Tracker had set up Bobby’s exit long before it was officially announced: Here’s how

Eric Graise’s character was missing in plain sight — and now it all makes sense.

For most Tracker fans, Bobby’s sudden departure in Season 3 felt like a curveball — but for anyone paying attention to Season 2, the signs were already there. Eric Graise’s tech genius character had been an essential part of Colter Shaw’s crime-solving crew from the very beginning, so his vanishing act midway through the second season didn’t go unnoticed. While the show didn’t offer much explanation on-screen, the silence around Bobby’s absence only deepened the mystery.

Bobby was the go-to guy for anything involving gadgets, digital footprints, and cold hard data. So when his cousin Randy (played by Chris Lee) popped in for seven consecutive episodes to take over tech duties, fans quickly realized something was up.

The show’s refusal to address it in a straightforward way only added to the speculation. Was Bobby written off? Was there a behind-the-scenes issue? Or was Tracker subtly prepping us for goodbye all along?

The seven-episode disappearing act no one explained in Tracker

The warning signs of Bobby’s exit were embedded in Season 2, even if no one wanted to say them out loud. After appearing regularly in earlier episodes, Bobby suddenly went MIA — no setup, no drama, no in-show emergency. And in his place, Randy casually slid into the tech chair like this was always part of the plan. The show dropped a vague reference to Bobby attending a “friend’s funeral” in a March 2025 episode, but by then, he had already been gone for more than half the season.

Eric Graise’s return in April 2025 did little to ease the transition. He was back, briefly, delivering the cryptic line, “I had to come back and fix this mess,” but his reappearance felt more like closure than a comeback. By the time Tracker confirmed he wouldn’t be returning for Season 3, it wasn’t a shock — just the long-overdue official word on something the show had already executed behind the scenes.

The evolution of Bobby hinted at a natural endpoint

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Though Bobby started out as the brainy, buttoned-up tech savant, Graise helped shape the role into something more vibrant and lived-in. Over time, Bobby became funnier, edgier, and undeniably more human. He felt like the heart of the digital side of Colter’s operations, but with that evolution came the quiet realization that maybe Bobby was growing beyond the team. His one-liners were sharper, his presence more grounded — and his story, perhaps, more complete.

Graise himself spoke about Bobby being more than just a disabled character on a show — he was a person first, with a full interior life. That intention was clearly visible on screen. So when Bobby walked away from Tracker, it didn’t feel like a character being tossed aside. It felt like someone we knew making an intentional exit — just one that the show never formally gave us a chance to say goodbye to.

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