The Shaw Brothers reunite in the October 20 episode of Tracker.
As we learned over the summer, Jensen Ackles will return to the CBS drama as Russell Shaw, Colter’s (Justin Hartley) estranged brother; the two began to patch things up when he first appeared near the end of Season 1. Now, we have details about when Russell returns in Episode 2 of Season 2, “Ontological Shock”: Reenie (Fiona Rene) asks him for help after Colter suddenly disappears while searching for his missing father. Check out the photo above.
Colter previously thought that Russell had something to do with their father’s death when they were kids, but after they reconnected and talked, they parted ways amicably. Russell insists that he had nothing to do with their father’s death but knows that someone else was in the woods that night—and saw their mother with that man.
“[Colter’s brother and sister] will come and go from the show,” executive producer Elwood Reid told TV Insider. “If we can drop a few bombshells into Colter’s life with those characters and then see how he struggles with them, then we’ll have them come back to sort of resolve the issue—because, I mean, the evidence we have in the show right now is that his sister definitely has a point of view about what he should do, which is forget about it and leave it at that. And then you look at Jensen’s character Russell, he seems to have put it all in a box in a way and just deal with it. But you’ll know in Episode 2, he has very different memories of something that happened in their past that Colter doesn’t remember at all.”
And hey, maybe with Reenie calling him in, there will be more of the flirting that we saw in Season 1. “I think she wants to have some fun, especially since Colter pissed her off so much,” Rene shared with us. “Russell is a great opportunity to get a little revenge, but at the same time, we don’t want to use anyone, right? So I think she’s going to have some fun. And I noticed in Episode 12 when Russell comes in, even though he’s very direct with her and she’s kind of, like, backing off, I think there are moments where she’s rethinking some of her thoughts. So we’ll see if there might be more of that in Season 2. I don’t know.”
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