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
| In the Book |
In the TV Show |
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Reacher drives the maid’s car (a Saab) to the highway and finds agent Terry Villanueva waiting in another car for him. They stage the Saab to look like an overturned car accident. Villanueva positions himself as a corpse next to the car. When the driver and bodyguard appear, Reacher kills them both with a rock to the head. They stuff the bodies into the Saab. Villanueva calls their deaths, “suicide by cop”. |
Villanueva meets Reacher with Duffy’s car at the end of the road. The turn over the DEA car. Villanueva plays dead in the car. When the drivers bends down to examine the car wreck, Reacher shoots/kills him. |
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Reacher throws the bodies of the driver and bodyguard into the ocean. He also finds the maid’s (agent’s) notes on what she observed at the beck estate. Reacher throws them away also as he already knew everything in them. |
This does not happen in the TV series.
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The events in Episode #6 do not appear in the book in the book. |
Episode #6 Beck and Reacher are ordered to meet Quinn at his warehouse. Quinn does not recognize Reacher due to his amnesia. Quinn says he is saving Teresa to give to the buyers as she is a redhead.
Quinn meets with his Russian financier and tells him it will be a few more days until he can pay off his loan.
Duffy and Villanueva go to a tailor to get information on a green dress made for a redhead. They get a phone number.
Reacher tells Richard that he is working for DEA and is looking for Quinn and trying to rescue Teresa. Richard is concerned about his dad, he agrees not to blow Reacher’s cover.
Quinn sends assassins to murder Powell and Neagley. Powell is beaten but refuses to talk. Quinn tells the men to gut Powell. Neagley is attacked, she kills one, then shoots and questions the other. Neagley calls Reacher to warn him. |
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The events in Episode #6 do not take place in the book. |
Quinn is told by Beck that Reacher was in Unit 110 after Quinn starts looking into everyone who was investigating him. Quinn Tells Paulie to kill Reacher. But Reacher has already run from the house and has shot out the tires of the vehicles in the garage.
Reacher steals a pickup truck with a plow and escapes by driving through the gate. Quinn’s men chase Reacher on ATV’s, but are killed by Reacher.
Quinn punishes Beck by making Richard play Russian Roulette. Beck is later shown missing his right ear.
Duffy, Reacher and Villanueva go to Fort Rome to look for Teresa. They find that Teresa was moved from Harley’s boat to an unknown location. After torturing Harley, they burn up his boat with him on it. Reacher and Duffy go to Los Angeles.
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When/if the DEA comes in to make arrests, Reacher feels he needs to evacuate Elizabeth and Richard Beck and the cook. He will let Beck and the mechanic face the music. Richard tells Reacher that he was kidnapped by Paulie and Xavier five years ago; Paulie raped him. He did not tell his parents about the rape. He also knows his dad is more than a rug importer. Richard also thinks the kidnapping was a setup, but Reacher still denies it was. Reacher tells Richard to ask his dad to keep him at the estate to guard the family during the big shipment coming up. |
This was not in the TV series. |