The Tracker season 1 finale just set up the perfect way for Reenie Green (Fiona Rene) to officially join the team. After the events in season 1, Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley) is going to need all the help that he can get in Tracker season 2 – and Reenie is one of the most valuable assets of his team. Colter keeps a pretty small crew to assist him in tracking down missing persons for reward money, making every member of his team crucial to his operation.

The first season established how Colter gets his paycheck within his unconventional office setting – the great outdoors. It sets the scene: Colter is a lone wolf, but has a few people close to him whom he can trust with his life. He works closely with Velma (Abby McEnany) and Teddi (Robin Weigert) Bruin, a couple who helps him find cases and provides information when needed, although Colter relies on Bob Exley (Eric Graise) for his advanced intel. He also gets assistance from other Tracker cast members when the opportunity arises.

The Tracker Season 1 Finale Set The Stage For Reenie Green To Join The Team

Reenie Was Packing Up Her Office In The Tracker Season Finale

The Tracker season 1 finale set the stage for Reenie to join Colter on his investigations more consistently, rather than him calling her as needed (which turns out to be often). At the episode’s onset, Reenie is packing her desk when she takes a call from Colter. She tells him that she’s busy, and he asks her: “You really going through with it?” It’s implied that they’ve had a conversation about what’s happening, but it’s not confirmed until the end of the finale.

Reenie calls Colter to tell him that she has quit her job, and all she wants to do is watch trashy TV under a weighted blanket. She reveals that she “told her jerk boss off” and it’s clear that she’s taking a couple of days to spend time figuring out what her next move is. It appears that Reenie’s schedule has just opened up – and although her future is unknown – she’s made it clear she likes working with Colter. Opening up a new storyline for Reenie is one of the things that need to happen in Tracker season 2, and officially putting her on his team could be the perfect way to facilitate that.

Reenie Has Already Assisted Colter In Many Cases In Tracker Season 1

Reenie’s Role Has Developed With Every Episode She Was Featured In

Reenie assisted Colter with many jobs in Tracker season 1. After the first episode, she ensures that she’s around more often, telling Colter: “Just tell your two wranglers, the next time, I’m first on the list.” Reenie establishes early on that she wants to be his go-to ally, and throughout the first season, she is just that. Although she isn’t featured in episode 2, Velma and Teddi opt to call Reenie in on a case in episode 3. And then in episode 4, “Mt. Shasta,” Reenie shows up in Colter’s trailer with a job for him that’s personal to her.

Since it’s a personal case, in episode 4, Reenie works closely with Colter as they track the son of Reenie’s close friend, who’s been abducted. Then, in episodes 5 and 7, the way that she is involved with legal matters for the team evolves. She goes above and beyond to help people involved in the job with legal work and her involvement sees her getting abducted and held at gunpoint in episode 7. After that, Reenie has her biggest character development yet in episode 10 and it continues her dynamic character arc.

While not appearing in episodes 8 or 9, Reenie shows up again in episode 10 in Colter’s trailer because she needs his help with another job. A family friend who runs a remote outfitting business in Idaho has a plane go missing with his son and daughter on board. Reenie is on the scene the entire time again. In this episode, Reenie is fully helping Colter investigate the crime. She uses a rock to break into a car window so that she can get information from the vehicle’s registration, and while investigating a crime scene, she finds a dead body, further highlighting how much she can contribute.

Why Reenie Joining Colter’s Team Is The Natural Progression For Her Character

At This Point, It’s Evident Reenie’s Involvement In Colter’s Team Is Evolving

The character joining the team is a natural progression for her story because Reenie’s role in Colter’s work has evolved with every episode where she was featured in season 1. She joins the team for a case any time that she can, and she often finds other ways to help Colter out of a bad situation that extends above and beyond her legal work. At the end of episode 1, she tells Colter: “You know what the problem is with you, Colter Shaw? You’re just so damn interesting. And most of the work I do is not.”

When the season kicks off, Reenie isn’t on good terms with Colter, evident when she arrives at the jail in episode 1 to bail him out. She calls Colter a “pathological narcissist.” It’s a crucial moment because she sets up their background. Reenie reveals to the guard that they’ve known each other for several years, and their bad blood stems from a case in Akron, Ohio, where she argued him out of a witness tampering charge, and he ran out after a night together. Her strong start to the series could be what made Tracker so popular on CBS.

It’s a pivotal moment, considering that it’s the beginning of Reenie’s evolution that will likely continue. It shows, although she holds Colter accountable for their rocky start, that she cares about him and is there for him no matter what. For instance, after calling him out, Reenie reveals that she just came from his hearing and that he’s free to go. Reenie joining the team feels like the next step for her character because she has opened up to Colter and his work all season, establishing in the first episode that she prefers working with him to the other work she does.

How Reenie Joining The Team Would Change The Entire Show

Reenie Makes Two On The Scene

Reenie having an understanding with Colter that she would assist in his cases regularly would change the entire show, because the episodes that have Reenie in them have a different tone. When Reenie is on a job with Colter, it feels more like a police procedural than more of a modern Western when Colter is in action on his own. Reenie already feels like a mainstay in Tracker, and confirming her role on Colter’s team, rather than her splitting her work between jobs, would solidify that she is synonymous with the show.

Reenie would change the team because, while Bob, Teddi, and Velma all assist Colter remotely, Reenie changes things by being on the scene of the investigation with Colter. When Reenie and Colter are working on a case, it feels like they’re partners. Reenie makes that clear to Russell when he asks her about what kind of work she does for Colter, and she corrects him that they work alongside each other as a team. The truth is, after Tracker season 1, it’s almost impossible to picture the series without Fiona Rene’s character on hand as an active member of the group.