- "You'll talk, Mr. Bond. You'll give up your secrets. Sooner or later, they all do."
- ― Rak to James Bond
Rak was a wealthy Thaï terrorist and businessman. Voiced by actor James Goode, the character is a secondary antagonist created for Activision's 2010 video-game, James Bond 007: Blood Stone.
Biography[]
Rak is a wealthy businessman of Mongolian ancestry. He owns vast swathes of the docks around the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok and is known to operate a variety of export businesses. In his time in Bangkok, Rak has had numerous allegations of criminal activity brought against him, including claims of homicide, torture with a bladed weapon, and human trafficking. A testimony to Rak's power and influence, an official police investigation by the Thai authorities found no evidence of such wrongdoing and Rak was cleared of all charges.
Meeting at an aquarium in Bangkok, Chinese intelligence officer Colonel Ping tells Bond he had a team in Geneva following a lead on a man called Rak who operates out of Bangkok. Before Ping can reveal more, an assassin hired by Rak kills him. James Bond tries to get background information on Rak from M while evading the Thai Police. Bond meets up with an old friend, known as Silk, who tells him where he can find Rak; when Bond leaves, Silk informs someone where Bond is going and also says to make sure Bond does not make it. Bond confronts Rak in his boathouse and tries to capture him after a hand-to-hand fight. However, he manages to drug 007 and takes him to Burma where he owns a prison camp.
He tortures Bond and intends to slaughter him, but he fails when Bond escapes. Shortly after escaping, Bond engages in multiple fights with Rak. The conflict enters its climax when Bond fights Rak on a catwalk in a dam, eventually knocking him off. Rak tries to call for mercy, but Bond already deduced who Rak’s employer is. Bond leaves Rak to fall to his death, only for Rak to land on top of his Osprey. Bond shoots Rak with his pistol, who, in his dying moments, accidentally shoots the helicopter with a grenade launcher. The Osprey explodes along with Rak, killing him.
In the Nintendo DS version of Blood Stone, Bond's encounter with Rak is depicted differently. Rak is closely involved with Ping's assassination, and is promptly pursued by Bond out of the aquarium and into the streets of Bangkok, where he commandeers a truck that Bond follows with a Aston Martin DBS V12. The chase spills out into the outskirts of the city down a wrong-way road with high-speed trucks and into one of Rak's safe houses. There, he flees into nearby canals on a speedboat, with Bond in tow. The two then engage in a machine gun duel, with Rak appearing to have the upper hand with the availability of a rocket launcher, but Bond manages to crash his boat and bring him to dry land for an up-close fight that he nearly wins, before Rak suddenly knocks him unconscious with a stun gas canister, imprisoning him in Burma. After Bond breaks free and tries to use an Osprey to escape, Rak thwarts his plan by shooting it down with a rocket launcher, then makes his way to another Osprey to flee. Bond catches up with him there, resulting in a final confrontation aboard the Osprey's open cargo hold. The two struggle there in a firearms duel, with the danger of falling out of the cargo hold and Rak's deadly melee combat skills with his jewelry knife, until Bond manages to weaken Rak so that he could no longer keep his feet in the cargo hold and is swept towards the open door, clinging on for dear life. It is there where Rak pleads for mercy, offering to tell Bond everything, only to be rebutted by Bond's assertion that he already knows everything, before he finishes off Rak, breaking his grip so that he plummets to his death.
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- ↑ According to camcorder footage in Pomerov's safe, 007: Blood Stone, 2010.