Tracker is kicking off its third season with a two-parter, beginning with the October 19 premiere, and showrunner Elwood Reid guarantees that it is a story that wants each episodes.
“I’m actually pleased with our two-parter. I feel that was one thing that manufacturing sensible, these are all the time arduous to drag off. But additionally simply from a storytelling standpoint, quite a lot of occasions I see two parters and I am going, ‘God, this may very well be one episode. They’re simply stretching it out.’ As a result of I’m actually impatient,” he admits to TV Insider. Not true right here.
“I feel that when Tracker‘s engaged on all cylinders is when we’ve got a case that tells you one thing about Colter, a bit bit about his previous, he has that emotional connection. After which it additionally providers this broader story arc that we’ve been attempting to get to. So we’ve been very, very cautious in attempting to have a few of these instances, significantly the instances that opened the season… In the event you keep in mind final 12 months, it was the second episode, the UFO episode. That was very intentional that that case would tangle bottom with the Shaw household stuff,” Reid continues. “We’re simply attempting to all the time maintain that in thoughts. And that is one thing Justin and I discuss loads about, not viewing it as case of the week. I feel the present’s been in a position to slide a bit bit previous that classification.”
The primary two episodes of the brand new season delve into one thing mysterious often called “The Course of.” Colter (Justin Hartley) and his brother Russell (returning visitor star Jensen Ackles) find yourself blended up in a sequence of occasions involving this sinister underground operation once they work collectively to trace down the lacking spouse and daughter of one in every of Reenie’s (Fiona Rene) shoppers within the first episode. Then, in Episode 2, “Leverage,” airing on October 23, CBS teases, after they disrupted that operation, “Colter and Russell should race to seek out the supply behind these chained occasions and finish it as soon as and for all.” Take a look at pictures from that episode — is Russell injured?! — under.
Whereas Reenie brings them the case, nonetheless, and it presents itself as a person in a custody battle who can’t attain his ex-wife and daughter, “it goes into a really, very, very darkish place from there. Not what you’d count on,” Reid previews.
“One of many issues that we’ve been choosing at with this world of Colter and his household is we all know his dad was a professor at college and one thing prompted him to step away. And we discovered it within the season finale of the primary season with Jennifer Morrison‘s character, Lizzy, that there was extra to the daddy than meets the attention. This ‘Course of’ factor inhabits an analogous world,” he continues. “It’s simply this factor we’ve been getting at, these experiments, doable psychological, bodily, psychological experiments that bear some actually unhealthy fruit. A few of which will additionally play into a number of the bigger secrets and techniques about Colter’s household — not this specific factor that’s within the season opener, nevertheless it’s opening up that world.”
He provides, “I feel a number of the solutions with what occurred together with his household lie in that world and it’s been enjoyable to play with within the writers’ room. Simply what are some bizarre conspiracy theories? What are some bizarre authorities sociological experiments that may very well be occurring and nonetheless occurring? Second season, the UFO episode, [that] one UFO agent knew all about his father. Now why is that? I don’t know. We’re choosing up some mysteries that we’re going to attempt to play right into a a lot bigger storyline. And CBS has been wonderful in encouraging this extra serialized as a result of I come from serialized storytelling, so it’s actually enjoyable to do.”
The second episode can even reveal extra about what Russell’s as much as once we don’t see him (which is nearly all the time, with solely two appearances thus removed from Ackles earlier than this season). “I’m hoping the followers take word and begin howling as a result of it could be — for some purpose Jensen simply actually matches on this world. I don’t know what it’s,” says Reid. “I’ve so many concepts and Jensen’s all the time one in every of my first name guys, however I do dangle a bit type of carrot on the market in the long run of Episode 2 and also you get to see extra of him with Reenie, which is quite a lot of enjoyable, too.”
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Tracker, Season 3 Premiere, Sunday, October 19, 8/7c, CBS