As fans of Prime Video’s original series The Terminal List (2022) and all its deep, dark CIA-espionage, secret-squirrel intrigue eagerly await a second season, today they get the first season of a new spin-off / prequel, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf. The new series details the origin story of Ben Edwards (Taylor Kitsch), a well liked supporting character from the original series. Dark Wolf is co-created by Jack Carr, the author who wrote the novel on which the original series is based.
The first three episodes of The Terminal List: Dark Wolf drop today, Aug. 27, on Prime Video, and weekly episodes will follow until the season finale on Sept. 24.
Dark Wolf is an origin story that takes place before the original series and follows Edwards through his journey from the Navy SEALs to the clandestine side of CIA Special Operations.
“The series is an espionage thriller that explores the darker side of warfare and the human cost that comes with it,” so says the showrunners.
Chris Pratt also returns to play a younger version of James Reece, the protagonist of the original series. He and Kitsch are joined by Tom Hooper as Raife Hastings, Robert Wisdom as Jed Haverford, Luke Hemsworth as Jules Landry, Dar Salim as Mohommed Farooq, Rona-Lee Shimon as Eliza Perash, and Jared Shaw as Ernest “Boozer” Vickers.
“As with Season One of the runaway hit The Terminal List, authenticity is a core pillar of The Terminal List: Dark Wolf – with military veterans contributing as writers, actors, on-set technical advisors, and executive producers, the series is committed to portraying the mindset, brotherhood, and moral complexity of Special Operations with respect and realism,” said Amazon MGM in a release.
The Recce Rifle and Other Guns of 'Terminal List: Dark Wolf'
Along with plenty of mystery and intrigue, fans can also expect plenty of intense shootouts. From the trailers, we’ve already seen a wide array of firearms, including the infamous BCM Recce Rifle. The gun in the show is built on a Heckler & Koch HK416D with a BCM Gunfighter Mod 0 stock, a Geissele Mk 15 rail, a Rugged Suppressors Micro 30 can, a Vortex AMG UH-1 Gen 2 holographic sight, an L3 Insight Technologies PEQ-15 IR laser, and a Cloud Defense REIN weapon light.
But, a Recce rifle isn’t, technically, any specific model of firearm or even rifle platform. It’s a special forces term first used by U.S. Navy SEALs in the 1990s and throughout the Global War on Terror (GWOT) to describe an accurized AR-platform (usually) carbine with some type of magnified optic that is good in close-quarter situations and can also serve as a light sniper rifle / designated marksman rifle. In other words, a Recce rifle is a jack-of-all trades, ultra-versatile AR.
The name (pronounced “wreck-ee”) has some deep roots in British military slang for the word “reconnaissance,” but the R is always capitalized. Nobody really knows how that particular military idiom from overseas became applied to a rifle format, but it happened in the early ‘90s in the SEALs as they began to piece together Recce rifles from what was available in inventory to suit their needs.
It’s deep SOCOM stuff, so of course the gun ends up in this series.
We also see Edwards and others using Glock 17 pistols, suppressed and otherwise, an H&K MP5 and MP5K with cans, a few M4 carbines, a Knight's Armament SR-25 sniper rifle, a big ol’ Browning M2 .50 cal machine gun, and an M249 SAW, which seems to be one of Edwards’ preferred firearms.
There will, undoubtedly, be plenty more that we didn’t see in the quick cuts of the trailer. So when you get off from work tonight, you have three solid hours of new show to get caught up on, and see how many firearms you can ID — we know you do it, too.
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