The Terminal List

When Agnon enters his hotel room during a work conference, he is suddenly attacked from behind and put in a chokehold, leading him to pass out.

When he wakes up, he is blindfolded, naked, and gagged. He realizes that Reece has found him, causing him to throw up in fear. Reece drags him to the bathroom, where he has prepared a makeshift waterboarding station in the bathtub. Agnon complies. Reece shoves Agnon’s head under the faucet as water floods his sinuses. Reese utilizes waterboarding tips that he learned from the CIA after 9/11 to increase the efficacy of his torture.

After several waterboarding sessions, Agnon is ready to talk. Reece starts a recorder and asks Agnon some questions. Reece knows that going for some lower-level people in the chain of command can reveal more information about the Project and lead him to more people on his list. Agnon reveals that Holder is a DOD agent who works closely with the Hartleys. He reveals that RD4895 is an experimental drug designed to prevent PTSD. Reece realizes that Agnon is scared enough that he won’t need to be waterboarded again, so he moves him to the living room and gives him some alcohol.

Agnon explains that Horn bought the drug because he saw an opportunity to make lots of money, especially since the US is in a never-ending war. Through Tedesco, the Hartleys became involved and tested the drug on Reece’s troop. Pilsner, who is close to Lorraine Hartley, chose his troop specifically for the test.

Reece doesn’t remember ever taking the drug, and Agnon tells him that vitamin B12 shots that he took during a tactical performance study were composed of RD4895. They assumed that the drug was successful until the men’s white blood counts came back high, indicating that they had tumors.

Agnon only knows that Pilsner decided how to kill the men overseas. He admits that Holder killed Boozer and that Lorraine used an unmanned aerial vehicle to track Reece to Chinatown. He explains that Kamir was a Secretary of Defense asset and was part of an American program that radicalized Islamic people, made them think that they were part of an extremist group, and then used them as “expendable assets.”

When Reece asks him how Horn plans to make money off the drug, Agnon says that the drug’s side effects have been fixed and it’s been tested on another group of SEALs. Reece then tells Agnon that he’s not going to murder him, causing Agnon to relax. He continues interrogating him and biding him with liquor until Agnon eventually passes out. Reece pulls out his bag of drugs and injects some into Agnon’s arm, causing an overdose. Reece cleans up the room, spreading some of the drug paraphernalia around Agnon’s body. He places a “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door as he leaves.

A housekeeper enters Agnon’s room despite the “Do Not Disturb” sign and is shocked by the smell. She finds a dead Agnon and flees the room. When police officers arrive, they assume that Agnon has died of a drug overdose, primarily due to the various drug paraphernalia around his dead body. They accept the death as an overdose and close the investigation.

Reece grabs a cup of coffee from a local coffee shop before heading to the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. He has visited this cemetery often over the years for various military funerals, usually attending with his good friend Senior Chief Martin Hackathorn. Today, Reece goes to visit Hackathorn’s grave and cries.

Marco gets Reece into Mexico with no problems. They drive to Marco’s Tijuana offices, which are much less plush than his other offices. Marco and Reece discuss the night’s mission and plan for Marco’s security team to get Reece to and from the gang members’ clubhouse.

They leave to go to the clubhouse, and Reece is relieved that they are not taking the plush luxury cars they arrived in and are instead taking dusty, old cars that look in danger of not starting. Marco references Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War, saying that using these cars is a form of deception. A bodyguard updates Marco, revealing that there are 14 men and six female sex workers in the clubhouse. Marco is shocked at how calm Reece is as he gets out to kill the men.

Reece sees a sentry on the rooftop with his night vision goggles and shoots him. He then tries to enter through a door that Marco’s informant was supposed to leave open; however, he finds the door locked. He scales the building and enters through a rooftop entrance. He does not know the layout of the building’s interior, so he must clear each room individually.

Reece is disgusted by the building’s smell: weed, urine, and body sweat. He enters the first room on the third floor and shoots a sleeping man. In the next room, Reece finds a large gang member and a sex worker. He doesn’t want to kill the sex worker if possible, so he kills the man by slamming a tomahawk ax into the middle of his forehead. Reece finds the next room locked and picks the lock. He is met with a half-dressed sex worker and a groggy young man. Reece throws the sex worker to the ground and shoots the man. He zip-ties and gags the sex worker to keep her quiet and moves onto the next room. There, he finds two gang members engaged in a sexual act with a sex worker. Reece shoots the man engaged in vaginal intercourse first and then shoots the man engaging in oral intercourse. Reece zip-ties the sex worker and leaves the room.

On the second floor, Reece is ambushed by a gang member in the hallway but shoots and kills the man. Another gang member turns on a light, destroying Reece’s night vision. Reece chases him down the hall but gets into a physical altercation with the man. In the middle of the altercation, Reece notices that the man has a homemade bandage and realizes that this is the man Lauren shot during the home invasion. Reece is overcome with anger and takes a dagger and drives it into the throat of Lauren’s murderer.

At this point, everyone else in the house is awake, and Reece is taking heavy gunfire. He throws a grenade out into the hall, causing confusion and killing one more gang member and sex worker. As he goes to the bottom floor, he hears gunfire and people speaking Spanish outside. Marco calls to him and Reece goes to him, finding more dead gang members. Marco and his security have cornered one gang member who was trying to flee. Marco asks if Reece would like to ask the gang member any questions, and he says no before shooting the gang member in the head.