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A Playful Exchange Between Bond and Moneypenny
Miss Moneypenny
James! Have you brought me a souvenir from your trip? Chocolates? An engagement ring?
James Bond
I thought you might enjoy one of these.
[gives Miss Moneypenny a cigar tube]
Miss Moneypenny
How romantic. I know exactly where to put that.
[throws the cigar tube in the bin]
Bond
Oh Moneypenny, the story of our relationship: close, but no cigar.
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Misjudgments in Perception and Timing
James Bond
I was wrong about you.
[in bed with Jones]
Dr. Christmas Jones
Yeah, how so?
James Bond
I thought Christmas only comes once a year.
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Presence of Danger and Excitement
Taglines
Danger, Suspense, Excitement. There must be when he's around.
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Betrayal and Revenge Among Allies
Elektra King
Your present, courtesy of the late Mr. Bond.
[to Renard as she announces that she has captured M for him]
Renard
My executioner.
M
Overpraise, I'm afraid. But my people will finish the job.
King
Your people? Your people will leave you here to rot. Just like you left me- you and my father.
M
Your father wasn't...
King
My father was nothing! The kingdom he stole from my mother, the kingdom I will rightly take back.
[leaves]
M
I hope you're proud of what you did to her.
Renard
I'm afraid it is you who deserve credit. When I took her, she was promise itself. And then you left her at the mercy of a man like me. You made that happen. For what? To get to me? She's worth fifty of me.
M
For once, I agree with you.
Renard
Yes. And now we both share a common fate. You will die along with everyone in the city. Along with the bright, starry, oil driven future of the West. Since you sent your men to kill me, I've been watching time tick away, marching towards my own death. Now you can have the same pleasure. Watch these hands, M. By noon tomorrow, your time is up. And I guarantee you, I will not miss.
[Renard reaches for an alarm clock and holds it in his hands]
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Miscommunication Among Agents in Crisis Situation
Dr. Christmas Jones
Do you wanna explain why you did that? I could have stopped that bomb! You almost killed us!
James Bond
I did kill us. She thinks we're dead and she thinks she got away with it.
Jones
Do you want to put that in English for those of us who don't speak spy? Who's she?
Bond
Elektra King.
Jones
Well, why would she blow up her own pipeline?
Bond
It makes her look innocent. The explosion covers up the theft of the plutonium... and they make it look like a terrorist attack.
Jones
But why leave this half?
[takes a tin of plutonium out of her bag]
Bond
So there's enough to spread around to cover up for the part that they did take.
Jones
But what are they gonna do with the other half? Its not enough to make a nuclear bomb.
Bond
You're the scientist; you tell me.
Jones
I don't know... but the world's greatest terrorist running around with six kilos of weapons-grade plutonium can't be good. I have to get it back, or somebody's gonna have my ass.
Bond
First things first.
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The Limits of Desire and Ambition
Elektra King
I could have given you the world.
James Bond
The world is not enough.
King
Foolish sentiment.
Bond
].
[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)|Family motto]
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Confrontation Between Bond and Renard
James Bond
Are you really going to commit suicide for her ?
[Elektra]
Renard
You forget, I'm already dead!
Bond
Haven't you heard? So is she!
Renard
You're lying! LIAR!!
[stunned; screams]
Bond
She's waiting for you!
[he and Renard look at each other; twists a knob and impales Renard with the fuel rod ejected at him]
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Bond Faces a New Challenge
R
Now, I daresay, 007, that you've met your match with this machine.
James Bond
Yeah? New model, improved specs?
[Putting on some nearby shades, that are really x-ray glasses]
R
I thought you were on the Inactive roster; some kind of injury?
James Bond
Yes, well, we'll see about that. So...
R
As I was saying, the very latest in interception countermeasures. Titanium armor, a multi-tasking heads-up display, and six beverage cup holders. All in all, rather stocked.
Q
Fully loaded," I think is the term.
R
I think–
Q
You're not here to think, you're here to do what I tell you. Now, go put on the coat and demonstrate it for 007.
R
But of course. Now, watch closely, please, 007. The right arm goes in the right sleeve, thus, and the left arm in the left sleeve, thus. Now, note closely, please: pockets, poppers, and zipper. Take the lower part of the zipper, and insert it into the–
[Puts on the snow jacket]
Q
Oh, pull the tag!
[Q and Bond give a look to each other; Pulls a tag on the front of the jacket]
R
Oh! But you said–! Oooh! Q! Ooof!
[An inflatable self-closing ball inflates out of the back of the jacket, then wraps around R. He falls and rolls around blindly, stuck in the ball]
James Bond
He seems well-suited for the job. Now, you're not retiring anytime soon...are you?
[Q chuckles and goes to a nearby platform]
Q
Now, pay attention 007. I've always tried to teach you two things. First, never let them see you bleed.
Bond
And the second?
Q
Always have an escape plan.
[presses button and the platform lowers itself, and Q, into the floor]
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Always Count on One Number
Taglines
As the countdown begins for the new millennium there is still one number you can always count on.
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Bond Returns to the Screen
Taglines
Bond is Back
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Desire and Ambition in a Dangerous World
Taglines
Some men want to rule the world... Some women ask for the world... Some believe the world is theirs for the taking... But for one man, The World Is Not Enough!!!
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Bond Faces Consequences of His Actions
Bond
I suppose we all have to pay the piper sometime, right, Q?
Q
Oh, pipe down, 007.
Bond
Was it something I said?
Q
No. Something you destroyed: My fishing boat for my retirement, away from you. Now, I want to introduce you to the young fellow I'm grooming to follow me.
[points to advanced (and heavily damaged) skiff Bond earlier used; opens pool table. A platform arises, showing a man working on a BMW coupe. Bond and Q walk toward it]
Man
Oh...
[looks at Q and Bond; man has lab gown stuck on the car door; he looks around in confusion. Bond opens it, freeing the lab coat]
Bond
Helps if you open the door.
Man
Hmm. And you might be?
Q
This is 007!
Bond
If you're Q, does that make him R?
R
Ah yes, the legendary 007 wit, or at least half of it.
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Tension Escalates Among Key Characters
James Bond
Call him off. I won't ask again. Call him off. CALL HIM OFF!
[offering radio; Elektra is startled]
Elektra
Renard. You wouldn't kill me. You'd miss me.
[says into the walkie-talkie; to Bond]
Renard
Yes?
[from the walkie-talkie]
Elektra
Dive! Bo-
[Bond shoots her and she falls into her bed, dead. M sees the aftermath]
Bond
I never miss.
[coldly]
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A Deadly Exchange of Gratitude
James Bond
Expecting Davidov? He caught a bullet instead of the plane. Get off and keep your mouth shut!
[grabs Renard and holds him at gunpoint]
Renard
You can't kill me. I'm already dead.
Bond
Not dead enough for me.
Renard
You could show a little gratitude. I did spare your life at the banker's office. That's right; I couldn't kill you, you were working for me. You delivered the money, killed King and now you've brought me the plane.
Bond
What's your plan for the bomb?!
Renard
You first. Or could it be you don't have a plan?
Bond
That bomb will never leave this room!
Renard
Neither will you. How sad…to be threatened by a man who can't grasp what he's involved in.
Bond
Revenge is not hard to fathom for a man who believes in nothing.
Renard
And what do you believe in? Preservation of capital? Go ahead. Shoot me. I welcome it. My men will hear the shot and kill you.
[pulls away from Bond]
Bond
And the firefight will bring down half the army from above.
Renard
But when a certain phone call isn't made in twenty minutes, Elektra dies.
Bond
You're bluffing.
Renard
She's beautiful, isn't she? You should have had her before, when she was innocent. How does it feel to know that I broke her in for you?
Bond
I usually hate killing an unarmed man. Cold-blooded murder is a filthy business.
[as he puts the silencer on his P99]
Renard
A man tires of being executed.
Bond
But in your case, I feel nothing, just like you.
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