The Sum of All Fears Quotes

[Jack's giving a quick briefing using a PDA]

John Clark: I need to get one of those. I don't even have E-mail.

[just before he falls over dead]

Zorkin: [to his aids and advisors] I am to be described as "robust" and "healthy."

[after an unpleasant silence, after Jack unintentionally and indirectly insulted Nemerov]

President Nemerov: [to Cabot, about Ryan] I like him.

Bill Cabot: In that case, so do I.

[en route to Russia]

Cabot: Jack... Jack, what are you doing?

Jack: Oh... I had a date tonight, so I had to call and cancel...

Cabot: Well, don't be stupid! Tell her where you're going. In fact, tell her who you work for. She'll be impressed.

Jack: [to Cathy, over the phone] OK. I work for the CIA, and the Director asked me at the last minute to come with him to Russia with him to do a nuclear arms inspection. Hello?

Cathy: That is so lame.

Jack: No, I swear, it's because of the START treaty, we get to inspect to make sure they're really decommissioning their nuclear arsenal...

[Cathy hangs up]

Jack: Hello... hello?

[Cabot starts laughing]

Jack: Thanks. Thanks a lot.

Bill Cabot: What's the t-shirt say?

Depot Worker: "I am a bomb technician, if you see me running...

[laughs]

Depot Worker: ... try to catch up."

Jack Ryan: I don't go on the-the, you know, missions.

John Clark: Relax, 007, it's not a mission. It's just a recce.

Jack Ryan: Well, okay, fine, whatever you call it, I'm not... I don't do that. I just write reports.

John Clark: Okay. So write a report about it.

Cabot: Are you Ryan?

Jack Ryan: Yes, sir.

Cabot: What is this? The Paper Chase?

Jack Ryan: Sir, my ah...

Cabot: Well come on, were late.

Bill Cabot: [meeting privately] How's your Russian?

John Clark: It still works. Why?

Bill Cabot: Three Russian nuclear scientists are missing. I need to know where they are.

President Robert Fowler: [during the White House correspondents dinner] My beautiful wife, Julie, is from New Jersey. 15 electoral votes... and is, as you know, half Jewish. So we'll take Florida's 25 electoral votes and divide by 2. My daughter, Jeanie, is expecting her first child. If it's a girl, she will be named Virginia. 13 electoral votes. In fact, even if it's a boy, he'll be named Virginia. She reminds me that I have publicly acknowledged that as a young Marine officer in Vietnam, I did, on a handful of occasions, smoke marijuana.

[pause]

President Robert Fowler: California. 54 electoral votes.

Bill Cabot: [at the stadium in Baltimore; answers his cell phone] Yeah, this is Cabot.

Jack: [in a helicopter near Baltimore] The bomb is in play! Dylan's called the AFRAT team! They're meeting me at the docks in twenty minutes! We're going to see if we can find it!

Bill Cabot: Docks? What docks?

Jack: Baltimore!

Bill Cabot: You're breaking up! What did you say?

Jack: [static over cell phone] ... altimore!

Bill Cabot: Look, I'm losing you! I'll call you back from...

Jack: BALTIMORE!... Sir?

Bill Cabot: [stands up and takes a long look around stadium, then shouts to the Secret Service agents] John! Reggie! Let's go! Let's go!

[over the Hot Line, after the carrier attack]

President Nemerov: [in Russian] I ordered no such attack. You must not respond to this action until we have investigated all possibilities.

President Fowler: Like you did in Chechnya? Mr. President, who is in control of your armed forces?

President Nemerov: [in Russian] You dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. You dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Do not lecture me on Chechnya!

President Fowler: We gotta update these fire drills, Billy. I mean, if the shit ever hits the fan, I'm not going underground. This place is a goddamn tomb down there!

Bill Cabot: We've also gotta choose someone else to face off against besides the Russians all the time.

President Fowler: Really? Let's see. Who else has 27,000 nukes for us to worry about?

Bill Cabot: It's the guy with one I'm worried about.

President Fowler: And don't underestimate Zorkin, pal. Between his economy, crime, Chechnya...

Cabot: His liver.

President Fowler: What's left of it. How is he, by the way?

Cabot: He's got a press conference scheduled for this afternoon. So at least we know he can sit up.

[arguing about the Russian President's health]

Jack: I'm just saying Zorkin's putting on weight. Really, I don't know why you guys have to reduce everything to sex. It's just disgusting.

Dubinin: I remain devoted to our little plan.

Dressler: At what you are charging us, I am not surprised.

[arriving at the airfield]

Revell: Mr. President, are you all right?

President Fowler: Jesus, Gene, how the hell do you think I am? How many casualties?

Revell: We don't know.

President Fowler: Cabot said it was Russian, how the hell did they get it in?

Revell: We don't know. Radar didn't pick it up, so it wasn't a missile.

President Fowler: Well... how is Cabot, is he all right?

Revell: I don't know!

President Fowler: [shouts] Then what do you know?

Revell: [shouts] I don't know, all right! I don't know!

President Fowler: All right, Gene, all right...

Revell: [shouts] I don't know, for Christ's sake!

[aboard the command plane]

Owens: Are you advocating we launch a first strike...

Becker: [shouts] It is not a first strike! There's already been a first strike! And a second! Don't you get it?

Owens: No! I don't get it! I don't understand why we have to nuke them, for God's sake!

[shouts]

Owens: It's not reasonable!

President Fowler: Sidney, goddamnit! They practically sank an aircraft carrier! Their missile silos are hot! We're getting nothing but bullshit from Nemerov! And let's not forget how this thing started, OK? They tried to kill *me*, remember! So don't fucking tell me to be reasonable!

[after Jack breaks onto the Hot Line]

President Fowler: Cut him off!

Revell: The system's set up so that it can't be cut off!

[shouts]

Revell: That's the whole idea!

[Jack is negotiating with President Nemerov over the Hot Line]

Jack: Sir, I know you. I know you had nothing to do with the Baltimore bomb, and you sure as hell know you didn't! But you're still about to launch a nuclear strike against us! This no longer has anything to do with Baltimore! Now it's about fear! Our fear of your missiles, your fear of our subs, fear of being weak, fear of making a mistake... the same fear of the other guy that had us build these goddamn bombs in the first place!

Revell: We've got activity on the Hot Line.

President Fowler: They had their chance.

Revell: No, no. Someone's talking *to* the Kremlin.

President Robert Fowler: [Becker passes out] Get a doctor in here!

General Lasseter: But Mr. President...

President Robert Fowler: I said get a doctor!

General Lasseter: [to the Military Aide carrying the nuclear football] Colonel! Bring me the launch codes.

NAOC Hotline Operator: Oh my God... Mr. President!

[Fowler looks at the screen]

President Nemerov: [Over the hotline] On my order, Russian strategic forces are standing down.

[first lines]

Title Card: In 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack against Israel. By Day Two, Israeli ground forces appeared on the verge of defeat. In the event that their ground forces were overrun, an Israeli A-4 jet took off on patrol with one nuclear bomb.

[last lines]

Anatoli Grushkov: A modest gift got your engagement.

Cathy: He just asked me this morning.

Jack: We, uh, we haven't told anybody. How did you... how could you possibly know?

Anatoli Grushkov: [gives a jovial shrug and walks away]

President Nemerov: What is it you want of me?

Jack: Back down.

John Clark: You speak Hungarian?

Jack: Don't you?

Jack: [PDA]

John Clark: I gotta get me one of those...

Reluctant Nazi: I can no longer continue with this course, so I must leave.

Dressler: Fine, my Butler will show you out.

Reluctant Nazi: [strangled by the Butler]

Jack Ryan: There are supposed to be ten Nuclear Scientists working here, I only count seven?

DVD Commentary: Interviewer: Who's that good in real life? Tom Clancy: Nobody.

Admiral Pollack: Sir, we've got another launch, this one from Alyesk, central Russia.

President Robert Fowler: I don't believe it. What the hell is in Alyesk?

Bill Cabot: SS-18 ICBMs. Probable targets, New York, Washington, here.

President Robert Fowler: How good is this ceiling?

Bill Cabot: Anything but a direct hit.

President Robert Fowler: Get President Zorkin on the Hot Line.

Bill Cabot: Zorkin is missing, sir. We have reports of a coup in Moscow. General Bulgakov is calling the shots now.

President Robert Fowler: Who the hell is Bulgakov?

Bill Cabot: The asshole who wanted to use nukes in Chechnya.

Jack Ryan: [watching a newscast of the Russian president] He's definitely off the diet.

Rudy: He's also off the wagon. Did you hear how he slurred

[speaking Russian]

Rudy: ?

Dillon: That must be why Chelinski's hanging around, to keep him off the sauce.

Jack Ryan: Where's Chelinski?

Dillon: Next to... what's her name? The chick with the brown hair.

Jack Ryan: Elena Rishkov. No, that is not Chelinski.

Dillon: Bzzzt. Busted. It's Chelinski.

Jack Ryan: No. You're thinking Cherpitski.

Dillon: No, I'm not.

Jack Ryan: It ain't Cherpitski, either.

Dillon: I know. It's Chelinski.

Jack Ryan: No, it's not. Believ... trust me.

Dillon: Look! He is standing next to Elena Rishkov. He was bangin' her at the Geneva summit.

Jack Ryan: Chelinski was not at Geneva. Cherpitski was at Geneva.

Dillon: So, what are you sayin'? Cherpitski was bangin' Elena Rishkov?

Mary Pat Foley: [after President Zorkin dies] He died at 0420 Zulu. Eight and a half hours later, they swore in a new president. Everybody wants to know who this new guy is.

Jack Ryan: Who is he?

Rudy: Alexander Nemerov.

Jack Ryan: You're kidding me. I wrote a paper about him a year ago.

Mary Pat Foley: I know.

Jack Ryan: No, Mary Pat, I said he could be next. I said he-he could be the next guy. I predicted this.

Mary Pat Foley: I know, I know.

Jack Ryan: And nobody read it.

Rudy: Yeah, well, they're reading it now, buddy.

Jack Ryan: Who?

Mary Pat Foley: Cabot.

Jack Ryan: I've been here 14 months. I don't think he knows what I look...

[stopping short as they bump into Cabot]

Jack Ryan: So, uh, Intelligence Committe?

Bill Cabot: Mm-hmm.

Jack Ryan: I've watched these on C-SPAN. Never actually been to one.

Bill Cabot: You've never watched one of these on C-SPAN.

Bill Cabot: But our most important assessment comes from a highly-placed source inside the Kremlin. In his opinion, Nemerov does not owe his ascension to the military.

Senator Jessup: Everyone has opinions, Mr. Cabot. I respect that. This morning, my wife woke up and said that I was old, bald, and ugly.

Bill Cabot: Is that a question, Mr. Chairman?

Senator Jessup: I told her appearances aren't everything. Would you agree Mr. Cabot?

Bill Cabot: I certainly would, sir.

Senator Jessup: Now, this, uh, new fellow, "Nezmeroz", is that his name?

Bill Cabot: Nemerov, sir.

Senator Jessup: Mm-hmm. Well, despite what your source says, we hear that "Nezmeroz" is a hard-liner. Is he a hard-liner?

Jack Ryan: [whispering to Cabot] No.

Bill Cabot: It's a bit too soon to make that assessment, sir.

Senator Jessup: Well, 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.

Bill Cabot: Mr. Chairman, uh, some of our assets in the Russian government who actually know Mr. Nemerov have not had a chance to report in. I'd like to take a couple of days and get more information for you before characterizing him. But I do maintain my opinion that appearances can be deceiving.

Senator Jessup: So you're saying I'm wrong?

Bill Cabot: Absolutely, Mr. Chairman. I don't think you're ugly.

Jack Ryan: If I was out of line back there, I apologize.

Bill Cabot: Senators don't like to be surprised. I always give them a hint of what it is I'm going to tell them, then I give them a little time to get used to it. Then I tell them.

Jack Ryan: I understand.

Bill Cabot: Good.

Jack Ryan: But I'm right about Nemerov.

Bill Cabot: Your girlfriend like this stubborn streak in you?

Cathy: He's terrified of commitment.

Dr. Rita Russell: A man is afraid of commitment after three dates? Alert the media.

Cathy: I know, I know.

Dr. Rita Russell: So, what does he do?

Cathy: He was in the Marines before he hurt his back. Now he's a historian.

Dr. Rita Russell: Yawn.

Cathy: No. He works for a think tank across the river.

Dr. Rita Russell: Double yawn.

Cathy: All right, Rita. Let's see what you have to say after you meet him tonight.

Dr. Rita Russell: He's, uh... cute?

Cathy: [scrubbing in for surgery] I have fat fingers.

Dr. Rita Russell: Cathy! Cute scale, one to ten.

Cathy: Oh, god! I don't know. Twelve.

Nemerov's Translator: You must be the Dr. Ryan who has done such interesting research on me. You should not be surprised by this. We know quite a bit. For instance, we know how wrong you were in your report that I had many girlfriends in college. I met my wife in my third year and have not looked at another woman since.

Jack Ryan: I was referring to the first two years... sir.

[in Russian]

Jack Ryan: Where you received highest honors in English.

President Nemerov: First, let me apologize for interjecting myself into your inspection tour. But there is a message I wish for you to take back to President Fowler.

Bill Cabot: Well, you could just call him on the phone.

President Nemerov: 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.

Bill Cabot: I understand.

President Nemerov: Chechnya is an internal affair. What we do there should be none of your concern.

Bill Cabot: I will relay the message, but I don't think he will agree.

President Nemerov: There are those in my country who will use this issue to weaken me.

Bill Cabot: There are those in my country who say your war in Chechnya is exactly your weakness.

President Nemerov: Chechnya is a nation of criminals. Every day brings another cowardly attack on innocent Russian citizens. It is none of your concern.

Bill Cabot: Stability is our concern. Peace in Chechnya is our concern. And, if I may speak frankly, your control over your military concerns us, too.

Jack Ryan: Who's the guy with Nemerov?

Bill Cabot: Anatoli Grushkov.

Jack Ryan: Old KGB?

Bill Cabot: Been lurking around since Brezhnev, plays all sides and nobody's had the guts to get rid of him.

Jack Ryan: Is that because he knows where all the bodies are buried?

Bill Cabot: Probably because he buried them himself.

Jack Ryan: Sir, those three missing scientists? Milinov's expertise is detonators. Spassky's expertise is the package; the nuclear core itself. And Orlov is a mathematician whose expertise is the geometry of high explosives inside a fission bomb.

Bill Cabot: Exact three men you would need if you wanted to build a bomb.

Jack Ryan: Grushkov would have us believe...

Bill Cabot: Grushkov's a liar. Milinov is not sick, Orlov hasn't taken a vacation in years, and Spassky, who was supposed to have died drivin' a car? Doesn't drive. They have no idea where these guys are.

Jack Ryan: I'm dying to ask you how you know that.

Bill Cabot: [turning his laptop around] Secure source inside the Kremlin. Code name: Spinnaker. He gives me stuff. I give him stuff. We keep the back channels open in hopes of staving off disaster. Oh, and speaking of disaster, did you call your girlfriend yet?

Jack Ryan: No. I haven't figured out how I'm gonna dig myself out of this one.

Bill Cabot: All right, listen. Call her up and invite her to the White House Correspondents' Dinner Sunday night. It's the hottest ticket in town. She'll love it.

Jack Ryan: Sounds great. How do I get in?

Bill Cabot: Trust me.

Revell: At approximately 0600 Moscow time, the Russians launched a massive artillery strike against Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. The shells contained an experimental chemical weapon known as the Novichok binary nerve agent. Saturation, you can see it on those infrared sat photos, took 20 minutes. After which, every man, woman, and child inside a radius of roughly 12 miles was rendered helpless by symptoms approximating acute, late-stage cerebral palsy.

Secretary of State Sidney Owens: Oh, my god.

President Robert Fowler: How many dead?

Bill Cabot: Best guess... 80%.

Becker: Which means Nemerov just launched the most massive attack in the history of chemical warfare.

President Robert Fowler: Let's talk response.

Secretary of State Sidney Owens: Worst thing we could do is nothing.

Becker: I agree. If we let him get away with chemical weapons, what's next? Biological, nuclear?

President Robert Fowler: Okay. Short of gassing the Kremlin, what's the strongest response we can make?

Secretary of State Sidney Owens: We send in peacekeepers.

Becker: Chechnya's not sovereign.

Secretary of State Sidney Owens: Look, they requested recognition, so we recognize them. Not full diplomatic recognition; provisional. That may get the Chechens to request emergency international assistance, and we send in peacekeepers.

President Robert Fowler: How do you get 'em in there?

General Lasseter: The fastest way would be to fly 'em in from Turkey.

Becker: Over Armenian airspace?

Revell: To screw Russia, they won't complain.

Jack Ryan: Mr. President, conventional wisdom would suggest that Nemerov is playing the traditional Russian role: be aggressive, flex your muscles, dare the world to stop you. But Nemerov isn't conventional.

Revell: He walks like a hard-liner. He talks like a hard-liner.

Jack Ryan: Yes, but with all due respect, I don't think he is one.

Becker: He just gassed the capital of another country, Doctor. With all due respect, you're wrong.

Jack Ryan: [drowned out by chattering in the room] What if he didn't order the attack?

[louder]

Jack Ryan: What if Nemerov didn't order the attack? What if it was a, uh-uh... rogue general or a splinter military unit frustrated they couldn't get the rest of the rebels out of the city?

President Robert Fowler: Have you any reason to believe he didn't order it, or are you just floating this?

Bill Cabot: [quietly] You don't know.

Jack Ryan: I don't think he did it, sir. I-I would... I would bet he didn't do it.

President Nemerov: [conversing in Russian, after claiming responsibility for an attack on Chechnya] Who did it?

Anatoli Grushkov: General Pildysh, General Mitkin. Unhappy old Communists.

President Nemerov: Bastards. Relieve them of command.

Anatoli Grushkov: I will shoot them myself.

Rudy: These are four hours old. Russian 12th, 15th, and 2nd tank regiments.

Mary Pat Foley: They haven't moved. Why haven't they moved?

Jack Ryan: Nemerov is too smart to move those tanks.

Mary Pat Foley: He speaks.

Dillon: Jack, look, Nemerov's got, like, what, 19,000 tanks? No way NATO can match that.

Jack Ryan: I know, that's why he's not gonna move 'em. It's like a chess game. He's just thinking three moves ahead. He knows he has so many more tanks than we do. And the NATO playbook says the only we could stop 'em is using tactical nuclear weapons.

Rudy: And there's no way he wants to risk a nuclear war over this.

Jack Ryan: I also think he's sending us a message. He didn't bomb Grozny.

Jack Ryan: Nemerov has thousands of bombs. Why does he need to build a secret one?

Bill Cabot: 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, sit back and say "I didn't do it."

Jack Ryan: With all due respect, sir, I don't think that adds up.

Bill Cabot: It adds up. You just don't like what it adds up to.

Jack Ryan: Sir, I write reports.

Bill Cabot: I reviewed your military records, Jack. You can take care of yourself.

Jack Ryan: Yes, sir, but I'm not trained for that.

Bill Cabot: I'm not asking you to be an operations officer, just my eyes and ears. I can't go.

Jack Ryan: So, this isn't sanctionend.

Bill Cabot: [giving him a small plastic case] I want you to give this to Clark, see what he finds out, bring it home.

Jack Ryan: Yes, sir.

Bill Cabot: [Jack opens the car door] Jack. We never had this discussion.

Jack Ryan: What discussion?

Jack Ryan: [Clark tosses him a gun] Clark.

John Clark: What?

Jack Ryan: No. I'm not going in there.

John Clark: You're God damn right you're not. You're gonna stay here and make sure nobody steals my boat. Be right back.

John Clark: [after a standoff with two Ukrainian soldiers] You speak Ukrainian.

Jack Ryan: Yeah. You don't?

John Clark: Whatever it is they were spray-painting was big. About the size of a fridge. The imprint it left was pretty deep, too. So we know three things for sure: it was heavy, something was radioactive, and now it's gone.

Jack Ryan: You said one of them spoke English?

John Clark: South African.

Jack Ryan: Okay, so the question is what's a South African doing in the Ukraine with three Russian scientists and a crate from Israel?

John Clark: [something clicks] Tell Cabot I'll call him from Haifa.

Jack Ryan: I have a feeling you better hurry.

Jack Ryan: So, what'd you find?

Dillon: Ukraine doesn't exactly have a thriving export economy, but it's all lined up; I pulled up every shipping manifest for the past two weeks. The only crate the size of that imprint was picked up at Kiev International ten days ago and flown to the Canary Islands.

Jack Ryan: Okay, well, I can't find Cabot, so the Air Force has a nuclear assessment team. Call them...

Dillon: Jack. Jack! Jack, it got put on a cargo freighter headed for the East Coast.

Jack Ryan: What?

Dillon: Baltimore, Jack. It's coming here.

President Robert Fowler: [getting evacuated from a football game] What the hell is going on?

Secret Service Agent: Sir, please stay down.

Bill Cabot: Some Russian scientists have been working on a bomb. Nuclear. It arrived in Baltimore this morning.

President Robert Fowler: Get those people out of the stadium.

Secret Service Agent: We're on it! Stay down!

Nemerov's Aide: [conversing in Russian] Mr. President... there's been a nuclear explosion in America. You must come with us now.

President Nemerov: [getting out of bed] What?

Nemerov's Aide: We don't know who or how. But it wasn't us.

President Nemerov: After Grozny... you hope it wasn't us.

Nemerov's Aide: We are drafting a strong denial for you.

President Nemerov: And a statement of sympathy. And Yuri... order all military on the alert.

Jack Ryan: Hey, it's Ryan!

Mary Pat Foley: Jack, where are you?

Jack Ryan: I don't know. Somewhere outside Baltimore.

Mary Pat Foley: Listen, Cabot got the president out.

Jack Ryan: Where's the president now?

Mary Pat Foley: Uh, they're taking him airborne. He's on NAOC.

Jack Ryan: Why?

Mary Pat Foley: Uh, they think it might be the Russians.

Jack Ryan: It wasn't the Russians! I gotta talk to Cabot. Can you patch me through to the plane?

Mary Pat Foley: Cabot's not on the plane. We don't know where he is. We just know he's not there. Can you call back in about an hour?

Jack Ryan: We don't have an hour! Fowler's gonna want to show how tough he is! He's gonna hit back now! Listen to me. We have to prove that it wasn't the Russians before he's convinced it is.

Mary Pat Foley: Well, can you get back to Langley?

Jack Ryan: No, we... there's no time! There must be a command post on site. The-the radiation assessment team. Where are they?

Mary Pat Foley: Uh, Stambler Tunnels, south of the city. Jack, listen, the prevailing winds are blowing the fallout to the east and the north. As long as you stay south, you're okay.

Jack Ryan: Captain? Jack Ryan, CIA.

Capt. Lorna Shiro: Lorna Shiro. You need to wait outside with everybody else.

Jack Ryan: Oh, I don't think so. I need to know everything you know about the bomb.

Capt. Lorna Shiro: Look, pal, we're collecting samples, and then we have to analyze the debris. So take a number, get in line, and we'll have the report out tomorrow.

Jack Ryan: Captain. Captain! I don't have time for this. I need to know where this bomb came from. I will settle for where it didn't come from, but I need to know now, otherwise there may not be a tomorrow.

Jack Ryan: The crate the bomb was shipped in. Somebody had to sign for it when it got to port. Customs must have a database. Get me a name. And where's Cabot?

Dillon: No one knows. We're checking the hospitals.

Jack Ryan: Have you tried Memorial?

Dillon: He wouldn't be there. It's on the other side...

Jack Ryan: No, I mean, uh, is it... is it still... it's... it's Cathy's hospital.

Dillon: As far as I know, it's still there. But the phones are down.

Jack Ryan: All right. Can you keep checking for me? Thanks.

Becker: Now, they could have launched a cruise missile. DSP sats might not have picked it up.

Secretary of State Sidney Owens: Now, just a minute. We don't know that this is Russia.

President Robert Fowler: But we don't know it's not.

Revell: Look, if they were sending us a message like "stay out of Chechnya," the whole point would be for us to know it was them. Not to sneak one in.

Becker: Except that they could inspire the kind of dithering and confusion that we're going through right now.

President Nemerov: [hearing Fowler's statement after the bomb attack] He's fishing. Send our reply.

Becker: [on Air Force One] Whoa! That was a little fast.

NAOC Hotline Operator: "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."

Becker: It's canned. They prepared that in advance.

AFRAT Specialist Wesson: There it is. Savannah River.

AFRAT Specialist Stubbs: Oh, yeah.

Jack Ryan: "Oh, yeah" what?

AFRAT Specialist Stubbs: They always had a gadolinium problem. Hanford does it another way. They always generate too much promethium.

Jack Ryan: [on the phone] Hold on a second. Can you translate that into English for me?

AFRAT Specialist Wesson: 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.

Jack Ryan: Wait a minute. This is *our* plutonium?

AFRAT Specialist Wesson: Made in the USA.

Secretary of State Sidney Owens: We've come up with another alternative.

Becker: We'll counterforce. A conventional attack on the Russian air base where the carrier attack originated.

Secretary of State Sidney Owens: It's what we're looking for. A measured respones.

Admiral Pollack: Non-nuclear.

President Robert Fowler: Is it strong enough?

Admiral Pollack: Smart bombs and F-16s. Pretty God damn strong.

President Robert Fowler: 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.

Admiral Pollack: I think they'll get that message.

President Robert Fowler: Hit 'em.

Jack Ryan: This is Jack Ryan from the Russia desk.

Becker: Oh, how great. The Nemerov apologist.

Jack Ryan: Sir, this bomb was not Nemerov. I know this guy.

Becker: That's what you said after Grozny, Mr. Ryan. Put it in your report.

Jack Ryan: The plutonium came from...

[Becker hangs up]

John Clark: It seems unusual to find radiation poisoning all the way out here.

Arab Doctor: I have never myself seen such a thing. That is why we published the case on the Internet; to seek help.

John Clark: How did he say it happened?

Arab Doctor: He will not talk about it.

Rudy: Jack, we're in Olson's files. He shows wire payments of $45 million from someone named Dressler.

Mary Pat Foley: Dillon, go run Dressler. Find out who he is. Jack, I really want you out of there.

Jack Ryan: I am at the docks. I think there's somebody inside.

Rudy: See if the name Dressler's anywhere.

Mary Pat Foley: No! Jack, get out of there. Dillon, call the Baltimore PD, give them the address. Hurry. Jack, wait for the cops.

Jack Ryan: [hanging up] I'll call you back.

Mary Pat Foley: Dressler's an Austrian manufacturer, billionaire. His father was executed at Nuremburg. Five years ago, he bought himself a seat in Parliament, then he got booted out for saying nice things about the Nazis.

Jack Ryan: Rudy, you gotta get me through to the president.

Rudy: I can't do it, Jack.

Jack Ryan: Come on! Get me through!

Rudy: They're into Snapcount, Jack. There's no way in.

Jack Ryan: Bullshit!

Anatoli Grushkov: Dr. Ryan.

Jack Ryan: Mr. Gruskov.

Anatoli Grushkov: It is... a lovely day.

Jack Ryan: Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. This is...

Anatoli Grushkov: Dr. Muller. How do you do?

Cathy: Nice to meet you.

Jack Ryan: Why am I not surprised that you know her name?

Anatoli Grushkov: Our friend William thought I was a spy. Of course, he could never prove it.

Jack Ryan: He never told me you were friends.

Anatoli Grushkov: Perhaps he didn't know you well enough.

Jack Ryan: Cabot did tell me he had a source in Russia.

Anatoli Grushkov: To keep the back channels open.

Jack Ryan: In hopes of staving off disaster.

Anatoli Grushkov: I will miss... so very much talking to William.

Jack Ryan: Me, too.

Anatoli Grushkov: Perhaps, from time to time, you and I can talk.

Jack Ryan: Yeah, I'd like that.