🎬 Hudson & Rex Season 8: The Shadow Trace (2026) 👉 John Reardon, Mayko Nguyen, Kevin Hanchard, Justin Kelly, Diesel vom Burgimwald
“In a world of zeros and ones, he’s the only variable that can’t be hacked.”
Hudson & Rex Season 8: The Shadow Trace plunges the St. John’s Police Department into its darkest and most cerebral chapter yet. The season opens not with a murder, but with a blackout. A massive, coordinated cyber-attack paralyzes the city’s infrastructure, unlocking holding cells, scrambling traffic grids, and erasing criminal databases. Amidst the chaos, a message appears on every screen in the precinct: The truth has been deleted.
Detective Charlie Hudson (John Reardon) and his partner, Rex (Diesel vom Burgimwald), find themselves hunting a ghost—a master hacker known only as “The Silencer.” Unlike previous criminals who left physical footprints, The Silencer exists everywhere and nowhere, turning the SJPD’s own smart technology into a weapon against them.
For the first time, tech specialist Jesse Mills (Justin Kelly) steps out from behind the desk and into the crosshairs. When The Silencer frames Jesse for the initial breach, the team is fractured. Suspended from duty and fighting to clear his name, Jesse engages in a deadly digital chess match with an opponent who anticipates every keystroke.
Superintendent Donovan (Kevin Hanchard) faces mounting pressure from City Hall to disband the Major Crimes Unit, which is viewed as “compromised.” He must navigate a political minefield, protecting his team while secretly sanctioning their off-book investigation. Meanwhile, Dr. Sarah Truong (Mayko Nguyen) uncovers a chilling pattern in the forensics of cold cases—anomalies suggesting that The Silencer isn’t a stranger, but a former ally who knows the team’s psychological weaknesses inside out.
With their badges useless and their technology turned against them, Charlie and Rex are forced to go analog. The season highlights the raw, primal bond between man and dog as they track the enemy through the rugged, freezing wilderness of Newfoundland without GPS or backup. In a season defined by betrayal and artificial intelligence, Hudson & Rex proves that while a computer can predict human behavior, it can never calculate the loyalty of a dog.
