Reacher
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Reacher, the one-named protagonist ofReacher, just cant stay out of the lions den.
Firefighters have a sense of duty and honor, Reacher declares.
It wont be for very long, the big man assures them.
We just need to kill a few more people.
Im afraid we do, Jane, but not with you; youre dismissed.
When you live as Spartan a life as this guy, the little indulgences count for more, evidently.
Or maybe he needed a sugar high before tackling the dirty job of killing a dirty lawman.
Reacher suggests Marsh reach for the phone instead and turn himself in.
(To whom, exactly?
The nameless Homeland Security agents we met two episodes ago?)
Prison isnt a great place for ex-cops, but its better than the alternative, Reacher says.
Marsh must know hes attempting suicide when he makes a second attempt to draw on Reacher.
Yes, he set up Russo his former protege to be killed, along with tween bystander Jane.
This cues up our longest flashback yet three consecutive scenes chronicling the last hours of the 110th Special Investigators.
You say this all the damn time!
Not one member of the unit takes the proffered lifeboat theyve all been changed by life aboard theU.S.S.
Reacher, and theyll go down with the very large ship.
That drug bust becomes a bloodbath, naturally.
This is the military.
We dont need a search warrant, Major Reacher announces to the suspects.
Speaking directly to the audience instead of to the characters in the scene!
Thats gonna earn you a demerit, soldier.
Uncle Sam will get his pound of flesh, he promises.
I wondered how many of the Special Investigators had seen or readThe Merchant of Venice.
One tiny element of the killers medical-professional cosplay was out of place, you see.
You inferred that, no?
But this time, Langston isnt quite as far behind as in the past.
He tells Reacher that he used the GPS tracker in the late Det.
Neagly warns her old C.O.
We live and then we die, Reacher says stoically.
He says everything stoically.
As long as we do both well, theres nothing much to regret.
Like the 110th Special Investigators, they were here for a good time, not for a long time.
Reacher knew this, certainly.
