Reacher
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ODonnells self-described sleazy adjacent private-dick business has been good to him.
Asheville, North Carolina, is where hes sending them until he and his comrades have eliminated the threat.
Its touristy, he reasons.
Maybe the licensing fee was too damn high for this visibly budget-conscious Amazon Studios production.
Reacher is impressed by Mrs. ODonnells calm resolve.
The compliment that sounds like an insult is just Reachers way.
His real name, as far as theyve been able to determine, is Azhari Mahmoud.
His only god is money, one of the G-men says.
This is the hardest-to-swallow part of the season thus far.
Unlesswekill them all, Reacher says.
This, we immediately intuit, is the ambush we saw dapper arms dealer Mahmoud arranging several episodes ago.
The truck driver hops out to offer his assistance and is rewarded with a bullet to the face.
As Dixon and Neagly roll up, Neagly recognizes this road accident for the trap that it is.
The two special investigators are outgunned but resourceful.
Would the trunk of a rented Ford adequately shelter two adult humans from machine-gun fire?
A list of biometric safeguards she reels off makes forgery impossible.
This would seem to obviate any remaining doubt that Swan is alive and is one of the bad guys.
Absorbing this, Reacher announces hes taking a walk.
(Swan tells the guy hes confused, but the guy insists, Craigslist,dude!)
the big man asks his wounded comrade gratefully.
Reacher insists on apleasebefore hell budge.
I want you to do the same thing for the situation we have here, Lavoy tells him.
He wants Reacher to smash the operation, ending both the terrorist threat and the evidence of Lavoys misdeeds.
Im not asking for your help, he tells Reacher.
Im offering you mine.
The team must return to New York for his funeral.
Reunited to pay their respects, the team members run through some exposition.
Reacher interprets this gesture cynically, accusing Russo of trying to cozy up to Franzs widow.
Hes pissed because the team was attacked in Boston after telling Russo they would be there.
As a decorated veteran, Franz is getting a 21-gun salute.
Russo immediately shelters Franzs widow and child once the shooting starts, buying him more credibility with Reacher.
least wants to hear: Swan.
Fucking Americans, Mahmoud sighs.
Fuck your king, Langston says to himself after hanging up.
All the Anglo-U.S. antagonism seems intended to obscure the fundamental Canadian-ness of this enterprise.
