SPOILER ALERT! This put up incorporates particulars from the Season 1 finale of Tracker.
Colter Shaw is off the case — however simply till the subsequent fall broadcast season begins.
Season 1 of CBS‘ Tracker ended Sunday evening with certainly one of Colter’s (Justin Hartley) hardest and most private circumstances but when a household good friend’s daughter goes lacking whereas storm chasing with a good friend. Officers are sure that she and her good friend have been misplaced at sea, however Colter isn’t so positive.
Not solely does he use his distinctive abilities to carry Lizzy’s daughter house, he additionally is ready to expose the seedy underbelly of the city that’s protecting up her disappearance, which is linked to a string of different crimes.
Audiences have been left on a cliffhanger as, on the finish of the episode, Colter uncovers one more cryptic reality about his previous, leaving him with extra questions on his household’s involvement in his father’s demise.
Because it seems, Lizzy (Jennifer Morrison) had been preserving a field of his father’s issues, which she not too long ago despatched to his sister Dory, who had failed to say something about that final time she and her brother had spoken about their dad. In actual fact, she’d even dismissed Colter’s issues concerning the particulars of their father’s demise when he’d discovered new info that related his dad to some shady authorities dealings.
Star and government producer Justin Hartley spoke with Deadline about that finale episode in addition to what’s in retailer for Season 2 as Colter proceed to unravel the thriller surrounding his household.
DEADLINE: The episode ends on a reasonably large cliffhanger about Colter’s household, insinuating his sister and mother could also be protecting some issues up. How did you are feeling about the place all of it left off?
JUSTIN HARTLEY: I really feel nice about it, to reply your query. When you will have a present like this, and also you finish it in such a great way, and also you wrap up all these tales in a reasonably little bow, it’s cool, and it’s nice. However we have now a complete different season to shoot that we have now to make higher than Season 1. So…whereas we needed all these storylines wrapped up, we additionally needed these bows to form of result in different questions— larger, deeper questions — about his previous. So I feel we did that in answering a few of these questions that we had constructed up all 12 months. I feel we did a superb job of creating positive that the solutions to these questions then result in an even bigger thriller, one thing that we will unpack in Season 2.
DEADLINE: In an earlier episode, Colter was in a position to reconcile a bit together with his brother. Do you assume that Colter actually believes his brother is harmless now? The place does he stand on that familial thriller?
HARTLEY: I may very well be completely flawed, however now that the season’s over, I’ll inform you what I what I did. What Colter does is he finds individuals, and he reads individuals. He reads physique language. He can take a look at individuals. He appears into their eyes, and he understands individuals. He’s a soulful man himself as nicely. I selected in that second when Jensen [Ackles] was taking a look at me, and the best way that he was taking part in it, I selected in that second, simply primarily based on his efficiency, principally, that I used to be going to actually, actually wish to consider him.
So I feel that’s the place Colter is. Clearly, he doesn’t have all of the solutions. He’s the type of man that he’ll flip each rock and ensure that it’s 100% somehow. He’s a share man. However I feel if he was placing a share on it, I feel he would say, he’s 85% positive that Russell didn’t do it. I feel that by the top of Episode 12, he’s 95% positive that Russell didn’t do it. Within the finale, you discover out that Lizzie has been speaking to Russell each occasionally. There’s one thing else is happening. So possibly he didn’t push him, however did he plan one thing? He is aware of loads of details about that evening that Colter doesn’t know. It’s very odd. There’s their stuff on this field that they’re not sharing it with Colter. There’s a motive for that. So does Colter assume that he pushed him off the cliff now? Most likely not. However does he assume that he had nothing to do with something or doesn’t have any data about his father’s demise? And that he’s utterly at nighttime identical to Colter is? I don’t assume that’s the case both.
DEADLINE: As an actor, do you like to know the place the story goes and what the true reply is, or do you like to remain at nighttime as nicely?
HARTLEY: Properly, I’m a curious man. I can’t actually assist myself however to brainstorm. Additionally, it’s powerful as a result of I’m behind the scenes a bit bit too, being an EP. So I type of know the story. I could make up tales in my head, however I do know a few of the info.
DEADLINE: So you have already got all of it deliberate out?
HARTLEY: We now have info there. However then there are issues that occur all year long the place, as an illustration, you might need a visitor star that comes on, and it simply clicks…Okay, now we’re utilizing extra of that. So all of these tales, these aren’t issues that we have now mapped out for 5 years going, ‘Okay, he’s going to work together with this characters 17 occasions from…’ We don’t have that. We simply type of know the place that’s going. However so far as the precise occasion that occurred, and who’s chargeable for it, we have now that. Now, the best way that you simply get there adjustments all through the season, since you might need one thing occurring, and you intend it a sure approach, and you’ve got all of your geese in a row, after which abruptly, one thing pops in, you’re like, ‘Whoa, that is particular, we must always hang around right here a bit bit longer than we thought.’
Then there are different occasions the place you will have an thought, and also you assume it’s going to be wonderful on paper, and then you definitely see it, you’re like, ‘Okay, we must always transfer on from this, as a result of I feel we’ve instructed that story, and it’s time to go.’ The fellows that I work with, Elwood and Ken, they’re very collaborative. I suppose no thought is a silly thought, however I’ve had a few actually, actually silly concepts. However typically these concepts result in higher concepts. Generally somebody can take your silly thought and go, ‘Properly, what if this?’ After which abruptly, it turns into one thing a bit bit higher than what you had.
DEADLINE: Among the circumstances this season are fairly wild. They’ll begin in a single place, and find yourself someplace I by no means anticipated. Is that what you imply?
HARTLEY: It’s powerful, as a result of it’s a must to make these circumstances good, as a result of the viewers is sensible. You have got Colter, who’s very good and resourceful. You have got Bobby, who’s very good and resourceful. You have got Reenie, who’s very good and resourceful. And you’ve got an viewers who’s actually good and resourceful. We make each effort to nail each single level. We’re not 100%. We make errors on a regular basis. In each episode, we make errors, I’m positive. I do know that I do. However that’s not intentional, it’s not for lack of effort. We’re making an attempt to make it excellent. Ultimately, we’ll get there. Once we make it excellent, we’ll cease. However till we make it excellent, we’ll preserve doing extra.
DEADLINE: So you bought to behave alongside your spouse, Sofia Pernas, once more. How did that concept come about, and the way was it to be again on set collectively?
HARTLEY: She hated it. [Laughs]. No, we have now a good time collectively. I simply thought it might be a very cool thought. It was form of my thought from the start to have this character that comes on that you simply simply talked about. I feel it was within the second episode, there was an enormous reward for a automotive…there was a line that one of many women mentioned, ‘Phrase on the road is that Billie is circling the case.’ After which Coulter type of eye rolls. If you happen to’re actually paying consideration, you go ‘Oh, he’s received a rival, this man Billie.’
So my thought was to tease that and deliberately named the character Billie, after which reveal that Billie is, in fact, Sofia. We didn’t get to tease that as a lot as I’d have preferred, simply because we have been so pressed with time. However that was the intention. Then when she got here on, to be trustworthy with you, I’m undecided how a lot of that character facet that she introduced was really written. I feel you’re simply watching a gifted actor. There have been a number of issues we had the advantage of discussing privately that, usually, you don’t have time to do this. However once you dwell with the individual, you possibly can discuss that stuff at dinner, and go, ‘Hey, what about this?’ So we actually received an opportunity to dialogue that.
DEADLINE: Can we count on Billie again in Season 2?
HARTLEY: She’s positively coming again. We now have some fairly cool stuff for her to do subsequent 12 months. She’ll be again a number of occasions subsequent 12 months. We now have plans to carry again my complete my household…We now have loads of inquiries to reply with Colter’s mom. Jennifer Morrison does this actually fantastic efficiency. I feel we’d be remiss to not carry her again. We constructed this actually nice group of actors [who are] hopefully greater than prepared to return again, as a result of we’d like to play extra with them. We now have a bunch of tales to inform with all [of them].
