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The Unmade Bond 17 , also known as Dalton's unmade third Bond, refers to a cancelled EON-Produced James Bond film, which would have starred Timothy Dalton in his third Bond outing, following the 1989 film Licence to Kill. The film was pursued in earnest by EON Productions and had entered pre-production, being planned to release in 1991. However, the production was halted in February 1991, due to legal battles involving EON, Danjaq and MGM (then MGM-Pathé Communications) and was effectively cancelled during the proceedings.
There were two distinct drafts operating on same concepts devised by two writing teams. Michael G. Wilson and Alfonse Ruggiero came the May 1990 and July 1990 treatments, and from William Osborne and William Davies came the January 1991 treatment. Both focused on Hong Kong regarding a plan by a tech entrepreneur named "Sir Henry" (whose ethnicity is different between the two writing teams' scripts) to turn the aforementioned region into their own principality.
Due to the lengthy legal battle, Timothy Dalton's contract expired and the producers had lost interest in the proposed "Hong Kong" plot. As a result, EON would approach a new story focusing on post-Cold War Russia, and after being unable to convince Dalton back to the role of Bond, EON Productions would instead cast Pierce Brosnan as the new James Bond. In the end, the finalized Bond 17 would become the 1995's GoldenEye.
Proposed name[]
Apparently, there was never proper title to assigned to the movie. According to Mark Edlitz's interview with Alfonse Ruggerio, who wrote the 1990 May and July drafts, there was discussion about the name of the title, with one of the possible film titles discussed being GoldenEye, like the finished 1995 film.
Within elements of the James Bond fandom, the most common rumored title assigned to this film is Property of a Lady, after the Fleming short story, with this title being mentioned as a possibility in the reference book, The Bond Files. However, in the aforementioned interview, Ruggerio tells that he doesn't recall the "Property of a Lady" being discussed and that the aforementioned title sounds ill-fitting for a Bond movie.[1]
May 1990 draft[]
The original draft was penned by Michael G. Wilson and Alfonse Ruggiero.
Following a threatening and inexplicable explosion at a Scottish chemical facility, 007 is deployed to the Far East to investigate the prolific businessman Sir Henry Lee Ching. Aided by ex-CIA cat-thief Connie Webb and aging spy Denholm Crisp, Bond must prevent Sir Henry's ambitions to turn Hong Kong into his own principality, who is willing to even risk World War III over it.
In depth plot[]
Opening sequence[]
The opening sequence was set in a chemical weapons laboratory in Scotland, where bomb squad are searching the perimeters under instruction of Nigel Yupland, a "rising young star" in Ministry of Defence. The bomb squad has performed their first search and Yupland orders them to check again. Meanwhile, the lab technicians are continuing their regular work while bunch of robots are working. Suddenly, one of the robots malfunctions and a fire breaks out. The technicians flee, while the entire facility explodes, with bomb squad and Yupland diving for cover.
England, Briefing[]
After a ‘bitter debate’ in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister would be seen being questioned by MPs about the explosion, and he would assure the House that the ‘full resources’ of the government were being used to investigate the incident.
Bond is summoned to MI6 headquarters (script refers it to MI5, but it is evidently meant to be MI6.) Bond enters M's office where he is greeted by M and Yupland, who is there by orders of the prime minister. Yupland tells that, because his confidence in M and despite deeming the "00 Section" to be outdated and to be disbanded, he wants MI6 to join his taskforce.
A week earlier, MOD had received a threatening letter without demands, warning of Scotland plant's destruction. Although assumed to be a joke first, a team was send to evaluate the threat. Despite all the precautions taken, the plant still exploded, with the cause still unknown. They had received a second, similar letter, indicating that within 72 hours, a British government facility Hong Kong be next. Yupland thinks its terrorism, but because of Scotland plants security, M deems there is more to it.
Yupland leads M and Bond to his crisis room, where British government agencies' top experts analyze the clues they have compiled. He explains that there have been a series of break-ins into high-tech government facilities and companies with military contracts, including the Scotland lab. Since nothing had been taken, they considered these break-ins a lower priority, but due to the explosions, these matters are now investigated more seriously.
They suspect a single, professional perpetrator has carried out all these break-ins. Amongst the evidence complied by Scotland Yard, Bond spots a low-quality photo of the intruder from security video. Yupland tells that experts are unable to get anything out of the video footage, but Bond takes the tape.
Bond delivers the tape to Q, who thinks he is maybe able something out of it. Using a experimental computer program, Q tries to reconstruct the image, but it will take least eight hours.
Japan, Kohoni Industries[]
Meanwhile in Tokyo, Japan, a black-clad figure arrives in a black Lamborghini and proceeds to break into a building marked "Kohoni Industries". The intruder breaks in effortlessly, using combination of agility and sophisticated electronic jamming devices to efficiently defeat the building's security systems.
The figure moves to the workshop area where electronics and robotics are repaired. She finds a crate addressed to "Nanking, China", uncovering a robotic apparatus and substitutes it's sub-assembly unit with another.
Cars of the private security arrive at the building gates. Inside one of the cars are the Kohoni Twins, two large-sized men and heads of the Kohoni Industrial empire. The black-clad figure realizes something is off and moves on post-haste. Outside, Kohoni and the well-armed security move in. They slam into the workshop, only to find a mountaineering rope hanging from a skylight. One of the twins order the men to go outside the building. The twin puts on infrared goggles and sees the intruder balancing on the rooftops.
Using a Schermuly Pains-Wessex Speedline, the intruder swings over the Kohoni security guards as they fire towards her, before landing next to the Lamborghini. The intruder jumps behind the wheel and accelerates with the Kohonis in pursuit. The intruder escapes using thick fog and a ferry to outmaneuver Kohoni Twins' men. Having successfully avoided the Kohoni Twins, the burglar gets out of her car and unmasks, revealing herself to be Connie Webb, then proceeds to remove a computer chip from the sub-assembly she took from the lab and inserts it into a bracelet strapped to her wrist.
England, Q-Lab[]
Back in England, Q has reconstructed Connie's face from the videotape footage. With Bond and Yupland present, Q tells that he has identified the person behind the recent break-ins as "Connie Webb", a daughter of a noted master burglar. She was recruited by CIA, being trained and tasked to infiltrate high-security facilities to gather intelligence and plant bugs. She quit and has been a freelancer for two years.
Q says she arrived in Tokyo from Hong Kong two days ago, apparently for a skiing holiday. Q suggests having the local police pick her up for questioning. Yupland is against it, as he abashedly tells that MOD had hired her a while back and has sensitive information, wishing for more secretive approach. They determine that Bond needs to find her, earn her trust and find out who she is working for.
Bond is given a cover-story and bait, a room-temperature superconductor Q was asked to evaluate. As Bond asks for gadgets, Yupland objects to it, saying he wants no shenanigans and things done by the book. After Yupland leaves, Q takes Bond to a warehouse for disposable ordnance. There, Q unveils the original Aston Martin DB5 under the canvas, telling that he was ordered to destroy it, but was unable to do so. He further tells that he has friends in Royal Air Force that will deliver the DB5 to Bond. While grateful, Bond tells that hey are on tight time limit, because they have less than 62 hours before the next attack is meant to occur.
Japan, arrival and ski chase[]
Upon arrival to Japan, Bond meets Denholm Crisp, who is five years from retirement from the Service. Being somewhat dulled by his 20 two decades in Far East, Bond's arrival reinvigorates him. He tells that he has made reservations to the ski resort Connie Webb is staying at.
Bond arrives to the ski resort in a nondescript Toyota, and parks n next to a red Lamborgini. He takes his luggage to the hotel and later, follows the Lamborghini to a private airport, where Connie gets out. She loads skis to a helicopter while Bond goes to a another helicopter, telling him to trail the one Connie is on.
Eventually, the helicopter Bond is on arrives at a snow-capped volcano, where a Connie is skiing alone. Bond requests pilot to go there, despite pilot warning that the mountain is dangerous. Bond jumps off the copter with skis on and pursues Connie, who eventually spots him and speeds up. The two engage in a cat-and-mouse ski chase on the volcano's landscape, pursuing in many dangerous stunts. Connie, exhilarated by the chase, starts to become reckless and takes a dangerous shortcut, despite Bond yelling to warn her against it. Ignoring Bond, she ends up being buried under a wall of snow.
Bond skis to where Connie disappeared and starts digging madly. He finds a leg, then an arm, he finally manages to pull her out out snow. Bond reprimands Connie for her recklessness, to which she responds that she found the danger amusing. She takes to Bond, who tells her to meet him at a restaurant.
Japan, restaurant and hotel[]
Later that night, Denholm surveys Bond at a dinner overlooking a outdoor "jungle-type" baths. Connie is now smartly dressed, she tells Bond not to feel bad about losing, as she was an Olympic-level skier whose career was derailed by a injury. Otherwise, she reveals nothing about herself other than the fact that she seeks excitement wherever she goes or in everything she does. Bond too remains unforthcoming. Regardless, he is allowed to escort Connie to her hotel room.
At his door, she gives Bond a passionate kiss and invites him in for a drink. Denholm peeks at the end of the corridor, leaving while smiling to himself as it appears that Bond has things under control.
Once inside her room, Connie orders a drink from room service. She has figured out that Bond has sought her out for a reason, which prompts Bond to show a small box containing the superconducting material Q gave him. As Connie examines it, he tells her that it's extremely valuable, and that there will be a reward is she can find him a buyer. Connie is not too impressed by it and tells that Bond is mistaken about her, but Bond remains insistent.
At this moment the doorbell rings, to which Bond answers, thinking it to be the room service. Upon opening the door, he receives a Karate kick to the chest and is floored, with a Japanese thug pointing .44 Magnum revolver at him before being able to regain footing. Behind the thug, the Kohoni Twins and two additional men enter the room. Thugs search and disarm Bond and he gets handcuffed to a the armrests of a chair.
The Kohonis only want to know what Connie took from their factory and who she works for. Connie plays ignorant and implores Bond to be let go, telling that he is a random person she met while skiing. The Kohonis get angry about her playing dumb, telling that neither Bond nor Connie will get out of here alive until their questions are answered.
Connie tells them that she makes it a point to only work through intermediaries, so she has no idea who really hired her. They are not fully convinced and one of the twins fires a long-range taser to Bond's leg and electrocute him for further elaboration. Bond protests that he barely knows her, to which they respond by increasing the intensity of the electricity. Bond struggles violently and finally manages to tip over the chair he is handcuffed on, grabbing on of the thugs and causing the current to electrocute the thug as well.
Amidst of the commotion, Connie takes the chance to punch the nearest thug. Bond rips the armrest off the chair and uses his handcuffed hand to break one of the captors' nose and punch another. Still handcuffed, he leads Connie to the window. She gives the last twin a flying kick, just as Bond crashes into the window pulling her through after him.
The land on the ground and get back on their feet before running at full speed towards the garage. Connie arrives at her red Lamborghini, but Bond, slowed down by his handcuffs, is unable to catch up to her. He manages to delay and lose the Kohonis during an intense chase in the ski resort's annual torchlight descent.
After losing them, Bond wakes Denholm up and asks him to call someone to remove his handcuffs. Meanwhile Connie speeding in her Lamborghini along rural roads, away from the ski resort. She dials a number on her car phone.
The call is answered by Otto Winkhart, a crooked Swiss lawyer who is the middleman between Connie and the true employer. Startled by the appearance of the Kohoni Twins, she requests Winkhart to pay her up so that she can disappear until things settle down. Winkhart asks if she has the chip from Kohoni Industries, which she confirms. She also tells that she has acquired another piece of high-tech equipment - Q's superconductor - that might be interest to Winkhart's boss. Winkhart instructs her to go to a nearby airport, where she will board a private plane to Hong Kong.
Hong Kong, Lee Ching's Building[]
Winkhart rides in a Limo through central Hong Kong to a loading dock at the back of a large, ultra-modern office building. The limo gets through a building gate and Winkhart passes through an elaborate security system.
Once inside, he is escorted by guards through a maze of science labs. The group finally stops when they see Sir Henry Lee Ching, a brilliant and handsome British-Chinese entrepreneur in his thirties, approaching from the end of a long corridor flanked by offices and small science laboratories.
Sir Henry approaches Winkhart slowly, being swarmed by workers showing their projects and asking Sir Henry's approval. Sir Henry orders adjustments to most of them, until one Dr. Lombardy comes to show Sir Henry something, to which the latter just silently nods. Sir Henry finally reaches Winkhart, who whispers something and hands the small box Bond gave Connie. Sir Henry nods for Dr. Lombardy to take it and observe whats inside. They find a small greyish cube, which prompts stifled laughter from all but Sir Henry.
The others follow Sir Henry's fast pace into one of the labs. He asks the lesser technicians to leave the room. As the others gather, Sir Henry places the cube on the center plate of an electromagnet. When he turns on the magnet, the cube levitates, rocks and spins slowly, suspended a few centimeters above the table. Sir Henry smiles, deeming this room temperature superconductive object useful. He tells that he wants Winkhart to find Bond and inquire about it further.
Sir Henry then asks Winkhart to follow him and they go through a security checkpoint at the heart of the building. They arrive at a massive computer epicenter, akin to NORAD situation room. Sir Henry asks if the Chinese have responded to his letter yet, to which Winkhart that they haven't. Sir Henry then decides to "get their attention" and has his computers point to Nanking nuclear power plant, that its to arrange a "little accident."
In an automated room at the Nanking nuclear power plant, robotics constantly adjust the bars of the reactor core. A robotic device that appears the one Connie tampered with at Kohoni's factory is being tested and observed by technicians. Suddenly, that robotic device goes ballistic, causing and emergency and the entire plant subsequently exploding.
In his control room, Sir Henry turns to Winkhart, who voices that he needs to take over Kohoni Twins' businesses. Winkhart tells that he will arrange them a meeting at their Hong Kong offices.
Bond requested to Hong Kong, Sir Henry's meeting[]
Bond and Denholm are at an impasse, since Connie disappeared with the bait and wonder what they can do now. Upon entering the lobby, the receptionist hands Bond an envelope, that contains a plain ticket and a reservation for the Imperial Hotel in Hong Kong. With Connie's employer having taken the bait, Denholm tells that he will contact Q to redirect the gadgets to Hong Kong.
Back in Hong Kong, at Kohonis' regional offices, Sir Henry arrives in a black limo. At the entrance, Winkhart, who has been waiting for Sir Henry, informs him that the Kohonis "don't want to sell." Sir Henry is confident, proceeding inside with Winkhart following, telling the latter that Kohonis are Yakuza and thus play tough.
Then, Sir Henry's henchman Rodin, posing as a motorcycle dispatch rider enters the security control room at the back of the Kohoni building. The guard tells that he has arrived though the wrong door and meant to enter through reception. With his helmet still on, its visor relays Rodin info about the guards at the vicinity.
Rodin draws a futuristic gun with a gimbal attachment and with the helmet's targeting system, manages to effortlessly eliminate all the nearby guards. Rodin holsters the gun and enters the service elevator.
Meanwhile, Sir Henry and Winkhart exit a elevator in another location of the building. After passing through a metal detector, a burly Yakuza thug escorts them to the conference room. The place has high security and a guard (who is one of the men who attacked Bond and Connie at ski resort), opens a steel door. Sir Henry quips about the bandaged nose broken by Bond, and the guard just ushers Sir Henry and Winkhart inside, where the Kohoni Twins and their henchmen sit around a long table. He makes a bow which they return almost imperceptibly.
On the roof of the building, Rodin disables a guard. Rodin spots a automated window cleaner, and starts tampering with it, re-configuring nozzles and hoses and replacing cleaning solution with a new cartridge. Back at the conference room, Sir Henry compliments the building security, to which Kohonis' respond with peevish attitude. They point out that they have everything in the room reinforced, including the window, it being sound-proofed and "micro-searched" daily.
Sir Henry then makes a cheerfully ominous observation about that the room is "Hard to get in, hard to get [out of]". He then asks if the Kohonis have considered his offer, to which one the twins says that they'd rather not sell. Sir Henry then starts to lecture about the world and the markets, and the Kohonis ability to survive in it. The other twin becomes enraged, underlining that they are not selling their businesses. Sir Henry muses that he has bought electronics companies across Europe, America, the Far East, even Eastern Europe. But if Kohonis say so, then he will not set foot in Japan. Sir Henry laughs to himself and as it is pointless to continue, wishes the twins a good day.
As they exit the building, Winkhart appears to be relieved that there was no violent confrontation with the Kohonis. On the other side of the street, Rodin is sitting on his motorbike. Sir Henry gazes at him and gives a affirming nod, which prompts Rodin to activate a controller. On the roof, the automatic window washer - that Rodin tampered with - begins to move down the side of the building.
Inside the conference room, the Kohoni congratulate themselves on having stood up to Sir Henry. Outside the large window, we see the cleaner arriving. No one pays it much attention. The automated window cleaner stops outside the windows of the conference room, but instead of spraying cleaning liquid, the machine now works like a flamethrower. The machine starts melting the armored window, while people inside the room try to get the slow-moving steel door to open. Soon enough, the window gives in, exploding and the flames engulfing the room and killing everybody inside.
Sir Henry stands by the car with Winkhart, who starts speculating the issues of trying to buy from Kohonis. Only then a sound of explosion to be heard and massive fire coming out of the conference room. Winkhart is bewildered, but Sir Henry insures that they only now need to secure a puppet to succeed Kohonis and to "replace the windows."
Bond arrives to Hong Kong, Imperial Hotel[]
Bond and Denholm arrive at Hong Kong airport, and wait until a British military transport plane arrives. Denholm tells Bond that his contacts haven't found Connie, and that Yupland is coming to Hong Kong to personally take charge of the investigation.
As the plane arrives, Q exits the plane with the DB5, telling that he had to pull a lot of strings to get it here in "record time". Q gives Bond a quick rundown of upgrades he has given to DB5. Bond and Denholm board the DB5, driving off while Q yelling to treat the car with care.
Bond is greeted at the Imperial by the assistant manager, Mi Wai, an attractive Chinese woman who takes interest in Bond. She escorts Bond through a hallway, while addressing events around them that it is the Chinese New Year's Day. One of the photographers covering the festivities covertly snaps a photo of Bond with an electronic camera. The photographer heads to Hotel's payphones in the lobby and patches through the image. The image arrives to a unknown location, where it is examined by Quen Low of Chinese Intelligence.
Mi Wai shows Bond her room and the doorman leaves the luggage in there. Alone in his room, Bond undresses and heads to the bathroom, where there is a glass wall with water flowing on it. Bond turns off the light, and can see a some kind of sauna/hot bath with plants and a naked woman. Bond opens the door to it, finding Connie Webb. She tells that Bond and her have been invited to a cocktail party, while toasting to Bond with a tropical drink. Bond and Connie start making love and turns on a dial that makes a small rain, to which Connie likens to having sex in a rain forest. The scene climaxes with thunder and lightning.
Party at Lee Ching's offices[]
Later that evening, the Aston Martin makes its way through the streets crowded by people celebrating the Chinese New Year's Eve. Inside the car is Bond in a black tie and Connie in a dress. Bond addresses their previous meeting, about what the Kohonis wanted from Connie. She doesn't give a straight answer, starting to instead tell of a master jewel thief who would replace the objects he stole with copies, with the thief's deception not being found out for years. Before Bond is able to inquire further, they have arrived at Sir Henry's large office building.
Bond and Connie pass security checks at the entrance to the building, where a laser scans their invitation and then their faces before allowing them to proceed. In the security control room, deep inside the building, Rodin stands next to an operator who watches his computer monitor where Bond's image and name are checked against the database. No matches were found, but Rodin remains skeptical and orders to thorough search.
The building lobby is filled with top-level politicians and military men all over the world, who can be inferred to be Sir Henry's clients. Bond gets introduced to Sir Henry, with Connie subsequently leaving for a drink. Bond spots Denholm at the buffet table chatting with Mi Wai, the assistant manager of his hotel. She looks at him and smiles. Bond nods back.
Connie returns with their drinks. Bond feels something is off, then machine gun fire can be heard. Outside the building, some sort of elite commando unit, clad in black, attempt to break in. Chaos erupts in the crowd as the lights dim and the doors are sealed. Bond eases up, as he and the crowd observe as the building's automated defenses repel the intruders, much to Sir Henry's amusement of the crowd reaction.
The lights come back on and Sir Henry stands on the podium, thanking "Colonel Kim of the Hong Kong Royal Guard" for helping him with his demonstration. The fallen commando members rise to their feet as Sir Henry addresses his audience, explaining that they are in the "building of the future." Everything is operated by a computer, with aspects like temperature controls, maintenance and security are all automated. It keeps track of everyone in the building and knows where they are at all times. And just as demonstrated, it is completely impregnable to a terrorist attack.
Connie takes Bond to Otto Winkhart's table who greets him warmly. They sit down and Winkhart tells him that Connie mentioned meeting the Kohoni twins. Winkhart informs that their entire clan having been wiped out in freak accident, with Bond silently observing Winkhart's smile indicating his involvement.
A waiter arrives with fortune cakes for the new year. Bond opens his and his fortune says, “FLOATING RESTAURANT – ABERDEEN – TONIGHT AT 10:00”. Sir Henry asks if Bond had a interesting forecast, but Bond just puts the paper in his pocket and shakes hands with the industrialist.
Sir Henry takes the seat next to Bond and asks him what brings him to the island. Bond tries to sell Sir Henry on his abilities to get technology like the superconductor to him. Both Sir Henry and Connie remain guarded, but Bond's promises eventually win Sir Henry over.
Just then, Sir Henry notices his acquaintance in the crowd behind Bond. Sir Henry waves the person to come over, and Bond recognizes this person's voice, turning over. It's Nigel Yupland, who is chummy with Sir Henry, with the former just about immediately outing Bond as a agent/spy in his obliviousness.
Sir Henry is amused at this revelation, while Winkhart remains stone-faced. Connie however is clearly upset by this, she tries to leave but is stopped by Sir Henry by grabbing her under the table. He first wants the microchip stolen from Kohonis, to which she obliges. She then extends her hand to Bond, secretly handing Bond something and then leaving.
As Bond makes his way through the crowd, Yupland yells at him to tell him to drop by his office in the morning, but Bond doesn't look back. Once outside the party hall, Bond observes what Connie slipped him - and its a microchip with "Kohoni Industries" printed on it. After Bond leaves, Denholm spots Rodin guiding Connie to an elevator, seemingly against her will.
The car fight[]
Bond drives the Aston to the restaurant entrance at Aberdeen. Somebody opens the passenger door of the car and Bond draws the gun. Its Mi Wai, dressed in a festival costume, with Bond relaxing and her entering inside. Mi Wai tells that they should head to a "restaurant in the countryside."
Back at Sir Henry's building, at the loading dock area, Sir Henry and Rodin approach a shiny black sports car with "fighter-plane like" design. In reality, it is a prototype robotized car with high technology, meant to chase and destroy other vehicles. Sir Henry relishes the idea to pit his technology against "best of MI6" and Rodin boards the car in a black, fireproof suit and helmet. Rodin starts the car with digital screens, radars activating in the visor of his helmet. With Sir Henry wishing "happy hunting", Rodin slams the door and speeds off.
Sir Henry returns to his computer epicenter, where Winkhart and Dr. Lombardy are waiting for him. Two henchmen bring Connie into the room, telling that Henry that she should go get the real Kohoni Microchip back. Sir Henry laughs off, turning on one of the monitors, with view of the front car projected on screen. Connie presumes it is some kind of video game.
At a remote mountain road during night, Mi Wai is directing Bond to their destination. Bond spots Rodin's black car and speeds up, with Rodin further accelerating. Thanks to Rodin's gadgets, he is able to see Bond like its daylight.
Back in the epicenter, Sir Henry and his cronies egg-on at the screen. Bond manages to outmaneuver Rodin's car, thinking he lost it, only to Rodin's car to reappear and Bond confirming to Mi Wai that they are being followed.
Rodin targets Bond's car with the sights of his 20mm autocannons. Bond turns off the lights off his car and switches his headlights to infrared, making it look like the DB5 disappeared to Rodin's night vision. At the epicenter, the occupants snarl at Rodin seemingly having lost Bond. But Rodin realizes to turn on track-while-scan radar and rediscovers Bond's car, with the DB5 now highlighted on Rodin's visor.
Rodin arms radar-guided missiles and locks on to Bond's car, with Bond receiving a lock-on warning aboard. Bond employs a jamming countermeasures to disengage Rodin's lock-on. Now the two cars are locked in one at 100 mph along a narrow seaside road. In the epicenter, Connie begins to realize this is no game.
Bond deploys timed bomblets to try repel Rodin's car, but Rodin manages to dodge them as the explosions miss him. Rodin now switches to infrared targeting and manages to fire off a missile. Bond gets warning of a missile launch, and fires a rocket, with Rodin's missile chasing that rocket and exploding without damaging DB5. The two vehicles keep on fighting like two fighter jets across the countryside.
Rodin comes up to Bond's rear bumper and locks onto the Aston, allowing Rodin to pretty much trace every move Bond's DB5 makes. Rodin then opens fire with the autocannons, while Bond deploys the bulletproof shield. However, Bond realizes that the shield is giving in under the fire from the autocannon.
Realizing that the enemy car is effectively now mimicking his own movements, Bond accelerates and crashes through the security barrier of a seaside cliff. Rodin is caught off-guard and is unable to deactivate the tracer before the car follows Bond off the 30-meter cliff. Mi Wai thinks they are going to die, only for DB5's roof to slide off and Bond pressing the eject button. Bond and Mi Wai, strapped on their seats, rocket out of the DB5 and parachute to safety.
The people at the epicenter are not happy at the sight of Bond's parachute, and then fall silent when Rodin's car plunges to sea and screen goes black. Only Connie makes a small, involuntary exclamation of triumph. Sir Henry is greatly displeased and orders his men to take her to his apartment.
Rodin manages to escape from inside the car with his freakish strength. Meanwhile, Bond and Mi Wai land safely. As Bond gets the parachute harness off, Mi Wai draws a gun at his head. She orders Bond to keep his hands visible and radios someone. Soon, Bond hears a helicopter, with the area lit up with landing lights. The helicopter touches down and Mi Wai leads Bond to board it, with latter spotting the Chinese Red Army insignia on the side of the aircraft. They fasten their seatbelts and the helicopter takes off towards the mainland.
The Chinese camp and Nanking reactor[]
The helicopter flies to mainland China, to a camp temporarily set up by Chinese Red Army. Upon landing, Bond is brought to the commander's tent. There Bond is interrogated by Quen Low, who is extremely upset about Bond's very presence. Bond quips to de-escalate, but Quen solemnly notes of Bond's destructive track record and past history between the two.
Bond asks why he was brought to Quen, who tells that the Chinese government has received a letter. One threatening them with disaster at one of their nuclear power plants if Hong Kong is not declared a free and independent state. The Chinese thought the threat was the work of a madman and unwisely they ignored it. Quen proceeds to hand Bond a NBC suit.
They board an armored vehicle and go through the checkpoint. On their way to their destination, dead cattle are all over the countryside from the radiation. They reach the nuclear power station (that Henry destroyed from his command center), with soldiers in NBC gear cleaning up nuclear waste. Quen tells Bond that the Chinese were relatively lucky, as weather reduced to the damage from nuclear fallout.
Bond asks to see the inside of the plant and while he is permitted, he is warned that radiation is so high that they can stay there for only few minutes. They bring radiation detectors and head inside the ruins. Bond's radiation detector points him to something, and he finds the remains of the robot that worked at the core. Quen tells him that its the robot that caused the accident.
Bond turns him over and examines its label, revealing to Bond that it was made at Kohoni Industries in Tokyo. He removes the controller sub-assembly and compares the one microchip with the one Connie gave him at the party, it being a perfect match.
Outside the reactor, Quen Low tells Bond his presence makes him think that the British are plotting to abort the Hong Kong handover. Bond on the other-hand tells that he has figured out that Sir Henry hired Connie to replace the computer chip that was originally in the Kohoni's robot with one of his own. This gave Sir Henry the control over the robot. Quen confirms that the robot had arrived a day before the accident, with Bond telling Quen that the British experienced a similar accident. While he is sure that Sir Henry is the mastermind of the plot, he does not know why he is doing this.
Quen proceeds to tell Bond that Sir Henry's father was a general in Chiang Kai Shek's army. When Shek was defeated, Sir Henry's father fled south to Burma with Shek's treasure and founded an army. Sir Henry's father ruled like a warlord making his money in the opium trade, with Quen Low being sent to destroy his operations when he was younger. The operation resulted in death of the father, but Sir Henry and his English mother escaped to Hong Kong. Sir Henry managed to keep his true origins a secret from the world, and using his genius for electronics, he managed to build himself financial empire.
Quen voices his dislike of Sir Henry, knowing that he is a criminal like his father and may want revenge on China. That and he voices his distaste at the British for knighting him. Bond tells that he has some leads to follow in Hong Kong, and that they will have better chance of defeating Sir Henry if they work together. There is only 24 hours before the next threat is carried out, so Quen reluctantly orders Bond to be returned to Hong Kong with Mi Wai to continue his investigation.
Return to Hong Kong[]
Bond and Mi Wai arrive at a nondescript building in a busy commercial district of Hong Kong. Mi Wai stays in her car while Bond enters the building, which turns out to be "Universal Exports' Far East Office". The building's reception area quant wood-furnitured area with only few people working there. Elderly receptionist recognizes Bond and lets him through a fire door bear the inscription: “DO NOT ENTER”.
Enters a new room full of high-tech communications equipment, bustling with activity - completely the opposite where Bond just was. Bond is guided to Yupland, who is upset about Bond not communicating any progress of his investigation and apparently lazying about. Yupland informs that a third letter has arrived and Bond correctly guesses that the message wants "British to withdraw from Hong Kong" to Yupland's amazement, as it was delivered mere minutes ago.
Bond tells Yupland about his trip to Nanking reactor, where the control of one of Kohoni-made robots was hijacked by Sir Henry, causing a meltdown. Bond also deems that Sir Henry had Kohoni twins killed, because they figured out Sir Henry ordered the break-in into their factory.
Yupland completely passes over Bond's assement, refusing to believe Sir Henry is involved. Yupland defends Sir Henry, saying that industrial sabotage is all part of the cut-throath business, that many wanted the Kohoni twins dead, and that Sir Henry is Britain's largest suppliers of military equipment. To him, Sir Henry is a important bridge between UK and China when the 1997 hand-over occurs.
Bond rebukes Yupland, that he is "putting the fox to guard the hen house" in regards of Sir Henry. That, and Bond also reprimands Yupland for blowing his cover and nearly getting him killed, not to mention putting Connie Webb in harm's way.
Yupland says Bond is removed from the investigation. Bond tells Yupland to stop clowning around, since they only have 20 hours left and that they need to send special forces raid on Sir Henry's compund. Yupland loses his temper with Bond, calling him paranoid and that he is ordered to return to England in the next flight. Bond tells Yupland to "go to hell" and storms out of the office, while Yupland calls security and tells Bond to be arrested.
Meanwhile, Sir Henry is on the balcony of his penthouse atop his building, looking over the city that "that will soon be his." At the doorway behind him is a beautiful woman known as Nan. There is a call to Sir Henry and Nan moves out of the way. The henchman on the monitor tells that they have found Bond.
As Bond exits the Universal Exports, there is a impassive security robot, through which Sir Henry is able to see Bond in his monitor. Sir Henry is delighted, he orders Rodin to go kill Bond while caressing Nan's leg, while the henchman on the monitor tells that Rodin is already heading there.
Bond quickly walks over to Mi Wai's car and gets inside. He tells her that Yupland refuses to help, due to Sir Henry's involvement, and that he is going to need her help. Mi Wai pulls into traffic, passing a motorbike courier on the side of the road. Bond and Mi Wai don't realize that its Rodin, with his motorcycle carrying what appears to be a document tube.
Mi Wai drives along the coastal road. She tells him that she thinks Sir Henry's control center is in the basement of his building. However, she deems it impossible to break in without a mounting a large-scale military operation against it.
Rodin follows them on his motorcycle, when suddenly, the police sirens are heard. The Royal Marines MP (Military Police) jeep drives past him and pulls Mi Wai to the side. Rodin also stops, in the middle of the road. The Marines approach the car and ask Bond to get out. On the other side of the road, Rodin shoulders the document tube, which turns out to be a rocket launcher and fires it at Mi Wai's car.
The rocket explodes at the lower side of the car, sending it flying to the docks and splashing into the water. The Marines have landed from the explosion and the burning car sinks. Bond floats out of the car and regains consciousness. However, Mi Wai was killed by the attack.
The marines regain their footing and radio for help. Out of sight across the creek, Bond struggles to get out of the water. Despite being in confused state, Bond manages to hide under the docks.
Before the break-in[]
Back at the penthouse, Connie and Rodin wait for Sir Henry, with the former kept in tight grasp by latter. TThe bedroom door opens and Sir Henry steps out, flushed with lovemaking and is full of vigor. Through the open door, Connie sees Nan lying face down on the bed behind a white gauze curtain.
Sir Henry approaches Connie and grabs her face gently. He asks why Connie brought a British agent to try spy on him, to which Connie tells that she had no idea Bond was a spy. To her, it was simple relationship and claims to be happy to be rid of him - now asking to be paid and let go. Sir Henry gleefully tells that Bond is dead, to which Connie slightly tears up. However, Sir Henry mistakes Connie's grief for fear for his own life, telling that harming such exquisite female flesh would be a crime. He still has plans for her, but Sir Henry has other business to take care of. He leaves Connie with Nan and leaves.
Later, Q, Denholm, and Yupland watch as the "wrecking crew" pulls what's left of Mi Wai and her car out of the water. It looks severe, with Bond's likelihood of survival being nil. Denholm tells if the divers don't find the body soon, it will be left for sharks. Yupland finally notices Q and asks who authorized his trip to Hong Kong. Q gets very upset that Bond, one of MI6's best agents is dead, that they have ten hours to save Hong Kong and that all Yupland worries about is the price of the plane ticket. Q storms off before Yupland has a chance to respond.
Denholm and Q return to Denholm's home drunk, drowning their sorrows in copious amounts of gin. Upon getting inside Denholm's house, they spot pile of dirty clothes on a chair, then they hear someone in the bathroom. They open the door and find that Bond is in the tub, and Q is pleased to find that Bond is not dead. Bond is rather distraught, telling that he needs lots of Q's gadgets, Denholm's help and that he feels guilty over Mi Wai's death. Q stands up to him and tells Bond to tell what he wants. Before Bond responds, he tells that nobody needs to know he is alive, that "him being dead" is the only advantage he has now.
Sewers, infiltration and penthouse fight[]
Denholm leads Bond through the maze of sewers beneath the city of Hong Kong. From time to time he consults an old map he brought with him. The stench is so strong that they are forced to don respirators. They eventually find the pipe that the waste from Sir Henry's building comes through. Denholm wishes Bond luck, as he slips into the sewer outlet pipe, pushing his equipment through. Upon reaching the end of the pipe, Bond pulls out an acetylene torch and cuts a hole just big enough to fit over his shoulders.
He gets inside the building, to a area full of pipes, generators etc., and proceeds to take off his jumpsuit. He first searches for the fire main, which is a red pipe about 60 centimeters in diameter. He finds the manual shut-off valve and injects epoxy resin inside. Then using a portable electric hacksaw, he cuts the valve from the valve and attaches it again with epoxy resin. An maintance engineer almost spots Bond, but after going through the area and finding nothing strange, the engineer returns to his duties.
Bond then heads for the fire pump which provides high pressure to the upper floors of the building in the event of a fire. He disassembles the control for the top floor and inserts a timer that will close the circuit and start the pump in ten minutes.
Before closing the control panel, Bond deactivates the pressure regulator. Then, dodging the surveillance robots and a few maintenance engineers, he heads for the elevator shaft with his bag. Meanwhile, in the basement control room, Sir Henry beings the preparations for carry out his master plan.
Now in the elevator shaft, Bond rides the roof of an elevator to the penthouse where Connie is being held. He climbs onto the bracket and enters the air conditioning ducts and makes its way through to the bedroom. He removes the grille and descends into the penthouse room. Upon seeing him, Connie is pleased that Bond is alive and falls into his arms. Bond tells that they need to leave quick, but Nan appears from the bedroom, dressed in corset and spandex shorts.
Connie says Nan is Sir Henry's mistress and thinks she should be harmless. Bond courteously tells Nan that he needs to tie her up with Nan looking at him in a stone cold gaze. As Bond gets close enough, Nan launches a non-telegraphed punch on Bond, who flies across the room from the strike. Connie clings onto Nan, grabbing the top of her corset. Nan throws Connie away with such force, that Connie ends up unintentionally ripping off the corset, revealing that Nan has a metallic chest. To Bond and Connie's amazement, Nan is a android.
As Bond gets to his feet, Nan suddenly leaps towards him, attacking him with amazing speed and power. Bond eventually manages to position her near the window, with Bond in front of it. When she goes for the kill, she punches through the window, falling through the window and setting off the alarms.
Bond grabs Connie and leads her to the vent. As the security no longer registers that Connie is in the building, Rodin dons his helmet, acquires a assault rifle and rushes to search for them.
Bond takes her back to the elevator shaft and they fit in a harness. Rodin finds the penthouse empty and rushes to the elevator, forcing its doors open with his bare hands. Upon opening the doors, he sees Bond and Connie rappelling down and calls the elevator to go after them.
Connie and Bond have to get away while avoiding being run over by the speeding elevator. Rodin stops the elevator below them and climbs through the emergency hatch. He then begins to stalk them in the elevator shaft.
As Sir Henry's basement control center is further preparing, Bond's timer turns on the fire pump. A dial shows a build up of pressure in the pipes leading to the top floor. In the building's security control room, a red light comes on, indicating that the fire pump is activated. But since there is no indication of a fire, it must be some kind of malfunction, security asks to be checked.
Bond and Connie fight their hardest to stay alive in the elevator shaft, but are ultimately overwhelmed by Rodin and building security. They are captured and taken to Sir Henry in the control room.
Sir Henry's computer epicenter[]
Bond and Connie are brought to Sir Henry, who is actually amused to see them. Sir Henry starts teasing Bond about what sort of disaster he should unleash and asks Bond to suggest something. Bond tells Sir Henry that the authorities will soon find out that he is behind the recent disasters and come to take him down.
Sir Henry is not worried, as he wields more power that they can imagine. Besides robotics, he has other devices that he can call upon. Reminding Bond that his companies have made essential components to nearly every navigation, communication, weapon and missile guidance system in the world. He boasts how the western world wastes billions on weapons and come imprisoned in the armors their amass. Then, Sir Henry gets the idea how to demonstrate his power. He figures that, by using his component(s) in the Royal Navy's Polaris submarine, he can order a missile attack on Shanghai. Deeming it to be a fun idea, he orders his men to start the countdown.
Meanwhile, a guard patrolling the upstairs hallway reports nothing unusual on his walkie-talkie. The pressure gauge on the fire pump has entered the red danger zone, sounding an alarm. Back in the hallway, the guard hears a sound of the fire hose being bent in a closed glass box. He looks through the glass and suddenly the valve explodes, sending a torrent of water down the pipe. The hose inflates in a fraction of a second by breaking the box and knocking the guard down. At the same time, the ceiling sprinkler valves in the rooms on the top floor burst and pour out a torrent of water. In the hallway, the fire hose bursts and water squirts out of the open valve.
A guard patrolling one floor below notices dripping water coming from the ceiling. He takes the emergency stairs and notices water running down the stairs. Upstairs, he sees water gushing out of the hose valve like an open fire hydrant. He reports the rupture on his radio and tries to close the valve, but it has been broken by the force of the water.
The security and maintance go back and forth.The maintenance engineer rushes to the fire pump, the on/off switch does not work. He reports the problem to Sir Henry in the control room.
Sir Henry smiles at Bond, dismissing his sabotage plan as child's play. He tells the engineer to cut off the power grid. He then orders the members of his control room to prepare to switch their systems to auxiliary power. He turns to Bond again, telling his trick having been futile. The engineer turns off the electrical network of the building. All the lights go out. Sir Henry orders his men to switch to auxiliary power and continue the countdown.
The guard in the upper floor hallway reports to the control room that the water flow has only decreased slightly, that the situation is totally out of control. The engineer says he's going to have to close the fire main and when he tries to close the valve, it breaks in his hands. He reports to Sir Henry that they have a severe problem, and Sir Henry still remains positive, welcoming Bond's challange. He tells the men to speed up the countdown.
The guard on the upper floor sees water flowing under the door of a conference room. He opens it. The water level in the room comes up to his head, the water surges down the hall knocking the guard off his feet and bringing him to the stairwell. He shouts a warning into his radio as he and the water descend the stairwell in a cascade of water.
In the control room, Bond takes advantage of the panic to grab Connie and run for the door. Rodin follows them up the stairs and spots them as they enter a door on the floor above. Rodin enters the stairwell just as the waterfall arrives. He is knocked off his feet and swept to his death.
Sir Henry's countdown is almost over when the large torrent of water floods the control room. He escapes but most of his men are drowned. He manages to move on to the next level as the water rises around him.
He sees Bond and Connie being transported by water to the dark maintenance area. He puts on Rodin's night vision helmet and chases after them. Bond searches his way to the hole he cut in the sewer pipe and pushes Connie inside. The water is rising dangerously all around them.
Sir Henry catches up to them in the dark using the night vision goggles. He fights Bond who is unable to fight back because of the darkness. Bond manages to acquire his blowtorch, and igniting it, drives the blinding flame into Sir Henry's visor, causing it to explode. Sir Henry is blinded and Bond finishes him off. Bond dives into the sewer pipe and escapes with Connie just in time.
The May 1990 treatment ends there, with no epilogue scene described.
Known characters[]
| James Bond | MI6 agent |
| Sir Henry Lee Ching | Microchip Entrepreneur |
| Connie Webb | Ex-jewel thief/CIA Freelancer |
| Denholm Crisp | MI6 Agent in Hong Kong |
| Rodin | Assassin |
| Nan | Sir Henry's mistress, a cyborg |
| Kohoni Brothers | Shady Industrial Businessmen |
| Otto Winkhart | Swiss Lawyer |
| Nigel Yupland | Minister of Defence |
| Dr. Lombardy | Research Assistant |
| Q | MI6 Quartermaster |
| M | MI6 Section Chief |
| Mi Wai | Chinese Intelligence Officer |
| Quen Low | Chinese Intelligence Chief |
July 1990 treatment[]
The July 1990 treatment is a more complete script, with clearly defined pre-title sequence and epilogue. It is roughly same as the May 1990 treatment with few key differences.
In depth plot[]
Opening (Hang-glide competition and chemical plant sabotage)[]
The gunbarrel opens to a lush mountain region where International Mixed Tandem Team Hang Gliding Championship is taking place. Bond is partaking in the competition, teamed up Allison Ives, an attractive world-class hang-glider champion.
The competition starts, during which the participants fly by a industrial complex called Fertilizers Chemicals Jallial. Upon reaching the plant, Bond lets go from the hang glider and lands atop the plant, with a inflatable decoy deploying next to Allison.
007 uses special tools to sabotage the alarm system and sneaks inside the building from a skylight in the roof. Once inside, Bond discovers a ultra-modern production line where robots are processing nerve agents. Bond puts on a gas mask and unwraps his belt of plastic explosives, inserting it on one of the gas tanks, and setting the detonators for 3 minutes.
A 4-wheeled SSR (Self-propelled Security Robot) detects Bond on and signals the sentries (at outskirts of the facility) of Bond's presence. The robot goes to confront the Bond, who ends somewhat amused by the little thing. Bond tries to ignore it, but the robot deploys some sort of flashbang, causing Bond to lose his footing.
Bond tries to get up and the robot warns him in five different languages that "this is the final warning." Bond gets up, which prompts the robot to fire a taser at Bond, who is able to dodge it. The robot deploys a Uzi-type submachine gun out of its compartment and opens fire at Bond, who is forced to dart between active crusher on the production line to avoid it.
Bullets hit a vat, that causes sticky toxic waste to pour. Bond succesfully, leads it under the waste, causing the robot to be blinded. But the robot then deploys a small satellite dish and continues to chase Bond. 007 finds his rope and manages to get to the roof.
The radar scanner on the robot retracts and a parabolic microphone appears in its place, which it uses to locate Bond. Bond runs across the roof while the robot fires at him. The bomb goes off and Bond lands on the pavement, running away as the plant continues blowing up. However, the sentires that were alerted by the SSR arrive in light utility vehicles at the main gates. Bond is walled by electrified fence, but manages to short-circuit it with a metal pipe. He cuts through the fence and heads to downhill.
He arrives at a suspension bridge, with the sentries soon finding him. Bond is stuck in middle of a bridge, when Allison with the hang-glider appears. However, a black, enemy helicopter appears behind her and she is forced to dodge gunfire. Bond manages to grab onto Allison's hang-glider and causing the inflated dummy to detach. They avoid the ground at the last moment and the helicopter (with a gunner) chases them in the air. At one point Bond maneuvers to position himself face to face with the helicopter; Allison calls him crazy and tries to regain control but he unties her harness and she falls into a river.
As the hang glider is about to crash into the helicopter, Bond unties his own harness. The copter is forced to dodge the hang-glider, which causes the copter to crash onto a cliff wall and explode.
Bond and Alison hurtle down river rapids, close to death, they approach a waterfall but manage to recover the hang glider (also fallen in the water) and take off with it. They both rejoin the race and manage to finish first. As the audience applauds, Allison kisses Bond.
Harrier malfunction and briefing[]
After the title song, the scene takes place in South China Sea. There is a NATO aircraft carrier sailing, with several Harriers conducting patrol in the area. Suddenly, one of the Harriers has a severe mechanical failiure and the pilot ejects. However, as the plane is on a nosedive at the ocean, its instruments come back on their own and it starts flying unmanned towards China.
Bond arrives to Blenheim Palace in a vintage car. Upon parking, he sees a helicopter arrive, with with Nigel Yupland, “young rising star within the Ministry of Defence”, getting out of it. Proceeding inside Blenheim Palace, Bond is guided to the library. Through a secret bookcase door, he enters a MI6 office and meets Moneypenny. She flirts with Bond while leading him to the ballroom, converted into a briefing room with video projector, photos of museums, etc. Bond meets with M and Nigel Yupland, who has attempted to have the 00 section disbanded before.
An Admiral named Stalward comes to report on the disappearance of the Harrier and tells us that it crashed in a very populated area of a Chinese city, with the satellite photos and Chinese news footage on the projector. Yupland remains skeptical, believing it to be Chinese propaganda to pysche out the British at the eve of Hong Kong handover and leaves.
McGreggor, a Scotland Yard chief inspector who was attending the meeting, comes up to Bond and M. He informs of that there has been a series of break-ins at various British manufacturing facilities, but nothing has been stolen. One of the facilities had manufactured components for the Harriers. McGreggor provides a bad-quality photo they got of the burglar.
The scene then changes to near-deserted Q-lab (that is closing due to budget cuts), where Q will try to improve the photo. However, he needs time and asks Bond to come back tomorrow. Before leaving Bond sees the Aston Martin DB5 in the lab, implying he will acquire it in the future.
Much like the May 1990, the next scene is Connie's infiltration to microchip manufacturing facility. However, this time it takes place in Vancouver, Canada - and it now belongs to Chinese Koho Nee twins.
Back at Q lab, Q has reconstructed her face. M identifies her and much like in May 1990 script, orders Bond to go after her, using a device created by Q as bait.
Search for Connie Webb[]
The next sequence is the same snow mountain act from the May 1990, but the place has been changed to British Columbia in Canada. Also, Denholm Crisp is not present here and appears later in the story. The snowcapped volcano is now the changed to unspecified place in the Bugaboos. The Yakuza that accompany the Koho Nee twins have been changed from Yakuza to Chinese Tongs.
After Connie and Bond lose the Koho Nee twins, the scene changes to Hong Kong. Here, the scene takes place in a pagoda, owned by Sir Henry, with Rodin specifically identified being as a Eastern European. Again, Sir Henry hijacks control of a Chinese nuclear powerplant in Nanking. Here, Sir Henry enters sort of sphere that acts as a virtual reality hub. Sir Henry dons a Virtual Reality headset to visualize his control of the reactor and uses his control gloves to make the nuclear plant go haywire.
Afterwards, Bond arrives to Hong Kong airport and is escorted to a room. There, he meets Denholm Crisp (described as a 55yo Englishman with Scottish heritage, wearing a Hawaiian shirt). Denholm grabs a bottle of Glenlivet from a basket marked "undeclared items" and pours it a drink (which Bond declines). By Bond's demand, Denholm supplies Bond a handgun (identified as "Walther P-9", which doesn't exist.)
Bond boards Denholm's car, with the latter explaining that "something has happened in Nanking" and that the Chinese Army is in high alert. They arrive at a airstrip, where Q delivers the Aston Martin DB5. Q adds that he made some modifications to the car to bring it up to date but before he finishes explaining, Bond drives off with the car, leaving good old Q with Crisp and the bottle of Glenlivet.
Without knowing it, Bond crosses paths with Sir Henry's limousine which is heading towards the Koho Nee building. There, a scene very similar to the May 1990 script takes place (Henry wants to buy the company of the twins, they don't want to, Rodin eliminates guards with his high-tech equipment and replaces the cleaner of a window washer, the Koho Nee die in the flames).
Sir Henry's party, killer car and Chinese army camp[]
Bond arrives at the Imperial Hotel and checks in as Mr. Baker; he then meets Mi Wai. Here things also happen as in the May 1990 script (tropical shower with Connie up to arrival at Ching's party with the Aston Martin DB5 are same but with modified dialogue).
They go through security, including a scanner that produces a 3D rendering of all their possessions. They find Bond has a hidden throwing knife in his shoe and Rodin orders Bond to reliquish it, allowing him then to enter.
Bond meets Winkhart and spots Sir Henry with other guests. Bond goes to Denholm Crisp, who is also at the party. Crisp explains the some things that Quen Low does in the May 1990 script, that Sir Henry is a son of a general in Chiang Kai Shek's army. That Sir Henry may foster some grudge against the British for not helping the Chiang Kai Shek's side during the Chinese civil war.
Their discussion is halted by the commando attack demonstration, similiar to the May 1990 script. Bond opens his fortune cake and gets the same message leading to Mi Wai later. Bond finds Sir Henry and introduces himself as James Baker like in the May 1990 script. Sir Henry muses about the upcoming Year of the Goat (I.E. year 1991 - which the movie was set to be released on before cancellation.) Sir Henry gestures someone and its Nigel Yupland to Bond's horror. Again, Yupland exposes that Bond is a MI6 agent and upsets Connie. Before Rodin takes Connie away, she slips the microchip she stole from Koho Nee Industries to Bond.
As with the May 1990, Bond meets Mi Wai at the designated location, with the "killer car" attacking Bond and his DB5. Here however, the car is remotely controlled by Sir Henry and his VR set. Bond outmanuevers the killer car again and Mi Wai escorts him to a Chinese Army helicopter at gunpoint.
While they are airborne, Henry sends men to the beach to find them. His men report that they have found nothing apart from the two parachutes. Winkhart starts mouthing Sir Henry off, which leads the latter to order Nan to violently kick Winkhart unconcious. Rodin takes Winkhart's unconcious body and throws it down a chute, which falls into a automatic junk compactor where Winkhart's body is crushed.
007 and Mi Wai arrive at the Red Army camp where there is the encounter with Colonel Quen Low like in May 1990 script. The latter says that it is well known that wherever James Bond goes, death and destruction follow; and that he has an arm's length list of crimes committed by Bond against his country. Bond wants to know why Low has brought him here, to which Quen tells that they have recieved a extortion message ordering surrender of Hong Kong and for its independence.
Like in May 1990, they go to Nanking reactor in protection suits, find the robotic apparatus Connie tampered with/Sir Henry took control of and Quen explaining Sir Henry's and his father's background.
Return to Hong Kong and Lee Ching's building[]
Bond and Mi Wai return to Hong Kong. The scenes plays out mostly the same as in May 1990 script. Mi Wai's car here is a roadster, and despite Yupland being skeptical about Bond's findings is slightly less dense about it. At one point, Yupland tells Bond that Chinese were manipulating Bond of their cover own disaster. This infuriates Bond who hoists Yupland up from his collars. Bond leaves in frustration, and as Yupland chases after him. Bond draws his gun and aims in the direction of Yupland, who "falls backwards in a panic", and shoots at a security camera (through which Henry was watching him, instead of a robot as in the May 1990 script).
Things continue same as in May 1990 script, with Rodin blasting the roadster with his document tube rocket launcher from his motorcycle, Mi Wai dies while Bond manages to survive. Sir Henry and Connie at the penthouse and the roadster being fished out by the "wrecking crew."
Instead of returning to Crisp's home, drunken Q and Crisp return to Imperial Hotel and find Bond there alive. Q is so overjoyed he kisses Bond on his cheeks. Before heading to Sir Henry's base, Bond is unsure on whose side Connie is, and whatever he needs to save her or not.
Crisp leads Bond through the sewers and the latter infiltrates Sir Henry's main building like in May 1990 script. Bond sabotages equipment and then begins to climb the elevator shaft. There is a deviation here that there is a new sequence here. Sir Henry and Ching and Lombardy are using the elevator at this point to get to the penthouse. This causes a dangerous scene for Bond with him clinging to the side of the lift, having to dodge the on-coming lift, having to do a jump, cling to a beam; in short, he has dodge death several times here.
Henry visits Connie and tells her that everything is fine now that Bond is dead, then he leaves. 007 from an air vent motions Connie to join him, holding out her hand. Suddenly it's Nan who grabs his hand and pulls him out of the conduit. Meanwhile, Henry and his technicians take control of a surface-to-air missile from a British frigate to send it on the Chinese equivalent of Air Force One containing Chinese dignitaries including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, as well as Quen Low.
Connie cradles Bond as Nan slowly approaches. She pushes Connie aside and strikes Bond back on his feet and then hitting Bond's chest with a palm, with Bond violently staggering to a couch. Connie jumps behind Nan, grabbing her. Nan throws Connie with such force that Connie ends up accidentally ripping of Nan's top, revealing Nan's robotic chest.
Nan grabs Bond by the arm and throws him against the wall. Their fight is fast and brutal. As he starts to get up, she punches him in the head. Bond ducks just in time, his fist shattering the plaster on the wall. Connie smashes a vase over her head, to little effect.
Nan, still in her flirtatious ways, pursues Bond with a vengeance. She throws a series of flying kicks, which knock him around to a will. Bond again moves to the window, with Nan trying a daring flying kick. Nan breaks the window, but also ends up hitting Bond. Nan seemingly falls out while Bond is left stunned and fazed for a moment.
Nan manages to grab a hold of the metal structure of the window and by “extending her leg at an unnatural angle” manages to come back into the room. Connie, however, pushes her back through the glass, but like Hans Gruber at the end of Die Hard, Nan clings to Connie and pulls her towards her.
Bond regains his focus and sees what's happening. Bond gets the wire saw - which he used earlier to sabotage the building's equipment - to saw Nan's arm off, which causes her to fall to the ground from top level of the building.
Bond and Connie team-up and use phosphorus grenades to make the guards activate the fire system, which will cause the building to flood due to Bond's sabotage. While Sir Henry is alerted, Bond and Connie quickly find themselves trapped by the water. Rodin and other guards arrive at the penthouse by elevator, however, and are greeted by a torrent of water as the elevator doors open.
Under the weight of the water, the elevator cables break and the elevator (with Rodin in it) falls from the top of the tower to Ching's control center, which water begins to fill with "the force of the Nigara falls" - just before Sir Henry is able to press the button to fire a missile at the Chinese plane. Still in the penthouse, 007 and Connie let go of the pipe they were hanging on to. Bond looks down the elevator shaft and comments "Look's like Sir Henry's all washed up".
Epilogue[]
Unlike the May 1990 Script, there is a epilogue present in the July 1990 script. After having saved the world, the scene changes to the Imperial Hotel suite while the fireworks of new year are going off in the distance. Bond and Connie are getting flirty, when a doorbell rings. Bond goes to anwser with champange bottle in his hands. Upon opening the door, he finds Sir Henry in Rodin's combat suit - the motorcycle helmet and the gun compartment - with Bond and Connie now targetted by the helmet. Sir Henry lifts the helmets visor and taunts Bond.
Bond pops the cork off the champagne bottle, which lands in Henry's eye, allowing unarmed Bond to flee before Sir Henry attacks. Sir Henry puts the visor back on and acquires their infrared silhouettes through the wall of the next room; the automated weapon strapped to his backpack begins spitting bullets towards Bond and Connie.
Bond yells at the latter to set the temperature of the shower (the tropical control system seen earlier) to the maximum. Bond empties all 16 rounds of his gun (Walther P-9) on Henry but it has no effect on his Kevlar outfit. A fire-work saves Bond when the auto-aiming system targets it by mistake rather than Bond.
Henry tries to stalk Connie in the bathroom when Bond, hiding behind a torrent of cold water, suddenly jumps on him. Bond tries to strangle him and during the fight, with Henry's helmet coming off. Henry finally manages to gain the upper hand and is about to kill him with broken glass from the shower room, when suddenly Bond turns the helmet on him. The backpack's automated weapon fires at the newly acquired target, Henry's head, killing him.
Bond, noting the state of the hotel room, declares that "I think we'll have dinner out tonight." They kiss with the fireworks going off in the background.
Changes[]
- Pre-title action sequence where Bond uses a paragliding competition as means to break into a Chemical Weapons plant and then exfiltrate by using the same ongoing competition.
- The chemical plant explosion in Scotland is replaced with a scene where a British Harrier jet aircraft is remotely taken over by Sir Henry and crashed to a civilian village in China.
- Nigel Yupland's insolent behavior is toned down.
- Sir Henry doesn't sent threathening letters to the British. He only sends them to Chinese, demanding them to withdraw from Hong Kong.
- Kohoni Twins are changed from Japanese businessmen with Yakuza ties to Koho Nee Twins, who Chinese-British businessmen with ties to Chinese Tongs. Koho Nee Twins now operate in Canada and not in Japan.
- The Hokkaido Ski Resort scene is changed to one in British Columbia in Canada.
- Denholm Crisp doesn't appear at the ski resort. He appears when Bond arrives to Hong Kong.
- Sir Henry uses a sphere-like room and virtual reality set to manipulate the microchips he controls.
- Bond is given a new sidearm with 16-round capacity. It is identified as "Walther P-9" in the script, but its likely meant to be a Walther P88 (which is a 9mm pistol with 16-round capacity).
- Rodin doesn't drive the "killer car" anymore, it is now remotely controlled by Sir Henry in his sphere-like room.
- Otto Winkhart, who doesn't die in the May 1990 script, is now knocked out by Nan, with Rodin throwing his body to a trash compactor in Sir Henry's building, which crushes Winkhart's body.
- After Rodin destroys Mi Wai's car; Q, Denholm and Bond meet back at the Imperial Hotel, not at Denholm's home.
- Fight against Nan is extended, with her now not falling out of window after breaking it, requiring Bond to use a wire saw to cut off her limbs to make her fall.
- When the building starts to flood, Bond and Connie are still at the penthouse.
- Rodin dies when a elevator cable snaps under a water torrent, instead of flood from fire escape killing him.
- Final fight against Lee Ching is different. Instead of a fight in the dark at the flooding building where Bond kills him with a blow-torch, Sir Henry attacks him and Connie at the Imperial hotel (after the building is ruined) and at its tropic-like baths while wearing Rodin's combat suit.
January 1991 draft[]
Revised draft written by William Osborne and William Davies. Unlike the storylines by Michael G. Wilson and Alfonse Ruggiero, the Osborne & Davis script is much more comedic, with a self-parodying tone.
In depth plot[]
Tunisia & Libya[]
The script opens at a hotel, where a ringing phone at dead of night wakes up Bond. Apparently he is late from a meeting with a contact and is warned that he will be reported to London over negligence. 007 gets up, but is at quite disheveled state. He takes asprin and upon looking himself at bathroom mirror, he remarks that he is looking terrible. However, a pretty woman also enters the bathroom, who asks Bond to return to bed with her. This makes Bond feel slightly better. This is followed by the gunbarrel sequence.
Bond heads to the meeting place of his contact in a Aston Martin Virage. Upon arrival to a wharf in Tunis, dressed in a pilot's outfit, he meets his contact, a young unnamed agent. The agent is displeased with Bond being so late, with the latter pouring coffee for himself. The agent has made a report of Bond already, which sets off Bond into a small tirade about the behavior of modern agents and himself.
They board a fast boat and join a starting line of Tunis 2000 boat race. During this race, Bond puts on a harness and goes parasailing, while towed by the agent driving the boat. Upon arriving at a proximity of a cliff by a chemical plant, Bond cuts off the rope and glides to the said plant.
Bond gets into the chemical plant's grounds and begins lockpicking, thinking this will be a easy mission. However, two Rottweilers have spotted Bond, which causes a tense moment whatever he can get inside before the dogs do. Bond is successful getting in, but upon entering, runs right into a guard pointing an Kalashnikov at him. Bond quips to the guard that "he is here to blow up the factory", with guard cocking his rifle and Bond then quipping that "It's obviously not the right time, I'll come back tomorrow".
Bond and the lone guard are soon joined by Colonel Al-Sabra of Libyan State Police and two extra men. Bond dubs them the "falafel Gestapo." Bond manages to subdue Al-Sabra and guards with martial arts. After defeating them, Bond quips "Imperialist Pig: 4. People’s Revolution: 0."
Things play out like the July 1990 script: Bond wraps an explosive belt around a vat of nerve gas and is surprised by a security robot. After recovering from the flashbang device, Bond fires it with a handgun, identified here as a Beretta. When Bond gets to the roof, the explosions don't start like they did in July 1990 script, with exasperated Bond vocally thinking that "this is turning out to be a really bad day." Then the reinforcements arrive and corner him at the edge of a 60-meter cliff with river running below. He raises his arms in surrender, but then takes a dive.
He surfaces down below and is rescued by the young agent before a gunboat arrives. The young agent asks what went wrong, with Bond thinking he failed he mission. Suddenly, the factory ends up exploding and the fragment of the robot from the plant lands on it. Bond quips that the day turned alright.
Stealth plane theft and briefing[]
The scene changes to a US aircraft carrier that is soon arriving to Seattle, while DEA agents on shore are intending to catch a drug dealer thats on the carrier. At the carrier, a pilot boards an experimental stealth fighter-bomber aircraft named Scimitar (which is inspired by either the F-117 Nighthawk and/or one of the Advanced Tactical Fighter entrants). The air traffic control tells that there is no scheduled flight with it, but the pilot takes off with the Scimitar regardless.
DEA agents notice the plane taking off. In the air, the pilot actives the stealth mode and heads for a landing strip in the woods. He lands there to deliver bags of heroin that were hidden on the plane to mobsters in exchange for money. The DEA eventually arrive to the place, but the Scimitar jet and the mobsters gone, with only the pilot dead next to bags of drugs. The DEA agents deem that the pilot's contacts only wanted the fighter jet.
007 arrives at Universal Exports in Trafalgar Square in his Aston Martin Virage. Bond meets up with Moneypenny, with the former proposing to go spend a weekend together at 005's Scottish chalet. This prompts Moneypenny to show a ring on her finger, telling that "a girl can't wait forever, James." She tells a engineer from Harrow proposed before M orders Bond to his office. When Bond enters, they are joined by Nigel Yupland, arrogantly flaunting his authority over MI6. Yupland spots Bonds and mocks him, telling him that the Cold War is over and that the kind of results he specializes in cost too much for MI6's budget.
Yupland then tells that the Scimitar stealth fighter-bomber has been stolen, and Bond's next assignment is to investigate it. Their intel tells that American organized crime has recently carried out several thefts of hi-tech weapons in recent months. They deem that Bond should start with one of the crime families called the Vinellis, who operate in Canada and not too far away from where the plane was stolen.
Before he leaves, Yupland insists on handing Bond a book containing a series of new budget rules and guidelines for field workers. Bond says he's not going to bring it with him, because "if it would fall in the enemy hands, [MI6] might be made fun of." Yupland has none of it, telling that while Bond has a licence to kill and "not print money" - that if Bond fails to understand this, Bond will be fired from service.
Bond goes to Q-lab and discovers that the staff are closing up shop. Q tells that Yupland is closing them. Bond spots the DB5 at the scrap while Q explains maybe its time for him to retire as well. Bond asks Q what he will do now, but Q is lost for words - since the lab has been his entire life.
Bond goes to the parking lot where he left his Virage, but cannot open it. MI6 steward explains that Bond has been assigned a new car, a Honda CRX and gives Bond the keys for it. Bond tells "forget it" and tosses the keys away.
Vancouver and Connie[]
A Boeing 747 lands in Vancouver and Bond goes to a rental agency. He had been order to pick up a Hyundai, but instead gets himself a Ferrari Testarossa. He tells the rental company to put in on Yupland's bill.
Much in the way of the prior Wilson-Ruggerio scripts, Bond infiltrates the Vinelli's warehouse. He enters through the roof, puts on night vision that highlights laser beams, and sees that he is surrounded by crates on which it reads "Nanking Shipping".
Bond soon discovers that he is not the only intruder in the warehouse. Another person present who is spotted by guards. The intruder fends off the guards with a MAC-10 and flees using a Schermuly Pains-Wessex Speedline. The security soon finds Bond also, and uses the same speedline to escape.
The intruder flees in his car - which is now a Mercedes 560SL, instead of a Lamborghini - and Bond gets a good enough look of the intruder to see that its a woman.
The intruder returns to her penthouse in Vancouver, where she contacts someone. At some sort of private fencing arena, Sir Henry Ferguson is fighting a anonymous opponent in a fencing match. After dangerous back and forth, Sir Henry cuts the opponents throath, killing him. Sir Henry's butler comes with a phone and Sir Henry tells him to "find me a new instructor" before picking up the phone.
Connie tells him that the plane must have been in the warehouse, as she found traces of fuel. Henry tells Connie that he thinks the Vinellis moved the plane to Las Vegas and orders Connie to go survey them.
Before heading out to Las Vegas, Connie takes her Mercedes to a mountain river, where she goes kayaking. Bond's Ferrari soon arrives next to Connie's Mercedes, and Bond boards another kayak, as well as putting on a life jacket. Bond starts kayaking and catches up to Connie, introducing himself as "James Baker", to which she responds that she is not here to have company.
A scene similiar to previous mountain skiing chase sequence from Wilson-Ruggerio drafts takes place, retooled for kayaks here. The scene ends with Connie going through fierce rapids, but Bond, who is trying to avoid the rapids, ends up being dragged into it. Bond crashes and his kayak ends upside down. Connie stops, but wet Bond emerges alive. She tells him what's next is worse and maybe she should take Bond back to the shore. Bond decides to take his courage in both hands and rushes towards the next rapids; he manages to cross them without looking back. Connie is not entirely impressed by Bond's "macho bullshit", but Bond tells to meet him at a nearby restaraunt and to be dressed in fancy clothes.
At the restaraunt in Vancouver, Bond and Connie (who is dressed in Moschino clothing) converse. They first order wine, to Connie takes a sardonic attitude regarding Bond's "wine snobbery."
Connie then tells her a bit about her life: that her father was an international burglar who taught her everything, that she worked for the CIA. She laughs again and tells him that actually she works in hospitality industry. Bond then tells him that he is then a British secret agent before laughing and saying that he actually works in agricultural equipment.
She asks him if he's really hungry because she wants to "have furious, passionate, mindless sex" with him, she says. Bond begins to laugh, believing she's still joking, but when he discovers she's not laughing. The scene cuts to "angry, passionate, mindless sex" in Connie's apartment.
When Bond wakes up he has a bad back and thinks he's getting "definitely too old for that", repeating it multiple times like a broken record. He soon finds that Connie is no longer there and that she has left a note, telling Bond to "have a good life". Dismayed Bond thinks out loud that she dumped him.
Las Vegas, Hotel & Spa[]
Next we see Bond calling M and him telling that he is going to "take a vacation in Las Vegas because a girl broke his heart." M is stunned but Bond tells him he was joking: he is going to Vegas to investigate the Vinellis, since it is the center of their operations. M tells him that he is in no position to make jokes, as Yupland had received the invoice for the rental of the Ferrari and is absolutely fuming.
Bond tells M to tell Yupland that he has everything under control, and then we find out he was on the phone from behind the wheel of a Lamborghini Countach, driving on the Las Vegas Strip.
Bond then arrives at his hotel (which is not identified by name), where he finds lots of body builders in the lobby posing for "Pumping Iron IX". After arriving in his room, Bond is approached by a "skinhead", who introduces himself as Agent Jennings of the "West Coast Liason of MI6". It appears that Agent Jennings is a homosexual who tells that Bond has beautiful eyes, with Bond trying to remain polite despite being somewhat awkward situation for him.
At balcony of Bond's hotel room, Jennings points out to Golden Sands Hotel, that is the Vinellis' headquarters. Bond takes binoculars and looks at the penthouse of the Golden Sands, observing the Vinelli Brothers Tony (who has a scar) and Tiny, with their father, Guido Vinelli. Jenning brings a shotgun-shape directional microphone for Bond and listen in. They hear Guido voicing his unease with Tony & Tiny's arms trafficking -- that it's not their business, but "gambling, drugs and prostitution" is. Tiny responds by telling that with selling the Scimitar will make more money than all of Guido's businesses put togheter.
Bond hears enough, as its clear that Vinellis have the Scimitar and need to be invesitaged further. Bond then tells that he will take it easy now and goes to a bath, while Jennings continues the surveillance.
As Bond goes to the bath, Colonel Al-Sabra, who survived the plant explosion, with a face full of scars, stands in front of Bond with gun drawn at him. Bond starts swearing and tells the Colonel to just shoot him, because his back hurts too much. But then Bond simply headbutts the Colonel and knocks him out. Bond throws Al-Sabra's gun to the bathtub, takes Al-Sabra's wallet and then just leaves the Colonel there.
As Bond attempts to leave, two female bodybuilders - akin to Bambi and Thumper from Diamonds Are Forever - attack him. They send Bond flying across the room from their strikes and after Bond regains composture, he quips that he doesn't like beating up women. Bond picks up a iron bar, but one of the women manages to disarm Bond and then throwing it the bar like a javelin at Bond. Bond dodges and goes to give a few punches. The woman does react. The other woman then throws a weight "like a frisbee" at Bond. Bond ducks and the weight its the another woman Bond was struggling with. Bond then grabs a hand barbell and lands a punch that knocks one of them out.
The other woman pushes Bond towards the bath and plunges his head into the tub. The woman attempts to drown Bond and almost succeeds when Al-Sabra regains counciousness. Bond then manages to get Sabra's gun that he threw in the tub and uses it to shoot Al-Sabra and then shooting the bodybuilder multiple times. She approaches Bond, but she then collapses into the tub. Bond quips that "she went on ten rounds."
Bond returns back to his hotel room. He and Jennings then overhear the Vinellis talking on the phone with a certain "Sir Henry" about an exchange of 50 million for the plane. However, Henry has one condition: one of his men must see the plane first. Tony agrees and says they are going to then lead the man to see the Scimitar. This prompts Bond to leave in post-haste to catch up with the Vinellis.
Bond gets into the Lamborghini and speeds to the parking lot of the Golden Sands Hotel. He observes his surroundings and finds two parked limousines, which he thinks are for the Vinelli Brothers. He climbs into the trunk of one of them and subsequently, the limos then head for Nevada desert.
Las Vegas - desert warehouse, trapped and rodeo[]
After the limos stop and Bond deems it safe, he finds that they are at a large warehouse. Bond finds the Scimitar as well as crates similiar to ones in the other warehouse (that were meant for Nanking), that contain Stinger missiles. Bond is then spotted by a guard named Sal and alerted to the Vinellis. Tony searches Bond and finds Al-Sabra's wallet. Tiny orders Bond's death, but Tony interjects, telling that if Bond is a Libyan spy, then "it's the government's responsibility." He orders Sal to "take him to the goverment" and Bond is knocked out.
When Bond regains consciousness, he finds that is locked inside an old, broken Sherman tank. Bond is able to peek outside and sees more military wreckage around him. Then suddenly, one of the scapped equipment explodes and Bond sees whats going on, he is in a training ground/shooting range meant for the new M1 Abrams tanks in the desert.
Bond tries to find a way out as other wreckage explode nearby from the M1 tanks fire. Bond removes an old shell that was in the Sherman tank's cannon, then extracts the explosive powder, pours it into an old military helmet which he clamps onto the hatch before lighting it up with a match he has. He explodes the hatch and gets away right before a M1 tank's shell hits the scrapped Sherman Bond was in.
The scene then changes to a helicopter over Hoover Dam, that is being flown by Bond and Jennings. They are looking for airfields where the Vinellis are going to show the Scimitar to Sir Henry's man. After browsing the last airfield, Bond deems that its pointless to continue and that they should head back to the Las Vegas Hotel. But Jennings then informs that intelligence has found the Vinellis at a nearby rodeo.
The helicopter lands in the parking lot of the "Las Vegas Professional Rodeo Championship" located not far from the Golden Sands Hotel, and Bond gets out. There are stands, horses, an arena, bulls, etc. Bond spots the Vinellis, as well as the man Sir Henry sent, but also Connie Webb, whom the Vinellis seem to be aware of.
Because the entry is restricted to listed individuals only, and Bond goes to a mobile dressing room where he knocks someone out before coming out dressed like a cowboy. He then reaches Connie Webb, who helps him get inside. They ask each other what the other is doing here, with Connie telling it's part of her job, the Golden Sands Hotel being a sponsor of the rodeo. But Bond then brings up that Connie knows fully well what kind of people the Vinellis are, to which Connie tells Bond to leave before he gets hurt.
Bond starts to get testy and tells that, because she is lying, he can do the same. He then sardonically repeats the things regarding Vancouver (restaraunt, sex) which prompts Connie to slap Bond. Connie then calls for the other cowboys and/or rodeo riders, telling that "Baker" thinks that "cowboys are gay" and that he wants to show how easy it is riding a bull.
Bond is then forcibly placed on a bull and ends up in the arena. While struggling with the bull, Tony recognizes Bond as the Libyan spy (using a ethnic slur to do so) from the warehouse and tells Sal to go kill him. Continuing struggling with the bull, Bond sees the Vinellis leave, which prompts Bond to then pacify the bull and ride it back in one piece.
Las Vegas - Showdown and monster truck chase[]
Getting out the pen, Bond is confronted by Sal and his men. Two cowboys appear and Bond mugs a revolver from one of them, with suddenly, a tense stand-off starting between Bond and the gangsters. The gangsters reach their guns, but Bond guns them down like a hero from a Western, fanning the revolver for rapid fire. With gangsters dead, amused Bond blows the (imaginary) smoke from the end of his barrel.
Bond gets out of the rodeo arena and sees the Vinellis leaving in a limo towards the Las Vegas Strip, followed by Connie in her Mercedes. Bond then notices three monster trucks parked nearby and gets behind the wheel of one of them. While in pursuit, the other henchmen take the other two.
On the Las Vegas Strip, Monster Trucks cause the destruction of traffic lights, fire hydrants, bus shelters and pass over/between (via their heights) a bench on which there is a tramp. The limo spins off the strip and Bond smashes cars/buses out of a traffic jam; one of his pursuers does the same but ends up on the side while crashing into a random hotel.
Bond and his pursuer cross a casino then an Elvis Presley chapel at the wheel of their behemoths. Back on the road, a man from the monster truck shoots Bond at the Uzi, 007 retaliates with the revolver and hits a tire. It causes the goon's monster truck to make a series of rolls before landing in the swimming pool of one of the hotels.
Later Connie arrives at the Hoover Dam, and pulls up after having lost the limo. Bond comes up behind her on foot; she puts him down. He asks her to tell him who she really is, when suddenly they see part of the dam opens and the Scimitar takes off. The Scimitar flies away, as Bond wonders where the plane is going. Then suddenly, Connie knocks Bond unconcious.
Yupland & General Han[]
Nigel Yupland arrives in Nevada, to a Chicken Ranch brothel. The landlady asks him if he is looking for a particular type of girl and Yupland responds that "he wants a big one". We see him following the girl to a room and we discover that the brothel is hiding an NSA radio station. A NSA agent tells that they were monitoring the Vinellis and the tells Yupland to take back "his man" for causing trouble. Yupland goes to the interrigation room where Bond is and lambasts him for destorying half a city and sullying 18 months of work by a intelligence ally, with the damage done being "incalculable."
Bond tries to defend himself, but Yupland says that he won't allow Bond back in field, because he could not even find the plane. Bond is supsended and to head back to London.
An airliner arrives at Hong Kong airport and mobsters get off, including the Vinellis. Passing the immigration checks, they join limousines sent by Sir Henry, who is unable to attend for the moment.
Meanwhile, Sir Henry himself is a passanger in a Lincoln limo at the Chinese countryside, accompanied by a secretary Suzy. Upon arrival, an armored steam train pulls up near them and a Chinese Han, accompanied by his soldiers, come out of it. While his soldiers go to loot a village near the train, Han asks Henry if he has the Scimitar yet.
Sir Henry sweet-talks General Han, not anwsering directly, but providing "3rd generation Stingers" to ease the General's mind. Han then orders a plane to take off, and eventually, a MiG-29 appears in the sky. Han takes one of the Stingers and fires it, ending unintentionally destroying the aforementiond village. However, Han shrughs it off, as he planned to destroy the village anyway. Han gets a second missile and now hits the MiG. Han is satisfied and Sir Henry assures him that the General will have 2000 Stingers delivered to him within a week.
At the Las Vegas airport, Jennings escorts Bond to a plane to London. Bond is bitter and instead determines to go to Hong Kong to find the Scrimitar jet and then "shove it so deep in Yulpland's ass that he would never sing God Save the Queen again!"
Hong Kong[]
While Bond is flying towards Hong Kong, Sir Henry arrives at the hotel where the mobsters are staying. The sequence is like in Wilson-Ruggerio scripts, with Rodin arriving disguised as a courier on a motorcycle, then entering the building and using his helmet visor and automated rifle pack to kill his obstacles, and then tinkering the automated window washer machine with flammable liquid.
While Rodin is doing this, Sir Henry, accompanied by Suzy, meet the Vinellis. The Vinellis point out that the hotel has a tight security system, and that they are just being careful. Sir Henry expresses his proposition for them; soon the Hong Kong will be under Sir Henry's control and while there are many fields that will belong to him, he will allow the Vinellis to make shop when it comes to narcotics, gambling and prostitution.
The Vinellis question Sir Henry about how Hong Kong could belong to him soon, since its still British territory and it will belong to the Chinese come 1997. Sir Henry offers a enigmatic "you'd be surprised" -- and explains the profits that the Vinellis could make. But then, Sir Henry sets them off when he mentions that half of the Vinellis' Hong Kong profits will go to him, if they are to accept his offer.
The Vinellis have had enough, deeming that Sir Henry is selling nothing but beautiful promises. Sir Henry and Suzy then leave the room, while Vinellis are still inside grumbling. Then the window washer machine appears and sets fire the entire room, killing the Vinellis. Outside, Henry quips that "if you can’t stand the heat, stay out the kitchen."
Bond's plane arrives in Hong Kong and he is greeted by "Gordon Denholm" - a man in his fifties an a Hawaiian shirt - who is the head of section H. Denholm tells him that he's a hug fan of Bond, who has been following his spy career for years. He then tells that Jennings has explained everything, with Denholm's greeting Bond, knowing who Bond is.
Denholm tells him that he investigated the company "Nanking Shipping Company" that Bond had seen on the boxes at Vinellis' warehouses. It is a company belongs to Sir Henry Ferguson, who is of Scottish hertiage and is at the head of an electronics empire. Denholm further tells that he has a private island near Kowloon.
Denholm also has a surprise for Bond and brings him to a plane. There, the Aston Martin DB5 is being unloaded with Q overseeing it, like in the Wilson-Ruggerio scripts. Afterwards, Bond arrives at the Imperial Hotel where he first encounters Mi Wai as a member of the hotel staff.
Ferguson's Island and Harbor[]
Come nightime at Kowloon bay, Bond is discreetly swimming towards Sir Henry's private island. At the island, there is what appears to be a British colonial-era house.
Inside, Bond finds various paitings and other art pieces. Bond sneaks in deeper, dodging security and deactivating the alarm system. Eventually, he finds a room where Sir Henry and Connie and secretly surveys what they are doing.
Henry tells that is not interested in her conversation and asks her to undo her dress. She starts to, but doesn't fully do so, saying that "she can't." This angers Henry, yelling that "doesn't he pay her enough?" Bond involuntarily reacts and sets off a laser, causing a alarm. Within seconds, guards come and apprihend Bond and bring him to Henry.
Sir Henry inquires who Bond is, responding that he is James Baker and he is here to steal the art pieces Sir Henry owns. Sir Henry is somewhat amused, and leads Bond to his gymnasium. Henry says that he admires "Baker's desperate courage" and tells Bond he can leave the island, if "Baker" can beat him in fencing.
Henry throws a sword at Bond, and a duel around Sir Henry's colonial-era house ensues. As the carnage escalates, eventually Bond gains the uppor hand, knocking Henry's sword out of his hands and drawing the blade at the villain's throat. Sir Henry complies, him telling that Miss Webb will accompany him back to mainland.
Aboard a fast boat, Bond and Connie converse. Bond tries to spin his "farm business" lie from before, but Connie knows the truth, that he is a British agent James Bond, codename 007. She then tells that she knows because she is a American agent that "it was her operation that Bond single-handedly destroyed in Las Vegas."
They arrive at the port. Bond walks over to his DB5 and tells him he's going home, going over the insults Yupland had directed at him regarding being "too expensive, too obsolete" and being "in Connie's way." Bond tells Connie to "have a good life" when she then opens the door and gets him out of the DB5. Connie tells him that he has accomplished in three days what it took her 8 months to do. Connie tells that Bond makes her feel like a amateur and that she wants Bond to help her.
Bond throws her off but she starts to undress and Bond pushes her against the hood of the DB5 where he kisses her.
We cut to a scene where a bribed customs officer inspects a Sir Henry's super-tanker in Hong Kong harbor, but acts oblivious to the tanks and other armored vehicles hidden inside. Bond and Connie are at a nearby rooftop, surveying the harbor. Bond concludes that, given the size of the boats and if Sir Henry has all the weapons from Vinellis' warehouses, he has enough equipment to start a war.
Connie then brings up that, since the Tian'anmen Square massacre in 1989, the Chinese government has been under an arms embargo preventing it from importing weapons. Connie notes the cost of the plan, while Bond does not think that the Scimitar is on the super-tanker. Connie deems that Sir Henry might have the Scimitar at the Nanking Tower, a building he owns. Bond voices skeptism about hiding a jet fighter in a skyscraper, but Connie notes that the Vinellis hid the Scimitar inside Hoover Dam previously.
Killer car[]
We find Yupland at the Government House in Hong Kong, grumbling at Denholm and Q, as he wants to know where "that damn maniac" James Bond is. Yupland's fit is cut when he recieves a call from a aquintance. It's Sir Henry, who is asking if he knows any James Baker. Despite him stating he cannot tell anything before Bond is officially fired from Her Majesty's Secret Service, Yupland tells that Baker's real name is James Bond, and that he is a MI6 agent.
Bond returns to the Imperial hotel, with Connie off her own way. Upon arrival, Mi Wai tells that Bond has recieved a message. This prompts Bond to leave the hotel and boards the DB5 alone. Barely out of the parking lot, Rodin in his "computer car" - described as a mix of Ford GT40 and a Mercedes Le Mans car (possibly the C11) - starts pursuing Bond.
Once on a country road, Bond notices the car behind him. Rodin presses a button that activates a heads-up display on the windshield and presses another button and two machine guns deploy. While the DB5 is pelted by the bullets, Rodin prepares to fire a missile - using a diamond-shaped reticle to aim it. Having been alarmed of a missile lock, Bond curses out and starts hitting random buttons. All the while thinking out loud that "One day Bond, you better damn well listen to Q when he explains everything."
He unexpectedly prompts a countermeasure the prevent Rodin from locking a missile on the car. Pressing other buttons, he first activates the and passenger compartment light and then the other button drops claymore mines.
Rodin's car hits a few of them, but avoids the rest. Rodin's car is still operational despite the damage it recieved and launches a missile. Bond prays that Q "invented a counter" for the missile, when he toggles a rocket that misleads the missile to the sea.
Rodin activates a 20mm cannon and Bond activates the rear shield of DB5. As the shield is starting to fail, and having figured out that Rodin's car is replicating the movements of the DB5, Bond attaches harnesses located on his seat and deploys the ejection seat.
Bond rockets out of the DB5, with distracted Rodin unable to react in time to stop his own car from following the unmanned DB5 off the cliff, to his death.
Bond arrives to the meeting place given at the hotel message on a taxi. Mi Wai approaches Bond, drawing a gun on him and orders him to board a unspecified Sikorsky helcopter, to which Bond complies.
A van arrives at the Nanking Tower. It turns out to be a survallience van with Denholm, Q and Connie inside. Sir Henry is informed by Suzy that General Han has launched the coup, with a Chinese military encampment being sieged by General Han's army of tanks and soldiers.
Connie proceeds to infiltrate the Nanking Tower and hides at the elevator that is taking Sir Henry to his penthouse. The penthouse turns out to be a aircraft hangar, with the Scimitar being there, armed with nuclear bombs under its fuselage. Connie is spotted and then captured.
At another Chinese military camp (not the one that was just invaded by General Han), Bond is taken to Quen Low, the head of Chinese military intelligence. Because the "aggressor" behind the attack is using Western military equipment, Low concludes that the Americans and the British who are behind the coup. Bond tries to convince that the weapons are stolen equipment provided by organized crime, but Quen Low does not believe him.
Quen Low then tells that the Beijing had recieved a threath regarding a nuclear strike, which will be achieved with the Scimitar stealth aircraft. Quen Low orders Bond to go inform the Western leaders and warn them that, if Beijing is hit, then China will respond to a nuclear attack with an attack of equal magnitude on London and Washington.
Endgame[]
A nuclear-armed Chinese submarine starts to mobilize while Bond is returning to Hong Kong in a Cesna aircraft piloted by Mi Wai. Bond radios Denholm and Q, who inform him that Connie had found the Scimitar in the tower but they lost radio contact with her. Bond tells them to order round up all troops they can, even if Yupland attempts to stop them. Bond then jumps out of the plane and right into swimming pool atop a skyscraper close to the Nanking Tower.
Q gives Bond some sort of grappling hook. The agent fires a rope towards Henry's building, swings into the air in a swinging motion and fires a submachine gun at the window before launching inside the Nanking Tower. Bond then knocks out a guard who was at the room he just swung into.
Sir Henry is in the process of ordering his men to execute Connie. Meanwhile, the troops that Q and Denholm were ordered to round up, begin to take up positions around his building. There is a quick shot where Yupland is shouting to someone on the phone, regarding that "James Baker isn't the US Secretary of State" but Yupland's agent.
Sir Henry notices the troops gathering and activates the defenses of his building, with machine guns hidden in statues and tear gas used repel the raid.
With only 5 minutes left before the Chinese submarine fires, Bond has disguised as a guard and approaches the Scimitar. He knocks out the pilot and climb aboard. Sir Henry's men open fire at Bond, who takes off from the tower with the Scimitar. Bond contacts Quen Low by the jet's radio and orders him to call off the submarine strike.
The troops manage to get through building defenses, with Connie taking advantage of the commotion to break free. However, she runs into Sir Henry and is captured again. Bond, thinking that he has stopped Scimitar, soon finds out that jet is not responding to his controls. Back at the Tower, Sir Henry explains to Connie that Scimitar can operate independently without a pilot, its missions can be scheduled and the computer follows the orders.
Bond tries to turn off the autopilot to no avail, and with Quen Low seeing that the jet isn't stopping, orders the countdown to continue. Back at the cockpit, Bond tries feverishly to stop the Scimitar. Bond realizes to toggle the manual fuel ejection control, which causes the Scimitar to lose enough fuel for its computer system to declare that "the primary target is out of range." Bond is pleased, but then the computer announces a second target, Shanghai. But again, because fuel is running low, the computer cancels it, finally yielding manual control back to Bond. Low sees Scimitar turning around and cancels the attack.
Bond, running low on fuel, starts flying towards the Nanking Tower. Sir Henry, trying to avoid the troops, finds the rope Bond used to enter and decides to use it to escape. But as Sir Henry grabs the rope, Bond rams the Scimitar right at him, impaling him on the pitot tube on the nose of the fighter jet. The Scimitar flies right through the building with Sir Henry impaled on it - with fuel running out, it dives right at the Goverment House and crashes. The Scimitar had crashed just across Yupland's office, who was on the phone with the Prime Minister, with dead Sir Henry sticking out on the pitot tube.
Bond gets out of the Scimitar in sight of the horrified Yupland. Bond tells that he has good news and bad news - with the good news being that Bond "found the plane." Yupland looks at dead Sir Henry, with Bond preparing for the bad news. Yupland throws a complete fit, before calming down and realizing what "bad news" Bond has for him.
Bond punches him in the face, saying he should have done it a long time ago and comes out of the wreckage of Government House. Connie runs to Bond, glad of his safety. Connie quips that Bond must think that "macho bullshit is gonna get you a date for dinner", calling back to their first meeting in Vancouver.
Gordon Denholm comes to congratulate Bond, as does Q who tells him that Bond "even managed to impress me this time", praising the way he flew the plane, deactivated the autopilot, and disarmed the nuclear warhead. Connie then asks did Bond actually disarm the nuclear warhead, with Bond giving a hesitant, unsure anwser. This prompts Q and Denholm running to go look the plane in panic.
Afterwards, we find Bond and Connie kayaking and then camping, lying in a double sleeping bag around a fire in a forest. They argue because she still blames him for forgetting to defuse the warhead. She ends up kissing him and telling him that he needs to learn to be less sensitive about the mistakes he can make. Bond then mentions of few traps he used to fall in the past, to which Connie corrects him for not being the point. Bond quips that Connie is a difficult woman and presses a button on what appears to be some kind of remote - which turns off a fire and makes the screen dark for the viewers while sound of rustling blankets are heard.
Known characters[]
| James Bond | MI6 agent |
| Sir Henry Ferguson | Tech Entrepreneur based in Hong Kong |
| Connie Webb | Ex-jewel thief/CIA Freelancer |
| Gordon Denholm | MI6 Agent in Hong Kong |
| Q | MI6 Quartermaster |
| Agent Jennings | Homosexual MI6 Agent in Las Vegas |
| General Han | Chinese despot aiming to overthrow the Chinese Communist Party |
| Rodin | Sir Henry's enforcer |
| Colonel Al-Sabra | Libyan military officer |
| Vinelli Brothers (Tony and Tiny Vinelli) | American Mafia operating in Las Vegas |
| Nigel Yupland | Minister of Defence |
| M | MI6 Section Chief |
| Mi Wai | Chinese Intelligence Officer |
| Quen Low | Chinese Intelligence Chief |
Known changes[]
- The pre-title sequence from July 1990 draft has been reworked. It now takes place in Tunisian-Libyan border, where Bond uses a parasailing competition as means to infiltrate the Chemical plant. Here, Allison replaced by a unnamed field agent. At the plant, Bond meets a Libyan military officer Colonel Al-Sabra and here, the bombs don't go off as planned. Bond also escapes by jumping down backwards into a river ravine where the aforementioned agent is waiting. The bombs explode after Bond has climbed on the boat, thinking the mission failed at first.
- The sequence where a British Navy Harrier jet comes alive on its own and crashes to a Chinese village, is now replaced by a drug-addict pilot stealing a experimental stealth fighter from the US aircraft carrier and delivering it to villain-assoicated mafia waiting in Seattle. After arrival, the pilot is killed with DEA arriving too late.
- The Kohone Nee Twins, that were reworked from prior Kohoni Twins, are now changed to Italian-American Vinelli Brothers, who are a mafia operating in Las Vegas.
- Nigel Yupland's insolent behavior is much more extreme in this script, being way worse than he was in the the base May 1990 draft (whose behavior was toned down in July 1990 draft).
- Sir Henry Lee Ching, who is half-Chinese and half-white, was changed to Scottish caucasian Sir Henry Ferguson.
- The fight against the female cyborg Nan late in the story is replaced with a fight against two unnamed female bodybuilders around early-to-mid story.
- Denholm Crisp is renamed "Gordon Denholm." His drinking problem is removed from the characterization.
- Bond's fight with Sir Henry is changed to mid-to-late story, where he has a fencing fight to the death with him. Furthermore, Sir Henry now dies in the end when Bond rams the Scimitar stealth fighter at him, impaling Sir Henry on the fighter's pitot tube.
Influence on later James Bond media[]
While none of these 3 drafts were filmed, various aspects would be used for later Bond films and even certain other media.
Villain[]
Sir Henry Lee Ching and his reworked Sir Henry Ferguson incarnations would inspire various villains in the future Bond installments:
- Saga Genji from Dynamite Entertainment's comic arc, Black Box has many similiarities with Sir Henry Lee Ching. In May 1990 draft, the final fight with him against Bond takes place in the dark, where both Sir Henry and Genji have the advantage due to a visor device giving them night vision (Sir Henry takes it from Rodin, Genji has had it most of his life.)
- Additionally, Genji is a industrialist with Yakuza-ties like the "Kohoni twins" from the May 1990 draft.
- Sir Henry Lee Ching's background, of his father having been a military general in Chiang Kai Shek's army during the Chinese Civil War and him being bitter at both England and China may have inspired Alec Trevelyan's Lienz Cossack backstory. The scene where Quen Low explains Sir Henry's backstory is somewhat same as the one where Valentin Zukovsky explains who Janus is in GoldenEye.
- Sir Henry Ferguson's plan to help a Chinese despot complete a coup in China is roughly the same as Elliot Carver's in Tomorrow Never Dies. However, whereas Ferguson wants Hong Kong as his own land, Elliot Carver wants a broadcasting monopoly after the despot comes to power. Also, Ferguson's plan relies on a stealth aircraft, while Carver uses a stealth seacraft on his.
- When Ferguson kills a man in a fencing duel, he tells his butler to "hire a new fencing coach", which is somewhat refrenced by Colonel Moon when he kickboxes a punching bag that contains a person, then telling to "find a new anger management therapist" at the beggining of Die Another Day.
- Ferguson engages Bond in a increasingly destructive sword fight at his colonial-era house. This would be used in Die Another Day, where Bond and Gustav Graves engage in similiar destructive sword fight at the Blades Club.
- In July 1990 script, Lee Ching uses a VR headset and a gauntlets that allows him to manipulate electronics that have his microchips in them. This is somewhat similiar to the get-up Gustav Graves uses in Die Another Day to control the Icarus.
- In July 1990 script, the final fight between Bond and Lee Ching, who is wearing a high-tech costume that Bond uses against him, bears similiarity with the end fight against Gustav Graves in Die Another Day.
Intro chemical plant sequence[]
Mainly in July 1990 and January 1991 scripts, the opening sequence takes place on a mission where Bond performs a extreme stunt to gain access to a chemical plant, setting up explosives, escaping while chased down by guards and again escaping in a amazing stunt, would serve as inspiration for GoldenEye's pre-title sequence.
- Not present in the July 1990, but introduced in the January 1991 draft, the facility was overseen by a military commander named Colonel Al-Sabra, who may have partly inspired General Ourumov.
- Also in the January 1991 draft, Bond escapes the guards by first feinging surrender and then diving backwards into a 60-meter deep river ravine. This would be done by Jinx in Die Another Day, as well as somewhat refrenced in the opening of the 2010 GoldenEye game remake.
Other aspects[]
- In January 1991 draft, Bond depicted as an old-school agent who is physically in a bad shape and having notable difficulties completing his mission(s) in modern environment, which would lay the crux of the Skyfall's plot. However, where as the Jan 1991 draft treats this in a comedic fashion, it is treated seriously in Skyfall.
- Nigel Yupland, the po-faced Ministry of Defense executive who wishes closure of 00 section, would serve as influence for both, Judi Dench's M (mainly classic continuity, especially her GoldenEye appearance) and Max Denbigh from Spectre.
- The robotic arms described in May 1990 and July 1990 drafts appear to have inspired the ones that appear when Bond fights Mr. Kil in Die Another Day.
- The theft of the Scimitar stealth fighter by the American Vinelli mafia bears similarity with the theft of the Tiger Helicopter by Xenia and the Russian Janus Syndicate in GoldenEye.
- The break-ins perpetrated by Connie Webb, with Bond present in the January 1991 one, may have inspired the action scene in Tomorrow Never Dies, where Wai Lin and Bond break into the CMG newspaper facility. Furthermore, a object is taken there, which leads a villain to go to Bond's hotel room and demand the object back (the Kohoni microchip with unmade Bond 17 and GPS decoder in TND) and the place is left with army of thugs trying to stop a car.
- The scenes where Bond chases Connie in either skiing or kayaking may have formed the basis for the mountain path race in GoldenEye (where Bond races Xenia's Ferrari in his DB5) and the ski sequence in The World is Not Enough.
- The scene from the January 1991 draft, where Bond is trapped inside a decommissioned tank that is pelted by fire from modern M1 tanks, may have inspired the scene in GoldenEye, where Bond and Natalia are trapped inside the Tiger Helicopter that is going to shoot its missiles at the helicopter itself.
- The monster truck chase from the January 1991 draft may have inspired the famous Tank chase from GoldenEye. In both cases, Bond is using a large vehicle to pursue a secondary villain in a car.
- In July 1990 draft, Denholm Crisp provides Bond a new gun that is not the Walther PPK, but a new 9mm Walther with 16 round capacity (it is identified as Walther P-9 in script, but is likely meant to be a Walther P88). In Tomorrow Never Dies, Bond acquires a new Walther P99 from Wai Lin's armory near the end of the movie, which succeeds Bond's PPK in the movies, until Quantum of Solace.
- The "fighter-like weaponized car" that's driven by Rodin in May 1990 and January 1991 drafts (and remote controlled in July 1990 by Sir Henry), would be retooled into the Jaguar XKR thats driven by Zao in Die Another Day.
- Furthermore, the scene(s) described in the drafts play out quite similarly as the Rome car chase sequence in Spectre, where Bond's Aston Martin DB10 is chased by Mr. Hinx's Jaguar C-X75. Notably because Bond is unable to make the Aston Martin's gadgets work and he outmaneuvers the pursuer by using the parachute ejection seat.
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References[]
- "Scripting 007: Behind the writing of the James Bond movies" by Clement Feutry (Version 2.2 - Nov 30, 2024) - Chapter 17: "GoldenEye"
- Edlitz, Mark (2020). "The Lost Adventures of James Bond". ISBN: 978-1735461618
- Field, Matthew; Chowdhury, Ajay (2015). Some kind of hero: 007 : the remarkable story of the James Bond films. ISBN 978-0-7509-6421-0. OCLC 930556527
- What Timothy Dalton’s Third James Bond Movie Would Have Been About
- MI6 HQ - Bond 17 (1990) by MI6 Staff
- MI6 HQ - Bond 17 (1991/1994/1995)
- 007 Info - The 007 Film That Never Was: Dalton’s Third Bond
- ↑ Edlitz, Mark (13th September 2020). "Timothy Dalton’s Unmade Third Bond Film - Alfonse Ruggiero", The Lost Adventures of James Bond (in En-UK). Bowker. ISBN 9781234567890.