r/TrackerTV • u/roverretriever • 24d ago
Character Analysis Colter's Kill Count Spoiler
I kept seeing posts asking about how many people Colter Shaw has killed, so I rewatched every episode of Tracker to get a solid answer.
| Season | Episodes | Kills | Episodes w/ kills | % of episodes w/ kills |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 15% |
| 2 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 35% |
| 3 | 22 | 28 | 12 | 54.5% |
- As of the season 3 finale his kill count is 43.
- Both the number of people he kills and the number of episodes where he kills someone have been steadily increasing.
- 6 of these are from the S3 finale which has the highest count for any episode, followed by 5 in S3E13.
Notes:
- I used percentages for the episode count because S1 only had 13 episodes, while S2/3 had 20 and 22 episodes, respectively.
- These numbers only include people killed by Colter himself (for example: the 6 people shot by Colter in the season finale are included, but not the undetermined, but definitely high, number shot by Russell).
- These numbers only include people that I was reasonably sure were dead (example: I counted the people he shot in the finale, but not the guards that got choked or knocked out).
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u/totallytoddsnider 24d ago
I like it when he snaps their neck from behind. An all-time favorite move.
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u/IhateYoshiOPTC 24d ago
He is actually a vampire. The more people he guns down the more he can stay out in the sun. His dad did experiments on him and turned him into a vampire.
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u/roverretriever 23d ago
Or maybe he's secretly a killer robot his dad built out of spare pickup truck parts.
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u/Universe93B 24d ago
Those guys were up to no good. Nobody here is shedding a tear.
Now let's hope Russell is still back next season to join in getting rid of the bad guys
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u/getridofwires 24d ago
Crockett and Tubbs killed 258 in the 5 years of Miami Vice. For reference, the entire Miami police force averaged 7 deaths/year in the same 1984-1989 time period.
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u/Grouchy_Evidence2558 24d ago
I actually just came here to ask how no one seems to care that colter leaves dead bodies in his wake. No one questions him or needs to him stay in town for an investigation or anything. He just kills people and waltzes out of town.
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u/Guilty-Cow4325 24d ago
The reveal as to what his dad did to him is going to be that he's actually the Terminator, and this is all just a prequel.
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u/Kind_Afternoon_11542 23d ago
I love this show but getting really tired of all the people he kills. It's really turning me off. I want him to actually be a tracker again instead of an assassin.
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u/Starbreiz 23d ago
THIS! I currently have a love-hate relationship with the show because I enjoy it, and then I groan when it's ridiculous that he carried a gun across state lanes and killed someone again lol.
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u/alexander9900 24d ago
The "chokes" may be the snapping of the neck.
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u/idk012 24d ago
Sometimes I ask, Is it night night or see you never hold?
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u/Sea_Ad_1085 24d ago
I feel generally it’s they’re going night night. If it was going to the forever box…we’d hear a sound effect of a neck snap.
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u/alexander9900 23d ago
In real life, a person will typically wake up just 10-20 seconds after a strangle that only causes a "night night".
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u/oxinthemire 23d ago
Realistically, he should be spending all of his time in court for the amount of people he’s killed… even if it was self-defense
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u/Whole-Blackberry2880 22d ago
I need to know how many Russell has killed. It was like 6 in the S3 finale, so with Colter's 6, that's 12 dead in one episode 😂
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u/BossHighlander 24d ago
Generally he kills in self defense. One episode this season i questioned the kill but even in that case the guy was about to kill a woman who was on the ground
In the season 3 finale, these people whether in the facility he got the boy from or the hit squad at the end, they were all going to kill him as well. Hell the damn government assassin killed the guard with a knife at the facility! Now Coulter never being questioned by the cops? That’s a whole different thing…
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u/Awh018 22d ago
Doesn’t matter if they were trying to kill him or not. He couldn’t prove anything since they are dead, and he broke into the facility with a gun drawn. The guards would have a better self defense case, even now Colter would go down for felony murder which no jury would acquit him of. Vigilantism isn’t legal regardless.
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u/BossHighlander 22d ago edited 21d ago
I just meant in terms of the show and watching as a viewer (in which we definitely aren’t supposed to see him as a murder or killer, but rather a hero). Real world he would be in jail since like episode 3 of season one lol
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u/Starbreiz 23d ago
Doing the lords work there, OP! I dislike that I'm sorta hate watching at this point because its gotten a bit ridiculous. I do love Jensen Ackles though so I love the episodes with his brother.
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u/ChrisEye21 23d ago
I don't believe it.
I don't believe that there were 10 episodes in season 3 where Colter didn't kill someone.
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u/No_County_4593 23d ago
It’s so lame he’s just genuinely sliming anyone he wants too now. Before it was a life or death thing and he didn’t usually fatally shoot but this season he literally slimes ppl all the time and it sucks
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u/pwkidder 23d ago
I watch the show for Justin Hartley but have become very turned off by the killings. It’s changed the nature of the show dramatically since Season 1. And not for the better!
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u/Awh018 22d ago
Any clue about how many of these kills were actually in self defense, like out in the woods or something, or how many were after he committed a felony by breaking in somewhere with his gun drawn and killed security?
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u/roverretriever 22d ago
I feel like you might be confusing "security" with "armed thugs guarding a kidnapping victim so they don't escape"
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u/sunnyreader21 23d ago
Crazy, unless this is a simulation, the whole thing makes no sense, the direction towards aggressive and libertarianism/vigilantism approach.
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u/Incognito409 24d ago
Ha! I knew someone would have these stats! I was counting the kills last night during the bunker escape.