How ‘Tracker’ Fired a Major Cast Member in Season 2 Premiere
Justin Hartley’s CBS drama Tracker was tasked with firing a major cast member after a cast member unexpectedly left — but how did the show make the change onscreen?
In the season 2 premiere, which aired on Sunday, Oct. 13, Velma (Abby McEnany) mentioned the distance between her and her wife, Teddi (Robin Weigert), which is why she’s spending more time helping Reenie (Fiona Rene).
“[Teddi]’s going to be there for a while. She’s helping her mom get things together. I was in the way and that wasn’t really good,” Velma admitted. “So I’m back. Don’t worry, I’m still busy.”
It was confirmed in August that Weigert would not be returning as a regular cast member of the series after appearing on the show consistently throughout the first season. Weigert primarily shared the screen with McEnany as they helped Hartley’s character Colter solve various missing persons cases across the country to collect the bounty.
The Most Iconic Guest Stars From Justin Hartley’s ‘Tracker’ Series: Sofia Pernas, Jensen Ackles, and More Hartley teased how the storyline would develop in the second season, telling TV Insider in September, “At the end of last season, Reenie decides that she’s going to leave her agency and go into business for herself. She’s having a big change in her life and in a way, she teams up with Velma and you’re going to see a lot of them working together, which is a really interesting dynamic.”
The plot twist means Velma will be moving on to a new job while her wife is away. “[Reenie and Velma] both have the same goals, just some completely different ways of doing their business,” the actor continued. “Bobby [Eric Graise], our computer genius, is busy. Then we have some really fun surprises for Reenie.” Hartley also explained how Jensen Ackles and Melissa Roxburgh will be returning to play Colter’s siblings despite their busy schedules. (After both were introduced in the first season, Ackles, 46, has been booked on the upcoming Prime Video horror series Countdown while Roxburgh, 31, will lead NBC’s midseason drama The Hunting Party.) What to Know About Season 2 of Justin Hartley’s Hit Show ‘Tracker’: Sofia Pernas’ Return and More “[Melissa’s] show wrapped [production] before we wrapped so we could have her back in later episodes of the show,” the actor noted. “And then Jennifer Morrison will be back to direct episode 6. I’m sure her character will be back.” Based on the novel The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver, Tracker premiered in February after Super Bowl LVIII and immediately found an audience as people tuned in every week to watch their favorite fictional survivor. After the show’s first season ended, viewership numbers confirmed that Tracker was the most-watched series of the 2023-24 TV season. The show has been renewed for a second season, introducing new cases for Colter to solve.
The Most Shocking TV Departures of 2024 So Far: From ‘And Just Like That’ to ‘General Hospital’ “We have another whole season to shoot, and we have to do better than Season 1. So while we want all of those storylines to wrap up, we also want those arcs to lead to other questions—bigger, deeper questions—about his past,” Hartley told Deadline in May about future plans for the show. “So I think we did that in answering some of the questions that we’ve had throughout the year. I think we did a good job of making sure that the answers to those questions lead to a bigger mystery, which we can explore in season 2.”
