REACHER Season 4 Episode 4 Recap | SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG HERE! | Prime Video
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In this recap of *Reacher* Season 4, Episode 4, titled "Karambits and Pieces," the hosts discuss a pivotal episode filled with significant character developments and plot twists. The narrative picks up immediately after Cardell's dramatic fall from a building, setting a tone of high stakes as Reacher investigates the mysterious contents of a flash drive. A major emotional beat occurs when Samson, having served with Reacher for eleven years, decides to protect him by abandoning his own wife in a parking lot under a tarp rather than letting her face potential danger. While this act initially raises questions about Samson's loyalty, it ultimately reveals a strong personal code, though the hosts note that his wife remains a suspicious figure whose true intentions are still unclear to the audience.
The review also delves into several criticisms regarding the episode's logic and security protocols within the story. The hosts express disbelief at how easily Tamar infiltrates a top-secret government facility using only an old badge and a claim that her car is in the shop, noting that real-world security measures would have been far more rigorous. Additionally, they question the competence of the guards who fail to stop Mrs. Green from escaping and later criticize the inconsistent handling of Reacher during his fight with CIA agents at the docks. Specifically, they point out the confusion over whether the agents intended to keep him alive or kill him, as well as the strange choice of using an ice pick instead of a direct shot when he was most vulnerable.
Despite these logical gaps, the hosts praise the episode for its thrilling choreography and unexpected reveals, particularly the introduction of Indonesian martial artists wielding karambit knives who appear to be connected to previous victims. The discussion highlights how the show continues to challenge Reacher, forcing him into situations where he is outnumbered and surrounded by hostile forces, including a standoff in a hotel room with armed police. The hosts emphasize that while Reacher often relies on "white privilege" to escape tight spots, this episode tests his limits as he tries to clear his name without the ability to simply jump into a subway tunnel. Ultimately, they conclude that there is likely much more hidden on the flash drive than initially thought and warn viewers not to fully trust Samson or his wife yet, as the mystery deepens with every revelation.
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What is going on everybody? How y'all
doing? How y'all doing? How y'all doing?
It is BA Barry and Lamont and we are
back for Reacher season 4 episode 4
titled Karambits and Pieces. Reacher
talks to Samson, Tamar breaks into a
government structure, Jacob gets bad
news, and the team learns information
that changes everything. Spoiler spoiler
spoilers. Lamont
um we ended last episode where our old
boy
uh Cardell
jumped off the bridge not the bridge but
the building man head first for the most
part and we're like what the hell was on
the disc.
As each episode progresses, I love how
it starts. They pick up right where
things leave off. Um there was a lot
of um reveals in this episode, too, that
I I can't wait to talk to you about. Um
some inconsistencies at one point, which
um I'll mention a little bit later
um as far as my criticisms, but overall
I did enjoy it um especially this
opening scene.
Um I got a tickle
out of Samson just like I've served with
this man for 11 years and he has had my
back and I'm not going to abandon him in
a parking lot under a tarp.
I was like you go, sir. You know what
I'm saying? At first, I kind of thought
you was a a hole jerk. But you may be
pretty cool. You may have a code that I
can get behind. You know what I'm
saying?
Anyway, that's kind of how I felt about
the episode. Not perfect cuz I'mma get
to my criticism, but I did enjoy it
especially the scene I just described.
But how are you feeling about this
latest episode of Reacher? Did you like
it? Did you hate it? Are you somewhere
in the middle? Let let us know, sir. Let
us know.
>> I I enjoyed it, man. I you know, I'm
thankful that you allowed me to do these
with you because
I love Reacher. This show is great. It's
one of the favorite shows that me and
you do together. And because we review
it, you know, I've got to pay a little
bit more attention to it. And I'm glad
that I'm being forced to do that because
I get to pay attention to some of the
tidbits the writers put in there. And
so, I really love this episode. Uh not
my favorite, but I I enjoyed the
episode. I felt like it continued
where it left off just like you said.
And I had the same sentiment Bea Avery
had, audience. For a minute, I was
starting to feel certain kind of way
about Sims. Like he did have a code.
Like I was really, you know, I didn't
think that he's the mastermind of
anything. And I was he almost won me
over in that moment. Until we get on
with the story, ladies and gentlemen.
>> Oh.
>> And then we get on with the with the
story. And I I I, you know, I don't know
whether or not I still can really trust
him or not. I still have my spidey
senses up. But that wife, ladies and
gentlemen, keep an eye on her.
>> That was my next question, sir. Oh my
gosh, you can keep the mic. I was going
to ask you is your spidey sense up still
for the wifey? Let me let me know.
>> Yes.
Yes, spidey sense is still It's tingling
so bad I'm electric sliding, ladies and
gentlemen. That's what my legs is doing.
Y'all just can't see it.
>> Okay.
>> And something that's going to take a
whole lot more than what we've seen so
far for me to really believe in that
wife.
>> Yeah, um a little bit later on in the
episode, she was just like, "Hey man,
you're Jonah." Or something like that. I
think was the term where you're on the
ship and every time you pop up is bad
luck, you know, bad karma. Get out of
here. We I would like it if you just
stayed away from us. You know, like um
he did something wrong in a sense. And
you know, it was funny because the the
other gentleman
uh Reese was like, "Hey, can you give me
a ride back to the to the hotel?" He was
like, "F off." Or something like that. I
was I was tickled. [laughter]
I was tickled. I was tickled. But now,
let me let me go ahead and get this
criticism out of the way first.
Um
>> Okay.
>> Tamara breaks into the government
structure with Anna Wilkes badge to try
to find out
the information that was on the driver
that she downloaded.
I thought the security
for this structure, this building was
atrocious.
Just the Yeah, she did get she did get
ran out of there.
But she shouldn't have even I mean,
first of all, it's it was suspect that
you walking up
to the gate. Now, the gym the security
guard did say that like, "We don't get
many walk-ups." And she was like, "Yeah,
my car's in the shop."
I had the Uber or the Lyft drop me off
at the coffee shop, so now I'm walking
up. But the way that she just looking
down, I mean, I I don't know. If I am at
the head of security of a government
structure like this,
that I mean, that's 72 different red
flags right there. Like, no, I we want
to look at you. We want to scan you in.
You know, you got That's one badge. You
need to have to We need to scan your
pupils. All that. But then, LaMont, when
she goes inside,
she's like, "Hey, I don't I don't know
what I'm doing. I don't know where I'm
supposed to go.
>> [laughter]
>> I just got transferred."
And then the lady like, "Hey, let me log
you in on the old lady name." I'm like,
"What kind of policy and procedure is
this?" Like,
you can't even get away You can't get
get away with this at a call center job.
You know what I'm saying? No no shade to
my call center I've worked at a call
center before. I'm I'm just saying. This
supposed to be the the
G14 classified. LaMont, am I
>> [laughter]
>> So,
I was rolling I was rolling my eyes. Um
now, again, she was only in there for 5
10 minutes before they were like, "Okay,
something's awry." You know, you know
what I'm saying? So, I mean, they
weren't just completely incompetent, but
I was over there like, "Wait a minute.
Where what's going on? Am Am I Do you
agree disagree? How How are you feeling
about that?"
>> Man, audience, let us know, too. B Avery
is 100% right. You cannot be a
top-secret facility that a damn
investigator reporter can barely get
information on, and then when you do
discover this top-secret facility, it
ain't top secret to get your ass up in
there. Come on, man.
>> It was too easy. Stop it.
>> You You're not going to have a mall cop
as the security the security guard at
the gate.
>> Yeah.
>> They have better security guarding Star
Island in the Miami home district than
this damn government facility have,
okay? I know cuz I done broke in there
myself. So, and and like B Avery said,
then once they get in, once she gets in,
maybe it was the sister wanted to help a
sister. So, I'm I'm willing to give that
part of the past, B Avery. I'm willing
to give the sister trying to help
another sister a pass.
I'm willing to give that a pass.
But what I'm not willing to give a pass
is to the second-rate, third-grade,
butter-cutter cops that could not catch
Mrs. Green. And then Mrs. Green goes
right back past the mall cop who You're
the one that called him on her.
And you weren't prepared for her to run
back past your ass? No way. That's
Folks, if this is going to be a
top-secret government facility,
you are going to have RoboCops
>> Yeah.
>> at the gate. You're going to have Robo
cops in the facility.
And then you might even have one
Terminator 2 cop in there as well. So,
you know, I'm with B Avery. It was
comical. It was I Look, I liked it, but
it was very comical.
>> Yeah,
uh it was. Even adding on to it's how uh
Jacob and the other guy were outside in
the car,
you know, posted up, and they came
around like
They're going to peep They're going to
see that and be like, "Okay, what what
are these jokers over here doing?"
Scoping the you know, binoculars and it
come It's just like I I don't know. It
Well, no, I do know. That That just That
That didn't execute that well um in my
opinion.
Um you know, it it was funny, you know,
that they ran into the Asian lady. I
like, "Oh, I'm so sorry." And you know,
spilled the coffee and how fast is she
eating? And all that. So, um I I don't
know. You guys let us know, you know,
what you think in the comment section.
Subscribe to both of our channels um if
you agree, even if you disagree. You
know, it's nice to subscribe to some
people that you you um you disagree
with. But uh Lamar, have you ever been
to the bar at 9:00 a.m. to get beer and
scotch?
>> Bro, I haven't even been to a bar at
10:00 p.m. I don't drink alcohol. I
mean, that's not one of my food. It's my
vice, ladies and gentlemen. So, if I
show up at the bar, I'm there for chips
and dip, okay? So, no.
>> Okay. Okay. Yeah, me too. I mean, I
don't I don't have any issues with
alcohol at all, but it's just not my cup
of tea. I probably will have maybe two
drinks a year, you know?
Uh but but Samson, he just saw his
friend dive to his death, and he needs
to
uh go shake some things up. And so, when
he gets to the bar, he starts conversing
with Reacher, and we find out a little
bit more details of what people may
think is on this drive. So, he did work
with Pootra
and trained him and and or was over the
the department um or the group that
trained his forces
um to keep the scientists safe and we
got to find out what the scientists are
doing. But, when he left Pootra turned
into
Hitler.
Um
you know, he turned into um
I forgot the guy from Africa that used
to chop up Leopold. Uh he was a monster,
apparently. Did a horrible things and
Samson is um is getting blamed for it.
Do you think
that is all that it is or do you think
there's still some some uh mystery
behind uh uh do you think that's all
that's on the drive?
Or do you think there's there's more
that we still haven't found out yet? And
do you believe Samson as well?
>> I don't believe I want to.
But, you can have team
Let me tell you something about
politicians. Politicians are some of the
best liars. The name itself, poly, many,
tician, lies. That's their names. So,
no, I don't believe Samson. Even though
I think he's trying to play
psychological games with Reacher and he
doesn't know just how powerful Reacher
is and stoic Reacher is mentally, but I
don't believe it and B.A. Baracus, you
can gosh darn believe there is more on
that flash drive than meets the eye. And
like Reacher asked him,
what if your head of chief of staff was
willing to kill himself over what's on
this drive,
what is it you're willing to kill
yourself for? And then why do you want
this thing back so badly? So, no, I
don't trust him, B.A. Baracus. I don't
think you should trust him, either.
>> Yeah, um
I want to trust him, but you You I I
don't and um I'm not, you know, just to
be on the safe side, but you know, it'll
be surprising if uh in the end, you
know, he comes through as uh some type
of ally
uh something like that, but you know,
we'll we'll we'll just have to see. I do
trust him more
uh than I trust his wife though.
Big time.
Is it going to be a good thing?
>> You agree with that?
>> I
>> Okay.
>> I agree with that.
>> Okay.
>> I agree with that. I think the wife is a
mastermind stuff to some degree on
something.
>> Got you. Now, uh Jacob, um I feel sorry
for him.
I feel sorry for him.
You know, he found out that his uh
nephew is dead and um that the garbage
man is the one that turned it in or made
the call.
Um did you have any impression that he
could still be alive or did you know he
was dead and you know, it was just a
matter of time before he was going to
find out the truth?
>> If you recall, you remember we talked
about this when they went to the frat
house
and me and you kind of we dibble-dabble
a little bit around and you asked me to
pull out the notebook.
>> Mhm.
>> I felt like I felt like he was dead a
little bit. I felt like he was a lost
cause at that moment because I was
trying to put the pieces together as to
what would cause the mom to kill herself
with the son out there. Normally
parents, if you still got a living
child, you're not going to off yourself.
So, that was kind of why that was kind
of why that um
uh theory came to be.
And you know, are you for sure
can we really be for sure that he's
dead?
>> Yeah, that sound about it. He was
standing over the body at the bar.
[laughter]
>> We've seen this type of stuff and you
remember they found Unique's body.
>> Mhm.
>> Could this be a plant? Could
you know, this be some high-tech
because this is an international thing,
B. And when you talk about
international, you talk about
you Okay. Okay.
>> Yeah, I mean I mean, you know, you
you've you've thrown theories out there
that I thought was crazy and it ended up
being true.
So, I mean I can't just write you off. I
don't think it is, but you know, we'll
we'll see. We'll see.
>> Look, I don't either. I I don't either.
But, I I I don't think we should close
the door to the fact that because of the
powerful forces involved,
you know,
just don't be so audience.
If somehow someway this nephew pop back
up, that's all I'm saying. That's all
I'm saying.
>> How'd you feel about the fight with the
CIA agents at the docks or the pier,
whatever, in the warehouse?
>> Man,
I'll say this.
This season is the season where they've
let Reacher take the most licks as if
he's getting long in the tooth or
something because every one of them got
licks on him except for old boy that's
the boss. Now, the way he got away,
stop it. You could have shot him.
Like,
when he said, "Nope, you're not going to
get me." and he took his big ass and
jumped on that fence, you could have
popped him right in the calf. He's done.
>> Well,
let me interject
cuz that was part of my criticisms.
Right when he hopped over there, said,
"Keep him alive." They did say that. And
so, I was thinking that
they had the one of the guys that was
pointing the gun, it was another
tranquilizer,
you know?
But, what doesn't make sense to me is
when he was fighting
one of the gentlemen
and the henchmen in
the freezer room with all the ice cubes,
one of them had a pick and I'm like,
"Okay, you or maybe it was a crowbar.
I'm like, are you trying to stab him or
you trying to just knock him out? But
then the next guy came in and started
unloading the magazine. So, I was like,
wait a minute. I thought you was trying
to keep him alive. But why why are you
um, you know,
hand you know, uh uh
um
trigger finger over here.
But uh I mean, am I tripping or that
that's that's how I saw it or and you
know, interpreted the scene. It kind of
bothered me. Still entertaining.
And I I do like that they got licks on
them. I don't want Reacher just to be
completely invincible. You know, I want
him to be challenged in a way.
Um
But that was I mean, so
like I like the choreography, but that
part was
you know, I didn't I didn't I didn't
like. Do you you agree or disagree?
>> That's my point. Like, you made it
unrealistic at that point. This man
y'all I mean, if you're going to shoot
him in the ice room,
why not try to shoot him right there
when he's jumping over the fence? Like,
did you change your mind because he
started kicking y'all ass once he got in
the ice pit the ice pit? And B A B, that
was a icicle. That's exactly what that
was. That I mean, that thing is sharp.
It'll gut a pig. And they was trying to
get him with it. And one of the one of
the little CIA agents looked like he was
feeling froggy like, dude, I can take
you. Yeah, right, bro.
Yeah, you thought you could.
And for whatever the reason Reacher
didn't take out the boss
for whatever the reason. I mean, you
know, he could have, but he didn't.
But he took his stuff, he threw it in
the river, and he walked away.
But Reacher, this man tried to he tried
to kill you.
He shot like six bullets into the wall
trying to hit you.
You're a better man than me.
>> He leaned on him though, man. Um he real
did. I really did. Um
Again, rest in peace Anna. Sorry that
you went out the way that you did,
especially
pretty much knowing
that your son was dead and you you had
no way out. Um I wonder if there's going
to be a fracture in the relationship
between Jacob and Reacher because he
probably blames him for Anna's death now
because it's like you told her you was a
cop.
You know, you think he will or you think
it'll be swept under the rug?
>> Eventually it'll get swept under the
rug.
But, you know, you never know when
someone is grieving and going through
pain and this is two people this man
done lost in within a week. So, he's
really feeling it. But, he's lost two
people and he might have gained him a
girlfriend. There was some energy going
on between him and Green.
There was some energy and it's more than
just putting sugar in her coffee.
>> Yeah, there's also a lot of energy in
that guy that fell off the the track at
the at the subway onto the track and got
electrocuted. Is that real? Can that
really happen like that?
>> Yeah, it can. If if it's if the if the
the the electricity is on properly,
yeah, you can fry your butt like
chicken.
>> Wow, yeah, yeah.
Uh yeah, Miss Layla.
You know, they they were together and
guys was staking out the place and
followed them downstairs and he threw
her on the on the train. Go to the
hotel. I'll catch up with you.
Had a little skirmish.
Hides in the subway and goes back.
And Lamont, we find a pattern.
We notice
that Ben has the same similar cut
as some other victims that went down
with the similar weapon with a curve
with martial arts from Indonesia.
And who do we know from Indonesia,
Lamar?
Tell me how you feel about that reveal
at the end. Did you see it coming?
Let us know.
>> I did not. Bro, they got me with that
one.
They got me with that one. Like
That's why I say I love this show
because for as much as I think I can
pick up on everything that is going on,
they always have one reveal in there
that throws me off. I enjoyed it and I
like how be I'm be honest with you, bro.
I've been loving how they're ending
these episodes. Now, you know,
each episode kind of warns you there's
going to be like a suicide death, that
type thing.
But even though you have that warning,
you don't know what's going to how it's
going to come, what's going to be the
big reveals. This was a big reveal for
me. How did you feel about it?
>> Um I didn't see it coming either. Um you
know, they walked in there and there's
already some dead bodies, but I was
like, "Oh,
there's going to be more dead bodies."
Uh you know, what what are they going to
do with these knives here? Then I put it
together.
Uh I was also kind of interested like,
you know, why there are no guns, but
that's just not their style, you know,
and I
only thought that for like a second. You
know, um
you know, martial artists do have a
different mindset whether they're good
or evil.
Uh but I'm really eager to see how much
damage they can do.
Um you know, who they're going to be
fighting with these knives in the end
and what is their ultimate goal? What is
their agenda? What is their objective?
We kind of we kind of got that worked
out there. Uh but it sucks for Reacher,
man. He keeps
uh hovering over dead bodies and cops
coming like, "Freeze! Put your hands
up." And he's like, "I didn't do it. I
was just trying to find out like you,
you know, so how is he going to get out
of this mess?" He doesn't have a subway
to dive into. He's in a hotel room
somewhere. So,
what you think?
You going to jump out the window?
>> The only way he getting out of this is
white privilege because that's pretty
much the way he's gotten out of
everything this whole season. It's white
privilege. If me and you was interjected
and changed in the Reacher with Anna, we
wouldn't been walking out of the damn
interrogation room. You kidding me? Now,
mind you, I love I love Reacher. I love
the guy playing Reacher, but like B.
Avery said, if he don't jump his ass out
that window, the only thing getting him
up out of there is white privilege.
>> Yes. Yes. We're going to see though.
We're going to see. Is that all of your
final thoughts, sir?
>> Those are my final thoughts. Audience,
keep watching. This is some of the best
TV on right now. It's a great, great
show. And um
we want to hear from you.
Give us novels in the comment section.
>> Novels,
booklets. But guys, we just want to
thank you so much for tuning in for our
Reacher season 4 episode 4 recap and
review for Karambits and Pieces. And we
will be here same time, same place for
next week's episode Bridge.
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I am so sorry, Lamont.
We're going to get this right.
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>> No.
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I'll see you next time.