The first season of Reacher was one of Amazon Prime’s most successful shows (Picture: AP)
*Warning: This contains spoilers for Reacher season 2 episode 4
Reacher fans have begged an actor to ‘come back again mate’ after a surprise cameo in the second season.
The Amazon Prime Video series, based on the crime novels by Lee Child, follows six-foot-five drifter and ex-military man Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) as he becomes entangled in investigations of murky murders and government corruption.
This time, Reacher is reunited with former members of his US Army unit after they start being mysteriously killed off one by one, but fans were particularly thrilled to see a familiar face among the new cast.
In episode 4, police detective Oscar Finlay (Malcolm Goodwin), who helps Reacher bring a counterfeit cash ring down in season 1, makes a brief appearance.
Reacher enlists his old pal, who is still working as a cop, to arrest a government official they set up in a cocaine sting operation to illicit key information about the deaths of his army unit while under interrogation.
The comeback went down a storm with fans of the action series on X, with Greg Andrews enthusing: ‘That surprise in Reacher season 2 episode 4 might be the best cameo of all time. I was all of the emotions. #Reacher#reachers2#reacherseason2 @primevideouk.’
Police detective Finlay makes a brief return in season 2 (Picture: Amazon Prime)
Fans were thrilled by Finlay’s return and begged for more (Picture: Amazon Prime)
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Echoing Greg’s sentiment, Austin Harris added: ‘#Reacher episode 4 is amazing! Awesome ending to the episode, awesome surprise cameo, and I’m just enjoying this season so far.’
Seb Williams also commented: ‘FINLAYYYYYYY!!! Nice cameo. Cool choice showing the badge before the reveal. Episode 4 was another treat. They should just go ahead and lock this series in for 10 seasons.. for starters. Breaking arms with his head. They really cast this show well. Ritchson is a beast! #Reacher.’
According to the synopsis, ‘Reacher season two begins when veteran military police investigator Jack Reacher receives a coded message that the members of his former US Army unit, the 110th MP Special Investigations, are being mysteriously and brutally murdered one by one.
Reacher is based on a character in Lee Childs’ crime novels (Picture: AP)
Alan plays the drifter and ex-military officer in the TV adaptation (Picture: AP)
‘Pulled from his drifter lifestyle, Reacher reunites with three of his former teammates turned chosen family to investigate, including Frances Neagley (Maria Sten); Karla Dixon (Serinda Swan), a forensic accountant for whom Reacher has long had a soft spot; and fast-talking, switchblade-wielding family man David O’Donnell (Shaun Sipos).
‘Together, they begin to connect the dots in a mystery where the stakes get higher at every turn, and that brings about questions of who has betrayed them—and who will die next.’
Reacher was renewed for season 2 just three days after it premiered on Amazon Prime after becoming a huge hit with viewers.
At the time, Amazon said that Reacher ranked in its top five most-watched series ever in the US and globally over a 24-hour period.
Ahead of season two’s confirmation, Child had said that it was in the viewers’ hands as to whether the series would return – but there’s certainly more than enough source material to sustain fans for several decades.
Speaking to Metro.co.uk and other press, he joked: ‘By October, they’ll be 27 books. So there’s 26 more seasons to go by which time I’ll be about a hundred, and that would work for me.’
Reacher fans criticised the casting of Tom Cruise(Picture: Allstar/Paramount Pictures)
Meanwhile, Reacher actor Alan previously revealed the gruelling training he undertakes in preparation for filming, describing it as ‘an attack on all fronts.’
Speaking to Men’s Journal, he explained: ‘I try to stay lean, so I’m usually walking around at 205 pounds. For this I wanted to bulk up though, and I ended up putting on 30 pounds to end up at 235 pounds. I was grinding it out five days a week for the eight months that we had to prep.’
As well as cracking out the weights to get bigger, the actor also revealed that his diet was the most important part of his prep, joking that he had ‘a conveyer belt of food’.
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Ritchson added: ‘It’s a full-time job to get 4,500 calories and 300 grams of protein in your body. I was lucky that I had the help.’
Tom Cruise played Reacher in the 2012 film adaptation and its 2016 sequel, however, the Mission Impossible star’s casting was widely criticised.
Reacher is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
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‘Come back again mate,’ one viewer pleaded.