The Red October, “a combat vessel of the Soviet Navy,” has gone missing.

Commandeered by Captain Marko Ramius (played by the inimitable Sean Connery), the Red October has gone rogue. Only CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) has a plausible, hopeful theory as to why.

Ryan’s “research project” on the Red October’s mysterious “caterpillar” technology causes him to become the expendable fall guy;