What's the Difference between Bad Luck and Trouble the Book and Reacher Season 2 the TV Show?
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In the TV Show |
Jack Reacher
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Jack Reacher
Portrayed by: Alan Ritchson
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Frances Neagley
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Frances Neagley
Portrayed by: Maria Sten
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David O'Donnell
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David O'Donnell
Portrayed by: Shaun Sipos
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Karla Dixon
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Karla Dixon
Portrayed by: Serinda Swan
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Shane Langston
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Allen Lamaison
Portrayed by: Robert Patrick
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Margaret Berenson
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Marlo Burns
Portrayed by: Christina Cox
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Azhari Mahmoud
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Azhari Mahmoud
Portrayed by: Ferdinand Kingsley
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Charles Brant
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Gaitano 'Guy' Russo
Portrayed by: Domenick Lombardozzi
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This Character does not appear.
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Oscar Finlay
Portrayed by: Malcolm Goodwin
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Reacher Season 2 Book vs TV Show
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In the TV Show |
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Neagley figures out that Franz mailed his important files to himself from the USPS across the street from his office. The next day they question the landlord of the mini-mall in which Franz rented his office. He said well dressed men, not cops, paid him for keys to Franz’s office space. |
Neagley figures out that Franz mailed his important files to himself from the USPS across the street from his office. It is after 5pm and closed, they will come back tomorrow. Reacher knows Neagley is doing very well as she can afford good things and has been promoted twice at the PI company she works for. |
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Reacher gets a haircut and new clothes. The barber tells him where he can score drugs. He runs into a dealer’s bag man with his car and steals $900. Reacher always keeps the money he steals from the people he kills or beats up. |
Reacher tells Neagley he needs to buy a gun. He goes to a local church and asks the priest for help looking for his friend who is on drugs and on the street. The priest gives him the name of a drug den to look for him at. Reacher drives to the drug dealer’s hangout, beats them up, steals a pistol and throws away their drugs. He gives the dealer’s money to the priest.
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This does not happen in the book. Azhari Mahmoud already has his passports available to him. |
Azhari Mahmoud buys a set of passports from two men, then kills them. |
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Franz had four encrypted flash drives in the mail. The first three flash drives erased after Neagley entered three wrong passwords for each. They take a break and go look for Swan at the New Age company. Margaret Berneson tells them Swan was laid off. They find O’Donnell waiting for them back at their hotel room, he was out of contact as he was in New Jersey taking care of a sick sister. O’Donnell tries Reacher as a password; it works. |
Neagley and Reacher find O’Donnell in her hotel room. He is recently arrived back from vacation and looking for them. O’Donnell figures out Franz’s password for his thumb drive; the password is Reacher.
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O’Donnell and Reacher confront the driver of the car following them after they leave Swan’s house. Reacher beats him unconscious. The man is Charles Brant, LAPD. They leave him to recover in his car and run away. |
Reacher confronts the driver of a different car that was following them. He beats up the driver; he is NYPD (Russo). O’Donnell, Neagley and Reacher leave the scene. |