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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O’Donnell and Neagley turn in their rental cars at the airport. Karla Dixon is at the airport; in from NYC via Las Vegas and looking for them. She rents a car for the team. Dixon tells the others that she cannot find Sanchez or Orozco and thinks they have been missing for three weeks. |
They turn in Neagley’s rented Range Rover to the car rental at the airport. Reacher finds one of his old team, Karla Dixon, at the car rental return. She is recently returned from Texas and rents a car for them with her fake ID. |
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The team goes to a local bar to find Jorge Sanchez’s girlfriend, Milena. They speak to her the next day. She takes them to his house. She said he got a call about some numbers that he wrote on a napkin then called Calvin Franz about them. Milena claims Sanchez no longer had clients, but Orozco’s wife might know more. Tammy Orozco claims her husband got a call for help from one of the Unit 110 team members. |
They track down Orozco’s girlfriend at a local bar. She tells them that Orozco was working on a case and she has not heard from him for a while. He overhead a phone call where he mentioned “650 for $100k each”.
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Orozco and Sanchez were working casino security in Vegas until the casino established their own in-house security. Reacher and the team talk to casino security (Wright) about their missing friends. He assures them no one is running a money scam on them. He also says Azhari Mahmoud is not in any Las Vegas hotels. After they retire for the night, Dixon goes to Reacher’s room for sex. |
Orozco and Sanchez were working casino security. Reacher and his friends talk to casino security (Wright) about their missing friends. He assures them no one is running a money scam on them. |
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While leaving a local bar when looking for Sanchez’s girlfriend, a man tries to shoot all four of the team in the back. Reacher hears the man behind him then manages to push everyone to the ground while O’Donnell shoots and kills the man. They bury him at a construction site. They take the hitman’s SUV. Reacher calls the hitman’s last number dialed on the phone and talks to the boss. Reacher tells him he has two days until they throw him out of a helicopter. |
Dixon and Reacher spot men following them and run away. The split up inside of a construction site. Reacher stabs a man with a trowel and tosses him off of scaffolding. Dixon beats another man to death with a piece of rebar. The third man tries to shoot Dixon, but Reacher takes him out. They search the hit man’s car and find info on the team. Reacher uses the man’s phone and calls the boss (Shane Langston) to mock him. They toss the three bodies into wet concrete.
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While Neagley and O’Donnell are changing cars at the airport, a man tails them. Reacher and Dixon study the sheets of data and have sex when the other two are out. |
Reacher stitches up his wound from the fight at the hotel room. Reacher digs a bullet fragment out of Dixon’s chest above her left breast. She comes on to him and they have sex. |