Later, Ryan and Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones) join the CIA spooks in a Langley war room to watch a raid on a terrorist training camp in Libya. He thwarts his own assassination, then realizes his wife and daughter _ somewhere in the interstate tangle of suburban Maryland _ are in equally mortal danger. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Ryan senses there's something amiss when he sees a cadet loitering suspiciously, smoking a cigarette on a street corner. In one exquisitely handled sequence, at the U.S. Patriot Games spends much of its time globe-trotting _ from London to Belfast, Annapolis, Langley and a terrorist training camp in Libya _ which takes its toll on suspense, but director Phillip Noyce nevertheless delivers the jolts he so amply generated in Dead Calm whenever the story settles in a particular locale. When Miller is freed by his fanatical compatriots (Patrick Bergin and Polly Walker), the opportunity to combine his personal vendetta with his group's political agenda becomes a reality. The captured revolutionary, Sean Miller (Sean Bean), makes Ryan's death his quest in life. Ryan instinctively leaps into the fray, killing a teenage terrorist and holding his brother at bay until the Royal Guard arrives. Taking a working vacation in England, military historian, Naval Academy instructor and former CIA analyst Ryan accidentally walks into what appears to be an Irish Republican Army ambush of a British royal a few blocks from Buckingham Palace. Peter Iliff and Donald Stewart sandwich the techno-thriller into a family drama, and it's Ryan's commitment to his wife Cathy (Anne Archer) and daughter Sally (Thora Birch) that gives Patriot Games its resonance.
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