- Jeffrey Pelt: Listen, I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops. But it also means I keep my options open.
- Capt. Vasili 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 Ramius: I suppose.
- Capt. Vasili Borodin: No papers?
- Captain Ramius: No papers, state to state.
- Capt. Vasili Borodin: Well then, in winter I will live in... Arizona. Actually, I think I will need two wives.
- Captain Ramius: Oh, at least.
- [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.
- 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.
- Admiral James Greer: Now, understand, Commander, that torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. And I...
- [showing him his identification]
- Admiral James Greer: ... was never here.
- [Jack Ryan, in US Navy Commander uniform, exits after meeting the Admiral and Captain of the carrier]
- 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.
- Admiral Josh Painter: You see that ring on his finger? The Academy, Class of '72. A Marine.
- Captain Davenport: You're kidding! How did you...
- Admiral Josh 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.
- 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.
- [the Konovalov's own torpedo is about to strike the Konovalov]
- Andrei Bonovia: You arrogant ass. You've killed *us*!
- Admiral Josh Painter: This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.
- Adm. Painter: What's his plan?
- Jack Ryan: His plan?
- Adm. Painter: Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.
- Capt. Bart Mancuso: [after hearing Jones's findings] Have I got this straight, Jonesy? A $40 million computer tells you you're chasing an earthquake, but you don't believe, and you come up with this on your own?
- Seaman Jones: Yes, sir.
- Capt. Bart Mancuso: Including all the navigation maps?
- Seaman Jones: Sir, I-I've got all the...
- Capt. Bart Mancuso: Relax, Jonesy. You sold me.
- Jeffrey Pelt: Mr. Ambassador, you have nearly a hundred naval vessels operating in the North Atlantic right now. Your aircraft has dropped enough sonar buoys so that a man could walk from Greenland to Iceland to Scotland without getting his feet wet. Now, shall we dispense with the bull?
- Ambassador Lysenko: You make your point as delicately as ever, Mr. Pelt.
- Captain Ramius: Re-verify our range to target... one ping only.
- Capt. Vasili Borodin: Captain, I - I - I just...
- Captain Ramius: Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.
- Capt. Vasili Borodin: Aye, Captain.
- Ambassador Andrei Lysenko: There is another matter... one I'm reluctant to...
- Dr. Jeffrey Pelt: Please.
- Ambassador Andrei Lysenko: One of our submarines, an Alfa, was last reported in the area of the Grand Banks. We have not heard from her for some time.
- Dr. Jeffrey Pelt: Andrei, you've lost another submarine?
- Captain Ramius: I miss the peace of fishing like when I was a boy. Forty years I've been at sea. A war at sea. A war with no battles, no monuments... only casualties. I widowed her the day I married her. My wife died while I was at sea, you know.
- Capt. Bart Mancuso: All back full.
- Lt. Cmdr. Thompson: Captain...
- Capt. Bart Mancuso: I said, all back full!
- Lt. Cmdr. Thompson: Back full, aye.
- [the Dallas reverses, churning the water]
- Seaman Jones: Captain, we're cavitating, he can hear us!
- Capt. Bart Mancuso: Conn, aye. All right, 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 straight to Mars.
- 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!
- 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. Well, this thing could park a coupla hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it till it was all over.
- 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!]
- Poltical Officer Ivan Putin: [Reading from a book belonging to Ramius, quoting the Bible] And the seventh angel poured his bowl into the air, and a voice cried out from heaven, saying: "It is done." A man with your responsibilities reading about the end of the world. And what's this? "I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds."
- Captain Ramius: It is an ancient Hindu text, quoted by an American.
- Poltical Officer Ivan Putin: An American?
- Captain Ramius: Mmm. He invented the atomic bomb, and was later accused of being a communist.
- [telling young Sonarman Beaumont about Jones's most embarrassing moment]
- Watson: Seaman Jones here is into music in a big way, and he views this whole boat as his own personal, private stereo set. Well, one day he's got this piece of Pavarotti...
- Seaman Jones: It was Paganini.
- Watson: Whatever.
- Seaman Jones: It was Paganini.
- Watson: Look, this is my story, okay?
- Seaman Jones: Then tell it right, COB. Pavarotti is a tenor, Paganini was a composer.
- Watson: So anyway, he's got this music out in the water, and he's listening to it on his headsets, and he's just happy as a clam. And then all hell breaks loose. See, there's this whole slew of boats out in the water...
- Seaman Jones: Including one WAY out at Pearl!
- Watson: Including one way the hell out at Pearl. All of a sudden, they start hearing, Pavarotti...
- Beaumont: Pavarotti!
- Watson: Coming up their asses!
- [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.
- 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.
- Captain Ramius: You will go with the men in the life rafts. The officers and I will submerge beneath you and scuttle the ship.
- Dr. Petrov: You will receive the Order of Lenin for this, Captain!
- 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?
- Captain Ramius: Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary - The American Navy. For forty 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.
- Lieutenant Melekhin, Engineer - Red October: [in Russian to shipmates after Ryan chokes on a Russian cigarette] He's turning green.
- Captain Ramius: It reminds me of the heady days of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. Now they will tremble again - at the sound of our silence. The order is: engage the silent drive.
- Captain Ramius: We will pass through the American patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest city, and listen to their rock'n'roll while we conduct missile drills. Then, and when we are finished, the only sound they will hear is our laughter, while we sail to Havana, where the sun is warm, and so is the comradeship. A great day, comrades. We sail into history.
- Captain Ramius: You're afraid of our fleet. Well, you should be. Personally, I'd give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?
- [to himself, just before being lowered off a helicopter]
- Jack Ryan: Next time, Jack, write a goddamn memo.
- 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.
- 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!
- Seaman Jones: [Jonesy is teaching Beaumont] Hear it now?
- Beaumont: [resigned] No.
- Seaman Jones: Beaumont, at Caltech we used to do this in our sleep! You hear it now?
- Beaumont: Wait a minute...
- Seaman Jones: Uh oh...
- Beaumont: Disparaged surface clutter...
- Seaman Jones: Yeeeesssss?
- Beaumont: I should go to SAPS?
- Seaman Jones: Correct! Seaman Beaumont, Signal Algorithmic Processing System. Give it a week and you'll be teaching at Caltech. So, like Beethoven on the computer, you have laboured to produce... a biologic.
- Beaumont: A what?
- Seaman Jones: A whale, Seaman Beaumont, a whale. A marine mammal that knows a hell of a lot more about sonar than you do. Train her around to 269 and let's try it again?
- [Russian midshipmen see the Dallas jumping out of the water]
- Russian midshipman: [in Russian] Captain's scared them out of the water!
- [the Russians cheer]
- 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.
- Captain Ramius: Before we sailed, I dispatched a letter to Admiral Padorin, in which I announced our intention... to defect.
- Kamarov: In the name of God, why?
- Captain Ramius: When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result, his men were well motivated.
- Watson: Y'know, I seen me a mermaid once. I even seen me a shark eat an octopus. But I ain't never seen no phantom Russian submarine.
- Jeffrey Pelt: It would be well for your government to consider that having your ships and ours, your aircraft and ours, in such proximity... is inherently DANGEROUS. Wars have begun that way, Mr. Ambassador.
- [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?
- Seaman Jones: Conn, sonar! Crazy Ivan!
- Capt. Bart Mancuso: All stop! Quick quiet!
- [the ships engines are shut down completely]
- Beaumont: What's goin' on?
- Seaman Jones: Russian captains sometime 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?
- Seaman 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.
- 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.
- Kamarov: Stop pissing, Yuri. Give me a stopwatch and a map, and I'll fly the Alps in a plane with no windows.
- Yuri (Diving Officer): If the map is accurate enough.
- Ambassador Lysenko: It seems that the initial reports that one of our submarines was missing were not completely accurate. The submarine in question... is commanded by Captain Marko Ramius. Apparently, he's suffered a kind of mental or nervous breakdown. Just before he sailed, he posted a letter to Admiral Yuri Padorin, in which he announced his intention to... to fire his missiles on the United States.
- Jeffrey Pelt: Why didn't you tell me this the last time we met?
- Ambassador Lysenko: In my position, I am sometimes compromised by the fact that Moscow does not always tell me everything.
- [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!
- [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]
- Dr. Petrov: [Ramius has taken the Political officers Missile key and kept it] Sir! The reason for having two keys is so that no one man may...
- Captain Ramius: May what, Doctor?
- Dr. Petrov: Arm the missiles Captain.
- Captain Ramius: Mmm, thank you for your concern Doctor
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