(Covers information from Amazon Prime Series)
Officer Roscoe Conklin is a protagonistic character appearing in the first season of the Prime Video Reacher TV show. She is portrayed by American actress Willa Fitzgerald.
Roscoe is a police officer and works for the Margrave Police Department.
Biography[]
Conklin can trace her family line back to the founders of Margrave, Georgia. Her parents both died in a car accident when she was young. She survived the accident and her grandmother, who she called "Meemaw", took care of her until her death. Roscoe was also supported by her parents best friend Gray, who was the chief detective for the Margrave PD. He taught her how to be a cop and she excelled greatly, becoming a police officer in her own right. Gray, however, was often depressed and hung himself in the rafters of his garage a year prior to the Margrave murders.
Throughout Series[]
Season One[]
In Welcome to Margrave, Roscoe works the front desk at Margrave PD. She processes Jack Reacher for his arrest of murder, learning the man doesn't speak and only has a passport on him - Jack Reacher, no middle name. He only has 212 dollars in cash and a foreign medal that she recognizes as being a WWII French medal. Reacher is taken to a conference room to speak with Chief Detective Oscar Finlay. She continues to look into Reacher, only to find there is no proof that he even exists. After the interview he is placed in the holding cell. She notices him and they make eye contact. Roscoe brings Reacher a cup of coffee though he wants the ties off. She refuses as Chief Morrison won't allow it. They talk for a bit until she admits he can't be guilty of much, as his preliminary scan came up clean. She has to leave with Finlay and takes his coffee away.
She and Finlay head to the Hubble household to interview Paul Hubble, as his phone number was found on the bottom of their murder victims shoe. As she and Finlay explain the murder, Hubble spontaneously confesses to the murder. Roscoe prepares to record him dismissing his rights, but Hubble doesn't need to be read his rights. He confesses again to having killed the man. As Finlay digs deeper into the circumstances of the killing, it becomes clear that a nervous Hubble is lying. They return to the station with an arrested Hubble, placing him in the cell with Reacher. Finlay requests Reacher to come with him but he refuses until the ties come off. He finally concedes so Reacher breaks them apart with ease than picks up the plastic, surprising Roscoe and Finlay. Finlay reveals that Chief Morrison wants Reacher detained until this alibi clears. As Hubble and Reacher are detained, Reacher reminds the officers to inventory Hubble's accessories and than tells Roscoe, who's handcuffing him, that it was nice talking with her.
The next morning, Roscoe brings Reacher's military file to Finlay. She gives him a run down of Reacher's stats, with each revelation being more impressive than the last. She reads his Military Police numbers even though Finlay says he doesn't want to hear them. Reacher solved over 100 cases, each with successful prosecutions. His list of Medals is extensive and impressive. Finlay wonders why Reacher is in Margrave, but she just wonders what he's doing in jail. She would hate to be the one who put him there. He tells her to leave his office so she listens.
That afternoon, Reacher and Hubble are released from prison. Reacher finds Roscoe waiting for him as she offers a lift and gives him back his things. He watches the Greyhound footage of him getting on the bus last night. She admits she lied to obtain the footage to get him out, and that they are waiting to press charges on Hubble to see if he cracks. He approves of the plan, calling her Officer Roscoe. She corrects him, telling him that her first name is Roscoe while her last is Conklin. He never met a woman named Roscoe before, but she smirks as he did - yesterday. She asks about his injuries so he reveals his fight in prison and his desire to leave town. She feels bad the welcome wagon wasn't great. She was going to apologize with an early dinner which he quickly agrees too. He needs new clothes so they stop at a Thrift Store.
She asks about his life but he wants to see the country on his own terms without a home base for once. His pension is wired to a bank each month. His brother Joe is the only family he has left alive, but Reacher doesn't know where he is. Once inside, Roscoe presses why he's in town, something Reacher isn't lying about. He's there because of Blind Blake and a bar in Tampa that was playing "Police Dog Blues" by Blind Blake. He talked to Joe about Blind Blake a while ago, read an article that Blind Blake performed his last show in Margrave, and decided to visit. He decides to check out the town for a bit until tonight, so she drops him off in town.
That evening, Roscoe is hurrying out of the station when Reacher returns. Roscoe can't go to dinner which he finds disappointing. She doesn't know if he can leave yet. Finlay storms over to confront Reacher over Hubble talking to him in lockup. Reacher denies everything but Finlay doesn't believe him, something Reacher doesn't care about. Finlay threatens to lock Reacher back in prison until a forensic scientist goes through his alibi video, or he can go with them to the morgue in case something jogs his memory about Hubble.
The trio heads to the morgue where they learn more about the crime and the new victim. The medical examiner Jasper explains that the first John Doe is hard to identify as his dental work is inconsistent - some done in the US and some foreign. His fingertips were compromised by a dermatitis reaction. Reacher sees the monitor with a photo of the victims hand. He picks it up and admits the victim was allergic to latex so the killer wore a polyvinyl protective suit. The dental work is off because he had them fixed wherever he was living at the time. He broke his right arm when he was eight and had it set in Berlin. His tonsils were taken out at ten in Seoul. The examiner removes the body from the box and shows Reacher the face. He emotionally picks up the man's hand and sees a scar on the left wrist. They were wrestling when he pinned him against a stove without knowing it was hot. That's how his brother got the scar.
Reacher leaves the morgue while Finlay throws questions at him. The two get heated until Roscoe intervenes to break it up. She tells Reacher to sit in the back. She knows he won't beat up Finlay without a reason, but Reacher warns that Finlay's giving him a reason. She knows he has kind eyes and won't. He gets in the car. As they drive, Reacher wonders if Joe told him about Blind Blake for a reason so he could so he could do something about his brother being dead. Finlay wonders what he'll do. Reacher thinks he'll find everybody responsible and kill them.
In "First Dance", once back at the precinct, Reacher storms off, so Finlay tasks Roscoe with ensuring Reacher doesn't jeopardize their case. After all, Reacher listened to her at the morgue. If he doesn't now, Finlay tells her to shoot him. Roscoe tails Reacher in a squad car but he quickly lets her know he's aware of her tail. He doesn't want her screwing up his investigation, but babysitting him isn't high on her list either. She wants to do her job as she's good at it. He calls out her poor tailing skills but she already knows that he's going to Hubble's to interrogate the man. She can follow him the rest of the way, or he can get in. He decides to save the shoe leather.
At the Hubble residence, Charlie greets Reacher and Roscoe. She thanks him for protecting her husband in prison. She doesn't know where Paul is, and Reacher reveals that his brother's body was the one found by the highway. Joe had Paul's number on him. Charlie doesn't understand why that would be. Tally and Lucy arrive and greet the two adults. Charlie sends them up to get ready for bed. She describes Tally as the one with the glasses but being younger than Lucy. Reacher asks to use the bathroom. He returns and tells Roscoe he's leaving.
Once outside, he puts together that the distinguishing difference between the girls was glasses, as everything else varied. He thinks the cons that attacked him meant were supposed to take out the one in glasses. Reacher had on sunglasses because he took them from a fellow inmate. Hubble's on the run or they've already got him. He shows Roscoe the seed he found on Hubble's shoe, and she identifies it as a "hitchhiker" seed. They might grow where Joe's body was found.
They investigate the site but there are no burrs. Reacher still thinks it's important. He also thinks Joe's shooter was a skilled marksman. He breaks down the details of the kill and the crime scene. He knows the shooter enjoyed the kill. Roscoe asks about Joe and if they were close or had a family. She wonders what he did for a living. They were close when they were young, had no family, and worked with Homeland Security the last they spoke. He doesn't know the department as they hadn't spoken in a while. He suddenly walks off to find a motel, declining her offer for a ride. She follows him to the motel and watches him being harassed by a group of young adults, and then Reacher immobilizing them. She wonders what just rolled into Margrave.
The next day, Reacher stops at the station as Roscoe is leaving. She can't talk as Chief Morrison's body was found that morning. Reacher claims his innocence but she knows he didn't do it. He gets in the car with her. Finlay is at the scene when Roscoe and Reacher arrive. The crime scene is worse than anything he saw in Boston. Reacher knows Morrison was nailed to a wall. Once inside, the crime scene matches exactly what Hubble described to Reacher in prison. Jasper is giving his coroner report when the trio arrives. Reacher knows it took four men to do the kill and that Morrison's testicles are in his stomach.
Finlay pulled him outside and Reacher explains Hubble's warning. Reacher lied as he didn't know if he could trust Margrave cops. Finlay proposes that Joe could have been dirty, but Reacher shuts it down. He does, however, think the Margrave PD is dirty. Baker didn't go into the bathroom with him at the station because he wasn't worried about Reacher escaping. He knew Reacher was innocent. Reacher knows that Roscoe isn't dirty but wonders about Finlay, as he's next in line for Morrison's job. Roscoe intervenes as Mayor Teale appointed himself acting chief meaning Teale's dirty and Finlay's okay. Morrison's death was a message and Roscoe and Finlay can't handle that alone, so the three have to work together. Reacher thinks Hubble is already dead.
He and Roscoe head to the Hubble's, where Charlie reveals Paul never came home. Roscoe decides to stay there since she's armed but sends Reacher to talk with Finlay. He needs the Hubble's car. He steals a knife from the lockbox in the garage and tells Roscoe to shoot anyone under six-five if they come near the house. She also won't give him a gun. Charlie talks to Roscoe about Reacher being a good person who can help them. Reacher returns and tells Charlie to pack up as she's going into custody with FBI agent Picard. Charlie is hesitant but Reacher is sure this is what Hubble would have wanted. He reluctantly admits that Paul is probably dead, but she can't grieve now as she has to look out for her kids. Roscoe looks at him in disbelief. He leaves to wait for Picard.
Reacher sees a black car arrive on the street and watch him before driving off. He bursts back inside and commands everyone to leave despite them not being ready. The door opens and Reacher grabs Roscoe's gun. The man reveals he's Picard and Reacher verifies his identity. He then helps Charlie get the bags into the car. Picard tells Roscoe this operation is off the books so Picard is taking personal days to watch the family. He doesn't want to get burned and Roscoe promises he won't. Once Picard is gone, Reacher sends Roscoe back to Finlay while he goes to find Spivey at Warburton. Whoever paid Spivey is who's running everything.
That night, Roscoe is in the Margrave PD office to look for rental cars but it's a dead-end. Reacher arrives covered in blood as things didn't go as planned. Roscoe patches him up even though he refuses stitches. Finlay is annoyed the brawl members weren't caught as they can't question them now. Reacher snips that he tried his best to shove a pole up his ass but still couldn't sound like Finlay. Finlay recaps Reacher's few days, with Reacher knowing they were South American military. Roscoe found out that Joe was working for the secret service division, but that covers a lot of topics. Reacher thinks it's counterfeiting as Hubble worked in bank management. Roscoe is waiting for a call from the Office of Investigations. Reacher's plans to search Spivey's house are thwarted with the lack of public information about a guard's home address, and Finlay sends him home. Reacher wants to go to a bar but Finlay shoots it down as the townies were mad enough before. Reacher leaves but Finlay puts Roscoe on Reacher duty again.
She stops him in the parking lot as she gets his need for a drink. She offers to take him out of town to a roadhouse. It might play the Blues stuff he likes. She needs to change first and he needs a shirt with less blood on it.
They drive to the roadhouse when Blind Blake comes on the radio. They arrive at the roadhouse and drink beer together. A Patsy Cline song comes on and it's the law to dance, but he doesn't dance. His mom taught him how to dance but when he asks, it usually proceeds a lot of punching. She asks him though, calling him Frankenstein's monster. They slow dance together to the music. By the time they're ready to leave it's raining, and he begins to remove his jacket for her but she doesn't need it. She runs out into the rain and into the car.
As they drive, they arrive at a scene of police cars. He takes a gun out of the glove box but she assures him they're far from Margrave. He admits it's not far enough and tells her to duck when he says to. They stop and she shows her badge, learning that the bridge is flooded. She asks if there's a motel nearby.
Reacher wrings out his shirt and she apologizes for not having anything his size in her truck. He got food from the vending machine and goes to the Clark Bar. He reminisces that every base he was at as a kid had Clark Bars. He and Joe could always count on that being consistent. He offers her half but she prefers Zagnut. He teases that no one likes Zagnut and dares her to read the flavor of the chips she's eating - Spicy Cajun Crawtators.
That night, he sleeps on the floor while she takes the bed. He's been a lot of worse places, and she's never left, Margrave. Her family had been there since the town was founded. The Conklins built the town but the Teale's got in with the railroads and stole the town, laid tracks, and swindled farmers out of their land. He asks about her family. Her parents died when she was a kid but she had Gray - the former chief detective and a family friend. He was her second dad and taught her how to be a cop. Despite his life, he was depressed and hung himself a year ago. He always gave her daisies on her birthday as they were her favorite. She asks about him, and his favorite flowers are snapdragons - cool names and hard to kill. She meant his family, though. He only had Joe left. If he hadn't heard the Blind Blake song it would have been years before he found out Joe was dead. Roscoe admits it's been nice getting to know him despite the circumstances. He returns the sentiment.
In the morning, they go to Roscoe's house and discover the front door is ajar. They investigate with their weapons drawn, finding muddied footprints but nothing missing. It's rubber overshoes and could have been there for either Roscoe or him. She closes the door and finds a message carved into the wood - "See you soon". Reacher then tells her "I'm really gonna need a gun".
Physical Appearance[]
Roscoe is a slender Caucasian woman with blonde hair.
Personality and Traits[]
Relationships[]
Reacher[]
Conklin develops a romantic relationship with Reacher as they investigate the murders in Margrave. At first, it is apparent that she feels sorry for him over the loss of his brother and no living family. Reacher even says that he had no one left to care for after his brother died until he started to get close to Conklin, implying that he now cared for her. They shared many intimate moments and when it came time for him to leave, he admitted she was the only person that could make him stay close to the flame instead of wandering. She made him promise to call her if he ever found himself near Margrave again, giving him her number on the back of a candy bar. Their separation was bittersweet for both of them.
Appearances[]
Notes and Trivia[]
The character may have been named after Roscoe Conkling (US Senator, 1867–1881).
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Season One[]
Novel Comparisons[]
- In the novel Killing Floor, Roscoe is known as Officer Roscoe and it was widely assumed that Roscoe was her surname because Reacher notices that her police uniform nametag read "Roscoe". However, the TV character's name is Roscoe Conklin.