Tracker has captured our hearts with Colter Shaw’s high-stakes tracking missions. But there’s a hidden gem in the ensemble: Reenie Greene, the brilliant attorney behind the scenes. In Season 3, she deserves more than legal one-liners or courtroom cameos. Expanding her law practice—as showrunner Elwood Reid and actress Fiona Rene have teased—will deepen the series, enrich character dynamics, and bring much-needed balance to the dynamics of a procedural drama.
No matter how you look at it, Tracker isn’t exactly set up to be an ensemble show. Sure, there are other characters in the narrative besides Colter, and they certainly help to make the show stronger, but the show is very much driven by the lead and his thrilling adventures. Nevertheless, the second most important character on the show, Reenie, has a lot of potential worth exploring beyond the standard episode structure. Whether it’s her growing law practice, her personal life, or her mental state after nearly being killed at the end of Season 2’s penultimate episode, “Rules of the Game,” it would be great to dive a bit deeper into what makes Reenie tick. Additionally, Tracker should consider spending more time in a courtroom environment, which is something we haven’t seen hardly seen at all since the series began. While we’ve always been told how good a lawyer Reenie is, it’s not something we’ve actually seen a lot of ourselves.
Considering how Reenie conscripted Velma Bruin (Abby McEnany) into building her new practice, the Season 2 opener suggested that the show was going to expand on that a bit further. However, in true Tracker fashion, it never did. It’s no secret that the show often sets up ideas that take considerable time to pay off, and whether that’s due to the series’ distinct procedural format or a plot to build more anticipation by the writers, it can grow quite tiresome. Perhaps more time with Reenie in Season 3 would also give the show some time to explain how she can possibly be practicing law in every state where Colter finds himself in a legal bind. All of those individual state bar dues must come at a hefty cost, and although this is a television series that certainly asks us to suspend our disbelief at times, that’s one question that has real-life lawyers scratching their heads.
There’s also the matter of Reenie and Colter’s will-they/won’t-they dynamic. The show has continuously teased that these two may be a thing — if not now, then possibly in the future — though never fully committed to the idea. It’s clear that they care deeply about each other, and since we’ve already seen Colter’s side of the story, this may open the door for us to better understand how Reenie feels about her closest guy friend as well. Yes, we know, she’s still dating Elliot Rusch (Michael Rady), but after everything that went down with Sharf in the penultimate episode (a man who Elliot recommended Reenie to), we have to wonder how long that fling will last.
