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Luke Leonard

Unfettered

Reacher Televised Series

18 March 2024

In season 1 of the Amazon Prime series Reacher, the protagonist, Jack Reacher, is unusual, a former Army military police, in charge of the 110th Special Investigations Unit, retired with a pension who, by his own design, has no home, no car, no credit cards, and almost no ties to modern life. He lives in motels, sleeps on the side of the road, and eats in diners or anywhere where he can find food. He is a free spirit, unfettered from modern society's ebbs and flows, goes where he wants, buys his clothes at thrift stores, and lives a life, in his words, "free." And he is 6'5," a huge, powerful man. He travels to Margrave, Georgia, because his brother Joe told him a Blues singer died there, Blind Blake. On his arrival, Reacher discovers his brother was murdered and, using his military training and allying with local law enforcement, solves the murder of his brother and many others. But this is not a typical vigilante show about the hero killing the antagonists, though that happens, it is about Reacher's values and his commitment to finding justice, especially when that justice is manipulated by the bad guys using the law as protection. The strength of the story is Reacher never loses focus Ed. Note: See the otoh, Sisu: Finnish Perserverance of who he is and, after the crimes are solved, he continues on his Unfettered journey with no direction.

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