Neagley is the first spin-off from Prime Video’s hit series Reacher, and it arrived with a bang: all eight episodes of its first season landed at once on Amazon Prime Video on September 16, 2026. Built around one of the Reacher universe’s most popular supporting characters, it trades the franchise’s usual drifter for a sharp, methodical investigator with a past of her own.
The story
At its centre is Frances Neagley, played by Maria Sten, who first brought the character to the screen alongside Alan Ritchson in Reacher. Here she steps fully into the lead: when an old friend dies in a suspicious accident, Neagley refuses to accept the official version and starts pulling threads. The series uses that investigation to open up her personal life and history — the background, instincts and loyalties that Reacher only ever hinted at.
The cast
Sten anchors an ensemble of new faces and rising talent. Greyston Holt plays Detective Hudson Riley, Adeline Rudolph plays Renee Birdwhistle, Matthew Del Negro plays Pierce Woodrow and Damon Herriman plays Lawrence Cole. Among the standouts is Jasper Jones as Keno, a man shadowed by a criminal past and by the assumptions people make about him — a role that has quickly drawn attention from viewers following the show. Alan Ritchson returns in a guest appearance as Jack Reacher, tying the spin-off directly back to its parent series.
The Reacher connection
Like Reacher, Neagley draws on the world Lee Child created in his best-selling novels, with Child serving as an executive producer. The series was developed by co-showrunners Nick Santora and Nicholas Wootton, and produced through Amazon MGM Studios, Paramount Television Studios, CBS Studios and their partners — the same creative machinery that turned Reacher into one of Prime Video’s signature action hits.
The season at a glance
Season one runs to eight episodes, all released together on September 16, 2026, so viewers can watch the full mystery in a single binge rather than week by week. The episodes were written by a room including Santora, Wootton, Adam Higgs, Kyle Long and Lacey Herbert. The compact eight-part structure keeps the story tight and propulsive, from the opening death to its resolution — and a spoiler-light guide to how it unfolds is below.
Season 1: episode guide
Spoiler-light — where each of the eight episodes takes the case.
- Episode 1 — “L Train”: When Neagley’s childhood friend Tommy dies after stepping in front of an oncoming train, police are quick to write it off as a tragic accident. A cryptic message he left behind tells Neagley otherwise.
- Episode 2 — “Team Building Exercises”: As her inquiry into Tommy Crane’s death keeps hitting walls, a long-buried secret from Neagley’s own past threatens to upend everything she thought she knew about where she came from.
- Episode 3 — “Hammer Time”: An ambush hands Neagley an unexpected break — only for the moves of the local authorities to catch her completely off guard.
- Episode 4 — “Breaking & Entering”: Neagley’s digging draws the notice of powerful enemies, putting her and her new team squarely in the line of fire.
- Episode 5 — “Trip”: Truths from Neagley’s past force their way to the surface, leaving her to lean on her team more than she ever has.
- Episode 6 — “Rocked”: Fresh evidence widens the picture: Tommy’s death, Neagley comes to realise, may be only one of many.
- Episode 7 — “Lebron’s No Jordan”: With the trail going cold, Hudson is pushed into a dangerous bargain to keep the investigation from being buried.
- Episode 8 — “Touched”: With Tommy’s legacy on the line and her teammates in danger, Neagley makes one final push to bring his killer to account.
For a franchise that has thrived on its lead’s quiet intensity, Neagley is a natural, confident expansion — proof that the Reacher universe has more than one character worth following. With its full season already streaming, it has become one of the most-searched new titles of the season.
