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UNDERSTANDABLY, COLTER SHAW (Justin Hartley) is in a dark place after that shocking revelation in the Season 2 finale. Otto (Alex Fernandez) admitted that, yes, he pushed Colter's father over the cliff—but he did it at his mother's (Wendy Crewson) behest! Colter wants more information before speaking to his mom. “There's one version: ‘You had Dad killed,” says executive producer Elwood Reid. “It's far more complicated emotionally.”

- Meredith Jacobs

RETURNS OCT. 19, 8/7c, CBS

A couple weeks later, Colter’s brother Russell (Jensen Ackles, back for the two-part premiere) finds him after he’s fallen off the grid. “It's just two guys, in the Airstream, talking. It’s very tense,” teases the EP. It opens the door to “another central mystery: the why.”