Reacher season 1

At midnight, a man is shot dead outside Margrave, Georgia. The following morning, Jack Reacher arrives in town, hoping to learn about blues musician Blind Blake, and is arrested for the murder. Questioned by Detective Oscar Finlay, Reacher deduces that multiple experienced killers are responsible. Finlay tracks down the phone number of banker Paul Hubble, whose phone number was in the dead man's shoe. Seeing a conspicuous car outside his house, Hubble falsely confesses to the murder. Spivey, a crooked guard, places them with the general population instead of protective custody, and Reacher brutally foils an attempt on their lives. Hubble explains he confessed to cover for a criminal organization that would have otherwise killed him and his family. After their release, Reacher is aided by sympathetic Officer Roscoe Conklin, and is threatened by KJ Kliner, the son of powerful local businessman Kliner Sr. A second body is found near the first victim, who Reacher identifies as his older brother, Joe Reacher.

Determined to help Finlay and Roscoe solve his brother's murder, Reacher speaks with Hubble's wife, Charlene, and realizes that Hubble, who has gone missing, was the target of the prison hit, not himself. Police Chief Ed Morrison and his wife are gruesomely murdered, and Reacher concludes Morrison was in the pocket of the mysterious organization, as is Mayor Grover Teale, who appoints himself the new Chief of Police. Finlay is ordered to conduct a sham investigation into Morrison's death, but convinces his friend, FBI agent Picard, to take Charlene and her children into unofficial protective custody. Reacher sets a meeting with Spivey but is ambushed by South American mercenaries, from whom he escapes. Roscoe continues to bond with Reacher, dancing together at a bar, and flooded roads force them to share a motel room, where Reacher opens up about his past. They return to find her home has been broken into, with a threat carved in her door.

At Reacher's urging, Roscoe gives him a gun. They are contacted by Molly Beth Gordon, Joe's colleague at the Secret Service Office of Investigations, who reveals that Joe was in Margrave on a confidential assignment investigating large-scale counterfeiting. Reacher intimidates one of Kliner's lawyers for information on Pete Jobling, the second victim, a truck driver Kliner had released from police custody. Mistaken for a burglar while searching Spivey's house, Finlay is beaten by police and briefly arrested, but connects Spivey to Kliner Industries. Reacher and Finlay question Kliner himself, who threatens them to drop their investigation, and Reacher urges Roscoe and Finlay to lay low. Roscoe is menaced by KJ, who warns her that Reacher is a murderer, while Finlay discovers that Hubble left his job in cash management over a year ago. Tailed by the mercenaries, Reacher kills them and finds Spivey's corpse in their trunk.

Finding Joe's burned car, Reacher tells Roscoe the truth behind KJ's warning: while serving in Iraq, Reacher killed three civilian men for sexually assaulting young boys. Disposing of the mercenaries, Reacher pays for a hotel room using their counterfeit cash, where he and Roscoe have sex after she surprises him in the shower. They visit Jobling's widow, who believed he was killed for stealing from Kliner Industries, with empty boxes Reacher suspects were used to move the counterfeit cash from South America. Teale warns Finlay to leave Kliner alone, and Picard traces Joe's car to a motel, where Reacher and Roscoe find a hidden note before they are attacked by more mercenaries. Roscoe saves Reacher, who admits he put himself in danger to protect her, and reaches out to an old Army buddy for help. Molly Beth arrives in Atlanta with Joe's files, but she is killed and the files are stolen seconds before Reacher finds her.

The next morning Roscoe finds "WHORE" painted on her truck. Reacher finds and attacks KJ for vandalizing Roscoe's truck, but Kliner declines to press charges. Teale fires Roscoe for "subpar" police work, finding minor errors in previous investigations as cause. Reacher finds a collection of research left for Roscoe by her deceased mentor Gray, confirming Margrave is the heart of Kliner's counterfeiting operation. Reacher meets with his old comrade, private investigator Frances Neagley, and they connect Kliner Industries to the death of an EPA agent who discovered the company was dumping chemical waste. With the help of a pair of police officers, they learn a hitman known as "the Viking" may have killed the agent. Threatened by Kliner's South American associates, one of the officers shoots his partner and attempts to kill Reacher and Neagley. The two then break the barrier between the front and back seats, sending them careening into a river, where the now stuck officer accepts his fate while Neagley and Reacher survive. Roscoe punches Teale after realizing that he murdered Gray, and Finlay sends her to replace Picard as the Hubble family's bodyguard. Later that night Finlay breaks into Kliner's office only to find him brutally murdered.

Reacher concludes that Kliner was killed by his Venezuelan partners, who sent mercenaries to Picard's safe house in the woods. Roscoe kills the hitmen and escapes with Charlene and her daughters, and Charlene reveals her husband's involvement with Kliner, who tricked Hubble into laundering money and forced him to watch a man be crucified and castrated to ensure his loyalty. As he and Reacher follow one of Kliner's trucks, Finlay reveals that he came to Margrave not after a divorce but because his wife died after a long illness, and they find the truck empty. Reacher learns one of Joe's contacts was murdered and visits another, Professor Kate Castillo in New York City, who explains that Joe was tracing superbills manufactured in Georgia, and Reacher realizes Kliner was printing counterfeit bills in Margrave and shipping them to Venezuela. Placing Castillo under police protection, Reacher confronts another assassin and strangles him with his necktie.

The Venezuelans brutally interrogate Paul's cousin, Officer Stevenson, and his pregnant wife about the Hubbles' whereabouts before killing them, and Teale fires Finlay. Reacher pretends to confide in Margrave's remaining policeman, Officer Baker, whom he suspects is working for the Kliners. Tipped off by Baker, Kliner's nephew Dawson leads a Venezuelan hit squad to the Hubble's house to ambush Reacher, who is lying in wait and kills them all. Reacher realizes Kliner Industries is bleaching large amounts of $1 bills secured by Hubble, using animal feed to hide the chemical waste involved, and reprinting them as pre-1990s $100 bills to ship to Venezuela. Finlay personally informs Stevenson's parents of his death, and later that night Reacher helps Finlay evade mercenaries who track him to his motel. Jobling's widow's home has been burned down, but Joe's note leads Reacher and Finlay to boxes of incriminating bills Jobling hid in his parents' garage. Returning to Margrave, they arrange a meeting with Picard, but when Reacher arrives it is revealed that Picard was in on the scheme along with Teale and KJ.

Roscoe, Hubble's family, and Finlay are taken hostage. KJ confesses to multiple murders, including his father's, reveals that he killed Joe, and sends Reacher to find Hubble accompained by Picard. Reacher subdues and escapes from Picard, locates Hubble, and later rescues Finlay by crashing into the police station and killing Baker. Reacher, Finlay, Neagley, and Hubble arm themselves with weapons from the station and launch an assault on KJ's warehouse. They set the building on fire and kill the mercenaries, while Hubble rescues his daughters. Reacher frees Roscoe and Charlie, who escape together. Picard and Teale arrive but are killed by Finlay and Roscoe. Reacher kills KJ by throwing him into burning chemicals, avenging Joe's death. Reacher remembers visiting his dying mother with Joe, who gave him his grandfather's Croix de Guerre. After burying the medal where Joe died, Roscoe and Reacher share a farewell kiss, Finlay returns to Boston, and Reacher leaves Margrave to continue his journey alone.