
The Poison Garden, as seen in No Time To Die (2021).
The Poison Garden was a fictional island and chemical manufacturing facility located somewhere in the Sea of Japan/Okhotsk. Originally constructed by the Soviet Union in the 1940s, the site was subsequently utilised by the Safin family, SPECTRE, and finally, by Lyutsifer Safin. The location appeared prominently in the 2021 James Bond film, No Time To Die.
History[]
The desolate island was part of a chain in disputed waters between Japan and Russia. The location appears to have been of strategic interest to the Soviet Union from the Second World War onwards and was heavily fortified with submarine pens, concrete bunkers, missile silos and, significantly, a chemical plant. The facility eventually fell into the hands of the Safin family, who dubbed the island the "Poison Garden" and used it to fabricate toxins for the criminal organisation, SPECTRE. They were subsequently massacred by the organisation, who seized control of the site and its chemical works. Several decades later, following the collapse of SPECTRE, Lyutsifer Safin briefly took possession of the island and used it to manufacture the virus-like nanoweapon, "Heracles". By this time the island was largely in a state of disrepair.
It served as his primary base of operations following his destruction of SPECTRE and the kidnapping of Dr Madeleine Swann alongside her daughter. The base was infiltrated by two members of the Double-0 section, James Bond and Nomi; after the latter escorted the Swann's off the island, Bond remained behind to open the Cold War-era silo doors in order to facilitate bombardment from a Royal Navy Type 45 Destroyer. Although he was initially successful in this, he was infected with Heracles in a final confrontation with Safin, and sacrificed his life to not put Swann and their child at risk from the targeted virus. The missile strike from the warship destroyed the outpost and the toxins being manufactured within, preventing the deaths of millions.
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Trivia[]
- The poison garden is a reference to Dr. Guntram Shatterhand's lethal botanical garden in Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice (1964) known as the "Garden of Death". Like its literary equivalent, both locations were situated in Japan.
- In the chemical manufacturing facility of the island, a simulation uncovered by Bond and Nomi showed Haracles potentially wiping out around 2 million+ people.
- The island's structures are mostly constructed along its north-west edges; leaving most of the rugged and barren interior apparently unoccupied.