Cleo Daway was a Egyptology student and associate of Professor Giza. The character first appeared episode 4 ("Shifting Sands") of the 1991 spin-off animated television series, James Bond Jr. and was subsequently adapted for John Vincent's accompanying novelisation, Sandblast!
Biography[]
Daway was a student of Egyptology, presumably studying under Professor Giza. She is deeply mistrustful of outsiders, and holds special contempt for those who seek to buy and sell artifacts of Egyptian heritage.
She first meets James Bond Jr. and his companions whilst they are visiting Egypt on an archaeological expedition; treating their presence with suspicion. Cleo joins Bond and the excavation party, as they return to the recently-discovered tomb of Pharaoh Hiphurrah. She warms to him as they discuss Egyptology, surprised that a foreigner would show interest in her cultural heritage. The party are trapped in the tomb after Trevor Noseworthy accidentally triggers an artificial earthquake with one of I.Q's gadgets. In a bid to escape, she and Bond discover a hidden treasure vault... and an underground warship belonging to Egyptian criminal, Pharaoh Fearo.
The pair are subsequently taken captive and the mad Pharaoh outlines his scheme to reclaim his supposed inheritance: the treasures of his ancestor, Pharaoh Hiphurrah, and the rich oil fields of the Sinai Peninsula. After a failed escape attempt, Fearo traps Bond and Cleo in a section of pipeline and prepares to begin stealing the crude oil for S.C.U.M.. They escape drowning by eroding the metal with acid, inadvertently flooding the vessel with oil and forcing it to surface. With the help of a local sheikh, Bond commandeers the vessel and Fearo is taken into custody. Cleo and Bond return to the burial site in time to save his entombed friends from suffocating. Returning to the hotel, Cleo tells Bond that while their cultures are too different for them to "blend", she wants to give him a memento of their time together.
Trivia[]
- Her name is a pun on the phrase "clear the way".