Reacher Season 3 Episode 7 Gets Brutally Honest About Reacher’s Vengeance

This article contains spoilers For “Reacher” season 3, episode 7.

Season 3 of “Reacher” differs from the two previous seasons in many ways. This is the first time that we have seen the hero of Alan Ritchson undercover, making his way in a mansion as his literary counterpart does it in Lee Child’s book, “persuade”, on which this season “Reacher” is based. It is also a big change compared to season 2, which saw the former man of the titular weapon joined by members of his 110th unit of special investigations. But there is a large theme that has characterized the three seasons of the streaming series so far: Revenge.

Season 1 saw Reacher take revenge on the death of his brother, season 2 followed him, he and his former army colleagues, as they asked for revenge for the death of former members of the 110th unit, and season 3 returns again in search of revenge, this time the death of his former protégé and the army sergeant Dominique Kohl (Mariah Robinson). As revealed in episode 4 of this season, the first class Kohl sergeant joined Reacher for a short period in his military police days and the pair found Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee), an army intelligence officer selling secrets to the enemy. After Quinn captured, tortured and killed Kohl, the seller apparently killed him, only for the villain to reappear as arms dealer Julius McCabe, the central antagonist of season 3. Naturally, the seller is the intention to finish what he started all these years ago, and the central narrative of season 3, he becomes the hero of Ritchson times, quinn, and for everyone.

For all its differences compared to previous payments, season 3 of “Reacher” is then another story of revenge. But this particular story seems different. Season 3 of “Reacher” reveals a new and terrifying side of Jack Reacher, who has never seemed so childish on the revenge he did this time. This is crystallized in episode 7 of the season, where the character is more honest on his motivations than ever.

There is a reason why Jack Reacher has become such a popular character. Lee Child’s series of books achieved a huge success before Tom Cruise played the former military police officer in two Jack Reacher films, and well before Alan Ritchson intervened to bring the character to the streaming public. The formula is not exactly complicated. Reacher combines elements of each American archetypal hero to deliver a hard -rooted and superpowing bake that simply cannot be beaten. His itinerant lifestyle allows him to embody the trophy of the mysterious foreigner who walks in small towns and causes chaos, which defined so many classic westerns. His impressive physique remembers the heroes of muscle action and Uber-Macho from the 1980s, and his impressive intellect gives him a more subtle aura of James Bond. It is a merger of everything that has proven to be popular in the sphere of action, so it is not a surprise that Jack Reacher has become as popular as him.

But there is another aspect of the character who, I think, allowed his streaming series to beat prime video recordings and to become one of the most watched programs on the platform. With his military past, the seller embodies a kind of patriotic, even jingoisetic feeling that calls on large stretches of the public who look at the show for a good old American ass. But with its more fluid and self -determinated present, Relor also embodies the increasingly popular concept of flouting official guidelines and rules in order to advance things – an ethics that has become all the more relevant in the United States in recent times. In this regard, he is Clint Eastwood as a dirty Harry, demolishing and obtaining the villain at all costs. He is John Rambo, using his military past to inform his own quest for justice entirely separated from any body or director authority. As such, he is seated in this ideal point between celebrating the military force and embracing a very specific form of anti -authoritarianism – the type of hero who salutes the flag all the time that he flouts the rules for which he finds himself.

Episode 7 of season 3, however, contains a moment of unusual deductible from Reachère, in which he kisses a single side of this strange and contradictory fracture.

Jack Reacher is largely defined by his commitment to justice. He simply cannot face reprehensible acts and will defend himself for the little guy whenever possible, crying a hellish fire on those who dare to even commit the most negligible act. But season 3 showed us a merchant much more motivated by an selfish desire for revenge. From the very moment when he first kills Xavier Quinn in episode 4 and is at his military superiors, we see a side of the character who has nothing to do with justice in the traditional sense. At this stage, he had taken justice in hand, embodying the principle “eye for an eye” which is so anathema in the form of justice more measured that society is supposed to apply.

It is this attitude that leads to a big confrontation between recycling and the agent DEA of Sonya Cassidy, Susan Duffy (one of the best things that managed to “reacher” for a long time). In episode 7, the pair came to the blows after Duffy implored Reachade to let the ATF take control of the operation to stop Xavier Quinn during a meeting with its Russian buyers. The colleague of Duffy, Guillermo Villanueva (Roberto Montesinos), insists that Quinn will face justice, but Prower drops all pretension and responds to: “Justice? He put on Kohl as a piece of meat and bled him like livestock. I don’t want justice, I want a revenge.”

Until now, this season, it has been clear that Rechound wants to avenge Dominique Kohl, but he also maintained the appearance he cares about saving the captured CI of Duffy, Teresa. This moment, however, sees the ex-military man being more honest than he has never been throughout the season, leaving his personal quest for revenge to overcome everything else.

“Reacher” has always been popular since his first season fell on Prime Video, reliably becoming the most watched series of the platform each time a new series of episodes falls. He gave the fans a precise jack reacher in the form of Alan Ritchson and his taciturn murderer of a hero after so many faithful disciples of the character felt disappointed by the relatively miniature iteration of Tom Cruise. There are clearly many reasons why the series has resonated in the way it has done, and part of it surely has something to do with its ability to call on a right and left audience. For the latter, it is an insane luscious action, and for the first, he embodies the very feelings that led the police to embrace the logo of the anti -hero Marvel The Punisher – a scary development that the recent “Daredevil: Born Again” comments directly. Reacher is a soldier who fought for his country but who also, in a way, determines justice for himself, and today, it is a very powerful concept that resonates with multiple demographic data.

With season 3 of the streaming series, we saw Reacher Kill without hesitation, to the dismay of the characters who really represent the authorities. The agent of the DEA Guillermo Villanueva cannot believe it when Reachman reveals that he killed one of the men of Quinn in episode 4, and the series seems to count with this idea of ​​reacher as the only vigilante, capable of defining good and evil for himself. Now, with episode 7, it is as if writers question the idea of ​​this character as being a brilliant lighthouse of morality and justice. His frank confession about wanting revenge on justice shows that it can be just as ruthless and perhaps imperfect as anyone, and we see it more clearly than ever in his confrontation with Susan Duffy and Villanueva. Right now, he is not a hard -boring that launches the border between authority and vigilant justice. It’s just a guy who wants to take revenge, and it is a striking and almost frightening line that seems to say that the fan is hardly more than a composure killer, in a much more serious moment than what we are used to this series of action.