Reacher Season 3 Episode 5, titled “Smackdown,” turned out there for streaming on Prime Video on March 6, 2025, and options the loss of life of a serious character. In a brand new interview, Actress Sonya Cassidy, who performs Particular Agent Susan Duffy within the present, mirrored on this new growth and the way it will impression her character.
Sonya Cassidy on Steven Eliot’s loss of life in Reacher Season 3 Episode 5
A member of Duffy’s staff, Daniel David Stewart’s rookie DEA agent Steven Eliot, is killed in Reacher Season 3 Episode 5. Eliot makes a deadly mistake in agreeing to John Cooper’s (Ronnie Rowe) insistent request handy over a cigarette. As Eliot ignites a lighter, Cooper spits alcohol at him, burning his face. Afterward, the bodyguard kills Eliot by stomping on his face a number of instances. Whereas talking to TVLine, Cassidy referred to as Eliot’s loss of life “horrendous” earlier than explaining the impact it could have on Duffy and the remainder of her staff.
“It’s unimaginable to lose one in every of your staff, somebody who was so younger…,” Cassidy said, including that it additionally was “a tragic signal of the place they’re at at that time” of their investigation of Anthony Michael Corridor’s Zachary Beck and Brian Tee’s Xavier Quinn.
Cassidy continued by noting that her character and her staff have been dying, shedding to their adversaries, and have been nowhere close to finding Duffy’s CI Teresa. She added, “So in that second, we’re at a crossroads with Duffy. She’s like, ‘Do I proceed doing this? How for much longer do I preserve attempting?’ However she is so decided and pushed that she chooses the trail of, ‘His loss of life can’t have been for nothing, so let’s simply f—— do that.’”
Regardless of the setbacks, Cassidy said that Duffy was nonetheless decided to complete her mission. “‘I [Duffy] am not strolling away from this, I can’t stroll away, having misplaced a younger man’s life and nonetheless having not having discovered Teresa,’” she stated.
Notably, Eliot (ebook spoilers forward) seems in Persuader, the Lee Baby ebook the present is predicated on. He doesn’t die this early within the narrative there, but it surely nonetheless happens.
