The Hunt for Red October (1990) - Quotes

Taglines: The hunt is on.

Taglines: Invisible. Silent. Stolen.

Captain Ramius: [[w:Christopher Columbus|Christopher Columbus] ... and the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home." ].

Jack Ryan: Welcome to the New World, Captain.

Soviet Ambassador Andrei Lysenko: There is another matter... one I'm reluctant to...

Dr. Jeffrey Pelt: Please.

Lysenko: [[w:Alfa-class submarine|Alfa] One of our submarines, an ], was last reported in the area of the Grand Banks. We have not heard from her for some time.

Pelt: [removes glasses] Andrei... you've lost another submarine?

Commander Bart Mancuso: Right full rudder, 30-degree down angle.

Helmsman: Aye sir.

Seaman Jones: [removes headphones] This one's gonna be close!

Konovalov Crewman: Torpedo, dead ahead!

Andrei Bonovia: [to Captain Tupolev] You arrogant ass! You've killed us!

Captain Ramius: Hey, Ryan, be careful what you shoot at. Most things in here don't react too well to bullets.

Jack Ryan: [mutters] Yeah, like me. I don't react too well to bullets.

Jack Ryan: I have to be careful what I shoot at?

Captain Second Rank Vasili Borodin: Torpedo impact, 7, 6, 5 seconds, 4, 3, 2, torpedo impact... now.

Commander Bart Mancuso: I'll be damned!

Jack Ryan: What happened?

Mancuso: Combat tactics, Mr. Ryan. By turning into the path of the torpedo, the Captain closed the distance before it could arm itself.

Ryan: So that's it?

Captain Ramius: Not quite. Right now Tupolev is removing the safety features on all his weapons. He won't make the same mistake twice.

Capt. Bart Mancuso: All back full.

Lt. Cmdr. Thompson: Say again?

Mancuso: I said, all back full!

Thompson: Back full, aye sir. Engines back full.

Seaman Jones: Captain, we're cavitating, he can hear us!

Mancuso: Conn, aye! All stop!

Crewmember: All stop, aye.

Mancuso: Alright, Ryan, we just unzipped our fly. Mr. Thompson! Open the outer doors, firing point procedures. Now if that bastard so much as twitches, I'm going to blow him right to Mars.

Admiral Josh Painter: You think he's crazy?

Captain Davenport: Certifiable. And no matter what his credentials, I don't care for him wearing the uniform.

Painter: [[w:United States Naval Academy|The Academy] You see that ring on his finger? ], Class of 72. A Marine.

Davenport: You're kidding! How did you...

Painter: Greer told me. Summer of his third year, he and his squad went down in a chopper accident in the Med. Bad - pilot, crew killed. That kid spent ten months in traction, another year learning to walk again. Did his fourth year from the hospital. Now it's up to you, Charlie, but you might consider cuttin the kid a little slack. Ah, Russians are gonna find that sub before we get near it, anyhow.

Seaman Jones: Conn, sonar! Crazy Ivan!

Capt. Bart Mancuso: All stop! Quick quiet!

Man #1: All stop, aye.

Man #2: Engine's all stopped.

Beaumont: What's going on, Jonesy?

Jones: Russian captains sometimes turn suddenly to see if anyone's behind them. We call it "Crazy Ivan." The only thing you can do is go dead, shut everything down, and make like a hole in the water.

Beaumont: So what's the catch?

Jones: The catch is, a boat this big doesn't exactly stop on a dime... and if we're too close, we'll drift right into the back of him.

Captain 2nd Rank Vasily Borodin: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?

Captain Marko Ramius: Oh, yes.

Borodin: No papers?

Ramius: No papers, state to state.

Borodin: Well then, in winter I will live in... Arizona. Actually, I think I will need two wives.

Ramius: Oh, at least.

Lieutenant Engineer Melekhin: I found out what happened to the caterpillar drive. The buffer circuit has been torn out. It was only a matter of time before an overload shut down the whole caterpillar.

Captain Marko Ramius: What are you saying?

Melekhin: Whoever did this knew how to cripple the caterpillar in a way not easy to find.

Captain 2nd Rank Vasily Borodin: Captain, we have a saboteur onboard.

Ramius: [turns to Vasily] It can't be any of the officers. They had all the time in the world before we put to sea. Must be a member of the crew. Go below, to Putin's cabin. Check his files for information on the crew. We may have to put them off before we planned.

Marko Ramius: [cuts in; everybody quiets; as he eats] There will be no going back. Before we sailed, I dispatched a letter to Admiral Padorin, in which I announced our intention... to defect.

Lt Viktor Slavin: In the name of God, why?

Ramius: [[w:Hernán Cortés|Cortés] When he reached the New World, ] burned his ships. As a result, his men were well-motivated.

Officer No 1: You have signed our death warrants.

Officer No 2: Padorin will send the entire fleet.

Lt Yuri Stadnyuk: Jesus, they'll find us. They'll find us and -

Captain 2nd Rank Vasily Borodin: No one's going to find us. That's enough, Yuri!

Slavin: You had to do it, huh? You couldn't just turn the submarine over to the Americans. You had to make a political statement. Or was it something deeper, Captain... something that made you unable to slip away? Was it ego, Captain?

Ramius: [offers tea pot] We each have our reasons, Viktor. My own began the day I was handed the blueprints for this ship... a ship which had but one use. And as for the rest, well, those are things that I alone must carry the burden for. Anatoli, you're afraid of our fleet. Well, you should be. Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea, anyone? No? Then you may report back to your posts.

Borodin: [stands up after Lt Engr Melekhin stubs out his cigarette and leaves] You heard the Captain. Dismissed.

Slavin: [nods to Ramius; the other officers leave and Borodin closes the door] Captain...

Borodin: Captain, I would never disagree with you in front of the men, you know that. But in this case, Viktor is right. It would've been better if you had not informed Moscow.

Ramius: Oh, Vasily. Moscow is not the worry, nor the whole Soviet Navy. I know their tactics. I have the advantage. No. The worry is the Americans. If we meet the right sort, this will work. We get some... buckaroo?

Captain Marko Ramius: [[honor; [chess; [Yuri Gagarin; [silence; looks at Vasily Borodin] Comrades, this is your captain. It is an ] to speak to you today, and I am honored to be sailing with you on the maiden voyage of our Motherland's most recent achievement. Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of ] against our old adversary — the American Navy. For 40 years, your fathers before you and your older brothers played this game and played it well. But today, the game is different. We have the advantage and it reminds me of the heady days of Sputnik and ], when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. Well, they will tremble again — at the sound of our ]. The order is: engage for silent drive.

Captain 2nd Rank Vasily Borodin: Aye, sir. Ballast control, open outer doors.

Crewman: Yes, open outer doors.

Borodin: [to dive officer; confirms caterpillar drive doors opening] Diving command. Engage caterpillar and secure main engines. Doors opening, Captain.

Ramius: [[laughter; [sun] Comrades, our own fleet doesn't know our full potential. They will do everything possible to test us; but they will only test their own embarrassment. We will leave our fleet behind, we will pass through the American patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest city, and listen to their rock and roll... while we conduct missile drills. Then, and when we are finished, the only sound they will hear is our ], while we sail to Havana, where the ] is warm, and so is the comradeship.

Borodin: Cryogenic plant coming online, Captain.

Ramius: [[history; chief of the boat starts signing the Soviet national anthem] A great day, comrades. We sail into ].

Captain Marko Ramius: I want you and the doctor to witness this. I'm removing the political officer's missile key, and I'm keeping it myself.

Dr. Petrov: Captain, I think we should report this to Red Fleet Command.

Ramius: I'm afraid that's impossible, doctor. Our orders are for strict radio silence.

Petrov: [[w:Two-man rule|no one man] This is most unnerving, captain. The reason for having two missile keys is so that ] may...

Ramius: May what?

Petrov: ...may arm the missiles.

Ramius: Thank you. That will be all, doctor.

Ivan Putin: [reading, in Russian; [Book of Revelation|"Behold, I am coming as a thief...; [Armageddon; English; [Angel; [Death] ] and he gathered them all together in a place called ]... and the Seventh ] poured forth his bowl into the air, and a voice cried out from Heaven, saying, "It is done!" A man of your responsibilities reading about the end of the world? And what's this? "I am become ], the destroyer of worlds.

Ramius: [[Bhagavad Gita|ancient Hindu text; [w:J. Robert Oppenheimer|an American] It is an ], quoted by ].

Putin: An American?

Ramius: Mmm. He invented the atomic bomb. He was later accused of being a communist.

Admiral James Greer: [having just pressed the torpedo self-destruct; to weapons officer; shows CIA ID] Now, understand, Commander: The torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. And I... was never here.