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It's like O or A levels literature in which you're to analyse a scene and explain the hidden allegorical metaphoric meaning behind it.
"Victor Polizzi worked as a drone pilot in Nevada. He killed a target in Syria, and another drone pilot gave him a dollar bill. He collected these dollars, numbered them, and hung them on his wall. Victor decided to take his dollars to a casino and play roulette. He seemed lucky and quickly turned them into $30,000.
While gambling, he met a couple, Blanche and Stanley, who went home with him after he cashed out his chips. Stanley watched as Victor and Blanche had sex, and when she went to the bathroom, Stanley beat Victor. Victor offered Stanley the money as they left, but he declined. He had earned it."
https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/features/976335-tom-clancys-jack-ryan-season-1-episode-3-recap
"Jack Ryan attempts to explore the detached mindset of a pilot who countlessly spies on other people’s lives and kill enemies from overseas. His copilot gives him a dollar for every successful kill, and he currently has 107 dollar bills on his walls. This is where Jack Ryan makes a weird turn with this subplot. Why couldn’t they just cut to him drinking or gambling quickly to get to the same endgame? This guy is unhappy and he wants to feel something. The sex scene between the married couple which ends in a beating just felt uncomfortable and out of place."
https://showsnob.com/2018/08/31/jack-ryan-season-1-episode-3-recap/
"Cut back to Vegas, where Stanley and Blanche get a plastered Victor back to his place. They put on some INXS (more 80’s music – love it), have yet another drink and then Stanley watches Blanche seduce Victor and screw him right there on the couch in front of him. Then immediately afterwards, Stanley takes off his belt and starts beating the crap out of Victor with it. Victor offers Stanley all the money he won, but Stanley won’t take it – he says Victor earned it, and leaves. Okay, sorry, but WTF was all that about?"
https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/tom-clancys-jack-ryan-recap-s01e03-black-22/
"In episode three when the drone operator goes to the casino and starts gambling the money from each of his kills, he meets that couple. After he wins around 50k I think, they go back to his place and the wife and airman start having sex in front of the husband. I figured they were going to rob him. After the wife and drone operator finish, the husband just starts beating the shit out of him. To get him to stop the airman tries to just give him the money. The husband doesn’t take it and they just leave. What was this even for and what did it mean. I just didn’t understand it. Granted i just finished ep. 3. Can someone please explain?"
"I've seen this questioned a few times in this sub, so here's my two cents:
He clearly sees the money as blood money, and it seems like it feels morally questionable to him at best. So he comes up with this plan - he'll just gamble it away. Only the universe has other ideas an he wins nearly $30,000. Same as killing people with drones - he's questioning what he's doing but being rewarded for it.
Then the couple. He's reassured by both that he's ok to go ahead with the wife, but then the husband beats him. Yet again, he's questioned what's happening to him and assured "yeah go ahead!" but he gets punished for it. Moreover, they don't take the money.
To me, he's trying to find his moral compass, and every scenario plays out the exact opposite of how it should: he should lose all the money and the husband should kick his ass before the sex begins in earnest and if the husband does want it to happen, the couple should take the money. But in each scenario, the opposite happens, and he's left rudderless.
This contrasts nicely with the final scene where he is explicitly told not to kill the man attempting to rape Hanin (a familiar scenario to him with the husband and wife after the casino). Of course he disobeys a direct order and gets his drone to kill the rapist (the so-called 'wrong' decision), but he finally does what he feels is the real right thing to do."
"Victor Polizzi worked as a drone pilot in Nevada. He killed a target in Syria, and another drone pilot gave him a dollar bill. He collected these dollars, numbered them, and hung them on his wall. Victor decided to take his dollars to a casino and play roulette. He seemed lucky and quickly turned them into $30,000.
While gambling, he met a couple, Blanche and Stanley, who went home with him after he cashed out his chips. Stanley watched as Victor and Blanche had sex, and when she went to the bathroom, Stanley beat Victor. Victor offered Stanley the money as they left, but he declined. He had earned it."
https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/features/976335-tom-clancys-jack-ryan-season-1-episode-3-recap
"Jack Ryan attempts to explore the detached mindset of a pilot who countlessly spies on other people’s lives and kill enemies from overseas. His copilot gives him a dollar for every successful kill, and he currently has 107 dollar bills on his walls. This is where Jack Ryan makes a weird turn with this subplot. Why couldn’t they just cut to him drinking or gambling quickly to get to the same endgame? This guy is unhappy and he wants to feel something. The sex scene between the married couple which ends in a beating just felt uncomfortable and out of place."
https://showsnob.com/2018/08/31/jack-ryan-season-1-episode-3-recap/
"Cut back to Vegas, where Stanley and Blanche get a plastered Victor back to his place. They put on some INXS (more 80’s music – love it), have yet another drink and then Stanley watches Blanche seduce Victor and screw him right there on the couch in front of him. Then immediately afterwards, Stanley takes off his belt and starts beating the crap out of Victor with it. Victor offers Stanley all the money he won, but Stanley won’t take it – he says Victor earned it, and leaves. Okay, sorry, but WTF was all that about?"
https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/tom-clancys-jack-ryan-recap-s01e03-black-22/
"In episode three when the drone operator goes to the casino and starts gambling the money from each of his kills, he meets that couple. After he wins around 50k I think, they go back to his place and the wife and airman start having sex in front of the husband. I figured they were going to rob him. After the wife and drone operator finish, the husband just starts beating the shit out of him. To get him to stop the airman tries to just give him the money. The husband doesn’t take it and they just leave. What was this even for and what did it mean. I just didn’t understand it. Granted i just finished ep. 3. Can someone please explain?"
"I've seen this questioned a few times in this sub, so here's my two cents:
He clearly sees the money as blood money, and it seems like it feels morally questionable to him at best. So he comes up with this plan - he'll just gamble it away. Only the universe has other ideas an he wins nearly $30,000. Same as killing people with drones - he's questioning what he's doing but being rewarded for it.
Then the couple. He's reassured by both that he's ok to go ahead with the wife, but then the husband beats him. Yet again, he's questioned what's happening to him and assured "yeah go ahead!" but he gets punished for it. Moreover, they don't take the money.
To me, he's trying to find his moral compass, and every scenario plays out the exact opposite of how it should: he should lose all the money and the husband should kick his ass before the sex begins in earnest and if the husband does want it to happen, the couple should take the money. But in each scenario, the opposite happens, and he's left rudderless.
This contrasts nicely with the final scene where he is explicitly told not to kill the man attempting to rape Hanin (a familiar scenario to him with the husband and wife after the casino). Of course he disobeys a direct order and gets his drone to kill the rapist (the so-called 'wrong' decision), but he finally does what he feels is the real right thing to do."
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