• "Echo Ridge," the ultimate episode of Tracker season 2, reveals who pushed Colter's dad, Ashton, off a cliff when Colter was a baby.
• It's not a tidy ending, nonetheless — the revelation prompts extra questions than solutions.
• You possibly can stream Tracker's first and second seasons on Paramount+.

The season 2 finale of Tracker discovered Justin Hartley's Colter Shaw studying the reply to a query that's plagued him the whole collection — who killed his father?

Whereas the CBS action-drama retains Colter busy with new circumstances that check his survivalist and monitoring expertise, the van-lifer has spent his downtime reckoning along with his fractured household. He lengthy suspected his brother, Russell (Jensen Ackles), of murdering their dad, Ashton (Lee Tergesen), however he's now starting to know what number of secrets and techniques his mother, Mary (Wendy Crewson), has in her closet.

As its title implies, season 2 swan music "Echo Ridge" brings Colter again to his hometown, the place the specter of his childhood hangs heavy. And what he finds there’s sure to have main implications for the collection' future.

Learn on as we unpack the Tracker season 2 finale, together with its revelations about Ashton's dying.

What occurred to Invoice?

Tracker's season 2 finale facilities totally on the disappearance of Invoice Weaver (Brian Keane), an area restaurateur and recovering alcoholic. As we study by the hour's finish, Invoice was murdered by Carl Murphy (Shane Leydon), the top of a kid trafficking ring that Invoice stumbled upon after seeing Carl with a scared baby in his restaurant.

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Colter was turned onto the case by his mom, Mary. When he talked to Invoice's sister, Angela (Bonita Friedericy), she revealed that Invoice found the kid within the restaurant with Murphy was reported lacking, and subsequently turned obsessive about discovering him.

The episode begins with a quick scene of Invoice exiting his automotive within the woods at midnight, calling out that he simply needs to "see that he's okay." When he returns to his automotive, nonetheless, a person is ready for him. "You made a giant mistake, Billy-boy," he says earlier than one other man knocks Invoice unconscious.

Later, when Colter is investigating Murphy's trailer, he finds Invoice's automotive beneath a tarp with Invoice's lifeless physique inside.

Did Colter cease the kid trafficking ring?

Sure, Colter takes down the Echo Ridge traffickers and saves seven lacking kids with the assistance of tech-savvy cohorts Bobby (Eric Graise) and Randy (Chris Lee), in addition to lawyer Reenie (Fiona Rene). He will get additional help from Joe (Drew Powell), an previous good friend and native lumber poacher.

Amember of Joe's crew turns Colter onto Ronnie Yates (Artine Tony Browne), a meth pusher who Invoice suspected of being concerned within the trafficking ring. Ronnie denies his involvement, however reveals to Colter that Invoice was on the lookout for Murphy.

With Murphy's identify, Reenie helps Colter observe him to a property owned by Murphy's father. Inside a trailer on the plot, Colter finds a collection of Polaroids of lacking kids. He additionally discovers a telephone quantity, which Bobby and Randy use to trace Murphy's final location, a farmstead in Echo Ridge. Colter suspects that Murphy is attempting to "offload" the kids because of the warmth round Invoice's homicide.

Together with Joe, Colter infiltrates the farm, the place they take out a few of Murphy's associates earlier than taking pictures Murphy within the legs to cease him from getting away. There are two boys on the farm, however extra in Texas. Murphy provides up the situation, and the FBI manages to avoid wasting the remaining kids.

What's with the picket carving Colter finds in Murphy's trailer?

Whereas investigating Murphy's trailer, Colter additionally finds a picket carving created by his father, Ashton. His dad's signature is even carved into the underside. Confused as to why one in all Ashton's creations can be within the trailer of a intercourse trafficker, he asks his mom about it.

"They're not the form of folks Dad would've related to," Colter tells her.

"There was lots about your father I had no clue about," she ominously replies.

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After taking pictures Murphy, Colter asks him the place he acquired the carving. Seems the carving was given to him by his uncle, Otto (Alex Fernandez). Colter pays him a go to, studying that Otto was an previous acquaintance of Ashton's. Otto explains how he helped set up a wind turbine on Ashton's property to assist him keep off the grid.

“We acquired alongside OK. I helped preserve the county off his again," he says. "One evening we have been speaking, I informed him I favored these carvings he was making, and he threw one at me.”

And that's when Otto drops a bombshell. “However that’s not why you’re right here, is it? The accident…”

Who killed Colter's father?

Whereas the main points stay murky, Otto admits to Colter that he was concerned in Ashton's dying. When Colter asks him, gun raised, if he "threw my dad off that cliff," Otto solutions within the affirmative.

The circumstances surrounding Ashton's dying have been a supply of thriller all through each seasons of Tracker. For years, Colter believed his brother, Russell, to be accountable. In spite of everything, on the evening of their dad's dying, Colter discovered Russell standing on the prime of the cliff, staring down at his physique. Russell, nonetheless, denies it. Their sister, Dory (Melissa Roxburgh), additionally believes he's harmless.

Revelations about Ashton have turn into extra complicated all through Tracker's run, with Colter studying of his father's mysterious work with the federal government, penchant for asking too many questions, and affair with a household good friend.

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Within the last episodes of season 2, Colter finds a telephone quantity amongst his dad's keepsakes that belongs to a scientist, David Pearson, with a shady previous and ties to the U.S. authorities. Pearson, we study, died by suicide the identical yr that Ashton died.

Within the closing moments of the finale, Otto tells Colter, "Your father had loads of enemies."

Nonetheless, Otto denies that he has any ties to the federal government. And when Colter asks him why he pushed his dad off the cliff, Otto merely replies, "As a result of she requested for my assist." Who? "Your mom."

Is Colter's mother liable for Ashton's dying?

Let's not get forward of ourselves. Mary has lengthy been a suspicious character on Tracker, however, talking with TVLine following the finale, govt producer Elwood Reid inspired viewers to not soar to any conclusions.

"[Otto] doesn’t say that Mother ordered the homicide of [Colter's] father," he informed the outlet. "He stated, 'she requested me to be up there,' so there’s far more to that story to unpack… Regardless that the finale provides you the following massive piece of the puzzle, there’s nonetheless extra on the market to mine in that storyline, significantly in the case of his mom."

That leaves followers many inquiries to chew on as they await season 3. Did Mary need Ashton lifeless? Was this in regards to the affair? Or their work with the federal government? And what was Mary's relationship to Otto?

Solely time (and new episodes) will inform.

The place can I watch Tracker?

Tracker airs on CBS. Presently, you possibly can stream seasons 1 and a couple of on Paramount+. Season 1 can also be streaming on Hulu.

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