REACHER: season 3 episode 7 ending explained

Reacher’s third and, to date, weakest season deviates further from its source novel, 2003’s Persuader, as it heads into the home stretch. There’s no literary felony to prosecute here; it’s not as though the showrunners have changed the ending to The Scarlet Letter. Some of the changes to Lee Child’s book have been improvements: losing the Elizabeth Beck character, for one, who in the novel is yet another woman whose only role in the story is to be victimized. The Los Angeles side quest that occupies a big chunk of this penultimate episode is a new-to-the-series element. With Reacher’s cover blown, he and Duffy need a new way to stay on Beck and Quinn’s scent long enough to rescue Teresa Daniel — the informant and recovering addict Duffy strong-armed into taking a secretarial job at Bizarre Bazaar, Beck’s rug-importing/gun-running business with the Bob’s Burgers–esque name. Even though it was Duffy’s surveillance of West Coast drug kingpin Darien Prado that put her onto Quinn’s trail, thus leading to her entanglement with Reacher — who was separately pursuing Quinn after randomly catching sight of the man he thought he killed 13 years earlier on the street, sure, whatever — it’s Reacher who remembers all of this and suggests the pair of them go see Mr. Prado. Of course, it’s Reacher’s idea. While it remains irritating that no characters not named Reacher are allowed to be resourceful or even competent on Reacher — with the eternal exception of Neagley, whose spinoff series has already been announced, and the onetime exception of Kohl, who paid for her efficiency by being tortured to death back in 2012 — the show’s treatment of Susan Duffy is confounding. In the novel, she’s a step or two behind Reacher. On TV, she’s the least effective federal law enforcement officer since Robert Hanssen. This penultimate episode of the season underlines this by having Duffy bring Reacher along to look in on Teresa’s grandma before they head to Logan Airport. It turns out Duffy is on a first-name basis with the woman whose granddaughter she placed in mortal danger after Teresa had kicked the habit and cleaned up her life. Naturally, this poor woman is ignorant of her friend Susan’s role in her granddaughter’s disappearance. But Nicky Guadagni gives a charming performance in this role, picking up on what she says is the palpable sexual tension between Reacher and Duffy. (“I know a thing or two about a thing or two.”) After protesting that their relationship is strictly professional, Reacher confides to Ms. Daniel that Duffy “just wants me for my body.” That’s the best laugh we get this week. A snapshot of Teresa Ms. Daniel has stuck to her fridge reminds us of the human MacGuffin that’s been driving this entire season. “She’s a good shit,” her grandma says. Sweet-talker. There follows a scene wherein Neagley sneaks up on a Chicago crook named Costopoulos as he’s collecting his morning paper. I hate to see anyone who’s still paying for daily newspaper delivery treated this way, but this is the guy who sent the two button men to Neagley’s office in the prior episode. He’s also the most loose-tongued character we’ve met all season, immediately spilling his guts when all Neagley has done is threaten to shoot him. Somehow, he knows that Julius McCabe, the man who ordered him to send the hitters, is also Xavier Quinn. “There are only a few people left alive who know that name,” he says. “He’s not my boss anymore, but I was Quinn’s fixer back when he set up here,” Costopoulos continues. He tells Neagley the sad story of a Chicago-based family import-export operation that Quinn took over and eventually killed all the principals of, the exact playbook he’s now using with the Beck family and Bizarre Bazaar. So how the Wrigley Field fuck is Costopoulos still walking around Chicago, Ontario intact, going out in his bathrobe to collect his own newspaper in his own hometown, when he knows all about the guy Reacher has described as “the most evil man I’ve ever known?” Not addressed! If Quinn were a tenth as dangerous as we’re been repeatedly told he is, Costopoulos wouldn’t be alive to tell Neagley any of this. In a Los Angeles hotel room, Duffy is showing Reacher the surveillance video of Prado that turned out to be inadmissible because poor, dead Agent Eliot misread a map and shot the video from a place he wasn’t supposed to be. When Reacher asks her to make a part of the frame bigger, Duffy hits him with a “that’s what she said.” Her flirtation game is as sharp as her law enforcement game. They still fuck, of course, because this is Reacher and Duffy packed a very nice bra. But it feels obligatory, even if it’s fun to see Duffy climb Reacher like a jungle gym. #reacherseason3 #explore #viralvideo #view #views #trend #trending #trendingvideo #usa #subscribe #like #comment #comedy #agent ‪@moviemusters‬