The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Alec Baldwin: Jack Ryan
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[last lines]
Captain Ramius : "... and the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home." Christopher Columbus.
Jack Ryan : Welcome to the New World, Captain.
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Jack Ryan : [to himself, imitating Ramius] "Ryan, some things in here don't react well to bullets." Yeah, like me. I don't react well to bullets.
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Capt. Bart Mancuso : [Ramius comments in Russian to Borodin that the sidearm-wearing Mancuso may be a "buckaroo". Ryan laughs] What's so funny?
Jack Ryan : Ah, the Captain seems to think you're some kind of... cowboy.
Captain Ramius : [spoken "You parle ruski"] You speak Russian?
Jack Ryan : [in Russian] A little. It is wise to study the ways of ones adversary. Don't you think?
Captain Ramius : [in English] It is.
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Adm. Painter : What's his plan?
Jack Ryan : His plan?
Adm. Painter : Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.
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Jeffrey Pelt : You slammed the door on the General pretty hard, didn't you?
Jack Ryan : That was not my intention.
Jeffrey Pelt : Oh, yes, it was! He was patronizing you, and you stomped on him! And in my opinion, he deserved it!
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Jack Ryan : [in the shower]
[imitating the Admiral]
Jack Ryan : "The average Ruskie, son, don't take a dump without a plan." Wait a minute. We don't have to figure out how to get the crew off the sub. He's already done that, he would have had to. All we gotta do is figure out what he's gonna do. So how's he gonna get the crew off the sub.
[later, shaving]
Jack Ryan : They have to want to get off. How do you get a crew to want to get off a submarine? How do you get a crew to want to get off a nuclear sub...
[eureka!]
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[the Russian Alpha submarine shoots a torpedo at the Red October]
Capt. Vasili Borodin : Torpedo impact, 20 seconds.
Captain Ramius : [to Ryan] What books?
Jack Ryan : [confused] Pardon me?
Captain Ramius : What books did you write?
Jack Ryan : I wrote a biography of, of Admiral Halsey, called "The Fighting Sailor", about, uh, naval combat tactics...
Captain Ramius : I know this book!
Capt. Vasili Borodin : Torpedo impact...
Captain Ramius : Your conclusions were all wrong, Ryan...
Capt. Vasili Borodin : ...10 seconds.
Captain Ramius : ...Halsey acted stupidly.
[Ryan is dumbfounded that Ramius' mind is about book criticism, while they are about to be hit by a torpedo within a few seconds]
Capt. Vasili Borodin : 9, 8, 7, 6...
[Ryan looks worriedly at captain Mancuso]
Capt. Vasili Borodin : 5, 4, 3, 2...
[everyone prepares for the impact]
Capt. Vasili Borodin : Torpedo impact... now.
[the torpedo slams into the bow of Red October and breaks up harmlessly on impact. The Red October is unharmed. The broken shards of the torpedo drift away]
Capt. Bart Mancuso : I'll be damned.
Jack Ryan : What happened?
Capt. Bart Mancuso : Combat tactics, Mr. Ryan. By turning into the torpedo, the Captain closed the distance before it could arm itself.
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Jack Ryan : Well... Ramius trained most of their officer corps, which would put him in a position to select men willing to help him. And he's not Russian. He's Lithuanian by birth, raised by his paternal grandfather, a fisherman. And he has no children, no ties to leave behind. And today is the first anniversary of his wife's death.
General : Oh, come on. You're just an analyst. What can you possibly know what goes on in his mind?
Jack Ryan : I know Ramius, General. He's nearly a legend in the submarine community. He's been a maverick his entire career. I actually met him once at an embassy dinner. Have you ever met Captain Ramius, General?
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Jeffrey Pelt : I can't ask any of these characters to go. One, they don't believe in it. Two, they'd never stake their reputation on a hunch. Whereas you...
Jack Ryan : ...are expendable.
Jeffrey Pelt : Something like that.
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[to himself, just before being lowered off a helicopter]
Jack Ryan : Next time, Jack, write a goddamn memo.
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Jack Ryan : Where are we going, anyway?
Admiral James Greer : Briefing for Jeffrey Pelt, the President's National Security Advisor. Most of the Joint Chiefs will be there, along with a few other people.
Jack Ryan : Who's giving the briefing?
Admiral James Greer : You are.
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Captain Ramius : Ryan, sit here.
Jack Ryan : I'm not a Naval officer! I'm with the CIA!
Captain Ramius : CIA?
Jack Ryan : I'm not an agent, I just write books for the CIA!
Captain Ramius : Whatever. Sit here and do exactly what I tell you.
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Skip Tyler : [looking at photos of Red October which show the doors in the front and back of the sub] I'll be... this... this could be a caterpillar.
Jack Ryan : A what?
Skip Tyler : Uh, a caterpillar drive. Magneto hydrodynamic propulsion. You follow?
Jack Ryan : No.
Skip Tyler : It's like a... a jet engine for the water. Goes in the front, gets squirted out the back. Only it has no moving parts, so it's very, very quiet.
Jack Ryan : Like how quiet?
Skip Tyler : It's doubtful our sonar would even pick it up. And if it did, it'd sound like... whales humping or some kind of seismic anomaly. Anything but a submarine. We messed with this a couple years ago. Couldn't make it work. They really built this? This isn't a mock-up or anything?
Jack Ryan : She put to sea this morning.
Skip Tyler : When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads 90 miles off the coast of Florida. This thing could park a couple of hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it until it was all over.
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Helicopter Pilot : Fuel status says we turn back now.
Jack Ryan : Wait a minute. Fuel status? You have a reserve, don't you?
Helicopter Pilot : Yes, sir. I've got a ten minute reserve... but I'm not allowed to invade that except in time of war.
Jack Ryan : Listen, mister, if you don't get me on board that goddamn submarine, that just might be what you'll have! You got me? Now you have ten more minutes' worth of fuel, we stay here ten more minutes!
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Jack Ryan : [after a torpedo broke up harmlessly on the Red October's hull] What happened?
Capt. Bart Mancuso : Combat tactics, Mr. Ryan. By turning into the torpedo, the captain closed the distance before it could arm itself.
Jack Ryan : So that's it?
Captain Ramius : Not quite. Right now, Captain Tupolev is removing the safety features on all his weapons. He won't make the same mistake twice.
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Capt. Bart Mancuso : How did you know that his next turn would be to starboard?
Jack Ryan : I didn't. I had a 50/50 chance. I needed a break. Sorry.
Capt. Bart Mancuso : That's all right, Mr Ryan. My Morse is so rusty, I could be sending him dimensions on Playmate of the Month.
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[Shootout in the missile room]
Captain Ramius : Hey, Ryan, be careful what you shoot at. Most things in here don't react too well to bullets.
Jack Ryan : Right.
[Moves closer to enemy, who fires several shots at him]
Jack Ryan : *I* have to be careful what *I* shoot at?
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[Ryan is on board a plane experiencing violent turbulence]
Navigator C-2A : What's the matter Commander? You don't like flying, huh? Aw, this is nothing! You should've been with us five, six months ago! Whoa! You talk about puke! We ran into a hailstorm over the Sea of Japan. Everybody's retching their guts out! The pilot shot his lunch all over the windshield, and I barfed on the radio! Shorted it out completely! And it wasn't that lightweight stuff either, it was that chunky industrial weight puke!
[offers him the candy bar he's been eating]
Navigator C-2A : Hey, you want a bite?
Jack Ryan : Jack, next time you get a bright idea just put it in a memo!
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[about Ramius]
Jack Ryan : Has he made any Crazy Ivans?
Capt. Bart Mancuso : What difference does that make?
Jack Ryan : Because his next one is going to be to starboard.
Capt. Bart Mancuso : Why? Because his last was to port?
Jack Ryan : No. Because he always goes to starboard in the bottom half of the hour.
[Mancuso looks at a clock, and sees it's near the half-hour mark]
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Captain Davenport : What's he going to do, sail into New York, pop the hatch, and say "Here I am"?
Jack Ryan : It might be just that simple, yes.
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Jack Ryan : Could you launch an ICBM horizontally?
Skip Tyler : Sure. Why would you want to?
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Jack Ryan : I've got a line on those doors. You know what they are?
Admiral James Greer : A nearly silent propulsion system?
Jack Ryan : [taken aback] How did you know that?
Admiral James Greer : The captain of the sub we had following her radioed in. Thing up and disappeared right in front of 'em.
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Flight Attendant : You know, if you do try and get some sleep, the flight will go a lot faster.
Jack Ryan : I can never sleep on a plane. Turbulence.
Flight Attendant : Pardon?
Jack Ryan : Turbulence. Solar radiation heats the Earth's crust, warm air rises, cold air descends - turbulence. I, I don't like that.
Flight Attendant : Oh. Well, try to get some sleep anyway.
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Captain Ramius : There's one thing you haven't yet asked me: why?
Jack Ryan : Well, I thought you would tell me when you felt ready.
Captain Ramius : Well, there are those who believe that we should attack the United States first. Settle everything in one moment. Red October was built for that purpose.
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Jack Ryan : [thinking out loud - while slamming his hand on the table] You son of a bitch!
Jeffrey Pelt : [Mildly] You want to add something to our discussion, Doctor Ryan?
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Captain Davenport : They're banging away with their active sonar as if they're looking for something, but nobody's listening.
Jack Ryan : What do you mean?
Captain Davenport : Well, they're moving at close to 30 knots. At that speed, they could run over my daughter's stereo and not hear it.
Jack Ryan : They're not trying to find Ramius, they're trying to drive him.
Captain Davenport : Drive him where?
Jack Ryan : [indicating the line of Soviet attack subs] The hounds to the hunters.
Captain Davenport : Your sub captain's gonna make it to America, all right, Mr. Ryan. He's gonna die within sight of it.
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Jack Ryan : Excuse me, sir, what's this sub off by herself?
Admiral Josh Painter : That's Bart Mancuso's boat. He's going to the bottom of Red Route 1. He's had intermittent contact with what his computer calls a magma displacement. And he's got this crazy idea...
Jack Ryan : Magma displacement? Is that like a seismic anomaly?
Admiral Josh Painter : I suppose so. Why?
Jack Ryan : Admiral, is there a way you could get me onboard the Dallas?
Admiral Josh Painter : What the hell for?
Jack Ryan : I think that Captain Mancuso has found the Red October.
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Jack Ryan : Well, Sir, I was just thinking that perhaps there's another possibility we might consider. Ramius might be trying to defect.
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Jack Ryan : I'm not an agent, I just write books for the CIA.
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Jeffrey Pelt : Okay, when do you leave?
Jack Ryan : [laughing] Wait a minute! The General was right. I am not field personnel, I am only an analyst.
Jeffrey Pelt : You're perfect.
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Jack Ryan : [to Captain Bart Mancuso] Give the man a chance.
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Capt. Bart Mancuso : Mr. Ryan...
Jack Ryan : He's defecting.
Capt. Bart Mancuso : And he can't change his mind?
Jack Ryan : He's not going to change his mind.
Capt. Bart Mancuso : Are you willing to bet your life on that?
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Judge Moore (Briefing) : Before sailing, Captain Ramius sent a letter to Admiral Yuri Padorin, chairman of the Red Fleet, northern political directorate.
Jack Ryan : [quietly to Greer] That's her uncle.
Admiral James Greer : Whose uncle?
Jack Ryan : Ramius' wife. Padorin's her uncle.
Judge Moore (Briefing) : Now, the contents of the letter are unknown, but Admiral Padorin immediately demanded a meeting with Premier Cherenenko, and within minutes of that meeting, the Soviet fleet sailed with orders to find Red October... and sink her.
Jeffrey Pelt : Sink her?
Admiral (Briefing) : Oh, my god, they've got a madman on their hands.
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Captain Ramius : What gives you the right to fire on my ship? Your signal said nothing of a torpedo.
Capt. Bart Mancuso : Ryan?
Jack Ryan : It was necessary to maintain the illusion for your crew.
Captain Ramius : My crew are being rescued, yes?
Jack Ryan : As we speak.
Captain Ramius : You sent the signal.
Jack Ryan : That's correct, sir.
Captain Ramius : Then how did you know our reactor accident was false?
Jack Ryan : Well, that was a guess, but it seemed logical.
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Jack Ryan : British Intelligence obtained these pictures two days ago. She's the Red October, the latest Typhoon-class.
Admiral James Greer : Big son of a bitch.
Jack Ryan : 12 meters longer than the standard Typhoon, three meters wider. The captain's name is Ramius.
Admiral James Greer : One of yours?
Jack Ryan : Yeah. I did the bio on him last year. He's taken out the lead boat in each new sub class for the last ten years. Fairly good political connections. Trained most of their attack boat skippers. The Russians call him Vilnius Nastavnic; the Vilnius Schoolmaster.
Admiral James Greer : What are these doors?
Jack Ryan : Those doors, sir, are the problem. I-I don't know what they are. Neither do the British. Perhaps our friends in Murmansk have come up with something new.
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Capt. Bart Mancuso : [after Ramius sends a single ping at the Dallas] I'll be damned. Now what?
Jack Ryan : All right. "If defection..."
[muttering quietly to himself]
Jack Ryan : "... you plot course toward..." A chart. I need a chart.
[rifling through navigation charts]
Jack Ryan : No. No. Okay. Where the hell are we? Someplace deep. Someplace deep.
[finding a suitable spot]
Jack Ryan : Okay. Okay! Send them this!
Capt. Bart Mancuso : [giving the message a once-over] Are you out of your mind?
Jack Ryan : Just send it.
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Captain Davenport : [briefing Jack about the chopper ride out to the Dallas] The bird's loaded down with enough fuel to get you there, but Dallas may not be there. We're trying to get a message to her, but if she's gone deep, it's dodgy. If you have to ditch...
[a fighter jet engine roars and it takes off]
Captain Davenport : If you have to ditch, don't think about anything but the survival gear. At this water's temperature, you'll have about four minutes.
Jack Ryan : I'll try to remember that.
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Captain Davenport : During the night, a line of Russian attack subs have taken up station off every East Coast port. Now, we're up here. Here. The New Jersey and her group are moving up the coast, while the Russians, aside from maybe 100 more Bear Foxtrots, have a row of attack subs followed by several surface groups.
Jack Ryan : That's an awful lot of firepower.
Captain Davenport : For a rescue team, yes.
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Jack Ryan : I understand that message. It makes perfect sense. Look at the situation: Ramius intends to defect. The Russians know this, which is why they've been trying to sink him for the past two days, but they haven't been able to. So they're trying...
Lieutenant Commander Thompson - USS Dallas : Captain, I've got a firing solution.
Capt. Bart Mancuso : Very well.
Jack Ryan : Captain, you have to listen to me. The Russians will stop at nothing to prevent Ramius from defecting. They are desperate. They've invented this story that he's crazy because they need our help to sink him before he can safely contact us.
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Captain Davenport : The gentleman is here to see you.
Admiral Josh Painter : Gentleman? What the hell you talking about, Charlie?
[coming out of the bathroom, he sees Jack]
Jack Ryan : I apologize for the uniform, sir. This is Admiral Greer's idea of a low profile.
Admiral Josh Painter : You work for Jim Greer?
Jack Ryan : That's right, sir.
Admiral Josh Painter : Then I imagine you'll tell me what all the hubbub's about.
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Jack Ryan : The last 24 hours have seen some extraordinary Soviet naval activity. The first to sail was this ship, we believe called the Red October, in reference to the October Revolution of 1917. A variant of the Typhoon class, she's some 650 feet long and 32,000 tons submerged displacement; roughly the same size as a World War II aircraft carrier. We believe that these doors, here on the bow and again on the stern, enclose a unique propulsion system - a magneto-hydrodynamic drive, or caterpillar, that would enable the sub to run virtually silent. It is possible that this new drive system allowed the captain, a man named Ramius, their senior and perhaps most respected commander...
[to an aide]
Jack Ryan : Do we have his picture available?
[turning back to Pelt and the others]
Jack Ryan : ...allowed Ramius to elude one of our attack boats, the Dallas, which trailed Red October from harbor this morning. It is also possible that this drive system, if operable, could render the Red October undetectable to our SOSUS warning nets in the Atlantic.
Jeffrey Pelt : Mr. Ryan, would you characterize this as a first-strike weapon?
Jack Ryan : Uh, that is a possibility, sir. Uh, it is designed to approach by stealth and to shower its target with multiple independent warheads with little or no warning before impact.
Admiral (Briefing) : God damn thing's made to start a war.
Jeffrey Pelt : Proceed, Mr. Ryan.
Jack Ryan : About the same time the Dallas lost contact, there were additional sailings from Polijarny and from Leningrad on the Baltic and from the Mediterranean. There are now some 58 nuclear submarines headed at high speed into the Atlantic. This afternoon, a satellite pass over Polijarny found heat blooms in the engineering plants at the Kirov, the Minsk, and more than 20 other cruisers and destroyers, indicating they were preparing to sail. This constitutes the bulk of the Soviet surface fleet.
Jeffrey Pelt : Admiral Greer, your conclusions?
Admiral James Greer : Well, sir, the data support no conclusions as yet. The absence of activity in the Pacific suggests this could be just an exercise. It may have nothing to do...
General (Briefing) : Suppose it's not an exercise? Suppose this is the beginning of a move against NATO?
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Admiral James Greer : So, how's Caroline? Last time I saw her was at your granddad's place in Maine, wasn't it?
Jack Ryan : She's fine. Sends you her best.
Admiral James Greer : And Sally?
Jack Ryan : She's fine.
Admiral James Greer : What is she now, 3?
Jack Ryan : Uh, no, she's a very precocious five. Uh, she announced to Caroline and I the other day that her life would be considerably less lonely if we were to buy her a baby brother.
Admiral James Greer : Buy one?
Jack Ryan : Buy one. But, um, she decided it would be enough if were to buy one for Stanley.
Admiral James Greer : Who's Stanley?
Jack Ryan : Uh... Stanley's a bear.
Admiral James Greer : All right. What's important enough to get you on a plane in the middle of the night?
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Seaman Jones : Conn, sonar. Target's flooded his tubes.
Capt. Bart Mancuso : Has he opened his outer doors?
Seaman Jones : Negative, Captain. He's just sitting there. Hold on. Hull popping. Target's coming shallow.
Jack Ryan : What's that mean?
Capt. Bart Mancuso : That means he's a very cool customer, your Russian. He knows we're here and we're ready to shoot. He's not gonna provoke us. He's heading to periscope depth to see what's on the surface. What's his course now?
Lieutenant Commander Thompson - USS Dallas : Course is 2-7-0, Captain, due west.
Capt. Bart Mancuso : Bring us alongside him.
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Capt. Bart Mancuso : You wanted to talk to him, Mr. Ryan. There he is. What do you wanna say?
Jack Ryan : Will he be the only one looking through the periscope?
Capt. Bart Mancuso : Probably.
Jack Ryan : We'll have to chance that. "U.S. told you intend missile launch." Break. "Do not approach U.S. coast, or you will be attacked." Break. "If intention is other, will you discuss option?" Break. Can he acknowledge with a single ping?
Capt. Bart Mancuso : Yeah, he can. The question is, will he?
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Jeffrey Pelt : Let's assume for a minute that you're right and this Russian intends to defect. What do you suggest we do about it?
Jack Ryan : We definitely grab the boat, sir.
Jeffrey Pelt : Hey, wait a minute. We're not talking about some stray pilot with a MiG. We're talking about several billion dollars' worth of Soviet state property. They're gonna want it back.
Jack Ryan : Maybe it's enough then just to get some people on board and inspect it. Call it whatever you want to; a-a Coast Guard safety inspection.
Jeffrey Pelt : So, how do we proceed?
Jack Ryan : First, we need to contact the commanders in the Atlantic directly. The Russians get one whiff of this through the regular communication circuits, the game is up. Second, we need to figure out what can we do to help him? We need to devise a plan to intercede, ready to go at a moment's notice. And third, somebody's gotta go out there and make contact with Ramius and find out what his intentions really are.
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Capt. Bart Mancuso : [Ramius sends a single ping at the Dallas] What the hell is this about?
Jack Ryan : The Russians want us to sink her. We might have to do that.
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Captain Ramius : All this way to hide a submarine in a river.
Jack Ryan : We're 100 miles from the nearest naval base. The last place that satellites will ever look.
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Skip Tyler : [inspecting the pictures of the unknown doors on the Red October] They're symmetrical. Right down the long axis of the sub.
Jack Ryan : How about a towed sonar array?
Skip Tyler : Nope. Too close to the screws.
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Skip Tyler : Ryan! Who let you in here?
Jack Ryan : Hey, Skip, what, have they got you playing with models now?
Skip Tyler : Ahh! Damn it, Bill! Tell 'em to slow down!
Bill Steiner : I'm doing it! I'm doing it! Calm down, will you?
Skip Tyler : It's not a model. The DSRV; rescue sub.
Jack Ryan : I know what it is. I just never seen one before. What are you doing with it?
Skip Tyler : Ah, well, we're rigging it with a generic docking collar, so it'll mate with British, German, just about anybody's sub. We can get it anywhere in the world in 24 hours. How's your back?
Jack Ryan : It's fine. Have you got a minute?
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Admiral Josh Painter : [discussing Jack's theory about Ramius] I don't think your notion of a few days' inspection is gonna wash, either. In order to be of any value, you'd have to tear it apart. Metallurgy alone'd take a couple of months.
Jack Ryan : Then we'd have to keep it.
Admiral Josh Painter : What are you gonna do with the crew? Ones that don't defect are gonna go back and say we got the boat. Or do you plan to eliminate 'em?
Jack Ryan : We're not at war, sir.
Admiral Josh Painter : So the only way for this thing to work is for you to get them off the boat in such a way that they think we don't have it. And they'll go back and report we don't have it to their bosses. Otherwise, this whole business is just academic, right?
Jack Ryan : Yes, sir. I think I see your point.
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Yuri (Diving Officer) : [after the saboteur fires a gun on the boat] Captain, he stumbled forward into the missile bay! We're showing a silo hatch warning, port side, number 20.
Jack Ryan : He can't launch a missile?
Captain Ramius : No, but he can blow one up.
[to Mancuso]
Captain Ramius : Captain, take the conn.
Capt. Bart Mancuso : The fire control's blasted to hell.
Captain Ramius : [meaning Tupolev and the Konavalov] Then get in behind him and stay there.
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Jack Ryan : The sub we're after is called the Red October. She's under the command of a man named Ramius. Now, there's the possibility that he and a good portion of his crew are attempting to defect.
Capt. Bart Mancuso : Defect? Excuse me.
[going to speak privately with COB, then returning]
Capt. Bart Mancuso : You say the boat's called the Red October?
Jack Ryan : That's right.
Capt. Bart Mancuso : Skipper's Ramius.
Jack Ryan : Right.
Capt. Bart Mancuso : It seems the circumstances have changed somewhat, Mr. Ryan.
[giving him a communique, Jack does a double-take upon reading it]
Capt. Bart Mancuso : Get this man some dry clothes. I'll be in the conn.
Watson : Aye, aye, sir.
Jack Ryan : [re-reading the message] "National Command Authority: Informed Soviet Typhoon-class submarine Red October under command of Marko Ramius is potential renegade and threatens independent missile launch. You are authorized to use any necessary force to prevent said submarine from approaching the coast of the United States."
