Spoiler alert for Tracker season 2, episode 4, ‘Noble Rot’Justin Harltey’s Colter Shaw took on several cases in Tracker Season 2, but Episode 4 includes a villain twist that makes it better. Season two began with an old missing person case that haunts Colter. The case remains with the reward as it remains unsolved, similar to the mystery of who killed Colter’s father in Tracker. The death of the Shaw family patriarch defines Colter’s story. In episode 2, Jensen Ackles returned as Russell Shaw. The brother searched for Colter on a mysterious Department of Defense website after he disappeared in search of a lost person.
Tracker Season 2, Episode 3 continued to bring back guest stars, returning Sofia Pernas as Billie Matalon. THE “rewarding” investigated a case in the woman’s hometown in search of a reward. THE Tracker all the cases were relatively simple and there were no plot twists that complicated the case beyond what might be expected. Although the series was a huge success in its first season, it requires more twists like the one in the Tracker Season 2, Episode 4 finale to maintain its position as one of the most popular series on television, a rating earned in part by the charismatic Tracker characters.
Tracker Season 2 Has an Obvious, Recurring Villain Problem
Tracker makes this mistake with his villains
Tracker needs to solve its obvious villain problem to succeed like in the freshman season: all the villains in Tracker Season 2 are easy to predict. In the opening episode, Colter continues to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Gina Pickett, a girl missing for 10 years who Colter has been unable to track down. Colter is close to Gina’s sister, Camille (Floriana Lima), who was introduced as Colter’s love interest in the Season 2 premiere. The episode had a prominent villain: a man who knew Gina and was involved in her probable disappearance. This character was telegraphed as the antagonist from the first minute he appeared, creating a twist that wasn’t a twist at all.
Episode 2 continued the trend of unsatisfying villain reveals. Colter and Russell were caught at a DOD location and there was only one adversary to speak of. They never learned his name, but the man revealed that he knew Ashton Shaw (Lee Tergesen), revealing another layer of the mystery surrounding Colter’s father’s death. Still, episode 2 introduced a seeming villain with an underwhelming ending. Tracker episode 3 unfortunately continued the trend when Colter traveled to investigate a missing high school baseball star whose captor was obvious in history and appearance, providing a predictable ending.
Tracker Season 2 Episode 4 Finally Delivers a Decent Villain Twist
Tracker Season 2 Finally Delivers a Shock
Tracker season two finally broke its pronounced villain streak with a decent twist. In episode 4, Colter investigates the case of a woman who disappears during a high-end wellness retreat. designed for CEOs. Colter is called to investigate the case discreetly, as William Locke (Neil Jackson), who runs the retreat, does not want to attract negative press to the event involving the police. Still, Colter faces obstacles in the investigation, including resistance from the person who asked him to be there. William and his assistant, Peter Reynolds (Roshawn Franklin), act suspiciously, suggesting that either of them could be guilty.
William and Peter continue to help, and eventually Colter finds a secret cache of dead bodies in an underground chamber. Tracker season 2 episode 4 offers an intriguing twist when Colter questions a worker, Rona (Gloria Garayua), who immediately calls her accomplice, Jesse Pardue (Rob Mayes). The bodies are actually construction deaths, and the perpetrator of the episode is the construction manager who covered up his negligence by burying them. Surprisingly, the manager’s accomplice finally shoots him, and he falls backwards into a wood chipper. The case ended suddenly and unexpectedly, finally delivering a satisfactory conclusion to Tracker 2nd season.
How Tracker Season 2 Can Avoid the Villain Problem in the Future
Tracker needs to replicate the success of episode 4
Tracker Season 2 needs to avoid the villain problem to stay at the forefront of the best procedural shows. With only 13 episodes in the first season due to writers’ strikes Tracker avoided obvious repeat problems in his freshman season. Still, it was narrowly avoided, with all the cases coming to a similar conclusion, where Colter wraps up the case perfectly and wishes the families the best. Season 2 could shake things up, introducing more supporting characters to distract the audience from who the real villain is, as they did in episode 4 and some episodes of season 1.
The show took a twist in Tracker Season 1, Episode 9, ‘Aurora’one of the highest-rated episodes of season 1, according to IMDB. Colter Shaw investigated several leads before discovering who the real perpetrator was: a woman named Maeve Price (Bronwen Smith), who was an unknown accomplice of his brother Errol (Jed Rees), a detained murderer. The twist came when Colter was at Maeve’s house while she was in the kitchen, creating a genuinely suspenseful sequence and a heartfelt revelation. Tracker should follow its playbook for episodes like “Aurora” and “Noble Rot” to maintain the suspense.
Source: IMDB