Patriot Games
Jack Ryan (Ford) is on a "working vacation" in London with his family, after having retired from the CIA. Here they witness a terrorist attack on Lord William Holmes, British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and a distant member of the British Royal Family. Ryan intervenes and kills one of the attackers, Patrick Miller, while his older brother Sean (Sean Bean) looks on. The remaining terrorists flee and leave Miller to be apprehended by the police. Ryan is wounded in the process but testifies in court against Sean Miller, who is part of the Ulster Liberation Army—a breakaway group of the Provisional IRA. Ryan is awarded a knighthood—a KCVO: Knight Commander of the Victorian Order—and eventually returns to the United States.
While being transferred to Albany Prison on the Isle of Wight, Miller's escort convoy is ambushed by his ULA comrades who kill the police officers, and he escapes from custody. Miller and his companions flee Britain for North Africa to plan their next kidnapping attempt on Lord Holmes. Miller however, cannot shake his anger towards Ryan for killing his younger brother and persuades several members of his entourage to accompany him to the United States to murder Ryan and his family. Ryan survives as he is attacked just outside of the United States Naval Academy. Miller attacks Ryan's wife and daughter on the highway, and they subsequently crash and are severely injured. Enraged over the near-loss of his family, Ryan decides to go back to work for the CIA, having earlier rejected the appeal of his former superior, Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones). Ryan's tireless work leads him to conclude that Miller has taken refuge in a training camp run by a North African warlord. A SAS strike team attacks and kills everyone in the camp while Ryan looks on through a live satellite feed. Unbeknownst to Ryan, Miller and his companions had already fled the camp and were on their way to the US to stage their next attack on Lord Holmes.
Lord Holmes decides to visit Ryan at his home to present his KCVO. With the aid of Lord Holmes' traitorous assistant, Miller's group tracks Holmes to this location, kills the Diplomatic Security Service agents and Maryland state troopers guarding the house, and attempts once more to kidnap Lord Holmes. Ryan leads Holmes and his family to safety while he attempts to lure Miller and his companions away from his home. The FBI is called in with their Hostage Rescue Teams, who pick up Holmes. Upon realizing that Ryan is leading them away from Holmes, Miller's companions try to persuade Miller to turn around, but an enraged and deranged Miller kills his terrorist companions and continues pursuit of Ryan. Ryan and Miller fight hand to hand, and Miller is killed when he falls backward onto a boat anchor and his body is destroyed in the subsequent explosion of the craft.
Credits roll just after Caroline Ryan learns the gender of the child she is going to have, and before she tells Jack and Sally.
