Reacher: A Night At The Symphony
December 25, 2023 6:05 PM - Season 2, Episode 4 - Subscribe
Reacher and his team head to Boston to track down a political aide with insider knowledge of a top secret military-defense contract that may be the reason behind their friends' deaths. (IMDb)
This episode picks up with the team sitting in a diner pouring through the information they grabbed when they broke in to New Age. Swan's loyalty is questioned but Reacher is a believer. A cryptic email that Swan sent reveals a new clue; "Little Wing" is the code name for a new missile defense system for which New Age is hoping to get the contract. This leads to a discussion of military appropriations and a plan to shake down a legislative aide who wrote the bill. It involves an arrest by last season's police detective, Oscar Finley who apparently moved back to The Hub after the events in Georgia and Reacher and O'Donnell pretending to be FBI agents. The aide confesses, explains the workings of Little Wing and that it will be built at New Age's plant in Denver. With that, the team splits up, half to Denver and half to DC to warn Homeland Security about the mysterious assassin/terrorist AM who is now impersonating a doctor.
This episode picks up with the team sitting in a diner pouring through the information they grabbed when they broke in to New Age. Swan's loyalty is questioned but Reacher is a believer. A cryptic email that Swan sent reveals a new clue; "Little Wing" is the code name for a new missile defense system for which New Age is hoping to get the contract. This leads to a discussion of military appropriations and a plan to shake down a legislative aide who wrote the bill. It involves an arrest by last season's police detective, Oscar Finley who apparently moved back to The Hub after the events in Georgia and Reacher and O'Donnell pretending to be FBI agents. The aide confesses, explains the workings of Little Wing and that it will be built at New Age's plant in Denver. With that, the team splits up, half to Denver and half to DC to warn Homeland Security about the mysterious assassin/terrorist AM who is now impersonating a doctor.
It’s production figures - they’re artificially failing testing on units (650 of them) so they can be sold on the black market (at 100k ea).
posted by coriolisdave at 11:34 PM on December 25, 2023 [5 favorites]
posted by coriolisdave at 11:34 PM on December 25, 2023 [5 favorites]
Frothy!
From the Talking Heads diversion to the reappearance of Finley (I appreciated the hell out of Finley) this was somehow a very gen-X episode (which I guess makes sense, given the author and all.) If maybe not the series' finest.
The psycho killer I don't quite... get... but then again there is often a tabloid-y luridness to the violence in the books. So it does scan, but he seems like a chaos vector you could avoid by just keeping your distance.
posted by From Bklyn at 5:58 AM on December 26, 2023
From the Talking Heads diversion to the reappearance of Finley (I appreciated the hell out of Finley) this was somehow a very gen-X episode (which I guess makes sense, given the author and all.) If maybe not the series' finest.
The psycho killer I don't quite... get... but then again there is often a tabloid-y luridness to the violence in the books. So it does scan, but he seems like a chaos vector you could avoid by just keeping your distance.
posted by From Bklyn at 5:58 AM on December 26, 2023
Ah, thanks coriolisdave.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 9:35 AM on December 26, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by TWinbrook8 at 9:35 AM on December 26, 2023 [1 favorite]
I love that Neagley calls Reacher a kaiju
posted by mabelstreet at 3:08 PM on January 10 [4 favorites]
posted by mabelstreet at 3:08 PM on January 10 [4 favorites]
Neagley also takes a moment while searching the New Age Operations woman's house to compliment her daughter's taste in videogames. They're clearly giving her a trait. Not sure whether it will actually become plot significant or not - I don't see how. But it's a little character bit for her.
And yes, nice to get a bit of Finley again even if just a pinch.
posted by Naberius at 8:21 AM on January 19
And yes, nice to get a bit of Finley again even if just a pinch.
posted by Naberius at 8:21 AM on January 19
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"650 at $100 K each" To me, that sounded like someone was deliberately tanking the missile testing? Is that something they would test 2,197 times? Though why pay to make it look less reliable?
posted by TWinbrook8 at 6:24 PM on December 25, 2023