Chris Pratt is back in the fight as James Reece in the first new trailer for The Terminal List Season 2, and this time his war extends far beyond the people responsible for destroying his family.
Nearly five years after the original season debuted, Prime Video’s action thriller returns with a significantly larger international story based on True Believer, the second novel in Jack Carr’s bestselling James Reece series.
Season 1 followed Reece through an intensely personal campaign of revenge after a conspiracy resulted in the destruction of his Navy SEAL platoon and the murder of his wife and daughter.
By the end of that story, Reece had completed his list.
Season 2 asks what comes next.
The trailer finds the former Navy SEAL Commander living as a fugitive and searching for some form of purpose after the vengeance that consumed his life has finally run its course.
He does not remain hidden for long.
Reece is pulled back into the intelligence world when the US government offers him a path towards redemption in exchange for his help with a new mission.
What initially appears to be another dangerous assignment rapidly develops into something much larger.
Prime Video describes the new season as a globe-trotting espionage thriller, expanding the series from the psychological revenge story of its first chapter into an international conspiracy stretching from Moscow to Langley.
Reece’s journey takes him across the Indian Ocean, Southern and Northern Africa, the Middle East and Europe as he attempts to identify the forces operating behind a threat capable of destabilising the world order.
And this time, the conspiracy is not only political.
It connects directly to Reece’s own family history.
Chris Pratt returns as James Reece, once again combining the character’s Special Operations experience with the psychological damage carried forward from everything he has lost.
The trailer makes clear that Reece remains exceptionally dangerous, but he is no longer operating with the simple clarity of a list containing names that need to be eliminated.
The world around him is now considerably more complicated.
Enemies may be intelligence officers.
Allies may have their own agendas.
And the institutions asking for Reece’s help may not necessarily deserve his trust.
Several familiar characters return alongside Pratt.
Tom Hopper reprises his role as Raife Hastings, one of the most important figures from Reece’s past, while Constance Wu returns as investigative journalist Katie Buranek.
Dar Salim is back as Mohammed Farooq and Luke Hemsworth returns as Jules Landry.
Season 2 also dramatically expands the franchise’s international cast.
Gabriel Luna joins the series as Freddy Strain, with Costa Ronin, Olga Kurylenko, Yul Vazquez, Arnold Vosloo, Martin Sensmeier and Shiraz Tzarfati among the new additions.
The wider scope also connects Season 2 more closely to The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, the prequel series centred on Taylor Kitsch’s Ben Edwards.
Dark Wolf explored the covert world surrounding Reece before the events of the original series and introduced characters and intelligence relationships connected to True Believer.
The new season can therefore draw from both sides of the expanding Terminal List universe.
But authenticity remains one of the franchise’s central priorities.
Former Navy SEAL Jared Shaw and former Army Ranger Max Adams continue overseeing military authenticity and action, while veterans work throughout the production as writers, performers, technical advisers and directors.
Former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, who directed the acclaimed war film Warfare, is also involved behind the camera.
The result is a second season that appears determined to retain the grounded tactical identity of the original while dramatically increasing its scale.
Gunfights, covert operations and close-quarters combat remain central to the footage, but Reece is now moving through a much larger geopolitical battlefield.
Season 1 asked what an elite soldier would do when the system he served destroyed everything he loved.
Season 2 presents a more difficult problem.
What happens when that same system suddenly needs him again?
For Reece, accepting the mission may offer the possibility of redemption.
It may also lead him directly into another conspiracy built by people who understand exactly how dangerous he can be.
Prime Video has confirmed that all eight episodes of The Terminal List Season 2 will premiere simultaneously in more than 240 countries and territories on October 21, 2026.
James Reece finished his list.
Now he has to decide what he is fighting for.
Watch the trailer below.
