For “Reacher” season 1, showrunner Nick Santora made a concerted effort to stick to Lee Kid’s authentic novel, “Killing Ground.” Not solely did we get probably the most acquainted, book-accurate model of Jack Reacher because of this, however the season’s plot largely adopted the e-book’s. This time round, issues have been switched up a bit extra. Moderately than being set in L.A. like “Dangerous Luck and Hassle,” season 2 is about in New York Metropolis. What’s extra, not solely have Santora and his writing staff conceived of the Shane Langston character particularly for the present, they’ve made positive to sneak in a pleasant little homage to Robert Patrick’s previous, too.
Patrick is, in fact, finest recognized for taking part in the T-1000 in “Terminator 2,” — and in a shocking quantity of different issues. In James Cameron’s 1991 motion traditional, Patrick’s liquid metallic killer robotic is on the hunt for Edward Furlong’s John Connor, the long run chief of the human resistance. Sadly, the T-1000 did not reckon with the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 Terminator or Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor, John’s mother and all-around badass. By the top, John, Sarah, and the Terminator destroy Patrick’s villain in a vat of molten metal.
Fittingly, then, when Langston is first launched in “Reacher,” there’s a right away homage to “T2.” The second comes when one of many safety boss’s lackeys calls to disclose that Reacher and his comrade Neagley (Maria Sten) checked into their resort below the names Sarah Connor and Starling Castro. Langston explains that the latter “performed for the Yankees six or seven years in the past.” However when requested concerning the identify “Sarah Connor,” he dismisses the inquiry with a curt “I do not give a s**t.”
