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David and Georgia, two divorced parents who can't stand each other, 

head to Bali after their daughter, Lily, announces her plans to marry

a local islander she just met while on holiday. They decide to put aside 

their differences and work together to stop the wedding, believing 

that doing so will keep Lily from making a dreadful mistake similar 

to their own.

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  Jack Ryan - Season 3 - 8 Series running through April 18th

   April 18th - This is the Finale!

   

   April 11th

     April 4th

     March 28th

    March 21st

    March 14th   Closed for Snow Day

    March 7th

    February 28th Cancelled for Snow Day!

  February 21st

    February 14th

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Season 3 of "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" is full of shocking twists and political intrigue, all tying into a larger plot about a rogue faction within the Russian government working behind the president's back to resurrect the Soviet Union. To accomplish this task, the rogue faction takes inspiration from the political tensions of the Cold War and sets in motion a series of events that will sow distrust between Russia and the United States. This rogue faction, founded by former Soviet soldier Petr Kovac (who was shot and declared a traitor back in 1969), looks to start a war by framing the United States and the Czech Republic for a plot against the Russian president that is actually being carried out by the faction within Russia.

 

Part of this plot involves creating a nuclear missile that looks like an American missile and staging an accident, having it go off in a small town in the Czech Republic. Luckily, the plan is thwarted by Jack Ryan and the missile explodes underground with zero casualties, but the plot doesn't end there. Going over the head of President Surikov, Russian Defense Minister Alexei Petrov deploys a rogue ship called the Fearless to attack an American ship and start a war between the two nations.

 

Petr Kovac and Alexei Petrov's plan to overthrow the Russian government and resurrect the Soviet Union is well-planned and methodical. It likely would have succeeded if not for some impressive cooperation between people from multiple countries. Chief among them are Czech president Alena Kovac, the daughter of Petr Kovac; Luka Goncharov, a Russian spymaster; and, of course, Jack Ryan, who has to disobey orders to thwart the dastardly plot, putting him at odds with the CIA. However, Jack would never have known about the plot in the first place if Goncharov had not secretly reached out to him, not wanting to see their two nations at war.

 

The most surprising addition to this group of do-gooders is Alena Kovac, the president of the Czech Republic. Alena learns throughout the season that her father has been manipulating her into setting the stage for his coup. This includes inviting the Russian Minister of Defense to a soccer game, where Petr Kovac has him assassinated so he can be replaced by Alexei Petrov. Alena turns against her father, proving she is loyal to her country. She even allows him to bleed out and die in order to protect her nation. While Jack Ryan is instrumental in stopping the coup, the show emphasizes that it couldn't have been done without the help of patriots from all three countries.

 

One of Season 3's overarching themes revolves around what it means to be a patriot. While a love for one's country is an undisputed quality of patriotism, some people seem to think that being a patriot also involves supporting all of your country's decisions and always following orders. "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" challenges that notion, showing that blindly following orders, even when you know they are wrong, is not patriotism at all. Rather, in order to best serve your country, it is sometimes necessary to challenge what you know to be wrong, even when it breaks the rules.

 

This dilemma is a constant factor in Season 3. Early on, when the CIA looks to bury the investigation into the coup and pull Jack out of the field, he goes rogue and refuses to report in, knowing that if he doesn't continue his investigation, it could cost a lot of lives and lead to war. In addition, the Russian spymaster Goncharov breaks protocol and secretly reaches out to the American government, particularly Ryan. He spills certain classified secrets in order to help them save the Russian government from the coup. Interestingly, the show's villains, Petr Kovac and Alexei Petrov, use the same mentality to justify their coup, believing that they are saving Russia by reinstating the Soviet Union.

The season's overarching theme is never more apparent than in the big climax, which sees a tense standoff between the renegade Russian ship, the Fearless, and the American ship, the USS Roosevelt. The captain of the Fearless, Rolan Antonov, is a member of the rogue Russian faction, the man tasked with carrying out the final step in its plan to overthrow President Surikov. The plan (named Operation Crossbow) involves Captain Antonov launching an unprovoked attack on the USS Roosevelt. If the Roosevelt fires back, it will mean war between Russia and the United States. Luckily, Goncharov manages to sneak aboard the ship and convince second-in-command Daniil Kagansky that the orders are wrong, prompting Kagansky to relieve Antonov of his duty — though not before he manages to fire a missile.

 

While the USS Roosevelt successfully averts the missile with countermeasures, its own captain, Andrew Bennett, follows the rules of engagement and prepares to fire back. Luckily, Jack Ryan — who has boarded the USS Roosevelt against orders — convinces him to stand down, trusting that Goncharov will stop the Fearless from firing another shot. Both crews have to trust that the other won't fire and destroy them, and ultimately they all make the right call, putting their own lives at risk to avoid war. By trusting the other side, everyone makes it out alive and a costly war is avoided.

 

"Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" Season 3 may be telling its own original story, but with Russia as the season's main focus, it's hard to overlook the similarities between this season and Jack Ryan's most famous story, "The Hunt for Red October." While fans may have been hoping to see a new version of Captain Marko Ramius (the captain of the Red October, famously portrayed by Sean Connery in the 1990 film adaptation of the novel), sadly, the character doesn't make an appearance. However, Season 3 still has a lot of similarities to the novel and film versions of "The Hunt for Red October," which were likely meant as homages.

 

Some of these nods appear throughout the season, such as The Sokol Project being built around the development of an undetectable nuclear missile — the Red October is a near-undetectable submarine built to carry nuclear warheads. Jack's relationship with Luka Goncharov also has some similarities to the relationship he has with Marko Ramius in the novel and film, with an initially shaky trust being built between the two men. The final standoff bears the most obvious similarity, with Jack Ryan once again trying to avert a naval battle between the United States and Russia, arguing for a peaceful resolution based on his trust in a Russian operative.

The rogue Russian agents under the resurrected Sokol Project may be the main antagonists of Season 3, but there's a surprising secondary antagonist in the form of CIA director Thomas Miller. From his introduction early on in Season 3, Miller is shown to be a man of very little integrity, always putting his career and political standing first. He uses Jack Ryan as a scapegoat when an operation goes awry in Greece, resulting in the death of a local police officer. He blames Jack and sends the CIA to capture him, forcing the titular character to go on the run so he can stop Project Sokol and the coup.

 

Luckily, Jack's immediate superior, Elizabeth Wright, begins to see through Miller's self-serving agenda and secretly supports Jack behind the scenes. As the CIA Station Chief in Rome, Wright puts her career on the line to enable Jack's investigation. While she is initially reprimanded for her actions and relieved of her duties by Miller, she is eventually rewarded for her courage. After Miller is exposed, the president of the United States appoints Wright as the new director of the CIA, and she becomes instrumental in resolving the standoff between the Fearless and the USS Roosevelt.

 

One of Season 3's biggest standouts is Russian spymaster Luka Goncharov, played by James Cosmo. Early in the season, Goncharov comes across as something of a wildcard, but then it's revealed that he's Jack Ryan's secret Russian source. On top of his time helping Jack Ryan de-escalate the conflict between Russia and the United States in the present, we also get to see him as a young Soviet soldier in the 1960s. As he's such an interesting and well-rounded character, audiences may have found it frustrating that his fate is left so ambiguous at the end of the season.

 

Through a voiceover framed as a letter to Jack Ryan, Goncharov seems to be aware that his time may be coming to an end. When a soldier shows up at his door, he says he will make it easy for him and come willingly. All signs point to his likely execution, but the show never officially confirms this. It seems strange that the Russian government would want to execute Goncharov after he fought to eliminate the rogue faction and save President Surikov, but he had to break a bunch of rules to accomplish this, including sharing classified information with a United States agent and killing high-level Russian government agents without authorization. While his intentions may have been to help Russia, his actions may have ultimately sealed his fate.

 

Toward the end of the final episode, Jack Ryan and James Greer are awarded a star-shaped medal by new CIA director Elizabeth Wright. While the show never officially specifies which medal the two agents receive, it looks like they're getting the Intelligence Star. The Intelligence Star is awarded to officers of the Central Intelligence Agency for "voluntary acts of courage performed under hazardous conditions or for outstanding achievements or services rendered with distinction under conditions of grave risk." The Intelligence Star is a mainstay in Tom Clancy's novels, with multiple heroes receiving the honor.

 

The last episode of Season 3, which is appropriately titled "Star on the Wall," honors those who have sacrificed everything for their country. The episode wraps with a scene of Jack Ryan and James Greer walking past the CIA Memorial Wall, full of engraved stars representing officers that have died in the line of duty. The scene is played alongside a voiceover of Goncharov talking about living a life with honor and how there are no real heroes in their line of work, only good people willing to do the right thing and not blindly follow orders.