If that's how the heirs are like, they should be better people then. Hopefully.

There's also the fact reclaiming that money would bring to them a lot of hassle and also harassment for fighting over money from a guy that's now ousted as a merciless mass-murderer (because who knows how many pigs he ordered to be slaughtered for his "barbecues") besides the whole thing about him keeping them incarcerated and other possible crimes he committed, so it's easier to give up on the inheritance and avoid the problems it would bring that wouldn't be worth any amount of money he left behind

The horrors that happened thee will weigh on anyone's mind and soul....

The come down after an operation can feel harder than the operation itself.

Somehow, I pictured the Hard Boys being a unit made up of armadillos, pangolins, and similar armored or thick-hide creatures.

I see a boar, a bull and a three rams. That's certainly hard enough!

Also, I have a nasty feeling that the term "hard" has nothing to do with their hides or their muscles, and more to do with how good they are at "solving problems."

Holder's goons might be a lot happier if Reacher had finished them off.

Arrested and 'processed'

Yeah I think this is called they're adrenaline crash. When you finally caught up and there's nothing important left to do to keep you from crashing down you go. In this case instead of unconsciousness is more like depression

Love that you remember the details of previous panels, like the holes in Lester's Jacket, some artists somehow forgets and "reset" characters between pages.

This isn't an adrenaline crash, that's happened already. Well, not really; once the immediate threat (Demon) was over, the adrenaline tapered off and was replaced by cortisol.

Cortisol takes over for adrenaline, causing blood to shunt away from the digestive system to the heart and lungs, and dumps sugar from your liver to supply energy. It allows you to function at high capacity for longer than adrenaline, then coasts you down from the adrenaline rush so you don't crash out.

Think of adrenaline as nitrous oxide for the body's engine, while cortisol is 105 Octane.

No, this is what Karno says it is: Reacher is allowing himself to think. He's thinking about a whoooole shit-ton of things, almost all of which are immediately relevant to him, Lester, Clara and her boys.

Holder is-was-a very wealthy man. Nobody gets that rich without connections. He was a murderer, and exceptionally blase' about it. Reacher wasn't a threat, he was an annoyance. A roach that somehow got inside the house. Holder most likely has connections to just about everyone in the government, both federal and local, because let's be real? You don't get to pull off something like this without being a very popular person.

Think Jeffrey Epstein crossed with Jeffrey Dahlmer.

So.

There are going to be hundreds, possibly thousands of people, big and small, powerful and not, who are going to be extremely eager to see Holder's property and documents vanish. Along with everyone and anyone who even might have seen or heard something.

So yeah.

Reacher is slowing down enough for all of these facts to start seeping in, and three things are immediately apparent:

1. This is nowhere near over.
2. His team and the rescued are in far greater danger than they were before.
3. None of them are going to be able to trust anyone, ever again.

All things come to an end, but that can be rough for some.

He is going to need some R&R and TLC.

Now when they say "Arrested and Processed",
I, for some reason, picture them just being sent to ANOTHER meat camp-

Likely owned by some crooked government official, as these stories often go-

I've seen that look.
Been there to
The victors lament. You won but, at what cost. who suffered, who was lost. Could you have done something differently to spare others
Could you have moved sooner? I had those moments after every firefight in Iraq, an they REALLY hit when we got back to garrison

HUG.

The crash out maybe?