Reacher
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So do people, briefly, when thrown from a helicopter.
Its a valiant effort, but gravity is against him.
Out the door he goes, 3,000 feet down into the Nevada desert.
So the man-tossed-from-chopper cold open is accomplished via some not-terribly-convincing CGI.
If Reacher were to question this CGI, he would know instantly that it was lying.
Nowwe get what were here for: Supertramps Goodbye Stanger playing as we say: Hello, Reacher.
A bored cashier tells him his new wardrobe will set him back $22.
He insists that per the 50-percent-off sign on the wall, his tab should be $11.
Male seahorses can spawn thousands of offspring at once and they dont comecloseto radiating this kind of paternal energy.
There he finds a woman, visibly shaken and bruised.
Surveying their surroundings, he asks her to confirm that shes been carjacked.
The perp is in her minivan, holding her son at gunpoint.
This wont take long, Reacher promises.
She tells him their former colleague Calvin Franz, the chopper-diver, has been murdered.
She needs him in New York.
Flashback time now: Rock Creek, Virginia, several years ago.
This is our introduction to the 110th Special Investigations Unit, Reachers handpicked crew of Army cops.
Its also their introduction to one another.
Isnt there a CBS drama youre missing?
one of them teases an elder.
Its cheeky, given that this show is basicallyNCISwith swearing and headshots.
Back in the present, Reacher meets Neagly at a Williamsburg greasy spoon.
Franzs widow makes clear that shed thought hed given up dangerous cases since becoming a family man.
Its their son who coos the 110th too-oft-repeated motto:You do not mess with the special investigators.
And now, a joke that one neednt be alicensed Cameronologistto spot.
His liquid-metal waistline no longer snaps back the way it did back in 1991.
Starlin Castro Reachers pseudonym played for the Yankees, Patrick explains.
And whos Sarah Connor?
I dont give a shit, the former T-1000 replies.There was a time when he did.
He saw a minor-league game in Sioux Falls a while back.
Neagly presses him on his nomadic lifestyle, asking if he and Karla Dixon another former squad-mate slept together.
Reacher says it wouldve been inappropriate despite their equivalent rank because he ran the team.
Arent MPs supposed tostopbrawls at military outposts?
Anyway, the Army looks fun!
Trust-falls are for simps!
With the Special Investigators!
(It doesnt even rhyme.)
Hes splashing water on his face in the bathroom, for Gods sake!
If a mountain cracks, only an avalanche can result!
(Im not a geologist, though I have read several Jack Reacher novels.)
and asks Neagly to distract the clerk while he tries Franzs key in various boxes.
Maria Sten deserves an Emmy nomination for this line reading.
Franzs box turns out to contain a cache of flash drives.
The winning entry, to Reachers embarrassment, is Reacher.
Seeking backup, they visit the home of another of their number, Swan.
Its official: The special investigators are being messed with.
I thought their position on this matter was clear!
