Reacher season 2

In the Catskill Mountains, a man falls out of a helicopter to his death. The next day, Jack Reacher collects his pension check in Arkansas after stopping an armed carjacker and discovers a military emergency code hidden in his ATM receipt. He contacts former teammate Frances Neagley, who confirms she planted it to reach him. The victim is revealed to be Calvin Franz, a former member of Reacher's Special Investigations Unit. In New York, Reacher, Neagley, and another former teammate, David O'Donnell investigate the murder. Reacher recovers a hidden data drive left by Franz containing a list of numbers and another of names beginning with the initials A.M., believed to be aliases. The three vow to find and punish Franz's killers. They go to the home of another teammate, Tony Swan, but only find his dog dead from dehydration. Realizing Franz has been murdered and Swan is missing, Reacher concludes that someone is targeting the remaining living members of his former unit.

Reacher assaults a stranger following him, only to then identify him as NYPD Detective Guy Russo. Reacher, Neagley, and O'Donnell visit Atlantic City, where two others of their former teammates (Jorge Sanchez and Manuel Orozco) worked as security guards for the Neptune Casino. Along the way, they meet Karla Dixon, another former teammate and potential love interest for Reacher. They find a helpful ally in David Wright, the casino's Chief of Security. He comps the team a suite to stay in and helps them search for Sanchez and Orozco. Unfortunately, his police contacts confirm that both men were abducted, murdered, and dumped in the same region of the mountains as Franz. He confirms that none of the casinos are missing money, so the numbers on the list must mean something else. A later assassination attempt on both Reacher and Dixon points them back to New York and a defense contracting company called New Age Technologies.

Flashbacks reveal New Age's Chief of Security, Shane Langston torturing Franz for information before throwing him from a helicopter, with Franz warning that the "big guy" (Reacher) is coming for him. In the present, Reacher obtains weapons for his team before he and O'Donnell are arrested by Russo. Russo reveals that his investigation has identified Azari Mahmoud, known as A.M., a wanted terrorist broker, as a suspect in the murders. Meanwhile, Neagley and Dixon visit New Age Technologies, where Marlo Burns identifies the man sent to kill them as Trevor Saropian and gives them his address. A.M. learns that his aliases have been exposed and delays his arrival in New York, while Dixon discovers that the figures on Franz's USB represent dates. Reacher, Neagley, Dixon, and O'Donnell go to Saropian's house, anticipate an ambush, and kill the mercenaries waiting for them. With New Age's involvement confirmed, they raid the company's headquarters and find evidence that Swan had worked there.

As the team members investigate their discoveries from New Age, they disagree on Swan's motives after discovering he works in the company's security department. The team members find out New Age has a government defense contract called Little Wing, thanks to notes from a senator named Malcolm Lavoy. Meanwhile, back in Denver, A.M. kills a plastic surgeon in an attempt to steal his identity before flying to New York. The team members track the senator's legislative aide to Boston, where Dixon helps Reacher's old ally, Oscar Finlay, arrest the aide to coerce information out of him. The aide reveals to Reacher and O'Donnell that Little Wing is a surface-to-air missile program conducted in New Age facilities in Denver and New York to create missiles that will always hit their targets. Reacher realizes that people from the New Age are planning to sell 650 missiles to A.M. to enable terrorist attacks. Later that night, a biker gang ambushes them, but they kill them. Reacher then phones Langston, who hired the gang and tries to bribe him into going away, but Reacher refuses and declares he wants to throw Langston out of a helicopter.

Neagley and Dixon travel to New Age's Denver facility hoping to inspect the missiles, but discover they have already been transported. A.M.'s men intercept the shipment by switching trailers and escape with the missiles before Neagley and Dixon kill the remaining henchmen. Documents from the facility reveal that Swan authorized the missiles to leave New Age. Meanwhile, Reacher and O'Donnell visit the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C., seeking information on A.M., where Senator Lavoy offers his support. The team then returns to New York for Franz's funeral. There, Reacher confronts Russo, who reveals that Langston and the New Age security team, except Swan, are former NYPD officers. During the funeral, two hitmen attack the team. Neagley kills one sniper, while Reacher and Russo capture the other. The assassin claims Swan hired him to kill the team, but when he goes to collect his payment at an abandoned building, it explodes.

Following the building explosion, Russo gives the team a lead regarding the location of Marlo Burns. After the team track her down, she confirms that Swan has been trying to stop New Age's terrorist operation. She also reveals that she has been on the run thanks to Langston, who warned her that he would kill her and her daughter if she associated herself with Swan. Russo learns that New Age contacted his boss, who is involved with their plans; Langston bribed him into revealing information regarding Reacher's team and updates on Russo's investigation. When Russo and Marlo's daughter Jane attempts to go into hiding, New Age hitmen track them and try to kill them in a high-speed chase across the city, forcing Russo to call the team for backup. The team enlists Marlo as bait to lure Langston and other members of New Age into a trap, which results in Reacher killing all of them except Langston, who escapes in a helicopter. Afterwards, Neagley, Dixon, and O'Donnell arrive to assist Russo. They rescue Jane, but Russo has sacrificed himself to kill the hitmen.

Dixon and O'Donnell send Marlo and Jane to a safe place Dixon used to stay in Buffalo. Reacher and Neagley confront Lieutenant Drew Marsh in his home; Reacher kills Marsh after he reveals that Grant, a hitman hired by Langston to take down Russo, is alive in a hospital. Reacher and Neagley extract information regarding the buy from Grant after Reacher threatens to burst the balloon in Grant's bladder by filling it with air. However, before leaving, Reacher ensures that Grant dies from an embolism as vengeance for killing Russo. They find a hitman disguised as a doctor sent to kill Grant, and the hitman accidentally dies in the subsequent fight. Langston reveals to Reacher in a phone call that he has Dixon and O'Donnell. Reacher lies to Langston that Neagley was killed in the fight with the hitman; at the same time, Langston's men torture Dixon and O'Donnell. Reacher requests Lavoy's private security team for his mission. Leaving Neagley outside with a plan, Reacher walks into the New Age Facility alone and surrenders himself as he confronts Langston.

While held captive, Reacher learns that Swan refused to join Langston's conspiracy, so Langston killed him and used his iris and fingerprint to frame him. Neagley and Lavoy's security team rescue Reacher from the New Age facility, allowing him to board Langston's helicopter. Reacher kills Langston's remaining bodyguard and throws Langston from the helicopter, avenging Franz and Swan, before rescuing O'Donnell and Dixon. The team then ambushes and kills A.M. at a New Age engineer's house. Having anticipated that Lavoy's security team would eliminate them, Reacher had already alerted the Department of Homeland Security, which arrests Lavoy and his men. The investigators kill the last two New Age conspirators by firing a Little Wing missile at Langston's helicopter, and Homeland Security covers up the crash. Finally, they divide the $65 million among themselves and the surviving families of their deceased teammates before going their separate ways.