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Is [Spoiler] Really Dead? Tracker Showrunner Weighs In After Season 3 Fall Finale

written by Leo Hartwell
Is [Spoiler] Really Dead? Tracker Showrunner Weighs In After Season 3 Fall Finale
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Tracker’s Season 3 fall finale slams into a brutal cliffhanger: as Colter Shaw races a gravely wounded Keaton to the hospital, gunfire rips into their car, sending it flipping off the road. Now the showrunner weighs in on the only question that matters—did a major player just die?

Tracker did not tiptoe into its break. The Season 3 midseason finale ends with a bullet-riddled car flipping off the road and two fan favorites in the balance. Not exactly a restful hiatus.

The cliffhanger

Season 3, Episode 9, titled 'Good Trouble,' closes on Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley) racing a badly wounded Keaton (Brent Sexton) to the hospital. Someone takes a shot at their car, Colter swerves, the vehicle flips, and the screen cuts to black before we see who made it out. The reason they were even in that spiral: Colter and Keaton teamed up to find Keaton's missing partner, stumbled into a mess involving bodies buried on a farm, some crime bosses, and other nastier threads, and then crossed paths with an assassin who put a bullet in Keaton. Cue the desperate drive and that crash.

What the showrunner just said

Showrunner Elwood Reid told TV Insider that the writers actually went into the episode planning to kill Keaton. Then they rethought how far to push the cliffhanger.

"We went in there, we were going to kill him, but you’ll see what ends up happening. But it was an interesting thing because we did want a cliffhanger. But we knew it would be kind of BS to just have a cliffhanger with Colter in danger."

  • We find out Keaton's fate when the show returns on March 1, 2026.
  • Colter is also shot and "extremely injured," a reveal that lands in Episode 10.
  • The opening of Episode 10 has Colter pulling something heroic to get them out of the immediate nightmare.
  • Keaton keeps coming up in the writers room because fans like his shared history with Colter in a "really dark, weird place."
  • The team even kicked around having Keaton do investigator work for Reenie Greene (Fiona Rene) — that is why there is a setup phone call early on.

The read-between-the-lines version

They seriously considered killing Keaton, then built a finale that puts both him and Colter in the crosshairs instead of doing the usual 'is the lead OK?' fake-out. The good news: Episode 10 gets right to the fallout. The bad news: the wait for answers goes until March 1, 2026. Hang tight.