CBS’s Tracker took a dark and chilling turn in “First Fire,” delivering what might be the show’s most horror-infused hour to date. The story fuses psychological tension, religious fanaticism, and moral reflection into an unnerving but emotionally grounded thriller. It’s Tracker in full cinematic mode, eerie, urgent, and unexpectedly tragic.

The episode opens with a sequence straight out of a gothic horror film: a stormy Halloween night at a psychiatric detention centre in Wyndham, Massachusetts. As lightning flickers, the facility plunges into darkness, alarms blaring, staff scrambling through emergency protocol. One of them is attacked by a masked figure in a pig mask, a genuinely unsettling image that sets the tone. By morning, the truth emerges: one of the patients, Heston Koontz,

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