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David O'Donnell is a former Captain in the U.S. Army who was hand-selected by Reacher to be a founding member of the new U.S. Army 110th MP Special Investigations Unit. After serving, he becomes a full-time lawyer and a family man dedicated to his wife Lilly and their two daughters. When receiving news of Calvin Franz's murder, David joins up with the survivors of 110th to track down the killers.
Biography[]
Operation Kite Runner[]
David is appointed as Captain in the U.S Army before he is hand-selected Reacher to be a member of the U.S. Army 110th MP Special Investigations Unit alongside others with their own respective specialties. Initially, O'Donnell expresses himself as selfish, cocky and having a playboy nature to other members particularly Stan Lowrey, Jorge Sanchez and Manuel Orozco. After treated to a round of beer at an Officer's club by Reacher, O'Donnell chatters with the unit until Frances Neagley is insulted by another patron due to her rank. O'Donnell along with the other members of the unit engage in a fight against them before celebrating at a campfire. The team commemorates their first night as a unit with a photo which he kept in his house years later.
Sometime later, O'Donnell, Reacher, Karla Dixon, and Tony Swan respond to a murder case where Private Simms was found dead outside of a pub. Initially, O'Donnell suspect that it was a bar brawl gone wrong but Swan confirms that Simms was not involved in any fights as no one had recognized him. Reacher deduces that Simms had not been in the bar as his pant cuffs are stained with muddy rainwater, figuring he had been running for his life, tripped in a pothole and shot in the back. Additionally, Reacher deduces that the ink smudged in his palm resembles a kite belonging to someone's drugs. Lieutenant Colonel Hortense Fields visits the crime scene and is told of the case's information and asks them to keep him updated. After some inspection, Reacher realizes that the kite resembles a fighter kite which is popular in Afghanistan as well as heroine's production. Sensing a link between this case and one involving aviation fuel that Dixon had discovered, Reacher asks her to look in that case once more as he had an idea what was really being transported on the plane.
Afterwards, the operation is dubbed as Kite Runner in referenced to the smeared ink. O'Donnell, alongside others, work on the case for 2 consecutive years. They successfully recover 48 bags of heroin from a drug bust with congratulations from the unit's commanding officer, Hortense Fields. However, near the operation's conclusion, Fields's commanding officer orders it to be shut down. The officer doesn't want a large drug operation to be made public, fearing it would affect his promotion. Much to the unit's irritation, Fields is forced to order the group to terminate the operation.
Before the unit departs for their training holiday, Reacher informs them of the news but Dixon reminds him that they are not allowed to pursue the case further with Lowrey asking Reacher if he understands the consequences. Reacher states that the busting the drug deal tonight will be the culmination of their hard work. Reacher acknowledges that defying a direct order may result in permanently damaging their careers and potential dishonorable discharges or assignment to military stations in undesirable locations, but clarifies that finishing it will result in severing this drug trade from further occurring in the country. Reacher gives them the option of leaving but, to his surprise, all the members opt to stay and see the operation through.
That night, O'Donnell and the rest of the unit arrive to find Lieutenant Hughes, Tsai, and Molnar are the smugglers. After they are detained, the team searches for signs of heroin but initially cannot find any until Reacher notices that a rubber plug was attached to a tire. They soon discover that the heroin was hidden in the Humvee tires and prepares to arrest them until the drug dealers attack, which scatters the group. O'Donnell assists the unit in taking down the dealers, save for Hughes who runs from the scene but is eventually captured and arrested by Reacher.
The next day, the unit celebrates their successful completion of Operation Kite Runner, Franz prints out the photos taken at the campfire and hands them out to the rest of the group as keepsakes. During their celebration, Fields informs them that the unit is disbanded and furiously reprimands them for their actions. Reacher is adamant that he will not apologize for the unit's actions. After Fields leaves, the unit resumes their celebration. Sometime after, the group is disbanded and everyone goes their separate ways.
Civilian Life[]
Afterwards, O'Donnell leaves the military and studies law at Rutgers. O'Donnell marries his wife Lilly and has 3 children and becomes a full-time lawyer to support his family. During this time, O'Donnell drops his playboy ways and commits himself to being a family man. Days prior to Calvin's murder, O'Donnell took his family into the woods where they experienced many outdoor activities without any digital distractions. O'Donnell and his family are forced to return to their home when his kids begin to exhibit extensive bad behavior. O'Donnell then receives the message about Calvin's murder and tries to find Reacher and Neagley.
Catskill Mountains Murder Case (2023)[]
When he arrives at their hotel room in New York, O'Donnell discovers the room has been broken into and ransacked. Hearing someone approach, he hides. O'Donnell tries to ambush them but is relived when he recognizes Reacher and Neagley. O'Donnell shares his condolences about Calvin's passing and vows to kill the culprits. When Neagley plugs in the USB that the pair had obtained from Calvin's PO box, she discovers it to be password protected. The team scrambles for guesses and they begin to dissect Calvin's character to come up with something that he might’ve used as a password. O'Donnell argues that Calvin had respected Reacher more than anyone. Neagley tries "Reacher" as the password and it turns out to be correct.
In the hotel, Neagley prints out the list of aliases, which all include the initials A.M. and seven pages containing an apparently random succession of numbers. In an attempt to contact Swan, the three travel to his Queens apartment, only to find it in shambles and his dog Maisi dead from dehydration. Reacher theorized that Swan had been dead for some time as he would never let his dog die from thirst. Fearing for their teammate's lives, Reacher comes to the conclusion that someone has a vendetta against their group.
As they leave, Reacher notices a sedan following them. Reacher knocks out NYPD detective named Gaitano "Guy" Russo. The trio escape the scene with O'Donnell criticizing him for his reckless actions as he will be wanted by the NYPD. Neagley recognizes Russo to be one of the officers in charge of Calvin's murder case. Reacher theorizes that NYPD had seen his call made to Neagley and got alerted when she bought Reacher's plane ticket to New York. O'Donnell informs the pair that he had called Sanchez and Orozco only to find that their voice mail was full. Reacher agrees that they should head to Atlantic city in search of them.
Sometime later, Neagley, O'Donnell, and Reacher are reunited with Karla Dixon who is informed of the ongoing situation and joins them in their investigation. Dixon looks over the number pages left behind by Calvin but is unable to make sense of them. O'Donnell suspects that James Barr is behind the murders though Reacher quickly disproves of this based on his MO and the fact that Barr is in Reacher's debt when he ran into him in Indiana last year.
In Atlantic City, the team find Sanchez and Orozco's workplace to be in a similar state as all the properties owned by members of the unit saved for Swan's residence. As they searched, Reacher comes across a framed photo of Sanchez and another woman in the bar and decides that it is their next lead. They arrive at Lucky's Lounge bar where Reacher and Neagley questions the whereabouts of the woman while Dixon and O'Donnell are stationed outside. Sometime after, O'Donnell notices the woman is escaping but is quickly captured. Inside, Milena apologizes for attempting to run away as she recognizes their faces from Sanchez's photos. The bartender chimes in that a scarred man who claims to work with Sanchez and Orozco had asked Milena a week prior whether Sanchez had left a digital storage device with her. Suspicious of him, Milena called Sanchez only for him to not answer and suspects that something had gone wrong. O'Donnell enquires about Orozco's connection with Calvin and Swan, Milena confirms that Calvin, Orozco and Sanchez were working on a case together and had been to the bar couple of weeks ago as well as mentioning Swan in their case but is not in their operation himself. In her last encounter with Sanchez, Milena recalls that he had received a call with the phrase "650 at 100k each" which worries Sanchez as he quickly left the bar.
Determining that the money was possibly stolen in a casino, the team travels to Neptune Casino and theorize that Sanchez and Orozco had stumbled on the case there and reached out to Franz for assistance. The team meets David Wright who is Chief of Security of Neptune Casino and recognizes them from Sanchez and Orozco's frequent tales about the unit. Reacher informs him about the possible case of a gambling scam though Wright assures him that they had not lost any significant amount of money as all of it is accounted for. Wright assures them that the casino had not lost money as all of it had been accounted for. Wright offers to ask the casino's competitors if they knew anything related to their case and allows them to stay in a suite for a day while all of this is processed.
In the suite, the team open up about their lives and it is revealed that O'Donnell is well-adjusted to his life as a father and had abandoned his days of playboy much to Reacher's surprise to see how much he has changed since his days with the unit. The following morning, Reacher and Dixon informed them about their discoveries and ordeal at the construction site in which they recovered a New Age Technologies parking plot pass. Wright updates them that Atlantic City PD have discovered Sanchez and Orozco's bodies in the mountains with injuries similar to Calvin's and had been there for some time based on decomposition time. Additionally, Wright reveals that no one had checked into any hotel in the area with the given A.M aliases as well as informing them that Orozco and Sanchez did not work for any of the casino's competitors. When asked about the scam, the competitors verified that any losses were within acceptable loss margins. Dixon determines the case is centered on New York based on current evidence and facts.
Reacher acquires the group of weapons to which O'Donnell complains due to his unfamiliarity with the weapon, Reacher and Dixon tease about O'Donnell shooting skill which they compared it to him not hitting "donkey's ass with a banjo". Among their banter, they are unknowingly tailed by a police vehicle which signals them to park over. Reacher asks Dixon to pull over and the driving officer orders them to wait. Sometime after, Russo arrives and arrests Reacher once he identified him, Reacher asks O'Donnell to act as his lawyer and tasks Neagley and Dixon into investigating the New Age. O'Donnell accompanies Reacher and Russo to the police station. Inside the car, Russo reveals that he tracked them by obtaining security footage from car rental companies at the airport and had recognized them when they were renting a car with Dixon's assistance. He tracks the plate and monitors if it had gone back to New York when a police cruiser spots and reported them in.
In the interrogation room, Reacher recognizes that he was brought here for possible information related to his case as he was not processed. Russo announces that their efforts are actively interfering with his investigations. They begin to show reluctant goodwill between them and exchange information based on their shared desire of wanting to solve the murders. Russo reveals that Franz's phone logs have multiple calls that are addressed to O'Donnell, Sanchez, Swan, Orozco but not to Reacher who reveals that he does not carry a phone with him. Reacher relents and proposes a deal in which they share information about the case. They share the phrase "650 and 100K" in which they assume to be 65 million dollars, though they cannot determine how or the purpose. When Russo insinuates that his friends were criminals, Reacher angrily confronts Russo and accuses him of being a dirty cop to which he angrily insists that he is not one. The tension resolved through O'Donnell's intervention; he asks him to keep the integrity through him sharing information that they have not known. Russo announces that they have a suspect which was discovered through a memory card inside a printer in Calvin's office. The print reveals a man by the alias Azhari Mahmoud who is known to INTERPOL as a weapons broker for terrorist organizations, and Sanchez's notes indicate that he is the man of interest in their case. Reacher realizes that Sanchez and Orozco had dug out information for Calvin's ongoing case. Noticing the name has A.M initial, Reacher writes the list from before and tells Russo to have DHS flag all of his aliases. Reacher and O'Donnell realize that the case is bigger than they have initially thought as the trio may be involved with the case of terrorism.
Sometime later, Russo returns to inform Reacher and O'Donnell that they have a hit on a person with the initials A.M. who has booked a ticket from Denver to JFK. Shortly after, they are let go and reunited with Dixon and Neagley who has obtained an address, belonging to Trevor Saropian. Reacher asks for the information of Saropian's next door neighbor Barbara Gottlesman who Reacher calls to confirm whether he still lives there. She confirms and the team infiltrate the area after acquiring tools and weapons. The team kill everyone inside with O'Donnell assisting Dixon in taking out men upstairs. Reacher spots a vehicle watching over their fight before the driver frantically leaves after being noticed. Reacher chases after the man only to return and inform the group that he was not able to obtain any info as the driver had succumbed to a heart attack.
The team returns to the motel where they are confronted by Russo who is appalled at their reckless actions. Reacher reveals that he knows they were being set up as they doubt an assassin would leave his address which brings up two possibilities, suspecting Saropian was working for New Age as a hitman hired to track the unit down with the real address left behind as bait. Russo warns that their partnership would only work if they stopped their reckless actions as it had put Russo in a tight spot when he covers up their crime. Additionally, Russo informs that A.M. never make it to the airport which invalidates the given list as well as names with initials A.M. Russo offers to search into New Age, but warns them to stay put until they hear from him. Reacher gives Russo their burner number and Russo warns him to not commit any more "cowboy" actions. Reacher disregards his warning the team rams through the HQ and loot everything they find. While looting, Reacher comes across a photo of New Age's employees and steals it. The team burns their disguises and the group looks shocked as they discovered Swan to be one of New Age's employee.
Afterwards, the team sifts through all the information. When O'Donnell suggests that Swan may have played a role in tracking down the remaining members, Reacher instantly disputes the accusations owing to their time together in the unit. O'Donnell discovers Swan was working for New Age as Assistant Director of Security, under Shane Langston Director of Security. Additionally, Neagley suspects that Marlo Burns who had given them the address, knew that she was sending them into a trap, O'Donnell is dismayed in having to looking into all New Age employees as they may have played roles in hunting them.
By morning, Neagley discovers that Swan has private information in mails addressed to Marlo without sharing them to Langston and security personnel in his department. In the email, Swan details cryptic information about Little Wing. They learn that it was a federal defense project contracted to New Age. Additionally, a test was conducted for military brass though it does not detail time nor location. However, Senator Malcolm Lavoy tried to get congressional approval for Little Wing as he fully believed in the project and was willing to help them. O'Donnell reveals Lavoy is known to engage in illegal activities and decide to interrogate him though Neagley disapproves due to his high security detail. O'Donnell suggests questioning his legislative director as they know details of laws being passed and may have information about the project as well as it was a position with no security detail attached, O'Donnell reveals that he had private information of all high personnel and offers to get the name of Lavoy's legislative director and his personal information.
O'Donnell informs the group that Lavoy's legislative director to be Daniel Boyd and learns he will be attending a fundraiser event in Boston and coordinates with the unit to apprehend Boyd and interrogate him. In the state, O'Donnell and Reacher visit a clothing store where they dress up in formal wear for the occasion. O'Donnell is confused as to where Reacher had left his casual clothes, Reacher bluntly tells him that it's in the garbage and reasons that he didn't want to carry luggage for clothing, causing a chain reaction in him settling in if carried, which O'Donnell jokingly chalks up as sociopathic behavior. O'Donnell asks him about Marlo's whereabouts and the state of her home though Reacher is uncertain of her reasons, O'Donnell teases him that Marlo could be his soulmate due to her only taking her toothbrush which Reacher amusingly denies.
Waiting at a nearby diner, O'Donnell and Reacher goes over the documents. When a waitress's offhanded comment about tallying their check, Reacher realizes that the list of numbers is a set of fractions and when tallying up resulted in 2197 total events but the numbers accounted for successful ones is only up to 1547 times. When accounted for the times they have failed, it is decreased to 650 times which is the same as the phrase "650 at 100K each". During his investigation, O'Donnell receives a call from one of his children in which he advises them to only use their hand for helping, not hitting much to a surprised Reacher who sarcastically remarks O'Donnell as someone who has brass knuckles in his pocket. O'Donnell tells Reacher that domestic life has greatly changed him from his military days and he will not trade it for any sum of money, he suggests that domestic life with Dixon might be beneficial to Reacher though Reacher says that he would only settle down with 4 to 5 dogs and considers Dixon a close friend. Afterwards, Dixon lures Boyd outside and is apprehend by Oscar Finlay.
In the interrogation room, O'Donnell and Reacher introduced themselves as special agents Jack Margrave and Blake owing to Finlay and Reacher's connection 2 years ago. Boyd demands his lawyer but the pair threaten to leak his infidelity and drug use but is willing to let the story go in exchange for information related to Little Wing. Boyd is initially hesitant but relents after O'Donnell threatens to call his wife, Boyd reveals Little Wing is a code name for a software in development that allows ground-fired missiles to defeat all known countermeasures but it is originally developed to protect commercial aircraft until New Age finds the software could be tweaked to its current version. Furthermore, the missiles shot from the ground would initially bypass their main target which would cause the pilot to believe that they are safe until it re-acquires the target. When asked about Lavoy's involvement, the senator knows that this type of technology would greatly advance their military and Boyd offers to bury its proposal through mountains of documents while Lavoy gathers congressional votes to help greenlight it. Boyd reassures them that the technology is in safe hands as they're the only one to possess it. Boyd mentions that New Age has two facilities, the software is produced in New York while the hardware is made in a manufacturing plant in Denver, Colorado. After obtaining more information, Reacher and O'Donnell leave the room with Boyd left confused as to whether the drug charges are dropped.
Afterwards, Reacher tasks himself and O'Donnell to Homeland Security in D.C. where they will learn more about A.M. with his brother's contacts. When O'Donnell enquires about Joe, Reacher bluntly tells them that he is dead much to their shock. They make a stop at a nearby diner but is confronted by a biker gang who confiscate all their weapons and intend to silently kill them in the parking lot. Reacher and his unit maim and kill most of them before recovering their arsenal. Reacher recovers the leader's phone and contacts Langston to inform him that his attempt on their lives has failed. Before departing for D.C., Reacher and O'Donnell stop by at his household where Reacher first meet his family. O'Donnell urges Lily to take their sons and flee to Asheville until the case is solved with no contact with her family, Lily express concern but O'Donnell assures her that it is taken as a precautionary measure and promises that he will be safe. After she leaves to tend to their infant, Reacher is surprised at her lack of panic reaction to the situation, O'Donnell explains that she is the daughter of an ER nurse and a Chicago fire chief and is used to tense and urgent situations. Reacher amusingly jokes that he thought that O'Donnell would end up dying from gonorrhea with dozens of girls fighting for his riches, O'Donnell states that he did not want to get every girl but just the right one. Shortly after, O'Donnell receives a message that Neagley and Dixon are in New Age's Denver, Colorado distribution warehouse.
Shortly after, O'Donnell and Reacher head to Homeland Security and use Joe Reacher's connection to the Treasury department where they meet two DHS Special Agents about A.M. The agents informed him that A.M. is a ghost and the department only possesses three short recordings of his voice. From their limited knowledge, the agents assumed that A.M.'s only ideology is money as he usually works as a weapons broker and helps the highest bidder to obtain experimental or advanced weaponry. Reacher and O'Donnell realize the buy was supposed to occur with bearer bonds as it is a financial instrument for tax evaders and money launderers. The form of payment was discontinued by the Treasury Department in the 1980s due to its appeal to individuals like A.M., but some countries continue to use them. Reacher realizes A.M would use bearer bonds as he can transport millions in a briefcase without revealing the identity of the bondholder. Recognizing this, he deduces that A.M. is likely to make the payment in person rather than sending a third party and will be present during the transaction. O'Donnell and Reacher thank the agents and promise to reach out once they've pieced the case together.
Afterwards, Reacher and O'Donnell are contacted by Dixon and Neagley to tell them that the missiles were hijacked as well as Swan had personally authorized its shipment in New York just before it departs, Reacher theorizes that Swan was forced or his signature was forged but the pair tell him that it was his digital thumbprint on the bill of lading. Additionally, Dixon tells Reacher that New Age had various biometrics security and there is no possibility that Swan was forced without causing a huge scene and the odds that all New Age employees participated is minimal, tilting further suspicion to Swan. After hanging up, O'Donnell asks if Reacher is willing to kill Swan only for him to tell O'Donnell that he is going for a walk. Later, O'Donnell contacts Reacher that Franz's funeral will take place tomorrow as the coroner had released his body.
At his funeral, Neagley, Dixon, Reacher and O'Donnell divulge details regarding in Denver, Colorado where Neagley learns that the shot-up truck was switched with a trailer that only contain crates of bricks that is equal to the weight of missiles and launchers. The unit recognizes that their plan is to drive a decoy cargo down the port in Los Angeles and it will take months before its discovery. The group decides to base their objective on where the missiles have been transported. The funeral procession begins and Reacher notices two snipers from afar and alerts funeral goers of active shooters. Reacher and his unit converge and tries to formulate a plan in capturing or killing the snipers before the cop's arrival. Reacher draws their fire towards him, buying enough time for Neagley to kill one of them. Seeing his companion killed, the sniper runs Reacher in pursuit. After capturing him, the sniper divulges of the meeting location between him and his hirer in Queens. Russo has the exit covered around the building with Dixon and O'Donnell are in position, ready to take him out in case he goes rogue. The sniper enters the building only to die in its explosion much to their shock.
Following the explosion, NYPD respond to the scene while Dixon, Neagley, Reacher and O'Donnell converge at a nearby playground and discussed who or what device it could have been used. O'Donnell immediately comes to the conclusion that Swan had set them up to be killed but Reacher affirms his stand that Swan was not corrupted. Russo informs the group the building was rigged with IEDs and only contains the body of the sniper with no signs of Swan, Russo comes to the conclusion that someone had military training in setting up the explosives and presumes that Swan's plan was to have them killed in the building while taking out the sniper in the playground. Shortly after, Russo is informed that Marlo's car was discovered abandoned in north of Manhattan and relays to the group, deciding that it's their next objective.
The unit arrives at the location where they found Marlo's car abandoned near a convenience store. Inside, they asked a clerk employee to review CCTV footage. Inspecting the footage, Neagley notices that Jane was carrying a Nintendo Switch and figures out how to locate them through her Switch. Neagley suggests the group to return back to Marlo's house where she can locate them. Shortly afterwards, Neagley informs the group that she had obtained Jane's IP address. O'Donnell, Dixon, and Reacher arrive and interrogates Marlo for info. Marlo reveals that she had hired Swan and pushed him to be on security detail with Swan relaying information about Little Wing in which he discovers that operational chips was marked as defective due to an engineer who had been falsifying test records. Additionally, Marlo reveals higher-ups had no knowledge of the incident and does not know of the engineer's identity. Swan had asked help from Franz, Orozco and Sanchez for assistance but had not heard from him since. Following Swan's disappearance, Marlo was forced to cover Swan's exposure, and take the bribe as Langston had threatened to harm her family should she not take it or compromise their mission. After Neagley and Dixon visit New Age, Marlo decides to take Jane on the run as she was worried that Langston would see her as a liability. When asked about the chips, Marlo informs them that Langston's engineer would need to demonstrate how to install the chip into the missile. The unit decides to look into on the identity of Langston's engineer and have Marlo set up a meeting in order for the unit to ambush Langston and his men.
After they left Jane in Russo's care, O'Donnell and the unit arrives at the meeting point. When Reacher received a call from Russo who was being pursued by New Age's men, the call is overheard by Marlo who begins to fear for her daughter's safety. Langston realizes the meeting is a setup and rushes to kill her but is intercepted by Reacher and his unit. Reacher orders the rest of his unit to assist Russo while he stays and deal with Langston. However, they are unable to arrive in time to save Russo's life but manages to save Jane's.
After the shootout, the team converges back at motel where they discuss their next objective. During his time away, it is decided that the Burns will take shelter in Buffalo. Reacher tasks O'Donnell and Dixon of safely escorting the Burns to the location while he and Neagley go with their own mission. O'Donnell and Dixon prepare to escort the Burns, O'Donnell gives Marlo and Jane caps to disguise their identity. Noticing that Jane is nervous, O'Donnell tells her a story of how he teaches his sons to wear them in a classic look and promises her that they will be safe after the case is over. After they have left, Dixon notices his tenderness to Jane and tells O'Donnell to drop the case as he has a higher stake than the rest of them but refuses. Shortly after, O'Donnell and Dixon are captured by Langston's men after their location is tracked through GPS in Russo's car. They are taken to R&D facility in Rockland County and hold as leverages against Reacher in an effort to smoothen out the process.
Inside the facility, O'Donnell and Dixon are tortured by Parker and Lennox with O'Donnell pointing out the hypocrisy in Lennox's feelings about killing a man that he had served with for years. Having heard of Langston's demands, Reacher arrives at the facility with Langston greeting him alongside O'Donnell and Dixon who are strapped in their gurneys. After Langston discovers Neagley is missing, Langston holds him at gunpoint and demands her whereabouts, Reacher taunts him that he will not kill him until Neagley is found as she is his last loose end, Langston retaliates by shooting O'Donnell in the leg and orders Parker to dig the ammo from him to remove traces of ballistics. Langston interrogates Reacher of Neagley's location. When asked of Swan's whereabouts, O'Donnell is shocked to find out Swan's remains were being used to bypass its biometrics security and frame him as the culprit behind his operation. Langston orders O'Donnell and Dixon to be loaded on the chopper and prepares to kill them.
However, Reacher escapes with Neagley's help and Lavoy's security details and grabs its landing gear. Reacher tackles Parker and Langston with O'Donnell's assistance. The fight causes Dixon to nearly fall out of the helicopter but Reacher manages to grab on her gurney which leaves him vulnerable to Langston and Parker's attack. Reacher blocks his attacks which Dixon to break free from her restraints and fatally stabs Parker in the neck with a knife. Reacher tosses him out of the helicopter, avenging his friends' deaths, O'Donnell is freed by Dixon who proceeds to threaten the pilot who offers to take them to the meeting. Sometime later, they arrive at Russell Johnson's house and take Russell and the pilot captive in the barn.
Afterwards, they captured the weapons broker A.M. Inside, they present the missile and Reacher accuses A.M. to have killed their friends over the weapons. A.M. denies the allegation but Reacher knows that A.M. does not care about the lives of innocent people as long as he acquires finder's fee. A.M. gives them the option to arrest him but O'Donnell rebuffs by assuming he had a top lawyer in his pocket. A.M. is given the option to disclose the name of the buyer but refuses, seeing how it will tarnish his reputation and business. He tries to charm his way out by announcing that he is just the middleman and prefers to be the seller rather than the one possessing but this statement cost him his life as Dixon, Neagley, O'Donnell and Reacher shoot him multiple times. After killing A.M., the unit recovers the bearer bonds as well as a Little Wing missile and launcher. They head to the barn where they meet Lavoy's security details and discuss on what to do with the pilot and Johnson. The unit opted to let them go and the pair flee towards the helicopter. When it flows by the Hudson River, Neagley fires at the missile which kills them both. After discovering Little Wing works, Lavoy's security detail betrays the group as Lavoy had ordered them to coverup the incident. However, Reacher had anticipated the betrayal as he had called Omar Karim from Homeland. The department proceed to arrest the trio and the corrupted senator.
Aftermath[]
They stop by a local diner where they discuss how to distribute the money. Dixon suggests that they give it to the victim's families that had been affected and tells Reacher to make the decision. After giving money to the grieving families, the unit spends their time in Rockaway Beach where Reacher tells him that he had invested money for O'Donnell's kids under their name in a credit union which will cover their education and he can now take jobs that he wants to; which leaves him speechless. When O'Donnell asks Reacher on what he will treat himself with, Reacher nonchalantly tells him that he will buy a new toothbrush. The team celebrates the unit's last night together with a photo and shares a moment of silence for their fallen comrades. The morning after, O'Donnell hitches a ride to the airport and departs from the unit back to his home with his family in Washington, D.C.
Physical Appearance[]
Personality and Traits[]
David carries a switchblade knife in one pocket and knuckleduster in the other.
Appearances[]
Behind the Scenes[]
- O'Donnell is portrayed by Canadian actor Shaun Sipos.
Notes and Trivia[]
- Other members of the Special Investigators Unit sometimes called him "OD"
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