"Shaw-tastic Showdown: Why Tracker’s Season Finale Leaves You Questioning Who Really Runs the World!"
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Colter and Russell certainly have a lot of luck.
There are only so many times you can be outnumbered by a group of men trained to kill and live to tell the tale.
That’s the beauty of Tracker, though. It will always be Colter and that gun against the world.
After Tracker Season 3 Episode 21, Colter was standing across from Danny with the alarms blaring, and presumably no plan.
Would he have to leave Danny and make a run for it? Or would he be able to coax Danny to leave with him?
More importantly: where the hell was Russell?
The cliffhanger meant we got answers to those questions very quickly, which was a good thing because this hour had a lot going on, and step one was getting the three of them out of that facility.
It’s very easy to rag
Colter and Russell certainly have a lot of luck.
There are only so many times you can be outnumbered by a group of men trained to kill and live to tell the tale.
That’s the beauty of Tracker, though. It will always be Colter and that gun against the world.
After Tracker Season 3 Episode 21, Colter was standing across from Danny with the alarms blaring, and presumably no plan.
Would he have to leave Danny and make a run for it? Or would he be able to coax Danny to leave with him?
More importantly: where the hell was Russell?
The cliffhanger meant we got answers to those questions very quickly, which was a good thing because this hour had a lot going on, and step one was getting the three of them out of that facility.
It’s very easy to rag on Tracker for being unrealistic at times, and I’m certainly guilty of that, but sometimes you just have to ignore some of the outlandish stuff and just enjoy the ride.
This one was certainly a ride!
Danny’s refusal to leave without Lola was a complication neither Colter nor Russell could have seen coming, and Danny’s lucky that Colter is the kind of person who never leaves anyone behind.
There’s been this recurring theme throughout the entirety of Tracker of Colter not believing much in magic or anything that defies logic. It’s a complete contrast to Russell, who’s much more open to the possibilities that exist out there.
Russell’s also seen a lot more things in his life than Colter has.
Colter and Russell bickering back and forth about whether Danny’s remote-viewing session would produce anything about Lola’s location was the kind of scene Tracker does so well.
Let Justin Hartley and Jensen Ackles just play off one another in some lighthearted banter in the middle of a ridiculously tension-filled hour, and you’ll always end up with some of the episode’s most entertaining moments.
With Danny, they only gave us a taste of what remote viewing would entail, and his ability to recall a few locations was something that Colter could seemingly handle, as far as psychic abilities were concerned.
Colter and Russell splitting up seemed like the dumbest decision when it happened, and quite frankly, it was dumb, though the two men did have separate agendas.
I’m glad the brothers put a voice to the need for some kind of plan beyond rescuing Lola, because this was much bigger than an ordinary tracking case with an envelope of cash handed over at the end.
They’d involved themselves in some highly classified, government-type stuff that would mean they couldn’t just walk away as if nothing had happened. And neither could Danny nor Lola.
There were going to be real consequences attached to what they did, and it would have been a major disservice to this whole plot to act as if the rescue of Lola by itself was the only thing this hour needed to accomplish.
Felton seemed like he was on the take last hour, but when he met up with Russell, he actually seemed to be on his side. Or at the very least, he wanted to give him a fighting chance in what he knew was going to be an upcoming war.
We already had a face for the man after him, but Felton gave him a quick name, Damon Vickers, and a background, which put everything into greater perspective.
When Damon killed the remaining guard at the facility, it didn’t really make sense, because weren’t they all on the same side?
However, hearing that Colter and Russell’s little stunt had essentially made Dorix scrub the whole operation (at least as it was currently constructed) pumped a greater sense of urgency into everything.
If Dorix wanted it all to disappear, they would stop at nothing to get rid of everyone, from Colter and Russell all the way down to Jukic.
One unrealistic thing you eventually accept about Tracker is that nobody ever shoots Colter, because it so rarely happens.
That made Russell actually getting a significant wound during his shootout feel all the more important, even if there is no way in hell this show would ever kill off Jensen Ackles’ character.
It was completely in character for Russell to hide his injury for as long as he was able – a big brother through and through – but he was smart enough, even while bleeding out, to keep going on his quest to find out who was calling the shots over this whole thing.
Of course, Russell would have been a dead man without Colter, but he was off saving Lola and not shooting Damon in the head.
Lola, effectively seeing the future at every turn after Colter rescued her, was amusing at first, but then it got to the point where all I could think was, “Sister, if you know this much, then just tell them exactly what to do so this can all be over!”
But I guess that’s not actually how any of it works.
Russell went from looking like death to capable of taking down a grown man with his one good hand in a matter of seconds, and Colter probably didn’t even need the assist once Damon and his backup descended upon that warehouse.
Few scenes in Tracker Season 3 were as edge-of-your-seat tense as Russell and Damon’s game of cat and mouse.
Even knowing that Russell would not die, it was still intense and suspenseful. They didn’t cheapen it by having Damon pop out immediately after realizing Russell was on top of him due to the dripping blood.
They actually gave the scene room to breathe, and it came out perfectly.
By the time Damon got to Russell, it was really just a matter of whether Russell would find his way out of the situation or Colter would save the day.
A pretty easy guess which way it was going to go.
Once they were free of Damon, it all circled back to how they were going to escape Dorix, which was still coming after them. And I love when Tracker brings back past characters!
Tracker Season 2 Episode 8 was a fabulous installment, and introduced us to Barbie’s Night Movers business, which absolutely should have been brought back here.
Barbie’s whole business was framed around getting innocent people off the grid, and that’s precisely what Lola, Danny, Jukic, and her man Paul needed.
I love it when a plan comes together.
Of course, Colter and Russell would die before they got in that van, too, but it was not at all clear how they were going to get to McIntyre outside of killing him. And even then, all that would do was put the brothers on the radar of whoever took over for McIntyre.
I had a very troubled feeling that even if everything was wrapped up with Chrono Stasis, there would still be some lingering Ashton Shaw drama, because that family drama and dishonesty are at the root of everything.
For Colter, everything leads back to Ashton because he’s so good at what he does and so invested in unraveling mysteries and reuniting people with their loved ones, partly because of Ashton and his childhood.
Hearing that Ashton “did something” to Colter sets us up for another Shaw Family drama mystery, and you know what? What the hell.
This show works best when it offers regular cases of the week while also giving Colter an overarching mystery to work on.
Obviously, the Shaw Family drama has been the most prominent, but cases that carry over for an episode or two or linger, like the Gina Pickett case, keep the series from growing overly stale.
You could say the mysteries of Ashton Shaw are getting stale, but the man is just a treasure trove of secrets and conspiracies. Until all his many misdeeds are unearthed, I fear the Ashton Shaw chronicles are here to stay.
Tracker Notes
That’s another wrap on a Tracker season, folks!
All in all, this season had a lot of good things going for it, and outside of Russell’s secret mission, we’re heading into Tracker Season 4 having no idea what’s to come!
What did you guys think about the finale?
How are you feeling about where the series currently sits?
As always, it’s been so much fun reading all your comments and chatting about the ridiculousness! See you next season!
You can watch Tracker on Sundays at 9/8c on CBS.
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