Highlights
- The main villain in Reacher Season 2 is Shane Langston, played by Robert Patrick. He poses a formidable challenge to the protagonist with his intelligence and determination.
- The tension between Reacher and Langston is one of the highlights of Season 2, as they engage in a cat and mouse game.
- Rory Cochrane was originally cast as Langston but was replaced by Robert Patrick due to scheduling conflicts. Patrick’s portrayal of the villain is praised as one of the best on television.
Reacher Season 2 is in full swing, with six episodes so far available to stream on Prime Video, with only two more to come leading up to the finale on January 19. Alan Ritchson plays Jack Reacher in the action-packed show, but it wouldn’t be the same without a formidable villain for him to come up against, and he faces his toughest task yet against the head of a mysterious company known as New Age Technologies, run by a shady guy by the name of Shane Langston, played by Hollywood legend, Robert Patrick.
Shane Langston is no match for Reacher in terms of physicality, but nobody in this series is. However, Langston has the smarts and the doggedness to take the eponymous hero to the brink in Reacher season 2. The tension building in this cat and mouse game between them has been one of the highlights of season 2 thus far, and fans can’t wait for the two of them to face off against each other in what is building up to be a very dramatic finale to season 2.
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Who is the villain in Reacher Season 2?
The villain in Reacher Season 2 is Shane Langston, who is a former NYPD detective with a problematic track record who is now head of security for a private defense contractor called New Age Technologies. Langston is trying to get his hands on a bunch of missiles, but he makes the big mistake of killing a member of Reacher’s 110th MP Special Investigations Unit, Calvin Franz, who was getting closer to uncovering what was going on.
Langston personally throws Franz from a helicopter, but not before Reacher’s ex-colleague can taunt him about the consequences Langston faces for killing him, as Reacher will hunt him down.
I’m just thinking about what the big guy is gonna do to you.
Reacher and his former 110th team, Dixon, Neagley and O’Donnell discover that one of their other former members, Swan, was working with Langston at New Age and could possibly be involved with what’s going on, despite Reacher not wanting to believe it.
Langston has hired a mysterious man, only known as A.M, because of the aliases he uses all begin with those initials, to obtain the missiles and kill anyone that gets in his way, which he does in brutal fashion. But A.M senses that Langston might not be so experienced with this line of terrorism.
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Who plays Reacher Season 2’s villain?
The man behind Reacher season 2’s main villain is an actor who is no stranger to villainous roles, having played them throughout his illustrious career. Robert Patrick portrays Shane Langston, and he does so with such brilliant menace. Patrick’s career has seen him play bad guys in movies quite a lot, with nasty roles in The Faculty and Cop Land, but by far his most famous villainous role was in a very successful Arnold Schwarzenegger sequel in the early 90s.
Episode 1 of Reacher season 2 makes a hilarious reference to Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which saw Patrick play the villainous T-1000 trying to track down Sarah Connor and kill her. Langston’s henchman, Trevor Saropian is on the phone with him, after trying to get information on Reacher and Neagley from a concierge at the hotel they are staying at. He finds out that Frances Neagley has checked into the hotel under the alias of Sarah Connor and ordered adjoining rooms for her and Reacher. Saropian asks Langston who Sarah Connor is, and the villain is not too interested in discussing it.
I don’t give a s**t
This line is an unbelievable joke, and a very clever nod to the audience, endearing them quickly to the brilliance of season 2. Robert Patrick’s role as Shane Langston is shaping up to be one of the best villains on television in recent years, but he was so close to not being cast in Reacher season 2. Rory Cochrane was originally cast in September 2022, but he had to exit due to scheduling conflicts as the production went through a number of scheduling changes.
Cochrane hadn’t filmed any scenes, so the recasting of Shane Langston didn’t require any re-shoots. There’s no doubt Cochrane would’ve been fantastic in the villainous role, but Robert Patrick came on board and made the role his own, making it very difficult to picture anybody else as the shady defense contractor. Production wrapped on Reacher season 2 in late February of last year, and was released on December 15, 2023.
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