Reacher Season 2 Ending, Explained

Warning: Spoilers for Reacher Season 2.

The Season 2 finale of Reacher premiered Thursday night on Prime Video and did not disappoint. Picking up with a time jump of over two and a half years after the first season’s finale, Reacher (Alan Ritchson) is once again traveling the country on his own without the burden of personal belongings weighing him down. That is except for a toothbrush, of course. When he receives a coded message via his bank account from Neagley (Maria Sten), he discovers their friend and former colleague, Franz (Luke Bilyk), of the 110th Special Investigators Unit, has been killed under horrendous circumstances. In an effort to figure out what happened, Reacher and Neagley begin their own investigation and eventually reunite with Dixon (Serinda Swan) and O’Donnell (Shaun Sipos), the only other members of their former unit they manage to successfully contact.

As their investigation widened and they attempted to contact the other surviving members of the 110th, they discovered Sanchez (Andres Collantes) and Orozco (Edsson Morales) had met the same fate as Franz. Swan (Shannon Kook), on the other hand, remains missing. The team then learns about Swan’s employer, New Age Technologies, and the software the company developed for surface-to-air missiles, a program known as “Little Wing,” that has the ability to defeat anti-missile systems. When it’s revealed the Head of Security at New Age, a former dirty cop named Shane Langston (Robert Patrick), is selling 650 of the missiles to dangerous people, the mission of the 110th turns into something bigger.

Reacher Season 2 Is an Explosive Conclusion

The show’s penultimate episode saw Dixon and O’Donnell captured by Langston, forcing Reacher to devise a plan to save them. Calling on Senator Lavoy (Noam Jenkins), who pushed Reacher toward thwarting Langston and “Little Wing,” Reacher enlists the services of the senator’s private security team. With their help, Reacher and Neagley execute a plan to save their friends. When a firefight breaks out, Langston and his goons make a break for the helicopter where they’ve loaded Dixon and O’Donnell, both of whom are still strapped to a gurney.

Reacher eventually frees himself from the handcuffs he’s in, thanks to a nail he hid in the bottom of his boot, before joining the gunfight and heading for the helicopter. As the chopper ascends, Reacher manages to jump on its wheel and makes his way inside when Langston opens the hatch to toss Dixon out. As she careens off the edge, Reacher grabs the gurney she’s strapped to before she’s able to free herself, climb up, and kill Langston’s final goon. Without much hesitation, Reacher throws Langston out of the helicopter, giving him the same death Langston inflicted on his friends.

Without Langston, the threat of “Little Wing” still exists when Reacher and the others learn from the helicopter pilot that they are headed to the house of a New Age engineer so he can show the buyers how to put the software into the missiles via a New Age microchip. The missiles and the chips have always been separate until now. When the 110th arrives, they kill the buyer and use one of the “Little Wing” missiles to shoot down the helicopter with its pilot and New Age engineer inside, essentially tying up any loose ends.

To protect Lavoy from indictment because of his connections to “Little Wing,” his private security team turn their guns on Reacher and the others. However, just before they pull the trigger, Reacher informs them that Lavoy wasn’t the only person he called to help them out. He also calls Omar Karim (Abraham Asto) from Homeland Security, who shows up just in the knick of time and promptly arrests Lavoy and his security team.

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The Team Learns the Truth About Swan

Reacher season 2 has made some significant changes, and throughout their investigation, questions about whether Swan turned dirty continued to arise. Unfortunately, most signs kept pointing the wrong way. However, in the end, the team learned the truth. Swan was never dirty. Instead, he was killed. Although the team never found Swan’s body, at least not all of it. While Reacher, Dixon, and O’Donnell were held captive by Langston, he showed them a glass jar with an index figure and an eyeball belonging to their friend. Langston explained he used them to sign off on deliveries for “Little Wing” so that it would look like Swan made the deals and then skipped town, making Swan the fall guy.

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Reacher Makes a Difference for Everyone

Having thwarted the “Little Wing” sale, Reacher and his team bid farewell to Karim and leave with the same briefcase the buyer brought to the engineer’s home. When Karim asks about the money, Reacher simply replies, “What money?” With $65 million in hand, the surviving members of the 110th leave it up to Reacher as to what to do with it. True to form, Reacher gives it to the loved ones of the friends he’s lost, including Guy Russo’s (Domenick Lombardozzi) family, the clean cop who was killed while helping Reacher. He sets up Neagley’s father with round-the-clock care help for his health issues, creates an LLC for Dixon so she can leave the job she hates, and opens a massive savings account for O’Donnell’s children.

In the end, Reacher continues his financial modesty as always and gives it all away, dispersing it accordingly to those who deserve it. Having only bought himself a bus pass he can use anywhere in the country for a year, he says goodbye to Neagley. He also promises to stay in touch on a more regular basis, a promise he’s likely to keep given how sparse the Special Investigators have become. As “Simple Man” by Lynyrd Skynyrd plays in the background, Reacher boards a bus and sets off to another unknown destination somewhere in the country. All episodes of Reacher are currently streaming on Prime Video.

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