Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018–…): Season 1, Episode 7 - The Boy - full transcript
Jack and Greer try to convince their superiors to lead a covert ground assault to capture Suleiman. Jack's double life costs him an important relationship.
(SCANNER BEEPS)
- (LIVELY CHATTER)
- (PHONES RINGING)
(DOOR CLOSES)
Welcome back.
Thanks.
GREER: Ryan.
- Get any sleep?
- Yeah, a few hours.
- You get the wife set up?
- Yeah.
NROC got her and the girls set
up in a safe house in Annandale.
Excellent. Location checked out.
We got sat images
and we're establishing
persistent surveillance with RPAs.
We're still waiting
forvisual confirmation
that Suleiman is on site,
but POTUS is ready to approve
a HALO insert for ISR advance.
JSOC is working up an assault plan.
Good work, gentlemen.
BURKE: (QUIETLY) Kill team in position.
Going internal.
Go, go, go.
Move right.
Hold left, clear right.
- (SILENCED GUNSHOT)
- One male combatant down.
Moving to target bedroom.
Moving to target bedroom.
Open, open.
Get up now, motherfucker!
Move! Now!
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
Not bad.
Bring it in, guys.
If he goes down,
who's next in the room?
Good.
Who's got Casevac?
Who's responsible for SSE?
All right, y'all. Any other questions?
Uh, yeah. Who gets to keep the blonde?
(LAUGHTER)
Okeydoke, gents. Let's take five.
SOLDIER: Clear.
MATICE: What side of the bed
does he sleep on?
Here.
What about guns?
Does he sleep with a weapon
near the bed?
He keeps a rifle by the bed,
a pistol under the mattress.
He also keeps a knife
in the bedside drawer.
(SCOFFS) Is that all?
All right, well, I'm gonna take a leak
before we do this again.
You better be right about her, Doc.
This is us
going through that door, not you.
(DOOR CLOSES)
SULEIMAN: Samir.
Samir?
Yes, Dad?
Come here, son.
What is it?
I have some news for you.
Your sisters are coming home.
But your mother is not.
What do you mean?
Your mother decided to leave us.
She went to live with the enemy.
Allah punished her for this.
The enemy...
killed your mother.
May God have mercy on her.
Samir.
We're going to take revenge.
They're going to pay a high price.
A very high price.
Based on drone reconnaissance,
we believe there are 36 occupants,
29 military-aged males,
six women, one child.
Jesus, he's got
a fucking platoon in there.
Let's cut to the quick here, Sue.
Is Elvis in the building or not?
SINGER: Well, our analysts assess
with moderate confidence
that Suleiman is on site.
The president is not authorizing
kinetic action
on the basis of moderate confidence.
Moderate to high.
- It's not happening.
- TRENT: Bobby.
That man and his followers
killed 306 people in that church.
306 French people on French soil.
There were 27 Americans
in that church, too.
- Exactly.
- I get it, Jim.
Why don't we give the location
of the compound to the French
and let them extract
their pound of flesh?
We're not even sure
he's at the compound.
We know enough.
The second MEU is on alert
in the Red Sea.
All we have to do is redirect
them to the Persian Gulf,
get a squadron of F-18s
within striking distance
of that compound
before breakfast tomorrow.
Ground assault.
(QUIET MURMURING)
Sir, we've had a JSOC team
training for this for 36 hours.
Blue trained for a month
before the Abbottabad raid.
Ryan, why would the president
risk American lives
when he doesn't have to?
(SIGHS)
An air strike may
very well kill Suleiman,
but you will not
neutralize the threat
to the United States
and to its allies.
This is an international organization.
They have cells in France,
Yemen, Syria, and those are
just the ones we know about.
Sir, you drop a bomb,
and we lose all vital intelligence
on his larger operations,
not to mention the plans that
he's already put into action.
I believe Dr. Ryan has made
his position very clear.
A ground assault is off the table.
You want an air strike, Marcus?
Get me confirmation that
Suleiman is at the compound.
Will do.
GREER: What was that?
We present intelligence.
We give them options,
if they ask for it.
What we don't do is
fucking advocate a course of action.
(SNIFFS)
(CRYING SOFTLY)
- Dr. Mueller?
- Yes.
My name is Sergeant Grant.
This is Specialist O'Shea.
We're from the Army Medical Research
Institute for Infectious Disease.
We'd like to ask you some questions
regarding a cable you sent
about an Ebola containment breach.
Okay.
We have a car waiting downstairs.
- Right now?
- Yes, ma'am.
My Sheikh.
You wanted to see me?
Dr. Nadler,
I have something for you.
What is that?
Antibiotics, acetaminophen,
iodine tablets, multivitamins.
Go ahead.
That's everything
you asked for, yes?
(CRYING SOFTLY)
Yes.
Yes. Thank-thank you.
Uh, how is, uh, your son?
Have you thought about
letting me examine him?
My son is fine.
Are you sure?
Quite sure.
(SIGHS)
Okay. Everybody, take one of each,
and then, uh,
then pass them around.
- (QUIET CHATTER)
- (COUGHING)
NADLER: No, no, no, no. Easy.
BENJAMIN: What are you doing?
Well, he's had a fever
for three days.
His arm's broken in two places.
He's got cracked ribs
and God knows what other
internal injuries.
So, to answer your question, Ben,
I'm...
I'm giving him an aspirin.
He's the reason
we're here in the first place.
As long as we have breath
in our lungs,
we're doctors first.
Don't forget that.
(AL RADWAN GROANS)
TAREK: Where were you guys?
We had a meeting
on the seventh floor.
Why? What's up?
What's up? I'll tell you what's up.
This photo was taken
at a private airfield in Azerbaijan
six months ago.
JACK: Azerbaijan?
- What are they doing there?
- I have no idea,
but guess where
they were coming from.
I don't know, the North Pole?
Liberia.
I ran a manual check
on every flight
arriving in Azerbaijan that day.
One private plane chartered out
of Roberts Airport in Liberia
listed two French nationals
bringing home the remains
of a relative to be buried.
They took a body
from Liberia to Azerbaijan?
Holy shit.
USAMRIID asked CTC Africa
to send a rep to an emergency brief,
discussing an Ebola-infected corpse
that went missing from Liberia.
Well, when's that brief?
- 20 minutes.
- Shit.
Damn.
He's clear.
PHELPS: You were successful in treating
and containing
the EVD-27 outbreak
in Western Africa last year.
Is that accurate?
Me and my team, yes.
Uh, in the Konteke province.
Given that this particular
strain of Ebola is vaccine-resistant,
what does the CDC have
in the way of treatment options?
Well, like influenza,
Ebola is a virus that mutates rapidly.
Right now, we do not have
an effective treatment for EVD-27.
James Greer, Jack Ryan, CIA.
(QUIET CHATTER)
GREER: Colonel.
PHELPS: Go ahead, Jim.
I'd like to present some recent
findings to the doctor.
These should help clarify
the situation for her.
Dr...?
- Mueller.
- Dr. Mueller.
You spent time on the ground
in Liberia, is that right?
Yes.
This was taken at Roberts Airport,
six months ago.
Do you recognize
either of these two men?
This is the man from the video
from the attack in Paris.
Yes.
The other man is his brother.
Was his brother.
He's recently deceased.
I'm sorry, but how am I
involved in any of this?
Dr. Mueller,
we believe that the body
you reported missing was stolen
by these two men and flown
by private plane to Azerbaijan.
- Azerbaijan?
- GREER: The Caucasus region
is notorious
for its Soviet scientist defectors.
They set themselves up
at universities with research grants,
and they use the labs
for black biology,
creating bioweapons
to be sold on the black market.
Doctor, what we're asking is,
is it possible
that these two men found
a way to weaponize Ebola?
Uh...
well, EVD-27, like all Ebola strains,
is transmitted directly
through bodily fluids.
Th-The most challenging issue
would be the delivery system.
- The delivery system?
- Y-Yes.
The means of carrying
the widespread infection.
Oxygen kills the virus,
so transmitting it through the air
would be difficult.
But is it possible?
Yes, it's possible.
(DOOR CLOSES)
- Cathy.
- Hmm.
Cathy, please just wait.
Just give me five minutes.
I didn't want to lie.
I had to.
I'm not allowed to say
that I was in Yemen,
hunting an international terrorist.
Well, you could have said anything.
You could've said
you work for the government,
but you can't actually tell me
what you really do.
Something simple, easy, honest.
Okay.
Was any of it real?
What does that even mean?
About your father,
about... about how he died?
Of course it was.
I would never lie to you about that.
Just everything else.
The truth?
It's a covert identity,
and it's what I was trained to say.
And how am I supposed
to know what's real
and what's bullshit with you?
Good luck, Jack.
(HORNS HONKING)
MAN: Next.
Photo I.D. cards
out and ready, please.
- Paperwork, please.
- How you doing?
Thank you.
MAN: Let him through, let him through.
(SPEAKS ARABIC)
There it is.
Slowly, slowly.
(GRUNTS)
(FILTERED BREATHING)
(GRUNTS)
(SPEAKS ARABIC)
No, no, no... Look!!
Let's leave it!
The seven remaining are enough.
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
(CAR ALARM BEEPS)
DOUG: Oh, hey, Marabel.
Hey. Hold this for a sec.
- Hey, what'd you get?
- Not for you.
Gentlemen.
MAN: Hey, boss.
All quiet.
- Anything I should know about?
- No, we're all good here.
Good.
Wrap it...
Slowly, sweetie.
I'm back! Brought some gifts
and stuff for the girls.
Figured they were going
a little stir crazy.
Hope that's okay,
and seven spices.
Thank you.
Sara.
Is this the one you wanted?
(MUSIC PLAYING QUIETLY)
(SIREN WAILING,
DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
(PHONE VIBRATING)
Yeah?
GREER: "Yeah?"
That's how you answer the phone?
At 3:00 a.m., it is.
Director's brief.
Starts in 45 minutes.
Greer, what happened?
That's what the brief is for.
- Oh, and, Ryan?
- Yeah?
Wear a tie.
(QUIET CHATTER)
Nice tie, Winklevoss.
Wow, so this is
what you think is funny?
(CHUCKLES)
He's ready.
WOMAN: Going live in three, two, one.
(CLEARS THROAT)
- Good morning, Mr. President.
- Mr. President.
- Mr. President.
- Morning, sir.
PICKETT: No, please.
Sit down, everyone.
And, uh, thank you, everyone,
for coming in.
At least I know
the traffic wasn't bad.
(QUIET LAUGHTER)
Mr. President, we sent you
the sat images of the compound.
And if you direct your attention
to the monitor on your side,
we'll continue.
(REMOTE BEEPS)
I'd say that's definitive.
Mr. President, we have confirmed
it is Suleiman.
We have, uh, been monitoring
everyone coming in and out.
There have been no changes
in patterns, routines or numbers
for 72 hours.
Uh, there is, however, Mr. President,
a significant new development.
Who are they?
SINGER: We have identified
a dozen hostages
being held at the compound.
We have high confidence
that they have 12 physicians
from Doctors Without Borders,
who went missing near Aleppo,
uh, 17 weeks ago.
Four of them are American.
Including Dr. Daniel Nadler.
(QUIETLY) Nadler and POTUS
served in Nam together.
Are you sure that's Daniel?
JOYCE: Yes, Mr. President.
What would you like us to do,
Mr. President?
I'm told there's a ground element
ready to deploy?
Yes, sir.
Let's bring them home.
- JOYCE: Yes, sir.
- All right.
- Uh, Mr. President.
- Oh, sweet Jesus.
Uh, there is an 11-year-old boy
also at the compound.
Suleiman's son.
Sir, we never would've
found this compound
if it wasn't for
the wife's cooperation.
She just wants her son back.
Well, okay.
Let's tell the rescue team
there are 13 hostages to bring home.
Yes, Mr. President.
- JOYCE: Yes, sir.
- Thank you, sir.
Thank you, everyone.
Very good work today.
- Thank you, sir.
- Thank you, sir.
My brothers in God...
As you know,
you came to me from all over
to be an example of a new order.
Those of you who follow God's will...
will have
for generations to come
the pride and recognition
that it all started with you.
May peace be with you
in the name of God most merciful.
Praise God!
God is great!
- Praise God!
- God is great!
(EXCITED SHOUTING CONTINUES)
Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.
(VIDEO GAME MUSIC
PLAYING QUIETLY)
(TV PLAYING QUIETLY)
(DOOR CLOSES IN DISTANCE)
(URGENT CHATTER)
MAN: So, I just want
to make sure you understand
that we're all on the same...
- Jim.
- Hey.
- Ryan.
- Sir.
MATICE: (OVER RADIO) Covenant? Covenant.
Covenant, this is Kilo Actual.
All right. Here we go, everybody.
Feed's up.
FARNSWORTH: (OVER RADIO)
Kilo Actual, this is Covenant.
State your position.
MATICE: Confirmed touchdown.
Eight klicks outside of objective.
MATICE: (OVER COMM)
Watch your high angles.
We're at the main entry.
Fire in the hole.
Three, two, one.
Got a cooking fire, still hot.
Covenant, this is Kilo Actual.
Kilo team is under the wire.
Exterior courtyard empty.
Going internal.
Clear. Clear.
On mine.
Covenant, this is Kilo Actual.
Interior courtyard empty.
Something's wrong.
Heads up. This could be an ambush.
Clear.
- Clear.
- Moving to target bedroom.
Open, open, open! Push it left!
Covenant, this is Kilo Actual.
We got a dry hole here. Over.
(QUIET MURMURING)
All clear.
Commence SSE.
How can that be?
MATICE: There are no HVTs
present at the target.
There's no one fucking here.
He knew we were coming.
How?
Covenant, how's Hotel team
doing on the hostages?
Breacher up.
- Up against the wall.
- We're Americans.
Hands in the air. Come on.
- Move, move, move.
- Let's go.
Push left. Clear.
Captain, over here.
Covenant, this is Kilo Actual.
There's a tunnel
under the compound.
Can't really tell
which way it goes,
but there's lots of ways out.
I need to deploy
my team on foot.
We're gonna see where it goes.
Over.
Negative.
Getting the hostages out
is the priority now.
You, sir, come with me.
What's your name?
- Katie Becker.
- Hi, Katie.
Hey, hey, hey, hey. And him?
He's one of them.
(GUNSHOT)
Covenant, this is Hotel Alpha.
Hostages secured. Extracting
and traveling 12 packs.
(QUIET MURMURING)
Okay.
Tell the president
we have the hostages.
Where did they all go?
(HELICOPTER APPROACHING)
PILOT: Halo One
landing in the evac spot.
FARNSWORTH: Prepare for extraction.
- Standing by at the rally point.
- What about the boy?
Any sign of the son?
FARNSWORTH: Kilo Actual,
any sign of the boy?
MATICE:
That's a negative on the boy.
He ain't here either. Over.
Grab all maps, cell phones.
Anything electronic goes, guys.
You know the drill.
Station two,
three towers, two laptops.
Pack it up.
Keep moving, keep moving!
Come on. Quickly!
Keep moving!
- (CRYING)
- Bring it in.
She said she don't know
what she's doing
Like she ain't
been here before
I don't know who she thinks
she's fooling...
- Club soda and lime.
- BARTENDER: You got it.
You know,
there's a few other bars in D.C.
where you can get
a club soda and lime.
Uh, yeah.
But if I went to one
of those other bars,
I might meet some
friendly strangers,
get into some conversation,
end up having a good time.
Only here, at this bar,
can I sit next to
a morose motherfucker
in a J.Crew button-down
and be depressed all night.
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
12 hostages are coming home
to their families.
We collected a mountain
of intelligence.
We crushed his support network,
and the son of a bitch
is on the run.
In our world... in ops...
that's a huge win.
But we didn't find him.
Who are you talking about?
Suleiman or his son?
You know what? You can keep
flying this "mission first" bullshit,
but you know that going after
that kid was the right call.
Let me ask you something.
What makes you think
this boy can still be saved?
When his mother and sisters
fled, he stayed.
He chose to say.
He chose his father.
You don't know that.
Maybe you're right.
And maybe one day
my black, Muslim ass
will be the Director of the CIA.
(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)
- (METAL JINGLING)
- (CAMELS GRUNTING)
You made it.
Yeah.
Did you get everything?
Yes, I did.
Give this to him...
and tell him we are grateful.
(SPEAKING ARABIC)
Thank you.
No problem.
Let's go.
(ENGINE STARTS)
Yeah, let me call you back.
WOMAN: (OVER TV)
Dr. Daniel Nadler, Katie Becker,
Benjamin Johnson
and Theresa Lowe have returned
to the United States after a
harrowing 17 weeks in captivity.
The doctors were doing
aid work in Aleppo
when they were kidnapped
by Islamic fundamentalists.
(SOFT JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)
Hi.
I wasn't, uh, sure you'd come.
Uh, you wanted to talk.
So here I am.
- Afternoon.
- Hey.
- Uh, wine?
- Sure.
Red or white?
The red, please.
Two. Uh, Chianti.
Is that all right?
Yeah.
- Right away.
- Thanks.
So, here we are.
So, here we are.
What did you want
to talk to me about?
I owe you an explanation.
I, um...
You don't work for
the State Department.
Well, truth be told,
I don't usually carry around
pictures of terrorists.
I work in a cubicle.
I write reports.
And get picked up
by helicopters,
disappear for days
without any excuse.
That is more than fair.
I mean, how is this
supposed to work?
You're a spy.
You're a CIA agent.
Officer.
We say officer.
The movies get that wrong
all the time. (CHUCKLES)
Um...
Look, Cathy.
I think you like me.
Begrudgingly, but I think you do.
And I like you.
I just feel like
both of us have been on
enough bad online dates
or Tinder hookups or whatever
to know that this doesn't
come along very often.
- I was never on Tinder.
- I was never on Tinder.
(CHUCKLES)
I'm not crazy.
There's something here, right?
You're not crazy.
Can we just start with that?
And the rest of it,
we'll just figure out as we go.
Is this you thinking?
- Yes. This is me thinking.
- (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Take as much time as you need.
(CATHY CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
(CLEARS THROAT SOFTLY)
You make a compelling argument.
- Is that a yes?
- Yes.
Yes.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Can we order something
stronger than red wine?
- Please, God, yes. Excuse me.
- Yeah.
- Come in.
- Boss, SEG just sent these over.
What is it?
Some of the shredded material
from the compound.
(QUIET CHATTER)
- Suleiman's. Just like ours.
- Really?
Huh, that's weird.
What's weird?
These were in
the hostages' cell.
Aspirin, iodine, vitamin C.
He gave them vitamins.
Just because you're
an international terrorist
doesn't mean
you have to stop caring.
- Find Ryan.
- Yes, sir.
CATHY: Those poor people.
What they went through.
- (PHONE VIBRATING)
- Oh, shit. Sorry.
- Let me turn this off.
- No, it's okay.
Now that I know you're
literally saving the world,
you can take a phone call.
Be right back.
Hello?
We found a clipping
of the President and Nadler
in the compound.
Suleiman knew
they knew each other?
Then he knew the president
would send for them.
Holy shit. It's the hostages.
He's not building
a biological weapon.
They are the weapon.
- (LIVELY CHATTER)
- (PHONES RINGING)
(DOOR CLOSES)
Welcome back.
Thanks.
GREER: Ryan.
- Get any sleep?
- Yeah, a few hours.
- You get the wife set up?
- Yeah.
NROC got her and the girls set
up in a safe house in Annandale.
Excellent. Location checked out.
We got sat images
and we're establishing
persistent surveillance with RPAs.
We're still waiting
forvisual confirmation
that Suleiman is on site,
but POTUS is ready to approve
a HALO insert for ISR advance.
JSOC is working up an assault plan.
Good work, gentlemen.
BURKE: (QUIETLY) Kill team in position.
Going internal.
Go, go, go.
Move right.
Hold left, clear right.
- (SILENCED GUNSHOT)
- One male combatant down.
Moving to target bedroom.
Moving to target bedroom.
Open, open.
Get up now, motherfucker!
Move! Now!
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
Not bad.
Bring it in, guys.
If he goes down,
who's next in the room?
Good.
Who's got Casevac?
Who's responsible for SSE?
All right, y'all. Any other questions?
Uh, yeah. Who gets to keep the blonde?
(LAUGHTER)
Okeydoke, gents. Let's take five.
SOLDIER: Clear.
MATICE: What side of the bed
does he sleep on?
Here.
What about guns?
Does he sleep with a weapon
near the bed?
He keeps a rifle by the bed,
a pistol under the mattress.
He also keeps a knife
in the bedside drawer.
(SCOFFS) Is that all?
All right, well, I'm gonna take a leak
before we do this again.
You better be right about her, Doc.
This is us
going through that door, not you.
(DOOR CLOSES)
SULEIMAN: Samir.
Samir?
Yes, Dad?
Come here, son.
What is it?
I have some news for you.
Your sisters are coming home.
But your mother is not.
What do you mean?
Your mother decided to leave us.
She went to live with the enemy.
Allah punished her for this.
The enemy...
killed your mother.
May God have mercy on her.
Samir.
We're going to take revenge.
They're going to pay a high price.
A very high price.
Based on drone reconnaissance,
we believe there are 36 occupants,
29 military-aged males,
six women, one child.
Jesus, he's got
a fucking platoon in there.
Let's cut to the quick here, Sue.
Is Elvis in the building or not?
SINGER: Well, our analysts assess
with moderate confidence
that Suleiman is on site.
The president is not authorizing
kinetic action
on the basis of moderate confidence.
Moderate to high.
- It's not happening.
- TRENT: Bobby.
That man and his followers
killed 306 people in that church.
306 French people on French soil.
There were 27 Americans
in that church, too.
- Exactly.
- I get it, Jim.
Why don't we give the location
of the compound to the French
and let them extract
their pound of flesh?
We're not even sure
he's at the compound.
We know enough.
The second MEU is on alert
in the Red Sea.
All we have to do is redirect
them to the Persian Gulf,
get a squadron of F-18s
within striking distance
of that compound
before breakfast tomorrow.
Ground assault.
(QUIET MURMURING)
Sir, we've had a JSOC team
training for this for 36 hours.
Blue trained for a month
before the Abbottabad raid.
Ryan, why would the president
risk American lives
when he doesn't have to?
(SIGHS)
An air strike may
very well kill Suleiman,
but you will not
neutralize the threat
to the United States
and to its allies.
This is an international organization.
They have cells in France,
Yemen, Syria, and those are
just the ones we know about.
Sir, you drop a bomb,
and we lose all vital intelligence
on his larger operations,
not to mention the plans that
he's already put into action.
I believe Dr. Ryan has made
his position very clear.
A ground assault is off the table.
You want an air strike, Marcus?
Get me confirmation that
Suleiman is at the compound.
Will do.
GREER: What was that?
We present intelligence.
We give them options,
if they ask for it.
What we don't do is
fucking advocate a course of action.
(SNIFFS)
(CRYING SOFTLY)
- Dr. Mueller?
- Yes.
My name is Sergeant Grant.
This is Specialist O'Shea.
We're from the Army Medical Research
Institute for Infectious Disease.
We'd like to ask you some questions
regarding a cable you sent
about an Ebola containment breach.
Okay.
We have a car waiting downstairs.
- Right now?
- Yes, ma'am.
My Sheikh.
You wanted to see me?
Dr. Nadler,
I have something for you.
What is that?
Antibiotics, acetaminophen,
iodine tablets, multivitamins.
Go ahead.
That's everything
you asked for, yes?
(CRYING SOFTLY)
Yes.
Yes. Thank-thank you.
Uh, how is, uh, your son?
Have you thought about
letting me examine him?
My son is fine.
Are you sure?
Quite sure.
(SIGHS)
Okay. Everybody, take one of each,
and then, uh,
then pass them around.
- (QUIET CHATTER)
- (COUGHING)
NADLER: No, no, no, no. Easy.
BENJAMIN: What are you doing?
Well, he's had a fever
for three days.
His arm's broken in two places.
He's got cracked ribs
and God knows what other
internal injuries.
So, to answer your question, Ben,
I'm...
I'm giving him an aspirin.
He's the reason
we're here in the first place.
As long as we have breath
in our lungs,
we're doctors first.
Don't forget that.
(AL RADWAN GROANS)
TAREK: Where were you guys?
We had a meeting
on the seventh floor.
Why? What's up?
What's up? I'll tell you what's up.
This photo was taken
at a private airfield in Azerbaijan
six months ago.
JACK: Azerbaijan?
- What are they doing there?
- I have no idea,
but guess where
they were coming from.
I don't know, the North Pole?
Liberia.
I ran a manual check
on every flight
arriving in Azerbaijan that day.
One private plane chartered out
of Roberts Airport in Liberia
listed two French nationals
bringing home the remains
of a relative to be buried.
They took a body
from Liberia to Azerbaijan?
Holy shit.
USAMRIID asked CTC Africa
to send a rep to an emergency brief,
discussing an Ebola-infected corpse
that went missing from Liberia.
Well, when's that brief?
- 20 minutes.
- Shit.
Damn.
He's clear.
PHELPS: You were successful in treating
and containing
the EVD-27 outbreak
in Western Africa last year.
Is that accurate?
Me and my team, yes.
Uh, in the Konteke province.
Given that this particular
strain of Ebola is vaccine-resistant,
what does the CDC have
in the way of treatment options?
Well, like influenza,
Ebola is a virus that mutates rapidly.
Right now, we do not have
an effective treatment for EVD-27.
James Greer, Jack Ryan, CIA.
(QUIET CHATTER)
GREER: Colonel.
PHELPS: Go ahead, Jim.
I'd like to present some recent
findings to the doctor.
These should help clarify
the situation for her.
Dr...?
- Mueller.
- Dr. Mueller.
You spent time on the ground
in Liberia, is that right?
Yes.
This was taken at Roberts Airport,
six months ago.
Do you recognize
either of these two men?
This is the man from the video
from the attack in Paris.
Yes.
The other man is his brother.
Was his brother.
He's recently deceased.
I'm sorry, but how am I
involved in any of this?
Dr. Mueller,
we believe that the body
you reported missing was stolen
by these two men and flown
by private plane to Azerbaijan.
- Azerbaijan?
- GREER: The Caucasus region
is notorious
for its Soviet scientist defectors.
They set themselves up
at universities with research grants,
and they use the labs
for black biology,
creating bioweapons
to be sold on the black market.
Doctor, what we're asking is,
is it possible
that these two men found
a way to weaponize Ebola?
Uh...
well, EVD-27, like all Ebola strains,
is transmitted directly
through bodily fluids.
Th-The most challenging issue
would be the delivery system.
- The delivery system?
- Y-Yes.
The means of carrying
the widespread infection.
Oxygen kills the virus,
so transmitting it through the air
would be difficult.
But is it possible?
Yes, it's possible.
(DOOR CLOSES)
- Cathy.
- Hmm.
Cathy, please just wait.
Just give me five minutes.
I didn't want to lie.
I had to.
I'm not allowed to say
that I was in Yemen,
hunting an international terrorist.
Well, you could have said anything.
You could've said
you work for the government,
but you can't actually tell me
what you really do.
Something simple, easy, honest.
Okay.
Was any of it real?
What does that even mean?
About your father,
about... about how he died?
Of course it was.
I would never lie to you about that.
Just everything else.
The truth?
It's a covert identity,
and it's what I was trained to say.
And how am I supposed
to know what's real
and what's bullshit with you?
Good luck, Jack.
(HORNS HONKING)
MAN: Next.
Photo I.D. cards
out and ready, please.
- Paperwork, please.
- How you doing?
Thank you.
MAN: Let him through, let him through.
(SPEAKS ARABIC)
There it is.
Slowly, slowly.
(GRUNTS)
(FILTERED BREATHING)
(GRUNTS)
(SPEAKS ARABIC)
No, no, no... Look!!
Let's leave it!
The seven remaining are enough.
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
(CAR ALARM BEEPS)
DOUG: Oh, hey, Marabel.
Hey. Hold this for a sec.
- Hey, what'd you get?
- Not for you.
Gentlemen.
MAN: Hey, boss.
All quiet.
- Anything I should know about?
- No, we're all good here.
Good.
Wrap it...
Slowly, sweetie.
I'm back! Brought some gifts
and stuff for the girls.
Figured they were going
a little stir crazy.
Hope that's okay,
and seven spices.
Thank you.
Sara.
Is this the one you wanted?
(MUSIC PLAYING QUIETLY)
(SIREN WAILING,
DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
(PHONE VIBRATING)
Yeah?
GREER: "Yeah?"
That's how you answer the phone?
At 3:00 a.m., it is.
Director's brief.
Starts in 45 minutes.
Greer, what happened?
That's what the brief is for.
- Oh, and, Ryan?
- Yeah?
Wear a tie.
(QUIET CHATTER)
Nice tie, Winklevoss.
Wow, so this is
what you think is funny?
(CHUCKLES)
He's ready.
WOMAN: Going live in three, two, one.
(CLEARS THROAT)
- Good morning, Mr. President.
- Mr. President.
- Mr. President.
- Morning, sir.
PICKETT: No, please.
Sit down, everyone.
And, uh, thank you, everyone,
for coming in.
At least I know
the traffic wasn't bad.
(QUIET LAUGHTER)
Mr. President, we sent you
the sat images of the compound.
And if you direct your attention
to the monitor on your side,
we'll continue.
(REMOTE BEEPS)
I'd say that's definitive.
Mr. President, we have confirmed
it is Suleiman.
We have, uh, been monitoring
everyone coming in and out.
There have been no changes
in patterns, routines or numbers
for 72 hours.
Uh, there is, however, Mr. President,
a significant new development.
Who are they?
SINGER: We have identified
a dozen hostages
being held at the compound.
We have high confidence
that they have 12 physicians
from Doctors Without Borders,
who went missing near Aleppo,
uh, 17 weeks ago.
Four of them are American.
Including Dr. Daniel Nadler.
(QUIETLY) Nadler and POTUS
served in Nam together.
Are you sure that's Daniel?
JOYCE: Yes, Mr. President.
What would you like us to do,
Mr. President?
I'm told there's a ground element
ready to deploy?
Yes, sir.
Let's bring them home.
- JOYCE: Yes, sir.
- All right.
- Uh, Mr. President.
- Oh, sweet Jesus.
Uh, there is an 11-year-old boy
also at the compound.
Suleiman's son.
Sir, we never would've
found this compound
if it wasn't for
the wife's cooperation.
She just wants her son back.
Well, okay.
Let's tell the rescue team
there are 13 hostages to bring home.
Yes, Mr. President.
- JOYCE: Yes, sir.
- Thank you, sir.
Thank you, everyone.
Very good work today.
- Thank you, sir.
- Thank you, sir.
My brothers in God...
As you know,
you came to me from all over
to be an example of a new order.
Those of you who follow God's will...
will have
for generations to come
the pride and recognition
that it all started with you.
May peace be with you
in the name of God most merciful.
Praise God!
God is great!
- Praise God!
- God is great!
(EXCITED SHOUTING CONTINUES)
Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.
(VIDEO GAME MUSIC
PLAYING QUIETLY)
(TV PLAYING QUIETLY)
(DOOR CLOSES IN DISTANCE)
(URGENT CHATTER)
MAN: So, I just want
to make sure you understand
that we're all on the same...
- Jim.
- Hey.
- Ryan.
- Sir.
MATICE: (OVER RADIO) Covenant? Covenant.
Covenant, this is Kilo Actual.
All right. Here we go, everybody.
Feed's up.
FARNSWORTH: (OVER RADIO)
Kilo Actual, this is Covenant.
State your position.
MATICE: Confirmed touchdown.
Eight klicks outside of objective.
MATICE: (OVER COMM)
Watch your high angles.
We're at the main entry.
Fire in the hole.
Three, two, one.
Got a cooking fire, still hot.
Covenant, this is Kilo Actual.
Kilo team is under the wire.
Exterior courtyard empty.
Going internal.
Clear. Clear.
On mine.
Covenant, this is Kilo Actual.
Interior courtyard empty.
Something's wrong.
Heads up. This could be an ambush.
Clear.
- Clear.
- Moving to target bedroom.
Open, open, open! Push it left!
Covenant, this is Kilo Actual.
We got a dry hole here. Over.
(QUIET MURMURING)
All clear.
Commence SSE.
How can that be?
MATICE: There are no HVTs
present at the target.
There's no one fucking here.
He knew we were coming.
How?
Covenant, how's Hotel team
doing on the hostages?
Breacher up.
- Up against the wall.
- We're Americans.
Hands in the air. Come on.
- Move, move, move.
- Let's go.
Push left. Clear.
Captain, over here.
Covenant, this is Kilo Actual.
There's a tunnel
under the compound.
Can't really tell
which way it goes,
but there's lots of ways out.
I need to deploy
my team on foot.
We're gonna see where it goes.
Over.
Negative.
Getting the hostages out
is the priority now.
You, sir, come with me.
What's your name?
- Katie Becker.
- Hi, Katie.
Hey, hey, hey, hey. And him?
He's one of them.
(GUNSHOT)
Covenant, this is Hotel Alpha.
Hostages secured. Extracting
and traveling 12 packs.
(QUIET MURMURING)
Okay.
Tell the president
we have the hostages.
Where did they all go?
(HELICOPTER APPROACHING)
PILOT: Halo One
landing in the evac spot.
FARNSWORTH: Prepare for extraction.
- Standing by at the rally point.
- What about the boy?
Any sign of the son?
FARNSWORTH: Kilo Actual,
any sign of the boy?
MATICE:
That's a negative on the boy.
He ain't here either. Over.
Grab all maps, cell phones.
Anything electronic goes, guys.
You know the drill.
Station two,
three towers, two laptops.
Pack it up.
Keep moving, keep moving!
Come on. Quickly!
Keep moving!
- (CRYING)
- Bring it in.
She said she don't know
what she's doing
Like she ain't
been here before
I don't know who she thinks
she's fooling...
- Club soda and lime.
- BARTENDER: You got it.
You know,
there's a few other bars in D.C.
where you can get
a club soda and lime.
Uh, yeah.
But if I went to one
of those other bars,
I might meet some
friendly strangers,
get into some conversation,
end up having a good time.
Only here, at this bar,
can I sit next to
a morose motherfucker
in a J.Crew button-down
and be depressed all night.
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
12 hostages are coming home
to their families.
We collected a mountain
of intelligence.
We crushed his support network,
and the son of a bitch
is on the run.
In our world... in ops...
that's a huge win.
But we didn't find him.
Who are you talking about?
Suleiman or his son?
You know what? You can keep
flying this "mission first" bullshit,
but you know that going after
that kid was the right call.
Let me ask you something.
What makes you think
this boy can still be saved?
When his mother and sisters
fled, he stayed.
He chose to say.
He chose his father.
You don't know that.
Maybe you're right.
And maybe one day
my black, Muslim ass
will be the Director of the CIA.
(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)
- (METAL JINGLING)
- (CAMELS GRUNTING)
You made it.
Yeah.
Did you get everything?
Yes, I did.
Give this to him...
and tell him we are grateful.
(SPEAKING ARABIC)
Thank you.
No problem.
Let's go.
(ENGINE STARTS)
Yeah, let me call you back.
WOMAN: (OVER TV)
Dr. Daniel Nadler, Katie Becker,
Benjamin Johnson
and Theresa Lowe have returned
to the United States after a
harrowing 17 weeks in captivity.
The doctors were doing
aid work in Aleppo
when they were kidnapped
by Islamic fundamentalists.
(SOFT JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)
Hi.
I wasn't, uh, sure you'd come.
Uh, you wanted to talk.
So here I am.
- Afternoon.
- Hey.
- Uh, wine?
- Sure.
Red or white?
The red, please.
Two. Uh, Chianti.
Is that all right?
Yeah.
- Right away.
- Thanks.
So, here we are.
So, here we are.
What did you want
to talk to me about?
I owe you an explanation.
I, um...
You don't work for
the State Department.
Well, truth be told,
I don't usually carry around
pictures of terrorists.
I work in a cubicle.
I write reports.
And get picked up
by helicopters,
disappear for days
without any excuse.
That is more than fair.
I mean, how is this
supposed to work?
You're a spy.
You're a CIA agent.
Officer.
We say officer.
The movies get that wrong
all the time. (CHUCKLES)
Um...
Look, Cathy.
I think you like me.
Begrudgingly, but I think you do.
And I like you.
I just feel like
both of us have been on
enough bad online dates
or Tinder hookups or whatever
to know that this doesn't
come along very often.
- I was never on Tinder.
- I was never on Tinder.
(CHUCKLES)
I'm not crazy.
There's something here, right?
You're not crazy.
Can we just start with that?
And the rest of it,
we'll just figure out as we go.
Is this you thinking?
- Yes. This is me thinking.
- (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Take as much time as you need.
(CATHY CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
(CLEARS THROAT SOFTLY)
You make a compelling argument.
- Is that a yes?
- Yes.
Yes.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Can we order something
stronger than red wine?
- Please, God, yes. Excuse me.
- Yeah.
- Come in.
- Boss, SEG just sent these over.
What is it?
Some of the shredded material
from the compound.
(QUIET CHATTER)
- Suleiman's. Just like ours.
- Really?
Huh, that's weird.
What's weird?
These were in
the hostages' cell.
Aspirin, iodine, vitamin C.
He gave them vitamins.
Just because you're
an international terrorist
doesn't mean
you have to stop caring.
- Find Ryan.
- Yes, sir.
CATHY: Those poor people.
What they went through.
- (PHONE VIBRATING)
- Oh, shit. Sorry.
- Let me turn this off.
- No, it's okay.
Now that I know you're
literally saving the world,
you can take a phone call.
Be right back.
Hello?
We found a clipping
of the President and Nadler
in the compound.
Suleiman knew
they knew each other?
Then he knew the president
would send for them.
Holy shit. It's the hostages.
He's not building
a biological weapon.
They are the weapon.