Reacher: Burial
January 1, 2024 4:22 PM - Season 2, Episode 5 - Subscribe
Neagley and Dixon discover shocking information about an old friend in Denver while Reacher and O'Donnell learn more about the nefarious and mysterious A.M.
This episode opens with a chaotic domestic scene at O'Donnell's house, the family being packed up to go into hiding, giving Reacher yet another opportunity to ponder what he's missed by not settling down. Dixon and Neagley have talked their way into New Age's Denver plant with a clipboard but they've just missed the missile shipment which is now winging its way down the mountain. Meanwhile Reacher and O'Donnell are in DC talking to Homeland Security who are surprisingly forthcoming with details about AM, a "ghost" whose motivation is "money". Back in Colorado, Dixon and Neagley come across the missile-loaded truck in the process of being hijacked, they can't prevent it but they manage to kill a few bad guys and find the shipment paperwork signed by their old pal, Swan. Still in DC, Reacher meets with the crooked Senator from the previous episode who now wants to help; bribery is just business but stolen missiles is national security. The episode ends at the funeral for the Special Investigator whose murder set off this season and where two snipers, "hired by Swan", are tasked to kill the rest of the team.
This episode opens with a chaotic domestic scene at O'Donnell's house, the family being packed up to go into hiding, giving Reacher yet another opportunity to ponder what he's missed by not settling down. Dixon and Neagley have talked their way into New Age's Denver plant with a clipboard but they've just missed the missile shipment which is now winging its way down the mountain. Meanwhile Reacher and O'Donnell are in DC talking to Homeland Security who are surprisingly forthcoming with details about AM, a "ghost" whose motivation is "money". Back in Colorado, Dixon and Neagley come across the missile-loaded truck in the process of being hijacked, they can't prevent it but they manage to kill a few bad guys and find the shipment paperwork signed by their old pal, Swan. Still in DC, Reacher meets with the crooked Senator from the previous episode who now wants to help; bribery is just business but stolen missiles is national security. The episode ends at the funeral for the Special Investigator whose murder set off this season and where two snipers, "hired by Swan", are tasked to kill the rest of the team.
And when AM said "French Lick", I automatically answered, Indiana. Larry Bird. But it's the kind of cutesy inside joke that takes you out of the story.
You mean like asking the actual Terminator who Sarah Connor is (Ep. 1)? C'mon. It's not high art. It's a huge guy and his team beating people up. Have a little fun.
posted by The Bellman at 8:45 AM on January 2 [5 favorites]
You mean like asking the actual Terminator who Sarah Connor is (Ep. 1)? C'mon. It's not high art. It's a huge guy and his team beating people up. Have a little fun.
posted by The Bellman at 8:45 AM on January 2 [5 favorites]
you absolutely do not need magic software to take out a passenger plane with a shoulder-fired missile, if that's where they're really going with these things then that will be deeply silly. what anti-missile defenses do they think airliners have?
posted by BungaDunga at 8:48 PM on January 2 [1 favorite]
posted by BungaDunga at 8:48 PM on January 2 [1 favorite]
And when AM said "French Lick", I automatically answered, Indiana.
What’s up with the Indiana mentions in this series? Back in ep.1, Reacher says something about having done a favor for someone in Indiana. In another episode, the lobby of New Age’s office is described as being big enough to run an Indycar race in. And, of course, the French Lick mention. Tangentially, even Boston fits the pattern because French Lick/Larry Bird.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:02 AM on January 3
What’s up with the Indiana mentions in this series? Back in ep.1, Reacher says something about having done a favor for someone in Indiana. In another episode, the lobby of New Age’s office is described as being big enough to run an Indycar race in. And, of course, the French Lick mention. Tangentially, even Boston fits the pattern because French Lick/Larry Bird.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:02 AM on January 3
The DHS stuff I handwaved because of his brother, but I still got completely annoyed that they continued the idea that car doors are magic bullet stoppers.
I can't recall precisely, but I could have sworn in the book the shipment got jumped somewhere really desolate like the Mojave which would make more sense than a mountain road a short drive from near Denver.
But still - good "turn the brain off and zone" entertainment.
posted by drewbage1847 at 11:37 AM on January 5 [1 favorite]
I can't recall precisely, but I could have sworn in the book the shipment got jumped somewhere really desolate like the Mojave which would make more sense than a mountain road a short drive from near Denver.
But still - good "turn the brain off and zone" entertainment.
posted by drewbage1847 at 11:37 AM on January 5 [1 favorite]
More and more disappointing, more and more video-game like, in spite of the charisma of the main characters.
Plus despite its veneer of antiauthoritarianism thru reacher and his renegades, this is a show in love with all of the symbols of power and flag and faith.
posted by lalochezia at 8:00 PM on January 5
Plus despite its veneer of antiauthoritarianism thru reacher and his renegades, this is a show in love with all of the symbols of power and flag and faith.
posted by lalochezia at 8:00 PM on January 5
Russo gives Franz's son an action figure at the funeral and says something like "When I was a kid I had Aquaman." Alan Ritchson played Aquaman on Smallville.
(Also he also played Hank Hall/Hawk on Titans and Supergirl, but I don't think that Reacher going to DC was an intentional reference...)
(Also also Robert Patrick was on X-Files and Alan Ritchson played Young Scully on Brooklyn Nine Nine, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.)
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 6:43 AM on January 8
(Also he also played Hank Hall/Hawk on Titans and Supergirl, but I don't think that Reacher going to DC was an intentional reference...)
(Also also Robert Patrick was on X-Files and Alan Ritchson played Young Scully on Brooklyn Nine Nine, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.)
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 6:43 AM on January 8
This time the Intuit TurboTax sign was in the background while the senator's aides are trying to coax Reacher into the black SUV. Forgot to check for the signs in episodes 3 & 4, but they were also there in episodes 1 & 2.
posted by mabelstreet at 3:50 PM on January 10
posted by mabelstreet at 3:50 PM on January 10
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This series has been okay up until now but this episode was ludicrous. Homeland Security readily cough up all the intel about a terrorist to not-intelligence-agents, not-legally-anything Reacher and O'Donnell who then just get up to leave?? Snipers decide the best way to kill the team is to show up at a funeral and mow down all the mourners? because that won't attract police attention.
And when AM said "French Lick", I automatically answered, Indiana. Larry Bird. But it's the kind of cutesy inside joke that takes you out of the story.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 5:04 PM on January 1 [2 favorites]