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Lee Child's Reacher may be a tough guy, but our titular hero has always had quite the reputation when it comes to his love interests. Being an ex-military and having experience with the 110th SIU, Jack Reacher has always been a man of resilience.
However, inside his solid outer shell lies a man who also takes an interest in love. Starting with Officer Roscoe Conklin (played by Willa Fitzgerald) in Season 1 to his close colleague cum friend Karla Dixon (portrayed by Serinda Swan) in the second chapter, Reacher has been on a sinusoidal curve with his love.
His problem is that he is a drifter and never likes to commit to anyone or get attached- unless he is on a mission or a quest for personal vengeance (like we saw in the case of his brother or Dominique Kohl). So, maybe that's the reason Reacher Season 3 has brought around another potential love interest, DEA Agent Susan Duffy (Soniya Cassidy portrays), and we have already sensed another flame burning between the duo.
As we saw in Reacher Season 3, Episode 6, Reacher arranges a rendezvous with Agent Duffy to discuss the recent developments in their operation. With tension rising and a moment of passion building up, Susan finds her emotional side to lose the battle. She ends up kissing the Reacher, and it only turns out to be an awkward encounter.
Reacher and Susan share a kiss in Episode 6 only to make things more awkward for themselves
Reacher and Susan have been working on the case of Xavier Quinn since episode 1. The duo, along with the help of Villanueva and Eliot, plan an undercover operation to get inside the dirty business of rug merchant Zachary Beck - the frontman of Quinn's illegal involvements.
In Reacher Season 3 Episode 6, Reacher decides to secretly meet up with Susan Duffy while he is out in the town with Zachary Beck's son, Richard. The two start discussing their mission and how they can blow up Quinn's entire illegal trade.
Reacher and Susan, once they realize that Teresa is still alive, plan to track down a number (one of Quinn's hired men who got a women's dress ordered from a local tailor and left his number back) that might lead them to her. As Reacher keeps talking about how he will eventually kill Quinn and will not let anything stop him, in the heat of the moment, Susan ends up kissing Reacher, and the two engage in a moment of romance.
However, things get awkward soon after, and Susan retracts. She then lashes out, saying it will not happen again as she does not want to get romantically involved with a colleague. But a startled Reacher points out that Susan was the one who made the first move. To this, she replies:
"Yeah, and for the first and last time, buddy."
There have been moments throughout Season 3 when Reacher comes to Susan's rescue and helps her (although the two of them, initially, were not that good at working together). However, Susan eventually realizes that Reacher is trustworthy and would do anything to not let anything wrong happen to anyone.
Reacher's activities on the field have been mostly off the record and appear like that of a self-approved vigilante, but his conscience has always driven him to do the right thing. He even saved Susan's life in an ambush at one of Beck's tubing facilities (once again, where we see the two come close to each other in a tense moment).
Their love story has been sparking since the first chapter of Season 3, but the showrunners have been quite subtle in portraying it. The fact that Susan cares for Reacher is evident in multiple instances where she warns him while he is stationed at Beck's mansion and asks him to refrain from doing certain things.
Reacher is a man with a big heart, and maybe that is what made Susan attracted to him - not to mention the former's interest in her as well (which, though not evident, has been speculated). So far, Reacher and Susan's chemistry has not developed to that extent, but we will not be fully surprised if we eventually see them get together again.
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