Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley) is seemingly about to search out out simply what actually occurred to his father (Lee Tergesen) the evening he died. The Tracker Season 2 finale ended with him discovering the person who pushed him off the cliff, however there’s way more to the story. And with all these solutions ought to come a Shaw household reunion. To date, Jensen Ackles (Colter’s brother Russell), Melissa Roxburgh (Colter’s sister Dory), and Wendy Crewson (Colter’s mom Mary Dove) have all appeared in a pair episodes however by no means collectively. It’s time for that to alter.
The sequence started with Colter’s father’s dying a thriller. His father was paranoid and had the household dwelling in a cabin within the woods. When Colter was 15, his dad was killed, and for the longest time, he thought his brother Russell was concerned. His mom inspired him to dam Russell’s quantity and ignore him when his brother tried to succeed in out.
Close to the top of Season 1, Colter reunites with first Dory, then Russell. In keeping with Russell, there was another person within the woods that evening and their mom has secrets and techniques, too. He’d seen the person he noticed that evening earlier than, speaking to her. Then, within the finale, Colter helped an previous pal, Lizzy (Jennifer Morrison), and she or he revealed that she thought her mom and his father had an affair. After her mother died, she discovered a file field with analysis papers and journals she realized belonged to his father, and she or he despatched it to Dory.
Each siblings returned in Season 2. Russell discovered that their father apparently received within the authorities’s method when, through the course of an investigation right into a lacking particular person, he and Colter ended up at an company’s off-the-books web site. Within the penultimate episode, Dory introduced the aforementioned field to Colter. Their father had been engaged on zero-point vitality, however he’d misplaced his educational credibility. Contained in the field have been papers, a small field of rocks, and a pocket book with, hidden contained in the backbone, a folded-up piece of paper. When Colter referred to as the cellphone quantity on it, it had already been disconnected or was now not in service.
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Then within the Season 2 finale, a lacking individuals case led Colter to the person whom Russell had seen within the woods the evening their father died, Otto (Alex Fernandez). He confirmed he pushed Colter’s father off the cliff, however revealed his mom had requested for his assist. That was the place Tracker left off and shall be choosing up heading into Season 3.
So what precisely did Mary Dove ask Otto for assist with? Did she need her husband lifeless, or did she simply wish to get away from him and issues spiraled uncontrolled? Will Otto inform Colter the remainder, or will he go away it as much as Mary Dove to do herself? Is she prepared to elucidate herself to her youngsters? She hadn’t wished Colter and Russell speaking when the sequence started, and Colter notably instructed her he had no concept what his brother was as much as when requested.
“His mom at first was very, very adamant about, ‘You guys not speaking might be good for me as a result of I do know Russell may know a bit of bit extra about what your father was as much as and a few of the folks he was concerned with. I don’t need you to know that stuff, Colter,’” showrunner Elwood Reid stated to TV Insider when discussing the finale. “So he’s been very kind of consciously protecting that from her. And that’s why it’s humorous, the dialog within the finale when she’s fishing round about Dory, she’s not likely asking how Dory’s doing. She’s asking, ‘Did you guys discuss me? Or what did Dory inform you?’ And Dory’s much more harmless as a result of Dory was moved away to her aunt and uncle. So I feel that’s the one particular person she seems at that she will in all probability win again if we study a reasonably darkish secret about her for subsequent season. So it’s simply all enjoyable household dynamics to play with and hopefully, I can get these actors again to play with them.”
Think about attending to see that with all 4 members of the Shaw household in the identical room — it might probably be depending on scheduling — as a result of Colter isn’t the one one who deserves solutions. All three of Mary Dove’s youngsters do, and that may make for fairly the dynamic scene, to see how every reacts and subsequently, how that impacts the completely different relationships concerned. After being estranged for therefore lengthy and simply now getting again to being brothers, would Colter and Russell stay on the identical facet, or might one thing Mary Dove has to say sway solely one in every of them and pit them towards each other once more? The place would Dory fall as, as Reid put it, the one their mother thinks she might win over?
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Tracker, Season 3, Fall 2025, Sundays, 8/7c, CBS