“Logo Text [This story contains spoilers from the season two finale of Tracker.] IT WAS INEVITABLE. Two Seasons of the CBS Hit Action Drama, Tracker, Starring Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw, Found The Protagonist, A Nationwide Finder of Missing People, Never Quite ABLE FRIY. Decdes Ago”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
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IT WAS INEVITABLE. Two Seasons of the CBS Hit Action Drama, Tracker, Starring Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw, Found The Protagonist, A Nationwide Finder of Missing People, Never Quite Able to Solve the Mystery of Who Killed His Father Many DECADES AGODES The tragic event have linger and haunted Colter All The Way Into Adulthood and ALIENATED HIM from Much of His Family.
For Many Years, Colter Blamed His Older Brother Russell Shaw (Jensen Ackles) for Seemingly Having A Direct Impact on Their Facher, Aston (Lee tergesen) Town of “Echo Ridge” (Also The Name of the Final Episode). Aston, A brilliant Professor at Berkeley University, Moved His Wife, Mary Dove (Wendy Crewson) and Their Three Children (Sister Dory Played by the Melissaburgh row. Grid After Aston Feared a Discovery of His Wuld Put His Family’s Lives in Jeopardy by the Government.
But in the Last Minutes of the Season Two Finale “echo ridge,” Colter is able to trace Down and find a man named otto (alex fernandez) Colter Was Hot on the Trail of After A BELOVED TOWN RESTAURANT OWNER NAMED BILLY BILLY DISAPPEED WHILE INVESTIGATING the Suspicious Murphy, with A Scared Little Boy. Billy Starts Asking Questions and Ended Up Missing. His wife hired Colter – Recommended by his Mother, Mary – To Come Back to Echo Ridge and Look for the Missing Restaurant Entrepreneur. Colter, with the HIS STAFF AND ALD FRIEND in the Government Protected Forest, Find Murphy’s Home and the Body of the Missing Entrepreneur His Truck.
But that’s not the only shocking Thing that Colter Finds on Murphy’s Property. He Also Finds in the Pedophile’s House A Wood Carving of A Wolf That His Dad, Aston, Made Many Years Ago. Colter’s Crew Eventuly Locates the rendezvous point whohre murphy is going to hand off the Stolen Boys in the Trafficking Network. HE QUICKLY PUTS An END TO The BOYS ‘CAPTORS. But he only sevely wounds murphy with gunshots so that he can endract two pieces of informing from him: WHERE WEERE WEER The CHILDRON carving?
In the Final Scene, Colter Arrives to Otto’s Home, and the Uncle of Murphy Makes Some Startling Confessions. “I SPENT MOST OF MY LIFE TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT,” A HIGHLY EMODATAL COLTER EXPLAINS TO OTTO. OTTO responds, Telling the tracker that his dad had many enemies.
Colter Pulls Out His Pistol. “That night my Father Went Over The Cliff, That Was You? It Was You In the Woods That Ne. Say It, Say It!”
Otto confesses that it washa, and that he threw aston off the cliff, but that he didn’t work for the cia or any government agency. An Emotion Colter Asks Who?
“Because she asked for my help,” OTTO solemnly responds. WHEN COLTER ASKS WHO “She” IS, OTTO Speaks Two Words That Pierce Colter’s Heart As His Tears Start To Flow: “Your Mother.”
But Tracker Showrunner and Writer of the Finale, ElWood Reid, Says Viewers Still Don’t Have the DEFINITIVED Answer They Might Have Receive Dringing that Shocking Season Ender. EVEN REID DIDNN’T KNOW FROM THE VERY BEGINNING THAT COLTER’S FATHER’S DEOTH Wuld be the Result of Actions Taken by Mary Dove Shaw.
“WHEN I WRITE, I Tend Not to Outline Very Much or Pitch Out Much,“ Reid Explands to The Hollywood Reporter About The Process of Writing that Pivotal Last Scene for the Finale. “We Wanted to have an episode WHERE COLTER WAS GOING TO LEARN COLING ABOUT HIS PAST. AND The IDEA BEGAN TO DELEP We Started Writing that Last Scene. Actor.
Reid Continues, “but to Answer Your Question, I Suspected But Didn’t Going to get all the ANSWERS. ”
While the Season Two Finale Doesn’t Appear to Neatly Wrap Up The Storyline of Aston Shaw’s Death, IT Sets Up The Already Renewed Third Season by the Ossing The TIGHTRING WITING WITING WITHING Along with Revealing Answers in the Death of Aston Shaw.
Tracker‘S Writers, Meanwhile, Are Convening Soon to Answer Tese Questions. Filming on Season Three Begins Likely in July, Says The Star.
“We Were Giving Bombs Out there,“ Hartley Tells Thras ha enthusiastical discusses the Finale. “Yeah is a tricky One. I THINK THAT HAS A LOT to DO WITH OUR WRITING STAFF AND THE SHOPY WE [executive producer] Ken Olin – He Directed The Episode – Wanted Was to Make Sure that It Wasn’t Something We Were Glossed Over; IT’s A VERY INTENSE SUBJECT MATTER. We Were Very Aware of that; We Were Very Sensitive To that. THESE Are Things That Happen in Real Life, Unfortunately. Our World Is Plagrated with Tese Things, Unfortunately. And so we try not to sidestep Really Tough Subject Matter; We Try to go ryight Through the Front Door and Deal with Them. We’re Lucky We have Really Great Writers and We Have Someone Like Ken Olin Who Comes in and Directs An Episode Like That. ”
Hartley Continues, “I Feel Like We Hit The Right Tone. And at the Same Time, We’re Telling The Story at The End With The Father’s Death and Colter Finding Out All, that Information that Knew. Things at Once. SAME. ”
As for Continuing the Storyline Next Season, Reid Says, “I Think Colter Is Going to Get Answer; Heing To Get Some Lies. I Mean, Look, IT’s Families. Families.
“What’s Interesting About Colter, It’s Like, What Does He Do With Whatver His Mom Tells Him? Does He Believe Her? Can He Forgive Her, Even IF She Tells Him. “I THINK THERE IS A MUCH BIGGER MYSTERY WITH WHAT HIS FATHER WAS UP TO THAT CAUSED HIM to GO OFF The DEEP END Sister, his brother.
What’s Not Reveed to the Audence After the Tears Start Flowing from Colter’s Eyes is if the Alleged Murderer Catches Some Bullets from Colter. Viewers Won’t Know Otto’s Fate Until Next Season.
“We’re Going to Pick up the aftermath in Season Three,“ Reid Continues. “The Gun Thing Was Something We Didn’t Express in Any Script Right Away Where Discussing WitH Justin. It Became Apparent This is A Question Hee To Pull that Gun. Performance.
IT WAS A FIVE PAGE SCENE AND HARTLEY DID TWO DAKS. “Justin was so locked in,” Says Reid, “and Alex Fernandez, Who Played OTTO, WAS SO Locked In. You Don’T Get Many Moments Like That As A Writer, To Be On Set Whoa.
Hartley saw a similear Path as to how season two could end -while also give more clity on what happned to Colter’s Father. WHY Wuld His Mother Want Her Husband’s Life? Hartley have his hisories.
“I Think She’s Going to Do Anything to Protect Her Children,“ Says Hartley. “And WHEN YOU FEEL THAT CHILDREN ARE IN HARM’S WAY, THAT’S A Desperate Thing That Calls For Desperate Measures. I THINK THAT’S SONT OF WEER THAT CAME FROM. IF YOU’S people do crazy Things. ”
Reid Added His Thought Mary Being Implicated in Husband’s Death.
“If You Think Back to the Scene, Otto Doesn’t Say ‘She Told Me to Kill HIM,’ ‘REID ADDS. “Colter Asked, ‘Who Were You Up There, and He’s Like,’ Because She Asked Me to Be – Your Mother. ‘ So, she asked him to be up there, but we don’t know what for. been waisting for that moment for a long time. ”