Reacher Season 3 Episode 5, titled “Smackdown,” grew to become out there for streaming on Prime Video on March 6, 2025, and options the demise 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 improvement and the way it will affect her character.
Sonya Cassidy on Steven Eliot’s demise in Reacher Season 3 Episode 5
A member of Duffy’s group, 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 at hand 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 occasions. Whereas talking to TVLine, Cassidy referred to as Eliot’s demise “horrendous” earlier than explaining the impact it will have on Duffy and the remainder of her group.
“It’s unimaginable to lose certainly one of your group, somebody who was so younger…,” Cassidy acknowledged, 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 group 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 hold making an attempt?’ However she is so decided and pushed that she chooses the trail of, ‘His demise can’t have been for nothing, so let’s simply f—— do that.’”
Regardless of the setbacks, Cassidy acknowledged 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, nevertheless it nonetheless happens.