Tracker Season 3 Explains Absences, Pernas Returns Midseason

The season 3 premiere of Tracker explained two season‑2 absences: hacker Bobby Exley (Eric Graise) left to work as an encryption specialist at a startup, and Velma Bruin (Abby McEnany) went to see her wife Teddi to try to save their marriage. The episode establishes that Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley) now mainly relies on Reenie Green (Fiona Rene) and Randy (Chris Lee) after the team thinned, with interactions with off‑screen characters like Teddi mostly occurring by phone. Executive producer Elwood Reid confirmed Sofia Pernas will return midseason as Billie, a fellow tracker whose presence requires the writers to give both trackers substantive, case‑relevant work rather than personal detours. Reid and Hartley said they will build on Colter and Billie's chemistry while keeping the series' case‑driven emotional hooks and finding "fun" ways to use two strong alpha characters.