We have seen a lot in the past 2 seasons of Jack Ryan, an undercover terrorist cell, international espionage, but what’s coming this season, is something none of us could have predicted.
“This was definitely the most action-packed season we’ve had so far,” said John Krasinski, “Knowing that the audience was going to have three years in between the two seasons, we wanted to make it really fun and really exciting. And running away from the CIA is as dangerous as anything we could think of for Jack to do.”
SPOILERS AHEAD FOR JACK RYAN SEASON 3 EPISODE 1
Season 3 starts with a flashback to 1969 Russia, during the Cold War. The Sokol project, a project founded during the fall of the USSR to develop nuclear weapons is terminated, along with the scientists behind it under the watchful eye of the second in command, Luka.
Flash forward to Rome, Jack is back in the field as a case officer, with his hands deep in some old school undercover work, investigating the Sokol project along with James Greer (Wendell Pierce). While undercover he has a secret rendezvous with an asset named Zoya who hands him an encrypted Sim card. As Jack soon learns from her, this project which was thought to be long gone has not only been reactivated, but has built a weapon. However Jack’s new by the book boss Elizabeth Wright (Betty Gabriel) is very skeptical and does not seem to like Jack much.
One thing to keep in mind about this episode is that there’s a lot of political drama going behind the scenes as well. The president of the Czech Republic, Alena Kovac (Tar’s Nina Hoss) is having peace talks with the Russian Minister of Defense, Dmitry Popov (Michael Gor). Later on in the episode we see the minister assassinated at a Football match.
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When Jack finds the supposed location of the weapon on a cargo ship in the Black Sea, he goes after it along with some help, but when his target turns out to be not a weapon but one of the main Scientists working on the Sokol project named Yuri, things get a lot more complicated. After a narrow escape from the ship, Jack and Yuri make it to Greece, but the two along with their team in Greece are ambushed and Jack’s team is killed.
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Now on the run, Jack must find a way to keep this asset alive and stop what’s to come, if only it were that easy. In Athens, once again Jack and Yuri are ambushed, this time by local police as well, Yuri is shot in the back, when Jack takes him inside a house to hide, Yuri is killed by a rogue agent who is now searching for Jack.
Jack turns to his agency for help, when Jack found out about the murder of the Minister of Defense, he realized, that was only the first domino falling. When speaking to Elizabeth who insisted Jack go to the safe house, she goes on to to say “The official line out of the Greek Government is that you entered the country illegally to eliminate a russian national, and in the process, killed one of their own,” this makes Jack come to the realization that he’s been burned, and that after everything that had happened in Athens, they were now looking for a fall guy.
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Things have got dangerously complicated for Jack Ryan, as he faces two choices. Turn himself in and be blamed for a crime he didn’t commit, or run, and find out the truth about what’s to come.
In what what probably one of the best Jack Ryan season premieres, we see John Krasinski deliver an absolutely brilliant performance, in a pulse pounding episode that was the perfect way to kickoff the long awaited season 3. There is still a lot more to come as Jack faces his greatest threat yet. Betrayal.
Jack Ryan season 3 is now out on Amazon Prime.
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