Prime Video’s Reacher has begun production on its fifth season, which will adapt Lee Child’s twentieth Jack Reacher novel, Make Me. The article argues that the choice marks a shift from the series’ established pattern, because Reacher’s investigation will not be driven by revenge for the death of a friend or relative, potentially giving Alan Ritchson’s character a darker but less personal story.

In Make Me, Reacher arrives in the small Midwestern town of Mother’s Rest, becomes suspicious of its residents’ behaviour and uncovers a disturbing mystery. The setting will continue the show’s practice of changing location each season, following Georgia, New York and Atlantic City, Maine and Philadelphia; it also remains a largely standalone adventure, despite the adaptation jumping from Season 4’s thirteenth novel, Gone Tomorrow, to the twentieth book.