REACHER Season 2 Episode 4 Explained, Breakdown, and Theories!

grab your motorcycles we've got a new episode of Reacher which means we're in for one heel of a good time that's right episode 4 offers new insight into what exactly am is selling how it could lead to a catastrophic terrorist attack and more clues that hint at one of the team members being a bad guy keep in mind I haven't read the book so there will be no book spoilers in this review so let's not waste any time and get right into it last episode saw Reacher and the Gang quietly break into New Age Technologies the car belonged to one of their employees I was returning at a nearby Diner the team goes over all the new information they uncovered including that former special investigations unit member Tony Swan was working for new age as assistant director of security so he was just below Shane Langston the man hellbent on killing Reacher and his team now Reacher is adamant that Swan isn't in on this whole conspiracy rather that he's a victim something Neely isn't too sure of you want Swan to be innocent because you hired him into the 110 we find out that the guy Reacher threw a barbecue at was also on this security team so Reacher and the Gang intend to hunt down all these new age workers in the hopes of getting answers meanwhile Russo the most over-the-top New Yorker I've ever seen is chewed out for Reacher's escapades at New Age his Lieutenant wants to know what Reacher found out could this be because he's secretly working with new age or is he merely doing his duty as a cop where things start to get interesting are these emails between Swan and New Age director of operations Marlo burns the woman who gave Dixon and Neely the address of the home where the team would later be ambushed Swan references loving a Jimmy Hendrick album specifically song number six titled a little wi this is odd since the team knows Swan hates hris no Skinner no Zeppelin No Hendrick no who I like my music lighter little wi was the code word for a ninef figure Federal defense contract between New Age and the US government but in order for this deal to go through its funding would need to be approved by Congress meanwhile we have this flashback of the special investigations unit celebrating a victory in their missing fuel case in the first three episodes Dixon and Reacher found out that several military aircraft had gone through more than their relegated amount of fuel meaning something on these aircrafts was causing them to burn more this turned out to be unaccounted for heroin Military Officers were smuggling out of Afghanistan and it looks like they made their first big bust 48 big bricks of heroin now the writers are really trying to paint Swan as a bad guy here not only does Swan talk about how it's unfair these criminals make more than all their pensions combined with one of these shipments but an entire brick of heroin is conveniently found unaccounted for in the back of his truck was it an honest mistake or was he purposely hiding it in present day Denver our International arms dealer am has had to get creative in acquiring new identities after reach in the gang found his list of aliases he's found this doctor who looks a lot like him so he's got to die so that am can steal his identity Reacher continues to look into little wi and the senator who pushed for its funding but instead of going for the senator himself they go for an easier Target the person who drafted the bill this is the legislative director Daniel Boyd this guy has a history of DUIs and romps with sex workers making him a good Target for blackmail and it just so happens he'll be in town for a special fundraising event at the symphony but if they're going to Blackmail this guy they're going to need some drugs so Reacher takes out the same drug dealer he did a few episodes ago you'd think this guy would learn by now meanwhile neie and Dixon head to Marlo Burns's house in search of answers the place looks chaotic as if someone was in a hurry to get the hell out of there the cabinets and closets are open clothes strewn about and Marlo has left behind a bag full of money why would someone leave this behind am continues his obsession with comic books and young children as he uses his new identity to purchase a rental car do you know why I love comic books so much I love the beginning of this dress shopping scene because odonnell is just creepily checking out dresses and while Reacher thinks they all look like on top of a wedding cake he still has the hots for Dixon and Dixon will have to look her best if she's going to woo her Target at the symphony it doesn't take long for Dixon to lure Daniel out to the back of her car for a little booger sugar allowing him to get arrested by none other than Oscar Finley you may remember Oscar as margraves Chief detective in season 1 in fact it's pretty funny that when Oscar introduces himself to Reacher and odonnell Reacher refers to himself as detective margrave the location most of season 1 is set odonnell is referred to as Blake a nod to Blind Blake the blues musician who allegedly died in margrave but before we get there we have to discuss the new development on these numbers found on orosco's secret USB last episode Dixon theorized that that the numbers are a Six-Day work week over the course of 7 months Reacher Builds on this theorizing these numbers are also a tally and if you add these numbers all up there are only 1,547 total events accounted for out of 2,197 leaving 650 unaccounted remember that 650 is the amount of Rosco kept seeing over and over again 650 at 100K each in episode 2 the man dealing with am says oh 650 will be in the truck so it looks like am has whatever these items are and it isn't until Daniel's interrogated that we find out just what we're dealing with now I got to bring this up because I thought it was a bit weird throughout the first four episodes odonnell keeps getting messages from his family including one in this episode that goes straight to his burner phone which he brushes off stating that he must have accidentally given his kids that number this is extremely fishy and it makes me think he's one of the bad guys he's probably not talking to his family at all remember that he was found in Reacher ne's trashed hotel room and several times throughout this episode tried to paint Tony Swan as a traitor but for those of you who haven't read the book let me know what you think in the comments Reacher and odonnell interrogate Daniel in the hopes of finding out everything they can about little wi and it doesn't take long for Daniel to squeal little wi was the code name for an anti-missile software to protect commercial aircrafts from attack but Boyd was approached by New Age who stated this technology could be tweaked to create powerful portable surface to a Weaponry that could hit its Target every time you fire you hit your target period this new tech could prove very useful for the US Military and very lucrative for New Age the only problem they need approved funding So Daniel and his Senator buried the proposal in a thousand Page Long Bill where no one would read it and voila it got approved it's implied that both he and the senator got paid under the table for this because that's just how things work in Washington Daniel isn't too concerned about this technology because it's in the hands of us Americans but am and New Age may have other plans outside Denver am and this guy have an agreement that these weapons are not to be used on us soil to which am responds he'd never harm anyone which we know is a lies as he just goes around the country killing people but Daniel's big Revelation is that new age has two facilities not one the facility Reacher broke into at the end of episode 3 only handled the software while the facility in Denver has the actual hardware for these weapons to work these software and Hardware need to be combined this is why Shane Langston has been working with Am Shane has the software am has the hardware but it still leaves the question why did Shane need to hire am if his company New Age already owned both parts we don't know the answer to that just yet but maybe it was to make it look like their parts were stolen or maybe Shane has gone Rogue and is doing his own thing with a bigger picture starting to form it looks like neie and Dixon will go off to Denver to investigate this second facility while Reacher and O'Donnell are off to DC to consult with Homeland Security Reacher's brother the one who died in season 1 used to work for Homeland Security and some of his contacts may be of help but it wouldn't be an episode of Reacher without some good oldfashioned ass kicking Shane has hired the most delightful motorcycle gang to put an end to Reacher but as we all know do not mess with the special investigators they may quick work of these fools and Reacher waste no time getting in touch with their boss telling him exactly what he wants I want to throw you out of a helicopter I can't wait for more episodes of Reacher and to see where the story takes us I hope you'll consider liking and subscribing I plan on covering the whole season thanks for watching and until next time remember he was stopped by barbecue he died from trans fats

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Length: 9min 3sec (543 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 23 2023