SPOILER ALERT! This put up 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 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 expertise to convey Lizzy’s daughter house, he additionally is ready to expose the seedy underbelly of the city that’s overlaying 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 holding 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. In actual fact, she’d even dismissed Colter’s considerations 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 fairly large cliffhanger about Colter’s household, insinuating his sister and mother could also be overlaying 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 have got a present like this, and also you finish it in such a great way, and also you wrap up all these tales in a fairly little bow, it’s cool, and it’s nice. However we’ve got a complete different season to shoot that we’ve got 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— larger, 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 a superb job of constructing positive that the solutions to these questions then result in a much bigger thriller, one thing that we are able to unpack in Season 2.
DEADLINE: In an earlier episode, Colter was capable of reconcile a bit along with his brother. Do you suppose 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 incorrect, however now that the season’s over, I’ll let you know what I what I did. What Colter does is he finds individuals, and he reads individuals. He reads physique language. He can have a look at individuals. He appears to be like into their eyes, and he understands individuals. 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 enjoying it, I selected in that second, simply primarily based on his efficiency, principally, that I used to be going to essentially, actually wish to imagine him.
So I believe that’s the place Colter is. Clearly, he doesn’t have all of the solutions. He’s the form of man that he’ll flip each rock and guarantee that it’s 100% by hook or by crook. He’s a share man. However I believe if he was placing a share on it, I believe he would say, he’s 85% positive that Russell didn’t do it. I believe that by the tip 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 every so often. There’s one thing else is occurring. So perhaps 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 motive for that. So does Colter suppose that he pushed him off the cliff now? Most likely not. However does he suppose that he had nothing to do with something or doesn’t have any information about his father’s dying? And that he’s utterly at nighttime similar to Colter is? I don’t suppose that’s the case both.
DEADLINE: As an actor, do you like to know the place the story goes and what the actual reply is, or do you like to remain at nighttime as nicely?
HARTLEY: Effectively, I’m a curious man. I can’t actually assist myself however to brainstorm. Additionally, it’s robust as a result of I’m backstage a little bit bit too, being an EP. So I form of know the story. I could make up tales in my head, however I do know a number of the info.
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, for example, 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 we’ve got mapped out for 5 years going, ‘Okay, he’s going to work together with this characters 17 instances from…’ We don’t have that. We simply form of know the place that’s going. However so far as the precise occasion that occurred, and who’s liable for it, we’ve got that. Now, the way in which that you simply get there modifications all through the season, since you may need one thing happening, and you propose it a sure manner, 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 should always hang around right here a little bit bit longer than we thought.’
Then there are different instances the place you have got an thought, and also you suppose it’s going to be superb on paper, and then you definately see it, you’re like, ‘Okay, we should 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 suppose no thought is a silly thought, however I’ve had a few actually, actually silly concepts. However generally these concepts result in higher concepts. Generally somebody can take your silly thought and go, ‘Effectively, what if this?’ After which abruptly, it turns into one thing a little 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 robust, as a result of you must make these circumstances good, as a result of the viewers is sensible. You will have Colter, who’s very good and resourceful. You will have Bobby, who’s very good and resourceful. You will have 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 good. Ultimately, we’ll get there. After we make it good, we’ll cease. However till we make it good, 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, we’ve got 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 simply simply talked about. I believe it was within the second episode, there was an enormous reward for a automobile…there was a line that one of many women mentioned, ‘Phrase on the road is that Billie is circling the case.’ After which Coulter form 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 might have favored, 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 unsure how a lot of that character side that she introduced was really written. I believe you’re simply watching a gifted 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 while you stay with the particular person, you’ll be able to 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 undoubtedly coming again. We now have some fairly cool stuff for her to do subsequent yr. She’ll be again a number of instances subsequent yr. We now have plans to convey 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 convey 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].
