SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the Season 3 premiere of CBS‘ Tracker.
Two familiar faces were missing from Sunday night’s Season 3 premiere of Tracker.
Eric Graise and Abby McEnany are no longer series regulars, as Deadline reported in July, and return of the missing persons drama to CBS provided some brief explanations as to their characters’ exits from the universe.
The answers come after the episode’s opening in which Colter’s (Justin Hartley) brother Russ (Jensen Ackles) finds him starting a brawl in a small town bar in the aftermath of learning some hard truths about the night his father died in the Season 2 finale. After helping him clean up that mess, Russ gives Reenie (Fiona Rene) a call to let her know Colter is okay, and she assigns them a new job.
We stay with Reenie, who is arriving at her office greeted by Randy (Chris De’Sean Lee), who is the cousin of Graise’s Bobby and was introduced in Season 2. Apparently, he’s helping Reenie hire a new tech specialist after Bobby got a new job opportunity.
“He’s killing it,” Randy tells Reenie, after Bobby texts him to check in. “He quit his job officially at the repair shop and now he’s some encryption specialist at a new startup. Between stock options and the salary, he’s bringing home the bacon.”
As for McEnany’s Velma, she’s gone to be with her wife Teddi, who went out of town last season to visit her mother when actress Robin Weigert exited the series. Reenie indicates this may not be the last we see of Velma, but for now, she needs to focus on family.
“I don’t know where any of that stuff is. Velma does,” she tells Randy when he asks where to find some equipment. To that, he asks when she might return, but Reenie doesn’t have a clue.
“Honestly, I have no idea. She went to go see Teddy. She’s trying to save her marriage,” Reenie says.
In the first season, Teddi and Velma helped run Colter’s “back end”: seeking out new jobs, keeping track of the money and occasionally getting him sprung from jail. Last season, Reenie began shouldering much of that responsibility with Velma as Teddi was phased out of the show.
The Season 5 premiere sees Reenie assign Colter and Russ a job from one of her clients, whose ex-wife and daughter go missing. While the brothers think they’re investigating a crypto scheme gone wrong, they end up entangled in a far bigger quagmire than they could have imagined.
New episodes of Tracker air Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
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