Following "Reacher’s" epic three-episode return on the 2025 TV schedule, its fourth episode gave us a lot of lore to think on. This episode, titled “Dominique,” told us the story of Reacher’s former colleague Dominique Kohl, and it revealed the personal reason behind the titular character’s motivation for taking on the gig Season 3 is based around. It’s a vital episode, and Kohl is a vital character, as Alan Ritchson explained when he told me why Mariah Robinson’s performance as her “saved the entire season.”
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00:00Yeah, I mean, that that episode is the heart and soul of this entire season. We you know, if if if we don't understand why he wants, you know, wants to go after the, you know, the antagonist so bad, you know, he calls it the most evil guy he's ever met. This is this is the this is the inciting incident for that.
00:18But it also helps us understand, like, Reacher's values, you know, and like who he works with. I mean, this is the first teammate that he's ever adopted. And man, she she absolutely crushed that role. I gotta say, I've, you know, I've been in this business, you know, close to 20 years. I've worked on a lot of different things. I've met a lot of different challenges. You know, even with Reacher, there are some times that, you know, we've had to, with very little time to prepare, rip through just
00:48pages of complex dialogue. I don't think I've ever seen a more difficult role as as an actress as an actor. She, she, without a doubt, saved this entire season. I don't know who else could have done. I mean, she was like, so incredibly talented. And she had the hardest, heaviest lift of the entire season and of any role I've ever seen in my career face to face.
01:13And she really nailed it. I don't think people can appreciate just how difficult that kind of dialogue and that pacing and the military jargon and the speed at which she had to do it and the interrogation scenes. Wildly, wildly difficult. Somebody who is pretty good at dialogue. I've never seen anything quite like it. And we, my hat's off to her for what she achieved this season. And your favorite episode, probably because of her work. Yeah.
01:38So,