Reacher star Alan Ritchson explains why one of Jack Reacher’s kills stands out more than the others.

Reacher's Alan Ritchson

Alan Ritchson’s Jack Reacher is not shy about killing bad guys when he needs to, and there’s one that stands out more than the rest for the star of the hit show Reacher.

Per GQ, Ritchson was recently asked to name his “favorite murder” on the series. The actor says that it’s important to make sure you “murder them right” if you’re going to commit murder for a television show like Reacher.

He then refers back to Season 1’s penultimate episode, “Reacher Said Nothing,” as having the scene that immediately came to mind. The actor also described how that scene took a lot out of him physically, which only made it that much more memorable for Ritchson.

Firstly, as you say: If you’re going to murder someone, murder them right,” Ritchson said. “There’s one fight that sticks out in my mind because it was brutal.

In Season 1, I’m fighting a guy with a crowbar and he like cracks a vase over my head and we end up in the pool, and he’s choking me out with a crowbar and I see a gun that has fallen in the bottom of the pool and I shoot him from behind my back, right? That fight took so much out of me!”

Ritchson continued, “I had a beanie on and when I got cracked in the head with a vase… Look, it was a sugar vase and I said to the guy to just f**king rock me with that thing, man. It looked really cool. It shatters and I’m like… I feel it. I am dazed.

We finish the sequence and I take my beanie off and there is blood everywhere. I told the stunt guys and was like, ‘Dude, that was a sugar vase?’ and they go, ‘Oh yeah, the sugar vase doesn’t help at all.'”

Oscar Finlay, Jack Reacher, and Roscoe Conklin listen to a phone call in the hallway of an undisclosed building in Reacher Season 1. Reacher characters, including Alan Ritchson's Jack Reacher in Season 2
David O'Donnell, Karla Dixon, Jack Reacher and Frances Neagley look over a staff photo on the hood of a car. Jack Reacher walking through a large metal gate with an empty parking lot behind him from Season 2 Frances Neagley, Jack Reacher and Stan Lowrey dressed in black aiming rifles with flashlights in the motor pool in Season 2
Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) having a staredown in Reacher Season 2

Jack Reacher Will Return in Season 3

Fans will see Jack Reacher back at it in Season 3, where his kill count is expected to climb even higher. The third season was announced by Alan Ritchson even before Season 2 premiered.

New episodes are currently in production, and while plot details haven’t been revealed, Jack Reacher novelist Lee Child has teased that the story will feature more of Jack “alone” in the new episodes, suggesting he won’t have as much help with his next outing in Season 3 of the show.