‘Tracker’ Sets Jensen Ackles’ Return as Russell for Season 3 Finale
The Shaw brothers will be together again.
Justin Hartley told TV Insider earlier this year that Jensen Ackles would be back on Tracker, and now, we know when: the Season 3 finale, airing on Sunday, May 24. CBS has also released the official description for the episode, titled “The Best Ones”: “Colter and Russell search for a victim of a nefarious research project.”
That is certainly intriguing given that the last time that Ackles was on-screen as Russell was in the two-part Season 3 premiere, which saw the brothers tackling the Process, an eerie system in which people were blackmailed into doing terrible things — it was put together by grad students after their professor’s experiments. And as was noted, there was still a third grad student out there who didn’t seem to be involved, but you never know. Will this link back to that? We’ll have to wait and see.
Russell did come up in the midseason premiere when Colter found himself framed for murder, but he made a point of telling Reenie (Fiona Rene) not to get his brother involved.
“I think that was important because when I was reading these scripts, it was one of the first things that I thought was, well, if he’s in this much danger, why are they not calling him? Of course, he could help. She’s done that in the past. She called him in the past when Colter’s in trouble, why wouldn’t she call him now?” Hartley told TV Insider. “And so I just thought it was important to address that. And he’s in trouble, and he’s in way deep, deeper than he’s ever been. And I think the least amount of people that he can involve that he really cares about, the better. And also, the way that Russell handles things might not be the best — he might not have the best temperament for this. He tends to come in with a sledgehammer; maybe this one needs more of a scalpel.”
What are you hoping to see with Jensen Ackles back as Russell in the Season 3 finale? Let us know in the comments section below.
Tracker, Season 3 Finale, Sunday, May 24, 9/8c, CBS
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J
I can’t wait i love Jensen on Tracker!!!!🫶
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D
Would love to see Russell be a perment roll on Tracker never thought after supernatural I would ever see Jensen play a brother roll as good as Sam and Dean but these two together they are amazing love the show even more
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V
I love Justin Hartley and Jensen Ackles! So having them in a program that is so well suited for them is great. Writers are doing a very good job with scripts, please keep up the good work in putting Ackles in the program also. Cast and crew are doing some very good work on Tracker. Everyone please keep doing what you are doing so very well.
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S
yay for Jensen returning. now give him a spin of given there's plenty of material there for his character before & after tracker story wise.
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R
And with guest stars from supernatural❤️
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J
No give it a rest ffs the show doesn't need anyone else from SPN. It would ruin it and Jensen doesn't need them holding his hand in every project he does.
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J
Happy to see Russell returning. In my opinion season 3 was unwatchable. Let’s put the 2 brothers in the trailer and roll to unknown places
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T
I think Russell should need a permanent member.
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J
Can't wait to see Jensen back in the finale. I would also love to see the spinoff they were talking about revolving around Russell's military career i think it would be awesome.
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M
I love Jason. That's why he's so busy. They are believable as brothers.
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J
It's Jensen at least get his name right if you're going to comment.
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M
Why the show was good in in the beginning and you started taking out the Stars that were on the show. You're bringing somebody else back. No, you're gonna lose a lot of followers.
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L
Yes! Bring him back. But, please get rid of the lawyer lady.
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J
So he can once again play the 'brother,' Dean Winchester, doing what Dean does, except not with monsters.
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