Sunday, September 6, 2020

Jack Ryan: S2E4

Remember the wonderful research Jack had done in season 1 to connect the dots between the monitory transactions and Suleiman's plan? Episode 2 of Season 3 of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan also starts with such an intensive tour of Jack's 'beautiful mind' when he connects the dots between the Mining equipment that we had found in previous episode and president Reyes's involvement in all of this as well as in the murder of Senator Moreno. But there is a missing link about a company in London. Unfortunately, Jack gets pulled off the case before he could investigate in London. But Jack being Jack, takes help from his Senator friend and goes to London on "vacation" ;-)


Meanwhile Mattice and his team are back in the Jungle to find Marcus but they are out of luck. Elsewhere General Ubbari's wife Cassandra and Nicolas Reyes's wife Claudia are having lunch where Cassandra asks Claudia if Nicolas mentioned anything about the americans who bugged their house but Claudia says she is unaware of any such thing. Greer does some follow up research on top of Jack's research and finds out about Gloria Bonalde's missing husband who was not a fan of Nicolas Reyes. Greer then decides to visit Gloria and offers to help her if she helps him in return. Gloria takes Greer in her husband room and gives him a rock that her husband was working on before he went missing. Reyes pays a visit to Gloria Bonalde and offers her a job if she agrees to drop out from the impending elections as a contestant. Gloria acts smart and asks for some time to think about it. Reyes doesn't like Gloria's answer and indirectly threatens her that she will lose the elections but Gloria replies that President Reyes's surprise visit suggests otherwise.


In London, after Jack's entry into the city, Max is also seen entering London dressed as a woman. Jack and Lee a.k.a. Harry visits the owner of the company that provides security to the mining operations in Venezuela and finds out that this company had introduced Max Shankel with Cinco Palmas in Venezuela. Max finds a date with a guy. This guy's sister is also his roommate and Max meets both of them. In Venezuela, Gloria's family is threatened; presumably by Reyes's men and she calls Greer for help with protecting her family. Max abducts his date's sister and makes the guy walk into a Cafe who is being watched by Jack, Harry and others from MI5. There is a wonderful chasing sequence between Max and Jack when Jack tries  his best to catch Max but fails. Max however learns that Lee or Harry is helping Jack. While all this is going on in London we forget about Mattice and his team looking for Uber Select in the Venezuelan jungles but Reyes hasn't forgotten about them. He gives Bastos the latest satellite technology which will help him finding the americans from the jungle and burrying them there. Brutal!


And just like that, we are midway between the season 2 of Jack Ryan. Do you like my blog? Do I write simple enough? Do you have any suggestions or questions for me? Do reach out to me on abhisheksathe12@gmail.com. See you next time!

Saturday, September 5, 2020

Jack Ryan: S2E3

In case you missed reading my reviews of rest of the episodes, click the link below:

TV Series Reviewed: Jack Ryan



This season of Jack Ryan is different than previous season in that Jack spends no time exploring his romantic side. Previous episode also confirmed his relationship status as 'Single'. We still miss Cathy but there is no time to keep missing her since we have so much action packed story to cover.

Episode 3 of season 2 starts with Marcus joining Matice and his team. His buddies gives him a nickname as Uber which he doesen't really like. They get airdropped off the coast of Venezuela along with a boat. Meanwhile, Reyes announces to the world in a press conference that Senator Moreno's killers have been found and are going to get punished.

We have been hearing about Reyes's opponent Gloria Bonaldes since last two episodes. Finally we get to see her busy morning routine along with her family and closed ones. Jack and Greer decides to give a visit to Cinco Palmes but they couldn't find any leads. Uber fixes the boat and asks if he could get renamed to Black Mamba but all he gets upgraded to is Uber Select! Reyes and Ubbari discuss about the conversation that Ubbari and Cassandra had. They also talk about their childhood. Ubbari reminds Reyes that he has a responsibility towards Venezuela and Reyes confirms it. Elsewhere Gloria gives a speech to her supporters. She mentions how her husband has been missing after he dared to speak up against Reyes. Bastos is there in the crowd to evaluate her election campain. Jack and Greer leaves to pay a visit to a Foreign Militia Compound where Matice and his team will be there with them. Jack returns the pills to Greer that he had found earlier but Greer refuses to tell him anything about his health condition. When they meet with Mattice, Marcus and the rest of the team; Greer and Mattice gives instructions to the team about the nature of the operation to underline that there is no scope of making any mistakes. The first container doesn't have anything of value but Jack takes a huge risk and investigates a second container where he finds something suspicious. When he gets caught, Mattice saves him and they take an unarmed combatant into custody. Jack tries his method to ask questions and fails. Greer then tries his method, cuts the man's finger and tosses it to Jack saying that it will serve as a DNA.

Marcus observes that some soldiers were approaching and leaves the boat. Mattice and his party get into a minor fight and decides to flee without Marcus. Mattice confirms that after dropping off Jack and Greer, they will come back for Marcus. Bastos informs Reyes about the progress of Gloria's election campaign but leaves abruptly when Ubbari drops by in Reyes's office. Reyes asks Ubbari his honest opinion if he thinks Gloria could win. We don't see Ubbari giving him any answer but Ubbari's silence is enough for Reyes to understand what the Venezuelan people want. Finally Greer admits to Jack about his heart condition and we see how it makes Jack disturbed.

What do you think was there in the container that Jack found? What will happen in the elections when people will actually decide to vote for Gloria Bonaldes v/s Nicolas Reyes? We didn't see Max in the whole episode. What is he upto? And any leads about the missile launch in the south china sea? So many unanswered questions...Lets not lose patience and stay tuned!

Jack Ryan: S2E4

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