Sam Neill identified a scene from the 1990 Cold War thriller *The Hunt for Red October* as the most memorable of his career, according to the article. It highlights the emotional impact of his character Captain Vasily Borodin’s fate, which gives a human dimension to a film otherwise centred on submarine warfare, espionage and nuclear tension.

Neill played Borodin, the second-in-command on the Soviet submarine Red October, alongside Sean Connery as Captain Marko Ramius. Directed by John McTiernan and adapted from Tom Clancy’s novel, the film follows Ramius’s attempt to defect to the United States; Borodin’s final moments, including his wish to see Montana, have become one of its most affecting scenes.