What's the Difference between Persuader the Book and Reacher Season 3 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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Zachary Beck
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Zachary Beck
Portrayed by: Anthony Michael Hall
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Richard Beck
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Richard Beck
Portrayed by: Johnny Berchtold
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Elizabeth Beck
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This Character does not appear.
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John Chapman Duke
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Chapman Duke
Portrayed by: Donald Sales
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Francis Xavier Quinn / Frank Xavier
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Francis Xavier Quinn / Julius McCabe
Portrayed by: Brian Tee
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Susan Duffy
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Susan Duffy
Portrayed by: Sonya Cassidy
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Steven Eliot
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Steven Eliot
Portrayed by: Daniel David Stewart
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Guillermo Villanueva
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Terry Villanueva
Portrayed by: Roberto Montesinos
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Dominique Kohl
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Dominique Kohl
Portrayed by: Mariah Robinson
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Teresa Justice (aka Daniels)
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Teresa Daniel
Portrayed by: Storm Steenson
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Harley
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Harley
Portrayed by: Brendan Fletcher
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Emily Smith
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This Character does not appear.
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The maid
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Annette
Portrayed by: Caitlin McNerney
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The Mechanic
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This Character does not appear.
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This Character does not appear.
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Frances Neagley
Portrayed by: Maria Sten
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Reacher Season 3 Book vs TV Show
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In the TV Show |
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Duffy, Reacher and Villanueva drive to Xavier’s warehouse where they find many well worn weapons, some good quality sniper rifles, small surface to air missiles and RPG’s made in Russia. Harley (one of Xavier’s employees) interrupts and disarms them. Harley says Teresa Daniel is in “mint condition”. Reacher is able to pull up a shotgun they had examined previously and shoots/kills Harley. |
Harley is tortured and murdered by Duffy and Reacher when they blow up his boat in the harbor. |
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Reacher thinks Teresa Daniel is being gifted to the arms buyer as a bonus. Duffy, Reacher and Villanueva back to the Beck estate. Reacher tells Duffy to wait an hour then call the ATF. Reacher kills the new guard at the gate then manages to walk up to the house after letting the catering van in. |
Reacher invades the house with a shoguns and starts killing the Russians, this prompts Quinn to kill the weapons buyers and take their money.
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Reacher goes back to the house and interrupts the party, with the weapons buyers attending, in progress with a shotgun blast to the ceiling. He finds Xavier and asks if he remembers him from ten years ago; he remembers after he reminds him of Kohl. Xavier tries to shield himself with Beck’s body, Richard points a pistol at Reacher’s back and tells him to not shoot his dad. Reacher jumps through a window and runs away while the guests start shooting at him.
The party guests come out of the broken window and shoot at Reacher while using Richard and Elizabeth as human shields. Reacher jumps into the ocean; the current moves him 100 yards away before he can get out of the water.
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This does not happen in the TV series. |
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Reacher walks back to the house and ties up the cook. Reacher rushes Beck and punches him; Beck lives. Reacher then stabs Xavier to death with a chisel. Reacher steals one of Beck’s cars and drives to the hotel to meet Duffy. |
Reacher invades the house with a shoguns and starts killing the Russians, this prompts Quinn to kill the weapons buyers and take their money.
Quinn takes Richard hostage, then then kills Zachary Beck when he tries to bluff him with the toy pistol Richard gifted to him. Richard shoots at the fleeing Quinn, but misses. Quinn is confronted by the Russian mafia outside of the house, he is late paying them their money.
Reacher, Duffy and Villanueva are in a standoff over Quinn and the money. Neagley shows up with the bag of money and a grenade (Beck’s defused paperweight); after she pulls the pin, the Russians agree to trade Quinn for the money. The Russians leave with the money and Reacher kills Quinn after reminding him of Kohl.
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Duffy has called the ATF to take down Beck and the local police are at the warehouse. The Beck family is still at home. Villanueva says he will retire, Duffy says she cannot retire. Reacher tells her to go to the ATF and get a job.
Reacher showers and ends up naked in Duffy’s bed, but falls asleep immediately. He wakes up to find everyone else gone and a bag with two changes of clothes. He plans on driving Beck’s car down south to I-95 and abandoning it. Then catch a ride south to Miami.
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Reacher gives Richard some car keys, he takes the money he finds in the house and leaves.
Villanueva is retiring, Duffy is quitting the DEA. Duffy tells the local police that Reacher and Neagley did not shoot anyone. Villanueva and Duffy visit Eliot’s relatives. Duffy returns Teresa to her Grandmother. Reacher steals Beck’s motorcycle and departs down the coast.
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