Warning: Major spoilers for Reacher season 2 below!
The main character’s “Who’s Roscoe?” remark in Reacher season 2’s episode 7 seems to confirm that season 1’s ending was a lie. In season 2’s episode 7, Amazon’s Reacher picks up where episode 6 left. Following Russo’s death in season 2’s episode 6, Reacher and the team take Marlo and her daughter to their motel room, ensuring that Langston cannot get to them. With what follows, a lot happens throughout the episode as Reacher and Neagley set out to confront the snipers who previously tried to kill them, but Langston stays one step ahead of them by kidnapping David and Karla.
The episode ends with a major cliffhanger where the show confirms that Reacher has a plan to stop Langston and AM’s weapon trade and even save David and Karla before it is too late. However, the details of his plan remain shrouded in mystery. Although Reacher season 2’s episode 7 is replete with many gripping moments, its highlight is in its opening arc where Reacher says, “Who’s Roscoe?“
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Reacher’s Roscoe Comment Walks Back His Season 1 Ending
Reacher “Who’s Roscoe?” remark confirms his feelings for Roscoe have changed
In Reacher season 2’s episode 7, Reacher explicitly says that anyone he trusts with his life is involved in the case. When Neagley confronts him and asks him about Roscoe, and Dixon follows up with a “Who’s Roscoe,” Reacher dodges the question by claiming that Roscoe is a friend from Margrave. There are worse ways in which Reacher could have handled the situation, but Dixon’s smile in the episode suggests that she was not buying Reacher’s answer. What makes the scene even more hilariously awkward is that Reacher almost seems uninterested in talking about Roscoe, which subverts his season 1 ending.
Towards the ending moments of Reacher season 1, the titular character tells Roscoe if anyone could make him settle in Magrave, it would be her. Given how Reacher rarely lies and bluntly says what is on his mind, it seems unlikely that he poured his heart out to Roscoe in season 1 just to please her. Even in Reacher season 2’s episode 7, Reacher was likely not trying to shroud the truth by calling Roscoe a friend, but, instead, clearly stating how he perceives her after their fleeting romance from season 1. Therefore, after Reacher season 2’s episode 7, it would be fair to conclude that Reacher’s feelings for Roscoe have significantly changed after leaving Margrave.
Reacher’s “Friend” Comment Ends Any Chance Of Roscoe Returning In Season 2
Roscoe return seems unlikely after Reacher’s season 2 comment
Reacher’s “friend” comment about Roscoe not only ends the chance of the two rekindling their relationship in the future but also significantly reduces the odds of Roscoe’s return. Although Reacher does not answer Neagley’s question about trusting Roscoe, he seems to have no reason to stop trusting her. He just cannot reach out to her and get her involved in his current mission because he realizes that it would unnecessarily complicate things and potentially make his dynamic with Dixon awkward. In some ways, by calling Roscoe a friend, he also seems to protect Dixon’s feelings, even though Dixon manages to read between the lines.
The fact that Reacher avoids acknowledging his relationship with Roscoe proves that even if he specifically needs her help in the future, he will likely think twice before calling her. He does not share the same relationship with Finlay because he has always only been friends with him. As he did in season 2’s episode 4, Finlay can briefly show up, help Reacher, and then return to working in the Police department. However, with Roscoe, Reacher understands that getting in touch again could send her the wrong message, which would be unfair to her because his romantic feelings for her have gradually disappeared over the years.
Does Season 2 Confirm Dixon Is Reacher’s True Love After All?
Will Reacher’s relationship with Karla end after season 2?
Reacher arguably seems much closer to Dixon in season 2 than he was to Roscoe in season 1. However, calling Dixon Reacher’s “true love” would be a bit of a stretch, given how Reacher seems to love nothing more than the open road. In Lee Child’s Killing Foor, Jack Reacher quotes that he wants “the open road and a new place every day,” highlighting how he cares less about falling in love and settling down and more about living his life as a free vagrant. Owing to this, the Alan Ritchson character will likely find himself getting romantically involved with someone else in Reacher‘s future seasons while his feelings for Dixon, too, will gradually dwindle.
Reacher
Produced by Amazon Prime Video, Reacher adapts Lee Child’s Jack Reacher book series to live-action. The series follows veteran Military Police Officer Jack Reacher as he unravels a dangerous conspiracy in the fictional town of Margrave, Georgia. Played by the towering Alan Ritchson, the titular hero collaborates with officer Roscoe Conklin (Willa Fitzgerald) and Chief Detective Oscar Finlay (Malcolm Goodwin) to clean his name and save Margrave from crime and corruption.
