<P> Due to the actions of an unknown saboteur, Red October's caterpillar drive fails during risky maneuvers through a narrow undersea canyon . Petty Officer Jones (Courtney B. Vance), a sonar technician aboard the submarine USS Dallas, has discovered a way to detect Red October using underwater acoustics and plots an intercept course . Ryan arranges a hazardous mid-ocean rendezvous to board Dallas, where he attempts to persuade its captain, Commander Bart Mancuso (Scott Glenn), to contact Ramius and determine his intentions . </P> <P> The Soviet ambassador informs the U.S. government that Ramius is a renegade and asks for help in sinking Red October . That order is sent to the U.S. fleet, including Dallas, which has found the Soviet submarine . Ryan, however, is convinced that Ramius plans to defect with his officers and convinces Mancuso to contact Ramius and offer assistance . Ramius, stunned that the Americans correctly guessed his plan, accepts . He then stages a nuclear reactor "emergency" and orders his crew to abandon ship . After a U.S. frigate is spotted, Ramius submerges with only his officers . Meanwhile, Ryan, Mancuso, and Jones come aboard via a rescue sub, at which point Ramius requests asylum in the United States for himself and his officers . </P> <P> Red October is suddenly attacked by V.K. Konovalov, which has tracked them across the Atlantic . As the two Soviet subs maneuver, one of Red October's cooks, Loginov (Tomas Arana), an undercover GRU agent and the secret saboteur, opens fire . He fatally wounds first officer Vasily Borodin (Sam Neill) before retreating to the nuclear missiles bay, pursued by Ryan and Ramius . Loginov shoots Ramius, wounding him, but Ryan kills Loginov before he can detonate a missile . Meanwhile, Red October makes evasive maneuvers with a diversion provided by Dallas, causing V.K. Konovalov to be destroyed by its own fired torpedo . The crew of Red October, now rescued, watch the explosion from the deck of the U.S. frigate; unaware of the second Soviet submarine, they believe that Ramius has sacrificed himself and scuttled Red October to avoid being boarded . </P> <P> Ryan and Ramius, their subterfuge complete, navigate Red October to the Penobscot River in Maine . Ramius admits that the reason he defected was that after he was handed the plans for Red October, a nuclear war first strike weapon, he concluded that he could never support such an action . From atop the submarine's sail deck, Ramius, pleased to have made it to America, offers Ryan a quote from Christopher Columbus . Ryan nods in agreement and offers in return, "Welcome to the New World, sir ." </P>

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