If you figured Tracker was a show about missing hikers and moody scenery, CBS has successfully flipped the script. Fans almost dropped their remotes during Season 3 Episode 2 ("Leverage"). Russell Shaw, played by Jensen Ackles, appeared to meet his end, and then pulled a fast one. He faked his own death. Why? To dodge "The Process," a deadly group hunting him. The episode kicks off with the Shaw brothers, Colter and Russell, caught in a trap. Someone has been playing mind games with them. But they aren't chasing clues anymore. They are the puzzle someone's trying to solve. Russell Shaw, played by Jensen Ackles, plays dead to survive. Fans of his old show, Supernatural, might grin at the déjà vu!Russell’s "death" on Tracker Season 3 wasn’t real Let's rewind a bit, shall we? What we know so far about "The Process" is that it is a manipulative operation that forces people into doing its dirty work. View this post on Instagram Instagram PostIt had lately been targeting the Shaw brothers. Russell soon found himself hunted by Harith Holmes (played by Omid Abtahi). And this "hunter" himself was being blackmailed into the hit job because his son's life was in danger.Russell, thankfully, knew how to stay several steps ahead. After realizing that he was being tailed, he captured Harith in an isolated safehouse. There, he got to know that "The Process" wouldn't stop until he was dead. That's when Russell landed on this dramatic solution --- he would fake his own death.With a bit of ketchup (thoughtfully!), Russell staged his death for the blackmailers’ cameras to capture. The photo was proof enough to buy him and Colter some time to trace the scheme back to a former psychology professor, eventually. This professor's students had turned her abandoned experiment into a very real underground operation.By the end of the two-part premiere, the Shaw brothers had dismantled "The Process." They were alive, sure, but also traumatized!Jensen Ackles’s return on Tracker Season 3 Jensen Ackles’s addition to Tracker is genius TV chemistry. As Parade reported, Ackles got this role after texting Tracker star Justin Hartley to complain about seeing his "ugly mug" on TV during football. As a reply, Hartley joked that he should play his brother, and Ackles said yes, then and there! View this post on Instagram Instagram PostSeason 3 has changed the emotional thread of Tracker. The tension and grudging teamwork have given the CBS show its best rhythm yet. Fans even got an "eight-minute heartfelt" scene between Colter and Russell as well. And safe to say it has become one of the season's highlights. But sadly, after this brief but rather memorable team-up, Russell will be heading back to his solo territory. Or at least that is the update we have for now. But whether that can be code for "he’ll be back later" remains to be seen.Jensen Ackles’s Russell Shaw was never meant to stay dead, be it figuratively or literally. His return brought an edge to Tracker’s wilderness. Fans can only hope this season keeps up the pace of these two episodes.Tracker Season 3 airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and streams the next day on Paramount+.