William Fichtner credited as playing...
Alex
- Bruni: Your father was Nikolai Zubov. Commanded the 1st Submarine Brigade of the Baltic Fleet.
- Demi: That's right. Make your heading 1-7-5.
- Bavenod: 1-7-5, aye, sir.
- Bruni: This man's father wrote the book on submarine warfare.
- Pavlov: The legacy of the captain's family is very well known throughout the Navy.
- Bruni: Awarded a "Hero of the Soviet Union" for sinking the Kriegsmarine ship Goya during the war. Do I have that right?
- Alex: Gentlemen, we're in the middle of operations.
- Demi: He was decorated, yeah.
- Bruni: Sent 6,000 miserable Wehrmacht and Nazi sympathizers to the bottom of Gdansk Bay. If the acorn doesn't fall too far from the tree, our captain should be able to dodge a Yank sub or two.
- Alex: Our replacements have no personal records. Name, ranks; that's it. Except for Bavenod, the navigator. He was on the K-27 when she had the reactor coolant leak.
- Demi: Yeah, I know the K-27.
- Alex: Did you know that he's listed among the dead?
- Demi: More precision from Squadron Command. I've heard they'll shoot people just to keep their paperwork straight.
- Alex: Sailors are superstitious. It's easy to spook a boat.
- Demi: Well, Bavenod better not tell anyone he's dead, then.
- Demi: You'd better take a look at this.
- Alex: [taking an envelope and removing the contents] Listen up. We're to return to sea.
- Yanis: What?
- Alex: Take the ladies.
- Tyrtov: [the women with them are ushered away] Take-take-take them. We're supposed to have three months back, not-not-not three weeks.
- Sasha: Captain, I'm getting married to Nadya.
- Demi: Say your goodbyes quickly and without explanation. You have until 1400 hours.
- Sonar Operator: Conn, surface contact, 11,000 meters, bearing 1-9-5.
- Demi: Very well. Classification?
- Sonar Operator: Big and slow. Probably a merchant.
- Demi: Five degree left rudder.
- Alex: [relaying the order] Five degree left rudder.
- Bruni: Stop the drill, Captain.
- Demi: Why?
- Pavlov: 'Cause our orders require us to take tactical advantage of the testing opportunities for the classified onboard equipment.
- Bruni: Captain, I need you to put us under that ship.
- Alex: We have men below.
- Bruni: Then you should get them out.
- Pavlov: These are technicians from the Special Projects Institute. They'll be joining us on this cruise.
- Alex: They're testing some kind of prototype equipment.
- Demi: Have you ever been to sea before?
- Bruni: Oh, we've spent some time on ships, yes.
- Alex: Skimmer's a vacation, Mr...?
- Bruni: Bruni.
- Alex: Mr. Bruni. This ship barely accommodates the 86 men required to sail her.
- Bruni: We'll try to stay out of your way, then.
- Alex: Yeah, good luck with that.
- Demi: Mr. Pavlov will show you to your berths. Stow your gear. We'll sail with the tide.
- Bruni: Captain. It's good to see you again.
- Demi: What's on your mind?
- Alex: I think our technicians are OSNAZ commandos.
- Demi: Yeah, it looks that way.
- Alex: OSNAZ are KGB radicals. True believers and trained assassins, among other things.
- Demi: Which is why I don't want any of our crew getting between them and whatever the hell it is they're doing.
- Alex: [watching the Phantom being installed] What do you think that is?
- Demi: That, Mr. First Officer, is the shortest distance between here and your own command. You haven't gone unnoticed by Fleet, Alex. You're gonna get an atom smasher. Markov told me himself. So we'd do well not to screw this up.
- Alex: [reading their orders to the crew] From Squadron Commander Vladimir Markov: "To the crew of B-67: proceed south to patrol box Lima-Foxtrot and monitor American naval activities. When conditions permit, commence systems testing of classified equipment for operational readiness, maintaining alert status. Returning to Rybachi on or about June 6th." This is the executive officer.
- Demi: Greg, you may post the orders in the enlisted men's mess.
- Pavlov: Aye, sir.
- Alex: [as Pavlov leaves] What conditions?
- Demi: Navigator, plot us a course for blue water. We're going deep.
- Bavenod: Aye, sir.
- Demi: Who the hell are you?
- Bavenod: Bavenod, sir.
- Demi: Where'd Command scrape you up from?
- Bavenod: I came off a November.
- Demi: Really?
- Alex: You traded a nuke for a smoker?
- Bavenod: I heard the best crews in the Navy sail diesels. I wanted the chance at one before they're all gone.
- Alex: [sarcastically to Demi] You see? Dreams do come true.
- Demi: Panamanian flag. Tanker.
- Bruni: Good. She can't shoot at us, then.
- Demi: No, but she can report our position.
- Bruni: Put us beneath her keel. You can do that.
- Alex: The noise from her screws will blind us, Captain.
- Demi: [picking up the radio] Engineer, time on the batteries?
- [getting a response of 30-35 minutes]
- Demi: All full ahead. Make your depth 30 meters. Put us in her wake.
- Pavlov: You realize this is supposed to be your patrol.
- Alex: Well, if it was supposed to be mine, I'd be the captain.
- Pavlov: Well, as far as we know, the Party already knows about this and wants to see how you perform under pressure.
- Alex: Oh, yeah? How am I doing?
- Pavlov: That man has a nuclear firing key.
- Alex: And you and I have the other two.
- Pavlov: Captain Kozlov...
- Alex: [pushing him against a bulkhead] If you're ready to relieve the commanding officer of a Soviet ballistic missile submarine, your captain and your friend, because he fainted... then you go right ahead. I'll be in Sonar.
- Bruni: Put us under that ship.
- Alex: Sir... we don't know who that is.
- Demi: Mr. Bavenod, plot an intercept for that ship. Put the moon on our stern.
- Bavenod: Aye, Captain.
- Alex: Sir...
- Demi: Level the boat. Make our depth ten meters.
- Alex: [relaying the order] Level the boat, depth ten meters.
- Demi: We'll take a look before we get any closer.
- [to Bruni]
- Demi: If that's all right with you.
- Sonar Operator: It's a skipjack, sir. And he's going someplace in a big damn hurry.
- Alex: Have they seen us yet?
- Sonar Operator: I don't think so. She's moving too fast to hear anybody, that's for sure.