K-19: The Widowmaker Page #3

Bow planes are jammed

I have the conn.

Move!

Take the boat down

to maximum operational depth.

Make your depth 250 meters.

Turbines slow ahead together.

Thanks.

Captain, I suggest going below

Continue the dive to 300 meters.

I know.

Make your depth 300 meters.

- Level the planes!

- Level the bow planes!

Simulate flooding in the aft torpedo

room and emergency surface.

A rapid ascent beneath the ice cap

is not advisable, Captain.

I did not ask for your advice.

Flooding in compartment ten.

Emergency surface.

Go, go, go!

Man stations, valve five!

- Faster! Come on!

- Secure the base!

Poliansky, bring the planes up.

Make turbines for 20 knots.

Full ahead together.

Planes to full rise.

Full ahead together.

Keep ten up.

Speed 20 knots.

Pavel, wedge!

Hold it steady! Go!

Go, go, go!

- The rupture is sealed, Captain.

- Excellent.

I recommend we stay

at safe depth, Captain.

How thick is the ice here?

Kornilov? Ice recon.

Come on, come on.

Less than one meter

in this area, Captain.

These reports are almost a week old.

At this time of year the ice only

gets thinner. Continue surfacing.

I'm not sure if we can control

an ascent this fast, Captain.

Neither am I.

Blow main ballast!

She's started to roll!

Request permission to hold

at safe depth, Captain.

- Denied.

- 90 meters!

Pump room! Are we pumping

the trim tanks?

She's rolling to port!

Blow port. Shut starboard.

Changing air supply.

- 60 meters!

- Stop turbines!

Stop both turbines!

- Level off, dammit!

- 40 meters!

- Brace for impact!

- Brace for impact!

Brace for impact.

Demichev.

Demichev! Take the conn.

Raise the radio and radar masts.

Give them three sweeps.

Medium range.

Prepare to fire the test missile.

Prepare to launch test missile.

This is not a drill.

Central command,

missile control manned and ready.

Preparing silo three

for firing test missile.

Power up console for missile launch!

Number three launch door opening.

Captain, Moscow confirms

test missile launch authority.

Attention!

Initiating power up.

Very well.

Fueling in progress!

Simulate activation

of the warhead number three missile.

Let's go. Come on.

- Contact?

- No contact.

Radar, sonar...

contact?

- No contact.

- No contact!

Fueling complete.

Table elevated.

Ready for firing sequence.

Fire missile three.

Time to launch...

Confirm missile away, Captain!

Congratulations, Comrade Captain.

We just wrote our names

into the history books.

- Kornilov?

- Captain.

Confirm successful

missile launch to fleet command.

Yes, Captain.

This is the Captain.

We have launched our test missile.

All hands stand down

from combat stations.

Yes!

Yeah!

You will be in my report

for leaving your post.

And you will be in mine!

You endangered

this boat and its crew.

are depending on us,

on us, Captain Vostrikov,

to save them from nuclear attack.

You risked them too!

I took this boat and these men

to the edge

because we need to know where it is.

This 120 men are a crew now

because they achieved something

they did not think they could do.

Next time, when it is not a drill,

they will go to the edge and past it,

and die, if necessary, because that is

what their duty demands of them.

You were lucky, Captain.

This time.

I hope I'm on another boat

when your luck runs out.

Yevgeny!

Come on!

Vasily!

Maxim!

Misha, Yelstin, come on, quick.

Everybody.

Get that laundry out of there!

All the crewmen around the flag.

Get that laundry out of there!

Branan, you asleep?

On the double. Get closer.

Over here.

Everybody, move, yes...

Closer, closer.

Move closer!

Winning team closer.

Dimitri! Smile!

Good.

Everything all right? Problems?

Er...no.

No. Yes.

There was residual condensation

in the reactor compartment.

I shut down number three generator.

That should reduce the condensation.

- I'm counting on you, you know?

- Yes, Comrade Captain.

Comrade Captain.

Message from command.

Comrade Commander!

The crew is lined up to your order.

We have received

a message from Moscow.

They congratulate us on the

successful launch of our test missile.

- We have proved our readiness.

- Serving the Soviet Union!

And now they honor us

with a new assignment.

K-19 is to assume missile patrol

along the eastern seaboard

of the United States.

This is a mission

of critical strategic importance.

The boat will come

to full operational status.

Do your best.

I expect nothing less.

Hoorah!

Crew dismissed!

He nearly got us killed today.

And for what? To show the men

he didn't win his bars

marrying a Politburo member's niece.

You're still our Captain, Misha.

And the only one we trust.

- Captain Polenin.

- Yes.

Captain Vostrikov wants

to see you in the chart room.

Yes.

Misha!

Command wants us on station

as quickly as possible.

Our course will take us past

the NATO base at Jan Mayan,

and from there to our patrol zone,

between Washington...

...and New York.

- Make turns for 15 knots.

- Speed 15 knots.

Speed 15 knots.

- No contact. Down scope.

- Periscope going down!

Dive the boat.

Andrei, more wine!

You only get one glass.

But because

we're the crme de la crme,

a glass of red wine with dinner

is the headquarters' way of telling us

that the K-19's crew has no equal.

No, it's because

we're sitting on a pile of uranium.

Red wine gives you strontium.

Or takes it away. Or something.

Something good.

We should be 70 miles

from Jan Mayan NATO base.

One mountain. No trees.

Fifteen men, one radio station.

I've seen that island

many times.

- Misha.

- Yevgeny.

What's the matter?

I miss seeing the trees,

seeing the sun, the stars.

You'll get used to being underwater.

When I muster out, I'll just work

in the coal mine with my brothers.

So it's all the same to me.

A loss of pressure in

the primary circuit on the aft reactor.

Check the other sensors.

Confirm loss of pressure, Lieutenant.

Let me through. Watch out!

We've got a leak!

Get me the emergency manual!

Come on!

I noticed the pumps were drawing too

much power during the turbine tests.

But I didn't think it was serious.

Out of my way!

Move!

The control rods

are dropping, Lieutenant.

- Auxiliary pumps.

- Pavel, auxiliary pumps!

- They aren't working.

- Recycle them!

I have.

But pressure's dropping.

Confirm.

But the rods will cool it, right?

No! They can't control the reaction

by themselves. They need coolant.

Lieutenant, the core temperature

is at 400 degrees and rising!

Cut the equalization!

What's the problem?

The primary coolant loop

on the aft reactor is ruptured.

- What? How did this happen?

- What difference does it make?

- Answer me. How did this happen?

- I don't know. The core is heating up.

- The mission's over.

- I'll tell you when the mission is over.

Who's responsible for this?

I want a name.

I'll give you a name.

Vostrikov, Alexei.

Watch yourself, Comrade.

And here's another name.

Radtchenko, Vadim.

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