The decision of condom or pills is totally up to the actors involved. Story is fantasy already with a thick talk about a vigilante novel - JAck REacher - and inspiration could easily be drawn right out of the many actors involved in the movies and the series adaptations - which are both male and female other agents, all of them supporting Reacher be the power house he is.
Cruise is a total juggernaut in real life - you cannot compare 90% if not more of the guys or girls we see in the movies along side himself - even the characters he plays himself, cuddled up with their respective movies plotlines - to the extremely fit and well groomed and sophisticated good looking rich and famous 1% of the 1% of the most recognizable rich and famous guy he is in the world today..
Kinda off-topic but the actor in the TV show appears less Reacher to me than Cruise.
Tom Cruises reacher does have the attitude and confidence of a 2 meter giant for sure.
Even the new guy is on the short side compared to book reacher iirc.
MC is the guy with the ”do not get involved” mindset of reacher in the series, along with the rock like build of a tough big guy whose muscles are still frozen stiff from the ordeal of surviving getting cut out of his body by the torturers - as if they are still deadlocked in terror holding on to MC for dear existence.
On top of all that, MC is in constant reahab, with huge bleeding traumas in and around his muscles, which keep him in a constant buff, swollen, feverish reconstruction and recovery frenzy that makes him easily triggered and feeling pumped for action all the time.
MC has a number of pills, those that he keeps popping all throughout this game. After we see al of those, it gets kind of foolish for him to just now remember to notice the lack of contraceptives in the house he calls home while he does not provide any counter measures himself wherever he goes out to entertain his girl; this is a slip up of himself.
MC should not and would not force pills down his girl throat, regardless of the righteousness of his plea or what the right thing to do is for Foxy or for Christ a girl who is so devoted to so many other people she forgot to take better care of herself and now MC is picking up the slack for both of them- while Steven, who we see more of, as he has his girl all over the soccer babes, hr be the one who should protect this investmen of himself adn his girl into the continued well being and fit top condition of the soccer girls they endorse day in and day out - even more so than others, if we take into account the talks Christ a wonderful girl has with her brother and his bethrothed.
Crista also just happens to be my fave girl in the cast as well. Of all of them, she's the most "damsel in distress" that my white knight ass gravitates towards.
This game calls out MC for being a white night rather early in the plot line so we know exactly waht is what. Dawn getting a mental breakdown precisely as MC was supposed to be her white night, but he ends up to be just a hero who swoops in and then swoops right back out, leaving her in this situation she seems to wallow into all by her lonesome self.
Make no mistake tho - MC always finds his damsel in distress - the working girl in the very beginning, Dylan of all the drug dealing pimps out there, Foxy, Amira, mom of Amira, Christ a wonderful girl, Dawn, the bride to be ...
