James Bond, The Living Daylights. Declassification of the 15th James Bond movie including opening, title song, credits, villains, girls, gadgets, chases, binds, one-liners, and locations.

Opening

• parachutes onto Gibraltar as part of an exercise, runs and jumps on top of moving military truck driven by imposter 00 agent, avoids gun shots through canvas roof, knifes through canvas roof to try to stop driver, causes truck to drive through guard wall off cliff and pulls his parachute to eject out back of truck just before truck impacts and explodes into the ocean

Title Song/Credits

• "The Living Daylights" by a-ha
• women in body paint and swimsuits, shooting pistols and naked silhouetted women doing gymnastics

Villains

• Georgi Koskov, KGB general who fakes his defection to mastermind a weapons conspiracy (Jeroen Krabbé)
• Necros, KGB agent assisting Koskov (Andreas Wisniewski)
• Brad Whitaker, American arms dealer selling weapons to the Russians and conspiring with Koskov to use the funds to profit off of opium smuggling (Joe Don Baker)
• Imposter 00 agent, defector agent during Gibraltar exercise (Carl Rigg)

Girls

• Kara Milovy, cellist and Koskov's girlfriend (Maryam d'Abo)
• Linda, sunbather on yacht (Kell Tyler)
• Rubavitch, Pushkin's girlfriend (Virginia Hey)
• Liz, CIA agent (Catherine Rabett)
• Ava, CIA agent (Dulice Liecier)
• Koskov's pool girls (Odette Benatar, Dianna Casale, Sharon Devlin, Femi Gardiner, Patricia Keefer, Ruddy Rodriguez, Mayte Sanchez, Cela Savannah, Karen Seeberg, Waris Walsh, Karen Williams)

Gadgets

• Aston Martin V8 with side laser, head-up windshield scope, missiles, bullet-proof glass, outrigger, metal-spiked tires, rocket motor and self-destruct
• military jet that takes off vertically like a helicopter
• whistle-activated stun gas and plastic explosive keychain with key that opens 90% of world's locks
• exploding milk bottles
• machine gun with bulletproof body shield
• night vision goggles
• metal detector rake
• binocular glasses

Chases

• Aston Martin V8 chased by police cars on mountain roads and on ice-covered lake
• cello-case sled chased by snow vehicle and guards on skis down mountain and across the border into Austria
• taxiing plane chased by Kara's jeep and military truck down runway, with jeep driving up open cargo bay ramp into hull of plane

Binds

• freefalling in a truck over a cliff toward the ocean, pulls his parachute to eject out the back and then lands on a nearby yacht
• chased by police car, activates side laser and cuts body of police car from undercarriage
• blocked by police tractor-trailer roadblock, launches missiles to explode tractor trailer and pass through
• under missile attack on ice-covered lake and having one tire blown, uses wheel rim to cut a circle in the ice around pursuing police car, causing it to sink
• approaching military base at edge of ice-covered lake, uses rocket motor to generate speed and incline to jump over guard house
• unable to learn more about Koskov's plan without killing Pushkin, but suspecting Koskov set up Pushkin, fakes Pushkin's assassination
• captured by Koskov and about to be incarcerated, uses whistle-activated stun gas keychain to stun guard
• in fight with jailor, kicks him into cell, locks him in and escapes
• with plane landing head on on same runway he is taxiing down, takes off just before other plane lands; other plane crashes head on with pursuing truck
• hanging by one hand to netted cargo hanging out the back of a plane with bomb ticking down, climbs up netting, fights Necros, gets his knife, cuts free sacks of opium, cuts laces of his boot that Necros is holding onto, sending Necros falling to his death, climbs back into plane and deactivates bomb
• with Kamran's men losing ground to Russian troops while crossing bridge, drops bomb from plane and explodes center portion of bridge
• with plane out of fuel and gliding, brings it close to the ground, opens cargo bay ramp, gets in jeep and opens parachute attached to back of jeep, which pulls the jeep out the back of the plane and to the ground just before plane crashes into mountain
• with his pistol no match for Whitaker's machine gun with bulletproof body shield, plants plastic explosive keychain on statue and whistles to detonate it as Whitaker is walking by, causing the statue to fall on and kill Whitaker

One-liners

• "Better make that two," after Linda asks him to join her for a drink while phoning MI6 at end of exercise to tell them that he'll report in in an hour
• "Salt corrosion," to Kara after she asks what happened to the police car whose body separated from its undercarriage
• "Amazing this modern safety glass," to Kara after bullets reflect off Aston Martin V8's bullet-proof glass
• "Glad I insisted you brought that cello," to Kara after losing Aston Martin V8 and needing the cello's case to be used as a sled while being chased by guards on skis
• "He got the boot," to Kara after she asks what happened in his fight with Necros
• "I know a great restaurant in Karachi - we can just make dinner," to Kara after seeing a sign to Karachi just after they dropped out of the back of the plane in the jeep
• "He met his Waterloo," to Pushkin when he sees Whitaker dead

Locations

• Gibraltar
• Vienna, Austria
• Tangier, Morocco
• United States
• Italy
• England

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