REACHER: Episode 2.2: “What Happens in Atlantic City”

In Season Two, Episode Two of REACHER “What Happens in Atlantic City” on Amazon Prime, Jack Reacher and the surviving members of his former Army investigative unit try to avoid being killed by mysterious enemies and solve the problem about who murdered three members of the team and dumped their bodies from a plane or helicopter into a forest in the middle of New York State.

In the beginning of the episode, Reacher notices he and two investigators, Frances and David, are being followed. Reacher attacks the man in the car, knocking him unconscious, only to find out he’s a police detective. So, now, they’re wanted by the police in New York City.

With the only leads being account books for the mysterious villains, they decide to go to Atlantic City to see if someone is skimming millions of dollars off one of the gambling casinos. However, they have to get rid of their current vehicle, to avoid detection by the cops. So, they engage the help of another investigator, Karla Dixon, who’s just come off an undercover assignment and doesn’t know about the murders of her compatriots. She rents an SUV for the team using her ID.

In Atlantic City, one of the casino detectives offers them the grand suite for them to perform their investigation. However, in the process Karla and Reacher wonder whether they can trust anybody. Eventually, the mysterious villain orders his henchmen to kill all of Reacher’s team.

Thus, there’s a showdown in a construction site. Of course, the series wants viewers to ask, will all the team members survive, will the villains be found out, and will the mysteries be solved?

Episode 2 of REACHER: Season Two is well produced and acted, with some good dialogue and a thrilling showdown in the final act. The episode’s best part is 30 minutes into the story where Karla says, rather than doing investigations, she would like to start a nonprofit to investigate the government for the billions of dollars in fraud, corruption and waste.

After the episode, many questions remain in the series like who’s trying to destroy Reacher and his team and why. The episode has violence but evidently not as much as some of the previous episodes. It also strong foul language and frequent casual drinking of beers and other alcoholic substances.

Karla has always had a crush on Reacher, which he rejected in the past because he was her boss. In this episode, he’s no longer her boss. So, they’re able to consummate their sexual desires in a darkened bedroom.

However, there’s a very positive song about Jesus in the beginning of the episode, and a very strong government condemnation of government corruption and waste.

MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution for this particular REACHER episode.