It’s official: Tracker Season 2 has managed to deliver three straight weeks of impressive guest stars, with the highly anticipated return of Justin Hartley’s wife Sofia Pernas in Episode 3. After back-to-back appearances by Manifest’s Matt Long and Supernatural’s Jensen Ackles, Pernas returned in the third episode of Season 2 as Billie Matalon, Colter’s (Harley) rival and ex-lover.
In an interesting twist, the eventful episode also featured Better Call Saul’s Patrick Fabian. But since Pernas and Hartley are married in real life, their obvious chemistry ended up stealing the show.
“We love working together,” Hartley told Decider ahead of the Season 2 premiere. “We talk to each other all the time at home. I always say things to her like, ‘I’m thinking this,’ ‘I don’t know this character,’ and ‘Am I reading this wrong?’ She does the same. We always talk about everything, just like everything in life.”
In “Bloodlines,” Billie enlists Colter to help her find a missing high school baseball star from her hometown, and the two take their relationship to the next level—emotionally! Don’t get me wrong, they’re super hot when they’re looking at each other at bars and easily slip A+ flirting into casual conversations, but their true feelings shine brightest in their honest moments.
Elsewhere, the most vulnerable person in this episode is Billie. From asking Colter for help and admitting that it’s nice to work with him again to opening up about her difficult childhood and personal family tragedy, she brings a fascinating new level of intimacy to their relationship that has viewers craving more episodes together.
After Colter’s skeptical team advises him to be careful with Billie because of their complicated past, he definitely puts up some walls, but the more Billie lets her walls down, the more she lets them down. you can see Colter’s desire to let her in.
As the two trackers go their separate ways to investigate, the urge to see each other again almost becomes a distraction. (Thankfully, their phone calls are hot, too!) As they wield weapons and sneak around looking for missing people, Tracker becomes a more humble, more survivalist—but still incredibly charming—version of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. And when Colter finally rescues Billie and holds her bleeding head in his hands to examine it, viewers are reminded that there’s still genuine tenderness and care between them.
It’s not every day you get to see spouses act together in such unique, well-matched roles, so hopefully we haven’t seen the last of this dynamic duo this season. Every time Billie shows up, she successfully raises the stakes and turns up the heat. We have only one request: It’s Colter’s turn to dig deeper next time. (And a kiss is okay too!)
