Camera won't display object

I have a camera that is rendering to a material and that material is assigned to a plane. The camera itself is aimed at an object and it will not display on the plane unless I click on the object in the hierarchy window. I am completely stumped by this one. Does the camera not update on a regular basis? I double checked and the object I am trying to display hasn’t been culled out.

is the mesh renderer turned on?

yes it is.