

Reacher gets closer to the unseen enemy pulling the strings, leading him to the real perpetrators, a Russian gang masquerading as legitimate businessmen. While she is doing this, he goes to the parking building at exactly the same time as the shooting and finds inconsistencies with this location, thinking the killings would be easier and cleaner if done from the cover of the van on the nearby Fort Duquesne Bridge and when Helen reports her findings about the victims to him, he makes some theories of his own, suggesting that not all the victims were random.Īfter a seemingly random bar fight, Reacher realizes that someone is attempting to strong-arm him into dropping his investigation, but this only motivates him, and further probing provides a lead – a shooting range in the neighboring state of Ohio, owned by former USMC Gunnery Sergeant Martin Cash, who will only talk if Reacher proves his sniping skills, which he does. Reacher agrees to investigate but gets Helen to visit the victims’ families and find out more about the people murdered that day. Reacher then vowed that if Barr tried anything like this again, he would take him down. Reacher retorts that he’s not interested in clearing Barr, but wants to “bury” him, then reveals some classified information: previously, Barr had gone on a killing spree during his tour in Iraq, but got off on a technicality. Helen says she can arrange for Reacher to see the evidence if he will become her lead investigator. While there, he meets Barr’s defense attorney, counsellor Helen Rodin, the DA’s daughter, who is trying to save Barr from the death penalty. When they raid his house, they find equipment for making bullets, the rifle in question and Barr himself and they arrest him.ĭuring interrogation, Barr asks Emerson and the District Attorney, Alex Rodin to get Jack Reacher, a drifter and former Army Military Police officer, who arrives just as Rodin and Emerson are reviewing his file.Įmerson and Robin deny Reacher’s request to view the evidence, but agree to let him see Barr, who was brutally attacked by fellow inmates while being transported and was now in a coma. A fingerprint taken from the coin points to James Barr, a former U.S.

The police soon arrive, headed by Detective Emerson, and they discover a shell casing as well as the coin used to pay for parking. He takes aim and appears to randomly kill five people around the stadium and on the river’s North Shore Trail before hurriedly fleeing in his van. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania a man drives a van up floors of a parking garage across the Allegheny River from the PNC Park stadium and, after paying for parking, readies a sniper rifle in the open, away from his vehicle.

On December 9, 2013, it was announced that the sequel would be based on the 2013 Jack Reacher novel, Never Go Back later it was reported that Cruise will reprise his role. Cruise performed all of his own driving stunts during the film's signature car chase sequence. The musical score was composed by Joe Kraemer, performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony and recorded at the Sony Scoring Stage in Culver City, California.

It was released in North America on December 21, and in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2012. premiere gala, scheduled for December 15, was delayed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on December 14.
