Tracker: Manifest’s Melissa Roxburgh Cast as Colter’s Sister Dory — See Air Date and Family Reunion
“Colter is finally reunited with his sister Dory in the coming weeks,” Hartley revealed. “Please join me in welcoming the lovely and talented
TVLine can now confirm that Roxburgh will guest star on Sunday, May 5 (CBS, 9/8c), in an episode titled “Beyond the Campus Walls.” The official synopsis for the episode is as follows: When a graduate student goes missing after a house party, his friends and family believe he succumbed to the pressures of a research grant. But after consulting with his sister, Dr. Dory Shaw (Melissa Roxburgh)—a professor at the school—Colter discovers a series of sensitive photos and text messages that lead him to uncover a dangerous (and deadly) conspiracy on campus.
Tracker’s February 11 premiere introduces This Is Us veteran Hartley as Colter Shaw, a lone survivor who roams the country and uses his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all sorts of mysteries… all while struggling with his own broken family.
That’s where things get interesting.
Flashbacks reveal that Colter and his siblings—including an older brother, Russell, and a younger sister, Dory—had an unusual start. Their parents, Ashton and Mary (played by Oz’s Lee Tergesen and Good Sam’s Wendy Crewson), “were professors at Berkeley until the incident with my dad,” Colter explains. “So he took us to live in isolation at this cabin. Actually, it was a compound near the Sierra National Forest,” where Ashton “started talking about people trying to get him and how we all had to be prepared. He taught us how to track, how to hunt, and taught us how to free climb at this place called Devil’s Notch.”
One night in 2003, when Mary wasn’t home, Ashton’s paranoia got the better of him and he ran away, leaving his three children behind. Russell chased him, and an hour later, Colter found his father dead, at the bottom of Devil’s Notch. It appears he had been pushed by Russell.
Russell has since tried to contact Colter. It seems like there’s something Colter “needs to know.” However, Mary—who hasn’t appeared since Episode 2—wants Colter to ignore her brother’s pleas. (Update: Jensen Ackles has been cast as Russell now and will make his debut in the May 12 episode.) So far, there’s been no mention of Dory in the current timeline.
“We have to address that,” Hartley told TVLine in February. “When it happens, it’ll make a lot of sense… [but] you won’t see her at the beginning of Season 1. I can tell you that.”
