K-19: The Widowmaker Page #5

Captain, if we...

We will run the boat

with skeleton crews.

Put most of the men on top, as far

away from the radiation as possible.

We're 160 kilometers

from the NATO base in Jan Mayan.

We could go there.

Get help from the Americans.

Under no circumstances

will I abandon

my boat or my crew to the enemy.

May I ask then, what is your plan?

We're out of radio contact.

If we stay on our course,

fleet command

will send the diesels to find us.

Radiation levels are rising too fast.

We're just running on electric motors.

There's no time for that.

They will find us.

As usual the Captain leaves

no room for doubt.

Good.

Dimitri.

You're fine.

Good.

You're fine, Yevgeny.

Next.

Good, yes. Excellent.

Icons...

are forbidden.

Contact. Bearing 0-1-5.

Range 2,000 meters, Captain.

Wait. Wait.

Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!

They're Americans.

Captain?

The jackals have found us.

It's an American destroyer.

Captain?

The Americans are contacting us

on the emergency band.

The helicopters reported

our men on deck.

The captain is offering assistance.

Tell them we don't need assistance.

We're just getting some air.

- What are they doing?

- Taking pictures of us.

Hey! Hey, spies!

Take a look at this.

- Take a look at this!

- Everybody.

Look at this lovely butt!

Hey, where are you going?

Offering assistance.

They want this boat.

What a victory that would be.

The waters here are over a mile deep.

We could get the men off. Scuttle

the boat. They'd have to take us.

Captain Polenin's right. We have

life rafts. We can save everyone.

Scuttle the flagship of the fleet?

Present my crew

to the Americans for interrogation.

Your duty now is clear.

You must save their lives.

My duty is to defend the state.

I will do that

to my last dying breath.

You're defending nothing

but your own ambition.

Tell that to the men who are dying.

Come on, tell them!

There will be no more talk

of surrendering to the Americans.

It is treason. Say it again

and I will confine you to your quarters.

And you...you are the Commissar,

representative of the party.

- Responsible for crew morale.

- Yes, Captain.

Then act like it. The crew needs you

to show courage not fear.

- Fear is contagious.

- Yes, Captain.

- Kornilov.

- Yes, Captain.

Stop monitoring the Americans.

They are the enemy.

Yes, Captain.

Help me.

Please.

How are the men?

How would I know?

I don't know

about radiation sickness.

Please.

I'm giving them aspirin.

I'm trying to prevent

those that are dying

from irradiating those of us

that still have some hope.

Pull yourself together.

You are an officer in the Soviet Navy.

Go back and tell them

that they're improving.

As you say, you know nothing

about radiation sickness.

Perhaps they are.

- Captain?

- Yes.

Readings are rising

in every compartment now.

Misha?

- Comrade Suslov.

- What is it?

The radiation

is going to kill us all.

The political branch

gives you the authority

to approve any change of command.

Only in extreme cases

of dereliction of duty.

Which this is. He's suffering

from radiation poisoning himself.

His judgment is impaired

or he would get the men off the boat.

When the moment comes

we will know it.

The weld is giving way!

- Core temperature 450 and rising!

- Captain!

The reactor repair has failed.

- Captain!

- Core temperature 450 and rising!

This is the Captain.

All hands below decks.

Prepare for emergency descent.

All hands below! All hands below!

Diving stations! Diving Stations!

Get the bulkhead doors shut!

I am not going back down!

I am not going down!

All hands to diving stations.

Move, move! Come on!

We have to go now! Andrei!

Andrei, no!

What are you doing?

Diving now! Diving now!

Move! Get in!

- No, Andrei!

- Get in the hatch! It's an order! Move!

We can't leave him,

he'll never make it!

Are the Americans still offering

assistance on the emergency band?

- The Captain said not to...

- Check.

They're still there.

Why is he diving?

He's going to cook us.

- No, I won't go!

- Yevgeny!

Prepare the tank! Quickly!

Give it to me!

- Come on, let's go.

- This is bullshit! Put me down!

Fire in aft torpedo!

Aft torpedo! Dimitri? Vasily?

- Report!

- Fire in aft torpedo.

We have no communication.

Our fire team is suiting up.

- Activate fire suppression.

- That would kill everybody in there.

If torpedoes go off, it'll kill

everyone. They have breathing kits.

They don't. We took the oxygen

for the reactor team.

- Give the fire team some time.

- Activate the system.

The primary wasn't connected.

It must be activated locally.

Go to nine and turn on the system.

You refuse my order?

I'll do it myself.

If you leave the command center,

I will get help from the Americans

and you will be in no position

to stop me.

If we can't handle it.

I'll switch on the suppression system.

Get the fire out. Quickly!

Why aren't we diving?

Under the authority

given to me by the Party

you are hereby removed

from your post for dereliction of duty.

Isolate electrical!

You're wasting time.

Get a team to repair the reactor.

- Torpedo number eight!

- Torpedo number eight!

Stop the water!

Kornilov. Tell the Americans

we're evacuating the submarine

and will require assistance.

Send the message!

US destroyer.

This is Soviet submarine. Over.

Comrade Admiral.

General Vershinin, KGB.

I want to know

if your man Vostrikov is a traitor.

All we know is that K-19

has broken off radio contact.

Broken radio contact with us.

A reconnaissance plane has spotted

a destroyer shadowing K-19.

An American destroyer.

Vasily?

Vasily.

Captain Polenin

to central command.

Repeat. Captain Polenin

to central command.

Captain Polenin to central command.

Repeat. Captain Polenin

to central command.

- 575 degrees and rising.

- Shut up!

You have no idea

what you're doing.

Easy, easy.

- Who is it?

- It's Dimitri.

Captain Polenin to central command.

- Captain Polenin!

- Do what you can, Vanya.

Central command. Immediately!

- Five men have...

- Captain Polenin.

I have exercised my authority

to transfer the boat to your command.

You're our captain

and always have been.

We've contacted the Americans.

All we need is your order

to abandon the ship.

Good.

Good.

Weapons don't belong here.

Give them to me.

Give me the gun.

And the key for the handcuffs.

Come on.

- Give it to me. This boat's a family.

- Of course, Captain.

And the key for the handcuffs.

- Suslov?

- Captain.

You betray your family.

You betray me.

You're under arrest.

- What?

- Both of you. Get out of my sight.

Take the gun!

Lock them in their quarters! Move!

It is treason.

Misha! Misha!

The fire in compartment ten

has been extinguished.

The suppression system

was not required.

Unfortunately,

there was only one survivor.

Thank you.

- Captain.

- Captain.

We have to dive.

This is the Captain.

Don't order them, Captain.

Ask them.

This is the Captain.

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