Warning: Major spoilers for Reacher season 3, episode 8 "Unfinished Business" below!Maria Sten's Neagley is getting her own spinoff.

Reacher season 3 adapts Persuader, where Alan Ritchson's title character goes undercover with a gunrunner. Persuader is one of the best books in the series, as evidenced by the third season's stellar reviews and streaming ratings. Any fans expecting surprise cameos by fan favorites like Finlay (Malcolm Goodwin) or Roscoe (Willa Fitzgerald) in the finale "Unfinished Business" will be let down, but it's the absence of a Lee Child cameo that's the biggest disappointment.

s Neagley (Maria Sten) discreetly pointing a gun in Reacher Season 3 Ep 7

Prime Video's Neagley Spinoff Will Do 1 Thing Jack Reacher Has Avoided For 3 Seasons

The latest episode of Reacher featured a great scene for Neagley that also underlines how her spinoff will differ from the main series.

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Reacher Season 3 Confirms Author Lee Child Is Done Making Surprise Cameos

Child appeared in both of the Tom Cruise movies and Reacher season 1

Reacher season 3 was a more contained outing than the second series, featuring a smaller cast of characters and a more claustrophobic setting. Even with this limitation in mind, it feels like the show could have squeezed in a Child appearance in somewhere. Sadly, it looks like Lee Child is done making cameos in the adaptations of his work. He appeared in both Tom Cruise movies, where he played a police officer and a TSA agent, respectively.

Lee Child's absence from Reacher season 3 suggests the author might just be finished making his little Alfred Hitchcock-style cameos...

In the finale of Reacher season 1, Child played a man who walks past Ritchson's Reacher in a diner. Child apparently didn't appear in the second season (which adapted Bad Luck and Trouble) due to scheduling conflicts. His absence from season 3 suggests the author might just be finished making his little Alfred Hitchcock-style cameos. It should be noted that Child has largely stepped away from writing the books too, having handed the reins to his brother, Andrew Child.

Reacher Season 3 Missed A Perfect Cameo Opportunity For Lee Child

It could have played into Lee Child's own coffee addiction

Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher holding a coffee pot in Reacher season 3

There's a funny scene in Reacher season 3's second episode, "Truckin," where Jack has to stall for as long as possible. To this end, he pulls into a gas station to get coffee while his driver, Ángel Dole (Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz), waits outside. Once inside, Reacher just stands still holding the coffee pot, while a bemused attendant watches from behind the counter. This attendant would have been the perfect Lee Child cameo for Reacher season 3, requiring no dialogue and an incredulous expression.

It also would have played into Child's own coffee addiction too, which is a habit he's ed to his literary creation. It wasn't meant to be, unfortunately. Maybe there was something that again prevented Lee Child from cameoing on the latest season of Reacher, and he's still open to the occasional guest role. Having missed two series and given the Amazon series his stamp of approval, perhaps the author feels it's time to step back from it.