Tracker” star Justin Hartley teases stunning season 2 finale second: “We drop a bomb

The season 2 finale of “Tracker” is simply days away, and the star of the hit CBS sequence, Justin Hartley, advises followers to prepare for a stunning, but satisfying episode on Sunday.

“We drop a bomb,” teased Hartley, who performs protagonist Colter Shaw, throughout an interview with “CBS Mornings” on Friday. Shaw is a lone wolf who makes use of his survivalist expertise to search out lacking folks.

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All through the sequence, Hartley says viewers have slowly peeled again the layers of Shaw’s difficult household dynamic whereas working to untangle the thriller behind his father’s dying.

“We’ve got teased this … what occurred to my father. How did he die? Was there foul play?” Hartley defined, including that there have been some Easter eggs dropped all through the sequence. “We began the sequence with that, and now on the finish of Season 2, we have kind of systematically type of picked it aside.”

In Sunday’s episode, Hartley stated there will likely be a giant revelation.

“It tells the story as effectively which is type of cool. So it opens up a Pandora’s field however it additionally tells a narrative, so it’s totally, very satisfying, which is nice,” he stated.

As an government producer of the sequence, Hartley stated he likes Shaw being a “hero” – however not essentially a “superhero.”

“I feel one of many issues that folks join with is he is weak, like he can get injured,” Hartley instructed “CBS Mornings” co-host Nate Burleson. “And I feel if you put a cape on..it loses a little bit of that.”

Hartley desires to maintain his character relatable. Within the finale, Hartley stated followers will see his vulnerability peak in a novel approach.

“You see him type of collapse in a approach that you just would not anticipate. He’s approach in over his head and he hears this info and he will get overwhelmed and he type of crumbles a bit bit,” Hartley stated.

Report-breaking season

“Tracker” has climbed to the highest of the charts because the No. 1 present on tv, averaging a whopping 17.5 million viewers per episode. 

“It is very humbling. It is an honor,” Hartley stated of the present’s record-breaking numbers, thanking followers for spending time watching the present. The actor stated it warms his coronary heart when he hears that households are sitting down and watching the present collectively in real-time.

The “Tracker” season 2 finale airs Sunday, Might 11, at 8 p.m. ET solely on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. “Tracker” has been renewed for Season 3.