‘Clear and Present Danger’ (1994)

The Villain: The US government and Colombian drug cartels.

Who is Jack Ryan? The villains are coming from inside the house. Ford is back and he’s received a promotion — he becomes deputy director for intelligence after Greer becomes terminally ill — and his reward is to take on his own government.

The plot is set into motion when a close friend of President Bennett (Donald Moffat) is murdered by a drug lord, Ernesto Escobedo (Miguel Sandoval, bearing a strong resemblance to Pablo Escobar). But the real villain isn’t Escobedo. It’s a high-level conspiracy involving his intelligence officer, Felix Cortez (Joaquim de Almeida); the US national security adviser, James Cutter (Harris Yulin); and the deputy director of operations, Robert Ritter (Henry Czerny).