The good guys lost a really good guy this week on Reacher.

All season long — ever since DEA Agents Susan Duffy (played by Lodge 49‘s Sonya Cassidy), Guillermo Villanueva (9-1-1: Lone Star‘s Roberto Montesinos) and Steven Eliot (For All Mankind‘s Daniel David Stewart) teamed with Reacher (Alan Ritchson) to fake an attempted kidnapping of young Richard Beck as well as Reacher’s thwarting of same — Steven has been tasked with babysitting Cooper (Star Trek: DIscovery‘s Ronnie Rowe), Richard’s “dead” bodyguard, at a remote cabin.

And for several episodes, Cooper had been plotting to somehow escape being bound to a (very uncomfortable) chair.

Midway through the fifth episode of Season 3, Cooper saw his chance, when he finally convinced Agent Eliot to fire up a cigarette for him. Mind you, Steven had been warned to allow their “prisoner” nothing, but he finally acquiesced. After all, how could the rookie fed know that, when his back was turned, Cooper had finagled a swig of rubbing alcohol, which he then spat out at Agent Eliot as he flicked a Bic. The eruption of flame frightened and distracted Eliot, allowing Cooper to knock him to the floor and then beat him to death with his boot.