Reacher Ending Explained: Joe's Killer & Margrave's Counterfeiting
Warning: Contains spoilers for Reacher season 1.
The Reacher season 1 ending is action-packed and emotional, but some of the details and motivations might not be clear, especially to viewers who haven’t read the books. Reacher season 1 is a relatively faithful adaptation of Lee Child’s first Jack Reacher novel, Killing Floor. Two of Child’s books from later in the series were previously adapted into movies with Tom Cruise playing the lead in Jack Reacher (2012) andJack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). But the Amazon Prime Video series is far more faithful to the books and the characterization of Jack Reacher, setting up season 2 for an interesting story.
Reacher sees the wandering Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) arrive in the fictional town of Margrave, Georgia after he remembers that his brother, Joe, had once told him a rumor that the blues musician Blind Blake might have died there. Shortly after arriving in town, Reacher is arrested for a murder that he can’t possibly have committed and he works to clear his name. The investigation reveals that the murdered man is actually his brother and during his vendetta, he uncovers a huge counterfeiting operation in Margrave that goes all the way to the Mayor, Grover Teale (Bruce McGill) and the town’s mysterious benefactor, Kliner (Currie Graham).
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Reacher season 1 ends with Jack Reacher leaving Margrave behind as he walks on down the road to his next adventure. By this time, he’s cleaned out the corruption in the Margrave police force, burnt the counterfeiting operation to the ground (literally), and exacted vengeance for his brother’s murder. Here’s how the Reacher season 1 ending works, related to the original Killing Floor
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