Reacher Episode Guide

Adapted from Killing Floor, the opening season brings Reacher to the small Georgia town of Margrave, where an unexplained murder exposes corruption beneath the immaculate streets. The mystery steadily expands while Roscoe Conklin and Oscar Finlay discover that their silent new suspect is considerably more useful outside a prison cell.

Episode 1: Welcome to Margrave

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Reacher steps off a bus in Margrave and is promptly arrested for a murder committed before he arrived. His calm assessment of the police, the evidence and everyone sharing his holding cell establishes both his formidable intelligence and his rather direct approach to conflict resolution.

Episode 2: First Dance

After the identity of one victim makes the investigation painfully personal, Reacher agrees to help Finlay and Roscoe uncover what is happening in Margrave. An attack confirms that powerful people want him gone, although they have badly misjudged the amount of encouragement required to make him stay.

Episode 3: Spoonful

The search for the missing Spivey leads Reacher and Finlay towards businessman Kliner, whose influence reaches far beyond his company. Roscoe receives troubling information about Reacher, while another violent confrontation demonstrates that the conspiracy is prepared to eliminate anyone who becomes inconvenient.

Episode 4: In a Tree

Reacher follows the money while Finlay confronts growing pressure inside the police department. Flashbacks explore Reacher’s childhood and his relationship with his brother Joe, giving emotional weight to a hero who usually prefers to let his fists handle the autobiographical details.

Episode 5: No Apologies

Roscoe is suspended after refusing to abandon the investigation, leaving Reacher and Finlay to pursue separate leads. Their discoveries begin connecting Margrave’s respectable institutions to something much larger, while Reacher proves that being outnumbered is merely an administrative detail.

Episode 6: Papier

Reacher travels to New York and meets one of Joe’s former colleagues, hoping to understand the case his brother was building. Back in Georgia, Finlay and Roscoe face increasing danger as the people behind the operation begin closing down every possible route to the truth.

Episode 7: Reacher Said Nothing

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With the conspiracy tightening around the remaining investigators, Reacher stops reacting and begins setting the terms himself. The episode brings scattered clues together, exposes misplaced trust and prepares the battlefield for a final assault on the people controlling Margrave.

Episode 8: Pie

Reacher, Finlay and Roscoe move against the conspiracy while their enemies attempt to use hostages as leverage. The finale delivers decisive answers and suitably forceful justice, then returns Reacher to the road with little more baggage than when he arrived.

Based on Bad Luck and Trouble, Season Two pulls Reacher back into the history of the 110th Special Investigations Unit. Former teammates are disappearing, and the surviving members must determine who is hunting them before another name is removed from their old roster.

Episode 1: ATM

A coded message from Frances Neagley tells Reacher that someone from the 110th is in serious trouble. Their search reveals the brutal fate of Calvin Franz and turns a reunion between former military investigators into a hunt for whoever decided to target the wrong group of veterans.

Episode 2: What Happens in Atlantic City

Reacher and Neagley bring David O’Donnell and Karla Dixon into the investigation before travelling to Atlantic City in search of two missing teammates. The trip supplies new evidence, dangerous opposition and confirmation that the killings are part of an organised operation.

Episode 3: Picture Says a Thousand Words

The team examines Franz’s files and discovers that a seemingly ordinary photograph may contain a vital clue. Their enquiries attract attention from both law enforcement and professional killers, leaving Reacher uncertain which group poses the greater inconvenience.

Episode 4: A Night at the Symphony

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A visit to Boston helps the investigators uncover more about New Age Technologies and the people protecting it. Neagley and Dixon pursue one line of enquiry while Reacher’s team uses an orchestral performance as cover for an operation in which quiet appreciation of the music was never particularly likely.

Episode 5: Burial

The discovery of additional victims makes the cost of the conspiracy increasingly personal. As the surviving members of the 110th attend to their dead, Reacher becomes more determined to identify the organisation responsible and ensure that nobody involved escapes accountability.

Episode 6: New York’s Finest

Detective Russo is forced to decide how far he trusts Reacher and his unconventional allies. New information about New Age and a missing weapons shipment clarifies the scale of the plot, while the opposing sides manoeuvre to control an increasingly vulnerable witness.

Episode 7: The Man Goes Through

Two members of the team fall into enemy hands, requiring Reacher and Neagley to assemble a dangerous rescue plan. The episode strips away the remaining uncertainty surrounding the operation and moves the surviving investigators towards a direct confrontation with Langston.

Episode 8: Fly Boy

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Reacher and the remaining members of the 110th launch their final attack on New Age Technologies and attempt to stop an illegal arms deal. The conclusion delivers airborne retribution, settles the fate of the missing investigators and gives the reunited team a final chance to honour those they lost.

Season Three adapts Persuader and places Reacher inside a criminal organisation rather than having him investigate from the outside. Working with the DEA, he infiltrates the household of importer Zachary Beck while searching for a missing agent and confronting an enemy from his military past.

Episode 1: Persuader

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Reacher appears to intervene in the attempted kidnapping of Richard Beck, earning the gratitude of the young man’s powerful father. The rescue is part of an undercover operation, but entering Beck’s heavily guarded organisation places Reacher within striking distance of several dangerous figures.

Episode 2: Truckin’

Tasked with transporting suspicious cargo, Reacher begins testing the limits of Beck’s operation and the loyalty of its employees. DEA agent Susan Duffy attempts to keep the mission under control, a demanding assignment when her principal asset regards instructions as interesting suggestions.

Episode 3: Number 2 with a Bullet

Reacher searches for evidence connecting Beck’s business to the disappearance of DEA informant Teresa Daniel. His position inside the organisation grows stronger, but so does the scrutiny from Paulie, the immense and deeply unpleasant guard who may be the first opponent Reacher cannot simply intimidate.

Episode 4: Dominique

A development inside Beck’s organisation forces Reacher to reconsider parts of the operation. Memories of Dominique Kohl and Francis Xavier Quinn reveal why the case is intensely personal, while Duffy faces pressure to produce results before her superiors terminate the mission.

Episode 5: Smackdown

Reacher’s increasingly precarious cover is tested as Beck’s criminal associates prepare for a major shipment. Outside the compound, Duffy and her team struggle with compromised intelligence and internal suspicion, leaving Reacher with fewer people he can safely trust.

Episode 6: Smoke on the Water

Evidence points towards a maritime operation, prompting Reacher and the DEA team to investigate the movement of Beck’s cargo. The search for Teresa approaches a critical stage, but rival agendas threaten to unravel the undercover mission before the organisation’s full purpose is exposed.

Episode 7: L.A. Story

Reacher travels west in pursuit of information that could finally connect Beck’s business to Quinn. Alliances shift as the operation approaches its endgame, and Reacher must decide how much of the official plan remains worth following.

Episode 8: Unfinished Business

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The surviving players converge as Reacher moves to rescue the missing agent and destroy the criminal operation from within. Old scores and present responsibilities collide in a bruising finale that provides the season’s inevitable heavyweight confrontation without forgetting the investigation that brought everyone together.

Adapted from Gone Tomorrow, the fourth season moves the action to Philadelphia. A disturbing encounter on a subway draws Reacher into the search for a missing flash drive, linking a grieving family, government agents, political power and a threat rooted in a covert operation from decades earlier.

Episode 1: City of Brotherly Love

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Reacher notices a distressed passenger behaving suspiciously aboard a Philadelphia subway train and decides to intervene. The encounter ends violently and leaves him searching for a missing flash drive containing information that several determined groups are willing to kill for.

Episode 2: Cage Fight

Tamara Green becomes caught up in the investigation as Reacher and Jacob Merrick search for answers about Jacob’s sister. Government agents and professional soldiers converge on the same trail, turning possession of the missing drive into a dangerously competitive scavenger hunt.

Episode 3: One Small Step

Reacher grows closer to the enigmatic Lila Hoth while Tamara, Jacob and Plum Melnik uncover an important clue. Another attack forces the group back towards Philadelphia and makes it increasingly clear that the case reaches beyond a simple theft or isolated killing.

Episode 4: Karambits and Pieces

Reacher questions Congressman John Sampson about his possible connection to the conspiracy, while Tamara takes a more clandestine route into a government facility. Jacob receives devastating information, and a new discovery changes the group’s understanding of who may be directing events.

Episode 5: Bridge

A disastrous misunderstanding makes Reacher one of Philadelphia’s most wanted men, complicating an investigation already crowded with armed pursuers. Jacob, Tamara and Plum are drawn into a firefight as the conflict becomes more personal and the boundaries between allies and enemies continue to blur.

Episode 6: Plum Out of Luck

Information from Plum sends Reacher and Tamara in search of a mysterious figure who may understand the origins of the missing data. Jacob faces betrayal, Sampson withdraws his support and the people controlling the conspiracy receive dangerous assistance.

Episode 7: Vote for Sampson

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Reacher and Tamara finally obtain an explanation for the secret programme behind the flash drive. With evidence pointing towards an imminent public attack, the group races to identify the intended target while Sampson confronts the consequences of decisions made many years earlier.

Season 4 concludes with Episode 8, “Cut”, scheduled for release on Prime Video on 16 September 2026. This guide should be updated after transmission rather than attempting to predict precisely how Reacher will resolve matters, although extensive property damage seems a reasonably safe expectation.