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Rainbow Six shows, pistol shooting(The Bear and The Dragon has something about that), and sniping (Without Remorse, Rainbow Six).

Domingo „Ding” Chavez: He started out as a Staff Sergeant in the US Army, 7th Infantry Division [Light]. Because he spoke Spanish, he was one of the soldiers hand-picked to go to Colombia for drug interdiction efforts, as it is descripted in Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger). He met Julio Vega while there. After the soldiers were abandoned, Clark was one of the people(along with Ryan) who rescued them, and he and Clark met there. Clark was so impressed with him that he got Chavez to join the CIA with him, and partnered with him throughout the Clancy novels past Clear and Present Danger up to Executive
Orders. Ding proposed to Patsy Clark in the end of Debt of Honors, got
married somewhere in Executive Orders, and came with Clark to RAINBOW in Rainbow Six. In RAINBOW, he is the commander of Team 2, the 2nd of the 2 assault teams of RAINBOW. Chavez is an expert short-range scout(as opposed to long-range scout, which meant snipers; he's an expert in silenced
sub-machineguns, as Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger describes it, and a capable squad-sized infantry leader.

Alistair Stanley: There isn‘t much information about him throughout Clancy's novels. He and Clark worked together when Clark was in North Africa(indirect reference in Clancy's Patriot Games), and became good friends. He was a former SAS, Speacial Air Service,
officer, then went into the intelligence services. Since RAINBOW was to be
based in England, the only way to make the British happy is to have lots of
Brits in the system, so Stanley became the Second-in-Command, RAINBOW Five.
Stanley was wounded by the IRA in the Hereford Hospital ambush, bounced
back, and was in command of RAINBOW while Clark was running around chasing
Horizon peoples.

Team One: Obviously Covington was the commander of Team 1, former Major of the
SAS. Under him are Geoff Bates that appeared at Hereford Hospital incident, Mike Chin,Team 1 senior enlisted personnel, and several others not mentioned.

Team Two: Chavez is commander of Team 2, under him are:

Homer Johnston: He is a sniper with a bolt action Remington M700 modified, and he likes to hunt in his spare time.

Dieter Weber: He is a sniper with a semi-automatic Walther WA2000, likes to scoff at assaulters and their SMGs, and defended his rifle's somewhat inaccuracy over the

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M700 by saying his gun gets off rounds sooner; he's right, at the Vienna takedown where he got off 2 shots for 1 and 1/2 kills as opposed to Johnston's 1 shot for 1 kill. He is has graduated the Bergführer school, the German Mountain Leader School, a german elite force unit.

Lois Loiselle: He has excellent endurance in running, is a good marksman in all weapons.

Eddie Price: He is the oldest active soldier of Rainbow, and has a lot of experience in the SAS,as a former colour sergeant, which meant he carried the SAS Regimental Flag in marches, that is the highest honour
for the formation.

Peter Connolly: He is an Irish, his speacialities are explosives.

Hank Patterson: He is a expert in pistol shooting.

Mike Tomlinson: He is excellent in stealth.

The rest of the assaulters have no known specialties.


Horizon Coperation: At the top of Horizon are the Brightlings. John and Carol Brightling were married, but they were divorced, which was part of the master plan. John needed Carol to get a job inside the White House, so she can warn Horizon if the US government found out about their plans. They made the divorce as nasty as possible, and Carol got a job as the President's Scientific Advisor, while John solidified the divorce show by womanizing.
Carol Brightling was the spy that found out about anit terror force called RAINBOW, and soon
afterwards Sean Grady was contacted by Horizon to get rid of them. That's
the most obvious when they met up almost at the end, and they made up
nicely, and talked about the "sacrifices" that Carol did.

Popov: Popov is one of the most interesting characters in Rainbow Six. He was Committee for State Security, KGB. He
specialized in dealing with terrorists, that's why he had so many contacts
with them; that's also why he got laid off. The Russian Federation, wanting
to clean up its images, stopped dealing with terrorists and so got rid of
all the people in KGB that does things like that. So, Popov had to work
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was told to initiate all the terrorist incidents, because they had to raise
awareness in terrorism, so everyone would scare about terrorist threats
in the Olympics, so Global Security will have the contract to protect the
Olympics at Sydney. Popov was brought to the Bio Dome in Kansas, where he was almost exposed, but escaped because he didn't want to see the world wiped out. He told Clark, and Clark got Chavez to stop the bomb planting.

Bill Henricksen: He is the head of Global Security, and part of
Horizon and friend of the Brightlings, and part of the plan. After Popov
raised hell, it doesn't matter if the terrorist events succeeded or not, all
of them worked to cause people to be afraid of terrorists and enabled Global to get the security contract in the Olympics. With Global personnel crawling around Sydney, it's easy for them to plant the virus bomb.

The researchers: Killgore, Archer and Berg are all medical members of Horizon dedicated to
produce Shiva the virus. Steve Berg got the virus and vaccine working, and
Killgore and Archer were tasked to conduct the human testings.


3.2 The story in few sentences:

Horizon Corps wanted to save the world from the humans who were destroying the world. So, they gathered the best minds in the world to work toward that goal. Carol Brightling went into government service to make sure the government didn't know what was happening. Bill Henriksen was tasked to deliver the virus, which can't happen unless Global Security got the security contract for the Olympics, which can't happen unless the world realized that terrorism is a valid threat. To do that, Brightling got Popov to raise up terrorism, so Global got the contract. Meanwhile, Steve
Berg got the Shiva virus working, and needed test subjects. First, they
grabbed begglars off the street. As they are unhealthy, the physicians running the human tests, that is Killgore and Archer among others, decided to go after healthy subjects. So, Kirk McLean was tasked to kidnap healthy
subjects. RAINBOW was dealing with the terrorists that Popov raised up, and Worldpark as well, which was not involved with Popov. RAINBOW was getting proficient, and Henriksen was afraid that they would get the security contract for the Olympics as well. So, he got Popov to get Sean Grady to go after RAINBOW. He succeeded, but didn't hurt them enough. Popov was almost compromised by that action, so Brightling sent him to the Horizon hideout at Kansas, where the whole corporation would hide after they delivered the virus; they can easily defend themselves if anyone found out what happened. Unfortunately for them, Popov found

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out what was going on, and he escaped to
tell Clark, who told Chavez who was in Sydney, to grab Will Gearing, the man
supposedly to deliver the virus. After Gearing was arrested, the Horizon
Corps involved in the project escaped to their alternate hideout in Brazil.
Since nobody can prove anything against Horizon, Clark decided to deal with them his way; blew up their hideout, and let them die in the jungle.


3.3 Summary:

John Clark, who worked long time for the CIA, gets a new job: he is now the commander of an international counter terrorist team called Rainbow.

On the flight from the USA to Great Britian he, Stanley Alistair, and his son in law, Domingo Chavez prevent an airplane hitch - hiking. It seems that the terrorist wanted to kill an ambassador. However after this incident John Clark starts to organize Rainbow at a SAS base in Hereford: Peter Covington, former leader of the SAS, is the leader of Team One and Domingo Chavez of Team Two. Immediatley they start to practice shooting, movement, and hostage rescue tactics to be prepared for coming dangers.

After one month Rainbow suddenly receives an emergency call from Bern, Switzerland about a hostage situation. Rainbow has excellent contacts to the British Airways and so they are one hour later at the hot spot in Bern. The local police reports that unknown terrorists hold several hostages and ask for an escape car. Team One and Team Two are able to rescue the hostages and to kill all terrorists without losses.

On the next day Popov, who organised this incident for Bill Hendricksen, the head of Global Security, can hardly believe what is written in the newspapers, which report that a special force of the local police has cleared the situation. Nevertheless Bill wants to meet him again to plan a new cruel terrorist incident, but Popov can't gather the reasons why he is organising theses attacks.

At the same time Steve Berg, emloyeed by Horizon, gets an enhanced Ebola virus, called Shiva, and a vaccine to work.

Few weeks later Rainbow gets another call. This time terrorists have occupied the castle Ostermann near Vienna and want to escape with Ostermann's helicopter. As in the incident before it seems that the terrorists have no real demand. Nevertheless Dieter Weber and Homer Johnston take the attackers down with their sniper rifles. As

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a consequence that Rainbow is a black ops force the newspaper report again that a local SWAT unit has rescued Ostermann, but as Popov watches the news he notes a small but important thing. - He thinks to see the same guy in the background as he did in the news about Bern and Popov is right. He recognizes a guy that smokes a cigar after every successfull take down. Imediatley he informs Bill Hendricksen who informs none other than John Brightling, the genius that owns Horizon, a company for medical research, that probably an international counter terrorist group is responsible that their assualts failed.

As a result John Brightling and Bill plan another attack, without Popov, at Worldpark in Spain, a gigantic family entertainment park so they can realise their top secret masterplan. Additionally John asks Carol, the White House science advisor, to gather informations about this unknown counter - terrosim group.
Nobody except John Brightling, who is an radical environmentalist believing in a green planet, Bill Hendricksen, John Brightlings divorced wife Carol and some high researchers at Horizon know about John's masterplan even Popov knows nothing. John Brightling plans to get the security contract for Bill Hendricksen's Global Security at the Olympic games in Sydney. But to get this contracts everyone must believe that counter terrorism is a worldwide danger and and so the largest security group Global Security would get the contract. At Sydney an employee of GS would spread the virus through the clima condition. Then after the Olympics are over everyone would go back to its country and suddenly Shiva appears everywhere in the world. As a consequence Horizon would develop a vaccine after few million humans already died. But Horizon has two vaccines a "Vaccine A" and a "Vaccine B" . Only the "Vaccine B" is resistent against the Shiva virus but the "Vaccine A", which would be vaccinate every man and woman, also carries Shiva inside and would cause the death of 5,7 billion people. John wants a green planet again, where animals reign over the mother earth. Only he would survive with few hundreds, who all got the "Vaccine B", in an airtight self-supporting bio dome.

At the same time MD Killgore and MD Archer ends their Shiva tests on ill humans and ask for new health subjects. So Kirk Maclean kidnappes a young woman, Anne Pretloe, who is new to New York and doens't have much friends there.

Worldpark; terrorists take a group of kids as their hostages and demand an helicopter to escape. They are hiding at a castle in the middle of the family park where they can observe the whole area. Only two hours later Rainbow arrives at Worldpark. When Rainbow tries to turn off the electricity one of the terrorists moves out of the castle with a child sitting in a wheelchair and blows off her head from behind. Rainbow can't do anything although Dieter Weber has the tango in sight. John Clark decides to let the helicopter come but he wants to use the noise for a

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rush. The terrorists have no chance when the pissed off and agressive members of Rainbow assualts the castle.

After this incident many things happen at once:

Rainbow starts interrogation about relations between the incidents because they think that these didn't happen accidently.

The father of Anne Pretloe living far away from New York starts worring about her daughter since he get no more mails or letters from her. But Anne can't write anymore she is in a test room of Horizon full of drugs and she has the Shiva virus in her body. For an unexpected reason she awakes in her bed and goes around the rooms to find somebody but the "hospital" is empty. She moves very slow because of the high dose morphine but when she finds a computer she tries successful to send her father an email that she is in a hospital. When her father gets the email he is very confused becuase Anne usually never does grammer and typing faults and he thinks that maybe she is kidnapped so he contacts the FBI, who are starting interogations at once.

In the menawhile Carol Brightling finds out who Rainbow is and that they are stationed in Great Britian.

Few hours later John Brightling, Bill and Popov have a meeting. John and Bill are very afraid that Rainbow could get a contract for the Olympic games as well. So they command Popov to attack Rainbow at their base.

Popov has good contacts to the radical IRA scene and he can persuade Sean Grady to strike against Rainbow, who are "obviously a huge danger" for the IRA.

Two weeks later Sean Grady captures hostages at the Hereford Emergency hospital near the SAS base. He knows that Sandra and Patsy are working there and that John Clark would send Rainbow to clear the situation. - Few members of Rainbow are wounded and also one died. However Sandra and Patsy, who is pregnant, are health and Rainbow could capture Sean Grady.
Popov is only 100 metres away from the emergency take down when he sees that Rainbow captures Sean Grady and so he decides to transfer all 60 million dollars that should have been Grady's income on his own bank account. Further he wants to get off with all the money he has earned. But John Brightling and Bill Hendricksen can't let that happen and move him to their bio dome in the middle of nowhere, in Kansas. Although Popov has only informations about who is responisble for the terrorist incidents they know that they can't kill Popov because they are sure that he has an

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post account that he must call every 24 hours or it will send all infos he knows about Horizon to the FBI.

When Sean Grady awakes from his coma Rainbow fakes that they are a member of his team and tell him that their plan succeded. Grady is influented by drugs so he can't differateif is one belongs to him or not. As a result Rainbow can gather Popov's name.

Rainbow is also invited to secure the Olympic games in Sydney and John send off Team Two, which is full operatable.

At the same time Popov arrives in Kansas and gets a vaccine B but he still doesn't know what it is all about.

John Clark informs the FBI about Popov and together they are tracing him but without success.

The production of Shiva vaccines A starts at Horizon and John and Bill can't await the last day of the Olympic games where they want to spread Shiva.

The Bio Dome is filling up now and all important Horizon scientists are there: Archer, Berg and Killgore and Kirk, who kidnapped Anne. Popov tries to gather more infos and he has success. Popov is really shocked when he hears about John Brightlings plan and escapes from the Bio Dome. He flys to New York where he organisizes a meeting with John Clark. They make a trade: Popov gets amnesty and can leave with his millions but before he tells John Clark and the FBI all about Brightling's masterplan. Clark can hardly believe what Popov told him and the Olympic games are over in few hours. John Clark tells everything Domingo Chavez, who is observing the games. And it comes as it must come Ding Chavez and his team can stop the Global Security spreading the virus and now it is time for pay back.

John Brightling and Bill Hendricksen notice that their plan failed. So they terminate all data about the Shiva virus and fly with 100 members and all important scientist to a smaller bio dome somewhere in the jungle of South America.

Popov told John Clark Brightlings hide outs and so Rainbow is on the way to capture Brightling and his affiliates. Rainbow surrounds the bio dome and after a heavy attack John and Carol Brightling, Bill Hendricksen and all others are captived if not dead but Rainbow doesn't want to see them in prison because if they are such environmentalists they can go alone 100 kilometres to the next town, but before Clark blows up the bio dome and burns all clothes and then Rainbow flys away with

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demanding but takes care of people who please him. Greer likes to make his own coffee.

Edgar Jeffries: A CIA officer, known by the Showboat soldiers as 'Colonel Smith', he takes part in recruiting the sergeants, Chavez in particular.

Carlos Larson: A CIA field officer in Medellin, he works with another agent, an air hostess and at the same time his mistress . A pilot, he gives flight lessons to the Cartel smugglers, without being directly involved in the drug refining and traffic. Larson got hired by Escobedo so the Cartel would not unnecessarily lose its planes any more.
Larson meets up with Clark and together, on Larson's Beechcraft, they explore several sites. He helps Clark during the field operations
When Cutter shutdowns everything, the two men fly over the teams' sectors to get in touch with them. After handing over Escobedo to his friends, he and Clark land at Guantanamo Bay to wait for the Panache.
Larson leaves the CIA after this episode.

Tony Lona: The station chief of Panama, he gives Ryan and Murray data from Moore and Ritter.

Arthur Moore: A former judge of the Texas State Supreme Court. A hell of a field officer, Moore worked with Hans Tofte during the Korean War and took part in the disappearance of a norwegian ship, meant to the Chinese.
Moore had become a trial lawyer in Texas and had advanced from lawyer to appellate judge. 3 years before, Moore had been recalled to the CIA. He's now Director of Central Intelligence, DCI.
He decides to appoint Jack DDI. However, Ryan is left in the dark concerning the Special Opeartions in Colombia. He finds it harder and harder to lie to Ryan who starts suspecting something.
Feeling ill at ease to abandon the soldiers to their fate, he is relieved to learn that Jack has shown initiative and sends him all the available data.

Robert Ritter: He is responsible for the operations in Colombia and works directly under Cutter he doesn't like very much.
Ritter meets Clark several times and accepts the concept of operation Reciprocity. With the FBI director's death, Ritter meets at Camp David the President, who gives him a hunting licence. Using the data collected by Caper, Ritter runs operation Reciprocity twice.
When Cutter is ordered to shutdown his operations and decides to abandon the soldiers, Ritter is cornered. When he finds out that Ryan knows everything, he and

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Moore disregard their orders and gives Ryan all the data he needs.

Jack (Sir John) Patrick Ryan: He is Tom Clancy‘s favourite character and plays an important role in almost every Clancy book. His father was a cop and his mother a nurse. Both died 10 years ago in a plane crash. Jack married Cathy, they live 10 miles south of Annapolis, Maryland, at Peregrine Cliff. They have 3 children, Sally, Jack Junior and Katie. Jack's sister lives in Seatlle.
He had once been a Marine second lieutenant on the USS Guam. His military career finished after 3 months when his platoon's helicopter, a CH-46, crashed on Crete during a NATO exercise, Jack was 23. His back had been injured and he had nearly been cripled for life. Ryan had been sent to Bethesda Naval Medical Center and got addicted to pain medications. He had taken 2 weeks to get over them. Since, he hates flying.
After leaving the corps, Jack worked in the brokerage business, met Joe Muller and his daughter, Caroline. Quickly, they were engaged and Cathy introduced Jack to her teacher, Stanley Rabinowisz, professor of neurosurgery who, after an operation, gave Jack a new back. Caroline became Mrs Ryan.
Jack made money, working 4 years as a stockbroker with his father-in-law and eventually got bored. His wife being a surgeon, they have enough money to be independent. Jack says what he thinks, knows how to make a decision and take its consequencies.
Jack Ryan is a honest man who believes civilization will defeat savagery. Jack will have nightmares after killing the terrorist on the Mall, as much as he does not want to know anything about field operations (specially the French paras' one). Jack is able to concentrate on a problem to such a point that the world could collapse around him, he wouldn't notice it.
Jack has a graduate degree in History and wrote several history books. Jack teaches history at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. Following a recommendation of Father Riley, CIA asks Jack to work as consultant for the Agency though employed by Mitre Corporation. Jack agrees and spends several months at the Agency where he writes "Agents and Agencies" and thins up the "Canary trap".
Special Assistant to the DDI, Ryan is appointed DDI because Greer, dying, can't hold his post anymore. Ryan visits as often as possible his mentor - Ryan considers him as his second father - and cannot resign himself to losing him.
Judge Moore and Ritter's behaviours puzzle Ryan : he ends up suspecting they're hiding something. At the beginning, he finds it normal but after talking with Greer and with the members of the others NATO countries, he understands he has to know everything coming from the Agency.
When Robby tells him all he has learnt, he is forced to act: he opens the DDO's safe and photocopies several files to consult them at home. Then, he contacts Murray and Shaw who set up an inquiry.

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After Greer's death, Clark tells him everything before going back to Panama. When Clark is ordered to stay put, he calls Ryan.
He and Murray tracks down Colonel Johns and shortly after, they take off to Panama. After Clark and Larson get in touch with the soldiers, Ryan chooses to go there with Colonel Johns as the MH-53J's third gunner. The last extraction is very difficult - a bullet embeds itself in Jack's helmet - and Zimmer is fatally wounded. At Clark's side, Ryan promises the dying man to take care of his family and later he will keep his word.
Back in Washington, Jack contacts Congressman Al Trent and Congressman Sam Fellows. The three men go to the White House and meet the President.

FBI:


Chuck Bernard: Living in Bern, Switzerland, he's given orders to contact various banks and block the Cartel accounts.

Mark Bright: A FBI supervisory special agent and assistant special agent in charge of the Mobile office, he's married and has a daughter.
Bright comes with Murray on the Panache.
He reveals the hidden safe in the house of the Empire Builder's owner allowing the Bureau to break up a drug money laundering network. He's contacted by the Mobile police department after a police sergeant involved in the FBI case is killed. Bright is ordered to inform the Coast-Guards when Stuart chooses to take the case to court. Murray sends Bright to Panama to tail Cutter, the young agent photographs Cutter's meeting with Cortez and especially their handshake.

Emil Jacobs: The director of the FBI. He goes to Colombia to meet Colombia's Attorney General, an old friend of his, after the success of operation Tarpon. Because Moira Wolfe has told Cortez about the journey, Jacobs is ambushed a few meters from the American embassy. The FBI director's death provokes the President's anger and changes the game rules.

Daniel E. Murray: After spending four years in London as the FBI legal attaché, Murray is appointed Executive Assistant Director. Murray goes to Mobile and meets Wegener to hear his version of the facts and Murray recommends him not to do this again.
After Moira Wolfe's suicide attempt and Jacobs's death, Murray promises to catch Cortez. He orders Bright to warn the Coast Guards when he learns Stuart cancels the deal with Davidoff.
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Brightto Panama to tail Cutter. Later, Colonel Johns drops Murray on the Panache and the FBI agent asks Wegener to wait for the MH-53J at a definite position.

Bill Shaw: Newly appointed Executive Assistant Director (Investigations), Shaw becomes the acting FBI director after Jacobs murder. He and Murray are contacted by Ryan. Shaw orders Pat O'Day to tail Cutter. Together, the tree men decide to get the soldiers out.

Moira Wolfe: A 46 year-old widow and Director Jacobs's executive secretary, she is seduced by Felix Cortez, alias Juan Diaz. In a hurry to meet her lover again, she tells him which day Jacobs goes to Colombia.
Overcome by her boss's death, she dissolves into tears when Shaw and Murray tell her who really is Juan Diaz. Back home, she makes a suicide attempt. Murray promises her that the FBI will track Cortez down and she fully cooperates. She gives a precise description of the Cuban and identifies him on several photographs.
With Murray, she watches Cortez being handed over to the Cubans at Guantanamo Bay.

The Panache:

Rick Alison, Michelson, O'Neil, Obrecki, Manuel Oreza, Mark Owens and Walters
are members of the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Panache.

Robert Thimothy Riley:A chief boatswain's mate, he boards the Empire Builder and later arranges that the pirates are talking what happened on the Empire Builder.

Red Wegener: One of the oldest Coast-Guard lieutenants with a really good reputation, nicknamed 'The King of SAR', he commands the Panache. He hails the Empire Builder, discovers a slaughter and arrests the two pirates. With his officers's consent, he sets up a court martial to scare the killers and get their confession.
Later, he has a visit from Dan Murray. The FBI agent warns him against this kind of practices.
Later, back from Colombia with the soldiers, Colonel Johns's MH-53J will land on the Panache.

The White House:

James Cutter: A 3-star vice admiral, Cutter is the Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, codename "LumberJack" for the Secret Service. Formerly Jeffrey Pelt's deputy, he considers the drug traffic a threat to the national security and thinks it must be dealt with the same way.

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4.2 Summary:

Washington D.C., the President authorizes Vice Admiral Cutter to intensify the war against the drugs traffickers. At the same time, somewhere in the Caribbean Sea, the Empire Builder gets under way.
Red Wegener, on the Coast Guard cutter Panache, finds the Empire Builder. When they enter the Empire Builder they find two hispanics, who killed the ship owner and his family. In further investigations they also find drugs on board. In the meanwhile John Clark enters Colombia for his first reconnaissance missions.
Domingo Chavez is recruited by a mysterious Colonel Smith for a special mission. The young sergeant must leave his unit without breathing a word about it.
Wegener, disturbed by the images of the videotape, decides to set up a court martial on the Panache to try the murderers. At the end of the vote, the first man is sentenced to death by hanging. Seeing his friend with a rope around the neck, the second Hispanic breaks up and talks. The following day, a Coast-Guard helicopter picks up both murderers, still alive.
Chavez gets orders together with other U.S. Army sergeants to fly to San Jose.
In Colombia, Clark gets in touch with a guy called Carlos Larson. He and Clark takes off and flies over the area; Larson gives Clark some information about the drug lords
Chavez begins the training programme in the Colorado mountains and meets Julio Vega, a sergeant.
Clark joins up Ritter on the island of St Kitts. The field officer give the DDO, Deputy director of operations, his assessment on the situation in Colombia.
Back from England, Murray is assigned to the Empire Builder case. With Special Agent Bright, he goes aboard the Panache to question her crew. Just before leaving the cutter, Murray, not fooled at all, warns Wegener against doing this set-up again.
Meanwhile, in Washington, Felix Cortez meets with his contact wo gives him a list with four names on it.
Ryan and Ritter hold a briefing in Cutter's office. After Ryan leaves, Ritter and Cutter talk about operation Showboat.
Cortez charms the FBI drector's executive secretary, one of the names on his list.
John Clark comes to the training camp where he meets Domingo Chavez during an exercice.
Cortez goes back to Colombia and makes a report to Escobedo, his chief.
At the White House, Ritter tells Cutter that operation Showboat will begin in two weeks. The National Security Advisor asks the air part of the operation, Eagle Eye, begins immediately, Ritter agrees. In Florida, Colonel Paul Johns and his copilot fly their MH-53J in a training mission, the rescue of a downed pilot. Johns and his crew will take part in a special operation.
In Colorado, an officer informs Chavez and the other soldiers of their mission.
A little bit later Operation Showboat begins, the soldiers land in Panama, followed by

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Colonel Johns's MH-53J.
A van is set down by an helicopter near the Panama Canal and technicians take possession of it.
Captain Jeffrey Winters, an US Airforce captain, intercepts a DC-7 and forces it to land in Floride.He tries to get illegaly to the United states. The pilot and the co-pilot are welcomed by Marines who put the wind up them, they agree to co-operate and come clean.
The FBI starts investigations about the Empire Builder and could gathers some informations about the owner.
The same day, Moira Wolfe has a date with her lover. In the hotel room, without paying attention, she unwittingly tells Cortez two or three interesting things.
A Titan rocket puts a satellite into an unusual orbit. The public is told the launch is a failure.
Four US units are dropped in Colombia by the MH-53J.
Chavez's team begins its avance to the first objective, a runway and its hangar.
Edwind Davidoff, the United States Attorney, meets Edward Stuart. The pirates lawyer makes an attempt to negotiate a reduction in return for information but Davidoff turns it down.
Moore decides Ryan will become the next DDI, Deputy Director of Intelligence. However, he chooses to keep him in the dark about the operations in Colombia.
operation Showboard: The plane spotted by Chavez and Vega is intercepted by the F-15 and is diverted to Florida.
Judge Moore, Vice Admiral Cutter and Emil Jacobs inform the President on their progress in the drug war. Several American embassies in Europe receive instructions to freeze bank accounts belonging to the Cartel.
Chavez's squad reports another plane heading to the United States. This time, Captain Winters changes his interception pattern, forcing the plane to crash into the sea.
Despite security rules, Moira calls Diaz and tells him she'll be free the following week. Cortez gives Escobedo notice of Jacobs coming in Colombia. Meanwhile, the satellite intercepts all the calls from the Colombian druglords' cellular phones. The conversations are recorded and analysed by NSA so CIA learns that Felix Cortez works for the Cartel. Cortez enters the United States to meet Moira.
In the White House Press Room, the Attorney General announces the results of operation Tarpon. Furious, the druglords decide to react.
After landing in Bogota, Emil Jacobs and other American officials are driven to their embassy. A few meters from the building, the armoured limousine is destroyed by anti-tank rockets killing everyone inside.
Bob Ritter, Judge Moore, Cutter and the Attorney General meets the President who wants a strong reaction and gives Ritter an unlimited hunting license. Ryan wonders why he was left out and starts suspecting something.

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In a suburb of Mobile, a pitched battle takes place between a police officer at home and men in a van. A young neighbour gets into position and kills two of the attackers before the van vanishes.
Clark is recalled back in Panama where he meets Ritter about operation Reciprocity.
Cutting short her week-end with Diaz, Moira Wolfe goes back home and learns that Jacobs has been killed.
The four squads are picked up by the MH-53J after having destroyed their objectives and get back to Panama. Later, Cortez examines the different places and understands he's facing professionnals.
Ryan visits Greer at Bethesda and tells him the Judge is keeping Jack away from things happening in the Agency. The old man answers Jack the DDI has to know everything and wants Jack to remind Moore of this.
Clark goes aboard the USS Ranger, meets Jensen and briefs him on his next mission.
Bill Shaw is appointed Acting Director as the FBI investigates Emil Jacobs assassination. His funerals are hold in Chicago. The FBI agents discover Moira made a call to Venezuela, Shaw is informed on the flight back to Washington.
Searching the killed police sergeant's house, the detectives discover he was corrupt.
Edward Stuart passes himself off as a Coast-Guard, stands Bob Riley several drinks and manages to record what really happened with the pirates on the Panache.
A little bit later the four squads are back in Colombia.
Bill Shaw and Dan Murray send for Moira Wolfe: she talks about her lover. The two agents explain to her who really is Juan Diaz. Dissolved into tears, Moira Wolfe is taken home. There, shes makes a suicide attempt, her son finds her lifeless the following day. Moira Wolfe is taken to the hospital.
The FBI follows Cortez's trail and Mark Bright calls Murray about the cop murder in Mobile: the man searched the house of the Empire Builder's owner.
Chavez's team mounts a raid on a cocaine refining site.
After the destruction of two refining sites, some druglords decide to meet. Theirs calls are intercepted by the satellite so Ritter launches operation Reciprocity: As some Cartel members meet in one of their residences, Larson and Clark aim a laser designator on the house. Jensen's Intruder drops a bomb, razing the residence to the ground but missing very nearly Cortez.
Team Knife's attack against a refining site takes a bad turn: two peasants run away and a soldier is killed.
In Mons, Jack, hearing the news about the explosion, decides to talk with Judge Moore about the operations in Colombia as soon as he gets back to the Agency.
Cortez inspects what is left of the residence and questions the servants. Later, the two peasants tell him about the attack on their refining site.
Hearing the two pirates were involved in the murder of their colleague, some police officers in Mobile sign a deal with the Patterson brothers; if something unfortunate

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happens to the pirates, the Patterson will have a better stay in jail.
Cortez gets the findings of the enquiry from the police crime laboratory; Cortez deduces the bomb was dropped by an American plane on the truck near the house.
Back to Langley, Ryan is ordered to brief Governor Fowler, this extra work prevents him from quizzing Moore and Ritter.
Dan Murray shows Moira Wolfe Cortez's photo, she identifies Juan Diaz.
Jack leaves Washington to brief Governor Fowler.
In Colombia, Escobedo and Cortez are ambushed; the armored Mercedes manages to escape with both men alive. A few minutes later, the house of another druglord, Fuentes, blows up.
The same evening, Jack meets Elizabeth Elliott, the assistant advisor for foreign policy, immediately they don't like each other. The next day, Jack meets Fowler.
The Cartel starts deploying its men in the surrounding hills to hunt the soldiers attacking the refining sites and forcing Chavez's unit to move around.
Pressed by the Colombians, Stuart has to change his tactics : instead of negotiating a prison sentence, he must get a discharge. Murray, informed of it, orders Mark Bright to let the Coast Guards know.
The Pattersons discreetly kill the two pirates in the prison showers.
At Langley, Jack meets Judge Moore who lies to his DDI about Colombia. The same day, Jack visits Admiral Greer; dying, the old man tells him the Judge lied to him too and advises Jack to act according to his conscience.
Trying to discreetly make off, Chavez and Guerra have to kill two sentries, alerting their pursuers.
At the same time, off Cape Verde Islands, a tropical storm, called Adele, begins to organize itself.
Cortez is resolved to take advantage of the American attacks to weaken the Cartel, eliminate some druglords and take over as the lead of the organization.
Team Banner's attack takes a bad turn, half of the squad, including its officer, is killed, the remaining soldiers regroup and withdraw in the hills.
Driving their 4x4, Clark and Larson comes across a truck and its guards. Passing themselves off as prospectors, Clark shoots down the men and sets fire to the vehicle to create a diversion. The CIA agents leaves the country on Larson's plane to Panama. At Howards Field,
they board a C-141 and go back to the USA.
Ryan opens the DDO's safe and photocopies the interresting files to study them at home.
The President orders Cutter to shut down all the operations in Colombia no matter what it costs.
Team Knife merges with Team Banner.
Cortez sends a fax to suggest to Cutter a meeting.
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their options. They put some people in the picture and learn that Cutter is moving.
Back at Langley, Clark talks with Ritter about Cortez and the operations.
FBI agent lands in Panama there well before Cutter and tails him. Cutter meets Cortez under Bright's surveillance. The Cuban threatens to disclose everything to the press unless the vice admiral agrees to sign a deal with him. Cornered, Cutter accepts. After leaving Cortez, Cutter deactivates Variable and sends the MH-53J back to the United States.
At Bethesda, Ryan learns Greer's death and meets Clark. On the order of Greer, Clark tells Ryan everything.
Back in Washington, Bright reports to Murray and Shaw. Pat O'Day is ordered to tail Cutter, Ryan is informed of the developments.
Cutter goes to Langley and orders Ritter to shred his files and forget everything. Back at home, Cutter dials a number and, using a code, passes on the landing zones coordinates.
In Colombia, Team Knife is unable to reach Variable, the squad heads for their LZ.
Clark and Larson are ordered to stay put. Clark enters the Variable van and gets the frequencies used by the soldiers.
With the coordinates in his hands, Cortez deploys the Cartel henchmen.
Clark calls back Ryan and informs him. An hour later, Ryan meets up with Murray and Shaw, they decide to act.
Thanks to Robby Jackson, Murray and Ryan meet Colonel Paul Johns and explain his orders were illegal. Ninety minutes later, the MH-53J takes off and heads south with Ryan and Murray. On the way, it drops the FBI agent on the Panache.
Team Knife sets up its defensive positions around the LZ even if Variable is unreachable.
Searching Cutter's trash cans, the FBI agents find the encryption diskette from Variable with Cutter's fingerprints on it.
Chavez spots a large number of men heading toward the LZ. Quickly, the fight begins. Well prepared, the soldiers kill a lot of them but, overwhelmed, they withdraw with heavy losses.
Meanwhile, Larson and Clark leaves Panama on the little plane, fly over the area and get in contact with what is left of the squads. Back in Panama, Clark tells Ryan how he intends to get Chavez and his friends out. Ryan chooses to board the MH-53J.
Greer's funeral takes place in Arlington, Ritter looks around for Ryan but doesn't see him.
Back at Langley, Moore and Ritter try to open the DDI's safe and, looking for its combination, Ritter finds his. Both men understand Ryan knows, they decide to send him all the data available.
Clark and Larson takes off and lands a few hours later in Colombia. Meanwhile, the pilots of the Pavelow III and the Combat Talion discuss all the extraction details. Clark meets up with Chavez and his friends.

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The President asks Cutter to make sure the operations in Colombia are shut down.
The MH-53J takes off and heads to Colombia. Team Omen is picked up with incident and then is dropped near a residence. Clark, Chavez and the other soldiers storm the house, capture Cortez and Escobedo then leave the area.
Cutter tries to contact Colonel Johns.
The last team, Feature, is under attack. Getting close to the LZ, a mechanical damage reduces the power of one of the helicopter engines. The extraction is difficult, under the AK-47s fire, but everyone boards the MH-53J. Ryan realizes Zimmer is badly wounded, he promises the dying man to take care of his family. The helicopter lands on a little airfield in Colombia to fill up. Clark, Larson and Escobedo takes off to Medellin to turn Escobedo over to his associates. Meanwhile, the Pavelow, unable to get over the mountains, diverts to the Panache where it manages to land despite the storm.
Back in Washington, Clark visits Cutter and tells him what awaits him. Shortly after, Cutter goes jogging, tailed by Pat O'Day and throws himself beneath a bus.
Ryan and the Congressmen Trent and Fellows meet the President about the operations in Colombia.
Governor Fowler wins the presidential election.
At Guantanamo Bay, in front of Moira Wolfe and Dan Murray, Cortez is turned over to the Cubans.

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