Speaking Of Helicopters

While we are still on helicopters...

The trailer for the second season of Jack Ryan on Amazon TV came out and I am sucker for anything "spy" and/or geopolitical (albeit its still a derivative of a Tom Clancy property so get ready for cringe) and for sure I will be watching it this November.



In the first season there is a cool scene that I want to add to my list of dreams.* In it our titular hero is at a party. This is before he has emerged as the hero and is trying to convince people that he indeed is the only one that can solve the problem. Its a party in someone's backyard on the Chesapeake Bay and while our hero is trying to convince people (and flirt with the love interest) a Coast Guard helicopter shows up over the horizon and just lands right there in the middle of the party. Then two people come out and approach Jack Ryan and go something like "Mr. Ryan I am Officer So and So and I am here to escort you to the Pentagon under orders of the Secretary of Defense. Lt Whats Their Face is here to drive your car back to your apartment while you get in the helicopter with me." And then he goes and everyone is shocked at what this mysterious stranger has wrought. And what could they know!

I want that to happen to me. I am pulling up to the office or dropping my kids off at school and a chopper just buzzes the building and swoops into the parking lot "Hey! The President needs you to write a very long email! You need to come with us to Washington, now!"

And I would get in, no questions asked!


*Note this list includes 1) Owning a shirt that says "Staff" on the back 2) Planting a tree and 3) Making a citizen's arrest.