Tracker Is Forgetting Season 2’s Biggest Mystery & Making It Worse
Tracker season 2 is ignoring its best mystery, making matters worse for everyone involved. The season starts by introducing another long-term case for Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley), the mystery of a girl named Gina Pickett. This brings in a new love interest for Colter named Camille, Gina’s sister, who he connects with on the anniversary of the case. Things pick up in Tracker season 2, episode 2, when Jensen Ackles returns as Russell Shaw, and the case gets the brothers dangerously close to a Department of Defense site that provides an unlikely connection to their father, Ashton Shaw.
Colter continues to reunite with other Tracker characters, like when Sofia Pernas returns as Billie Matalon in season 3. The episode shows the differences between Colter and Billie’s reward-seeking ethics, with the latter wanting to abandon the case when the reward money is pulled. Colter reunites with an even better partner in episode 4, connecting with Reenie Green (Fiona Rene) at a high-end wellness retreat to find a missing CEO. Still, after four episodes, Tracker has forgotten its most crucial mystery for season 2, and it isn’t about who killed Colter’s father in Tracker.
Tracker Season 2 Delays Tackling Velma & Teddi’s Permanent Split
Teddi And Velma Have The Best Emotional Story Potential In Season 2
Tracker’s most riveting mystery in its current run is what happened to Teddi and Velma. Ahead of season 2, the show announced that Robin Weigert would not return as Teddi Bruin in Tracker. She was one of Colter’s handlers, married to Velma Bruin (Abby McEnany), who also helped Colter with his reward-seeking operation. Tracker needed to address the split immediately in season 2, and Colter and Velma briefly discussed the separation in the season 2 premiere. Still, Velma talks about her separation from Teddi as a temporary split, which doesn’t resolve the issue.
Velma appears briefly a few times on-screen but not long enough to address anything happening in her personal life.
Tracker season 2, episode 4 continues the trend. Velma appears briefly a few times on-screen but not long enough to address anything happening in her personal life. By choosing to show Velma without representing her character’s experience, Tracker is just delaying tackling Velma and Teddi’s permanent separation, which the series doesn’t benefit from. Weigert has no plans to return to Tracker, so the procedural doesn’t need to leave the relationship a mystery. Currently, it implies that Teddi and Velma are taking some time to figure it out, even though the viewers know that their split is final.
How Tracker Is Making Things Worse By Not Addressing Teddi’s Exit
Tracker Is Side-Lining Velma For The Second Season In A Row
Tracker season 2 choosing not to address the romance more permanently makes Velma and Teddi’s story problem worse. In Tracker season 1, the characters had a fascinating premise but were given less screen time as the season went on, dwindling them down to their hobbies and brief phone calls with Colter. Tracker season 2 has an opportunity to truly develop who the women are, unraveling what happened in their relationship and adding that to the series. By side-lining Velma and Teddi’s story, Tracker is just exacerbating a season 1 issue, squandering one of its best stories in the process.
