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
| In the Book |
In the TV Show |
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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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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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This does not happen in the book. |
Reacher, Dixon, Neagley and O’Donnell go to Franz’s funeral. Russo tells Reacher that Langston and others were hired by New Age after they early retired to avoid an investigation. |
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Neagley calls her contact in DC and gets him to use their information on New Age to audit the rocket motor manufacturer that contracted with New Age for the missile motors. He reveals there are 650 previous edition rocket motors scheduled to be hauled away for destruction. Reacher wants to know when the missiles will be moved so he can catch the terrorist that is going to steal them. He does this so they can kill the people who killed their friends, instead of merely getting them arrested. |
Neagley and Dixon go to New Age to make a bogus surprise government inspection. They are told that 650 missiles went out for delivery ten minutes ago.
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This does not happen in the book. |
Azhari Mahmoud goes to Denver airport but spots people looking for him. He leaves the airport and later tells Langston he will be late. |