The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Jeffrey Jones: Skip Tyler

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• Skip Tyler : When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads 90 miles off the coast of Florida. Well, this thing could park a coupla hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it till it was all over.

• Skip Tyler : [looking at photos of Red October which show the doors in the front and back of the sub]  I'll be... this... this could be a caterpillar.

  Jack Ryan : A what?

  Skip Tyler : Uh, a caterpillar drive. Magneto hydrodynamic propulsion. You follow?

  Jack Ryan : No.

  Skip Tyler : It's like a... a jet engine for the water. Goes in the front, gets squirted out the back. Only it has no moving parts, so it's very, very quiet.

  Jack Ryan : Like how quiet?

  Skip Tyler : It's doubtful our sonar would even pick it up. And if it did, it'd sound like... whales humping or some kind of seismic anomaly. Anything but a submarine. We messed with this a couple years ago. Couldn't make it work. They really built this? This isn't a mock-up or anything?

  Jack Ryan : She put to sea this morning.

  Skip Tyler : When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads 90 miles off the coast of Florida. This thing could park a couple of hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it until it was all over.

• Jack Ryan : Could you launch an ICBM horizontally?

  Skip Tyler : Sure. Why would you want to?

• Skip Tyler : [inspecting the pictures of the unknown doors on the Red October]  They're symmetrical. Right down the long axis of the sub.

  Jack Ryan : How about a towed sonar array?

  Skip Tyler : Nope. Too close to the screws.

• Skip Tyler : Ryan! Who let you in here?

  Jack Ryan : Hey, Skip, what, have they got you playing with models now?

  Skip Tyler : Ahh! Damn it, Bill! Tell 'em to slow down!

  Bill Steiner : I'm doing it! I'm doing it! Calm down, will you?

  Skip Tyler : It's not a model. The DSRV; rescue sub.

  Jack Ryan : I know what it is. I just never seen one before. What are you doing with it?

  Skip Tyler : Ah, well, we're rigging it with a generic docking collar, so it'll mate with British, German, just about anybody's sub. We can get it anywhere in the world in 24 hours. How's your back?

  Jack Ryan : It's fine. Have you got a minute?