Reacher

Previously on Reacher...

A woman kills herself on the same train

as the chief of staff of a potential presidential candidate?

CIA starts kidnapping people over it?

That's a story.

I don't know where Ben is, but I knew that girl--

the one he left with the other night.

Yeah, real name's Mary Ellen Daniels.

Do you have an address?

Whoever did this weren't amateurs.

Found the self-checkout's car.

Any idea why she'd ditch a perfectly good car,

take the subway?

It's a work badge.

Name: Anna Merrick. Work address and

level eight clearance.

Well, at least we know where we're going to next.

What the hell was Anna doing here?

Putra and his soldiers

were trained by an American Delta Force specialist.

- John Sampson. - That drive has the proof

connecting Sampson to all of this.

I have never tortured or killed civilians.

- What about your chief of staff? - What about him?

Why were you on the subway

with Anna Merrick the night she died?

- I'm sorry, John. - Nolan.

- Nolan. Nolan. - No!

And had Mr. Cahill exhibited any signs of distress?

- No. - Um, any particular matters

weighing on him-- romantic or financial-- anything like that?

Not to my knowledge.

Did he leave a note, a text message, maybe an email?

Look, Detective, like, I-I appreciate your thoroughness,

but he didn't leave anything. He displayed

no red flags, and right now, I'm...

If you could excuse us, I'm just trying to deal with the loss of my friend.

Understood, Congressman.

If I have any more questions, I'll reach out

- to your office. - Thank you.

How do I get a hold of you, Mr. Reacher?

You can't.

My office can pass along any inquiries you have for Mr. Reacher.

Okay, yeah. Good enough.

Um, my condolences.

Front desk just called, sir.

News crews are arriving. We got to get you someplace else.

Well, it's not a secret that I was staying at the hotel.

Or that Nolan worked for me.

A visual of you at the scene of a suicide is not good for--

Oh, for fuck's sake, Springfield.

I served with that man for 11 years,

and I'm not gonna leave him in a parking lot

underneath a tarp.

John, there's nothing you can do for him now.

The press is gonna want the quotes,

and Nolan would've been the first one to tell you

that you are in no state to go on the record right now.

This is no different than your military training.

Sometimes you have to just fall back and regroup.

I could use a beer.

It's 9:00 a.m.

I know a third shift bar.

Thanks.

Thank you.

I didn't know what kind of sweetener you liked,

so I got, uh, sugar, Splenda and Sweet'N Low.

Sugar's fine, thanks.

Okay, for the future, sugar it is.

Oh, shit. Listen to what I just found.

Last year, Congress passed

a really boring, bipartisan deficit reduction plan.

It's a million little paper cuts

to hopefully bleed out our massive national debt.

It's window dressing to convince the populace

our politicians are actually doing something.

- Focus. - Right, sorry.

Anyway, one of the paper cuts was a government-wide

move away from costly document storage facilities,

massive warehouses that stored decades-old records.

Between rental fees, maintenance,

they were really expensive.

Now, per the new law, most documents over ten years old

are to be digitized, uploaded to the secure server,

and then the paper copies destroyed.

This has to be where they're doing it.

You guessing or you know?

Well, the government doesn't exactly publicize the addresses

of their secret document destruction depots,

but I've studied enough of these federally-owned buildings

to know that that smokestack

is a ventilator for a commercial-grade incinerator.

When the government needs something important

go away, they burn it.

That's why nobody's ever seen the original Warren Commission Report.

Burnt up.

Why not just shred 'em?

Haven't you ever seen Argo? You can tape that shit back together.

We got to get in there.

We got to see what Anna had access to.

- And stole. - Hey, we don't know that.

Man, I'm not trying to take a shot at your sister,

but she was working at a top-clearance government building

and she left with a thumb drive everybody wants.

What else could she have done?

You know, a lot of these cars have the same kind of parking pass Anna did.

Probably for parking over there.

And if they have the same pass as Anna,

they probably have the same work badge she did, too.

You just figured out our way in.

Hey, hey, we try to lift someone's work badge,

we could get arrested.

People are looking for us.

We can't allow ourselves to get put in the system.

We got to get in there. We can't use Anna's badge.

A dead woman comes up at the security gate,

we definitely get caught.

Oh...

- My God! Watch where you're going. - I am so sorry.

Oh, here, here, here, here. Here.

- Oh, God. - I am so,

- so sorry. - Geez.

- Oh, my God. - Oh...

Here's your stuff. I am so sorry.

It's fine. I've got it.

Sorry I snapped. It's just...

a new shirt.

Here, you know what?

Let me give you this for the dry cleaning.

- I insist. - It's fine.

Geez.

- Two Natty Bohs. - Thank you.

To Nolan Cahill.

What the fuck?

I met him first day of Delta training.

Terrified every one of us.

Meanest son of a bitch I ever met.

Is that why you made him your chief of staff?

A chief of staff

that no one could intimidate?

You can't put a price tag on that.

And I knew that he'd never have a problem

working for someone he previously commanded

'cause he had no ego.

It was always about the mission.

Molded me in his image.

All of us.

If that's true,

what would make you jump off a roof?

Excuse me?

You said you were molded in his image.

That means you're of the same character and morality,

more or less. So, given the same information, the same situation,

same circumstances,

you might react the same way.

Obviously, he knew something you didn't,

so I'm just wondering

what would make you jump off a building to your death?

I have no goddamn idea.

It's not what your source told you.

We never tortured or killed civilians.

But people were tortured and killed.

After we left.

What exactly did you do in Indonesia?

Look, I know you didn't know Anna Merrick.

Maybe a dead woman's a sunk cost to you,

but her son's still missing. 20 years old,

and very likely with sociopathic killers.

So the truth can only help right now.

Miss? Scotch.

Conversations that require scotch--

Are conversations that maybe shouldn't be had.

But if there's some way that you think I can help...

...I'll tell you what I know.

Even if it's things you can't legally say?

Look, I'll dance on that line

best I can without violating my oath.

Dewar's okay?

Just fine, thank you.

Our squadron was dispatched to Indonesia with a team of scientists.

Something about using rainforest plants

to help find a cure for new

antibiotic-resistant strains of malaria or...

I-I... Who can remember?

Uncle Sam says you're going to Asia with a bunch scientists,

you go to Asia.

Our job was to keep the scientists safe

and to secure the cooperation of the local government while we were there.

Cahill oversaw that branch of the operation.

Now, in exchange for Indonesia's hospitality,

the U.S. agreed to train their military's special forces.

Which were led by General Reza Putra.

I oversaw that branch of the operation.

Look, I taught his men everything from

weapons training to guerrilla tactics.

When do you get to the part about slaughtering political dissidents?

Once we got back stateside...

...Putra went after people.

Anyone who was opposed to his increasing power.

And in the process, he wiped out an entire village.