02x08 - Fly Boy

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- Previously on Reacher...
- Little Wing can knock

anything out of the sky.

- Azhari Mahmoud.
- Yeah, we've been calling him A.M.

His only God is money.

[REACHER] This buy was supposed
to happen with bearer bonds.

You can carry an untraceable
fortune in a briefcase.

Tony Swan's alive. Swan personally

signed off on the shipment;
It's a digital thumbprint.

I'm not gonna assume Swan's dirty.

In an investigation, assumptions k*ll.

- Malcolm Lavoy.
- If anyone knew you were involved, you'd be indicted.

Get rid of the bad guys,
keep my hands clean.

- We call that a win-win.
- [MARLO] Someone in engineering

had manipulated the testing board

to randomly flag operational chips

- as defective.
- The Little Wing chips will be ready

to install in the missiles
by the time you get here.

- Perfect.
- [REACHER] We need to know exactly

where the missiles are headed,
so we can intercept them.

- [GRUNTS]
- [SCREAMS]

- What do you want?
- You and your buddy come here now.

My cohort's name is
Neagley, and she's dead.

Your private security,
former Seals and Rangers,

- I need 'em.
- [LAVOY] Done.

Hey. b*at it.

[GRUNTS]

- [LAUGHS]
- That kid just gave me an idea.

What, you're just gonna walk in there?

[REACHER] Don't worry,
I'm not just gonna

lie down and take it.

[BUZZER SOUNDS]

- [PIERCE] Hands up.
- [GRUNTS]

♪ ♪

[PIERCE] Stop.

[LANGSTON LAUGHING] f*ck.

Surveillance photos
don't do you justice.

You're gonna make a hell of a
hole when you hit the ground.

A hell of a hole.

[PHONE RINGING]

Get him ready.

Yeah, what did you find out?

Climb on.

No.

No?

You aren't in charge here... [GRUNTS]

- [GRUNTING]
- [SHOUTING]

Where is she?

Must've got a call from one
of your pals on the force.

There's only one body down
at the coroner's office,

and it ain't Neagley. Now, where is she?

Put the g*n down.

We both know you can't
sh**t me till you find her.

She's your last loose end.

You're right.

I can't sh**t you.

[SCREAMS]

f*ck.

[COUGHS, WHIMPERS]

Sit down. We're gonna talk.

I don't want to leave
anything for ballistics.

Dig that slug out of him.

We got 'em right where
we want 'em, boss.

[SHOUTING]

[GRUNTING]

[THUNDER CRASHING]

♪ ♪

[EXHALES]

One.

Two.

One.

Two.

One.

Two.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[LINE RINGING]

Perimeter guards
neutralized. What's your ETA?

- [SEAVER] Three minutes out.
- Copy that. [BREATHING HEAVILY]

[YELLS]

Oh, God.

I had this whole thing planned out.

We get paid,

let some time go by,

and then quietly retire.

But then your boy Swan
starts sniffing around.

He brought his pals in on it,

and f*cked my well-thought-out plan

like a Times Square

whore!

[PANTING]

But that's okay, 'cause now we use Swan

to sign off on our paperwork.

If anybody else comes poking around,

it looks like he did the
deal, took the money and ran.

And I still end up
with my toes in the sand

and a bronze ass on my lap.

But now that plan has gone to sh*t, too,

'cause I got one of you f*cking assholes

running around out there.

Where is she?!

[PANTING]

You seem upset.

You're too stubborn for
your own f*cking good.

Just like the men you used to command.

I offered to cut Swan in.

- Where is he?
- [LANGSTON] Your buddy?

He's here.

You want to see him?

♪ ♪

See, I didn't need all
of him to frame him.

Just his fingerprint
to get into the computer,

sign off on some documents,

and his iris to scan

when he logged in and out of
certain parts of the building.

And a pristine house...

It looked like he
took the money and ran,

even leaving his poor dog behind.

[SCOFFS]

Had to be a hero.

Did you teach him that?

Is this your fault?

This reunion's over.

I got a meeting with a man
that's gonna give me $65 million.

Load those two on a chopper,
and then come back for this assh*le.

No matter what I do to you,

you're not gonna tell me
where Neagley is, are you?

Yeah... piece of sh*t.

♪ ♪

[NEAGLEY] You came through, Lavoy.

Sweet.

f*ck.

We don't want to leave anything behind.

Go flush this.

You know, after I get my money,

I may have some of my guys go by

and find Neagley's father, pick him up.

That ought to flush
her out of the woodwork.

What do you think?

I just really, really hate loose ends.

♪ ♪

[♪ JEFFERSON AIRPLANE: "WHITE RABBIT"]

♪ One pill makes you larger ♪

♪ And one pill makes you small... ♪

Are those f*cking kids back?

Go run them the hell out of here.

We don't want any
witnesses when we leave.

♪ Go ask Alice ♪

♪ When she's ten feet tall ♪

♪ And if you go chasing rabbits ♪

♪ And you know you're going to fall... ♪

Hey! I thought I told you kids
to stay the hell away from here.

♪ Has given you the call ♪

♪ Call Alice ♪

[DOOR BUZZES]

- ♪ When she was just small... ♪
- I'm telling you for the last time,

get back in your car,

get out of here before I kick your ass.

Okay, boss. Just let
me finish my beer, okay?

♪ Have fallen sloppy dead ♪

♪ And the White Knight... ♪

As soon as you have them
secure on that 'copter,

go find out why that f*cking
music is still playing.

♪ Off with her head ♪

♪ Remember what the Dormouse said... ♪

[POWERING UP]

- What the f*ck is going on?
- ♪ Feed your head ♪

- [PIERCE] Now!
- ♪ Feed your head ♪

Ah!

[g*nf*re]

[MAN GRUNTS]

[GRUNTING]

[GROANS]

[LENNOX] Hey, hey!

Keep your head down and stay here.

Come on!

- Over there.
- Stay here.

[GRUNTS]

♪ ♪

- [PANTING] Hey, boss.
- Neagley.

We got to cut our losses,
meet our buyer, get paid,

get the hell out of the country

before the cops and the feds show up.

Jefferson Airplane?

Why no Hendrix?

I'm with Swan. Hendrix is overrated.

[PARKER] What about the other guys?

f*ck 'em!

Ah!

Langston's getting away.

Get this thing up in the air.

It's gonna take a few
minutes to warm up first.

No. Let's go now, you son of a bitch.

All right.

How much a*mo you got?

Not enough to cover your slow ass

if you're planning on
running out of here.

You're gonna have to make do.

On three.

One, two, three.

[LANGSTON] Here we go.

sh*t.

[GRUNTING, PANTING]

Open the back doors.

Ladies first.

It's your turn, sweetheart.

Time for you to fly.

f*ck. [GRUNTS]

- f*ck!
- [YELLS]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTING]

Ah!

- [GRUNTS]
- [SHOUTS]

f*ck it. Come on, come
on, come on, come on.

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[GASPS]

Reacher!

- [YELPS]
- [GRUNTS]

[ALARM BEEPING]

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[SCREAMING]

[GASPS]

Jesus Christ, Reacher.

You just don't know

- when to quit!
- [GRUNTS]

[GRUNTING]

[GRUNTS]

Ah!

You're one tough son of a
bitch, I'll give you that.

Get him.

[PARKER] Here's the deal.

I can use your pal's brass knuckles

and smash your skull, or...

you can let the bitch fall,

and I'll be merciful and
toss you out after her.

[SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY]

- [DIXON SHOUTS]
- Ah!

[PANTING]

[LANGSTON] No, no.

Wait...

You better hold this thing steady,

or we're gonna find out the
hard way if I can land it.

Yes, ma'am.

Wait, wait, wait.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait...

Oh!

No, no, no, no! You...

You can still stop the missiles

from getting into the
hands of the t*rrorists.

No, no, no, no! No, no, no!

Don't! Don't k*ll me, and I'll tell you

where I was gonna meet Mahmoud.

You assume that's the
information I need, Langston.

But in an investigation,
assumptions k*ll.

No.

[SHOUTS]

[GRUNTS]

[O'DONNELL] That was a really cool line,

but I hope you actually know
where the hell A.M.'s heading.

I don't. But he does.

What do you say, flyboy?

They're going to meet one
of the New Age engineers

at his home so he can teach the buyers

how to put the Little Wing
chips into the rockets.

Look, I have the coordinates.
Please, just don't k*ll me.

Take us there.

[WHIRRING FADES]

♪ ♪

[BRAKES SQUEAL]

[ENGINE STOPS]

[DOOR OPENS]

[WIND WHISTLING]

[A.M.] Excellent.
Langston's already here.

[MUFFLED g*nsh*t]

You're not Langston.

No sh*t.

Get inside.

There must be some mistake.

I don't know any of you people.

Sorry to disappoint.

Your little scientist friend's being
held in the barn with the pilot.

You k*lled our friends.

Over this stuff.

You k*lled them.

[STAMMERS] I understand
that you're upset,

but I didn't k*ll your friends.

- I didn't even know them.
- [REACHER] But I know you.

You don't care how many people die

so long as you get your finder's fee.

Arrest me and get it over with.

We could do that, but...

bet a guy like you...

probably got a top-notch
lawyer on speed dial.

We'll give you one chance.

Tell us who you're
selling the weapons to.

Oh, I-I'm sorry, that would ruin
my reputation and my business.

Not that I would expect
any of you to understand.

I can see that you're idealists.

Besides, your issues aren't with me.

I don't fire the weapons.
I'm the middleman.

It's-it's just business.

- You think that makes it better?
- [A.M.] Yes, I do.

Between the seller of
the g*n or the user,

I prefer to be the seller.

The base mindset that
a person has to embrace

to actually pull the
trigger is no better than...

- [g*nsh*t]
- [GRUNTS]

[SCOFFS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

♪ ♪

[DOOR OPENS]

Here.

[SEAVER] Guessing from all the g*nf*re

we don't have anyone
to worry about anymore.

- [REACHER] Affirmative.
- [SEAVER] Huh.

What do you want to do with these two?

[PILOT BREATHES HEAVILY]

Hey, man. I didn't k*ll anyone,

and I didn't have anything
to do with those missiles.

I only flew the chopper.

I was just doing my job.

What's your excuse?

I was just gonna show him
how to implement the chips.

I had no idea what they
were all gonna be used for.

Please, I'm just an engineer.

Get out of here. Both of you.

- Thanks.
- Thanks.

[HELICOPTER WHIRRING SOFTLY]

[WHIRRING INCREASES]

Don't hog the beer, O'Donnell.

Yeah.

Cold tonight.

Only gonna get colder.

Yup.

Just wait till they're over the river,

past that ridge.

Copy that.

[O'DONNELL COUGHS, MUTTERS]

I think we're good, Neagley.

Fire in the hole.

Wait for it...

I guess Little Wing works.

[r*fles CLICK]

You got to be sh1tting me.

Sorry, but Senator Lavoy was clear.

No one can ever know
what really happened.

Can't take the risk
one of you might talk.

I underestimated you guys.

Didn't think we'd take it this far?

[REACHER] Didn't think
you'd wait this long.

I thought you might make a move

as soon as I let them
get on the chopper.

Me, too.

Maybe they just really wanted

to see me sh**t those assholes down.

It was pretty cool.

[REACHER] I figured
Lavoy was the kind of guy

that would cover his ass.

That's why I didn't just call Lavoy.

I also called Omar Karim in Homeland.

[SIREN CHIRPING]

I think that's him now.

♪ ♪

[TAC TEAM LEADER] Down, down, down!

[TAC SQUAD MEMBER] Hands!

- Let me see your hands!
- Move!

Cutting it pretty close.

When is government ever efficient?

- Lavoy?
- Tac team's standing by.

Thought you might want to do the honors.

[LINE RINGING]

[RINGING]

Is it over?

[REACHER OVER PHONE] Almost.

There's just one last loose
end that needs tying up.

I think this is what's
called a win-win.

You've got the green light.

[TAC TEAM MEMBER]
Lavoy! Homeland Security!

Lay on the ground! Get down!

Show me your hands.

Move, move, move!

[DISCONNECT TONE]

Lavoy's having a bad day.

We had a deal.

Get going. We'll clean up here.

Oh, one more thing...

Where's the money?

What money?

[♪ THE CRUTCH: "KEEP ON RISIN'"]

♪ Whoo ♪

♪ I'm on my way ♪

♪ Got the light of day ♪

♪ Living on parade ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Making history, yeah ♪

♪ Passing county lines ♪

♪ Racking up the miles ♪

♪ Flying by the signs, whoa ♪

♪ And I keep on keeping on ♪

♪ I'll keep on rising... ♪

[ALL GRUNT SOFTLY]

Looks like you had a rough night.

Had worse.

[WAITRESS] What can I get you?

Coffee. Black.

Same.

Yeah, you can bring the pot.

For you, ma'am?

Cereal.

Pops, Puffs or Pebbles,

in that order of preference.

And a chocolate milkshake, thanks.

So...

what are we gonna do
with 65 million simoleons?

That's a lot of lettuce.

Got to use it to make up for
some of the pain it caused.

Sure, but what specifically?

Big decisions...

Well, I sure am glad that
I'm not the senior officer

in charge of this unit, got
to make choices like that.

- Don't look at me.
- [CHUCKLING] What a shocker.

The guy with no mortgage,
no car payments and no job

- doesn't want the responsibility.
- [DIXON] You care less

about money than anybody
I've ever met, Reacher.

You should be in charge
of it. Handle it, Big Guy.

- Thank you.
- [TV ANNOUNCER] This just in...

[NEWS ANCHOR] Police say
they've recovered two bodies

from the wreckage of a
helicopter that went down

in the Hudson River early this morning.

- Just terrible.
- [NEWS ANCHOR] A fisherman who witnessed the crash...

Yeah. Real shame.

[NEWS ANCHOR] ... said the
chopper had a stream of smoke

trailing behind it,
followed by an expl*si*n.

Investigators are blaming the tragedy

on system malfunction
and possibly pilot error.

Sounds like your friend at
Homeland has things handled.

Got 50 cents?

You have 65 million
three inches from you.

Juke boxes don't take bearer bonds.

Start me a new tab.

[NEAGLEY] Mm-hmm.

[NEW ANCHOR CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]

[♪ QUAKER CITY NIGHT
HAWKS: "b*at THE MACHINE"]

♪ Took down my coat and I put it on ♪

♪ Put cold hands through the sleeves ♪

♪ Pulled down my hat and I rode along ♪

- ♪ Silent ice in the trees ♪
- _

♪ I rode right past all
the soldiers there ♪

♪ Got in the bridge cross the creek ♪

♪ The lonesome sounds... ♪

[RUSSO] How can you not
know where it came from?

You're the bank. Yeah.

It's millions of dollars
earmarked for my kids.

It can't be from my brother.

He...

he d*ed recently.

♪ Oh... ♪

I'm gonna miss you.

Take care of the spot.

We got you. Send us a postcard.

- [LAUGHING] Key West or bust.
- ♪ Rode three days through the howling rain ♪

♪ Towards the kingdoms in the East ♪

♪ And I heard that great
dog of winter there ♪

- ♪ Call through the darkness to me ♪
- _

♪ He asked how long till
the w*r come to him ♪

♪ I said not till the spring ♪

[CRYING]

♪ Oh ♪

[MAN] Hey, do we know
someone named Swan?

Or a dog named Maisi?

I don't think so. Why?

Got a donation in their name.

♪ Oh, oh ♪

♪ You can't get what you need ♪

♪ Oh, oh ♪

Mr. Neagley, I'm Connie Bumbry
from Chicago Home Health.

I'm part of the team that's been hired

to provide you
around-the-clock medical care.

[PHONE CLICKS]

[NEAGLEY] That was my dad.

What did you do?

You would've felt funny
if I'd just put cash in your account,

but you won't take it
away from your father.

He's good for the rest of his life.

Whatever he needs.

There's more than a
bit left over for you.

I ever tell you you're
a good friend, Reacher?

Not nearly enough.

What about me?

What did the world's
scariest Santa Claus

put under my tree this year?

I didn't give you a penny.

but I put a shitload
in your kids' names.

Credit Union around the
corner from your house.

It'll cover private school
tuition, college, trade school.

From the looks of it, the defense
lawyers they'll eventually need.

[LAUGHS]

Now you only have to take the sleazy,
adjacent jobs you want to take.

I'm, uh, speechless.

That's a first.

[LAUGHS]

Speaking of jobs... you can quit yours.

I started a Delaware LLC in your name.

Fully funded. Go hang your own shingle.

You're too smart to be working
for anyone but yourself.

[LAUGHS]

Wow. I, uh... I just, um...

Wow.

Thank you.

What about you, Big Dog?

What did you get for yourself?

I need a new toothbrush.

[CHUCKLES]

Oh, my God, he's serious.

You know, Reacher,

when I found out that
you were... [SNIFFLES]

... wandering the Earth with nothing but

what you could carry in your pockets...

I thought you'd lost your mind.

But...

there's a part of me that thinks that

you're the only one out of us
that's got it all figured out.

Can't believe I'm gonna say this,

but I actually miss Swan's
guitar playing right now.

To absent friends.

- To absent friends.
- To absent friends.

- [EXHALES SHARPLY]
- [CLEARS THROAT] So...

this is it.

It's our last night together.

We should take another picture.

Yeah, we should.

Hell yeah.

Guess you're not gonna let me
just take this one either, huh?

Not a chance, boss.

Hey. Come on.

[DIXON SIGHS]

Okay.

[BEEPING]

♪ ♪

Good, you're awake.

I thought you'd gone.

I did.

Bought you a present.

[GRUNTS SOFTLY]

[SNIFFLES]

Now you can actually get
yourself something with the money.

Please, Reacher.

You deserve it. Do it for me.

Okay.

And there's something else you can do.

- Name it.
- Come home with me.

I really want you to meet my parents.

I'm f*cking with you.

[INHALES, SIGHS]

[DIXON LAUGHS]

Look, I don't know about you,

but I see what we've been
doing these past few days

not so much as...

"new business" but "old business."

Old business that really
needed to be taken care of.

[DIXON] Mm.

Damn right it did.

And before this meeting's adjourned,

I think this particular item
needs one last going over.

I second that motion,

but I saw O'Donnell out front,

and I told him that
I'd share a cab with him

to the airport so
I've only got a minute.

This might take more than a minute.

That's not what O'Donnell said.

[♪ LYNYRD SKYNYRD: "SIMPLE MAN"]

♪ Mama told me ♪

[NEAGLEY] This is what
you bought yourself?

- A bus pass?
- ♪ When I was young... ♪

That's a Trailways Pass.

I can ride the bus anywhere
in the country for a year.

That's $1,980 of freedom, Neagley.

[NEAGLEY] Well, I guess at
least for the next 365 days

I won't have to worry that you're
out there hopping freight trains.

And, for the record...

I'm not as comfortable with this
arrangement as I thought I was.

Years without seeing each
other, never speaking,

getting together only
when we're being sh*t at?

You need to get better
at staying in touch.

Is that understood?

Yes, Master Sergeant.

♪ Oh, take your time ♪

♪ Don't live too fast... ♪

Bye, Neagley.

♪ And they will pass... ♪

[NEAGLEY] One more thing.

You've referred to the Special
Investigators as your team,

your soldiers, even your friends.

But you know we're
more than that, right?

♪ There's someone up above ♪

♪ And be a simple kind of man ♪

♪ Oh, be something ♪

♪ You love and understand ♪

♪ Baby, be a simple ♪

♪ Kind of man ♪

♪ Oh, won't you do this for me, son ♪

♪ If you can? ♪

Where you coming from?

Right here.

Doing what?

♪ Forget your lust ♪

Visiting family.

♪ For the rich man's gold ♪

So, where you headed?

♪ All that you need ♪

No idea.

♪ Is in your soul ♪

♪ And be a simple kind of man ♪

♪ Oh, be something ♪

♪ You love and understand ♪

♪ Baby, be a simple kind of man ♪

♪ Oh, won't you do this for me, son ♪

♪ If you can? ♪

♪ Oh, yes, I will ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Boy, don't you worry ♪

♪ You'll find yourself ♪

♪ Follow your heart ♪

♪ And nothing else ♪

♪ And you can do this ♪

♪ Oh, baby, if you try ♪

♪ All that I want for you, my son ♪

♪ Is to be satisfied ♪

♪ And be a simple ♪

♪ Kind of man ♪

♪ Oh, be something ♪

♪ You love and understand ♪

♪ Baby, be a simple ♪

♪ Kind of man ♪