Reacher: What Happens in Atlantic City
December 18, 2023 7:55 PM - Season 2, Episode 2 - Subscribe
The investigation into Franz's murder takes Reacher and the surviving members of his former Army unit to Atlantic City where the mystery deepens, danger awaits, and an old flame is rekindled. (IMDb)
Another wham-bam opening as Reacher confronts someone whose been tailing the trio by kicking the front bumper of his car hard enough for the airbag to go off and knock the guy out. Unfortunately, it was a cop. Figuring that it was a good time to skip town, they decide to track down two more members of the old team working out of AC. Along the way, they pick up a fourth teammate, learn an ambiguous Clue: "six-fifty at a hundred K each", get comped a fancy hotel suite by a suspiciously? obliging hotel security chief, and sit around and chat about their lives in contrast to Reacher's own very stripped down life. Later on that night, Reacher and Dixon dispatch a couple of the bad guys, precluding the possibility of questioning them. A search of their car turns up a parking pass.
Another wham-bam opening as Reacher confronts someone whose been tailing the trio by kicking the front bumper of his car hard enough for the airbag to go off and knock the guy out. Unfortunately, it was a cop. Figuring that it was a good time to skip town, they decide to track down two more members of the old team working out of AC. Along the way, they pick up a fourth teammate, learn an ambiguous Clue: "six-fifty at a hundred K each", get comped a fancy hotel suite by a suspiciously? obliging hotel security chief, and sit around and chat about their lives in contrast to Reacher's own very stripped down life. Later on that night, Reacher and Dixon dispatch a couple of the bad guys, precluding the possibility of questioning them. A search of their car turns up a parking pass.
Annoying plot hangnail: when Reacher and Dixon go through the (now dead) bad guy's car in AC, they find a file folder with printouts of the whole team's military records or at least a lot of the background information used to track them down. And they leave it in the car. The police will probably assume the car has been abandoned and not be able to tie it to dead bad guys but is that the kind of thing you want to leave lying around?
posted by TWinbrook8 at 8:07 AM on December 19, 2023
posted by TWinbrook8 at 8:07 AM on December 19, 2023
gotta say I really enjoyed that kicking the car to deploy the airbag stunt. like who would ever expect that to happen?
posted by supermedusa at 8:36 AM on December 19, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by supermedusa at 8:36 AM on December 19, 2023 [3 favorites]
I like seeing Reacher among people who knows him well enough to take the piss, it's pretty effectively humanizing him.
Why would the concrete still be so wet? Presumably it was poured during the day, but by the time they got to it it was the middle of the night.
I know, I know, the answer is "plot reasons!"
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 6:16 AM on December 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
Why would the concrete still be so wet? Presumably it was poured during the day, but by the time they got to it it was the middle of the night.
I know, I know, the answer is "plot reasons!"
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 6:16 AM on December 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
Why would the concrete still be so wet? Presumably it was poured during the day, but by the time they got to it it was the middle of the night.
Googling suggests that it takes 24-48 hours for concrete to cure. Maybe it would take longer for a deep foundation like that?
However, it would seriously undermine that foundation. Pretty irresponsible, Reacher!
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 3:02 PM on December 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
Googling suggests that it takes 24-48 hours for concrete to cure. Maybe it would take longer for a deep foundation like that?
However, it would seriously undermine that foundation. Pretty irresponsible, Reacher!
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 3:02 PM on December 20, 2023 [1 favorite]
However, it would seriously undermine that foundation. Pretty irresponsible, Reacher!
Look, he's an expert in pretty much everything else but structural engineering is just a bridge too far.
posted by coriolisdave at 8:23 PM on December 20, 2023 [6 favorites]
Look, he's an expert in pretty much everything else but structural engineering is just a bridge too far.
posted by coriolisdave at 8:23 PM on December 20, 2023 [6 favorites]
I love that they notice the Pine Barrens but never come back to it. Surely. reference to the classic Sopranos episode?
Also, just after another fake place sign (the Lucky Lounge), there was another Intuit TurboTax sign, this time on a bus stop bench facing *away* from the street. Looking forward to a tax-related Where's Waldo with the next episode.
posted by mabelstreet at 9:08 PM on January 9
Also, just after another fake place sign (the Lucky Lounge), there was another Intuit TurboTax sign, this time on a bus stop bench facing *away* from the street. Looking forward to a tax-related Where's Waldo with the next episode.
posted by mabelstreet at 9:08 PM on January 9
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The TV series has involved them from the start so there isn't really that air of mystery. And it's immediately leapt to him being ambiguous about his hobo lifestyle, while at the start of the books he just seems to love it.
I suppose if the show gets cancelled at least there's been a story arc. It might seem a bit anticlimactic if they ever move into baddie-of-the-series mode.
Alan Ritchson has a great interpretation of the character though. I think the more taciturn book-Reacher might be unwatchable, he'd just seem like a thug with no inner life.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 5:24 AM on December 19, 2023 [2 favorites]