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Reacher Season-Premiere Recap: No Small Ask


Reacher goes undercover and gets mixed up with fake and real kidnappings.

“Blood and Roses,” the 1986 debut single from the Smithereens, a real band, is playing inside an establishment called the Vinyl Vault, where Jack Reacher has just arrived to unload a crate of LPs. Sensing that they’re telling him all this for a reason, Reacher makes a demand in return for his help: He wants them to check a hospital around Linton, Virginia, on or around March 13, 2012, for an Asian American man in his 40s, with injuries reflecting a small-caliber gunshot wound to the head and/or drowning. Under cover of darkness, he climbs out the window for a covert walkabout, the nighttime sky behind him looking screensaver-y as he clambers over the roof of the house and down to the shed where he overperformed in his Russian Roulette job interview.

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