" Patriot Games (1992)d.Phillip Noyce, 117 minutesFilm Plot SummaryEx-Marine and fifty-ish, newly-retired CIA officer John "Jack" Ryan (Harrison Ford), now an author and professor at the US Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland), lived with his family in their isolated, coastal Maryland home: medical doctor wife Dr.The policeman turns back to offer help and leaves the criminal to escape.Holding onto the creaking and collapsing gutter, the hanging man is frozen by his fear of heights (acrophobia)." He made matters worse, until Clark intervened, and a cleverly-timed Super-sneeze made Ricky""s second ball a smashing winner when it decisively knocked down all the pins.Farrell declared: "This is virtual terrorism," and thought about what would be the next target in the "fire-sale" he had forecast -- he believed that the next target would be the closed-circuit security system of the Eastern hub of the power-grid (located at Middleton, West Virginia, where Mai Linh had been flown), in order to wipe out all power to the Eastern third of the nation.