Reacher Season 3 Episode 5 Ending Explained: Who Dies and What Does the Ending Mean?

Reacher Season 3 Episode 5 plunges us further into the conspiracy surrounding Quinn (now known as McCabe) and the arms trafficking network in which he is involved. After Dominique’s brutal death years ago, Jack Reacher continues to seek revenge, but now he must also protect his allies before Quinn eliminates them. The situation becomes increasingly dangerous as Jack tries to save Duffy and Guillermo from an ambush. Between shootings, betrayals, and discoveries, the episode marks a turning point in history with several shocking deaths and a reunion that could change everything. The fifth episode of Reacher season 3 plunges us even further into the conspiracy surrounding Quinn (now known as McCabe) and the arms trafficking network in which he is involved. After Dominique’s brutal death years ago, Jack Reacher continues to seek revenge but now he must also protect his allies before Quinn eliminates them. The situation becomes increasingly dangerous as Jack tries to save Duffy and Guillermo from an ambush. Between shootings, betrayals, and discoveries, the episode marks a turning point in history with shocking deaths and a meeting that could change everything.

Reacher Season 3 has our action hero infiltrated by an arms dealer mafia led by Zachary Beck (Anthony Michael Hall), a multi-millionaire who responds to the damn Julius McCabe, who, as we have discovered in past episodes, is Xavier Quinn, whom Jack seeks after discovering that he survived the duel they held a long time ago. Reacher’s operation at Beck’s house has some second-tier ingredients. There is, for example, the DEA Agent Trident, made up of Susan, Guillermo, and Steven. The first one does not weigh the companions that Reacher had in previous seasons. She is a mysterious agent, somewhat harsh, and who seems to have connected very well with Jack. Maybe not enough. Aware that they are looking for the same person, although with a different identity, Jack and Susan end up telling each other why they are obsessed with the character played by Brian Tee. In his account, Reacher ends by talking about Agent Kohl, a brave and brilliant soldier who earned her trust from day one. After recounting several actions that they carried out together, Reacher tells how at some point Kohl decided to carry out an operation that he would give to Quinn, and he ends up killing her mercilessly. Our action hero then has a great reason to take down this season’s villain.

Reacher Season 3 Episode 5 Ending Explained: Who Dies and What Does the Ending Mean?

The episode leaves us with several unexpected twists and a significant number of casualties. Among the highlights:

• Jack manages to save Duffy and Guillermo: Thanks to an intelligent movement by Eliot, DEA agents manage to withstand the attack of Quinn’s thugs until Reacher comes to the rescue. However, the operation further exposes Jack and his team.

• Eliot and Annette die brutally: In a tragic turn, Eliot, who was trying to protect his prisoner John Cooper, falls into a death trap and is killed. Soon after, Jack discovers that Annette, Beck’s employee who had shown him some sympathy, actually worked for the ATF. Paulie discovers her and ruthlessly kills her.

• Jack prepares his revenge: After the loss of Annette and Eliot, Jack decides that there is no going back. Duffy and Guillermo continue their plan to shoot down the arms trafficking operation, while Jack infiltrates a meeting between Beck and Quinn.

Quinn Recognizes Reacher?

The episode closes with a moment of maximum tension: Jack meets Quinn. For years, Reacher has believed that Quinn was dead after shooting him and watching him fall into the river, but now he realizes that his enemy has returned and leads a criminal empire. The big unknown is if Quinn remembers Jack. Although he was shot in the head and many years have passed, his reaction in the next episode will be key to knowing if Jack is in immediate danger or if he will be able to continue infiltrating to finish him off from within.

Already in episode 5, Reacher is running out of the possibility of continuing to cheat on his boss Beck. In two previous operations, he was able to get rid of his trusted people without generating further suspicion. But this is not the only thing that moves the plot these almost 50 minutes. Also see the brutal murder of DEA agent Steven Elliot, the noblest and weakest of the trident, at the hands of the man with whom he started the entire chapter. Minutes before he was trampled to death by Quinn’s driver, Steven had saved his companions from the trident, alerting them in time that the warehouse they had come to investigate would be attacked by McCabe’s people. Susan is very hurt to see the death of her partner and calls Jack Reacher. The former chief of the Military Police operational unit hatches with Guillermo a plan to ambush Quinn’s driver who killed Steven Elliot. In the middle of the road they intercept and kill him with relative ease. In turn, Susan damages the town’s electricity station and thus Beck and everyone in his mansion are left without electricity and a telephone line. What can go wrong?

Beck decides, along with the hitmen McCabe has working at his house, to carry out a swift search for infiltrators in his house. Reacher is outside (avenging the death of Steven Elliot), and when he returns, his boss asks him: What’s going on?

“Damn Judas wrote to his friends every two weeks”, says Beck. It turns out that Annette (Caitlin McNerney), the domestic worker was an ATF agent.

Shocked by the revelation, Reacher asks his boss to let him question the employee. “To do this you will have to learn how to do the Ouija”, a hitman responds. They killed her.

We had said that season three of “Reacher” is not the best of the existing ones. The series maintained in its first two seasons a remarkable mix of action and humor. This time, things have changed a bit. The eight episodes feel much longer than they really are, because such a proposal is not only what but also how.

Reacher Season 3 has prioritized intrigue over other elements, something that had previously worked well for it. Also, the new characters lack the weight that we saw in the first two installments. On the other hand, Neagley’s absence becomes increasingly noticeable. We know from advertising progress that Jack’s agent and former partner in the Military Police will reappear on screen, and we hope this will happen as soon as possible. Finally, the long-awaited reunion between Quinn and Reacher, which should occur at the start of episode 6 to premiere on Thursday, March 13, needs enough production to meet the expectations of an audience used to seeing their action hero giving it all on screen. In the middle of waiting for this reunion, we will have to see how our protagonist gets rid of Paulie (Olivier Ritchers), Beck’s portentous security agent who, since episode 1, has been targeting Jack. So, in the remaining three episodes, all that remains is to wait for the script and production to claim to give us a season finale as expected, and thus be able to have higher expectations before an imminent season 4 of this series of Prime Video.

Conclusion of Reacher Season 3 Episode 5

This episode of Reacher makes it clear to us that things are getting more intense. With the death of Eliot and Annette, Jack has lost two key allies and his hatred for Quinn is more alive than ever. The episode not only reinforces the danger facing our protagonist but also leaves great doubt about Quinn’s memory. In the new episode of the show, entitled Smackdown, Eliot is brutally killed by the prisoner that the DEA team hides in the haven: left alone by Duffy and Villanueva, the young government agent lets himself be duped by the prisoner after yet another request for a cigarette. When he turns to please him, he puts a sip of denatured alcohol in his mouth and spits it on him as soon as he sees the flame of the lighter.

After that, he manages to overwhelm him, and he kills him by barbarously kicking him in the head. The scene represents a huge change from the designated victim, Lee Child’s book that inspired the story of this season: in the novel, Eliot is a key character and is not a novice freshman as he is painted in the series. In the book, the DEA team has two other young agents besides the main trio made up of Elliot, Susan, and Guillermo, and the same Elliot overall is part of the entire story of The Designated Victim. The same dies in the book, unfortunately for him, but only at the end and in a very different way.