SPOILER ALERT! This submit comprises particulars from the Season 1 finale of Tracker.
Colter Shaw is off the case — however simply till the following fall broadcast season begins.
Season 1 of CBS‘ Tracker ended Sunday evening with one in every of Colter’s (Justin Hartley) hardest and most private circumstances but when a household pal’s daughter goes lacking whereas storm chasing with a pal. Officers are sure that she and her pal have been misplaced at sea, however Colter isn’t so certain.
Not solely does he use his distinctive abilities to carry Lizzy’s daughter residence, 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 yet one more cryptic truth about his previous, leaving him with extra questions on his household’s involvement in his father’s dying.
Because it seems, Lizzy (Jennifer Morrison) had been preserving a field of his father’s issues, which she just lately despatched to his sister Dory, who had failed to say something about that final time she and her brother had spoken about their dad. The truth is, she’d even disregarded Colter’s issues concerning the particulars of their father’s dying when he’d discovered new data that linked his dad to some shady authorities dealings.
Star and govt 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 might 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 now we have a complete different season to shoot that now we have to make higher than Season 1. So…whereas we needed all these storylines wrapped up, we additionally needed these bows to kind of result in different questions— greater, deeper questions — about his previous. So I believe we did that in answering a few of these questions that we had constructed up all yr. I believe we did an excellent job of creating certain 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 along 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 unsuitable, however now that the season’s over, I’ll inform you what I what I did. What Colter does is he finds folks, and he reads folks. He reads physique language. He can have a look at folks. He seems into their eyes, and he understands folks. He’s a soulful man himself as nicely. I selected in that second when Jensen [Ackles] was me, and the way in which that he was taking part in it, I selected in that second, simply based mostly on his efficiency, principally, that I used to be going to essentially, actually need to imagine him.
So I believe that’s the place Colter is. Clearly, he doesn’t have all of the solutions. He’s the sort of man that he’ll flip each rock and guarantee that it’s 100% come what may. He’s a share man. However I believe if he was placing a share on it, I believe he would say, he’s 85% certain that Russell didn’t do it. I believe that by the top of Episode 12, he’s 95% certain that Russell didn’t do it. Within the finale, you discover out that Lizzie has been speaking to Russell each from time to time. There’s one thing else is happening. So possibly he didn’t push him, however did he plan one thing? He is aware of a variety 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 purpose for that. So does Colter assume that he pushed him off the cliff now? In all probability not. However does he assume that he had nothing to do with something or doesn’t have any data about his father’s dying? And that he’s utterly in the dead of night identical to Colter is? I don’t assume that’s the case both.
DEADLINE: As an actor, do you favor to know the place the story goes and what the actual reply is, or do you favor to remain in the dead of night as nicely?
HARTLEY: Effectively, 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 sort of know the story. I could make up tales in my head, however I do know a number of the information.
DEADLINE: So you have already got all of it deliberate out?
HARTLEY: We now have data there. However then there are issues that occur all year long the place, as an illustration, you may 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 now we have 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 sort of know the place that’s going. However so far as the precise occasion that occurred, and who’s accountable for it, now we have that. Now, the way in which that you just get there adjustments all through the season, since you may need one thing occurring, and you propose it a sure manner, and you’ve got all of your geese in a row, after which rapidly, 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 might have an thought, and also you assume it’s going to be superb on paper, and then you definitely see it, you’re like, ‘Okay, we must always transfer on from this, as a result of I believe we’ve advised that story, and it’s time to go.’ The fellows that I work with, Elwood and Ken, they’re very collaborative. I assume no thought is a silly thought, however I’ve had a few actually, actually silly concepts. However generally these concepts result in higher concepts. Typically somebody can take your silly thought and go, ‘Effectively, what if this?’ After which rapidly, it turns into one thing a bit bit higher than what you had.
DEADLINE: A few of 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 you need to make these circumstances good, as a result of the viewers is wise. You’ve gotten Colter, who’s very good and resourceful. You’ve gotten Bobby, who’s very good and resourceful. You’ve gotten 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 certain. I do know that I do. However that’s not intentional, it’s not for lack of effort. We’re attempting to make it excellent. Finally, we’ll get there. After we make it excellent, we’ll cease. However till we make it excellent, we’ll maintain 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, now we have a good time collectively. I simply thought it could be a very cool thought. It was kind of my thought from the start to have this character that comes on that you just simply talked about. I believe it was within the second episode, there was an enormous reward for a automotive…there was a line that one of many women stated, ‘Phrase on the road is that Billie is circling the case.’ After which Coulter sort of eye rolls. In case you’re actually paying consideration, you go ‘Oh, he’s bought 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 appreciated, simply because we have been so pressed with time. However that was the intention. Then when she got here on, to be sincere with you, I’m unsure how a lot of that character facet that she introduced was really written. I believe you’re simply watching a proficient actor. There have been a couple of issues we had the good thing about discussing privately that, usually, you don’t have time to try this. However whenever you dwell with the individual, you’ll be able to discuss that stuff at dinner, and go, ‘Hey, what about this?’ So we actually bought an opportunity to dialogue that.
DEADLINE: Can we count on Billie again in Season 2?
HARTLEY: She’s undoubtedly coming again. We now have some fairly cool stuff for her to do subsequent yr. She’ll be again a number of occasions subsequent yr. We now have plans to carry again my complete my household…We now have a variety of inquiries to reply with Colter’s mom. Jennifer Morrison does this actually great efficiency. I believe we’d be remiss to not carry her again. We constructed this actually nice group of actors [who are] hopefully greater than keen 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].