Monday, July 12, 2021

Jack Ryan Season 1 Episode 4 The Wolf 2018

      As Jack and Cathy grow closer in their relationship, Jack's double-life is put to the test.  A show of force from Suleiman adds to his number of men and brings him one step closer to his next attack. 

     Ali, the brother of Suleiman is pulled over somewhere in the Alps.  He is driving to a rendezvous point in the French Alps.  Jack convinced Arnaud to see where Ali would lead them.  Cpt. Arnaud (the French policewoman), Jack and Greer are on Ali’s trail.  He was ready to shoot the French police officer and he only handed him a ticket?  The officer let Ali go because of Arnaud’s orders.  Jack watched from a tablet while in the car with her.  Arnaud felt it was a big risk letting Ali go but she seemed to like Jack.  She gave Jack advice about asking Cathy out.  As soon as Jack sent a forward text, Arnaud told him her advice worked for French girls since American girls are more uptight.

     Suleiman went to see Al Radwan, he is the leader of ISIS.  Suleiman brought a duffel bag of euros, he paid for the Western prisoners and they are mostly Americans.  They are are associated with Doctors Without Borders.  Instead of handing the money to Al Radwan, he gave the money to his men who hadn’t been paid.  Suleiman beat Al Radwan and took him as prisoner with the Americans.  Suleiman easily seized leadership of the ISIS group.  Suleiman rallied his followers, claiming they would create a great Islamic empire.  He brought the Western prisoners back to his compound and put Al Radwan in with them.  5* (I really liked this episode)


43 min, action directed by Daniel Sackheim and written by Tom Clancy, Calton Cuse, Graham Roland with John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Abbie Cornish, Ali Suliman, Dina Shihabi, Marie-Josee Croze, Haaz Sleiman, Amir El-Masry, Jameel Khoury, Goran Kostic, Stephane Krau, Matt McCoy, Rodney Alexandre, Charles-Roger Bour, Youness Chara, Natalie Brown, Rachid El Adouani, Shadi Janho.

Note:  Imdb 8.3* out of 10* with 2.8K reviews, tveskimo.com 10*, Amazon 4* with 1,264 ratings.  

Special Note:  According to the executive producers, no stunt doubles were used during the filming of the woodshed confrontation between Jack and Ali.  John Krasinski and Haaz Sleiman performed the all the fight choreography in this scene.

Mistakes:  Jack is from Baltimore yet at dinner he tells Cathy to open her crab by hitting the shell with a mallet.  A Baltimore boy would know that you open a crab by prying open the apron on the bottom of the crab?  Also, the crab shown is not a blue crab?  A traditional restaurant like this one would serve blue crab in the Maryland / DC area.  Finally, if you're eating crabs in this area you would have a dozen or more on the table and just one?

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