Jack Ryan: S1E2

One noteworthy thing about the show Jack Ryan is the way it takes it's viewers to different places, showing different characters, their POVs, the situations these characters are in etc all with such a grip over the storyline that I can't help but draw parallels in the approach of storytelling of Game Of Thrones which is another iconic show that I write about.

The second episode starts in Paris where we see a Priest assassinated by two guys. And that's it. No names, no dialogues, nothing!
Cut to Langley where we see Jack and James attending a meeting with many senior officers of the CIA all of whom are watching the video showing the happenings from the last episode where Suleiman was rescued. Senior officers suspects Suleiman maybe related to ISIS but Jack points out the different way in which Suleiman operates asserting that he is not with ISIS and is a major threat similar to Bin Laden. Although Jack and James wear actively involved with all the research up until now, the CIA assigns CTC Europe with a task force to take this further.

In Yemen, Suleiman assigns a new mission to his brother, Ali, saying that he is the only one he fully trusts.

Jack visits Washington Memorial Hospital to get an MRI. We see the glimpses of his past which disturbs him. He also meets Cathy and explains to her without revealing his true identify why he was airlifted the last time they met. Cathy doesn't really believe him but still gives him her number because she is clearly drawn to him. Awww!

In Syria, Suleiman returns home with gifts for the kids who are happy to see him. He also brings a lot of new, mysterious men with him which makes his wife, Hanin, upset and tensed.

Back in the office, James Greer gives Jack Suleiman's mobile phone and Jack is supposed to unlock it because he is the only one with most knowledge about Suleiman.
Frustrated after unsuccessful attempts to unlock Suleiman's phone, Jack finally takes it out on James by asking him about his secret in Karachi but James puts him to his place by bringing up his secretive past in Afghanistan. Ooooh...Steamy ;-)
But before we get a scoope of anyone's past, James notes Suleiman's habit from the footage claiming that he has served a prison sentence in the past. Then our hero Dr. Ryan does his thing with a database and finds out some number in prison from France and that is the password to his mobile. Voila!

We are then taken back to Paris where Ali buys a lot of SIM cards. God knows why?

In Syria, Hanin questions Suleiman about his plans but he asks her to relax and chill. Meanwhile Jack, James and another person named Matice arrive in Paris and meets Police Capt. Sandrine and a SWAT leader. The team attacks an appartment where Ali and his people are using SIM cards to replace the money from the account (frozen in the last episode, remember?) using a mobile app. Before Jack and team could storm the place, Ali is informed about the same by a spy kid and Ali manages to escape. Jack runs behind Ali but couldn't shoot him because of disturbance and boom! A suicide bomber blasts herself in the apartment and Jack looks back at the apartment with a whole lot of emotions. Are James and Sandrine and Matice and all the good guys dead? Did Ali successfully escape and survive? What will Jack do now? And why the hell was that priest killed at the beginning of the episode? The episode ends with so many cliffhangers and we are left with no choice but to click on the next episode. This is the power of this series that only through a couple of episodes it gets the viewers hooked to it so badly!

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