# Reacher (TV series)

Reacher is an American action crime television series developed by Nick Santora for Amazon Prime Video. Based on the Jack Reacher book series by Lee Child, it stars Alan Ritchson as the title character, a self-proclaimed hobo and former U.S. Army military policeman with formidable strength, intellect, and abilities. During his travels, Reacher crosses paths with dangerous criminals and battles them.
The first season of Reacher was based on Killing Floor, Child's 1997 debut novel, and was released on February 4, 2022. The second season, based on Bad Luck and Trouble (2007), began on December 15, 2023, and concluded on January 19, 2024. The third season, based on the 2003 novel Persuader, premiered on February 20, 2025. In October 2024, before the third season premiere, the series was renewed for a fourth season.
A spinoff series, Neagley, is currently in production.

## Premise

Jack Reacher is a former U.S. Army military police major with extensive AWOL investigative and combat experience who prefers to live as a drifter, travelling from town to town across the United States.
In the first season, while visiting the rural town of Margrave, Georgia, Reacher is arrested for murder. After he is freed, he teams up with two honest police officers, Oscar Finlay and Roscoe Conklin, to investigate a local conspiracy involving corrupt lawmen, politicians, and a wealthy business tycoon and his son who are running a dangerous counterfeiting syndicate. He also tries to uncover his brother's murderer.
In the second season, Neagley, a former member of his defunct MP Special Investigations unit from New York City, contacts Reacher when one of their own is murdered under mysterious circumstances. He reassembles his old team to find the murderers and avenge their friend's death. The team's investigation leads them to a technology company with a corrupt security division conspiring with a dangerous arms dealer.
In the third season, Reacher delves into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise when he attempts to rescue a DEA informant. There, he encounters a world of secrets and violence and confronts Quinn, an enemy from his past.

## Cast and characters
### Main

* Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher
** Maxwell Jenkins as young Jack Reacher (season 1)
* Malcolm Goodwin as Oscar Finlay (season 1; guest season 2), Margrave PD Police Captain and Chief Detective
* Willa Fitzgerald as Roscoe Conklin (season 1), Margrave PD Sergeant
* Chris Webster as KJ Kliner (season 1), the entitled son of Kliner Sr. who is assisting his father's criminal operation
* Bruce McGill as Mayor Grover Teale (season 1), a crooked politician in league with the Kliner family
* Maria Sten as Frances Neagley, a corporate security professional who served with Reacher in the Army's 110th Special Investigations Unit as a Master sergeant
* Serinda Swan as Karla Dixon (season 2), a forensic accountant in corporate risk management, who served with Reacher in the 110th Special Investigations Unit
* Shaun Sipos as David O'Donnell (season 2), a lawyer with a family, who served with Reacher in the 110th Special Investigations Unit
* Ferdinand Kingsley as A.M. (season 2), a seasoned mercenary and terrorist arms dealer travelling under multiple assumed identities
* Robert Patrick as Shane Langston (season 2), a former NYPD detective and the corrupt head of security for New Age, a private defense contractor
* Sonya Cassidy as Susan Duffy (season 3), a DEA agent who is leading an investigation into Zachary Beck
* Johnny Berchtold as Richard Beck (season 3), Zachary's son
* Roberto Montesinos as Guillermo Villanueva (season 3), a DEA agent and member of Susan Duffy's team
* Olivier Richters as Paul "Paulie" van Hoven (season 3), Zachary Beck's bodyguard
* Brian Tee as Francis Xavier Quinn / Julius McCabe (season 3), a former U.S. military intelligence lieutenant colonel turned arms dealer and previous nemesis of Reacher
* Anthony Michael Hall as Zachary Beck (season 3), the owner of an Oriental rug importer, Bizarre Bazaar

### Recurring

* Willie C. Carpenter as Mosley (season 1), an elderly barber and longtime resident of Margrave
* Harvey Guillén as Jasper (season 1), Margrave's medical examiner
* Christopher Russell as Joe Reacher (season 1), a Secret Service agent and Jack Reacher's older brother.
** Gavin White as young Joe Reacher.
* Leslie Fray as Josephine Reacher (season 1), Jack Reacher's mother
* Matthew Marsden as Stan Reacher (season 1), Jack Reacher's father
* Hugh Thompson as Baker (season 1), a corrupt Margrave officer on Kliner's payroll
* Jonathan Koensgen as Stevenson (season 1), a Margrave officer and Paul Hubble's cousin
* AJ Simmons as Dawson Kliner (season 1), Kliner Sr.'s nephew who works as a hitman and enforcer for his uncle's crime operation
* Marc Bendavid as Paul Hubble (season 1), a banker strong-armed into assisting the Kliner counterfeiting ring
* Patrick Garrow as Tanner Spivey (season 1), a corrupt corrections officer paid off by Kliner to kill Hubble.
* Kristin Kreuk as Charlene "Charlie" Hubble (season 1), Paul Hubble's wife
* Currie Graham as Kliner Sr. (season 1), the owner of Kliner Industries who is secretly fronting an illegal counterfeiting operation for South American cartel outfits.
* Martin Roach as Picard (season 1), a corrupt FBI agent and old friend of Finlay.
* Domenick Lombardozzi as Gaitano "Guy" Russo (season 2), an NYPD homicide detective investigating Franz's murder.
* Luke Bilyk as Calvin Franz (season 2), who served with Reacher in the 110th Special Investigations Unit. His murder triggers Reacher to reform the 110th temporarily and discover his killers.
* Andres Collantes as Jorge Sanchez (season 2), who served with Reacher in the 110th Special Investigations Unit, and was later found dead
* Edsson Morales as Manuel Orozco (season 2), who served with Reacher in the 110th Special Investigations Unit, and was later found dead
* Shannon Kook as Tony Swan (season 2), who served with Reacher in the 110th Special Investigations Unit and acts as the assistant director of security at New Age.
* Dean McKenzie as Stanley Lowrey (season 2), who served with Reacher in the 110th Special Investigations Unit. He was killed in a car accident off-screen before the second season.
* Christina Cox as Marlo Burns (season 2), the director of operations at New Age.
* Daniel David Stewart as Steven Eliot (season 3), a DEA agent and a member of Susan Duffy's team.
* Caitlin McNerney as Annette (season 3), an ATF undercover agent and Zachary's maid.

### Guest

* Lara Jean Chorostecki as Molly Beth Gordon (season 1), a Secret Service agent who was involved with Joe Reacher
* Lochlyn Munro as David Wright (season 2), chief of security for the Neptune Casino in Atlantic City, where he is acquainted with Reacher
* Al Sapienza as Drew Marsh (season 2), a corrupt NYPD lieutenant and Guy Russo's boss
* Mariah Robinson as Dominique Kohl (season 3), a previous military partner of Reacher whom Xavier Quinn brutally murdered
* Andreas Apergis as Leon Garber (season 3), Reacher's previous commanding officer
* Robert Bazzocchi as Anthony Frasconi (season 3), an U.S. Army corporal who worked with Reacher and Kohl and was also murdered by Xavier Quinn

## Episodes

| Season | Episodes | Episodes | Originally released | Originally released |
| Season | Episodes | Episodes | First released | Last released |
| 1 | 8 | 8 | February 4, 2022 (2022-2-4) | February 4, 2022 (2022-2-4) |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | December 15, 2023 (2023-12-15) | January 19, 2024 (2024-1-19) |
| 3 | 8 | 8 | February 20, 2025 (2025-2-20) | March 27, 2025 (2025-3-27) |

### Season 1 (2022)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 1 | 1 | "Welcome to Margrave" | Thomas Vincent | Nick Santora | February 4, 2022 (2022-2-4) |
| At midnight, a man is shot dead just outside Margrave, Georgia. The following morning, Jack Reacher arrives on a Greyhound bus and walks into town, where police arrest him at a diner for the murder. They send him to the local jail with Paul Hubble, a banker who falsely confessed to the murder. Spivey, a crooked guard, puts them in with the general population, where Reacher brutally foils an attempt on their lives. Hubble explains he confessed to covering for a criminal organization that would have otherwise killed him and his family. After being released, KJ Kliner, the son of local businessman Kliner, verbally threatens Reacher in the town. When he later returns to the police station, he is informed about a second killing. At the morgue, a discussion about both the recent murder and another one earlier in the week leads him to identify the first victim as his older brother, Joe Reacher. ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "First Dance" | Sam Hill | Scott Sullivan | February 4, 2022 (2022-2-4) |
| Reacher teams up with Oscar Finlay, the local police detective, and a cop named Roscoe Conklin to investigate his brother's murder and the recent disappearance of Hubble following his release from custody. Soon, they discover the gruesome murder of Finlay's boss, Ed Morrison, and his wife at their home. Reacher deduces that someone killed him for not taking care of Hubble. The mayor, Grover Teale, himself dirty, takes over as police chief and orders Finlay to conduct a sham investigation into Morrison's death. Finlay's friend, FBI agent Picard, agrees to take Hubble's wife and children into unofficial protective custody. Reacher sets a meeting with Spivey but gets ambushed by two South American ex-soldiers, allowing Spivey to escape. Roscoe then takes him to a bar, where they dance. While driving home, they discovered that the road was submerged, and they spent the night resting in the same motel room, where Reacher opened up about his past. ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Spoonful" | Stephen Surjik | Aadrita Mukerji | February 4, 2022 (2022-2-4) |
| Roscoe returns home to find evidence of a break-in. At Reacher's urging, she gives him a gun. The group contacts Joe's colleague, Molly Beth Gordon, at the Secret Service, learning that Joe was in Margrave on a confidential assignment to investigate reports of large-scale counterfeiting. Reacher intimidates one of Kliner's lawyers for information on Jobling, a Kliner truck driver the company went to great pains to release from police custody. Meanwhile, Finlay checks Spivey's house for clues and gets beaten by police after they mistake him for a burglar. The two men then visit Kliner in person. Kliner claims he knows nothing and makes threats to drop the investigation. Reacher convinces Roscoe and Finlay to move out of their homes temporarily. While buying supplies, Kliner's son KJ approaches Roscoe, who warns her that Reacher is a murderer. The ex-soldiers again ambush Reacher, but this time he kills them. He then finds Spivey's corpse in their car trunk with a gunshot to the head. ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "In a Tree" | Christine Moore | Cait Duffy | February 4, 2022 (2022-2-4) |
| After meeting with Finlay, Reacher takes Roscoe to help him dispose of the bodies. He also reveals the truth behind KJ's warning: while serving in Iraq, Reacher killed three civilian men who were sexually assaulting a group of young boys. After Reacher dumps the evidence at an Atlanta airport, he pays for a hotel room using counterfeit cash, where he and Roscoe have sex after she surprises him in the shower. The next day, they visit the home of a former Kliner employee and find empty air conditioner boxes that Reacher suspects were used to move the counterfeit cash. Picard gives them a lead on the motel Joe stayed at before his murder; Reacher finds a hidden note before more mercenaries jump Roscoe and him. Roscoe saves Reacher's life, and Reacher admits he put himself in danger to protect her. Molly Beth arrives in Atlanta with Joe's files on the case, but someone kills her and steals the files seconds before Reacher finds her. ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "No Apologies" | Norberto Barba | Scott Sullivan | February 4, 2022 (2022-2-4) |
| Feeling guilty for Molly Beth's murder, Reacher takes out his frustration by attacking KJ after he vandalizes Roscoe's truck. Kliner declines to press charges. Roscoe learns that Teale has fired her for "subpar" police work. Desperate for new leads, Reacher finds a key and trunk left by Roscoe's deceased former boss, Gray, containing research that confirms Reacher's suspicions that Margrave is the heart of Kliner's counterfeiting operation, but with no useable evidence. Travelling to Memphis, Reacher meets with his old comrade, private investigator Frances Neagley, to find a hitman who may have been Joe's murderer. After Roscoe punches Teale upon learning that he murdered Gray, Finlay gets her out of town by having her replace Picard as the Hubble family's bodyguard. Reacher and Neagley survive an attempt on their lives by a desperate Memphis cop since someone threatened his family. Finlay breaks into Kliner's office only to find that someone has killed Kliner. ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Papier" | Omar Madha | Aadrita Mukerji | February 4, 2022 (2022-2-4) |
| Finlay and Reacher follow one of Kliner's trucks. Finlay tells Reacher the real reason he came to Margrave was not due to divorce but because his wife Sharon died after a long illness. After finding the truck empty, Reacher goes to New York City to meet with one of Joe's contacts, Professor Kate Castillo, having found that someone murdered another contact under the guise of being mugged. He determines that Kliner had been shipping counterfeit money to a client in Venezuela, using "super bills" made from the specialized paper used in printing dollars. Assassins find Roscoe and Hubble's family, but Roscoe dispatches both men in the woods. While waiting for Picard, Paul Hubble's wife Charlie shares the details of their involvement with Kliner, explaining that Kliner tricked Paul into laundering money and two gangsters forced him to watch them crucify a man to ensure his loyalty to Kliner. Reacher arranges for Castillo to get police protection and uses his necktie to strangle an assassin sent to kill her. ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Reacher Said Nothing" | Lin Oeding | Scott Sullivan | February 4, 2022 (2022-2-4) |
| A hit squad murdered Officer Stevenson and his pregnant wife, seeking information about the Hubble family. Teale fires Finlay on a pretext the following morning. Reacher pretends to confide in the last Margrave officer, Baker (who Reacher believes is corrupt), sharing a fake plan to search Hubble's house. Finlay goes in person to inform Stevenson's parents of his death. The hit squad goes to Hubble's house, planning to kill Reacher, but he traps and kills them all, including Kliner's nephew, Dawson. Based on the gathered information, Reacher realizes Kliner was bleaching $1 bills to get the paper needed to print his money. He checks in with Roscoe, who shares his discovery with Picard. Reacher helps Finlay evade mercenaries who track him to his motel due to his visit to the Stevensons'. Reacher and Finlay return to Jobling's house, where someone has burned it down. They search Jobling's parents' house and find boxes of counterfeit bills. They arrange a meeting with Picard. However, when they arrive, Picard is waiting with KJ and Teale. ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Pie" | MJ Bassett | Nick Santora | February 4, 2022 (2022-2-4) |
| KJ confesses to all the murders, having killed Joe and the others to protect the operation and his father when he tried to stop him, feeling he'd gone too far. KJ shows Reacher a live stream of a captive Roscoe. He sends him and Picard to find Hubble. Reacher tricks Picard into stopping to fix a flat tire and shoots him; Picard escapes. Reacher immediately finds Hubble, who reveals he was working with Joe and Jobling (who feared they would murder him for stealing counterfeit bills) to stop Kliner's operation. Baker tortures and beats Finlay at the precinct; Reacher rams the station with a truck and kills him. Neagley arrives, and Reacher gathers weapons before torching Kliner's factory with gasoline. Finlay crushes Picard to death in a hydraulic press, while Roscoe subdues and handcuffs Teale before shooting him when he goes for her gun. As the warehouse goes up in flames, Reacher douses KJ with flammable chemicals and kicks him into the fire, burning him alive. A flashback reveals how Reacher's mother died in Paris after a long illness, giving him his French grandfather's Croix de Guerre. Roscoe gives Reacher her number and says to call whenever he wants. She tells him she wants to rebuild Margrave; Reacher suggests she consider running for Mayor. Finlay decides to move back to Boston. After burying the medal where Joe died, Reacher quietly walks out of Margrave. He sticks out his thumb for a ride, continuing his journey. ||||||

### Season 2 (2023–24)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 9 | 1 | "ATM" | Sam Hill | Nick Santora | December 15, 2023 (2023-12-15) |
| Somewhere in the Catskill Mountains, a man falls out of a helicopter to his death. The next day, Jack Reacher collects his pension check in Arkansas when he intervenes to subdue an armed carjacker. He then notices that his ATM receipt has an embedded military emergency assistance code in the amounts. Reacher contacts his former teammate Frances Neagley, who confirms she planted it there to get his attention. The man dropped from the helicopter was Calvin Franz, another former member of Reacher's hand-picked Special Investigations Unit during his time in the Army. The two begin investigating the murder with the help of a third member, David O'Donnell. Reacher acquires a data drive hidden by Franz, obtaining a list of numbers and a separate list of names starting with the initials A.M., suspected to be aliases. Neagley reveals that another member of the 110th Special Investigations Unit, Stan Lowery, died in a car accident two years before Franz's murder, leaving only seven living members of the 110th. The trio swear to avenge their dead friend, Franz, by finding and punishing his killers themselves. The trio then try to locate another member of the Special Investigations Unit, Tony Swan, at his home. However, upon noticing that no one is answering the door, they break in to find the house empty and Swan's dog dead from dehydration. Reacher, seeing the pattern with Franz murdered and now Swan presumed dead, deduces that someone is targeting every living member of Reacher's unit with brutal efficiency. ||||||
| 10 | 2 | "What Happens in Atlantic City" | Sam Hill | Scott Sullivan | December 15, 2023 (2023-12-15) |
| Reacher assaults a stranger following him, only to then identify him as NYPD Detective Guy Russo. Reacher, Neagley, and O'Donnell visited Atlantic City, where two teammates (Sanchez and Orozco) worked as security guards for the Neptune Casino. Along the way, they meet Karla Dixon, another member of the team and potential love interest for Reacher. They find a helpful ally in David Wright, the casino's Chief of Security. He comps the team a suite to stay in and helps them search for Sanchez and Orozco. Unfortunately, his police contacts confirm that both men were abducted, murdered, and dumped in the same region of the mountains as Franz. He confirms that none of the casinos are missing money, so the numbers on the list must mean something else. A later assassination attempt points them back towards New York to a defense contracting company called New Age Technologies. ||||||
| 11 | 3 | "Picture Says a Thousand Words" | Omar Madha | Penny Cox | December 15, 2023 (2023-12-15) |
| Flashbacks show New Age head of security Shane Langston torturing Franz for information. Before being thrown from the helicopter, Franz warns Langston that the "big guy" is coming for him. In the present, Reacher acquires guns for the team before Russo arrests O'Donnell and him. Russo reveals that his investigations have identified a suspect in the murders, Azari Mahmoud, the owner of the "A.M." aliases, a terrorist broker wanted by the Department of Homeland Security. Meanwhile, Neagley and Dixon visit the offices of New Age Technologies, where Director of Operations Marlo Burns identifies the man sent to kill them as Trevor Saropian and gives them his address. While in Denver, A.M. realizes that his aliases have been blown and tells Langston that his planned arrival in New York will be delayed; meanwhile, Dixon deduces that the collection of figures discovered on the Franz USB represents days and months. Reacher, Neagley, Dixon, and O'Donnell pay a visit to Saropian's house, correctly anticipating an ambush and murdering numerous mercenaries working for New Age. With New Age's involvement now confirmed, the team members raid the company's HQ, finding evidence that a member of the Special Investigators, Tony Swan, had been an employee there. ||||||
| 12 | 4 | "A Night at the Symphony" | Omar Madha | Cait Duffy | December 22, 2023 (2023-12-22) |
| As the team members investigate their discoveries from New Age, they disagree on Swan's motives after discovering he works in the company's security department. The team members find out New Age has a government defense contract called Little Wing, thanks to notes from a senator named Lavoy. Meanwhile, back in Denver, A.M. kills a plastic surgeon in an attempt to steal his identity before flying to New York. The team members track the senator's legislative aide to Boston, where Dixon helps Oscar Finlay arrest the aide to coerce information out of him. The aide reveals to Reacher and O'Donnell that Little Wing is a surface-to-air missile program conducted in New Age facilities in Denver and New York to create missiles that will always hit their targets. Reacher realizes that people from New Age are planning to sell 650 missiles to A.M. to enable terrorist attacks. Later that night, a biker gang ambushed the team members but subdued them. Reacher then phones Langston, who attempts to bribe him into going away, but Reacher refuses and proclaims that he wants to throw him out of a helicopter. ||||||
| 13 | 5 | "Burial" | Carol Banker | Scott Sullivan | December 29, 2023 (2023-12-29) |
| Neagley and Dixon visit New Age's facility in Denver, hoping to see the missiles and find all 650 missiles have departed in a truck. One of A.M.'s henchmen, Oleg, stages the breakdown of another lorry on the first truck's route and kills its driver. He opens the truck's trailer, revealing three other henchmen and the missiles. Neagley and Dixon, who have been chasing the first truck, come upon the scene just after the henchmen have switched the trailers. The henchmen try to kill Neagley and Dixon. Oleg drives off with the missiles before Neagley and Dixon kill the other three. In the paperwork Neagley and Dixon received from New Age's Denver facility's manager, they learned that Swan had allowed the missiles to leave New Age. In the meantime, Reacher and O'Donnell visit Washington D.C. and make a trip to the Department of Homeland Security for information on A.M. Senator Lavoy catches up with Reacher and offers his assistance towards stopping a possible terrorist attack. The team members then head back to New York for Franz's funeral, where Reacher runs into and confronts Russo, who reveals that Langston is a former NYPD detective and the New Age security department, minus Swan, are former NYPD cops from the same precinct who took early retirement after being investigated. During the funeral, two hitmen try to kill the team members. Neagley kills one of the snipers; Reacher and Russo chase and catch the other. He reveals that Swan paid him to kill the members of the team; when he goes to an abandoned building to collect his payment, the building explodes. ||||||
| 14 | 6 | "New York's Finest" | Carol Banker | Cait Duffy & Michael J. Gutierrez | January 5, 2024 (2024-1-5) |
| Following the building explosion, Russo gives the team a lead regarding the location of Marlo Burns. After the team track her down, she confirms that Swan has been trying to stop New Age's terrorist operation. She also reveals that she has been on the run thanks to Langston, who warned her that he would kill her and her daughter if she associated herself with Swan. Russo learns New Age contacted his boss and is involved with their plans. Langston bribed him into revealing information regarding Reacher and the team and updates on Russo's investigation. When Russo and Marlo's daughter Jane attempt to go into hiding, New Age hitmen track them, trying to kill them while pursuing them in a high-speed chase across the city, forcing Russo to call the team for backup. The team enlists Marlo as bait to lure Langston and other members of New Age into a trap, which results in Reacher killing all of them, minus Langston, who escapes in a helicopter. Afterwards, Neagley, Dixon, and O'Donnell arrive to assist Russo. They rescue Jane, but Russo has sacrificed himself to kill the hitmen. ||||||
| 15 | 7 | "The Man Goes Through" | Julian Holmes | Penny Cox & Lillian Wang | January 12, 2024 (2024-1-12) |
| Reacher and his team send Marlo and Jane to a safe place Dixon used to stay in Buffalo. Reacher and Neagley confront Lt. Marsh in his home while Dixon and O'Donnell send Marlo and Jane off in a safe passage. Reacher kills Marsh after he reveals that Grant, a hitman hired by Langston to take down Russo, is alive in a hospital. Reacher and Neagley extract information regarding the buy from Grant after Reacher threatens to burst the balloon in Grant's bladder by filling it with air. However, Reacher, before leaving, ensures that Grant dies from an embolism as revenge for killing Russo. They find a hitman disguised as a doctor sent to kill Grant, and the hitman accidentally dies in the fight between him, Neagley and Reacher. Langston reveals to Reacher in a phone call that he has got Dixon and O'Donnell. Reacher lies to Langston that Neagley got killed in the fight with the hitman. At the same time, Langston's men torture Dixon and O'Donnell. Reacher requests Lavoy for his private security team for his mission. Leaving Neagley outside with a plan, Reacher walks into the New Age Facility alone and surrenders himself as he confronts Langston. ||||||
| 16 | 8 | "Fly Boy" | Julian Holmes | Scott Sullivan | January 19, 2024 (2024-1-19) |
| While held captive, Reacher learns that Swan never joined Langston and refused to be part of the conspiracy. As a result of his defiance, Langston murdered Swan and used his harvested iris and fingerprint to sign paperwork to frame him as the designated fall guy. Neagley and Lavoy's security team successfully break Reacher out of the New Age Facility, allowing him to board Langston's helicopter. Reacher kills the remaining bodyguard and, as promised, tosses Langston out of the chopper to his death, freeing O'Donnell and Dixon. The team then heads to the New Age engineer's house to ambush and kill A.M. Anticipating that Lavoy's security team is going to assassinate the investigators as the last remaining loose ends, Homeland Security agents arrest Lavoy and the security team after receiving a tip from Reacher before his rescue mission. The investigators kill the two remaining New Age employees for their part in the conspiracy by using a Little Wing missile on Langston's helicopter, with the crash covered up by Homeland Security. The team distributes the $65 million among themselves and the surviving family members of their fallen allies, then go their separate ways. ||||||

### Season 3 (2025)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 17 | 1 | "Persuader" | Sam Hill | Scott Sullivan | February 20, 2025 (2025-2-20) |
| In Maine, Reacher saves a young man from a kidnapping attempt by shooting the kidnapper. When Reacher accidentally shoots a cop, a police chase ensues. The man, whose name is Richard Beck, reveals to Reacher that someone had kidnapped him before and that his father only paid the ransom when his ear was amputated. Richard takes Reacher home to see his father, Zachary Beck. Reacher meets with Zachary, who thanks him for saving his son but is suspicious of him. Zachary offers Reacher a job if he plays Russian roulette, which he does. Reacher is working undercover for Susan Duffy, a DEA agent who recruited him to find a missing undercover agent, Teresa Daniels, in exchange for helping Reacher deal with a previous nemesis, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Xavier Quinn. To put Reacher undercover, they stage Richard's kidnapping, with the kidnapper and the cop being DEA agents (Steven Eliot and Guillermo Villanueva) working with Duffy. Reacher sneaks into the garage at night, where he finds and reveals to Duffy that Teresa was there. ||||||
| 18 | 2 | "Truckin'" | Sam Hill | Penny Cox | February 20, 2025 (2025-2-20) |
| When Duffy learns from Reacher that Teresa is in danger, she beats up the bodyguard they are holding captive to find out what they plan to do with Teresa, but the bodyguard claims he does not know. Reacher has a brief scuffle with hulking bodyguard Paulie before Zachary's head guard, Chapman Duke, sends Reacher to check out the hijacked cars. Reacher calls Duffy to tell her that it may be a problem for the kidnapping story; Duffy goes to the car yard to retrieve one of the cars. One of Zachary's associates, Angel Doll, notices the bodyguard's car but doesn't see Duffy change the license plate. Duke orders Reacher to take a truck to New London, Connecticut. Reacher calls Neagley to investigate the people he works with. Reacher meets with Duffy to check the trailer for drugs or Teresa's body, but they only find carpets. Back in Maine, Doll questions Reacher about his actions at the yard and in the kidnapping, and when Doll tries to tell Duke about his suspicions, Reacher slams his head onto a table, killing him. ||||||
| 19 | 3 | "Number 2 with a Bullet" | Gary Fleder | Cait Duffy | February 20, 2025 (2025-2-20) |
| After returning from New London, Reacher meets with Zachary over a message from Doll. Reacher tries to make him believe that his partners are trying to betray him and that they should kill them, but Zachary doesn't listen. After this, Reacher tells Duffy that he has a car ready to go back to the warehouse where he killed Doll. When Reacher arrives at the meeting point, Duffy tells him she will go with him to find Teresa, to which Reacher reluctantly agrees. At the warehouse, Reacher and Duffy search for Teresa and clean up Doll's remains; two men arrive, and Reacher and Duffy kill them. Duffy keeps Doll's laptop. The next day, Reacher has to be with Richard in town. Reacher defends him from some thugs, and Richard tells him that Zachary's boss, Julius McCabe, threatened him and his father. When Reacher returns home, he goes with Duke and Zachary to a cabin, the kidnapper's hiding spot. Reacher takes the opportunity to kill Duke, fake a shootout and blow up the house; in the car, he wins over Zachary and becomes his number two. ||||||
| 20 | 4 | "Dominique" | Sam Hill | Lillian Wang | February 27, 2025 (2025-2-27) |
| Reacher heads to Duffy's house after gaining Zachary's trust. He discovers that Julius McCabe is Xavier Quinn, believed to be dead. Following the revelation, Reacher tells Duffy how he received a new partner, Dominique Kohl, to investigate a case involving Gorowski. They eventually force Gorowski to inform them that he works for Quinn, selling state secrets because Quinn threatened his family. Reacher and Kohl, along with Anthony Frasconi, intercept one of Quinn's buyers, a Syrian businessman, Safwan Qasim, whom they force to assist in capturing Quinn. Having evidence to prosecute him, Reacher allows Kohl to arrest Quinn. Quinn instead kidnaps Kohl. In his search for her, Reacher finds Frasconi dead in a house and later finds Kohl's bloody body hanging in a cabin; Quinn brutally murdered her. Reacher finds Quinn and shoots him in retaliation, apparently killing him. Back in the present, Zachary sends Reacher to a factory where they have located Doll's laptop and where Duffy is. Reacher heads to the factory as three of Quinn's men arrive there. ||||||
| 21 | 5 | "Smackdown" | Sam Hill | Michael J. Gutierrez | March 6, 2025 (2025-3-6) |
| When Reacher can't contact Duffy, he calls Eliot to call the company's number. When Eliot calls, a gunfight breaks out between Quinn's men and Duffy and Villanueva; Reacher helps Duffy and Villanueva escape. At the cabin, the captive bodyguard manages to kill Eliot and escape. After discovering that the feds are spying on them, Quinn's men move into the house. When Duffy finds Eliot dead and the bodyguard has escaped, she calls Reacher to tell him so and get him out of the house, but Reacher formulates a plan involving Villanueva. Duffy cuts the power, and Reacher uses Villanueva as bait to kill the bodyguard. Back at the house, Zachary informs Reacher that Annette, the maid, was an ATF infiltrator and that Paulie has accidentally killed her. Reacher tells Duffy that several Feds are spying on them and that Quinn is dealing in firearms, not drugs. The following morning, Zachary informs Reacher that they must go to a factory. Reacher and Zachary arrive to meet Quinn. ||||||
| 22 | 6 | "Smoke on the Water" | Sam Hill | Scott Sullivan | March 13, 2025 (2025-3-13) |
| Quinn meets with Zachary and accuses him of unknowingly having an ATF mole inside. Due to the retrograde amnesia caused by Reacher, Quinn has no memory of him and introduces himself to him using his alias McCabe. Quinn meets with a Russian mobster; Reacher discovers Quinn is in danger. Afterwards, Reacher drives Richard into town to meet with Duffy and return her badge; Reacher and Duffy kiss, and Richard realizes that Reacher is a mole. Quinn sends men to kill everyone investigating him, including Neagley; Neagley kills them and tells Reacher. Quinn arrives at Zachary's house to question him about the U.S. Army investigating him; Zachary tells him that said unit was Reacher's. Quinn sends Paulie to kill Reacher, but he escapes, leading to a chase. Reacher kills all the men in the forest except Paulie and takes refuge in a laundromat. Quinn punishes Zachary by forcing Richard to play Russian roulette. Reacher and Duffy search for Teresa in Port Rome, but Harley, a member of Zachary's security team, claims that Quinn changed everything after Reacher escaped. Reacher and Duffy travel to Los Angeles. ||||||
| 23 | 7 | "L.A. Story" | TBA | Penny Cox & Cait Duffy | March 20, 2025 (2025-3-20) |
| 24 | 8 | "Unfinished Business" | TBA | Scott Sullivan | March 27, 2025 (2025-3-27) |

## Production
### Development

On July 15, 2019, a TV series adaptation of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels was announced by Amazon. Nick Santora, who created Scorpion, was set to write, showrun, and produce the series through Paramount Television and Skydance Media. On January 14, 2020, the TV series was greenlit, with Don Granger, Scott Sullivan, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross, and Christopher McQuarrie as executive producers with Child. The first season was announced as an adaptation of Child's novel Killing Floor. In July 2021, it was announced M. J. Bassett had joined the series as a director. On February 7, 2022, Amazon Prime Video renewed the series for a second season. To adapt the books to screen the writers decided they would need to make Reacher verbalize his thoughts more often, but that they would keep his dialogue short and direct and have him only speak longer to people he respects. They also decided to introduce Neagley to the series earlier than in the books. On December 2, 2023, ahead of the second-season premiere, it was revealed that filming of a third season had begun. On October 9, 2024, ahead of the third season premiere, Amazon renewed the series for a fourth season.

### Casting

On September 4, 2020, Alan Ritchson was cast in the title role. On March 22, 2021, Malcolm Goodwin, Willa Fitzgerald, and Chris Webster were cast as series regulars. On May 19, 2021, Bruce McGill, Maria Sten, and Hugh Thompson joined the main cast. On June 11, 2021, Kristin Kreuk, Marc Bendavid, Willie C. Carpenter, Currie Graham, Harvey Guillén, and Maxwell Jenkins were announced to have joined the cast in undisclosed capacities.
On September 14, 2022, Shaun Sipos joined as a series regular for the second season. On September 21, 2022, Serinda Swan, Ferdinand Kingsley, and Rory Cochrane joined the main cast while Domenick Lombardozzi, Luke Bilyk, Dean McKenzie, Edsson Morales, Andres Collantes, Shannon Kook, Ty Olsson, Josh Blacker, and Al Sapienza were cast in guest roles for the second season. Goodwin, Swan and Lombardozzi already starred in Santora's Breakout Kings in 2011. On May 5, 2023, Robert Patrick was cast to replace Cochrane who left due to a scheduling conflict with the second season.
On February 8, 2024, Anthony Michael Hall and Sonya Cassidy were cast as series regulars for the third season. On March 6, 2024, Brian Tee, Johnny Berchtold and Roberto Montesinos were cast as regulars of the third season, while Daniel David Stewart in a recurring role. In May 2024, bodybuilder Olivier Richters, also known as "the Dutch Giant", was cast as Persuader's secondary antagonist Paulie.

### Filming

A temporary townscape was built in North Pickering, Ontario to support filming of the first season. The entire fictional city of Margrave was built from the ground up in a leased farm field in Ontario. Other areas of filming include Toronto, Port Perry and Pickering. Principal photography of the first season took place between April 15 and July 30, 2021, in Toronto. During filming, Ritchson broke a bone in his shoulder, which required surgery. He also tore an abdominal muscle during a fight scene. Filming for the third season was underway by December 2023, announced as part of the season three renewal. Filming for the fourth season is scheduled to begin in summer 2025.

## Release

The first season's episodes were released on February 4, 2022. For the second season, the first three episodes were released on December 15, 2023, with an additional episode released each week through January 19, 2024. For the third season, the first three episodes were released on February 20, 2025, with an additional episode released each week through March 27, 2025.

## Reception
### Audience

Reacher was the most streamed television series for the week of February 7–13, 2022, according to the Nielsen streaming rankings, the first Amazon production to achieve the feat.

### Critical response

For the first season, the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 92% approval rating with an average rating of 7.3/10, based on 75 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Reacher captures the trademark bulk of its titular hero while trading away some of his definition, but fans of the novels will find plenty to love about this faithful adaptation." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 68 out of 100 based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Lucy Mangan of The Guardian said, "This rollicking adaptation of Lee Child's man-mountain ex-military sleuth is hugely fun, packed with punchups and far better than Cruise's movie efforts." Michael Hogan of The Telegraph wrote, "Reacher is huge, pulpy fun and far classier than you might expect." Joshua Alston of Variety praised the casting of Ritchson but said the character was unsuitable to carry this kind of show: "the longer it runs, the more obvious its protagonist-shaped void becomes". Dan Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter called it "frustratingly over-faithful to the source material", saying, "I wouldn't mind another season, but I'd probably still rather read another book."
The second season has a 98% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 43 critic reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The website's critics consensus states, "Brawny as Alan Ritchson's biceps, Reacher swaggers confidently into its sophomore season as rock 'em sock 'em pulp with a sly wink." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 79 out of 100 based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Conversely, Forbes panned the second season as "one of the worst shows on TV", adding that "there’s just not enough going on to make him (Reacher) a particularly compelling protagonist".

## Spin-off

On September 4, 2024, it was announced that a spin-off series focusing on the Reacher series regular Frances Neagley was in development at Amazon Prime Video with Maria Sten set to reprise her role. On October 1, 2024, it was announced that Prime Video had greenlit the series with Santora and Nicholas Wootton serving as showrunners for the series. Filming on Neagley commenced in Toronto in February 2025.