Crimson Tide Page #9

I'm going to launch

from missile control.

- [Zimmer] Aye, aye, sir.

- Westergaurd.

- Sir.

- Dougherty. Come with me.

- Mr. Mahoney, take the conn.

- Aye, sir. I have the conn.

What are you doing, man?

We're at 1Sq. We're ready.

[Panel Beeping]

- Mr. Dougherty.

- Aye.

- Station your guards fore and aft.

- Last two, forward hatch!

First two, aft hatch!

They're gonna fire

from missile control.

We've got to get back to the conn

and disarm the system. Come on.

We'll travel

in the crawl spaces.

Mr. Ince!

Mr. Ince, remove

the tactical firing key.

Sir, it is my duty to...

Son, don't talk to me about duty.

Open the f***ing safe!

[Panel Beeping]

I can't do that, sir.

I'm gonna count to three...

and then I'm gonna blow

your f***ing head off.

One.

Two.

Sh*t!

It does me no good

to kill you.

You're the only one

that knows the combination.

However...

Petty Officer Hilaire

doesn't know the combination!

Millions of lives at stake here, Peter!

Don't make a dumb decision! One!

- Two!

- Sir!

- Cob!

- Yo.

You and Hunsicker are going

to enter the conn from the bow.

Rivetti, Linkletter and myself

will come in through the aft.

You jump right on Zimmer, okay?

Come on, come on!

- Fire control ready?

- Aye, sir.

- Launcher ready?

- [Launcher] Aye, sir.

Initiate fire.

- Freeze! Hold it, sir!

- [Cob] Drop the weapon now!

Move forward! Move forward!

Move, move, move! Get his pistol!

- Fire one!

- Number one did not fire, sir.

Sir, the captain's key

has been removed.

Hunter.

- You're a piece of sh*t.

- Son of a b*tch.

- All right, you and you,

man the forward hatches.

- Aye, sir.

- [Hunter] You, man the aft hatches.

- Aye, sir.

We're going up

to periscope depth.

We're gonna reestablish communications

and get that radio message.

Now anybody got a problem with that?

- Chief of the boat,

make your depth 78 feet.

- Aye, aye, sir.

- Make your depth 78 feet.

Five degree up bubble.

- Mr. Linkletter, man that periscope.

- Aye sir. Raising number two scope.

- Radio/Conn:

Mr. Vossler, this is Captain Kirk.

I need warp speed on that radio.

- Yes, sir.

- Conn/Weapons:

Russian missiles will have

launch capability in nine minutes.

- [Radio Static, Beeping]

- Oh, sh*t!

- What? What happened?

- Reattach that lead!

Seventy-eight feet!

At periscope depth, sir!

- Mr. Linkletter!

- No close contact, sir.

Very well. Chief of the watch,

raise the VLF radio antenna.

Raise the VLF antenna.

Aye, sir.

- VLF antenna coming up!

- [Radio Crew Chattering]

[Static]

Conn/Radio:
Sir, I think

she's breathing. We're getting close.

- Halt, sir!

- Shoot me.

- Sh*t. Sh*t.

- I got him.

I have the conn.

Give me my missile key.

Give me the missile key,

Mr. Hunter.

I'm the commander of this

f***ing ship! Give me that goddamn key!

Conn/Weapons:
Russian missiles will have

launch capability in seven minutes.

Conn/Radio:
Sir!

Radio/Conn!

Captain/Radio:
Vossler, sir. She's

breathing again! We are really close!

You got three minutes, Vossler.

- Three minutes and counting!

- Yes, sir.

You got three minutes.

[Panels Beeping, Radio Static]

- Come on.

- [Static Continues]

[Radioman] Come on, Vossler. Come on,

come on. Keep it going, keep it going.

[Static Continues]

Speaking of horses...

did you ever see

those Lipizzaner stallions?

What?

From Portugal.

The Lipizzaner stallions.

The most highly trained horses

in the world. They're all white.

Yes, sir.

"Yes, sir" you're aware

they're all white...

or "Yes, sir" you've seen them?

Yes, sir, I've seen them.

Yes, sir, I'm aware

that they're all white.

They're not from Portugal;

they're from Spain...

and at birth, they're not white;

they're black.

Sir.

I didn't know that.

But they are from Portugal.

- [Vossler Panting]

- Come on, Vossler. Come on.

- Yes. Yes.

- Come on. Come on. You got it.

[Chuckling]

Some of the things they do,

uh, defy belief.

Their training program

is simplicity itself.

You just stick

a cattle prod up their ass...

and you can get a horse

to deal cards.

[Chuckles]

Simple matter of voltage.

[Radioman]

You're gonna get it. Come on.

- [Screen Beeping, Static]

- I almost had it. You saw it.

Conn/Weapons:
Russian missiles will have

launch capability in four minutes.

- There you go! There you go!

- Ah, sh*t!

Look, look, look! Look at it, Vossler!

There we go, there we go!

- Yes!

- [Beeping]

[Beeping Continues]

Conn/Radio:

We are receiving flash traffic.

Emergency action message. Recommend

alert one. Recommend alert one.

- F***, yeah!

- [Beeping Continues]

Alert one. Alert one.

Dougherty, Westergaurd, Zimmer.

- Get that EAM.

- Aye, aye, sir.

[Beeping Continues]

God help you

if you're wrong.

If I'm wrong,

then we're at war.

God help us all.

Sir, we have a properly formatted

emergency action message...

from the National Command

Authority, sir.

- Request permission to authenticate.

- Permission granted.

Authenticate.

[Breaking Open Packets]

[Zimmer] "Delta, Delta, Sierra,

Bravo, Zulu, Delta, Tango."

[Westergaurd] "Delta, Delta, Sierra,

Bravo, Zulu, Delta, Tango."

- Message is authentic, Captain.

- I concur, sir.

I concur, sir.

Message is authentic.

Crew of the Alabama,

this is the captain.

Set condition 2Sq.

Terminate launch,

all missiles.

[Cheering]

All right!

All right!

[Cheering Continues]

[Cheering Stops]

Mr. Hunter has the conn.

In the early hours of this morning,

Russian army forces moved in...

and met surprisingly

little resistance.

- [Yelling, Gunfire]

- There were some sporadic battles...

- [Yelling, Gunfire]

- There were some sporadic battles...

but, apparently, the specter

of fighting their countrymen...

proved too much for these rebel troops,

and they surrendered quickly.

So a crisis that seemed to be escalating

beyond the point of no return...

was ultimately resolved with fewer

than a hundred soldiers dead.

And the nuclear base captured by

Radchenko is back in government hands.

Reporting live from the French aircraft

carrier Foch in the Mediterranean Sea...

this is Richard Valeriani for CNN.

All right, stand there, uh, Lieutenant

Commander Hunter. This won't take long.

This panel has convened in order

to investigate the events...

subsequent to the setting

of condition 1Sq...

for strategic missile launch...

on board the USS Alabama

on 1 November.

Now, based on the testimony

from personnel on board the Alabama...

and, in no small measure, to that

of the senior officer, Captain Ramsey...

I am prepared to make

my recommendations to SUBPAC.

- Without my testimony, sir?

- You have a problem with that?

- I might, sir.

- I have known Captain Ramsey

for almost 30 years.

We served together

on more than a few occasions.

If he is lying, this will be

the first I've heard of it.

- Yes, sir.

- My primary concern here...

is the breakdown in the system.

In this instance,

the system failed...

because the two senior officers did not

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