- "Brilliant! Well done, Franz. Another 80 million dollar write-off!"
"Then I guess it's time to start cutting overhead." - ― Truman-Lodge and Franz Sanchez
Truman-Lodge was a fictional accountant and associate of the drug lord Franz Sanchez. The character appeared in the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill, portrayed by American actor Anthony Starke, and was given the full name William Truman-Lodge[1] in John Gardner's accompanying novelisation and a trading card game.
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In a deleted scene, included in John Gardner's novelization, CIA informant Pam Bouvier mentions that Truman-Lodge is Sanchez's "financial whiz kid" and is wanted in the United States for insider trading on Wall Street. Throughout the film, he expresses a great focus on the financial aspects of Sanchez's business, protesting about some of Sanchez's decisions due to the financial consequences of such moments as the destruction of his factory. Sanchez flees as fire consumes his base, taking with him four articulated tankers full of the cocaine and petrol mixture. During the course of the chase through the desert, three of the four tankers are destroyed, prompting Truman-Lodge to sarcastically congratulated Sanchez with an "80 million dollar write-off". This provokes an enraged drug lord to simply retorts "I guess it's time to start cutting overhead" and sprays him with a Micro UZI.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gardner, John [1989]. in Orion: Licence to Kill (in English). Kent: Coronet. ISBN 1409135764.