Tracker‘s latest episode had Justin Hartley‘s Colter Shaw searching for a lacking woman in a doable homicide case — however was he capable of observe her down alive?
The Sunday, December 7, episode of the hit CBS collection confirmed Colter serving to a grieving mom one yr after her daughter disappeared from their residence. The mom was fighting alcohol habit on the time and woke as much as discover her little woman lacking — along with blood on the scene that hinted at an harm.
The entire city turned on the mom so when her daughter’s gown was left on her property, she was arrested on suspicion of homicide. Colter needed to race towards time to seek out clues that will absolve the mother, which is how he found that the unique detective on the case with the little woman’s grandfather.
Finally the unique detective kidnapped the woman and raised her together with his spouse. However as soon as Colter was onto him, the grandfather practically killed a person making an attempt to flee. He determined to launch his granddaughter, who was protected and sound. Colter reunited mom and daughter by the point the episode got here to an finish.
Tracker, which premiered in February 2024, launched fictional survivalist Colter as he travels the nation to assist remedy numerous lacking individuals instances. As Colter has obtained increasingly assist, the ensemble forged has grown with their respective characters, together with handlers Teddi (Robin Weigert) and Velma, hacker Bobby (Eric Graise) and legal professional Reenie (Fiona Rene).
After becoming a member of Tracker in season 1, Weigert’s character was written off within the premiere along with her spouse, Velma (Abby McEnany), admitting that they wanted a ways. Velma then began working with Reenie and Teddi wasn’t mentioned once more in season 2.
Season 2 then prompted some to be involved about when Graise was noticeably absent from six episodes. Information later broke that Graise and McEnany wouldn’t be coming again — at the very least for now.
“I do assume it’s evolving. If I can’t evolve these characters — Randy or Reenie or Bobby — they’re not simply those who simply choose up the telephone and go, ‘OK, right here is the reply.’ That’s when the present is phoning it in,” govt producer Elwood Reid solely advised Us Weekly in Might. “The problem is while you obtained to find out about them, which I assumed was attention-grabbing. That’s the problem of the present will not be having it fall right into a formulation.”
Reid famous that they didn’t need Tracker to “fall into complacency.”
“The one rule I actually have of the present is every week Colter goes to return to a brand new place and there’s going to be a brand new case. How he will get these solutions and what he makes use of on the group, that’s all one thing that’s up for grabs,” Reid teased. “Assembly these [local] bizarre characters is one thing we’re going to attempt to do extra of because the season goes on. Simply Colter coming in and interacting with different characters. That’s enjoyable to see Justin flex these muscle groups with actually good visitor forged members.”
Forward of season 3, Reid defended the choice to shake up season 3.
“Justin has to hold a lot of the present. So I don’t need the opposite characters which are within the present to only be phone-a-friend the place each time he’s in bother, he simply picks up the telephone. The problem in season 3 has been how can we construct precise good story out of [it],” Reid teased.
He continued: “It’s simply constructing out these story traces. The problem we arrange for ourselves this season was to construct out these folks’s world a bit of bit. It’s about making an attempt to get a bit of little bit of lightness [into the show] as a result of typically Colter is doing a little actually darkish and heavy stuff. It’s life or demise.”
Tracker airs on CBS Sundays at 8:30 p.m. ET earlier than streaming the subsequent day on Paramount+.
