But he also crosses her, and has her put in prison with Bond. They escape from the base in Afghanistan, together with Kamran Shah, the head of the local resistance movement, the Mujahedeen. The diamonds are to be used to pay off Shah's men, who are middlemen in a drugs deal. Bond works out that Koskov and Whitaker are using Russian money to fund drugs deals and then buy weapons for use against the Afghans. Bond explains this to Shah, and they attack and destroy the base.
Bond steals a Hercules to get away.
He fights Necros who falls to his death, and rides out of the plane in a jeep before it crashes due to running out of fuel. The drugs are destroyed. Bond goes to Whitaker's where he wins the gunfight with Whitaker. Koskov is captured. Bond gets to Vienna just in time to see Kara's solo.