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Tracker showrunner Elwood Reid has moved to clarify the events of the Tracker season 2 finale revelation about who killed Colter’s dad Ashton.
Per TV Line, Reid clarifies that the episode’s revelation — that Otto Waldron pushed Ashton to his death, seemingly at the behest of Colter’s mother Mary — does not mean that Mary ordered the death of Ashton, but that it does signify a degree of involvement in what happened. He reveals that there is plenty to mine with this storyline, especially with regard to Mary. He also reveals that season 3 will dig into Ashton’s past, and possible government links. Check out Reid’s comments below:
TVLINE | We know now that Mary played a role in Ashton’s death. We also know that Otto pushed Ashton off that cliff. Given how Season 2 ends, is the plan to pick back up almost immediately where we left off in Season 3, Episode 1?
I want to make one clarification: He doesn’t say that Mom ordered the murder of his father. He said, “she asked me to be up there,” so there’s much more to that story to unpack. We’ve talked a lot about this — that life is messy — and I think that Colter’s life is messier than most other people’s lives.
I don’t think this is something Colter is ever going to let go of, and I don’t think there’s an easy answer to it. Even though the finale gives you the next big piece of the puzzle, there’s still more out there to mine in that storyline, particularly when it comes to his mother.
TVLINE | Otto denies working for the feds, but we know quite a bit about Ashton’s past — namely, that he worked as a government contractor for a number of years. How big of a role will this larger government conspiracy have in the show moving forward?
It’s funny you should ask that, because that’s one of the little, weird threads that I’m hoping to pull in Season 3. I mean, there’s the stuff that happened with Colter’s family — with his father. There have been a couple mentions, mostly through Russell, about the father not being who he seems.
We saw in Episode 19, when he gets the little book and he finds the phone number in there and asks Randy to look up that number, that it’s going towards a larger thing. We’re going to start to unravel that a little bit as far as the Ashton character goes, and I think that will bring in a fun cast of characters.
I don’t know if there’s an easy answer, and I’m hoping in the third season, as you picked up on, to have a storyline that [reveals] a little bit of what his father may have been involved in. There was an episode — a couple of episodes — where some of that stuff was alluded to in Season 2 that kind of flew by people, but it’s there. It’s something that [series lead/executive producer] Justin [Hartley] and I have talked about quite a bit.
Source: TV Line