Watch Stephen Colbert Ask Tracker’s Justin Hartley to Find His Lost Coffee Mug
Justin Hartley puts his Tracker skills to the test to help Stephen Colbert find his missing mug.
On the Thursday, October 3 episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the 60-year-old host realized he couldn’t find his favorite mug. He left the stage to ask for help from an expert, as Hartley, 47, plays a bounty hunter named Colter Shaw on Tracker.
“My name is not Tracker. My name is Justin Hartley, and I’m on a show called Tracker,” the actor explained to Colbert, who still called him Tracker. “[I] can [find your mug]. I mean, how many mugs are there in the greater New York metropolitan area?”
The duo then set out on a mission around the Ed Sullivan Theater to find clues. Colbert almost gave up hope, but Hartley gave him a pep talk.
“Listen, I found a missing ghost hunter in Vermont, a missing racehorse in Kentucky, and I even found the perfect balance of drama and action to make Tracker the #1 show in primetime,” Hartley said. “I’m telling you, I’m going to find your damn mug.”
Hartley and Colbert noticed a janitor holding a mug, so they chased him back off stage. They even wrestled him before Colbert realized his mug had been on his desk the whole time. Viewers can look forward to more successful cases being solved in season 2 of Tracker.
The procedural drama, based on the novel The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver, premiered in February after Super Bowl LVIII and immediately gained an audience as people tuned in every week to watch their favorite fictional survivor, aka Colter, travel across the country to help solve missing persons cases, track down information on criminal cases, and more.
Following the show’s first season finale, viewership numbers confirmed that Tracker was the most-watched series of the 2023-24 television season. The show has been renewed for a second season, introducing new cases for Colter to solve.
“We have another whole season to shoot that we have to do better than Season 1. So while we want all those storylines to be wrapped 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 been building up over the course of the year. I think we did a good job of making sure that the answers to those questions then lead to a bigger mystery, something that we can address in Season 2.”
