Ramius"" plan was to reach Maine or Massachusetts within 48 hours.Throughout the film, NSA Advisor Pelt engaged in continuing talks with the Soviet Ambassador Andrei Lysenko (Joss Ackland), who first falsely claimed that the increased Soviet presence in the Atlantic was due to their massive rescue operation to locate the lost submarineRed October.He then pursued Dr.Loomis and Laurie, and cornered hem in an operating room, where he broke down the door and stabbed and mortally wounded Loomis in the stomach with a scalpel(# 11 death, although only temporary), when the doctor""s gun clicked empty.Weary, Harold must cope with another day of headaches.In a classic bathroom sequence, he is in the one-bathroom in the house, attempting to shave peacefully.Sal also drives to Wards Island, for unknown reasons ("maybe it""s another drop").[Note: Wards Island is eventually revealed to be the site of, among others, The Charnier Shipping Company of Marseilles, France, where purchased cars for their scrap metal are held until being shipped.Brassel criticized the operation planned by Musgrave as "poorly conceived and executed worse." The hard-drives in the damaged laptop computers taken from the warehouse were burned, scorched, and had holes - unsalvageable.