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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Azhari Mahmoud meets with the sellers and gives them $65 million in bearer bonds and diamonds. He is given a key to a shipping container at the Los Angeles docks containing the missiles. The manifest lists the contents as 650 DVD players. |
Twenty miles outside of Denver Colorado, Azhari Mahmoud meets a man who gives him information on the “650 in the truck”. He gives him a phone to track the shipment via a GPS locator in the truck along with two good ambush points along the route. The man wants assurances that the weapons will only be used overseas and that the driver will not be killed. Azhari Mahmoud assures him he does not hurt anyone. |
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This scene is not in the book. |
A flashback to ten days earlier shows Calvin Franz being tortured by Shane Langston and his men for information related to the location of other team members. He refuses to talk; they then toss him into the mountains from a helicopter.
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Neagley withdraws $50,000 in cash from her account, the team buys four used cars, work clothes (disguises), and burner call phones. Reacher robs a pawnshop of seven Glock pistols when the owner refused to circumvent California gun control laws and threatened him for asking. |
Reacher buys several pistols and burner phones from a New Jersey gun dealer. He pays him extra to circumvent gun control laws. |
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LA County sheriffs Brant (the one Reacher assaulted) and Maurey meet the team at their hotel. The sheriffs and the team exchange clues. Brant says that they got video surveillance of Swan, Franz, Sanchez and Orozco together right before they disappeared. Later on Mauney informs them of Orozco’s body found in a gully in the desert near the location Franz was found at. Reacher later identifies his body at the morgue. |
Reacher, Neagley, Dixon and O’Donnell are pulled over by NYPD. Reacher is arrested by the police officer (Russo) he beat up earlier. O’Donnell is allowed to go with as his lawyer. Russo explains how he caught them; he saw Dixon renting a car for them. Russo informs them of the deaths of Orozco and Sanchez, he wants to exchange information with them. He is well informed about Unit 110. Orozco and Sanchez dug up information on Azhari Mahmoud, that got them killed.
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Two men chase Reacher and O’Donnell on the street with pistols. They disarm the men, then O’Donnell maims their hands with a knife and takes their pistols. |
Reacher and his team are ambushed by a biker gang. They kill the bikers. Reacher calls Langston on one of the biker’s phones to tell him the ambush did not work. Langston offers a bribe, Reacher says he wants to throw him out of a helicopter. |