All All. Sign In. Leaving the airport, Lance and Greer exchange banter about Vienna, where Lance spent time undergoing agency training. According to 'Die Schattenstadt' The Void , a nonfiction book, written by Austrian investigative journalist Emil Bobi, Vienna is home to approximately 7, intelligence operatives. The city is an international hotbed for spies because spy craft has more protections under the law in Austria than in any other nation in the world. At the end of Episode , Greer reveals to Jack, the devastating moral compromise he had to make in order to save his own life, as chief of the CIA's Pakistan-based station.
The CIA's intelligence associations in Pakistan have, in fact, been troubled for many years. The CIA station is located in Islamabad, and the covert identity of its chief has been deliberately leaked at least three times by Pakistan intelligence agents and government officials -twice in and once again in Reports that former station chief Mark Kelton was poisoned by Pakistani agents in remain unconfirmed.
According to executive producers, the negotiation between the Greer and Tony at the brothel is an important scene in terms of Jack Ryan's development as an operations officer.
Jack is forced to subdue his analyst pragmatism in order to embrace the realities of CIA field-work, which often involve cooperating with unsavory individuals, in service of a larger intelligence objective. In Episode , Jack, Greer and undercover ops officer Lance go to a Turkish brothel to gather intelligence on Syrian refugees being trafficked through Turkey. Despite the fact that the brothel boss's retention methods and other revenue streams might be illegal, prostitution in a licensed brothel is not against the law in Turkey.
Prostitutes and brothel management are simply not allowed to procure and solicit clientele. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Edit page. More from this title. More to explore. Recently viewed. Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
