The action was pretty intense, but there were major holes. I mean, who lets trucks that close to the compound walls, and who fails to use a bayonet to make sure the dead bodies you are paying for are really dead. And who brings a parade of official police and SWAT vehicles, with lights flashing, down the streets. I was waiting for them to turn on the sirens and announce the raid over the PA.
I hope later episodes tighten up a lot more.
On the positive side I did get a good laugh when, headed to a raid, one armed-to-the-hilt and battle-hardened Navy Seal (or similar) handed the unarmed Ryan a handgun and told him to not get jumpy and accidentally shoot him in the ass. He told Ryan, "My kids think I'm an astronaut, and it would be hard to explain how I got shot in space."
In Paris police convoys to “problem” areas/suspects are very common. It is some kind of Euro thing. The Germans do it also.
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That was my problem too. I’m thinking, “Our guys have nothing but small arms while these guys are pulling out all the stops and nailing the guard posts with perfect RPG hits. It didn’t suspend disbelief for me. The US looked like imbeciles.
And who doesn’t check for a pulse on a “dead” body brought in by guys you really don’t trust?
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And as soon as they caught those two guys and were interrogating them, I said to myself, “I’ll bet the ‘bodyguard’ is really the guy they want.”
And he was. But I’m sure those guys just never thought of that before. :)
These are not the sorts of things that happen in a Clancy novel.