Finlay himself is a detective whose career-derived instincts quickly ally him with Reacher in his battle against corruption. Oscar Finlay, in Killing Floor, represents one of the few good men left in the town of Margrave, as Reacher becomes unfairly persecuted by the police department. Alan Ritchson's stint as Hank Hall/Hawk on DC's Titansproved that he could walk that line and his performance in the Reacher TV series cements him as the quintessential Jack Reacher. Ritchson's striking looks and blonde crop of hair, coupled with his stature, already seemed to fit the physical nature, but there is a deeper side to Jack Reacher. An important element of Jack Reacher, and one that helped him to remain a mainstay of Child's writing so long, is his ability to be likable while telling people where they can shove it and beating villains black and blue. The actor boasts an impressive, foreboding physique that makes his action sequences and his military background believable. Dark Web: Cicada 3301's Alan Ritchson could have been born for the title role in Amazon's Reacher. Described by his author as a six-foot-five-inches behemoth of man, he is as rugged in his appearance as he is savage in combat. This is especially true of his initial appearances in the novels Killing Floor, Night School, and The Affair, in which Reacher appears in a strange locale and sets about enacting his own brand of righteous justice.

The titular hero of both Lee Child's long-spanning franchise and Reacher's protagonist, Jack Reacher is essentially a tough-as-nails modern allegory for the Knight Errant.

The problems that can arise from this were seen with audiences' distaste for Tom Cruise's casting as the six-foot-five-inches Reacher, but Alan Ritchson's casting proved that the Reacher series was not going to make that mistake again. Here's a guide to the cast of Reacher, as well as how each character compares between the Reacher TV series and their Killing Floor counterparts.

Lee Child vividly paints his Killing Floor characters, making it inevitable that the Reacher cast are compared to their novel counterparts even more than with other book adaptations. This snap decision quickly turns sour for Reacher as he is arrested for a murder he did not commit and becomes embroiled in a tale of local police corruption and conspiracy that leaves the nomad fighting against the odds to take down his newfound enemies as his vendetta becomes personal. Both Reacher and Killing Floor open with the retired military police major, Reacher, arriving in the fictional town of Margrave, Georgia, with nothing by the clothes on his back for no other reason than having remembered that his brother once told him a rumor that the blues musician Blind Blake had died there. Providing a faithful adaptation of Killing Floor, Amazon Prime's Reacher series acts as a whirlwind introduction to Jack Reacher and his ethos.

Finlay is killing it