Tracker Season 2 Plot Update Reveals Secret About Colter’s Father and Brothers’ Reunion
A new plot update for Tracker Season 2 provides more details about a secret involving Colter’s father and previews Russell’s return as the brother. While the CBS action drama follows Justin Hartley’s Colter Shaw as a lone wolf who helps people find their loved ones in exchange for money, a larger mystery was revealed in the show’s first season about who killed Colter’s father, Ashton. That question becomes more complicated heading into Tracker Season 2, as Ashton’s past may not be what it seems. In Entertainment Weekly’s commentary track previewing the Tracker Season 2 premiere, which will air Sunday, October 13 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS, showrunner Elwood Reid teased that a secret will be revealed involving Colter and Russell’s fathers. It involves a memory of Ashton that Russell has, but Colter doesn’t. Read the quote below: [Russell] comes out at the top. There’s a secret revealed about their father in the first episode that both brothers know. There’s a memory that you’ll see that Colter doesn’t have like his brother about Colter and their father.
The mystery of Ashton’s death continues, even though the brothers have reconciled. Colter Shaw has a complicated family history, starting one night in 2003. Without his wife there, Ashton ran away. He was driven by his paranoia, or at least that’s how Colter remembers it. In any case, Russell followed Ashton, and Colter found out their father was dead an hour later. For a long time, Colter believed that Russell pushed their father to his death, but Russell denied this. With that tension in mind, the brothers reconciled when Russell appeared in season 1, episode 12. The brothers even worked on a case together, joking about Russell’s less-than-impressive courtship methods. It’s been confirmed that Russell will return in the second episode of Tracker season 2, with the possibility of more appearances depending on the plot and the availability of actor Jensen Ackles. But with Russell confirmed to appear in more than one episode, the mystery of Ashton’s death becomes more important, thanks to the revelations in the Tracker season 1 finale.
A key detail from Tracker season 1 has me convinced that Russell Shaw, played by Jensen Ackles, was innocent of the murder of their father, Ashton Shaw.
The hit show, based on the novel The Never Game by Jeffrey Deaver and created by Ben H. Winters, ended its first season with the revelation that Ashton had an affair. It turns out that Colter’s mother is a suspect in his murder. But in any case, there’s more to the remaining supporting characters of Tracker. That’s especially true with the sudden and inexplicable departure of original cast member Robin Weigert, who played Teddi Bruin.
Based on the novels by Jeffery Deaver, Tracker is an action-drama series created by Ben H. Winters for CBS. Traveling across America in his RV, Colter Shaw is a lone wolf with a troubled past who spends his time helping solve mysteries and police cases in every town he visits.
