Justin Hartley and Jensen Ackles’s Shaw brothers continue their investigation into their father’s mysterious work on Part 2 of the Tracker season 3 finale tonight. Is Russell Shaw OK?.
Colter and Russell Shaw’s bid to rescue a kid who’d been subjected to government experiments at the Chrono Stasis Institute puts a kill order on their backs.
Season 3 finale – Part 2 – The Best Ones.
Colter (Justin Hartley) and Russell (Jensen Ackles) search for a victim of a nefarious research project.
Jensen Ackles flew into Vancouver last month after The Boys press tour in Europe to shoot the 2-Part finale.
Tracker follows Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley), a lone-wolf survivalist who roams the country as a reward seeker, using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries while contending with his own family mystery.
A lot has happened in the Shaw family — Mom (Wendy Crewson), brother Russell (Jensen Ackles), Colter (Justin Hartley) and sister Dory (Melissa Roxburgh) — in three seasons.
When we met Colter in season one of Tracker, he believed that Russell had caused their father Ashton Shaw’s death 20 years before but in the second-to-last episode of that season, Russell convinced him someone else was responsible.
In season 2 episode 2, Russell came to Colter’s rescue on an X-Files-style case and the Shaw brothers found out a bit more about their father’s work as a government contractor and possible involvement in a conspiracy.
Then, at the end of season 2, Colter was stunned to learn his mother Mary (Wendy Crewson) may have been involved in his father’s death, after Colter found and confronted the man Otto (Alex Fernandez), who actually pushed his father off the cliff.
Colter and Russell reunited in the two-part season 3 premiere on another X-Files-style case, investigating a system called The Process — in which people were blackmailed into doing terrible things, modelled by grad students after their professor’s experiments.
The Process took the brothers into a very dark place, similar to the world that their Dad inhabited at Berkley when something caused him to step away and take his family off the grid to somewhere near the Sierra National Forest.
Colter and Russell reunited again for the two-part season 3 finale. Russell showed up at Colter’s Airstream trailer to tell his brother that he knew the location of Dr. Serena Jukic (Jeri Ryan), a researcher who worked with their father at the Chrono Stasis Institute in Alaska.
They tracked her down and learned of the experiments done on kids at the Institute.
These [government] experiments, possible mental, physical, psychological experiments that bear some really bad fruit. Some of that may also play into some of the larger secrets about Colter’s family — not this particular thing that’s in the season opener, but it’s opening up that world. ,. . . some of the answers with what happened with [Colter’s] family lie in that world. — showrunner Elwood Reid to TV Insider.
Tracker’s 2-part season 3 finale airs Sunday, May 17th and Sunday, May 24th.
Tracker is moving production from Vancouver to Los Angeles for season 4.