Editing Jack Ryan (character) (section)

====''[[The Sum of All Fears]]'' (August 14, 1991)====
Ryan (portrayed by [[Ben Affleck]] in the film) reaches his highest post at the CIA, [[Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency|Deputy Director of Central Intelligence]]. His career is jeopardized when Fowler becomes [[President of the United States|President]] and Elizabeth Elliott, Fowler's lover/manipulator, becomes National Security Advisor. They not only deny Ryan any credit for an innovative [[Middle East]] peace plan (basically turning [[Jerusalem]] into a [[Vatican City|Vatican]]-like city co-ruled by three Christian, Jewish, and Arab/Muslim mayors), but also panic when Palestinian and former East German terrorists detonate a nuclear bomb in [[Denver]] during the [[Super Bowl]] and nearly plunge the world into a Soviet-American [[Nuclear warfare|nuclear war]]. Ryan defuses the nuclear crisis by commandeering the Washington-Moscow hot line and convincing the Soviet Premier (through his friend Golovko) that the crisis is a setup. He then refuses to confirm Fowler's order to launch a nuclear missile at [[Qom]] (thus preventing the attack), where the [[Iran]]ian [[ayatollah]] lives. The crisis and Elliot scandal drives Fowler to resign. On this note, Ryan retires from the CIA and flies to [[Riyadh]] in [[Saudi Arabia]] to witness the execution of the surviving terrorists, and is then honored by the U.S.'s Middle Eastern allies by being presented with the sword used to execute the terrorists.

The film again departs from the novel, by presenting a younger, unmarried Ryan, an intelligent mistress-free Fowler, a Greer-like Cabot, and the nuclear bomb is detonated over the city of [[Baltimore]] instead of Denver. The film also changes the identity of the terrorists from Arabs to [[neo-Nazis]].