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Jensen Ackles Returns, Extra About Colter and Russell’s Father


[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Tracker Season 2 Episode 2 “Ontological Shock.”]

When Colter (Justin Hartley) goes MIA whereas on the lookout for a lacking particular person, his workforce turns to his brother Russell (Jensen Ackles) to assist—and the episode provides to the Tracker thriller surrounding their father. (And sure, as with his first episode, there are many moments that remind us of Ackles on Supernatural.)

Colter’s latest shopper is apprehensive after her father, Scott (Steven Culp), who’s obsessive about authorities conspiracies, goes lacking after claiming he was being adopted. He was additionally harassing an astrophysics professor, whose husband took out a restraining order in opposition to him. However a minimum of one of many calls was 10 minutes lengthy. The professor, Blair (April Parker Shaw), says Scott had attention-grabbing concepts; they’d been speaking about UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena, just like UFOs), however there’s a stigma, particularly in academia. She’s clearly afraid of one thing when Colter talks to her however received’t focus on it.

Colter goes to the final recognized location of Scott’s automobile and finds it—however then his name with Bobby (Eric Graise) drops. Numbers seem on his telephone’s display (the identical factor occurred to Scott earlier), then there’s a lightweight above him…

When there’s no phrase from Colter for 12 hours, Reenie (Fiona Rene) calls in Plan B, at the same time as Velma (Abby McEnany) warns that he received’t be completely happy. However the place is Colter? In a authorities facility of some form, cuffed to a mattress, after breaching a safe DOD facility. The person holding him claims the land Colter had been on was stuffed with unexploded ordinates. He then watches from the safety room as Colter frees himself from his restraints; he tells one other man to let him have his enjoyable whereas he makes a name. They’re nonetheless on schedule, the primary man says … as somebody sneaks round behind him: Russell. Colter’s brother then finds him, and the 2 make their approach out.

Russell was shut by, cleansing up a large number, he shares, and so he made some calls. (Colter asks about Russell and Reenie being telephone buddies, and his brother says she retains ducking his invitations for dinner, although he thinks this rescue would possibly rating him a date.) Russell additionally claims to “know” about UAPs. “Oh, brother, the stuff I’ve seen? Would blow your hair again, that’s all I’m going to say about that,” he says. He even means that aliens may have taken Scott, recalling when their dad would present them the lights within the sky and he’d level to the spaceship on Colter’s pajamas. Colter doesn’t keep in mind that.

Colter thinks he was let go on objective; the “escape” was too straightforward. These holding him need him to seek out Scott for them. Russell smashes Colter’s telephone (eliminating the SIM card isn’t cautious sufficient) and checks the again of his brother’s neck. There’s a tracker in him, and Russell cuts it out. Colter places it in his telephone and throws it right into a area.

Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw and Jensen Ackles as Russell Shaw — 'Tracker' Season 2 Episode 2 "Ontological Shock"

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Colter and Russell then go see Blair, who reluctantly talks: They suppose that the numbers that appeared on Scott’s then Colter’s telephones are a type of communication and have been making an attempt to decode the messages. It seems they’re coordinates, and whereas Colter and Russell head to them to see if that’s the place Scott is, Blair packs to depart city—solely to be stopped by the person who took Colter. (Her physique is later discovered, made to appear to be a suicide.)

As soon as close to the location, Colter throws away Russell’s telephone as Reenie’s calling; whoever’s monitoring him might be onto her sign after which theirs. The brothers cut up up as there’s an announcement of a surge starting in 10 minutes. Russell runs into the person who took Colter—and he reveals he is aware of concerning the Shaws, together with their father. “You will have an extended household historical past of getting within the authorities’s approach,” he says. “What, you don’t suppose I do know who you’re?”

Russell tells him he is aware of what’s happening on the web site: They despatched up a cosmic morse code, and somebody answered again, proper? And the touchdown pad out there’s for an alien meet-and-greet. The person says he has no thought what he’s speaking about. Although the person warns Russell he’ll kill him if he takes one other step, an announcement of T-minus three minutes distracts him, and Russell simply grabs the gun and knocks him out. He then takes one thing out of a cupboard.

Colter, in the meantime, finds Scott, who desires to remain to see no matter’s coming. He can’t preserve this secret, he argues. However Colter tells him some secrets and techniques aren’t price dying for and reminds him of his daughter. Earlier than they will depart, nevertheless, alarms sound, one thing’s occurring exterior, there’s a shiny mild, and the room shakes. As soon as it stops, they depart, assembly up with Russell and hurrying away from the location. Each Colter and Russell pull their weapons when a van approaches them on the highway, but it surely’s simply the assistance that Reenie known as in for them.

Jensen Ackles as Russell Shaw — 'Tracker' Season 2 Episode 2 "Ontological Shock"

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After reuniting Scott and his daughter, Russell reveals Colter—who nonetheless doesn’t consider—what he took: some kind of alloy he thinks might be a chunk of a craft. He has a man to run exams for him. As they get in Russell’s automobile, Colter remarks he wouldn’t thoughts getting behind the wheel. “That’s by no means going to occur,” Dean Russell says.

That’s when he fills Colter in on that man figuring out about their father. Colter wonders if it’s greater than only a “textbook spook transfer,” dropping a crumb and seeing the place it goes, given the field of their father’s stuff that their sister Dory (Melissa Roxburgh) has and didn’t inform both of them about. Russell thinks she simply didn’t need him happening some rabbit gap.

Russell leaves Colter on the facet of the highway to stroll to his truck within the woods. “This child doesn’t drive on gravel,” he explains. Earlier than, certain, to select him up from the black web site (“That was an emergency”), however that is completely different. He’s headed to Colorado to gather on the date Reenie promised for saving Colter. He’ll see him when he sees him. We hope that’s sooner relatively than later.

What did you consider the newest episode with Russell? What are your theories about what occurred to the Shaws’ father? Tell us within the feedback part beneath.

Tracker, Sundays, 8/7c, CBS



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