Patricia Fearing is a nurse employed by the Shrublands Health Clinic. Based on the literary character who first appeared in the 1961 Ian Fleming novel Thunderball, she was portrayed by the late Molly Peters in its 1965 film adaptation of the same name.
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Patricia Fearing is a nurse at the Shrublands health clinic and is tasked with looking after James Bond while he is there recuperating from an injury he got on a recent mission (the killing of Jacques Bouvar). She is also involved with Count Lippe whom she introduces to Bond. Bond notices a strange tattoo on Lippe's arm which he suspects is that of a criminal organisation. Fearing later leaves with Lippe in the latter's car for undisclosed reasons and Bond takes advantage to search Lippe's room. He is seen by Lippe's accomplice Angelo Palazzi.
Later, Fearing is giving Bond a checkup when he seizes and forcibly kisses her. Offended, she tries to teach him a lesson by strapping him to an automatic traction table and leaves him for a few moments. However, while she is away, Lippe turns up the power on the traction table in an attempt to kill Bond. Bond is ultimately saved by Fearing when she returns. She believes that he accidentally hit the power switch.
When Bond mutters that someone is going to pay for his ordeal, he means Lippe, but Fearing fears that he means her and begs him not to report her to her boss, Dr. Wain, or she will lose her job. Bond takes advantage of this mistake to say that his silence has a price. Taking the hint, Fearing objects at first, but Bond leads her into the steam room where he strips her and they make love.
Bond and Fearing continue their affair during the rest of his stay at the clinic. In his room, he gives a mostly disrobed Fearing a massage with a mink glove, saying that mink "reduces the tension". Fearing responds, "Not mine". Bond then happens to notice Lippe up to suspicious activities and goes to investigate, telling Fearing that he is taking "a little exercise." Fearing mutters "You must be joking!", presumably in reference to their recent love-making. When she later sees him sweet-talking and holding another woman's hand, she mutters "Haven't you had enough exercise for one evening?"
When Bond suddenly leaves the clinic for another mission, Fearing accompanies him to his car, anxiously asking him to stay in touch. Bond says he will but there is no indication that he ever did.
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