What Time Is Alan Ritchson's ‘Reacher' Season 3 Finale This Week?

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26-03-2025

Alan Ritchson in "Reacher" Season 3.
Reacher Season 3 ends this week with an episode that features Reacher's big showdown with Paulie. Read on to get a preview of the episode and when it begins streaming.
Starring Ritchson as Jack Reacher, Reacher Season 3 is based on Lee Child's best-selling novel Persuader, which is the seventh book in the acclaimed author's Jack Reacher series.
Reacher is an original series produced by Prime Video. All 16 episodes from Reacher Seasons 1 and 2 are available on the streaming platform, as are Episodes 1-7 of Season 3.
The finale of Reacher Season 3, Episode 8, begins streaming Thursday, March 27, at 3 a.m. ET/12 p.m. PT on Prime Video.
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Alan Ritchson and Sonya Cassidy in "Reacher" Season 3.
Reacher Season 3 begins with Reacher in Boston, where he becomes part of an undercover operation run by Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Susan Duffy (Sonya Cassidy).
Searching for the whereabouts of a confidential informant who went missing while working for luxury rug importer Zachary Beck (Anthony Michael Hall), Duffy is certain that Beck is running a drug smuggling operation.
Reacher is involved in the operation, though, because he's looking for revenge against Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee), an ex-military intelligence member who brutally murdered one of Reacher's colleagues while conducting an Army Military Police probe.
Quinn, who received a gunshot to the head from Reacher years before, miraculously survived the attempt on his life but suffered retrograde amnesia. Operating under the alias Julius McCabe, Quinn doesn't recall Reacher immediately but once the ex-MP's cover is blown, he's out for blood.
Olivier Richters and Alan Ritchson in "Reacher" Season 3.
While Reacher wants to get revenge on Xavier Quinn/Julius McCabe, perhaps the most-anticipated showdown in Season 3 is the inevitable fight between the 6-foot 5-inch Reacher and Zachary Beck's hulking 7-foot 2-inch bodyguard Paulie (Olivier Richters).
Reacher makes it clear from the first time he meets Paulie in Episode 1 that he does not like the bodyguard and has no problem getting in his new adversary's face at every turn.
'Given the grammar of thrillers, the viewer knows that these two are going to have to fight at some point, and [their first meeting] builds this huge suspenseful thread into it that asks, 'When is this going to happen?' especially because Reacher taunts the guy at the beginning, which is typical of how Reacher uses his humor,' Lee Child said in an Zoom conversation prior to Reacher Season 3. 'He uses it as a weapon.'
In a pair of other Zoom conversations with Alan Ritchson and Richters before the beginning of Reacher Season 3, Richters said that he desperately wanted to give details about the showdown between Reacher and Paulie, but for obvious reasons, he kept details under wraps.
'I can't give spoilers, but it might be the best fight ever created for a television show,' Richters said.
During the elaborately-staged fight scene (which took three weeks to film, Ritch told The Hollywood Reporter), the two strongmen desperately tried not to connect when throwing their punches.
However, as Ritchson found out, things can go awry when the punches are being thrown so fast and furiously.
'I'm not gonna throw him under the bus or anything, but you know, accidents happen,' Ritchson said. 'But yeah, I got hit in the face one time by accident [by Richters]. It was not a lot of fun … He's a strong guy and this kind of action is, you know, a little new to him. But he worked really hard. He spent months training and he laid it all on the line for us … I really appreciate the effort he put in.'
Richters was grateful that Ritchson was graceful after the mishap.
"The thing is, when you put two titans in one room and they're not trying to hit each other, it will happen instead,' Richters explained. 'We were devastated at the end, physically, but we both recovered. I just spoke to him [about it and said] it was all worth it. Now the whole world is going to see it.'
Also excited about the world seeing the showdown between Reacher and Paulie is Maria Sten, who is back as Reacher's closest confidant, Frances Neagley, in Season 3.
'It was so wonderful to see. Once you see them square off together, you're like, 'Wow, he is big,'' Sten said of Ritchson and Richters throwdown in a Zoom conversation. 'This is, of course, what we wanted, for the show to have him come in so that Reacher can finally feel like a little bit like an underdog. The fight between the two of them is so epic.'
Reacher Season 3, Episode 8, begins streaming Thursday at 3 a.m. ET/12 p.m. PT on Prime Video.