterfield stage depot has been caught and is awaiting trial and hanging. Hoby is called in to protect the town of Talpa. The prisoner claims hi
The Avenger
Oct 31, 1958
Lance Garth is accused of stealing the payroll from Banning Mining but he is shot and killed before the money is found.
Sunday's Child
Nov 21, 1958
Gambler Joe Sunday comes to Porter with a court order to take possession of his baby daughter from her mother Cindy who plays the piano in the saloon. Hoby has to enforce the order
Day of Vengeance
Nov 28, 1958
A young man seeks the person who killed his brother. The truth is not what he expected.
Every Man a Witness
Dec 26, 1958
Sheriff Alvin Fremont and a mob take prisoner Char Lopez out of jail and threaten to lynch him unless he confesses. The horse bolts and Lopez is hanged. Hoby is sent in to investig
McCallin's Daughter
Jan 2, 1959
Youngster Debby McCallin comes to town and asks Hoby to stop her father Bart McCallin from committing a robbery.
The Feud
Feb 11, 1959
Elderly and dying Maude Turley has her boys bring her back to Porter to die and be buried next to her husband after being run out of town 17 years ago by the Corbett's. Hoby tries
The Samaritan
Feb 18, 1959
Hoby finds a man on the trail with his leg caught in a bear trap and releases him. The man then knocks Hoby out, steals his horse and gun and leaves him caught in the bear trap.
The Threat
Mar 4, 1959
A smiling stranger wearing a 3-piece suit and bowler hat barges into the bank manager's office carrying a package under his arm and threatens to blow the town of Porter off the fac
Hard Lines
Mar 11, 1959
Joker Wells, who was a traitor with the Confederate Army, returns to his home town of Porter. Everybody wants Hoby to run him out of town, especially Ed Crow, who blames Joker for
Stranger in Town
Mar 25, 1959
Henrietta Porter receives a letter from Harry Keller who was just released from prison warning the town of Porter to stay away from Hoby because Harry is coming to kill Hoby in rev
False Witness
Apr 8, 1959
A strange girl arrives in Porter and tells Hoby that she knows that Joe Corbett is innocent of murder even though he was convicted and sentenced to hang because she was a witness a
The Trick
Apr 15, 1959
Tully Saxon knocks on the door to Tenner Smith's office in the saloon. When Tenner opens the door, he is surprised to see someone he had not seen in 8 years. Tully tells Tenner he
The Eyes of Jerry Kelso
Apr 22, 1959
When traveling salesman Emanuel Brock is found shot to death in his hotel room, Hoby has to figure out who did it.
The Gift Horse
Apr 29, 1959
Two old men (Zack and Levi) tell Ralph that they are his long lost uncles but Hoby thinks something about the two men rang sour.
The Vote
May 6, 1959
A man and a woman came to Porter bringing with them the idea of "Give Women the Vote".
The Unwanted
May 13, 1959
Hoby is called to the town of Glenville who are afraid that a group of religious people who moved in outside of town are practicing witchcraft and are causing bad luck.
Inquest
Sep 2, 1959
Hoby is helping Sheriff Lee look into a murder. But the widow, the doctor and even the sheriff have motives with none helpful in finding the killer.
Back to Crawford
Sep 9, 1959
Hoby returns home to Crawford to help his sister Nora after she sends him a telegram that somebody has been threatening her and because he gets a telegram from town drunk Fred Sale
Blind Alley
Sep 16, 1959
Rufus Cole shoots Mike Hardesty off his horse on the trail. Hoby who had been trailing Rufus for six weeks comes along to save Mike but he has lost his sight.
Quiet Night in Porter
Sep 23, 1959
Chad Winter, the owner of the general store, finds an old woman in his store after closing then two men walk in and shoot him. Hoby has to find out who killed him.