The highly rated Prime Video series Reacher returned for Season 2, this time based on the eleventh book of Lee Child’s Reacher series Bad Luck and Trouble. In case you missed anything, our recap of Season 2 details everything that went down in Episodes 1-8.
Reacher Season 2 Recap
Episode 1 – “ATM”
In Episode 1, the U.S. Army 110th MP Special Investigations Unit is being hunted down one by one, and after Calvin Franz is murdered, Reacher is on the case to figure out who is after the team. Reacher meets with fellow unit members David O’Donnell and Frances Neagley to investigate what is happening. Although they find Franz’s hard drive that got him killed, they can’t unpack what is in it. Things continue to go south as they think another member of the unit is dead.
Episode 2 – “What Happens in Atlantic City”
Dixon makes her return to the team leading to a hot and steamy moment with Reacher in Episode 2. As this goes down, the team heads to a casino where they think the head of security can share some information about the names and numbers on the hard drive found in Franz’s mailbox. Saropian and his crew attempt to jump Reacher and Dixon, but they get the better of them. Chief Wright informs the crew that two more of their Unit have been found dead.
Episode 3 – “Picture Says a Thousand Words”
Detective Russo hunts down Reacher and arrests him in Episode 3. Although he thinks he is in more trouble, Russo asks why Reacher and his team are interfering with his case. The duo starts working together to try and find out who is behind the murders. Russo reveals that Azhair Mahmoud is a person of interest in the case, and O’Donnell realizes his initials match the list of aliases on the USB drive. Reacher and his team barge into New Age, discovering that Tony Swan had worked for the company.
Episode 4 – “A Night at the Symphony”
After O’Donnell gets information about a Legislative Director, Reacher and the crew decide to head to Boston to question the man for more information about New Age in Episode 4. During the interrogation of Boyd (Legislative Director), he reveals that New Age has helped elevate an anti-missile software allowing missiles to defeat known countermeasures. New Age has a second facility in Denver, Colorado, where Azhair Mahmoud is currently off to find the software to steal it.
Episode 5 – “Burial”
The search to discover who is behind the New Age dealings finally comes to a head in Episode 5. Although Reacher continues to be in denial, the layers of evidence point toward his former colleague and friend, Tony Swan. With that, over six hundred missiles stored in the New Age Denver location have gone missing and seem to be in the hands of Mahmoud. At Calvin Franz’s funeral, a shootout leads Reacher and Russo to inching closer to an understanding partnership.
Episode 6 – “New York’s Finest”
Marlo Burns sent Reacher and his team into an ambush, and in Episode 6 they hunted her down to find out why she did. Upon their interrogation, she reveals that Tony Swan is, in fact, not dirty but someone who found out about Langston’s dealings and was trying to tell others about them. As a result, Reacher attempts to use Marlo as a decoy to reel in Langston. While it worked, things got sketchy fast as Detective Russo (who was with Marlo’s daughter) was being chased by men trying to kill them both.
A shootout ensues, leading to Reacher about to come face-to-face with Langston, but a helicopter comes to the rescue, getting him out of dodge. As that happens, Detective Russo sacrifices his life to save Marlo’s daughter, and the team is too late to rescue Russo as he dies in Frances’s hands.
Episode 7 – “The Man Goes Through”
Reacher’s out for revenge for the death of Detective Russo in Episode 7 as he hunts down LT. Marsh to find out why he snitched on him. Although Marsh says that he didn’t think Langston would kill him, Reacher doesn’t have it, and when he goes for his gun, Reacher kills him. Frances and Reacher head to the hospital to talk to Grant (Marsh gave him the name) about Langston’s next moves, but he doesn’t provide much more information other than when the meet is. After killing yet another one of his men, Langston snags O’Donnell and Dixon and uses them as bait to get Reacher to turn himself over to them.
Episode 8 – “Fly Boy”
With their backs against the wall, Reacher and his team rely on one Senator’s promise to get them out of a sticky situation. After escaping the shootout, Langston leaves via helicopter before Reacher jumps onto the wheel. A fight breaks out, leading Reacher to get revenge and kill Langston. It leads to a confrontation with Azhari Mahmoud, and Reacher and his team quickly dispose of him and retrieve the bombs. Finally, with the job over, Reacher and his team return to their individual lives.
That was my recap of Reacher Season 2 (Episodes 1-8). What were your thoughts on the season overall? Let us know in the comments.
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