{"id":91861,"date":"2026-05-06T23:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/justin-hartley-jokes-colter-dies-in-tracker-season-3-finale\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T23:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:20:39","slug":"justin-hartley-jokes-colter-dies-in-tracker-season-3-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/justin-hartley-jokes-colter-dies-in-tracker-season-3-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Hartley Jokes Colter Dies in Tracker Season 3 Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Justin Hartley<\/strong> threw out a fun story line for the season 3 finale of Tracker<\/em> that would have his character dying \u2014 and going to heaven.<\/p>\n

During the Tuesday, May 5, episode of The Tonight Show<\/em>, host Jimmy Fallon<\/strong> had Hartley, 49, answer interview questions by reading prewritten answers from cue cards. The actor was asked about how his hit CBS series would wrap up its third season \u2014 and Hartley could barely contain his laughter at the answer he was given to read.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe season 3 finale, this actually is kind of a spoiler. But basically my character dies and he goes to heaven,\u201d Hartley quipped. \u201cThe angels are like, \u2018Help, Abraham Lincoln is missing.\u2019 So I track him down and it turns out he\u2019s at a Jamba Juice. It was unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the finale likely won\u2019t actually show Colter in a near-death situation, Hartley hasn\u2019t ruled it out as an option.<\/p>\n

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Related: <\/span>What Tracker’s Justin Hartley Said About Colter’s Mortality: ‘He Will Die’<\/span>
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\n\t\t\tSince Tracker premiered on CBS, Justin Hartley has taken it upon himself to remind viewers that his character Colter Shaw can \u2014 and will \u2014 die. Based on Jeffery Deaver\u2018s novel The Never Game, Tracker centers around a survivalist named Colter who travels the country helping find missing people (or sometimes dogs) and solving cases [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to keep upping the stakes. I like being Colter as a hero, finding people and all that. I also really like seeing him in a suspenseful thriller and a dangerous situation,\u201d he told The Hollywood Reporter in April 2025. \u201cI don\u2019t want our audience to forget that this man is mortal, he\u2019s not a superhero. He can die! The things he is doing are very very dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on Jeffery Deaver<\/strong>\u2018s novel The Never Game<\/em>, Tracker<\/em> follows Colter as he travels the country helping to find missing people (or sometimes dogs) and solving cases others aren\u2019t able to.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just love that when you watch a show like that and you tune into season 1 and then you tune into the last season, you see the development of the character and you go, \u2018Wait a minute, are they playing different roles?\u2019 But then if you watch it throughout the years, you experience those things with the characters,\u201d Hartley previously told TV Insider in September 2024. \u201cAs competent and confident as Colter is, I don\u2019t at all think for a second that he doesn\u2019t have a ton to learn, especially about himself and his family and all that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hartley continued: \u201cGoing forward, I think that will be how the show lives on a long runway, is that we keep developing this character and he becomes better at what he\u2019s doing. He\u2019s a restless man, and for an audience member, at least shows that I love to watch, you love to see that growth of a character and we have that.\u201d<\/p>\n

More recently, executive producer Elwood Reid<\/strong> weighed in on Colter\u2019s fate, telling Us Weekly<\/em> in October 2025, \u201cSome of the danger is in here because he\u2019s not a cop. He is this guy who is poking his nose in places. The network is always like, \u2018He can get messed up, he can lose a fight, he can get conked on the head and he can have a gun pointed at him.\u2019 Justin pitched an idea for the season 3 midseason finale where it doesn\u2019t go well for Colter. That\u2019s what makes him fun is he is not a superhero.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reid noted that Tracker<\/em> is always searching for ways to surprise viewers.<\/p>\n

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