Tracker 3 premieres Oct 19 with Justin Hartley and Jensen Ackles

CBS procedural Tracker will return for a third season on Sunday, October 19, with a two-episode premiere that reunites Justin Hartley’s Colter Shaw with his on-screen brother Russell, played by Jensen Ackles. Ahead of the new season, Hulu will temporarily stream Tracker season two beginning September 13 to give viewers a chance to catch up on the series, which has been a ratings mainstay for the network.

The season three opener, titled "The Process," is written by showrunner Elwood Reid and directed by Ken Olin. The official logline says Colter confronts the startling truth about his father’s death while Russell joins him to track the missing wife and daughter of one of Reenie Greene’s clients. Their investigation becomes entangled with a clandestine operation referred to as The Process. The two-part premiere concludes the initial installment the following week on October 26.

Tracker, adapted from Jeffery Deaver’s bestselling novel The Never Game, follows Colter Shaw, a lone-wolf reward seeker who uses expert tracking methods to find missing people and solve cold cases. The series has drawn strong viewership for CBS since its debut and has been praised for its mix of procedural...