Tracker Makes Colter's Downsized Team Even Closer With A Season 3 Change

Though Tracker season 3 will not premiere until mid-October on CBS, showrunner Elwood Reid has not been shy about discussing changes being made to the series. The series is inspired by the Jeffrey Deaver novel, The Never Game, which kicked off his series about rewardist Colter Shaw (played by Justin Hartley in Tracker).

Colter lives a mostly solitary life on the road as he tracks down the missing in exchange for rewards. His small team is typically reached by phone while he is in the field. Ahead of the third season, Tracker is losing two team members, Velma (Abby McEnany) and Bobby (Eric Graise).

Tracker’s downsized team will be getting closer, though, which is an exciting change for the series.

Tracker Season 3 Is Moving A New Character Into Reenie’s Office

Velma Previously Worked Out Of Reenie’s Office In Tracker Season 2

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Colter’s last two teammates standing in Tracker season 3 will be Reenie (Fiona Rene) and Randy (Chris Lee). While Reenie has been Colter’s on-call lawyer since the pilot episode, Randy made his debut in season 2 as a kind of technical support.

While speaking with TV Insider, showrunner Elwood Reid revealed that one of the goals for season 3 is to “build the world” of the characters, which means both Reenie and Randy will be explored a bit more this season. They will also be sharing office space.

Tracker fans will remember that Reenie decided to open her own law office in Denver, Colorado, last season, leaving the firm she worked for behind. Randy will be making the move to her office to work with her, in a manner of speaking.

The plan is for him to give her office a “digital health check,” but he sticks around and shares the space.

Reid’s full comment about the change can be read below:

“…one of the things that we’re doing is bringing Randy, who was a really strong character from last year, bringing him to Denver to help out… a digital health check detox. That blooms into a deeper relationship where he may be working out of [Reenie’s] office a little bit…”

Randy And Reenie Is A Character Dynamic Not Yet Explored

Randy And Reenie Have Yet To Work Together In Tracker

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Because of the nature of Colter Shaw’s job in Tracker, most of his interactions with his supporting players are by phone. While he can call up Reenie for legal advice or to dig into someone’s criminal history, he might call Randy to get him to hack into someone’s devices. The two have different skill sets and do not work together.

In fact, they have not worked with one another since Randy made his Tracker debut in season 2. While Velma helped Reenie out in her office when Velma and her wife were going through a rough patch, the only other Team Colter member to stop by her new office so far is Colter himself.

Reenie and Randy have both (separately) been out in the field to help Colter track down missing people, but they have never shared a workspace. Their dynamic will be an interesting one to explore, especially since Randy helped to add a little levity to otherwise serious storylines last season.

Reenie went through a traumatic event at the end of Tracker season 2, being kidnapped, so Randy will be a good person to have in her personal space while she is recovering from that trauma. There will be a delicate balance there.

Likewise, Randy has only interacted with Colter and his own cousin on the missing persons cases Colter has taken on since he appeared in the show. Just how he will work with a non-family member in the same office is an unknown right now.

Reid’s assertion that the two Tracker characters sharing an office “blooms into a deeper relationship” is a good sign for the show. The series has struggled to really flesh out its supporting cast and their relationships with one another in the past because so much of the focus has to be on Colter Shaw as the titular tracker.

By allowing Randy and Reenie to actually share the screen, we have the perfect opportunity to get to know them better and for the show to get a fresh dynamic. That fresh dynamic is needed when the show is losing half of its main cast as Tracker season 3 opens.

It also helps that the two characters sharing space are also the two most likely to call Colter out on keeping things from them or closing himself off from them. Teaming them up might not just flesh out Reenie and Randy’s personalities and backstories for the audience, but Colter’s as well.

Three seasons into the show, teaming Randy and Reenie up might just be what stops the procedural from getting stale.

Tracker season 3 premieres on CBS on October 19 at 8:00 PM.

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