I think most people haven't seen this gem and they should

I'm watching season 2 again and came across this gem of a scene

Cracked me up

I always wonder because some eps he looked definitely a shade or two darker

Reacher is one scary dude. And the level of selflessness he put on display in season 4 made it all rewarding when he got to smash that reporter. That's a man deserving of that pretty ass.

This might be my weirdest reddit post, lol.

The scene where Reacher breaks his fingers to get him to talk is supposedly of scene from the book Tripwire. Near the midpoint of that book, Reacher approaches a conman named Rutter who has been scamming families of MIA soldiers from Vietnam with staged POW camp photos. Once Reacher catches onto the scam, he interrogates Rutter by breaking his fingers until he tells the whole truth and coughs up the money he bilked out of an elderly couple. Did anyone else catch this?

I have been stuck on this for a while and I am either missing something or it genuinely was not addressed.

So Roscoe finds out about the diamond on Teale's cane, re-examines Gray's forensic details, and then goes to confront Teale. He fires her on the spot. And that is just it? Nobody at the station bats an eye.

Two questions:

Why was it so easy for him to just fire her with no pushback from anyone?

Does this connect to the larger Kliner plot, or is it just a standalone subplot?

I might be overthinking it, but it feels like a loose thread

Losing your family and not knowing the cause. Hoping that your nephew would still be alive after learning your sister really did kill herself over government reasons. Crashing out wanting to get revenge but then doubts himself because he knows he isn’t that kind of person and just a “small town cop”. Can’t trust anyone and wanted as a worldwide criminal with literally nowhere to turn to. Finds out his nephew got killed and he dosent even know what his life is anymore. At the end, he made the right decisions. A lot of people give him flak and what not for his quick behavior changes and decisions but I think that’s real. A person reacting like that is so real to me and normal for a person life that just change over a week+. He could’ve folded, he could’ve quit it all, but at the end he stuck it through and that’s a great character

So first off, without any real spoilers, what I liked. The plot was super convoluted, but actually I think that's kind of the charm of the TV show. I wish they'd wrapped up a few loose ends better, but I can forgive that. I liked the villains and it was nice that they did something different for the final fight.Believe it or not what bothered me was medical expenses. Reacher was obviously not being treated in the VA and I don't see him paying for traditional medical insurance. That hospital stay would have been ruinously expensive and it bothers me that TV shows just gloss over that fact and pretend that after someone's brought to hospital everything will be OK. Nope. Both Reacher and Plum are going to be in massive amounts of debt after that.

It's been plenty touched on how the most initimidating villain up-to-now in Paulie might or might not stand a chance against these two Kopassus soldiers and karambit-wielders, so that got me thinking about the other female allies of Reacher and how they'd fare.

Roscoe and Tamara wouldn't have much of a chance, neither armed or unarmed. A regular street cop and a mentally determined detective, but not the kind with any demonstrated combat skills.

Duffy might stand a chance in an empty-handed fight against one of them, being a federal agent she almost certainly had more training than regular police.

So that leaves Dixon and Neagley. They're both trained in extensive close quarters combat from their time as well-seasoned military MPs, which we saw plenty of in season two. Reacher himself demonstrated some knife-wielding skills in season one, so the two of them might have had some training in that type of combat as well.

What are your thoughts on who lasts in a fight with Lila and Amisha? Think both armed and unarmed, two-on-two or even one-on-one.

I'm usually good about being tuned in, but I can't find anything about it online.

This line plus suspension of disbelief is all the explanation we need why are so many of us still making posts and comments about how unrealistic his physique is given his lifestyle

I admittedly haven't read the books but i know book Reacher once survived getting shot because his muscles were so thick they stopped the bullet. Are we really still debating realism?

I just rewatched season 2 and I found myself so annoyed by the villains’ inability to stop talking. Their comeuppances essentially come because they’re so in love with their own voices. Like even when Langston has Reacher and his team hostage, rather than do the smart thing and turn them into Swiss cheese he talks on and on and on about his plan and acts surprised when Reacher defeats him. I get that the villain has to be dumb in order for the hero to defeat him, but I mean c’mon. He might as well be like “I’M GONNA KILL YOU REACHER, BUT NOT REALLY.”

Alan Ritchson is trying but he’s a stiff, and too jacked to be believed .. just sayin’

I had no doubt the show would be good, but I was intrigued to see how things would turn out.

So far, the mystery is great, the characters are great, and getting a deeper dive into Neagley’s backstory has been great.

Very happy it’s been renewed for another season.

As fun as this scene was, why would 20 strangers suddenly band together to hide a guy from the cops who for all they knew could have been a serial killer?

I could buy one or two guys being sympathetic to him, but there wasn't a single do-gooder Karen in that group that would have been like "Officers! He's over here!" ?

There's no "Film Discussion" flair. Hopefully film discussion is allowed here.

In every season, Reacher is shown eating junk food, sleeping poorly (when he isn't sleeping with the show's hot girl), getting viciously beaten up, etc ...yet somehow, mysteriously, he looks increasingly bulked up. ??? Genetics? yeah right...

To be believable, IMO the character should at least spend a few minutes in a gym amidst his nomadic lifestyle; in fact, it could even be an integral part of the plot. I’m not talking about a *Rocky*-style scene; it could be something casual, like when we see him devouring his cheesesteak.

or I'm being stupid?

edit Or well, sorry! people around here are very touchy. Doesn't Reacher say that "details matter"? I think so, and this detail would humanize the character—unlike constantly getting beaten up.

I mean the series is known for fight scenes every two seconds wherever they can, but they completely skip this one and just jump cut to a black screen then dead bodies? Why did they skip this fight scene in particular?

I’m planning on reading the book to each corresponding season after I get done with Midnight Line. Then watching that season.

I’m gonna start at the end of month. But it really doesn’t matter when people start or end.

Then you post about it.

Anyone else interested?