Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryanis a series created by Prime Video in 2018, which falls into the genre of political action and suspense. It tells the story of Jack Ryan (John Krasinski), who is a former Marine officer and Afghanistan veteran. He starts working as a financial analyst for the CIA and then is removed from his desk position to go into the field because he discovered some dubious bank transfers made by Suleiman, an Islamic extremist.
From this point on, a series of interesting events unfold, testing the protagonist.Jack Ryanhas beenrunning for four seasons so far, and that’s why we’ve compiled a list of the best episodes of the series.
10Cargo (Season 2, Episode 1)
This episode begins with Jack Ryan searching for the truth behind Venezuela’s dealings with various world powers. Meanwhile, Greer learns of a satellite that was launched. He suffers from a heart problem and is threatened with being restricted to a desk. He then requests to change stations to Venezuela in order to follow the ship where the satellite was launched.
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Senator Jamie Moreno meets with Jack, and they meet with President Nicolas Reyes in Venezuela. At the meeting, they discuss what the U.S. thinks is a shipment of nuclear weapons, which is hidden somewhere in the Venezuelan jungle. To which the president denies involvement. However, they hire assassin Max Schenkel to eliminate Senator Moreno and Jack.
9The Wolf (Season 1, Episode 4)
In this episode ofJack Ryan, the leader of ISIS is imprisoned by Suleiman, who starts an insurrection within the organization. He also takes 12 physicians hostage from Doctors Without Borders, which gives him control of the organization. French intelligence officer Sandrine Arnaud and Jack manage to track Ali to a remote gas station. Subsequently, the latter is killed in a shootout against both of them, but Arnaud as well. In parallel, Suleiman’s terrorist cell based in Paris comes to organize a sarin gas attackat the funeralof a once-popular French priest.
8Ghosts (Season 3, Episode 6)
Jack Ryan first meets at the U.S. Embassy in Prague with Mike and is greeted by Greer and Cahill. But the protagonist is warned that he will be arrested because Miller is against them. In parallel, Luka arrives at an air base with the warhead to be assembled there.
To counteract this setback, they carry out a plan where an impostor impersonates Ryan to allow the protagonist to leave for Sokol to stop the detonation of the nuclear device. Meanwhile, Luka and Petr’s secret histories are revealed through a deadly settling of scores. Where both end up being ambushed by Czech special forces in the cabin where they were.
7End of Honor (Season 1, Episode 5)
The beginning of this episode shows Hanin applying for political asylum for herself and her children inside a refugee camp in Turkey. There she comes to the attention of the CIA, as she claims that Suleiman is her husband.
In parallel, after the church attack in Paris, Jack comes to contact Suleiman by posing as Ali through a message board in a video game. Although the Islamic extremist comes to identify the ruse, Jack manages to confirm that Hanin did indeed leave her husband, to which the protagonist eventually confirms that Ali is dead. Finally, Jack and Greer go to Turkey to get Hanin and his daughters out. Although, Suleiman’s wife had paid someone to smuggle them to the coast from the camp.
6Pilot (Season 1, Episode 1)
This is the first episode of theTV show from Amazon Studios, and it introduces us to Jack Ryan, who is a financial analyst for the CIA. In his desk job, he comes to realize that there are $9 million in financial transactions that are unusual and connected to Suleiman, an Islamic terrorist.
Subsequently, the protagonist meets Cathy Mueller, a doctor from a social function. Then, James Greer, Jack’s new boss in the CIA’s Terror, Finance and Arms Division picks him up to take him to Yemen with him by plane. To which the American base is attacked by rebels while the payoff man and his bodyguard are supposedly being interrogated. But Ryan realizes that the bodyguard is actually Suleiman.
5Strongman (Season 2, Episode 8)
In this episode, we start out knowing who was really running the show. Greer had been captured by Mateo, while Mike and Jack discover that he was taken to a secret prison camp.
Jack arrives just as the prisoners are being killed, and while they’re helping the prisoners, he discovers the remains of Matice. He then records a video and sends it to the news agencies. Reyes had rigged the election in anticipation of his defeat by Gloria, thus closing the vote and declaring himself the winner. Subsequently, Jack manages to get the justice he had been fighting for throughout the season and solves the mystery that had been in the air since his visit to London. This marked a successful season finale for the series.
4Star on the Wall (Season 3, Episode 8)
Jack Ryan, Wright, Alena, Greer, and Luka begin working together to prevent the outbreak of World War III. The Russian president executes Petrov and eliminates his accomplices after the coup is exposed.
For his part, Jack manages to prevent the American side from starting to use their weapons in a shooting war. While Luka convinces Antonov’s XO to relieve him of command, thus narrowly avoiding the start of the confrontation on the other side. Finally, Wright is promoted to director of the CIA. So that Luka is taken to be presumably executed, as he always hinted would happen on several occasions throughout the season.
3The Boy (Season 1, Episode 7)
Cathy starts out being interrogated for her Ebola report and ends up being enraged to discover that Jack actually works for the CIA. Also, CIA officials question whether it’s best to kill Suleiman in an airstrike or just capture him. Greer and Jack attempt to convince their superiors to only do the latter, in order to be able to rescue Hanin’s son Samir.
The mission is approved by Pickettafter the CIA learnsof the hostage doctors. In parallel, the compound is raided by JSOC forces. However, they find no sign of Suleiman. They do manage to rescue the doctors, though. But what seemed like a successful mission ends in darkness, as they discover that they had been intentionally infected with the Ebola virus when Dr. Daniel Nadler is greeted by Pickett, his old friend.
2Sources and Methods (Season 1, Episode 6)
Greer and Jack manage to track down Hanin and his daughters with the help of a Turkish sex trafficker. He leads them to the Turkish cut, where they too are pursued by Suleiman’s henchman. Later, Greer says that he was sent from Karachi to PNG, as he had murdered a Pakistani army officer, who was his asset, and going to hand him over to the authorities to be tortured and killed.
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In parallel, Victor comes to learn that he had misidentified one of his targets as a terrorist and travels all the way to Syria to talk to his family and make amends. Cathy investigates a man, who’s infected with a strain of Ebola, which was thought to be eradicated. Also, it’s discovered that Suleiman and his brother, Ali, had dug up the body of a person who had died of the same strain six months earlier in Liberia.
1Inshallah (Season 1, Episode 8)
The high-ranking government officials, along with Pickett, are quarantined because they were exposed to Ebola. Suleiman and Samir arrive in the country to carry out the attack, which consists of a cesium release in the ventilation system of Washington Memorial Hospital. This is with the intention of plunging the United States into chaos and killing Pickett.
The protagonist and Greerwarn the Secret Service, to which Jack chases the Islamic extremist to a train station and kills him before he could remotely activate the device. They also return Samir to Hanin. Finally, Greer is promoted to deputy station chief in Moscow, and Jack takes his previous position as head of the T-FAD, for preventing the attack. Thus, due to all the developments described above, this is considered the best episode ofTom Clancy’s Jack Ryanso far.
