In the blackness of space, he pilots of the Pan Am spaceship dock (or penetrate with) the phallic craft - through the aid of graphic read-out screens that must constantly be monitored - in the spoke-hub of the gigantic, circular, revolving space station [a symbol of an egg] - almost like a copulatory act.Later in her hut, she was disappointed by her failure to find answers:I thought I""d find answers here." Afterwards, they would sail to Havana, Cuba for sun, comradeship, and shore leave.At US Naval yards in Maryland, Jack Ryan met with submarine engineering expert ""Skip"" Tyler (Jeffrey Jones), and learned that the submarine doors in the photographs meant that theRed Octoberwas equipped with a unique and revolutionary propulsion system known as a magneto-hydrodynamic drive (aka caterpillar drive), an ultra-quiet jet engine in the water that was undetectable.Other dignitaries included the incumbent Mayor (Michael Murphy) who was opposed by evil and corrupt Gotham City polluter-businessman Maximillian Shreck (Christopher Walken), due to his plan to build an unneeded power plant (Gotham City had a power surplus).His left hand, tattooed with the letters "H-A-T-E" on his four fingers, clenches and then reaches in his coat pocket to grab his concealed switchblade knife.