IMS Subtitles www.able.co.nz Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air. Able 2011 1 1 1 1 1 (SPEAKS ARABIC) (ALARM BLARES) Sure it's the Russians? 100 percent. Submarine launched 12 to 15 megatons and they went to strike status. The Roosevelt splashed six missiles. If the Russians head for Germany, the Berlin Brigade's outnumbered. Sir, we've got a launch from Alyesk, Central Russia. I don't believe it. What the hell is in Alyesk? SS18-ICBMs. Probable targets New York, Washington and here. How good is the ceiling? Anything but a direct hit. Birds in the air. First impact 25 minutes. How do we know it's accurate? It's accurate. I advise we go to DefCon 1. Get President Zorkin. Zorkin is missing, sir. We have reports of a coup in Moscow. General Bulgakov is calling the shots. Who the hell is Bulgakov? The asshole who wanted to use nukes in Chechnya. Sir, DefCon 1. We're out of time. Do it. Mr President. Sir, it'll take about a minute for the launch sequence to process. Before the order can be taken, an ID check must be performed. My ID number is fifth from the top. Sir, it's your wife on 2104. Thank you. Yeah? Under the two-man rule, the order must be confirmed by someone on the list. Shit. Gene Revell. National Security Adviser. Is it black tie? OK, I'm on my way. Can we, um, finish this up some other time? (ALL LAUGH) No. (ALL LAUGH) We've gotta update these fire drills, Billy. If the shit ever hits the fan, I'm not going underground. The place is a tomb. You have to choose someone to face off against besides the Russians. Really? Let's see. Who else has 27,000 nukes for us to worry about? It's the guy with one I'm worried about. Speaking of Russia, I have to send folks there to inspect a nuclear decommissioning facility. A place called Armazaz. Arzamas. Yeah. Someone from your staff should be on the trip. I'll go. Billy, send staff. I wanna go. OK. And don't underestimate Zorkin, pal. Between his economy, crime, Chechnya... His liver. What's left of it. How is he, by the way? He scheduled a press conference for this afternoon so at least we know he can sit up. 'Why not negotiate?' 'The interview is over.' '(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)' 'Chechnya is part of Russia.' (TV) "(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)" "It is criminals and their friends in the West who wish it separate." "But, Mr President. Mr President, if you would kindly come back, we do have a few more questions." You guys see what I see? His jacket. Yeah, he used to be able to button it all the way up. He's getting fat. I know how he feels. Oh, wow. Look at that. Maybe it's not the same jacket. He wore it the last time he got out of the hospital. He's definitely off the diet. He's also off the wagon. You hear how he slurred? That must be why Chelinski's around. Keep him off the sauce. Where's Chelinski? Next to... What's her name? The chick with the brown hair. Elena Rishkov. No, that is not Chelinski. Bzz! Busted. It's Chelinski. No, you're thinking Cherpitski. No. Ain't him either. I know. It's Chelinski. No, it's not. He's next to Elena Rishkov. He was banging her at the Geneva summit. Chelinski was not at Geneva. Cherpitski was at Geneva. What? Cherpitski was banging Elena? I'm just saying Zorkin's putting on weight. I don't know why you guys reduce everything to sex. Write it up. And if he is putting on weight, that might have health consequences. Get it in the afternoon brief. Find out who is banging Elena Rishkov. This is good. So what shall we make of Chechnya asking the West for protection? She is like a beautiful virgin, escaping the clutches of a lecherous bear... and running to Bill Clinton to save her maidenhood. A poet once wrote, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." He could have been writing of us, of Europe, in the 21st century. Over 50 years of America and Russia imposing their will on the European Community, East and West, and we're still treated like children. But without the toys or the good-night chocolates. Each day we lose a little bit more of our separate sovereign ability to determine our own futures and each day the world comes just a bit closer to that terrible moment when the beating of a butterfly's wings unleashes a hurricane... God himself cannot stop. (SHOVEL CLANGS) (SPEAKS ARABIC) '(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)' (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) (PAGER BUZZES) Is that yours or mine? Hmm? Oh, must be yours. Mine's just for show. Mm, it's not the hospital. Good. Hello. Hi. You're still here. Well, I think to be accurate and everything, it's actually you who's still here. Mmm. Oh. Right. Yeah. Not that I'm complaining. Mmm. Jack? Mmm-hmm? I know this is new and all, but... I have something to say or I'll explode. It's just I don't want you to be scared. What? You're in love with me. Um... I'm a medical professional. I can read the symptoms. You're definitely in love with me. And that scares you? Not even a little. But I think it scares you. No, not even a little. And for the record, you're the one who brought it up. (PAGER BUZZES) Oh, forget it. Don't worry about it. I have to get it. No, wait. It'll stop. I don't know who this is. Just go about your business. Timing sucks. Do what you have to do. I understand. Yes, this is Dr Muller. No - Muller. You paged me? Oh. Hello? Ha! Stop! Yes, this is Jack Ryan. Jesus. OK, I'll be there in half an hour. I gotta go. I have an emergency at work. I have to run. I'm sorry. Cathy! Yeah? How about dinner tonight? Yeah. How about tomorrow night? Jack, I said yes to tonight. I know. What kind of emergency does a historian have? He died at 0420 Zulu. They swore in a new president. Everybody wants to know who this guy is. Who is he? Alexander Nemerov. You're kidding me! I wrote a paper about him a year ago! I know. I said he could be the next guy. I know. I predicted this. I know. Nobody read it. They're reading it now. Who? Cabot. I've been here 14 months. I don't think he knows... Are you Ryan? Yes, sir. What is this? The Paper Chase? Sir, my... Well, come on. We're late. You're about to breathe air that's way over your pay grade so listen. You'll be asked for analysis. Know what you're talking about before you give it. Don't be afraid to say you don't know. Choose your words. Words have a habit of being turned into policy. Hey, you! Give me your coat. Come on, come on. You'll get it back. Tie. So, um, Intelligence Committee? Mmm-hmm. I've watched these on C-SPAN. Never actually been to one. You never watched one of these on C-SPAN. Our most important assessment comes from a source inside the Kremlin. In his opinion, Nemerov does not owe his ascension to the military. Everyone has opinions, Mr Cabot. I respect that. This morning my wife woke up and said I was old, bald and ugly. Is that a question, Mr Chairman? I told her appearances aren't everything. Would you agree? I certainly would, sir. Now this, um, new fellow, Nezmeroz - is that his name? Nemerov, sir. Mmm-hmm. Despite what your source says, we hear that Nezmeroz is a hardliner. Is he a hardliner? (WHISPERS) No. It's a bit too soon to make that assessment, sir. According to CNN, your Mr Nezmeroz is making promises to rebuild the Russian empire. That sounds pretty rash from where I sit. If I were in Chechnya, I'd be even more worried. Sir, Nemerov's just saying that to get the hardliners off his back. If we leave him alone, Russia will stabilise. When I asked for your advice, I didn't mean you should speak. Yes, sir. Mr Cabot? Mr Chairman, some of our assets in the Russian government who know Mr Nemerov have not had a chance to report in. But I do maintain my opinion that appearances can be deceiving. I don't think you're ugly. I was out of line there. I apologise. Senators don't like to be surprised. I give them a hint of what I'm going to tell them, then give them a while to get used to it. Then I tell them. I understand. Good. But I'm right about Nemerov. Your girlfriend like this stubborn streak in you? What? Cathy Muller. Second-year surgical resident, Baltimore Memorial Hospital. Welcome to the CIA, sport. Well,... your intelligence is a little flawed in this matter. I wouldn't call her my girlfriend. Yet. What exactly would you call her? Great, amazing. She's just afraid to commit. He's terrified of commitment. Afraid of commitment after three dates? Alert the media. I know. I know. So what does he do? He was in the Marines before he hurt his back. Now he's a historian. Yawn. No, works for a think-tank across the river. Double yawn. Alright, Rita. Let's see what you have to say after you meet him tonight. He's, um,... (CLEARS THROAT) ...cute? I have fat fingers. Cathy! Cute scale, one to ten. Oh, God. I don't know. Twelve. Ask them where they found this. (SPEAKS ARABIC) (SPEAKS ARABIC) In the field. In the Golan. There was quite a lot of fighting there in 1973. Did they witness it? (SPEAKS ARABIC) (SPEAKS ARABIC) This one says he lost his son. Does he remember? Was there a plane shot down? (SPEAKS ARABIC) (SPEAKS ARABIC) Yes, an Israeli jet. Destroyed. This is worthless. (SPEAKS ARABIC) But tell him... I will give him $400... because of his son. (SPEAKS ARABIC) Thank... Thank you. Thank you. (TV) "That's not something you find lying around." "Absolutely not." "How'd you come by it?" "I found her in an old mansion house in an old part of Glasgow." "Oh, right." "Your trip to the attic has got you a piece worth now... "the best part of �1,000 even in this condition." "Had she been in better condition, even more. A jolly nice find." "Can you tell me how this beautiful lady ended up with a broken nose?" "No, I'm afraid I can't tell you why." "This obviously happened before I found her." "You found her?" "I found her, yes. She was very, very dirty." "Uh-huh." "She was in a pile of rubble. She looked like stone." "I thought I'd found a garden ornament." Hello? Cathy! Hi, I'm running a little late. I'm sorry. Can you come half an hour later? Um, I can't make it. I'm really sorry. Oh. "It was a last-minute work thing." What's that noise? I'm calling from a plane. This just came up. I tried to call you - Where are you going? I can't tell you that. Jack. You can't tell me? Jack? Hold on one second. Yes, sir? What are you doing? Oh, I had a date tonight so I had to call and cancel. Tell her where you're going. In fact, tell her who you work for. She'll be impressed. OK, um, I work for the CIA and the director asked me at the last minute to come with him to Russia to do a nuclear arms inspection. Hello? That is so lame. "Cathy, I swear!" We make sure they're decommissioning their nuclear arsenal. (PHONE BEEPS) Hello? Hello? Thanks. Thanks a lot. (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) William Cabot. President Nemerov. A pleasure, sir. May I present Mrs Lathrop? Mr President. (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) General Rand. Mr President. And Dr Ryan. Mr President. Ah. (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) You must be the Dr Ryan who has done interesting research on me. (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) You should not be surprised by this. We know quite a bit. (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) We know how wrong you were in your report that I had many girlfriends in college. (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) I was referring to the first two years. Sir. I like him. Well, in that case, so do I. Let me apologise for interjecting myself in your inspection tour, but there is a message I wish you to take back to President Fowler. You could call him on the phone. I would like him to hear it from you, his friend of many years, who received it personally from me, saw my expression and the language of my body as I spoke it. I understand. Chechnya is an internal affair. What we do there is none of your concern. I'll relay the message, but I don't think he'll agree. There are those in my country who will use this issue to weaken me. There are those in my country who say your war in Chechnya is exactly your weakness. Chechnya is a nation of criminals. Every day brings another attack on innocent Russian citizens. It is none of your concern. Stability is our concern. Peace in Chechnya is our concern... and if I may speak frankly, your control over your military concerns us, too. For you to get involved here, it's... like sleeping with another man's wife. And what you are suggesting is that afterward, we can all live together under the same roof. But what really happens is... the betrayed husband buys a gun. That went well. Who's the guy with Nemerov? Anatoli Grushkov. Old KGB? Plays all sides and nobody's had the guts to get rid of him. Because he knows where the bodies are buried? He probably buried them. And we were able to obtain a roster of their scientists at Arzamas. Who's who, what their expertise is. Arzamas-16 is home to the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics, and the birthplace of our first atomic bomb. Many of our greatest scientists worked here, and many still do. Since 1995, we have dismantled over 10,000 nuclear devices... We tried so hard to get in here over the years. I sent three people. They all died trying. What's the T-shirt say? "I am a bomb technician." "If you see me running,... try to catch up." OK. Sir? I'm sorry. Just one quick thing. I'm sure it's nothing. According to this, there are 17 senior scientists on duty today. I only count 14. Doctors... Milinov, Orlov and Spassky. They don't seem to be here. I will make enquiries. Dr Milinov is off sick, Orlov is on vacation. Spassky, I am grieved to say, was killed... driving his car to work just this past week. We move on, shall we? Please. Very impressive. You almost seem to have that information memorised. I assumed you would ask, Dr Ryan. We touch down at Andrews at 2130. Tell him to meet me there. Sir, those three missing scientists? Milinov's expertise is detonators. Spassky's expertise is the package, the nuclear core, and Orlov is a mathematician, whose expertise is the geometry of high explosives in a fission bomb. The exact three men you'd need if you wanted build a bomb. Grushkov would have us believe - He's a liar. Milinov is not sick, Orlov hasn't taken a vacation in years, and Spassky, who was supposed to have died driving, doesn't drive. They have no idea where these guys are. I'm dying to ask how you know that. Secure source inside the Kremlin. Codename Spinnaker. He gives me stuff, I give him stuff. We keep the back channels open in hopes of staving off disaster. Speaking of disaster, did you call your girlfriend yet? No. I haven't figured out how to dig myself out of this one. Alright. Invite her to the White House Correspondents' Dinner Sunday night. Hottest ticket in town. She'll love it. Sounds great. How do I get in? Trust me. m I'll see you at the car. Still loving your desk job? Yeah, I am. How's your Russian? It still works. Why? Three Russian nuclear scientists are missing. I need to know where they are. I thought I wasn't doing this any more. I just need information, John. Your orders are on the plane. Wheels up at 2330. Have a nice flight. Sunday, eight o'clock at the Hilton. The tickets are under the name of John Clark. You do have a tux? Yeah. Yes, sir. 'My beautiful wife, Julie,' is from New Jersey. 15 electoral votes. (ALL LAUGH) And is, as you know, half Jewish, so we'll take Florida's 25 electoral votes and divide by two. (ALL LAUGH) This is a nice hotel. Yeah, it's beautiful. My friend Rita stayed here once. She said it was... really nice. Virginia, 13 electoral votes. Maybe after dinner we can, um,... I don't know, we can get a room here. I already did. She reminds me that I have publicly acknowledged... No, you didn't. Yes, I did. I did, on a handful of occasions, smoke marijuana. (CROWD MURMURS) California, 54 electoral votes. (ALL LAUGH) (PAGERS / MOBILES BEEP) Ryan. At 0600 Moscow time, the Russians launched a massive artillery strike against Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. The shells contained a chemical weapon, a binary nerve agent. Saturation, you can see it on those photos, took 20 minutes. After which, every man, woman and child inside a radius of 12 miles was rendered helpless by symptoms approximating acute cerebral palsy. Oh, my God. How many dead? Best guess, 80 percent. Nemerov launched the most massive attack in chemical warfare history. Let's talk response. The worst thing we could do is nothing. I agree. If we let him get away with chemical weapons, what's next? Nuclear? Short of gassing the Kremlin, what's the strongest response we can make? Send in peacekeepers. Chechnya's not sovereign. They request recognition. So we recognise them. Not full diplomatic recognition. Provisional. The Chechens request international assistance and we send peacekeepers. How do they get in? The fastest way would be to fly them from Turkey. Over Armenian airspace? To screw Russia? They won't complain. Let's do it. Nemerov can choke on it. Bill? Dr Ryan? Yes, sir? What do you think? Mr President, conventional wisdom would suggest that Nemerov is playing the traditional Russian role. Be aggressive, dare the world to stop you. But Nemerov isn't conventional. He walks like a hardliner, talks like one. I don't think he is one. He gassed the capital of another country. With respect, you're wrong. What are we wasting time for? What if he didn't order the attack? (ALL TALK) What if Nemerov didn't order the attack? What if it was a... a... rogue general? Or a splinter military unit, frustrated they couldn't get the rebels out? Have you any reason to believe he didn't order it? (You don't know.) I don't think he did it, sir. I would bet he didn't do it. If I could ask senior staff to remain behind for a few minutes. "(TV CHATTER)" "We're going back to Moscow where Russia's newly installed president, Alexander Nemerov, has just begun to address the state. We join him in progress." "(APPLAUSE)" "(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)" "For ten years now, we have..." Excuse me, sir. Would you mind turning that up just a little? "...toward innocent Russian citizens." "(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)" "Finally,..." "(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)" "...every nation has a right to defend itself." "(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)" "This terrorism must end." "(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)" "The bombing of Chechnya... was my decision." "(APPLAUSE)" Nice going, ace. How's our Russian friend affected by this? I am not affected. I remain devoted to our little plan. At what you're charging us, I am not surprised. And the American? Mr Mason is a believer. I put a little extra in the escrow account for him. Why? He won't live long enough to receive it. Where is the package? It left Haifa a week ago. I'm told these things can kill you. Je vous prie de m'excuser. But... so much has changed. Perhaps the new situation suggests we consider... a different approach? Maybe try to bring Russia more into Europe, more into our way of thinking. We have discussed that, Monsieur Monceau, and with your concurrence, rejected it. Perhaps we were hasty. Perhaps our plan is... Is what? Well,... not perfectly conceived. (SPEAKS GERMAN) Well, I respect the will and judgement of my friends. But in light of the week's events, I am growing... uncomfortable with this plan. So I must... beg your leave. Gentlemen. Herr Haft will help you out. Your scarf, monsieur. Ugh! Eeh! Eeh! Yo, what's up, Mason? I always wanted to ask you... where'd you get that tat, man? The Navy. The Navy? I was in the Navy. Hospital ship, six years. You? (RADIO CHATTER) Eight months. Oh, you wash out? (RADIO) "Word is that the Russians perpetrated..." Alright, brother. You have a good one. Yeah, brother. (RADIO) "We saw what they were like in World War Two." (RADIO) "The rest of the world is watching." "They'll take the cue from us." (TV) "The unprecedented attack on Chechnya "signals a dangerous and troubling shift in Russian policy." "It demands the toughest and most unambiguous response from the West." "Accordingly, NATO forces are on their way to Chechnya "to serve as peacekeepers and to provide needed humanitarian relief "for the victims of this monstrous..." These are four hours old. Russian 12th, 15th and 2nd Tank Regiments. They haven't moved. Why? Nemerov's too smart to move them. He speaks! Jack, look, Nemerov's got, like, what? 19,000 tanks? No way NATO can match that. That's why he's not gonna move them. He knows the only way we can stop him is using tactical nuclear weapons. And there's no way he wants to risk a nuclear war over this? I also think he's sending us a message. He didn't bomb Grozny. NSA was able to collect records of calls made and traced it back to here. It's an abandoned Soviet army base outside Cherkassy on the Kremenchug Reservoir. What are three Russian atomic scientists doing in Ukraine? Um, fair guess? They're building a bomb. Nemerov has thousands of bombs. Why does he need to build a secret one? Deniability. Build one nobody knows about, he could drive it to Chechnya in the trunk of his Beemer. No way to track it, no way to trace it. He could set it off and sit back and say, "I didn't do it." With all due respect, sir, I don't think that adds up. It adds up. You just don't like what it adds up to. "The explosive blocks must be replaced." "Machined to a thousandth of a millimetre "in a mathematically determined configuration." "Do we have a bomb?" "First, we must analyse the yield." "Spassky,... "do we have a bomb?" "Yes." "Yes, we do." (PHONE RINGS) This is a... a test. Yeah. (PHONE RINGS) Answer it. No. Answer it. Are you sure? Yeah. Hello? Yes. # Anything # Anything at all # If we can walk # Yes, sir. # We will see the light # I have to go outside for just a second. OK? I'll be right back. I'll be right... back. Just one second. # All those hurtful words # Sir, I write reports. I reviewed your military records, Jack. You can take care of yourself. Yes, sir, but I'm not trained for that. I'm not asking you to be an ops officer, just my eyes and ears. I can't go. So,... this isn't sanctioned. Give this to Clark, see what he finds out, bring it home. Yes, sir. Jack? We never had this discussion. What discussion? I am the master of the way. I am the master of the way. ALL CHATTER, LAUGH Hey! Over here, mate. (LAUGHS) ALL CHATTER, LAUGH Hey! Over here, mate. (LAUGHS) Thank you so much. See ya! Hey, thanks for driving tonight. Hey! Over here, mate. (LAUGHS) Thank you so much. See ya! Hey, thanks for driving tonight. You owe me. Thank you so much. See ya! Hey, thanks for driving tonight. You owe me. (LAUGHS) Fair enough. Kate was giving me the eye as well. What?! Kate was giving me the eye as well. What?! She was. No. She was. No. BOTH LAUGH What's that? BOTH LAUGH What's that? Oh crap. Don't worry about it. You're well under. Oh crap. Don't worry about it. You're well under. Yeah, but it's a lower limit now. Good evening. Any alcohol tonight? You're well under. Yeah, but it's a lower limit now. Good evening. Any alcohol tonight? Uh, just a couple... with dinner. Yeah, but it's a lower limit now. Good evening. Any alcohol tonight? Uh, just a couple... with dinner. Yeah. She's fine, eh. Stop. That's over 250 micrograms. I now require you to accompany me to the booze bus... Oh stink. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you do say... It's a failed result, ma'am. ...may be given in evidence in court. You could ring a taxi and pick your car up in the morning. Let's call your mum and dad. They're, like, 10 minutes away. your car up in the morning. Let's call your mum and dad. They're, like, 10 minutes away. We're not calling my parents. Let's call your mum and dad. CHILDREN ARGUE We're not calling my parents. Let's call your mum and dad. CHILDREN ARGUE Please. Behave yourselves. No. In the car. INDISTINCT RT CHATTER OK, Clark? This is three days ago. It shows vehicles here, guards here and here. I gotta get one of those. The infrared satellite was in position 34 hours ago and took this photograph that shows guards here, here. I don't even have e-mail. There are two more at the checkpoint, between two and five in the barracks, and two with the package, which we believe to be right here. No problem. Give me a couple guys, tranquilliser darts, we can be out in six minutes. Actually, there is a problem. What's that? This is yesterday. No guards visible at all. And why is that a problem, Mr Ryan? For two reasons. Either we can't see them, which is bad. Or worse, they left and we're too late. Suit up. What? You can't go dressed like that. No, no, no. I'm an analyst. I don't go on the, you know, missions. Relax, 007! It's not a mission. It's just a recce. Whatever you call it, I don't do it. I just write reports. OK. So write a report about it. Suit up. Clark, no! Clark? No. Cabot tells me you got my tickets to the Correspondents' Dinner. Have a good time? I've never been to one of those. I was actually kinda looking forward to it. Clark. What? No. I'm not going in there. Goddamn right you're not. Stay here and make sure no-one steals my boat. Be right back. (GLASS CRUNCHES) (TRUCK BRAKES SQUEAK) Shit... (SPEAK UKRAINIAN) Damn... (SPEAK UKRAINIAN) (DOGS GROWL) (SPEAK UKRAINIAN) Oh, Jesus... (SPEAKS UKRAINIAN) Oh, God. Immigration didn't call you guys, huh? (SPEAKS UKRAINIAN) You speak English? I don't speak much Ukrainian. (SPEAKS UKRAINIAN) I know this doesn't look good, but it's not what you think. I'm American. I have my papers - (BOTH SHOUT) OK, no papers. (SHOUTS) Please, just put the gun down. Alright? (SPEAK UKRAINIAN) The light? (SPEAK UKRAINIAN) Put the light down? (SPEAK UKRAINIAN) OK, OK, take it easy. I'll put the light down. (SPEAK UKRAINIAN) Here we go. I'm putting it down. (SPEAK UKRAINIAN) (SPEAKS UKRAINIAN) Shoot him, Ryan. (SPEAKS UKRAINIAN) Shoot him. (SPEAKS UKRAINIAN) (SPEAKS UKRAINIAN) (ALL SHOUT) Shoot him before he figures out what I'm saying. (SPEAKS UKRAINIAN) (SPEAKS UKRAINIAN) (SPEAKS UKRAINIAN) Get their shoes. What? Tell them to take their shoes off. (SPEAKS UKRAINIAN) (SPEAKS UKRAINIAN) You speak Ukrainian? Yeah. You don't? Whatever it is they were spraypainting, it was big. About the size of a fridge. The imprint it left was deep. We know three things. It was heavy, something was radioactive and now it's gone. You said one of them spoke English? South African. So the question is... What's a South African doing in the Ukraine with three Russian scientists and a crate from Israel? Tell Cabot I'll call from Haifa. I've a feeling you'd better hurry. Most people believe the 20th century was defined by the death struggle of communism versus capitalism, Today we know better. Communism was a fool's errand. The followers of Marx, gone from this earth. But the followers of Hitler abound and thrive. 'Hitler, however, had one great disadvantage.' 'He lived in a time when fascism, like a virus, like the AIDS virus, 'needed a strong host in order to spread.' Germany was that host. But strong as it was, Germany could not prevail. 'The world was too big.' 'Fortunately, the world has changed.' 'Global communications, cable TV, the Internet.' 'Today, the world is smaller.' 'And the virus does not need a strong host in order to spread.' This virus... is airborne. 'One more thing. Let no man call us crazy.' 'They called Hitler crazy, but Hitler wasn't crazy.' 'He was stupid. You don't fight Russia and America.' You get Russia and America to fight each other. And destroy each other. What did you find? I pulled up every shipping manifest for two weeks. The only crate the size of that imprint was picked up at Kiev International ten days ago and flown to the Canaries. I can't find Cabot. The Air Force has a nuclear assessment team - Jack! It got put on a cargo freighter headed for the East Coast. What? "Baltimore, Jack. It's coming here." (DRUM MUSIC) (PA) "Another view from the blimp as we count down to game time." "number one football fan, in just a moment." # Then conquer we must # For our cause it is just # And this be our motto # In God is our trust # And the Star-Spangled Banner # Forever shall wave # For the land of the free # Alright, get me the duty officer, then! # And the home of the brave # (CROWD CHEERS) (PA) "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Robert Fowler." (AUDIENCE CHEERS / BOOS) Show time. "(PHONE BEEPS)" Shit! Hut! (WHISTLE BLOWS) (PA) "15-yard penalty." "First down." That's the way! (PHONE BEEPS) Shit. Yeah! Yeah! (PHONE BEEPS) (PHONE BEEPS) Yeah! Hello? Hello? Sir! Hello? Sir! Shit! (AUDIENCE CHEERS / DRUM MUSIC) (PHONE RINGS) Yeah, Cabot. It's Ryan. (AUDIENCE CHEERS / APPLAUDS) What? What?! The bomb is in play! Dillon's called the AFRAT team. They're meeting me at the docks in 20 minutes to see if we can find it! Docks? Baltimore. You're breaking up! What did you say? Baltimore! Look, I'm losing you. I'll call you back from - Baltimore! "Sir?!" John! Reggie! Let's go, let's go! Excuse me! Excuse me! Come on, move it! Let's go! Move out! Move! Move! Move! Move! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Move! Move! Move! (SHOUT) Go! What the hell is going on?! Sir, stay down! The Russians have been working on a bomb. It's arrived in Baltimore. Get those people out of the stadium! Stay down! (TV) "The President has been taken." Hey, Cathy. 407. Thanks, JJ. (TV) "We have no..." (ALARMS BLARE) (TV) "Clearly something has happened of tremendous proportions." "We have no word or confirmation, but there is an enormous cloud..." Go! Go! Go! Go! Move! Over there! Mr President! Mr President! Are you alright? He's stuck! He's stuck! Get out of the way! Mr President! Are you alright? Are you alright, Mr President? This is the marines! We'll take you home. Alvarez! Get me a stretcher! Now! You got the stretcher? You got that stretcher? No, I don't want one. OK. Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Move it! Move it! Move it! Move it! Go! Go! Close the master! We got him! (KNOCK AT DOOR) (RADIO WHISTLES / WHINES) (RADIO CHATTER) Hey, it's Ryan. Jack, where are you? I don't know. Somewhere outside Baltimore. Cabot got the President out. Where is he? They're taking him airborne. He's on NAOC. Why? They think it might be the Russians. It wasn't the Russians. I gotta talk to Cabot. Can you patch me through? He's not on the plane. Can you call back in about an hour? We don't have an hour! Fowler'll show how tough he is. He'll hit back now! We have to prove that it wasn't the Russians before he's convinced it is. (RADIO) "Can you get to Langley?" There's no time. There must be a command post on site. The radiation team. Where are they? "South of the city." "Jack, the prevailing winds are blowing the fallout east and north." "Stay south, you're OK." Mr President, are you alright? How the hell do you think I am? How many casualties? We don't know. Cabot said it was Russian. How did it get in? We don't know. Radar didn't pick it up. It wasn't a missile. How's Cabot? Where is he? I don't know. Well, what do you know?! I don't know, alright?! Alright. I don't know, for Christ's sake! General, Prozain and Kondor aren't on board. Leave without them. Get this bird in the air. I recommend that we move to DefCon 2. Where's our intelligence? Russian defences are high. Maybe they're afraid of attack and I can't get this goddamn chair open! We'll take off. We don't know who did it. We think the Russians are at alert. You think? DefCon 2? We're in the dark. It's a little - This is too much goddamn bullshit! Not enough fact. (TV) "The blast crater is about 100, maybe 150, yards wide, which suggests a low-yield device, "smaller than, say, the Hiroshima bomb." "Maybe a quarter of a square mile around the stadium is just... just gone." "Beyond that, buildings are heavily damaged for a quarter of a mile, "then the damage appears to taper off." (PHONE RINGS) Dubinin. "Herr Haft has left for America and now we are counting on you." I assure you, I will earn every pfennig. Ash isn't radioactive. Winds are blowing the fallout to sea. Captain. Jack Ryan. CIA. Lorna Shiro. You need to wait outside with everybody else. I need to know everything you know about the bomb. Look, pal, we have to analyse the debris. So get in line. We'll have a report tomorrow. I don't have time for this. I need to know where this bomb came from. I'll settle for where it didn't come from, but I need to know now or there may not be a tomorrow. Shit. Wesson, where are you? This way? A quarter mile from ground zero. This is about as far as we go. Our feet are sizzling. I'm getting rads at nearly the limit of our gear. (RADIO) "OK." "Cut the rover loose and get out." Roger that. The crate the bomb was shipped in - somebody had to sign for it. 'Customs must have a database. Get me a name. And where's Cabot?' (PHONE) "We're checking hospitals." Have you tried Memorial? "He wouldn't be there." No, I mean, um, is it still...? It's Cathy's hospital. "As far as I know, it's still there." Can you keep checking? Thanks. 'They could have launched a cruise missile.' Sats may not have picked it up. We don't know it's Russia. We don't know it's not. If they were sending us a message, the point would be for us to know it was them. Except they could inspire the kind of confusion we're going through. Mr President, we're uplinked. President Nemerov, a short time ago there was a major nuclear event on the Eastern seaboard of the US. Loss of life is severe. It was no accident. It was not an accident. We don't yet know where it came from. We don't... We have not yet ascertained the source of this weapon. Rest assured... Whoa, that was a little fast. "Please accept the deepest sympathies of the Russian people." "This is a crime without precedent. What madman would do such a thing?" "You must believe Russia had nothing to do with this infamous act." It's canned. They prepared that in advance. President Nemerov, we have no reason to suspect Russian involvement. At this time. TAO. EW. I'm picking up intermittent radar bearing 020. Where? Now it's gone. (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) There! It's a weak signal! Low on the horizon. Inbound contact! Multiples on the same bearing! Vampire! Fast movers inbound! I got seven, eight, nine of them. (SIRENS BLARE) But the missiles came from Russian aircraft! Donelle can save the ship but flight ops are out. (PA) "(SPEAKS RUSSIAN)" Until we investigate all possibilities. Like in Chechnya? Mr President, who is in control of your armed forces? "...lecture me on Chechnya." Mr President,... we are now at a de facto state of war with the Russians. John Clark was in Haifa yesterday. He may have something. We have to find him. Check out that gadolinium reading. Yeah, the mass fraction is huge. OK, connect me to Dillon, will you? I'll hold. There it is. Savannah River. Oh, yeah. What? They always had that gadolinium problem. Hanford does it another way. They always generate too much promethium. Hold on a second. Can you translate that into English? This plutonium came from the DOE plant at Savannah River. February of '68 from K Reactor. You can even tell which part of K Reactor. This is our plutonium? Made in the USA. Dillon. You gotta find Cabot for me... Are you advocating we launch a first strike? It is not a first strike! There's already been a first strike! And a second! Don't you get it? No! I don't understand why we have to nuke them! It's not reasonable! Sidney, goddamn it! They practically sank an aircraft carrier! The missile silos are hot! We're getting bullshit from Nemerov. Let's not forget how this started. They tried to kill me! Remember? So don't fucking tell me to be reasonable! (SPEAKER) "The triage tent is on the side of the building." Sir? Sir. Hey. President...? What? President? The President's fine. He's fine. Sir, the bomb. The plutonium. (MUTTERS) What? My... wife... Your wife. I'm sure she's fine. She's in DC. The blast radius wasn't that... It wasn't that wide. Here. Sir, now listen to me. The plutonium... was ours. John Clark's in Haifa right now, trying to track down the arms dealer. I can't get a hold of him. And I don't know what to do. G-Girl... Girl... Girlfriend? She, um,... she works in Baltimore, so... I don't know. Sp... Spinnaker. What? Spinnaker... Sir? Bill? Jack, just got in. We found the receiver address for the crate. OK. "Port of Baltimore. Can you get to the docks?" Yeah. Find the Trans Con Warehouse. The name on the manifest is Mason. Sorry, I need this truck. (ENGINE STALLS) Come on! (ENGINE STALLS) "(BEEPING)" Shit! (ENGINE STALLS) Come on! "(BEEPING)" Sir, we've come up with another alternative. Go counterforce. An attack on the Russian air base where the carrier attack originated. It's what we're looking for. A measured response. Non-nuclear. Is it strong enough? Smart bombs and F-16s. Pretty goddamn strong. Can't afford for them to see us as weak. They've gotta know we have the guts to... take it to the next level. I think they'll get that message. Hit them. (RADIO) "Eagles Nest. This is Eagle One. We have target acquired." "Target is lit. Goodbye." Everyone, can I have your attention, please? The generator has gone out. I don't want anyone to move. There's too much broken glass. Stay where you are. Good. OK, fine. Stay where you are. We're going to get you one by one. Sir, can you hear me? Can you feel your arms and legs? A nine percent IV morphine drip. OK? Sir, we'll take care of you. What have you got? What do we do with the ones we know won't make it? Whatever we can. I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry. This can't be happening. Sir, you have a call from Langley. Thank you. Becker. "This is Jack Ryan from the Russia desk." Uh-huh. Great(!) Sir, this bomb was not Nemerov. I know this guy. That's what you said after Grozny, Mr Ryan. "The plutonium came from`" Seems unusual to find radiation poisoning all the way out here. I have never myself seen such a thing. That is why we published the case on the Internet. To seek help. How did he say it happened? He will not talk about it. Was anyone else exposed to the materials that made you sick? Mr Ghazi,... I'm not the police. I'm a physician. I assure you that anything you say stays between us. My friend... and I find bomb. We sell... to a man who buys such things. Was it this man? Other people may have come in contact with that bomb. I am... going to die, yes? Yes. His name... is Olson. He live in Damascus. (OPERA MUSIC) Oh, yeah, we're getting it all. Mr President, we need you to initiate Snapcount. What happens then? We prepare to take out their missiles with a nuclear strike, find and kill their subs, knock out any planes they have on the ground and mobilise our fighters to destroy the ones they already have in the air. What are our chances? David? Odds are... we leave Nemerov in a pretty pickle. He'll be left with, at best, a few hundred nukes. The ones we can't find. Mostly the, um, smaller, more mobile, less accurate kind. All he can do is target our cities. He knows to an absolute certainty we'll respond against his cities. I spent my entire adult life wanting to be President. This is my presidency. Sir, I believe he'll keep his 300 nukes. It's still a credible deterrent. I think he'll push back from the table and call it a night. I'm giving the order of a Snapcount. Maximum readiness. (ALARM BLARES) Jack, we're in Olson's files. He shows wire payments of $45 million from someone named Dressler. Dillon, go run Dressler. Find out who he is. I want you out of there. "I'm at the docks." See if the name Dressler's anywhere. No! Get out of there. Call Baltimore PD. Jack, wait for the cops. I'll call you back. Argh! Ugh! Wait! Argh! Who's Dressler? Huh? Where is he, goddamn it?! Where... is Dressler? Police! Hands up! Where is Dressler? Where's Dressler? Are you Jack Ryan? Where's Dressler?! Let him go. Let him go! Where's Dressler?! Where is he?! Langley said you might need some help. I gotta get to the Pentagon. I think I can help you with that. Mr President, the Russians are scrambling their fighters. We are out of time. Ugh! Dave! He has a heart condition. Get a doctor! Mr President. I said get a doctor in here! Mr President! Take him to my quarters. Yes. Colonel, bring in the launch codes. (RADIO) "OK. Dressler's an Austrian manufacturer, billionaire." Father was executed at Nuremberg. He bought a seat in Parliament. "He got booted out for saying nice things about the Nazis." You gotta get me the President. I can't. "Come on!" They're in Snapcount! There's no way in! Bullshit! (MACHINE BEEPS) (BEEPS REPEATEDLY) I can do that, sir. No, that's fine. I got it. Got some dirt on the card. Can I see that? We're on high alert. I understand. Put the card down, please. Back off! I am ordering you - Hold on! Back off! Take a step back! Now! I am ordering you to step back immediately, sir! Put... General, there's a Dr Ryan from the CIA. He wants to enter NMCC. He's unescorted, sir. What's he want? You, sir. I have an urgent message from Director Cabot that I need to transmit over the hotline. What's your authorization? I don't have any. Where's Cabot? Cabot's dead, sir. I just need to get this information sent. Please. Not without authorisation. Get him out of here. Wait a minute! General! The President is basing his decisions on bad information. And if you shut me out, your family and my family and 25 million other families will be dead in 30 minutes! My orders are to get the right information to the people who make the decisions. I just need to send some information. What makes you think the President will even listen to you? He doesn't have to. You have a minute for the launch to process after giving the order. Before the order can be taken, an ID check must be performed. Mine is the, um... My number is, um... The third one down? The third number down from the top. Your order, sir? Strike. I'm sorry, sir? I give the order to strike. Under the two-man rule, the order to strike must now be confirmed. Bob, for the love of God. Just do it. Sidney Owens. Secretary of State. It's the fourth number down. The order to strike has been confirmed by the two-man rule. Strike order confirmed. Start the sequence. Activity on the hotline! They've had their chance. No! No! Somebody's talking to the Kremlin. As you can imagine,... there has been much confusion here. And fear. But we know the weapon was not Russian. "We know the weapon was not Russian. Not Russian." What is going on? (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) Who are we talking to? Ryan. I met you in Moscow with Bill Cabot. He died today in Baltimore. Cut him off. We can't. Launch sequence begun. Two months ago, a neo-fascist named Dressler bought an A-bomb on the black market. Cut him off! The system's set up so you can't! Get someone to stop him! He paid three disaffected Russian... "...scientists to make it active." "He shipped it to the US, where a man..." ...was hired to deliver the bomb, set our countries on a collision course. What are you asking of me? Back down. (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) What guarantee do I have that President Fowler will follow suit? None. (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) Sir, I know you. You had nothing to do with the Baltimore bomb, but you're still about to launch a nuclear strike against us. Yes, sir. It's about fear. That's all, Ryan. Our fear, your fear. Move away from the keyboard. Fear of being weak. Fear of the other guy who built these damn bombs in the first place! It's stopped. 30 seconds to launch. Oh, my God. Mr President! We'll maintain defensive alert for the moment, but our offensive forces are withdrawn. "If you match our move, I propose a phased stand-down over five hours." Stop the launch sequence. Lasseter here. Flash override. Stop the sequence! Order the planes to stand down. Take us to DefCon 3. And would somebody ask Mr Ryan if I can use the phone now? You're still here. (APPLAUSE) # "Nessun Dorma" - Puccini (CAR ALARM BLARES) (APPLAUSE) There's no more fitting memorial for those who perished in this tragedy than the steps taken this week toward a multinational campaign to root out and eliminate weapons of mass destruction. (APPLAUSE) We embark on this course because we have finally learned, at a cost, that if the most powerful weapons ever created are unleashed, they will be fired not in anger, but fear. Dr Ryan. Mr Grushkov. It is... a lovely day. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. This is - Dr Muller. How do you do? Nice to meet you. Why am I not surprised that you know her name? Our friend William thought I was a spy. Of course, he could never prove it. He never told me you were friends. Perhaps he didn't know you well enough. Cabot did tell me he had a source in Russia. To keep the back channels open? In hopes of staving off disaster. (TV) "President Kennedy said, 'Our most basic common link "'is that we all inhabit this small planet.'" "'We all breathe the same air.'" "'We all cherish our children's future.'" "'And we are all mortal.'" I will miss... so very much talking to William. Me too. Perhaps, from time to time, you and I can talk. Yeah, I'd like that. What is this? A modest gift... for your engagement. He just asked me this morning. We, um, we haven't told anybody about... How did you... How could you possibly know?