The first season of the Amazon Prime Video Reacher Series began filming on April 15, 2021 in Toronto and Los Angeles, and the principle photography wrapped on July 30, 2021.
The entire 8 episodes of the first season were scheduled to air worldwide on Amazon's Prime Video on February 4, 2022. For reasons unknown, the episodes were released a day early, on February 3, 2022.
Plot[]
Based on the novel Killing Floor by Lee Child, Season One of Reacher follows Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator who has just recently entered civilian life. Reacher is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he once served. When Reacher arrives in the small town of Margrave, Georgia, he finds a community grappling with its first homicide in 20 years. The cops immediately arrest him and eyewitnesses claim to place Reacher at the scene of the crime. While he works to prove his innocence, a deep-seated conspiracy begins to emerge, one that will require Reacher's keen mind and hard-hitting fists to deal with. One thing above all is for sure: They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.
Casting[]
- Main article: Season One Cast
- On September 4, 2020, Skydance Media announced the casting of Alan Ritchson in the role of Jack Reacher[1].
- On March 22, 2021, three new cast members were announced. Malcolm Goodwin as Chief Detective Oscar Finlay, Willa Fitzgerald as Roscoe Conklin and Chris Webster as KJ Kliner.[2]
- On May 19, 2021,three new cast members were announced. Bruce McGill as Mayor Grover Teale, Maria Sten as Frances Neagley and Hugh Thompson as Sergeant Baker.[3]
- On June 11, 2021, additional casting announcement including:
- Kristin Kreuk as Charlene "Charlie" Hubble, Marc Bendavid as Paul Hubble, Willie C. Carpenter as Mosley, Currie Graham as Mr. Kliner, Harvey Guillén as Jasper, and Maxwell Jenkins as Young Jack Reacher.[4]
Episodes[]
| Image | Title | Writer | Director | Original Airdate | Episode | |
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Welcome to Margrave | Nick Santora | Thomas Vincent | 02/03/22 | 01 | 1.01 |
| Jack Reacher, recently discharged from the Army, travels to Margrave, Georgia to try to find out what happened to Blues musician Blind Blake. However, Reacher has walked into a town that has just had its first murder in 20 years, and as the newly arrived stranger, Reacher is arrested and thrown into jail. After his innocence is established, he discovers that the town is a cesspool of corruption, and after it becomes personal, he vows to burn it down. | ||||||
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First Dance | Scott Sullivan | Sam Hill | 02/03/22 | 02 | 1.02 |
| Reacher realizes that it was Paul Hubble that was the target of the attempted assassination in the prison. When Police Chief Morrison and his wife are found brutally tortured and murdered, he realizes that the criminal conspiracy is taking its revenge on the members that failed them. After Paul goes missing, his family is put in protective custody. With Chief Morrison dead, Mayor Teale appoints himself Police Chief. Reacher arranges to meet Spivey at the Blue Cat Bar & Grill, but finds that two South American assassins are waiting for him. | ||||||
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Spoonful | Aadrita Mukerji | Stephen Surjic | 02/03/22 | 03 | 1.03 |
| While Reacher and Roscoe are stuck in Alabama due to road flooding, Roscoe's home is broken into by what appears to be the same team that murdered Police Chief Morrison and his wife. Reacher and Finlay continue to investigate the murders and end up at Kliner's office where he claims to know nothing. Roscoe is told that Reacher murdered some civilians while serving in Iraq. Reacher is ambushed by the assassins again, but is able to kill both of them. He needs to hide their bodies, but when he opens the trunk to their car, discovers the body of Spivey. | ||||||
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In a Tree | Cait Duffy | Christine Moore | 02/03/22 | 04 | 1.04 |
| Reacher dispatches the two South American assassins, and then finds Spivey dead in the trunk of their car. The burned remains of Joe's rental car are found. Reacher and Roscoe take the assassins car (with the 3 bodies in the trunk) and leave in the airport parking lot, after which Reacher and Roscoe check into a hotel where they receive a call from Molly Beth. They make arrangements to meet her the following day but find that she has been murdered at their rendezvous point. It becomes apparent that there are some leaks within the Margrave PD. | ||||||
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No Apologies | Scott Sullivan | Norberto Barba | 02/03/22 | 05 | 1.05 |
| Roscoe learns that Teale has fired her for a minor mistake she made. Reacher finds a key which belongs to a trunk left by Roscoe's deceased former boss Gray, containing research that confirms Reacher's suspicions that Margrave is the heart of Kliner's counterfeiting operation. Reacher joins up with his old comrade, Frances Neagley, to find a hitman who may have been Joe's murderer. Roscoe learns that it was probably Mayor Teale that murdered her old boss Gray, and confronts him by punching him in the mouth. Finlay drags her away and she replaces Picard as the Hubble family's bodyguard. Reacher and Neagley survive an attempt on their lives by a crooked cop. Finlay breaks into Kliner's office only to find that Kliner has just been killed. | ||||||
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Papier | Aadrita Mukerji | Omar Madha | 02/03/22 | 06 | 1.06 |
| Reacher goes to New York City to meet with one of Joe's contacts, Professor Kate Castillo, having found that another contact had been murdered. He determines that Kliner had been shipping counterfeit money to a client in Venezuela. Assassins find Roscoe and Hubble’s family, but Roscoe dispatches both men in the woods. While waiting for Picard, Hubble’s wife Charlie shares the details of their involvement with Kliner, explaining that Paul was being blackmailed by threats against him and his family. | ||||||
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Reacher Said Nothing | Scott Sullivan | Lin Oeding | 02/03/22 | 07 | 1.07 |
| Officer Stevenson and his wife are murdered by a hit squad that appears to be seeking information about Hubble. After Teale fires Finlay, Reacher provides some false information to Officer Baker about him searching the Hubble house that night. Reacher knows that Baker is in on the scheme and he will alert the hit team as to Reacher's plans. The hit team goes to Hubble’s house, where Reacher kills them all, including Kliner’s nephew Dawson. Based on additional information, Reacher figures out how the counterfeit operation works and tells Roscoe, who shares his discovery with Picard. Reacher and Finlay search Jobling’s parents’ house and find boxes of counterfeit bills. They arrange a meet with Picard, but when they arrive, Picard is waiting with KJ and Teale. | ||||||
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Pie | Nick Santora | M.J. Bassett | 02/03/22 | 08 | 1.08 |
| With Finlay, Roscoe and Paul Hubble's family being held hostage, Reacher is forced to track down Hubble with Picard watching over his shoulder. After shooting Picard and assuming he is dead, Reacher finds Hubble and rescues Finlay who is being held in a cell at the Police Station. The three are joined by Neagley and they launch an assault and rescue mission on Kliner's warehouse. In the aftermath, Reacher tells Roscoe that he needs to move on, but before he does, he places his Grandfather's WWII medal in the ground near to where Joe was killed. Reacher sticks out his thumb and hits the road. | ||||||
Reception[]
- The following is an official press release from Amazon detailing the incredible success of their series.
Since premiering on February 4, Reacher has commanded a Jack Reacher-sized global audience, ranking among Prime Video’s top five most-watched series ever in the U.S. and globally. With Reacher keeping viewers on the edge of their seats, the show is one of the most binged Original series ever on Prime Video, with many fans devouring all eight episodes of Season One in its first 24 hours of release. Reacher premiered exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
In its first weekend, Reacher is among Prime Video’s highest-rated Original series ever among Prime customers, averaging 4.7 out of 5 stars.
“The phenomenal debut of Reacher is a testament to Lee Child’s creation of one of entertainment’s most well-known heroes, Nick Santora’s original approach to the storytelling, Alan’s brilliant embodiment of the character, and the dedication of the talented people who worked tirelessly in front of and behind the camera to make such an undeniably bingeworthy series,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios. “The global impact of Reacher makes it one of Prime Video’s biggest series debuts, and we can’t wait to bring fans a second season of their new favorite show.”
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Trivia[]
- The entire first season takes place over a week and a half.