Season 2 of Reacher has come to an end and it’s safe to say that the finale was definitely an explosive one. Following on from the penultimate episode where we saw that Reacher was taken in by Langston and the New Age technology folk as their prisoner, I think we all knew that things weren’t going to go as they planned.
With A.M. finally coming face to face with Reacher, some major plot holes in the finale, and Langston getting what could only be described as poetic justice, let’s do a Reacher Season 2 Ending Explained and breakdown all the important things from the finale.
Finale Explained
With Reacher being taken in by Langston, we saw that he came face to face with him for the first time. This resulted in an epic fight scene where Reacher took out all of Langston’s men with his hands tied behind his back, living up to the famous quote that often gets said. But after doing so, Reacher was met with a barrel looking directly at him.
Langston realized that Neagly wasn’t in fact killed at the hospital. Whilst Reacher was being interrogated, Neagly was working her way through security and making sure that it was clear so that the sills that Lavoy was letting out Reacher could arrive and assist in taking out the New Age technology guys.
With Reacher not giving up any information on Neagly, Langston was getting frustrated and ended up ordering his men to put Dixon and O’Donnell on the chopper so that they could meet the same fate as what everybody else on the 110th did, being thrown out of the helicopter.
But before they did, Langston revealed that Swan was, in fact, dead. I thought there was going to be some kind of twist, where someone was actually in on it, something that I would have actually liked, but someone refused to take the money that Langston offered, and he ended up being killed by them.
Langston was able to sign off with Swan’s name due to the fact that he kept Swan’s finger for his fingerprint and also his eyeball so that his retina scan would work. Langston mentioned how Swan wouldn’t give up and change sides and that he was so determined to get their plans to fail, which ultimately resulted in his death.
Langston said to Reacher “Did you teach him that? Was this your fault?” This tied into the thought process that Reacher had all throughout the season where he’d been blaming himself for everything that had happened. And believed that it was his fault that the 110th members were dying due to bringing them all together whilst in the military.
Whilst Reacher was being interrogated and hit by Langston, the funny thing about it was the fact that Reacher might have looked like he was in pain, but he was taking it like a champ and Langston was standing there holding his hand because of how much pain it was causing him when hitting Reacher, showing just how tough Reacher actually is.
The Final Showdown
Once Lavoy’s team arrived at the facility, we saw that the lights had gone out. By using the pin and Reacher’s shoe that he put there in the previous episode, he was able to get out of the handcuffs that he was in and contribute to the fight.
We saw an epic showdown taking place and although it was good, I don’t think it was a touch of the warehouse fight scene from the end of season one. That was one where I truly felt like they could have been casualties on Reacher’s side. But this was one where it just felt like we kind of knew that Reacher would dominate, as there weren’t that many people there.
Neagley caused a distraction to be able to get everybody in by also pretending to be the kids that were playing their music from the car. Tying back to the last episode where Reacher said that they gave him an idea, so replicating that was exactly that.
Once Reacher had taken out everybody that was inside of the building with assistance, he chased after Langston, who was now in the helicopter, Reacher had to grab onto the wheels as it was flying up in the air, where he eventually climbed in.
I’m not gonna lie, but this is definitely the most unrealistic thing that we’ve seen in Reacher. Like, we’ve seen some things that don’t quite make sense and maybe you just go “Well it’s Reacher”. But this was some superhero stuff that he was doing.
Climbing up into a helicopter whilst it’s thousands of feet in the air. Holding Dixon’s weight in the cart that she was in with just one arm. Letting it go and catching it like it was nothing, I don’t know. I can go with unbelievable to a certain degree, but they’re gonna make reach and not feel human, which is something that I’m not really on board with.
The beauty of the character is the fact that he’s a highly trained and well-skilled fighter. Not that, but also with superhero strength, maybe I’m looking into it too much.
Reacher Taking On AM
Anyway, after Dixon was saved and Langston’s henchman was killed on the helicopter, we saw Reacher get his revenge by throwing Langston out of the chopper. Langston assumed that Reacher wanted to know the location of where he was meeting A.M. and before Reacher threw him out, he quoted Dixon’s famous line that she loves to say and he said how assumptions kill and then poof, Langston was no more.
I did wonder how they were going to find the meeting spot, but obviously, the pilot knew where they were going. Once Reacher arrived at the engineer’s House, we saw that A.M arrived there and after showing that he had no morals at all said how he wasn’t responsible for the deaths of the members of the 110th unit.
Because he was only the middle man, he was executed in a way that felt a bit overkill for Reacher, it was almost like a firing squad. But I’m guessing it’s maybe because they were acting on emotion over all of the deaths of their friends and the trouble that he caused.
For me, this was a big mess with AM, he was made out to be this dark composite of Reacher, a killer that went undetected, and he had a real ominous feel about him. But he was just wiped out in the blink of an eye. I thought he was going to be an overarching villain that went into season 3, so I was quite disappointed. And to be honest, I feel all of the small 2-minute sections that we got each week were pretty much a waste of time because they amounted to absolutely nothing.
110th Still Going Strong
Let’s bear in mind everything that it just mentioned happened in the first 20 minutes of the 40-minute finale, so there were still 20 minutes to go. Once AM was dealt with Reacher and the gang went to the barn where the engineer, the pilot, and the Lovoy’s security were. But there was still a moment of double-crossing to come.
Lavoy had secretly tasked the security team to kill Reacher and the rest of the 110th, as he didn’t want there to be any witnesses of what happened. This was due to the fact that Senator Lavoy was involved with little wing, albeit whilst not knowing the full details of it. But Reacher was one step ahead and called in the authorities to arrest not only Lavoy but also his security.
Like in the first season of the show, we saw the conclusion getting wrapped up inside a dinner where the group was reminiscing over what happened. And this was where we also saw that they’d kept the $65 million that was there for the payments to Langston for the missiles and the chips.
We saw that the money was used to help out the family members of the 110th unit who were no longer around, plus it was also used in a way that meant that Dixon wouldn’t need to work for somebody again. Neagly’s father could have a round-the-clock care and O’Donnell’s kids were set for life. And what did Reacher want? A new toothbrush is the only thing that he carries on himself.
Off To A New Adventure
With the first episode showing us the 110th unit altogether around the fire in the photo, this season concluded with a retaking of that photo. Although the numbers were smaller, the comradery and togetherness of the group that Reacher put together all of those years ago was still there for each other and still present when it was truly needed.
With Reacher buying a yearly bus ticket, we saw him get on board the bus with no true destination, maybe heading back to Margrave or maybe heading to a new place where trouble will most likely follow him, but that’s for season 3.
We know that season three is definitely on the way due to it being commissioned and green-lit already. So at least we know that Reacher has got at least another season in him.
