30-03-2025
How Reacher's Season 3 Finale Set Up Neagley Spinoff — Will You Watch?
A brief exchange at the close of Reacher's Season 3 finale seemed to set the tone for the Prime Video hit's upcoming Neagley spinoff.
After Jack Reacher (played by Alan Ritchson), Frances Neagley (Maria Sten) and DEA agents Susan Duffy (Sonya Cassidy) and Guillermo Villanueva (Roberto Montesinos) got the best of the supervillainous Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee), Neagley shared an observation with her onetime 110th MP Special Investigations Unit boss.
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'I figured it out — why you do what you do,…' Neagley said. 'It's not just because you need to put things right. And it's not because you're a 'little guy.' It's because you hate the big guy. You hate the big powerful sonsofbitches who think they can just get away with things. So you make sure they don't.'
As Reacher himself noted, this is something Neagley surely realized before — at the very least, in the course of thwarting of the nefarious Big Guys they teamed up against in Seasons 1 and 2 — so the inclusion of this dialogue seemed to lay a foundation for Sten's Neagley spinoff, which has been filming since Feb. 18.
Created by Reacher showrunner Nick Santora and Nicholas Wootton, Neagley follows the titular Chicago P.I. as she learns that a beloved friend from her past has been killed in a suspicious accident. 'Hell-bent on pursuing justice,' the official synopsis reads, 'Neagley uses everything she's learned from Jack Reacher and her time as a member of the 110 Special Investigators, setting herself on a dangerous path to uncover a menacing evil.'
'It's an interesting story, and it's a very personal one,' Sten told TVLine. 'Neagley is its own thing, but of course it's a 'sister' to Reacher, and I think it will be really, really cool to get to explore her world and see how people respond to it.'
The Neagley cast also includes Damon Herriman (Justified) as Lawrence Cole, Greyston Holt (Bitten, Riverdale) as Detective Hudson Riley, Matthew Del Negro (Teen Wolf, Scandal) as Pierce Woodrow, Adeline Rudolph (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) as Renee, and Jasper Jones (To Die For) as Keno.
'We have a great cast that we've put together for this show,' Sten said.
In addition to giving us the philosophy exchange quoted above, Reacher Season 3 shared a glimpse into Neagley's life in Chicago, where she has a snazzy P.I. firm that admittedly needs a little TLC after some of Quinn's goons came gunning for her.
As Sten noted, '[Reacher set up] that she is out there living her own life, and at the same time she will assist Reacher when it's asked for. And even when it's not!'
Neagley is executive-produced by Santora, Wootton, Lee Child (author of the Jack Reacher novels), Don Granger, Sam Hill, Adam Higgs, Lisa Kussner, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Matt of TVLine
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