- You sure it's the Russians?
- 100%, sir.
Submarine launched 12 to 15 megatons.
They went to strike status 15 minutes prior
CINC-LANT reports he Roosevelt
splashed six incoming cruise missiles
The Russians are moving west through Polland
If they head for Germany, they got Berlin brigade
but they are outnumbered.
Sir, we've got a launch from Alyesk,
Central Russia.
What the hell is in Alyesk?
SS-18 ICBMs. Probable targets:
New York, Washington, here.
- How good is this ceiling?
- Anything but a direct hit.
Satellites confirm birds in the air,
first impact estimated 25 minutes.
- Is that accurate?
- It's accurate.
- Sir, I advise we go to DEFCON-1.
- Get President Zorkin on the hotline.
Zorkin is missing. We have reports
of a coup in Moscow.
General Bulgakov
is calling the shots now.
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.
It'll take a minute for the launch
to process after you give the order.
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.
- The order must be confirmed
- By someone on the approved list.
- Shit.
Gene Revell,
National Security Advisor.
Is it black tie? OK. I'm on my way.
Can we...
...finish this up some other time?
No.
We've got to update these fire drills,
Billy.
If the shit ever hits the fan,
I'm not going underground.
It's a goddamn tomb down there.
We have to choose someone else to
face off against besides the Russians.
Really? Let's see. Who else has
It's the guy with one I'm worried about.
I have to send some folks to Russia,
inspect their nuclear decommissioning
facility at Armazas.
- Arzamas.
- Yeah, whatever.
- Someone from your staff should go.
- I'll go.
- Billy, send staff.
- I want to go.
OK.
Don't underestimate Zorkin. Between
his economy, crime, Chechnya...
- His liver.
- What's left of it. How is he?
He's scheduled a press conference
for today, so we know he can sit up.
Chechnya is part of Russia.
Only criminals and their friends
in the West who wish it to be separate.
Mr President, if you will kindly
come back...
Do you guys see what I see?
- His jacket?
- He used to be able to button it up.
He's getting fat.
I know how he feels.
Oh, wow. Look at that.
Maybe it's not the same jacket.
Yeah, it has shiny sleeves. He wore it
the last time he got out of the hospital.
- He's off the diet.
- And off the wagon. He slurred...
That must be why Cherlinski is there,
to keep him off the sauce.
Where's Cherlinski?
Next to... What's her name?
The chick with the brown hair.
- Elena Rishkov.
- That is not Cherlinski.
Bzz! Busted. It's Cherlinski.
You're thinking Cherpitski. It ain't him.
- I know. It's Cherlinski.
- No, it's not. Trust me.
He's next to Elena Rishkov. He was
banging her at the Geneva summit.
Cherlinski was not at Geneva.
Cherpitski was.
Cherpitski was banging Elena Rishkov?
I just said Zorkin's putting on weight.
Why reduce it to sex? It's disgusting.
I agree. Write it up.
If he is putting on weight,
that might have health consequences,
so get it in the afternoon brief.
Oh, and somebody find out who is
banging Elena Rishkov. This is good.
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 21 st 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 goodnight 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
little bit closer to that terrible moment
when the beating of a butterfly's wings
unleashes a hurricane...
...God himself cannot stop.
Is that yours or mine?
It must be yours. Mine's just for show.
It's not the hospital.
- Hi.
- You're still here.
Well, I think to be accurate,
it's actually you who's still here.
Oh, right.
Not that I'm complaining.
Jack...
I know this is new and all, but...
...I have something I have to say
or I'm going to explode.
I don't want you to be scared.
What?
You're in love with me.
Jack, 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.
Forget it.
- I'm gonna get it.
- No way. It'll stop.
I don't know who this is.
- Just go about your business.
- The timing sucks.
Do what you have to do. I understand.
Yes, this is Dr Muller.
Muller. You paged me.
Hello.
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 go. I'm sorry.
Cathy, 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. 8/ hours
later, they swore in a new president.
- Who is he?
- Alexander Nemerov.
You're kidding. I wrote a paper
about him a year ago.
- I said he could be the next guy.
- I know.
- Nobody read it.
- They're reading it now.
- Who?
- Cabot.
I've been here 14 months.
He doesn't know what I look...
- Are you Ryan?
- Yes, sir.
What is this? "The Paper Chase"?
- Sir, my...
- 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 advice. Be sure
you know what you're talking about.
Don't be afraid to say you don't know.
Choose your words carefully.
They could become policy.
Hey, you. Give me your coat.
Come on, you'll get it back.
Tie.
So, intelligence committee?
I've watched these on C-SPAN.
Never actually been to one.
You've 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.
Now, this new fellow, Nezmeroz.
Is that his name?
Nemerov, sir.
Despite what your source says,
we hear that Nezmeroz is a hardliner.
Is he a hardliner?
No.
It's too soon to make that assessment.
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 sitting in Chechnya,
I'd be even more worried.
Sir, Nemerov only said 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 that you should actually speak.
Mr Cabot?
Some of our assets in the Russian
government who know Mr Nemerov
have not had a chance to report in.
I'd like to take a couple of days
and gather more information for you
before characterising him,
but I do maintain my opinion
that appearances can be deceiving.
You're saying I'm wrong?
Absolutely, Mr Chairman.
I don't think you're ugly.
- I was out of line. I apologise.
- Senators don't like to be surprised.
I hint at what I'm gonna tell them, then
I 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.
Your intelligence is a little flawed.
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.
A man who's 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. He works for a think tank
across the river.
Double yawn.
All right, Rita. Let's see what you have
to say after we meet him tonight.
He's...
...cute?
- I have fat fingers.
- Cathy! Cute scale, one to ten.
Oh, God. I don't know.
Twelve.
Ask them where they found this.
In the field, in the Golan.
There was a lot of fighting there
in 1973. Did they witness it?
This one says he lost his son.
Does he remember,
was there a plane shot down?
Yes, an Israeli jet, destroyed.
This is worthless.
But tell him I will give him $400...
because of his son.
Thank... thank you.
Thank you.
How did you come by it?
I found her in the attic of an old
mansion house in Glasgow.
Your little trip to the attic has got you
a piece worth now about 1,000,
even in this condition, and had she
been in better condition, even more.
A jolly nice find.
In fact, what I thought I'd found
was a garden ornament.
Hello, Cathy?
Hi. I'm glad you called. I'm running late.
Can you come a half an hour later?
I can't make it. I'm really sorry.
- It's 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. Yes, sir?
- What are you doing?
I had a date tonight, so I had to cancel.
Don't be stupid. Tell her where you're
going. Tell her who you work for.
She'll be impressed.
OK. I work for the CIA.
The director asked me to go with him to
Russia to do a nuclear arms inspection.
- Hello?
- That is so lame.
I swear, we get to inspect to make sure
they're decommissioning their arsenal.
Hello?
Hello?
Thanks. Thanks a lot.
Zdravstvuyte, William Cabot.
President Nemerov.
Pleasure, sir.
May I present Mrs Lathrop.
Mr President.
- General Rand.
- Mr President.
- Dr Ryan.
- Mr President.
You must be the Dr Ryan who's done
such interesting research on me.
You should not be surprised.
We know quite a bit.
We know how wrong your report was
that I had many girlfriends in college.
I met my wife in my third year and have
not looked at another woman since.
I was referring to
the first two years... sir.
I like him.
Well, in that case, so do I.
I apologise for interjecting myself
in your inspection tour,
but I have a message
for President Fowler.
You could just 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,
and saw my expression and the
language of my body as I spoke it.
I understand.
Chechnya is an internal affair.
What we do there should be
none of your concern.
I will relay the message,
but I don't think he will agree.
There're those in my country
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 cowardly
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
they 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?
He's been around since Brezhnev.
Nobody's had the guts to get rid of him.
Because he knows
where the bodies are buried?
He probably buried them himself.
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 is 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 does 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
I only count 14.
Doctors Milinov, Orlov and Spassky.
They don't seem to be here.
I will make inquiries.
Dr Milinov is out sick.
Orlov is on vacation.
Spassky, I'm 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 nuclear core.
Orlov is a mathematician
whose expertise is the geometry of
high explosives inside a fission bomb.
The exact three men you would need
if you wanted to build a bomb.
- Grushkov said...
- Grushkov's a liar.
Milinov is not sick.
Orlov hardly ever takes a vacation
and Spassky, who's supposed to have
died driving a car, doesn't drive.
They have no idea
where these guys are.
I'm dying to ask you how you know.
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.
And speaking of disaster,
did you call your girlfriend yet?
No. I don't know how to get out of this.
All right. Invite her to the White House
correspondents dinner Sunday night.
It's the hottest ticket in town.
- Sounds great. How do I get in?
- Trust me.
I'll see you at the car.
Still loving your desk job?
Yeah, I am.
How's your Russian?
Still works. Why?
Three Russian nuclear scientists are
missing. I need to know where they are.
I wasn't doing this any more.
I just need information this time,
Johnny.
Your orders are on the plane.
Wheels up at 2330. Have a nice flight.
Sunday night, 8.00, at the Hilton. The
tickets are in the name of John Clark.
- You do have a tux?
- Yeah, yes, sir.
My beautiful wife, Julie, is from
New Jersey. 15 electoral votes.
And is, as you know, half-Jewish,
so we'll take Florida's
- This is a nice hotel.
- Yeah. Beautiful.
My friend Rita stayed here once.
She said it was... nice.
Maybe after dinner we can...
...we can get a room here.
I already did.
- You didn't.
- Yes, I did.
...I did, on a handful of occasions,
smoke marijuana.
California, 54 electoral votes.
At 0600 Moscow time, the Russians
launched a massive artillery strike
against Grozny,
the capital of Chechnya.
The shells contained an experimental
chemical weapon, a nerve agent.
Saturation, you can see
on the sat photos, took 20 minutes,
after which every person
inside a radius of 12 miles
was rendered helpless by symptoms
approximating late-stage cerebral palsy.
- Oh, my God.
- How many dead?
Best guess, 80%.
Nemerov launched the biggest attack
in the history of chemical warfare.
- Let's talk response.
- The worst thing we can do is nothing.
If he gets away with chemical weapons,
what's next? Biological, nuclear?
OK. Short of gassing the Kremlin,
what's the strongest response?
- We send in peacekeepers.
- Chechnya's not sovereign.
Look, they requested recognition, so we
recognise them. Not full diplomatic, provisional.
Then the Chechens request assistance
and we send in peacekeepers.
- How do you get them in there?
- We fly them in from Turkey.
- Over Armenian air space?
- 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?
Conventional wisdom suggests
that Nemerov is playing
the traditional Russian role:
be aggressive, flex your muscles,
dare the world to stop you.
- But Nemerov isn't conventional.
- He walks like a hardliner, he talks like a hardliner
Yes. With all due respect,
I don't think he is one.
He just gassed the capital of another
country. With respect, you're wrong.
- So what are we wasting our time for?
- What if he didn't order the attack?
What if Nemerov
didn't order the attack?
What if it was a... a rogue general?
Or a military unit frustrated they
couldn't get the rebels out of the city?
Have you reason to believe he didn't
order it, or are you just floating this?
You don't know.
I don't think he did it, sir.
I would bet he didn't do it.
Will senior staff remain behind
for a few minutes, please?
Russia's newly-installed president,
Alexander Nemerov,
has just begun to address the state.
We join him in progress.
For ten years now,
we have contended...
Excuse me. Could you turn that up?
...toward innocent Russian citizens.
Finally...
...every nation has a right
to defend itself.
This terrorism must end.
The bombing of Chechnya...
was my decision.
Nice going, ace.
How is 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 get it.
- Where is the package?
- It left Haifa a week ago.
I'm told these things can kill you.
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.
Oh. Perhaps we were hasty.
- Perhaps our plan is...
- Is what?
Not perfectly conceived.
Are you crazy? All over
the world, right-wing parties,
nationalist movements,
Nazis, Aryan Nations,
all working together for the first time.
Is that not perfect?
Well, I respect the will and judgment
of my friends.
But in light of the week's events,
I am grown...
...uncomfortable with this plan.
So I must... beg your leave.
Gentlemen.
Herr Haft will help you out.
Your scarf, monsieur.
Watch it with that thing.
You're gonna kill somebody.
Yo, what's up, Mason?
You know, 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?
Eight months.
Oh. You wash out?
All right, brother.
You have a good one.
Yeah, brother.
...not realising the rest of the world is
watching and will take a cue from us...
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 humanitarian aid
to victims of this monstrous...
These are four hours old. Russian
Why haven't they moved?
- Nemerov's too smart to move them.
- He speaks.
Jack, Nemerov's got, like, 19,000
tanks. No way NATO can match that.
That's why he's not gonna move them.
It's like chess.
He's thinking three moves ahead.
The NATO playbook says we can only
stop him with tactical nuclear weapons.
And he won't risk a nuclear war
over this.
I also think he's sending us
a message. He didn't bomb Grozny.
Clark got us her number. NSA traced
calls to that number back to here.
It's an abandoned Soviet army base
on the Kremenchug reservoir.
What are three Russian atomic
scientists doing in Ukraine?
A fair guess, they're building a bomb.
Nemerov has thousands of bombs.
Why would he build a secret one?
Deniability.
Build one nobody knows about, he can
drive it to Chechnya in his Beemer.
No way to track it, no way to trace it.
He could set it off and say,
"I didn't do it."
With respect, 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...
Do we have a bomb?
Yes.
Yes, we do.
This is a... a test.
Answer it.
- Answer it.
- Are you sure?
Hello?
Yes.
Yes, sir.
I have to go outside for just a second.
OK? I'll be right back.
I'll be right back.
- Sir, I write reports.
- I reviewed your military records.
- You can take care of yourself.
- Yes, sir. But I'm not trained for that.
I'm not asking you to be an operations
officer, just my eyes and ears. I can't go.
So... this isn't sanctioned.
I want you to give this to Clark,
see what he finds out, bring it home.
Yes, sir.
Jack...
...we never had this discussion.
What discussion?
OK. Clark... So this is
three days ago.
It shows vehicles here.
Guards here and here.
I gotta get one of those.
Now, the infrared satellite
took this photograph 34 hours ago.
That shows guards here and here.
I don't even have e-mail.
There are two at the checkpoint,
between two and five in the barracks
and two with the package,
which we believe to be here.
No problem. Give me a couple
of guys, some tranquilliser darts,
we can be out in six minutes.
- There is a problem.
- What's that?
This is yesterday.
No guards visible at all.
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. I'm an analyst.
I don't go on missions.
Relax, 007. It's not a mission.
It's just a recce.
OK, fine, whatever you call it.
I don't do that. I just write reports.
OK. So write a report about it. Suit up.
Clark, no.
Clark... no.
So, Cabot tells me you got my ticket
to the correspondents dinner.
Have a good time?
I've never been to one of those.
I was actually looking forward to it.
Clark, no. I'm not going in there.
Goddamn right. You're gonna stay here
and make sure no one steals my boat.
Be right back.
Damn.
Oh, Jesus.
Oh, God. Immigration didn't
call you guys, huh?
I'm sorry. You speak English?
I don't speak much Ukrainian.
It's not what you think. I'm an
American citizen. I have my papers...
OK. No papers.
Please. Just put the gun down.
The light? You want
me to put the light down?
OK. Take it easy.
I'll put the light down.
Here we go, I'm putting it down.
Shoot him, Ryan.
Shoot him.
Shoot him before he figures out
what I'm saying.
- Get their shoes.
- What?
Tell them to take their shoes off.
- You speak Ukrainian.
- Yeah. You don't?
Whatever it is they were spray painting
was big, about the size of a fridge.
The imprint it left was deep.
So we know three things.
It was heavy, something was
radioactive, and now it's gone.
- One of them spoke English?
- South African.
So, what's a South African
doing in the Ukraine
with three Russian scientists
and a crate from Israel?
- Tell Cabot I'll call him from Haifa.
- I have a feeling you better hurry.
Most people believe the 20th century
was defined by the death struggle
of communism versus capitalism
and that fascism was but a hiccup.
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?
- Ukraine's exports are online.
I pulled up every shipping manifests
from the past weeks
The only crate that size that imprint was
picked up at Kiev International 10 days ago
and flown to the Canary Islands.
The air force has a nuclear
assessment team. Call them...
Jack, it got put on a cargo freighter,
headed for the East Coast.
- What?
- Baltimore. It's coming here.
It's a great view from the Budweiser
blimp as we count down to game time.
We'll have the pre-game festivities
as well as the arrival of the nation's
number one football fan in 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
O'er the land of the free...
Get me the duty officer!
Home of the brave
Ladies and gentlemen,
the President of the United States,
Robert Fowler!
Showtime.
Shit.
That's the way!
Shit.
Hello.
- Hello?
- Sir!
- Hello?
- Sir!
Shit!
- Cabot.
- It's Ryan.
- What?
- The bomb is in play.
The AFRAT team are meeting me at
the docks in 20 minutes to try to find it.
- What docks?
- Baltimore.
- You're breaking up. What did you say?
- Baltimore.
- I'm losing you. I'll call you back...
- Baltimore.
Sir!
John! Red-Green! Let's go! Let's go!
Move it! Let's go!
Move! Go, go, go, go! Move!
What the hell is going on?
Some Russian scientists made a
nuclear bomb. It's arrived in Baltimore.
- Get those people out of the stadium.
- Stay down!
The President has been taken
off the field.
- 407.
- Thanks, JJ.
Clearly something has happened
of tremendous proportions.
We have no word as to what but
there is an enormous cloud over...
Go, go, go!
Mr President! Are you all right?
He's stuck. Get out of the way.
Mr President, are you all right?
Are you all right, Mr President?
This is the marines, sir.
I need your help, Danny.
Alvarez, get me a stretcher, now!
You got the stretcher?
- You got the stretcher?
- No, I don't want one.
Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
Move it!
Move it!
Go, go! Close them off! Go on up!
Hey! It's Ryan.
- Jack, where are you?
- I don't know, somewhere outside Baltimore.
- Cabot got the President out.
- Where is the President now?
They're taking him airborne, he's on NAOC.
They think it might be the Russians.
It wasn't the Russians. I gotta talk to Cabot.
Can you patch me through to the plane.
Cabot's not on the plane. We don't know where he is.
We just know he's not there. Call back in an hour.
We don't have an hour. Fowler's gonna wanna
show us how tough he is, he's gonna hit back now.
Listen. We have to prove it wasn't the
Russians before he's convinced it is.
Can you get back to Langley?
There's no time. The radiation
assessment team, where are they?
Stambler Tunnels, south of the city.
Jack, with the prevailing winds are
blowing the fallout to the east and north.
As long as you stay south you're OK.
- Mr President, are you all right?
- How the hell do you think I am?
- How many casualties?
- We don't know.
Cabot said it was Russian,
how the hell did he get in there?
We don't know. Radar didn't pick it up.
- Well, how is Cabot? Where is he?
- I don't know.
- What do you know?
- I don't know, all right? I don't know!
- All right...
- I don't know for Christ sake!
- General, Kondor is not on board.
- Send the AFRAT team.
Mr President, I recommend
we move to DEFCON-2.
We don't even know where it came from
Where's our intelligence?
Russian air defences, they
moved at their highest level.
Maybe they're afraid of being attacked.
I can't get this goddamn chair open!
- Sir, DEFCON status?
- We're about to take off.
We don't know who did it,
we don't even know where we are
We think the Russia's at high alert.
- Excuse me, you think?
- Sir, DEFCON-2.
- We're groping in the dark...
- This is too much goddamn bullshit!
And not enough fact.
The blast crater is about
which suggests a relatively low-yield device,
quite a bit smaller
than the Hiroshima bomb.
A quarter of a square mile
around the stadium is just gone.
Beyond that, buildings remain, heavily
damaged, for another quarter mile.
The damage tapers off the farther
you get from Ground Zero.
Dubinin.
Herr Haft has left for America.
Now we are counting on you.
I assure you,
I will earn every pfennig.
The ash isn't radioactive. The winds
are blowing the fallout to sea.
Captain. Jack Ryan, CIA.
Lorna Shiro. You need to wait outside.
I need to know all you know
about the bomb.
We're collecting samples. Get in line
and we'll have the report out tomorrow.
Captain, I need to know now
where this bomb came from,
or even where it didn't come from
or there may not be a tomorrow.
Shit. Wesson, where are you?
About a quarter mile from Ground Zero.
This is about as far as we'll go.
My feet are sizzling.
I'm getting rads
nearly the limit of our gear.
- OK. Cut the rover loose and get out.
- Roger that.
Dillon, the crate the bomb was shipped
in. Somebody had to sign for it at port.
Customs must have a database.
Get me a name. Where's Cabot?
No one knows.
We're checking the hospitals.
- Have you tried Memorial?
- He wouldn't be there.
No, I mean... Is it still...
It's Cathy's hospital.
As far as I know it's still there,
but the phones are down.
All right. Can you keep checking?
Thanks.
They could have launched
a cruise missile.
- We don't know that this is Russia.
- We don't know it's not.
If they were sending us a message,
they'd want us to know it was them.
Except they could inspire
the confusion we're going through now.
Mr President, we're uplinked.
President Nemerov, there's been a
major nuclear event in the United States.
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...
We have not yet ascertained
the source of this weapon.
But rest assured those responsible
will be dealt with most severely.
He's fishing.
Send our reply.
Whoa, that was a little fast.
"Please accept the deepest
sympathies of the Russian people."
"If it was deliberate,
this is a crime without precedent."
"What madman would do such a thing
and for what purpose?"
"You must believe that Russia had
nothing to do with this infamous act."
It's canned.
He prepared that in advance.
President Nemerov, we've no reason
to suspect Russian involvement...
...at this time...
...but we will protect ourselves
from further aggression.
He thinks we did this.
We must demonstrate
the strength of our weapons.
They have to understand that
attacking Russia would be suicide.
Increase the alert status.
TAO, EW. I'm picking up
intermittent radar, bearing 020.
Where?
Now it's gone.
There. It's a weak signal.
TAO, inbound contact.
Multiples on the same bearing.
- Vampire, vampire!
- Fast movers inbound.
I got seven, eight, nine of them!
The missiles definitely came
from Russian aircraft.
Grennel thinks he can save the ship,
but flight ops are out.
"...until we investigate all possibilities."
Like you did 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. I don't know
where he is today. We have to find him right away
Wow.
Look at that gadolinium reading.
Yeah. The mass fraction is huge.
OK, connect me to Dillon. I'll hold.
There it is. Savannah River.
- Oh, yeah.
- Oh, yeah, what?
They had a gadolinium problem.
Hanford does it another way,
and generate too much promethium.
Hold on. Can you translate that
into English?
This plutonium came from the DOE
plant at Savannah River, February '68,
from K reactor. We even know
which part of K reactor.
- Wait. This is our plutonium?
- Made in the USA.
Dillon, you've got to find Cabot.
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 get it!
I don't understand why we have
to nuke them! It's not reasonable.
Sidney, goddamn it!
They practically sank
an aircraft carrier!
Their missile silos are hot. We're getting
nothing but bullshit from Nemerov.
Let's not forget how this started.
They tried to kill me, remember?
Don't fucking tell me to be reasonable!
Please come to the triage tent
on the side of the building.
We will help you find
who you are looking for,
but we are low on blood supply.
Sir?
Sir?
Hi.
What?
- President?
- The President's fine.
He's fine. Sir...
The bomb. The plutonium...
- Wife.
- What?
Wife.
Your wife? I'm sure she's fine.
She's in DC.
The blast radius wasn't that...
...it wasn't that wide.
Sir, 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 hold of him.
And I don't know what to do.
Girl... girlfriend.
She...
She works in Baltimore, so...
I don't know.
Spinnaker.
What?
S... Spinnaker
Sir?
Bill?
Yeah. We found the receiver address
for the crate.
Port of Baltimore.
Can you get to the docks?
Find the Transcon warehouse.
The name on the manifest is Mason.
Sorry, I need this truck.
Come on.
Shit.
Sir, we've come up
with another alternative.
Counterforce. A conventional attack on the
Russian airbase 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 got to know we have the guts
to take it to the next level.
I think they'll get that message.
Hit 'em.
Eagles Nest, this is Eagle One.
We have target acquired. Target is lit.
Can I have your attention?
The generator has gone out.
There's broken glass everywhere. Stay
where you are. We will get back to...
OK, fine. Please, stay where you are.
We'll get you one by one.
Sir, can you hear me?
Can you feel your arms and legs?
A 9% IV and morphine drip.
Sir, we're gonna take care of you.
What have you got?
What do we do with the ones
we know won't make it?
Whatever we can.
What?
Bill Cabot died.
I'm really sorry.
This can't be happening.
Sir, we have a call from Langley.
Thank you.
- Becker.
- This is Jack Ryan.
Great. The Nemerov apologist.
Sir, this bomb was not Nemerov.
I know this guy.
You said that after Grozny.
Put it in your report.
The plutonium...
Seems unusual to find
radiation poisoning 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 to me, 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.
We must help them.
I am... going to die?
Yes?
Yes.
His name is Olson.
He live in Damascus.
Oh, yeah. We're getting it all.
Mr President, we need you
to initiate snapcount.
What happens then?
We prepare to take out their land-based
missiles with a nuclear strike,
find and kill their subs, knock out whatever
the 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... smaller, more mobile,
less accurate kind.
All those can do is target our cities.
But he knows to an absolute certainty
that we will 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 as a
deterrent against any future aggressor.
I think he'll push back from the table
and call it a night.
I'm giving the order for snapcount.
Maximum readiness.
Olson had wire payments of $45 million
from someone named Dressler.
Dillon, find out who Dressler is.
Jack, I want you out of there.
- I'm at the docks.
- Look for the name Dressler.
No. Jack, get out. Dillon, call the
Baltimore PD, give them the address.
- Wait for the cops.
- I'll call you back.
Who's Dressler?
Where is he, goddamn it?
Where is Dressler?
Police! Put your hands up!
- Where's Dressler?
- Are you Jack Ryan?
- Where's Dressler, goddamn it?
- Let him go!
Where's Dressler? Where is he?
Langley said you might need help.
- I gotta get to the Pentagon.
- I think I can help you with that.
Mr President.
Their Stealth bombers
have left Aviano.
That is the sign.
Shoot them down.
God protect us.
Mr President, the Russians are scrambling
their fighters. We're out of time.
- Dave!
- He has a heart condition.
- Get a doctor.
- Mr President.
- Where's your nitro?
- I said get a doctor!
- Mr President.
- Take him to my quarters.
Colonel, bring in the launch codes.
Dressler's an Austrian manufacturer,
billionaire.
His father was executed at Nuremberg.
He bought himself a seat in parliament and got
booted out for saying nice things about pro-Nazi
Rudy, get me through to the President.
I can't do it, Jack.
- C'mon get me through
- They're in the snapcount, Jack.
- There's no way in.
- Bullshit.
- I can do that for you, sir.
- No, it's fine. Got some dirt on it.
- Can I see it? We're on high alert.
- I understand.
- Sir, put the card down.
- Back off.
- I am ordering you...
- Back off!
Step back now! I am ordering you to
take a step back immediately, sir! Put...
General, there's a Dr Ryan
from the CIA.
He wants to enter NMCC.
He's unescorted.
- What's he want?
- You, sir.
Sir, My name is Jack Ryan.
I have an urgent message from Director Cabot
that I need to transmit over the hotline immediately.
- What's your authorisation?
- I don't have authorisation
- Where's Cabot?
- Cabot's dead, sir.
- I need to get this information sent.
- Not without authorisation. Get him out.
Wait! General! The President is basing
his decisions on bad information!
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 listen to you?
He doesn't have to.
You'll have the launch sequence
processed after you give the order.
Before the order can be taken,
an ID check must be performed.
Mine is the... My number is...
...the third one... third number down
from the top.
Your orders, 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 now been
confirmed by the two-man rule.
NMCC, strike order has been
confirmed. Start the sequence.
- We've got activity on the hotline.
- They've had their chance.
No, somebody's talking to the Kremlin.
It says, "America has been the victim
of a terrorist attack."
As you can imagine, there has
been much confusion here...
...and fear.
But we know the weapon
was not Russian.
"But we know the weapon
was not Russian."
What the hell is going on?
Type exactly what I say.
Who are we talking to?
Ryan. I met you in Moscow with
Bill Cabot. He died today in Baltimore.
- Cut him off.
- Launch sequence has begun.
Two months ago,
a neo-fascist named Dressler bought
an A-bomb on the black market.
- Cut him off.
- The system can't be cut off.
The system is set up so you can't cut it off
That's the whole idea
Then get somebody down there to stop him.
- He paid three disaffected Russian...
- "scientists to make the bomb active."
"He shipped it to the US,
where a man named Mason"
was hired to deliver the bomb and
set our countries on a collision course.
What are you asking of me?
Back down.
What guarantee do I have that
President Fowler will follow suit?
None.
You see? He is wasting time.
We must launch now.
We have only moments.
Sir, I know you. I know you had
nothing to do with the Baltimore bomb
and you're sure as hell know you didn't, but you're
still about to launch a nuclear strike against us.
- Yes, sir. That's all, Dr Ryan.
- Now it's about fear.
Our fear of your missiles,
your fear of our subs.
Fear of being weak,
of making a mistake,
the fear of the other guy that had us
build these bombs in the first place!
It stopped.
Oh, my God. Mr President?
We will maintain our defensive alert
for the moment,
but our offensive forces
are withdrawn.
"If you match this, I propose a phased
mutual 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.
There is no more fitting memorial
for those who perished in this tragedy
than the steps we've taken this week
toward a multinational campaign
to root out and eliminate
weapons of mass destruction.
We embarked on this course because
we have learned, at too great a cost,
that if the most powerful weapons
ever created are unleashed,
they will be fired not in anger,
but in fear.
Dr Ryan.
Mr Grushkov.
It is... a lovely day.
Yeah.
- I'm sorry, this is...
- Dr Muller. How do you do?
Nice to meet you.
Why am I not surprised
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.
Maybe he didn't know you well enough.
He told me he had a source in Russia.
"To keep the back channels open?"
"In hopes of staving off disaster."
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're 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 haven't told anybody about it.
How could you possibly know?