A bomb strikes their building, and as the dust settles, we flash forward.
Now in present-day Washington D.C., Jack Ryan is beginning his morning with a row on the Potomac.
Biking to work afterward, he’s nearly hit by a car.
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“Watch it shead!”
the driver yells out his window.
“Ass-,” Ryan mutters back.
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These two just might meet again…
It’s his job to monitor financial transactions around the globe and flag anything out of the ordinary.
It’s like if Dunder Mifflin were a branch of the C.I.A.
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Meanwhile, the driver who almost ran him over earlier arrives for his own meeting at the agency.
“Long,” Greer grumbles.
It’s clearly a sore subject.
“It’s a backwater post, Nate,” Greer pleads.
Next, he asks everyone to stand up and introduce themselves.
“I believe his name is Suleiman,” Ryan finally says.
After the meeting, Ryan asks some other analysts how Greer ended up back in D.C. behind a desk.
“He went all Col. Kurtz” in the field, they tell him.
(If this sounds familiar, President Donald Trump hasbrought upthe idea.)
Back in D.C., Ryan is eating dinner alone at his apartment, watchingJeopardyand getting all the questions right.
When the phone rings, his former boss Joe invites him to his birthday party.
Joe needs to speak with him urgently about something he can’t say on the phone.
They haven’t talked in years, but Ryan agrees to meet up.
Later that night, we see Ryan trying to sleep as a metronome ticks unhelpfully by his bedside.
As he closes his eyes, he’s kept awake by battlefield flashbacks.
By the time Greer arrives, he’s found what he thinks is a big crack in the case.
He urges Greer to freeze the account but is told he doesn’t have enough proof yet.
When Greer gets a call from a C.I.A.
Now that the accounts are frozen, Greer asks what’s stopping Suleiman from disappearing.
Later, Greer digs through Ryan’s personal files.
Back in Yemen, C.I.A.
field operatives are monitoring a meeting between a bank manager and two men at an outdoor cafe.
black site in Saudi Arabia for interrogation.
As they chat, a helicopter swoops over the party and lands in the backyard.
Two Coast Guard pilots pop out and ask if anyone’s seen Dr. Jack Ryan.
After Ryan shows himself, he’s swept away from Cathy and into the helicopter without any explanation.
They land at an airport, where Greer is waiting with a private jet.
Outside the black site, a caravan of Saudis arrive with several corpses in the back of their trucks.
Ryan also notices he has scarring on his hands that look like burn marks.
Inside, the former corpse makes his way to Rabini’s cell and executes him.
He then looks for the bodyguard, who’s still locked in a room with Ryan.
When he kicks pop swing open the door, Ryan grabs the gun, and they wrestle.
If he’s killed, he warns that the grenade will explode and everyone will die.
As they leave the room, Ryan tells the fake bodyguard he knows that he’s really Suleiman.
In the final scene, we flashback to the aftermath of the bombing in 1983.
One of the young boys survived and begins searching for his brother, whom he can hear screaming nearby.
When he finds him, he sees his legs are crushed under a burning beam of wood.
The boy lifts the wood off his brother’s legs, burning his own hands badly in the process.
After he’s freed, the two touch foreheads and embrace.
