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Reacher Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2025 - 2025
Episode 1
Persuader
Thu, Feb 20, 202553 mins
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. 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.
Episode 2
Truckin'
Thu, Feb 20, 202543 mins
When Duffy learns from Reacher that Teresa is in danger, she beats up the bodyguard 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 'Bavarian arm wrestling' before Zachary's security chief, Chapman Duke, sends Reacher to check out the hijacked cars. Reacher calls Duffy to tell her that it may be a problem with integrity of 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. Then, Duke orders Reacher to drive a truck of rugs to New London, Connecticut. Reacher calls Neagley to investigate some of the people he met working around Beck. 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 suspicions about the kidnapping car and story. When Doll moves to inform Duke about his suspicions, Reacher slams his head onto a desktop spike paper holder, killing him.
Episode 3
Number 2 with a Bullet
Thu, Feb 20, 202554 mins
After returning from New London, Reacher meets with Zachary over a phone 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. Overnight, Reacher meets Duffy and they clean up Angel Doll's body at the warehouse. They both search for Teresa; two workers arrive, and Reacher and Duffy kill them and hide their bodies. Duffy keeps Doll's laptop. The next day, Reacher pulls bodyguard duty on Richard, shopping in town. Reacher defends him from some local thugs, and Richard shares that Zachary's boss, Julius McCabe, is strong-arming he and his father. When Reacher returns home, he travels with Duke and Zachary to a remote cabin, the 'kidnapper's' alleged hiding spot. Reacher takes the opportunity to kill Duke, fake a shootout and blow up the house; in the car, he wins over Zachary and gets promoted to his number two.
Episode 4
Dominique
Thu, Feb 27, 202553 mins
Reacher heads to Duffy's house after gaining Zachary's trust. He discovers 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 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 cabin; Quinn tortured and 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.
Episode 5
Smackdown
Thu, Mar 6, 202549 mins
When Reacher can't contact Duffy by phone, he calls Eliot to have him contact her. 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 get him out of the house, but Reacher formulates a plan involving Villanueva. Duffy engineers a power outage, 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, not knowing if he will recognize Reacher.
Episode 6
Smoke on the Water
Thu, Mar 13, 202548 mins
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 to the Russian Mob. Afterwards, Reacher drives into town with Richard to meet with Duffy and return her badge she dropped at the warehouse shootout; Reacher and Duffy kiss. Richard accidentally oversees their interaction, realizing Reacher is a mole. Quinn sends men to kill everyone investigating him, including Neagley; Neagley kills that team and informs Reacher. Quinn arrives at Zachary's house to question him about the U.S. Army investigating him; Zachary tells him that 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 son Richard to play Russian roulette before having Paulie cut off Zachary's ear. Reacher and Duffy search for Teresa on board a boat 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.
Episode 7
L.A. Story
Thu, Mar 20, 202552 mins
In Chicago, Neagley interrogates Costopoulos, 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 a drug dealer, Darien Prado, before having sex. Reacher and Duffy intercept Darien at poolside 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 in Portland, Maine at Reacher's command, and tells her that he and his son are in danger. Quinn visits a captive former junkie Teresa and doses her with IV drugs. 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, the same time as Zachary's 50th birthday party. Duffy and Villanueva involve the ATF, much to Reacher's reluctance. ATF sets up a unit at the salvage yard and allow Reacher and Duffy to observe only. But on a call with Neagley, Reacher learns the exchange is actually taking place at Zachary's house, and the salvage yard is a trap.
Episode 8
Unfinished Business
Thu, Mar 27, 202552 mins
At the salvage yard, Quinn's henchmen ambush the ATF team and eliminate them all, but Reacher, Duffy and Villanueva eliminate the henchmen and save Zachary, while sparing one of Quinn's drivers to sneak back into Zachary's home. After a prolonged duel, Reacher kills Paulie after rigging the Light Machine Gun (LMG) at the front gate. Duffy saves Teresa from a rape by the Yemeni buyer, while Villanueva rescues Richard. Reacher eliminates Quinn's henchmen in the house one by one, leading Quinn to kill the buyers, take their money and take Richard hostage. Quinn is confronted by Zachary holding him at gunpoint with the toy gun, but when the epoxied barrel falls apart, Quinn fatally shoots Zachary before escaping without the money or Richard. Quinn is confronted outside the house by the Russian mafia debt collectors. Reacher and Neagley offer them the buyers' money in exchange for Quinn and they accept. Reacher reminds Quinn about his torture of Dominque Kohl before executing him. In the aftermath, Reacher says farewell to Neagley and Duffy, Richard fills a duffel bag with his father's leftover cash before disappearing, Duffy returns Teresa to her grandmother before resigning from the DEA, she and Villanueva pay their respects to Eliot's parents, Villanueva reunites with his wife, and Reacher rides off on a motorcycle from Zachary's garage.
