Reacher

Previously on Reacher...

He said 650 at 100K each.

It could be a transfer of 65 million,

a $65 million cover-up, a $65 million bribe.

We got a suspect.

Azhari Mahmoud.

He's known to Interpol as a weapons broker

for terrorist organizations.

He's a ghost. No pictures of him anywhere.

If these are supposed to be fractions,

then it's sloppy work.

On each sheet there's 26 or 27 numerical tabulations.

So, the real question is

what kind of somethings were they counting?

You don't have to be lonely tonight.

There were hit men who tried to kill us in Atlantic City.

They failed,

but they had a parking pass

for a company called New Age.

New Age is an aerospace company.

I'm Marlo Burns,

New Age Director of Operations. The parking pass was issued

- to a man named Trevor Saropian. - Where's his car?

We decided to take it with us.

Holy shit. It's Swan.

He was working at New Age

with the people who've been trying to kill us.

Great. Well, we drove a car through a window

so that I could read workers comp pleadings

for a secretary who slipped on New Age stairs five years ago.

So glad we risked prison for that.

Yeah, I got nothing, too. No new information.

Well, I wouldn't say

we haven't found any new information.

I mean, we've got three special investigators dead,

one in the wind, and the one

who's missing just happens to be the one who worked for New Age.

What? Look, someone's got to say it.

Was Swan working with these guys or with these guys?

- Swan's not dirty. - Look, man,

- we all want to believe that he isn't... - I know Swan.

We all do.

- And you don't think there's even a chance... - No.

I don't.

Focus on what we found.

Brad?

Stacy?

This is a brad.

That is a fastener.

Two names for something that size is stupid.

So is this conversation.

Well, speaking of names,

just found our man in the employee directory.

Seems Swan's title was assistant director of security.

Shane Langston,

director of security.

Maybe he's the guy I got on the phone in Atlantic City.

Why would you say that?

He's the security boss and bosses give orders

and the guys we killed had orders to take us out.

Just a theory.

He could be the guy that got Swan caught up in all this.

Well, if Swan didn't pull him into it first...

I already told you...

Aren't you the guy that said that assumptions kill?

Well, you're assuming that Swan's

the same guy he was back in the 110.

Hey, this is the guy

Reacher chased down outside of Saropian's house.

Same photo as his ID badge. Associate security officer.

Well, that's great.

Swan, Collins, that's two New Age

security personnel somehow involved in this.

Now we got to look into all these fuckers.

Don't forget Marlo Burns.

She knew she was sending us right into a buzzsaw

when she gave us Saropian's address.

So, the entire company's suspect.

We got over a thousand employees.

How we gonna tackle that?

One at a time.

Last night you asked for

a late night warrant for some defense firm,

and an hour later, the place is hit with a smash-and-grab.

Okay, do you know how that makes this department look?

Like we're five steps behind everything.

I made those applications when I had enough for a warrant.

And while you were waiting for them,

all the evidence that you would have collected

from that place is all cleaned out.

And I'll bet you that it is those tin soldiers

that you were supposed to be keeping your black eye on.

It wasn't the army brats. I made it crystal clear to them

not to color outside the lines.

Oh, I see.

You thought, if you told them nicely,

they'd play along?

You're NYPD. These are fucking PIs,

for Chrissakes.

Is this too fucking much for you, Russo?

Lieutenant, lower your voice.

Lower my voice?

You're telling me to lower my voice

in my own fucking office?

Okay.

Would you please go

and find out what they learned, all right?

Am I asking you nicely enough, Russo?

I'll get it handled.

Great.

Close the door.

Who put this song on?

This is the Talking Heads.

You got beef with the Talking Heads?

We're in New York. They're a New York band.

They're a Rhode Island band that moved to New York

and no, I don't have a beef with them. It's just...

"Road to Nowhere," when we're sitting here getting nowhere,

seems a little defeatist.

Besides, it's not even their best song.

Probably prefer "Psycho Killer."

Um, I might have something.

I've been scrubbing the drives for everything

- Swan-related. - And?

And I found an anomaly.

He's the assistant director of security,

so all of his emails have Langston... his boss...

and a half-dozen other security personnel

- cc'd on them. - Makes sense.

I mean, they're a team. They share information.

But he didn't share everything.

There are multiple emails between

Swan and our old friend Marlo Burns. Just them.

- No one else copied. - About what?

Music, but not really.

How do you know?

He wrote,

"I was listening to an album the other day,

thought you might like it.

Jimi Hendrix, Axis: Bold as Love.

The sixth song is amazing. Take a listen,

tell me what you think."

Swan hated Hendrix.

Anything with hard guitar.

No Skynyrd, no Hendrix,

no Zeppelin, no Who. I mean, that was his rule.

He's leaving everyone else off the email

and saying he loved something we know he hated.

Could be code.

Or it

could be a guy trying to get laid.

I mean, I once told a girl I loved Georgia O'Keeffe.

We say things.

Yeah. It says the sixth track is called "Little Wing."

Hold on.

I ever tell you you're smart, Neagley?

Not nearly enough.

Right here. A file on a federal defense project

called Little Wing, by far the biggest contract New Age

has ever had.

Four times the size of anything I've seen anywhere else

in their records. A nine-figure contract.

People have murdered for less.

Look at this interoffice memo.

Seems a test

for the Little Wing tech was held for some military brass,

even a senator.

- But what kind of test? And where? - Doesn't say,

but they do note that Senator Malcolm Lavoy

assured he would do all he could to get the congressional votes

to make Little Wing a reality.

And I quote,

"He fully believes in the work we're doing here at New Age

and will do whatever it takes to help us."

Lavoy would fully believe in Snuffleupagus

you pay him enough.

You know this guy?

By reputation.

In D.C., Lavoy's what's known as a paper bag.

His politics and his vote go

whichever way the wind's blowing.

He's known to do some shady shit.

So, if New Age stands to make a fortune on

a government contract and Lavoy is his champion in Congress,

it stands to reason New Age is the wind blowing Lavoy's bag.

That sounds wrong.

So, Swan, who's missing, maybe dirty, maybe not,

is code-texting Marlo Burns,

who tried to have us killed about a program supported

by an ethically-compromised politician.

We need talk to Malcolm Lavoy.

We'll never get close enough to a senator

to find out what he may or may not know.

Oh, we don't need to.

Those guys never even know

what they're voting for.

Thousand-page bills, the legislative record,

they don't read that stuff.

They just vote the way they're told to.

But his legislative director...