28 MP3 Audio clips from Season 1 of Reacher (2022)

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If you find yourself getting stared down by someone the size of Jack Reacher, it's probably best to just walk away, before both of your legs get broken.

Girl

I'm sorry. I'm not good at math.

Man

That was, like a forty percent tip!

Girl

I messed up, okay?

Man

How am I supposed to get ahead when you're wasting my goddamn money? Just get your ass in the van.

[The MAN spots REACHER staring at him]

Man

The hell you want, a**hole? I'm talking to you, stupid.

[REACHER stares the guy down]

Listen, man, I'm just having a bad day. Won't happen again.

Reacher has been arrested on suspicion of murder. This is his first encounter with Officer Roscoe Conklin.

Roscoe Conklin

Sir? If you step over here, I can process you. I'm not asking, sir. I'm telling. But don't worry, I won't kick your ass unless you make me.

Chief Morrison doesn't like Reacher. He especially doesn't like Reacher's silence.

Chief Edward Morrison

Where you keeping the rest of your sh*t? You got a friend in town? Girl? What the hell are you doing in my town? Don't want to talk? Maybe we put you in the holding cell, get you to change your mind.

Captain Oscar Finlay

And how exactly would you do that? Explain to him his constitutional rights under the fifth and fourteenth amendments, then hope he waives them of his own free will?

Chief Edward Morrison

Yep.

Captain Oscar Finlay

No need. I've got it from here.

Reacher isn't the kind of guy you can push around. He does things in his own time, in his own way, under his own terms.

Captain Oscar Finlay

Reacher, come with me.

Jack Reacher

No.

Captain Oscar Finlay

Excuse me?

Jack Reacher

Not until you let these zip ties come off. We both know I didn't kill anybody, and they're uncomfortable.

Captain Oscar Finlay

[To ROSCOE]

Get the box cutter.

Jack Reacher

That's okay. I got it.

[REACHER strains against the zip tie around his wrists and it snaps off. He holds up his finger and picks it up]

You guys recycle?

You'd have to be a brave (or stupid) man to try to strip-search Jack Reacher. He might be in prison, but he still holds all the cards. Best Officer Spivey remembers that.

Officer Spivey

Whoa! Not so fast. Drop them drawers, bend over and spread.

Jack Reacher

No. Blanket strip search policies are unconstitutional unless there's clear, articulable suspicion of criminal activity. The victim I'm suspected of murdering was shot by a handgun that would measure four inches by six. That weapon's not fitting inside me or any other human being without sending them to a hospital. Since that's the only contraband related to this crime, your request is unlawful.

Officer Spivey

It's not like I want to do this. Regulations say -

Jack Reacher

The only thing up my ass right now is you. So if you think you can perform the inspection without getting seriously injured, go for it.

This "lifer" thinks he rules the cell block. Well, not any more. He's just invaded the wrong person's cell. And it's only going to end one way. Badly.

Lifer

Look at this redwood motherfu*ker. What you want?

Jack Reacher

To give you a choice. See, you're in my house, fatso, and you didn't ask permission. So you and your friends can leave now, or they can carry your fat ass out in a bucket.

Paul Hubble needs the help of Jack Reacher to survive jail. But he might just have sat a little too close in the exercise yard.

Jack Reacher

I'm not a ventriloquist. Get off my lap.

KJ's father is Kliner Sr. but that doesn't mean he runs Margrave. And it certainly doesn't mean he stands a chance against Jack Reacher.

Jack Reacher

You looking for a dance partner? 'Cause the last person who eyeballed me like that was a woman down in Panama when I was stationed at Fort Sherman, and she wanted to dance the tamborito with me. Do you want to dance the tamborito with me?

Roscoe is following Jack. In a police car. Not particularly discreet by any standards. So I'm not sure why she was surprised when he jumped in front of her cruiser.

Roscoe Conklin

The hell? I could have hit you.

Jack Reacher

I don't need a babysitter and I don't need you screwing up my investigation.

Roscoe Conklin

Okay, first... this is not your investigation. Second, babysitting some giant vagrant is hardly my dream assignment. I could be out there looking for who killed your brother. So stand down and let me do my job, because I'm very good at it.

Jack Reacher

If you were very good at it, you wouldn't have been trying to follow a man on foot in a police car.

Roscoe Conklin

I figure your plan's to go to Hubble's house and dig your thumb into his eye until he tells you why he confessed to a murder he didn't commit.

Jack Reacher

Something like that.

Roscoe Conklin

Yeah, well, I'm gonna be there to make sure that doesn't happen. Now, I can either follow you the whole way, or you can save the shoe leather and get in the damn car.

The killer of Jack's brother used a small calibre, suppressed weapon. In the dark. And his target was running away. That makes the killer either an extremely good shot, or extremely lucky.

Jack Reacher

Sniper shot from the tree line would have done the job with less risk. The shooter wanted to be close.

Roscoe Conklin

Maybe it was personal.

Jack Reacher

Someone takes your life, it's always personal.

KJ has paid four local kids to teach Reacher a lesson. Yeah, right. Like that was ever going to work.

Jack Reacher

Let me guess. Rich guy in a fancy pickup put a fifty in each of your pockets to take care of me?

Kid #1

Hundred.

Jack Reacher

Right. Well, this is the wrong day to ask me to humour your bullsh*t.

Kid #1

Hey! We're talking to you, man. You're about to get your ass kicked.

Jack Reacher

No. I'm just gonna break the hands of three drunk kids.

Kid #1

There's four of us here.

Jack Reacher

One of you has got to drive to the hospital.

Kid #1

Ooh...

[REACHER makes good on his promise and breaks the wrists of three of his assailants]

Kid #2

I-I know where the hospital is.

Police Chief Edward Morrison has been murdered, nailed naked to a wall. Jasper, the local (and only) Pathologist is examining the body whilst Reacher hypothesises about the Chief's untimely demise.

Jack Reacher

They wore rubber overshoes and gloves. Latex. Like whoever killed my brother.

Captain Oscar Finlay

What makes you say that?

Jack Reacher

Well, three people killed my brother. At least four to do that to a guy Morrison's size.

Jasper

Holy sh*t, his fu*king balls are gone!

Captain Oscar Finlay

Keep it professional, Jasper. Cursing's the sign of a weak mind. And a weaker character.

Some people just don't get it, do they? Jack Reacher isn't the kind of man who'd consider the possibility that his late, beloved brother was dirty. Such a suggestion can get you killed.

Captain Oscar Finlay

Ever think your brother didn't reach out to the cops because he couldn't reach out to the cops? Maybe he was dirty. Maybe -

Jack Reacher

Think real hard before you finish that sentence. It'll determine how well your jaw works the rest of your life.

Mosley is the town barber. He's also one of Jack's allies. So when he hears about the murder of Jack's brother, he has kind words for the big man.

Mosley

Heard about your brother. May the Lord bless him and keep him in a plastic container. You looking for payback?

Jack Reacher

Payback, justice, vengeance. Looking for the whole gang.

Jack's right. Whether Spivey tells him what he wants to know all comes down to one thing and one thing only. How he asks...

Jack Reacher

I'm gonna go see that guard Spivey at Warburton. Whoever paid him to set up Hubble to be killed is who's running this thing. Spivey's the key.

Roscoe Conklin

He won't tell you anything.

Jack Reacher

Depends on how I ask.

Crazy by Patsy Cline is the slow-dance of choice in every Redneck bar in the Southern states. It's practically the law to dance to it. Real close and real slow.

Roscoe Conklin

Uh-oh. They're playin' Patsy. You know what that means.

Jack Reacher

No.

Roscoe Conklin

Means we got to dance. Practically the law.

Jack Reacher

I don't dance.

Roscoe Conklin

You're telling me that your mama never taught her sons how to dance?

Jack Reacher

She did, but when I ask people to dance, it usually precedes a lot of punching.

Roscoe Conklin

Good thing I'm doing the asking. Come on... Frankenstein's monster.

Lawyers. Am I right? Take Zacarias Perez, for example. He's so far up his own ass he doesn't realise that the man sat across his desk from him could kill him if he wanted to.

Jack Reacher

Now get me your file on Pete Jobling.

Zacarias Perez

Excuse me?

Jack Reacher

A client you represented for a traffic violation and disorderly conduct charge. His file. Get it.

Zacarias Perez

I don't know what game you're playing at here, but get out of my office.

Jack Reacher

No.

Zacarias Perez

Excuse me? Who the hell do you think you are?

Jack Reacher

A p*ssed-off drifter with nothing to lose.

Zacarias Perez

Oh, you want to get arrested for trespassing?

Jack Reacher

Pull up Jobling's file. Now.

Zacarias Perez

I will ruin your life with one phone call.

Jack Reacher

I'll end your life with one phone.

Oscar has clearly spent too much time in Reacher's presence because he's even starting to talk like him. Uncharacteristically, because Oscar rarely curses.

Captain Oscar Finlay

Horatio Finlay.

Kliner Sr.

Excuse me?

Captain Oscar Finlay

My father's name. Horatio Finlay. You might think you're everybody's daddy in this town, but you're not mine. You don't tell me what leads to chase and how to chase them. So if I may give you some friendly advice: if you keep talking to the cops on my force, hinder this investigation in any way, I will put my fu*king foot up your fu*king ass until your heart fu*king stops.

Okay, so this particular bar patron looks the part. Shaved head, tattoos, fairly well-built. But that don't mean sh*t when it comes to Jack Reacher.

Bar Patron

He's not gonna tell you anything. Spivey's a friend. And he don't need anyone asking about his business. Find yourself another bar.

Jack Reacher

Boxer. Southpaw.

Bar Patron

Golden Gloves.

Jack Reacher

You know, the thing about boxing... too many rules.

[REACHER proceeds to administer an ass-kicking of epic proportions]

He's right, folks. Salt and vinegar mixed together make a great metal cleaner. So when his late brother's burned out rental shows up, Reacher uses this trick to reveal the VIN.

Roscoe Conklin

Charred pretty bad. Might be able to get a partial VIN.

Captain Oscar Finlay

We can send photos to forensics.

Jack Reacher

Old army trick. When you run out of gun oil, acetic acid from ketchup and salt for abrasion make a great metal cleaner.

Captain Oscar Finlay

And you put that in your body.

Jack Reacher

Tastes good.

Roscoe has a lot to deal with right now. His little town is rapidly becoming the murder capital of the States. And he's got to put up with Reacher, too!

Jack Reacher

South Americans got to Spivey before I did. Found him stashed in their trunk.

Roscoe Conklin

Sh*t.

Captain Oscar Finlay

Well, you told me you had a dead end, not a dead body. We got to find these guys before they kill any more of our leads.

Jack Reacher

I know where you can find the South Americans, but they won't talk.

Captain Oscar Finlay

Why not? I'm a good interrogator.

Jack Reacher

Not that good.

Captain Oscar Finlay

Seven. Seven bodies since you set foot in my town.

Jack Reacher

They charged me and they were armed.

Captain Oscar Finlay

Fine. I get it.

Jack Reacher

The real number's eight. Hubble's dead, too. We just haven't found him yet.

Jack Reacher used to be Frances Neagley's commanding officer. Now she's a PI and she's about as good as they come. Which is why Reacher is reaching out for her help.

Frances Neagley

Reacher.

Jack Reacher

Hello, Neagley. How'd you know it was me?

Frances Neagley

Only person with my private number other than my dad. And this time of day, he enjoys the jurisprudential musings of one Judge Judy. It's been a minute and a half. What's up?

Jack Reacher

Gonna run it down fast and clean. Ready?

Frances Neagley

Hit me.

Jack Reacher

My brother was working for Secret Service. He was looking into counterfeiting in Georgia. Last week, he got too close to the truth, someone killed him for it.

Frances Neagley

Sh*t. You okay?

Jack Reacher

My brother was killed, not me.

Frances Neagley

My mistake. Forgot who I was talking to.

Jack Reacher

Joe's notes had the number to the Memphis EPA office, next to the initials J.W... that's all I have. Number and initials.

Frances Neagley

All I need. I'm on it. And, hey, boss. If you want to talk...

Jack Reacher

We just did.

Frances Neagley

You're an emotional dumpster fire. You know that? Stop dissembling.

Jack Reacher

Goodbye, Neagley.

Roscoe Conklin

She always talk to you like that?

Jack Reacher

No. Sometimes she speaks her mind.

Reacher has been feeding and watering a neighbourhood dog, neglected by its a**hole owner. Said a**hole is about to shout at Reacher for the final time.

Jack Reacher

It's okay. What's he doing to you? Collar's cutting him.

Captain Oscar Finlay

Enough of this.

Jack Reacher

What are you doing?

Captain Oscar Finlay

Dog didn't do anything to anybody. Doesn't deserve this.

Home Owner

I told you to stay off my property!

[REACHER punches the approaching citizen in the face]

Captain Oscar Finlay

Seriously?

Reacher has just gatecrashed KJ's lunch with his butt-fu*k buddies. KJ has sprayed the word "whore" down the side of Roscoe's car and Reacher is not about to let that stand.

Jack Reacher

What kind of man are you? A stupid man? A bitter man? Or are you just... an insecure, spoiled rich boy hiding behind Daddy's money? It wasn't a rhetorical question. I really want to know what kind of man enjoys intimidating a woman half his size. A woman who... by the way, is beyond intimidation. I think I know what kind of guy you are. You're the kind of guy that knows things. You knew I'd come after you when I saw what you did to Roscoe. You knew I'd see your truck right outside. A work truck whose bed's never had anything in it other than a keg. And you knew I'd come in here and cause a problem that would most likely get me in trouble. But know what you don't know?

KJ

Mm. What's that?

Jack Reacher

What it feels like when I hit you. 'Cause if you did, you never would have picked up that paint can.

KJ

Okay. Now let me tell you something about Roscoe Conklin. That little c*cktease -

[And that's where the conversation ends and the punching begins!]

You'd be forgiven for thinking that Reacher was somewhat obsessed with cows. But he knows those bovines hold the key to the whole mystery and he will not let it drop.

Jack Reacher

According to livestock auction receipts, Kliner has a hundred and sixteen cattle. All bought at once.

Roscoe Conklin

Oh, my God. Here we go with the cows again.

Jack Reacher

It's a weird number. Who buys a hundred and sixteen cattle? You'd buy a lot. Twenty, fifty, a hundred...

Roscoe Conklin

Your point?

Jack Reacher

I don't know. It's just...

Roscoe Conklin

It was a hell of a lot of animal feed.

Jack Reacher

Well, it was. Tell me this. When does a family farm become a commercial farm in Georgia? How big does it have to get?

Roscoe Conklin

This is not a lead.

Jack Reacher

Humour me.

Roscoe Conklin

I don't know. I remember when my uncle got up to around a hundred and twenty head, he had to file with the state. Why?

Jack Reacher

So, Kliner stops at a hundred and sixteen. Just under the number where he'd be subject to state inspectors coming on his land, checking out his operation.

Roscoe Conklin

What operation? He has cows and a herd that is not that big. Let it rest, Stretch.

Jack Reacher

You know what was big?

Roscoe Conklin

If you say "the amount of animal feed," I swear to God, you're not gonna have to worry about Kliner because I will cut your balls off myself.

Reacher, Neagley and two cops are in a strip club for a meeting with a Covert Human Intelligence Source. A CHIS who wants a lap dance really, really badly.

Confidential Informant

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna get me a lap dance, and no self-respecting stripper's gonna come to a table with two cops, this chick and a p*ssed-off giant. Adios.

Oscar Finlay believes that cursing is a sign of low intelligence. He's wrong. I'm intelligent, but twenty minutes at work and I start using the F-word like a comma.

Captain Oscar Finlay

It's the station house. The dung has officially hit the fan.

Jack Reacher

"The dung"? Just curse, Finlay.

Only one man can make Oscar Finlay utter curse words. And that man is Jack Reacher. Honestly, he could make a nun swear.

Jack Reacher

So, you're living above a smoke shop when you're trying to quit smoking? Wearing a tweed suit in Georgia in the summer? Taking a job in the middle of nowhere? It's all some kind of penance for you not being able to save your wife?

Captain Oscar Finlay

Something like that.

Jack Reacher

Well, that's stupid. And if you really think that, you're stupid.

Captain Oscar Finlay

Fu*k you.

Jack Reacher

I like it when you curse. You should do that more often.

Captain Oscar Finlay

Double fu*k you, twice.