The midseason finale of “Tracker” ended on a dramatic cliffhanger.
In the final moments of the Sunday, Dec. 14 episode, Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley) drove a severely injured Keaton (Brent Sexton) to get medical attention. Keaton coughed up blood as Colter pleaded with him to hang on.
Before Colter could get Keaton to the hospital, an unknown assailant began shooting at his car. Colter veered off the road and his car went off a ledge, flipping over and landing upside down. A title card reading “To Be Continued” then appeared on screen. Viewers will have to wait until Tracker” returns on March 1 to find out what happened to Colter and Keaton.
As the CBS drama’s titular tracker, Colter will surely survive the car wreck. But what about Keaton, who was already on death’s door before the crash?
“It’s pretty bad,” executive producer Elwood Reid told Us Weekly in an interview published on Sunday. “The situation we pick directly up in [episode] 10 is pretty dire. Part of the puzzle is [whether] Keaton [is] dead or is he alive? How does Colter save himself or try to resuscitate Keaton?”
Keaton dying would be bad for Colter, who was trying to get information out of Keaton even as he rapidly lost blood in his backseat. Earlier in the midseason finale, Colter went to Tacoma to help Keaton find his old partner Nat Dobbs (Dean McKenzie), who’d gone missing.
Brent Sexton as Keaton on "Tracker."CBS
Colter discovered that Dobbs was investigating the murder of farmer Clive Sherman (Jaren Moore) when he stumbled onto Sherman’s dealings with Armenian crime boss Zhan Menassian (Arnab Biswas). He and Keaton suspected that Menassian was holding Dobbs captive until they saw security footage of Dobbs killing Menassian. But they spotted another man in the video: contract killer Emil Lang (Mark Engelhardt).
Colter and Keaton managed to track down Dobbs lying on his back in the woods after a car accident. Before dying, Dobbs confirmed that Lang killed Sherman. Colter and Keaton then tracked Lang to a house where they found a tied-up housekeeper and the body of mafia accountant Bradley Weitz (Trevor Hunton).
Keaton heard something outside and went to investigate, finding Lang. Keaton fired at Lang but got shot in the process. Lang escaped as Colter tried to stabilize Keaton.
As Colter drove Keaton to the emergency room, he asked him what else the tied-up housekeeper told him. Struggling to breathe, Keaton said that Lang is trying to find someone named Cassie Lindstrom. All Colter knows about Lindstrom thus far is that she shares a last name with a cop whom Lang allegedly murdered.
Who exactly is Cassie Lindstrom? Does Keaton die, and does Lang get away? Tune in to the “Tracker” season 3 midseason premiere Sunday, March 1, to find out.
