Chief Superintendent Bailey is a British police chief superintendent in the 1988 James Bond novel, Scorpius by John Gardner.
Biography[]
At the start of the novel, Bailey alerts M of Emma Dupré's recovered body which had drown in the River Thames the night before. He tells that Dupré had been a member of the religious cult, the Society of the Meek Ones, who helped her wean off of heroin. When M questions the relevance of this to MI6, Bailey responds that a Filofax that only contained James Bond's name. M asks for Miss Moneypenny to send Bond into his office.
When Bond arrives, he reveals he had known Emma and her parents before since he celebrated her twenty-first birthday. Bailey then informs that Trilby Shrivenham was a member of the Meek Ones who was also cured of her heroin addiction. He then hands Bond an Avante Carte credit card that was in Dupré's possession. Trilby's father, Lord Basil Shrivenham, is also brought into M's office and questioned on his knowledge of Scorpius.
Shortly after, M is alerted that the young Shrivenham has been found in an semi-conscious state outside of her parents' home. Bond and Bailey arrive at the residence and see Trilby in bed repeatedly state "The meek shall inherit the earth". For Trilby's safety, she is taken to the Surrey Clinic.
Following the assassination of Lord Samuel Mills, Bailey enters into M's office and listens to a tape recording of Trilby delivering a witch-like coded prophecy that Bond had recorded during his visit to the clinic. Bailey also shows them a videotape of the assassination plot against Mills.
Following the bombing of the clinic, M begins to suspect that Harriet Horner or Sergeant Pearlman is informing Scorpius by giving him information that allows him to be always one step ahead of them. At the end of the novel, Bond realizes it had been Bailey who was Scorpius' informant all along. When Bond, Pearlman, and David Wolkovsky arrive at Washington, D.C. to foil a double assassination plot against the U.S. President and the British Prime Minister, Bond shoots and kills Bailey who raised an automatic pistol towards the leaders.