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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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. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
Reacher and his team track down Trevor Seropian’s (one of the men Dixon killed at the construction site) home. They go to the home where Reacher tosses in a small homemade nail bomb. After it detonates, Reacher and his team murder the rest of the men in the house.
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This does not happen in the book. |
An SUV speeds away from the house they bombed, Reacher disables it by throwing a gas grill through the windshield. Reacher pulls a fat old man out of the SUV who promptly dies of a heart attack. He has a New Age company pass on him. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
Russo confronts his boss, Lt Marsh, about the hitmen at the funeral. He accuses Marsh of conspiring with New Age to kill Reacher and his team. Marsh admits that Langston paid him a ton of cash for updates on what Reacher and his team were up to. He claims he took the money to save his life and tells Russo to do so also. Russo refuses.
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Neagley and Reacher follow Margaret Berenson home and question her at gunpoint. She says Alan Lamaison, a New Age executive, raped her, then threatened her and her son if she did not lie to anyone investigating Swan’s disappearance. Lamaison and Maurey served in the LAPD together; both were/are dirty cops. When Swan went to the LAPD to report the New Age illegal activities, Maurey betrayed Swan to Lamaison. |
Margaret Berenson is not in the TV series. There is a New Age Director of Operations named Marlo Burns who lies to the team about Swan’s disappearance. She later runs away from home after being threatened by Langston. Reacher’s team locates her then uses her as bait to draw out Langston. She tells them that a New Age engineer would he required to show any terrorist how to install the chips for the missile. Langston’s men attack the team and Marlo; three of Langston’s men are killed but Langston escapes. Russo dies protecting Marlo’s daughter. |