Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer is a television film starring George Segal, Shelley Hack and Tracy Pollan. It first aired on October 15, 1983, on the CBS television network. Produced by Sonny Grosso and Larry Jacobson, the film was directed by Bill Persky. The film follows the investigation into the 1973 rape and murder of a young Manhattan school teacher. The film appropriates the title of Judith Rossner's acclaimed best-selling novel "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", published in 1975 and filmed in 1977. Mistakenly referred to as a sequel to the theatrical film, "Trackdown" opens with
Looking for Alaska forgives Alaska for dying, as he knows Alaska would forgive him for letting her go. After Alaska's death, Pudge and Colonel investigate the circumstances surrounding the traumatic event. While looking for answers, the boys are subconsciously dealing with their grief, and their obsession over these answers transforms into a search for meaning. Pudge and Colonel want to find out the answers to certain questions surrounding Alaska's death, but in reality, they are enduring their own labyrinths of suffering, a concept central to the novel. When their theology teacher Mr. Hyde poses a question to his class about the meaning of