That is what fans love in Reach: You can rely on him. But it also makes him one -sided as a figure. The roles that go through a development were always more exciting, such as Willa Fitzgeralds Rosco or Malcolm Goodwin’s Finlay in Season 1. With episode 7, it is now becoming clear which figure it will be in season 3 of the series: The first bad guy of the new episodes, Zachary Beck (Anthony Michael Hall).
Zachary Beck is becoming the most exciting figure in Reach Season 3
Beck begins his relay career as a one-dimensional villain who uses his carpet trade for dodgy shops. It quickly turns out that his company was taken over by the psychopathic Quinn (Brian Tea), Beck and his son Richard (Johnny Berchtold) holds trapped in your own property.
Quinn even lets Richard kidnap and torture to make his father compliant. The young man is subsequently shy and full of anger towards his father, who delivered him to his tormentors to the knife through his own weakness. Nevertheless, he loves him. One of the most touching little storylines in season 3 is that Richard is wants to give his father a toy colt, who is supposed to remind him of his childhood. When Zachary Beck comes behind, it shows why he is the most exciting figure of the whole season.
Anthony Michael Hall delights in the most touching season 3 scene
He looks at the Colt deeply moved, with which his battered son wants to make him happy despite all the resentment. And realized why he has treated his own son with such cold -ceiling so far: CBR quoted:
When your mother died, it was as if a light had gone out in you. I’m only now realizing that maybe that’s why Such a pig was such a bad father am: I did it intentionally. If your wonderful mother’s death has already hurt so much, the death of a person like me might not be as bad.
Anthony Michael Hall does these words alone Zachary Beck the most exciting figure of the season. It goes through the greatest development, carries the largest moral conflict and embodies the greatest tragedy. Even his son Richard, similarly complex in his feelings, could still heal from his experiences in future years. But by greed and weakness to have tormented and traumatized your own beloved son, you never step back from that.
Reacher, Neagley and also Dea agent Duffy (Sonya Cassidy) are far from such complexities. But that’s not a flaw: that’s exactly how it has to be. Despite all the uncertainties, moral binding mills and ambivalent interests, Alan Ritchson’s demolition pear proves that everything will be fine in the end. Just like with the Simpsons.