Patriot Games1992

Jack Ryan:
So, SO-13 traced the weapons used in the Lord Holmes incident to an arms dealer that supplies Qaddafi. Now, when Sean Miller escaped, he was last seen in a Zodiac heading out into the Channel in a gale, which didn't make much sense until I checked on the freighters that were out there that day. Syrian registry, known to carry arms from the Middle East to client states in the Mediterranean, including Qaddafi.

Rose:
So, Miller takes a slow boat to North Africa.

Jack Ryan:
Exactly. Now, we send our birds up over the desert, photographing, what, how many camps?

CIA Analyst:
182.

Jack Ryan:
182 camps a day in North Africa. Libyan bases, PLO, Red Brigade, Action-Directe, West German Red Army faction. But on the day that this particular ship docked in Benghazi, there's activity in only nine camps with people arriving. Now, this one we know for sure is PLO, this one's Shining Path, these seven we're not so sure about. Why?

CIA Analyst:
Uh, well, we got satellites...

Jack Ryan:
Well, because the people in those camps know probably better than we do exactly what time the satellite's going to pass overhead. And Marty, unless you authorize us to re-task those satellites so we can get a look before they're overhead from the side, we are never going to know which camp they're at.

Marty Cantor:
Jack, do you have any idea how big a deal it is to re-task those satellites?

Jack Ryan:
Yeah.