Reacher season 3

Reacher
Season 3
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Showrunner	Nick Santora
Starring	Alan Ritchson Maria Sten Sonya Cassidy Johnny Berchtold Roberto Montesinos Olivier Richters Brian Tee Anthony Michael Hall
No. of episodes	8
Release
Original network	Amazon Prime Video
Original release	February 20 (2025-02-20) – March 27, 2025 (2025-03-27)
Season chronology

The third season of the American action crime television series Reacher, based on the Jack Reacher book series by Lee Child, premiered on Amazon Prime Video on February 20, 2025.

The season, based on Persuader (2003), stars Alan Ritchson, Maria Sten, Sonya Cassidy, Johnny Berchtold, Roberto Montesinos, Olivier Richters, Brian Tee, and Anthony Michael Hall.

The story follows Reacher, a former major in the United States Army Military Police Corps, who has agreed to work with the DEA to bring down suspected drug smuggler Zachary Beck by going undercover as the bodyguard of Beck's son, Richard. During the investigation, Reacher encounters an adversary from his military past, and must balance his desire for revenge against his need to finish his mission.

In October 2024, ahead of the third season premiere, it was confirmed that a fourth season was in production. It was later revealed that filming for the fourth season would begin in the summer of 2025.

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
17	1	"Persuader"	Sam Hill	Scott Sullivan	February 20, 2025 (2025-02-20)
In Maine, Reacher saves a young man from a kidnapping attempt by shooting the kidnapper. When Reacher accidentally shoots a cop, a police chase ensues. The man, whose name is Richard Beck, reveals to Reacher that someone had kidnapped him before and that his father only paid the ransom when his ear was amputated. Richard takes Reacher home to see his father, Zachary Beck. Reacher meets with Zachary, who thanks him for saving his son but is suspicious of him. Zachary offers Reacher a job if he plays Russian roulette, which he does. Reacher is working undercover for Susan Duffy, a DEA agent who recruited him to find a missing undercover agent, Teresa Daniels, in exchange for helping Reacher deal with a previous nemesis, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Xavier Quinn, who he saw exiting a car owned by Zachary. To put Reacher undercover, they stage Richard's kidnapping, with the kidnapper and the cop being DEA agents (Steven Eliot and Guillermo Villanueva) working with Duffy. Reacher sneaks into the garage at night, where he finds and reveals to Duffy that Teresa was there.
18	2	"Truckin'"	Sam Hill	Penny Cox	February 20, 2025 (2025-02-20)
When Duffy learns from Reacher that Teresa is in danger, she beats up Richard's bodyguard, whom they are holding captive, to find out what they plan to do with Teresa, but the bodyguard claims he does not know. Reacher has a brief scuffle with hulking bodyguard Paulie before Zachary's head guard, Chapman Duke, sends Reacher to check out the hijacked cars from the kidnapping. Reacher calls Duffy to tell her that it may be a problem for the kidnapping story; Duffy goes to the car yard to retrieve one of the cars. One of Zachary's associates, Angel Doll, notices the bodyguard's car but doesn't see Duffy change the license plate. Duke orders Reacher to take a truck to New London, Connecticut. Reacher calls Neagley to investigate the people he works with. Reacher meets with Duffy to check the trailer for drugs or Teresa's body, but they only find carpets. Back in Maine, Doll questions Reacher about his actions at the yard and in the kidnapping, and when Doll tries to tell Duke about his suspicions, Reacher kills him.
19	3	"Number 2 with a Bullet"	Gary Fleder	Cait Duffy	February 20, 2025 (2025-02-20)
After returning from New London, Reacher meets with Zachary over a message from Doll. Reacher tries to make him believe that his partners are trying to betray him and that they should kill them, but Zachary doesn't listen. After this, Reacher tells Duffy that he has a car ready to go back to the warehouse where he killed Doll. When Reacher arrives at the meeting point, Duffy tells him she will go with him to find Teresa, to which Reacher reluctantly agrees. At the warehouse, Reacher and Duffy search for Teresa and clean up Doll's remains; two men arrive, and Reacher and Duffy kill them. Duffy keeps Doll's laptop. The next day, Reacher has to be with Richard in town. Reacher defends him from some thugs, and Richard tells him that Zachary's boss, Julius McCabe, threatened him and his father. When Reacher returns home, he goes with Duke and Zachary to a cabin, supposedly the kidnapper's hiding spot (in reality, a DEA safehouse). Reacher takes the opportunity to kill Duke, fake a shootout and blow up the house; in the car, he wins over Zachary and becomes his number two.
20	4	"Dominique"	Sam Hill	Lillian Wang	February 27, 2025 (2025-02-27)
Reacher heads to Duffy's house after gaining Zachary's trust. He discovers from photos the agents took that Julius McCabe is Xavier Quinn, believed to be dead. Following the revelation, Reacher tells Duffy how he received a new partner, Dominique Kohl, to investigate a case involving Roland Gorowski. They eventually force Gorowski to inform them that he works for Quinn, selling state secrets because Quinn threatened his family. Reacher and Kohl, along with Anthony "Tony" Frasconi, intercept one of Quinn's buyers, a Syrian businessman, Safwan Qasim, whom they force to assist in capturing Quinn. Having evidence to prosecute him, Reacher allows Kohl to arrest Quinn. Quinn instead kidnaps Kohl. In his search for her, Reacher finds Frasconi dead in a house and later finds Kohl's bloody body hanging in a barn; Quinn brutally murdered her. Reacher finds Quinn and shoots him in retaliation, apparently killing him. Back in the present, Zachary sends Reacher to a factory where they have located Doll's laptop and where Duffy is. Reacher heads to the factory as three of Quinn's men arrive there.
21	5	"Smackdown"	Sam Hill	Michael J. Gutierrez	March 6, 2025 (2025-03-06)
When Reacher can't contact Duffy, he calls Eliot to call the company's number. When Eliot calls, a gunfight breaks out between Quinn's men and Duffy and Villanueva; Reacher helps Duffy and Villanueva escape. At the cabin, the captive bodyguard manages to kill Eliot and escape. After discovering that the feds are spying on them, Quinn's men move into the house. When Duffy finds Eliot dead and the bodyguard has escaped, she calls Reacher to tell him so and remove him from the house, but Reacher formulates a plan involving Villanueva. Duffy cuts the power, and Reacher uses Villanueva as bait to kill the bodyguard. Back at the house, Zachary informs Reacher that Annette, the maid, was an ATF infiltrator and that Paulie has accidentally killed her. Reacher tells Duffy that several Feds are spying on them and that Quinn is dealing in firearms, not drugs. The following morning, Zachary informs Reacher that they must go to a factory. Reacher and Zachary arrive to meet Quinn.
22	6	"Smoke on the Water"	Sam Hill	Scott Sullivan	March 13, 2025 (2025-03-13)
Quinn meets with Zachary and accuses him of unknowingly having an ATF mole inside. Due to the retrograde amnesia caused by Reacher, Quinn has no memory of him and introduces himself to him using his alias McCabe. Quinn meets with a Russian mobster; Reacher discovers Quinn is in danger. Afterwards, Reacher drives into town with Richard to meet with Duffy and return her badge; Reacher and Duffy kiss, and Richard realizes that Reacher is a mole. Quinn sends men to kill everyone investigating him, including Neagley; Neagley kills them and tells Reacher. Quinn arrives at Zachary's house to question him about the U.S. Army investigating him; Zachary tells him that said unit was Reacher's. Quinn sends Paulie to kill Reacher, but he escapes, leading to a chase. Reacher kills all the men in the forest except Paulie and takes refuge in a laundromat. Quinn punishes Zachary by forcing Richard to play Russian roulette before having Paulie cut off Zachary's ear. Reacher and Duffy search for Teresa in Port Rome, but Harley, a member of Zachary's security team, claims that Quinn changed everything after Reacher escaped; they kill Harley, then travel to Los Angeles.
23	7	"L.A. Story"	Sam Hill	Penny Cox & Cait Duffy	March 20, 2025 (2025-03-20)
Neagley interrogates Costopoulos, the man who hired her attackers, who tells her that Quinn murdered a family when business went wrong and is about to do the same to the Beck family. Reacher and Duffy, in Los Angeles, track down Darien Prado, a drug dealer working for Zachary who Duffy previously tried to bust before going to Reacher, before having sex. Reacher and Duffy intercept Darien at a club and blackmail him into cooperating. He calls Zachary to meet, only for Reacher and Duffy to betray him. Zachary meets with Neagley, at Reacher's command, and tells her that he and his son are in danger. Quinn visits a captive Teresa. Reacher and the team discover that the weapons are being sold to Yemeni buyers and that a terrorist act will be carried out in the United States. Zachary apologizes to Richard for his wrongdoing and says he will protect him at all costs. Zachary informs Reacher of the time and place of the exchange. Duffy and Villanueva involve the ATF, much to Reacher's reluctance. On a call with Neagley, Reacher learns the exchange is actually taking place at Zachary's house, and the place they are at is a setup.
24	8	"Unfinished Business"	Sam Hill	Scott Sullivan	March 27, 2025 (2025-03-27)
Quinn's henchmen ambush the ATF team and eliminate them all, but Reacher, Duffy, and Villanueva take them out and save Zachary, leaving a driver to sneak them into the house. After an intense and brutal fight, Paulie dies after firing an LMG tampered by Reacher. Duffy saves Teresa from the buyers, while Villanueva finds Richard. When Reacher kills Quinn's men, Quinn kills the buyers and takes their money and Richard hostage. Quinn is confronted by Zachary, who points the toy gun at him; when it malfunctions, Quinn kills Zachary and leaves without the money. Quinn is confronted outside the house by the Russian gangster Taktarov and his men. Reacher and Neagley offer Taktarov the money in exchange for Quinn, and they accept. Reacher reminds Quinn about Kohl before executing him. In the aftermath, Reacher says goodbye to Neagley and Duffy; Richard takes his father's leftover money before disappearing; Duffy returns Teresa to her grandmother before resigning from the DEA, and she and Villanueva pay their respects to Eliot's parents; Villanueva reunites with his wife; and Reacher rides off on a motorcycle.

Cast and characters

Main

• Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher
• Maria Sten as Frances Neagley
• Sonya Cassidy as Susan Duffy
• Johnny Berchtold as Richard Beck
• Roberto Montesinos as Guillermo Villanueva
• Olivier Richters as Paul "Paulie" van Hoven
• Brian Tee as Francis Xavier Quinn / Julius McCabe
• Anthony Michael Hall as Zachary Beck

Recurring

• Daniel David Stewart as Steven Eliot
• Caitlin McNerney as Annette
• Helen Taylor as Agnes

Guest

• Ronnie Rowe Jr. as John Cooper
• Donald Sales as Chapman Duke
• Storm Steenson as Teresa Daniel
• Owen Roth as Warrant Officer Powell
• Greg Bryk as Darien Prado
• Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz as Angel Doll
• Brendan Fletcher as Harley
• Mariah Robinson as Sergeant Dominique Kohl
• Andreas Apergis as General Leon Garber
• Robert Bazzocchi as Private Anthony "Tony" Frasconi
• Aleks Paunovic as Taktarov
• Anousha Alamian as Nasser

Production

Development

On December 2, 2023, ahead of the second-season premiere, it was revealed that filming of a third season had begun.

Casting

On February 8, 2024, Anthony Michael Hall and Sonya Cassidy were cast as series regulars for the third season. On March 6, 2024, Brian Tee, Johnny Berchtold and Roberto Montesinos were cast as regulars of the third season, while Daniel David Stewart in a recurring role. In May 2024, bodybuilder Olivier Richters, also known as "the Dutch Giant", was cast as Persuader's secondary antagonist Paulie.

Filming

Filming for the third season took place in between July and September 2023. Different parts of Canada served as backdrops, including Millbrook, Brantford and Downtown St. John's.

Release

The first three episodes of the season were released on February 20, 2025, with an additional episode released each week through March 27, 2025.