No Time to Die/Transcript

== Film ==
[007 Theme]
=== EXT. SNOWY FOREST - DAY ===
[Wide on a peninsula between two large frozen lakes on a monochromatic vista.]
[CUT TO: a PARKA-CLAD MAN hobbling through the snow weakly. He carries a gun.]
[He clears the trees, pauses, before descending a slope leading him out of frame, revealing...]
[A LONELY CABIN]
[Wreathed in snow. Lights in the windows. Straddling the icy shore. Muffled French music plays from within.]
==== INT. CABIN - DAY ====
[CLOSE on a cigarette in a woman’s propped up hand, an ember glows in its tip. A CD plays French seventies electro-punk.]
[The WOMAN lies on a couch, half asleep, a drop of red wine in a glass on the coffee table, pain killers and anti-psychotics sprinkled around it. She calls to her daughter:
Madeline's Mother: Madeline...
==== INT. UPSTAIRS - DAY ====
[We cut to a little girl's room, where a homemade doll and drawings lie about. A Tamagotchi beeps offscreen.]
Madeline: [in French] You want to eat again?
[The Tamagotchi beeps the affirmative. Madeline's mother shouts offscreen.]
Madeline: [in French, all business] You eat too much because you're depressed.
[We pan down to reveal a young Madeline Swann as she feeds the Tamagotchi. She's wearing a Sony Walkman, but hears her mother calling for her again.]
Madeline's Mother: Madeline!
[She removes the headphones.]
Madeline: [in French] Yes?
[She gets up off the bed and exits the room. FOLLOW BEHIND HER as she goes for the stairs. ]
Madeline's Mother: Madeline!
Madeline: [in French] Yes, Mama?
Madeline's Mother: [in French] I'm thirsty, my angel.
Madeline: [in French] I'm coming.
[WE CONTINUE PUSHING towards a large triangular transom looking out at the snow where THE MAN trudges towards us.]
Madeline: Do you want your medicine?
Madeline's Mother: Yes, my darling.
==== INT. LIVING ROOM - MOMENTS LATER ====
[Madeleine fills a glass from a box of wine.]
[Madeleine hands the wine to her mother, watching her flatly as the mother takes a long gulp, the cigarette teeters on the edge of the coffee table between the scattered pills.]
[The following dialogue is all in French.]
Madeline's Mother: Do you want to play a game?
Madeline: I'm waiting for Papa to come home.
Madeline's Mother: What do you think Papa does?
Madeline: He's a doctor.
[Madeline's Mother fondly scoffs and reclines on the couch.]
Madeline: He heals people.
Madeline's Mother: Oh, no. No, no. Your Papa, he kills people.
Madeline: No.
Madeline's Mother: Is that who you love? Murderers?
[Madeline's Mother drops the wine glass on the floor, spilling the contents offscreen.]
==== INT. KITCHEN ====
[Madeleine opens the cupboard under the kitchen sink, gets out a sponge and a jug of ammonia -- marked flammable. Her eyes dwell briefly on a compact BERETTA 92 wedged behind the pipes.]
==== INT. LIVING ROOM ====
[On her knees, Madeleine blots out the stain on the carpet with rhythmic SQUASHES.]
[A shadow crosses her. She stops, senses something... carries on cleaning.]
[Then a second SQUASH joins in like FOOTSTEPS on snow, off tempo from her own actions.]
[More curious than frightened, she clambers over her mother onto the couch, looking out the window. Nothing, not even an animal.]
[Turns to her mother.]
Madeline: Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama.
Madeline's Mother: Leave me be. Go play.
[Turns back - a DARK FIGURE wearing a pale JAPANESE NOE mask stands JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WINDOW.]
[Madeline, now sufficiently panicked, shakes her mom harder.]
Madeline: Mama!
[But her mother just wants to sleep.]
Madeline's Mother: Leave me alone!
[Madeline runs out.]
==== INT. HALL, CABIN ====
[Madeleine enters a code on a keypad. BZZT! No luck.]
Madeline: No!
[She pushes and bangs against the door but it won’t open.]
==== INT. CABIN - SAME ====
[We hear the muffled sounds of Madeline banging on the door. She tries the code again. Rejected.]
Madeline: (in French) Open!
[We slowly pan over the desk -- Mr. White's SPECTRE ring rests on it. Just behind the ring, three CCTV screens show the MAN creeping outside the cabin.]
==== INT. HALL, CABIN - SAME ====
[Madeleine turns and calls out to her mother.]
Madeline: Mama?!
[She hears the CRUNCHING OF SNOW - moving towards the kitchen.]
[She follows it with her head, her eyes. Then something SHATTERS behind her. The MAN in the mask stands at the end of the hallway.]
[She activates an automatic sliding glass door as she jumps to escape. It slowly closes in front of us.]
[We see the MAN -- who, for the sake of clarity, we'll call Safin -- through the reeded glass of the door, his image splintered.]
[He opens it.]
==== INT. LIVING ROOM ====
[The man walks towards Madeleine’s mother on the couch. She looks up.]
[The following dialogue is in English:]
Safin: Is Mr. White home?
Madeline's Mother: No. He's gone.
[ON MADELEINE HIDING -- in a closet, listening.]
Safin: My name is Lyutsifer Safin. Your husband killed my family.
Madeline's Mother: I'm telling you, he's gone.
Safin: I know. This will hurt him more.
[We hear gunfire. Madeline stifles a yelp.]
[The couch stuffing floats in the air. The man senses something, turns and makes his way to the stairs.]
==== INT. UPSTAIRS ====
[He climbs the stairs.]
==== INT. BEDROOM ====
[He enters Madeleine’s bedroom. We see her hiding under the bed. The man doesn’t see anything but as he’s turning to leave - the Tamogatchi beeps.]
[From her hiding place under the bed, Madeleine sees his feet. She holds her breath and waits.]
[The man turns back and raises his gun.]
[Madeleine rises, SHOOTS WILDLY, EYES CLOSED. Bullet after bullet hits the man.]
[Until CLICK CLICK CLICK. The clip is empty.]
[She opens her eyes, the dark figure falls like a tree to the floor below.]
[In shock, she walks to the edge of the balcony and looks down on his body.]
==== INT. LIVING ROOM - MOMENTS LATER ====
[Madeleine, tears in her eyes, looks down at her mother.
[Moments later...]
[ON THE MAN’S broken MASK, his face marked by pitted skin and discoloured with green and purple marbling.]
[We track with it across the living room floor -- dragged by Madeleine, wearing just her parka and slippers.]
==== EXT. LAKE HOUSE ====
[Madeleine struggles to get him out of her house. She lets him drop, exhausted by the effort.]
[She drops to the ground, when suddenly the man sits up.]
[Her mouth is open but she can’t scream - she just runs.]
[The man rises and follows, a limp, bleeding, unhurried, relentless.]
==== EXT. FROZEN LAKE ====
[Slipping and sliding, Madeleine struggles across the expanse.]
[She looks back as she runs when she suddenly feels the ice shift.]
[SHE FALLS THROUGH THE ICE, disappears from view.]
[THE MAN walks on, until -]
[HIS POV, Madeleine hauntingly trapped beneath the clear ice.]
[HER POV, looking back up at this distorted cruel figure. She’s running out of air, BANGS on the ice, GUN SHOTS ECHO.]
[BULLETS streak past her on either side. The ice fractures and turns to slush.]
[HIS HAND reaches down into the freezing water. He pulls her out.]
=== EXT. GROTTO ON THE SEA, ITALY - DAY ===
[SOUND OF OCEAN WAVES CRASHING.]
[Madeleine breaks the surface of the water as if Safin was pulling her out -]
[She gasps but is frozen -- opens her eyes, he’s gone. It was just a vision.]
[BOND stands like Adonis on a lido overlooking the sea. She turns, feeling his eyes on her.]
Bond: You okay?
[Madeleine smiles, burying the past trauma. She’s been dealing with this for years.]
Madeline: Yes. Let's go.
[She swims towards him. He can sense she isn’t telling him everything.]
==== I/E. DB5 - MEDITERRANEAN ROAD - LATE AFTERNOON ====
[Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 rounds a corner of a rugged precipitous road. Madeleine looks at Bond adoringly.]
Bond: How's the view?
Madeline: (fondly) It's growing on me. (beat) Can you go faster?
Bond: We don't need to go faster. We have all the time in the world.
[She rests her head on his shoulder as we lead them into a tunnel --]
==== EXT. TUNNEL TO TOWN - LATE AFTERNOON ====
[-- Following the DB5 now as we exit the tunnel and see an ANCIENT HILLTOP TOWN looming over a rugged valley.]
==== EXT. PIAZZA SAN PIETRO CAVEOSO - LATE AFTERNOON ====
[Bond drives through the piazza and parks the DB5. He gets out.]
Porter: Buona sera, signore!
Bond: Buona sera.
[Bond opens the passenger door for Madeleine. She gets out and they both stand, taking in the view.]
==== EXT. VIA MURO, TOWN - DUSK ====
[Bond and Madeleine are led up he stone walk by the PORTER. Bond looks over his shoulder, almost involuntarily scanning. She notices.]
Madeline: You can't help looking over your shoulder.
[He smiles.]
Bond: What?
Madeline: No one's coming.
Bond: I wasn't looking over my shoulder!
Madeline: Yes, you were.
Bond: No! Are we gonna have a row about this?
[He looks up at the burning paper floating down from windows above --]
Bond: What are they burning?
Porter: Secrets. Wishes. Letting go of the past. Getting rid of old things, in come the new!
==== INT. HOTEL ROOM, TOWN - DUSK ====
[Bond and Madeleine kiss passionately as they move through the heavenly room overlooking the town. She pulls his shirt off round his shoulders to the floor.] 
Madeline: Je t'aime. (I love you.)
Bond: Je t'aime. (I love you.)
[The passion turns into intimacy.]
Bond: Where did you go to today, by the water, hm? Tell me.
Madeline: I'll tell you if you tell me about Vesper.
Bond: (knowingly) Is that why we're here?
Madeline: She's buried at the acropolis--
Bond: (gently) I know where she's buried.
Madeline: Can you forgive her? For us?
Bond: I left her behind a long time ago.
Madeline: As long as we're looking over our shoulder, the past is not dead.
[Madeleine rolls away from Bond, gets up and walks to the desk.]
Madeline: You have to let her go, even if it's hard.
[She sits down at the desk with a notepad on it.]
Bond: You mean, erm, if we're to have a future?
Madeline: Mm-hm.
Bond: So, I do this and then...
Madeline: I'll tell you all my secrets.
Bond: Okay.
[CLOSE ON the notepad: L’homme masqué (the masked man). Madeleine tears the page from the notepad, folds it over. She picks up a box of matches.]
[Bond watches her move to the balcony overlooking the town.]
==== EXT. BALCONY, HOTEL, TOWN - SUMMER TWILIGHT ====
[The hundreds of glowing fires spread across the town is breathtaking.]
[Madeleine lights the piece of paper. She watches it fall.]
[On Bond, he watches her.]
==== INT. HOTEL, TOWN - DAWN ====
[The first rays of the sun stretch across the room.]
[Bond moves to the desk. He writes something on the notepad and tears it off.]
[He moves to the bed, kisses Madeleine.]
Bond: I'm gonna go and do this, and then I'm gonna come back for breakfast.
Madeline: (she smiles, knows he’s going to the grave) Thank you.
Bond: And then you're gonna tell me where we're going next.
Madeline: Home.
==== EXT. GRAVINA DI PUGLIA BRIDGE - EARLY MORNING ====
[As Bond crosses the ancient bridge spanning a deep ravine, a small group of WIDOWED WOMEN veiled in black pass by.]
[Bond looks up to an acropolis silhouetted in the morning sun.]
==== EXT. ACROPOLIS, KIOSK - MORNING ====
[Bond approaches the kiosk.]
Bond: Buongiorno. La tombe del Lynd (Good morning. Lynd plot, please).
[An OLD MAN, the caretaker, steps out to meet Bond. He barks at a YOUNG BOY.]
Old Man: (in dialect) Take him to the Lynd grave.
[The boy waves to Bond to follow him.]
Boy: Come.
==== EXT. ACROPOLIS - MORNING ====
[The boy guides Bond to Vesper’s grave, then hustles off, leaving Bond alone to face:]
[CUT on a portrait of a beautiful WOMAN, dark hair, pale skin, light eyes: VESPER LYND 1983-2006.]
[The image stings his eyes.]
Bond: I miss you.
[He takes a piece of paper out of his pocket and lights it on fire with a lighter. We see what he has written: Forgive Me. The embers fall to the ground.]
[Then...]
[Something catches his eye, something that shouldn’t be there. He frowns, bends down to pick it up.]
[A SPECTRE SEPTIPUS card lying at the base of the crypt. He looks at it and frowns. Bond’s senses spike -- DEATH. He dives to the side just as --]
[KABOOM!]
[The paving stone at the front of the grave explodes violently in a horizontal plume of black smoke and sparks.]
[As the dust settles Bond comes to and works his jaw, his hearing is muffled and brain battered.]
[He pulls out a phone and speed dials --]
[Bond can’t hear, he is up and moving, looks at the phone, thinks he sees the call timer start --]
Bond: Madeline? Made-- Madeline!
==== EXT. KIOSK - MORNING ====
[Bond runs towards the kiosk. The young boy and the old man are gone, a phone dangles from the receiver.]
==== EXT. GRAVINA DI PUGLIA BRIDGE - DAY ====
[Bond is running, half way across the bridge, chasing after the young boy. The boy stops, turns and smiles at Bond.]
[Behind Bond, a black Maserati approaches. The boy sees it and takes off.]
[Bond turns and sees the Maserati screaming directly at him.]
[Too far to run to the other side, he dives for cover behind a stone buttress along the wall.]
[The Maserati rams into his section of the wall, but the buttress forces the car’s tyres up the wall and over him.]
[Bond gets up and starts to run when a motorcyclist wearing shades, PRIMO, rides up from the other side of the bridge.]
[The PASSENGER in the Maserati fires shots at Bond.]
[Bond is stuck in the middle of the bridge with the Maserati at one end and Primo at the other end.]
[Bond dives, grabbing hold of a cable as he soars over the edge.]
[The cable breaks loose and snaps taught as he reaches the limit of its length. He swings down to a lower tier.]
[Primo takes off his shades, revealing a bionic eye, and looks over the edge angrily. He revs the motorcycle and takes off in pursuit of Bond.]
==== EXT. LOWER TIER BRIDGE - SAME ====
[Bond breaks through a door leading to a tunnel.]
==== INT. PASSAGEWAY - SAME ====
[Bond runs up a stone passageway.]
==== EXT. VIA CASALE - DAY ====
[Bond enters a terraced street. Hears Primo looking for him on the bike. Calculates.]
[Suddenly he dashes towards Primo into the alley below, tackling Primo to the ground.]
[They fight rapidly and roughly amongst clothes on lines in an enclosed patio. Bond gets the upper hand, wraps a clothes line around Primo’s neck and pulls it tight.]
Primo: Blofeld sends his regards!
[Bond about to finish him when -]
Primo: You know... Madeline...
[Bond stops. What?]
Primo: She's a daughter of SPECTRE... She's a daughter of SPECTRE!
[Bond knocks him out. Primo’s fake eye pops out, CLINKS down a couple of steps.]
[Bond looks at it, then at the bike. Bond takes off on the bike.]
==== EXT. PIAZZA DUOMO - DAY ====
[Bond rides the bike up the piazza steps.]
[Bond gets airborne. He lands and rides through a church procession. He motors towards the hotel.]
==== EXT. HOTEL COURTYARD - DAY ====
[Bond enters. The porter from the night before looks at him like he’s a ghost.]
Porter: Your baggage is already down, Mr. Bond. As your wife requested. 
[Bond looks at him. She asked for this?]
==== INT. HOTEL ROOM - DAY ====
[Madeleine approaches the mirror to put on some lipstick.]
[She sees Bond in the reflection.]
Bond: (very calmly) You're right.
[Madeleine turns to face him.]
[Bond is standing there covered in dust, blood dripping down his face, clothes ripped from the chase and the fight.]
Bond: Letting go is hard.
Madeline: James?
[She walks towards him.]
Madeline: What happened? What happened?
Bond: How did they know I was here?
Madeline: What are you talking about?
Bond: Madeline. How did they know I was here?!
[She looks panicked.]
Madeline: I have no idea what you're--
Bond: SPECTRE, how did they kno--?!
[A 'thud' at the door. Bond looks towards it.]
Madeline: What are you talking--?!
[Bond throws Madeline on the bed.]
Madeline: I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything...
[The phone rings. Bond grabs Madeleine’s handbag, as well as Madeleine.]
Bond: We're leaving.
[They rush out of the room.]
==== EXT. VIA MURO - DAY ====
[Bond and Madeline walk out of the hotel, where the DB5 sits waiting for them. Bond pushes Madeline into the passenger’s seat, then walks over to the driver’s side and starts the car.]
==== I/E. DB5 - PIAZZA SAN PIETRO CAVEOSO - DAY ====
Madeline: There’s something I need to tell you…
Bond: [sarcastic] I bet there is!
[He speeds away from the hotel. But unbeknownst to him, a sleek, dark grey car pulls up in his path and nearly causes a head-on collision.]
Madeline: James!
[Bond sees it and pulls a full 360 drift before speeding down the square.]
[The cars weave around the DB5 and handbrake turn to pursue as Bond gets to high speed on the ring road.]
[Suddenly Madeleine’s phone starts ringing.]
Bond: Pick it up!
[The phone continues to ring.]
Bond: Pick it up!
[Shaking, Madeleine takes the phone out of her handbag. We see the Spectre septipus appear on the phone’s screen. Bond grabs the phone from her, answers the call, pushes the speaker so they can both hear.]
Voice: (German accent) It's Blofeld, my love. Your father would be so proud of you. Your sacrifice will be our glory...
[Bond looks at Madeleine. His blood runs cold.]
Madeline: I don't understand...
Blofeld: Bravo! Bra--
[Bond hangs up and drives. The pursuit cars follow.]
==== EXT. VIA D’ADDOZIO - DAY ====
[A KID sits amongst a flock of SHEEP, watching the television. His phone rings.]
[The following dialogue is all in Italian.]
Kid: Hello.
Voice on Phone: Let the sheep out, kid.
Kid: Why?
Voice on Phone: Because otherwise, I'll kill you.
==== EXT. VIA MADONNA DELLE VIRTU - DAY ====
[Bond is driving fast down the ring road.]
Madeline: James. Why? Why would I betray you?
Bond: We all have our secrets. We just didn't get to yours yet.
==== EXT. VIA D'ADDOZIO - DAY ====
[A Kid ushers a flock of sheep into the street.]
==== EXT. VIA MADONNA DELLE VIRTU - DAY ====
[Bond drives. In his rearview mirror, black cars accelerate to follow.]
[Bond maneuvers the DB5 as ANOTHER PURSUIT vehicle heading towards them blocks their way.]
[Bond hits a switch, the DB5 drops MINI-BALL GRENADES as he turns hard right onto a street filled with sheep.]
[The grenades unleash carnage on the pursuing vehicles. Bond 180s, THEN speeds through the cars he just took out.]
==== EXT. VIA FIORENTINI - DAY ====
[The DB5 grinds against stone walls as it slides back onto street.]
Madeline: James. James, listen to me! I would rather die than you'd think I--
[WHAM -- The DB5 is t-boned hard by a black SUV.]
==== I/E. DB5 - PIAZZA SAN GIOVANNA BATISTA - DAY ====
[The DB5 is violently SPUN sideways by the impact.]
[BRIEF SILENCE.]
[We see the car come to a stop as we pull back, revealing the bells of a church starting to TOLL. ALL AROUND THE BELLS RING.]
[The pursuit vehicles pull up. Suddenly everyone OPENS FIRE on the DB5. It’s protected but the SOUND INSIDE is deafening. They stop.]
[Primo steps from his car and advances towards them.]
[Primo steps up to the car and fires shot after shot into the windows with his assault rifle.]
[Madeleine panics as she watches Primo firing.]
Madeline: James! James, do something! James!
[Primo continues firing into the windows. Bond barely reacts.]
Madeline: Say something, please! Please...
[Bond turns to her.]
Bond: (softening) Okay.
[He flicks another switch on the centre console. Front headlights drop down and gun muzzles reveal themselves.]
[Primo sees the muzzles and runs for cover.]
[Bond yanks hard down on the steering wheel. He stamps on the accelerator and the car spins into a 360 degree doughnut whilst the front guns open fire.]
[MEN dive for cover as bullets shred walls and buildings. Bond flicks another switch.]
[Smoke commences to belch from the exhaust pipes as the car spins creating a foggy wall.]
[The men rise and fire into the smoke as the DB5 disappears in a dense white smoke screen.]
[Bond steps on the gas.]
==== I/E. DB5 - MODERN STREET - DAY ====
[Bond speeds on. He takes another wide turn. Pedestrians jump out of the way.]
==== I/E. DB5 - TRAIN STATION - CONTINUOUS ====
[Bond whips the DB5 into a sliding stop in front of the train station.]
==== INT. TRAIN STATION - DAY ====
[Bond is energised --]
Bond: Come on.
[-- dragging Madeleine’s arm, leading her across the tracks to the opposite platform. A train waits.]
[He pulls her close, so close they can’t see each other’s faces. But we see his profound grief.]
Madeline: So. This is it?
Bond: This is it.
[Bond pushes her towards the train. Madeleine boards. She turns.]
Madeline: How will I know that you're okay?
Bond: You won't. You'll never see me again.
[The doors close and train starts to leave.]
[Madeleine moves down the car to keep him in sight but he disappears into the crowd.]
CREDIT SEQUENCE
=== EXT. C MINUS TWO - LONDON - DUSK ===
[SUPERIMPOSE: FIVE YEARS LATER]
[We TRACK DOWN the face of a glass cladded skyscraper. The reflection of the street below is mirrored in the panes.]
[The camera stops and tilts in towards a long darkened hall -- we are upside down.]
==== INT. HALLWAY - C MINUS TWO - SAME ====
[THE CAMERA ROTATES to normal view as A SQUAD OF ARMED MEN in black stream from outside the broken window into the hall.]
[They are heavily armed and armored wearing helmets that look like welder’s visors - standard issue Russian SPETZNAZ and night vision.]
[They unleash themselves from the rope that had guided them down the face of the building and quickly start making their way down the hall, weapons up and ready.]
SPECTRE Soldier: We're in.
SPECTRE Team Leader: (over radio) Proceed.
==== INT. BREAKOUT ROOM, C MINUS TWO - SAME ====
[VALDO OBRUCHEV, Russian, forties, squeamish, opens up the shared office fridge.]
[Pan to TWO SCIENTISTS, DOCTOR HARDY and DOCTOR SYMES. Symes is searching for something.]
Dr Hardy: You okay?
Dr. Symes: You know the SL5, the weaponized smallpox I was using this morning, have you seen it? I, I, I put it in the bloody...
[Valdo takes a Tupperware container from the fridge. The two doctors turn to him.]
Dr Hardy: Valdo, you haven't seen a tub of smallpox, have you?
[Valdo looks at the Tupperware container. We see: VALDO’S FOOD NO TOUCH!!! in bold red print. Underneath is a printed sticker labelled: SMALLPOX.]
[Valdo throws the container down.]
Valdo: This was good soup, now... Now, it is waste. Even if it is joke. Idiotic.
[Symes and Hardy contain their laughter.]
Valdo: There is more complexity in my tomato soup than in both of your brains combined.
Dr. Symes: Valdo, that is so unkind. It's so--
Valdo: One day, I will put Ebola in your tea, and then I will watch as your faces sweat blood.
[Valdo’s desk phone rings.]
Valdo: And I will be laughing.
Dr Hardy: Nice.
Dr. Symes: Wow!
Dr Hardy: Keep your hair on.
Dr. Symes: He's got a terrifying imagination, hasn't he?
[He picks it up, angry.]
Valdo: Doctor Obruchev.
[A calm and soft spoken voice is on the other end.]
Safin: They are coming.
Valdo: Who?
Safin: SPECTRE.
[Valdo’s expression immediately shifts from anger to fear. He turns away from the watching office mates, listening as his heart races.]
[His voice lowers to a whisper.]
Valdo: Safin--
Safin: Do not try to stop them. This is what we've been waiting for.
[Valdo inserts a USB dongle into his computer.]
[The ARMED MEN make their way through the building.]
Safin: They will ask you to enter Biosecurity Level Four fridge and remove the weapon. No one must see what you are doing. They will not kill you. They think they need you.
[The armed men shoot a SECURITY GUARD.]
[Valdo starts to transfer files from his computer to the USB dongle.]
Valdo: They will not kill me. Transferring the files as we speak. Now... Now it's done. What do I do with it?
Safin: Swallow it. Goodbye.
Valdo: Swallow the--?
[Valdo pretends to his colleagues that he’s talking with someone on the phone.]
Valdo: Yes! I like... animals! Bye bye!
[He hangs up, stuffs the USB dongle in his mouth and swallows. The room goes dark as the power is CUT.]
[Reserve power automatically powers dim emergency lighting.]
Announcement: Danger. Illegal access detected. Secure all biohazardous materials immediately.
[BOOM.]
[An explosion rips through the building. THEN gunfire vibrates through the building.]
Announcement: Caution. Unauthorized personnel located in this sector.
[The armed men storm in. Shooting everyone except the THREE DOCTORS.]
Dr. Symes: Please! We're scientists, we're unarmed! We're unarmed! What do you want--?!
[Valdo looks around.]
Primo: Valdo Obruchev.
[Valdo raises his hand.]
Valdo: Hello.
Primo: Open the Biosecurity Level Four fridge.
Valdo: And, eh, wha--
Primo: Give me the weapon.
[Primo approaches Valdo, grabs him by the shoulder.]
Valdo: "The weap--" What weapon? We have, uh... Eh...
Primo: Heracles.
Valdo: It requires double authentication.
Primo: Which one?
[Valdo indicates Doctor Hardy.]
Valdo: Him.
[Two armed men grab Hardy.]
Dr. Symes: Hardy? Hardy! Don't let them. Don't let them... Don't let them-- please! Please, please--
[Valdo and Hardy are lead away as Doctor Symes and some COLLEAGUES are shot by armed men.]
==== INT. INNER LAB - C MINUS TWO - MOMENTS LATER ====
[Valdo and Hardy are in BL4 level containment suits.]
[Hardy opens the fridge and Valdo pulls out a cylinder filled with vials of a charcoal like substance that moves like a school of fish within the vial. He shows it to Primo who nods his approval.]
==== INT. LAB HALLWAY - C MINUS TWO - MOMENTS LATER ====
[Hardy holds up the cylinder from which Valdo carefully removes a vial. He hands it to Primo.]
[Valdo and Hardy place the vials into a briefcase.]
[Primo uses a special UV light instrument on the vial to confirm this is what he’s looking for. Satisfied, he pulls out his gun and shoots Hardy.]
INT. C MINUS TWO - MOMENTS LATER
[Explosives are placed around the lab as Valdo, Primo and the armed men stream out, leaving the lab.]
Announcement: Warning: Facility lockdown in progress. All exits are now sealed. Warning: Facility lockdown in progress. All exits are now sealed.
==== INT. HALLWAY ELEVATOR - C MINUS TWO - MOMENTS LATER ====
[Primo’s men pry open the elevator shaft. He looks up and sees the elevators are parked at the top of the building, leaving the shafts open and clear.]
[We look down at what seems like an endless drop.]
[Primo’s men force Valdo into a special vest, the same kind they are also wearing.]
Valdo: Oh, what is, uh... It's a safety belt, this?
[Another pair of men haul a heavy cylinder apparatus to the elevator shaft.]
Valdo: Wow!
[The men toss the cylinder into the void. As it falls, it sprays out a myriad of small magnetic spheres which attach to the metallic surfaces of the shaft. A red LED on each flickers to life. When the empty cylinder crashes to the bottom an explosive charge concealed within blasts a hole in the concrete, revealing an underground passageway.]
[Primo and his men activate their vests and a light on each turns from red to green. Simultaneously, the lights on the magnetic spheres in the shaft also turn green.]
[Primo signals to his men and one by one they leap into the void. Valdo is led to the precipice and he looks down the empty shaft with fear.]
Valdo: I-- I cannot! THERE IS NO ELEVATOR--!
[Suddenly he’s pushed from behind and he screams with terror as he falls down the shaft.]
[As he falls past the magnets the LEDs change colour as they flip polarity. Slowly, his speed is reduced until Valdo comes to rest several feet above the exposed hole.]
Valdo: Oh! Magnets...
[He hovers for a brief moment until the light on his vest changes and he drops through the hole.]
[The remaining men drop. Primo checks his watch and presses a button. He leaps into the shaft just as the corridor behind him explodes in a giant BALL of FLAMES.]
[A floor high up in the building glows as the fireball consumes the upper level of the building.]
==== EXT. LONDON - EVENING ====
[Establishing the London skyline.]
==== INT. MI6 - EVENING ====
[CLOSE on a memo marked: URGENT. Pan up to MONEYPENNY walking through the main office.]
==== INT. M’S OFFICE, MI6 - SECONDS LATER ====
[Moneypenny bursts into M’s office. M is lying on the couch.]
Moneypenny: Sir, I've just received the most unusual...
[M sits up quickly.]
M: I've seen it.
[He picks up a remote, turns on an array of monitors that stream live footage of the damaged lab.]
M: Oh, Jesus Christ...
Moneypenny: Sir, what's the Heracles Project?
[He swallows. It’s a nightmare, whatever it is.]
Moneypenny: This lab isn't on the books...
M: No, it's not.
[Not what she expected.]
Moneypenny: There were casualties...
M: It was a gas leak.
Moneypenny: Shall I alert the PM?
M: (stern) It was a gas leak! I'll handle it. Moneypenny...
[She is taken aback. M isn’t acting according to protocol.]
M: Where's 007?
=== EXT. JAMAICAN SEA - BOAT - DAY ===
[Bond, larger than life, bathed in sunshine, kicking back on his boat HAPPENSTANCE.]
[There’s a spear gun to his side, a couple of fish in the hold, his hand on the tiller.]
[To starboard, the green lush Jamaican coast, to port a dark brewing storm.]
==== EXT. DECK - BOND’S HOUSE - DAY ====
[Bond walks up the dock to his breathtaking water-side house, the fish dangle in one hand, the speargun in the other.]
[He is visibly relaxed, walking at an island pace. A Bond we’ve never seen before.]
[He reaches his porch. Stops. Suddenly alert.]
[He sees discarded CIGAR ASH on the floor. This is not normal. He slowly places the fish on the deck.]
==== EXT. DECK TO BUNGALOW - BOND’S HOUSE - DAY ====
[Bond crosses the deck leading to a detached bungalow, a pistol in his hand.]
[He goes inside. Scans. Nothing.]
[Then he sees the CIGAR BUTT on the ground. Kneels down, picks it up. Looks at the label.]
==== EXT. BOND’S SHOWER - DAY ====
[Bond showers and cleans his teeth. He finishes and turns the water off.]
==== EXT. DECK - BOND’S HOUSE - DAY - LATER ====
[In fresh clothes, Bond walks back to the house, gun in hand.]
==== INT. MAIN HOUSE - BOND'S HOUSE - DAY ====
[Bond puts the gun into a drawer at his desk. A WEATHERED NEWSPAPER PAGE of Blofeld’s conviction is visible from inside the drawer.]
==== I/E. BOND’S LAND ROVER - FOLLY POINT - DAY ====
[Bond heads out in an old Land Rover.]
[He passes a WOMAN on the side of the road talking to a Rastafarian collecting stalks of Birds of Paradise.]
[She catches Bond’s eye.]
==== I/E. BOND’S LAND ROVER - CRICKET FIELD - DAY ====
[Bond drives past a local cricket match next to Port Antonio Harbour.]
[As the camera dollies across the game we land on the bumper of a RENTAL CAR (Ford Mondeo).]
[Its brake lights illuminate as the engine revs to follow Bond.]
==== I./E. BOND'S LAND ROVER - WEST STREET SQUARE - DAY ====
[Bond pulls into the square from West Street.]
[BUT, instead of parking, he ACCELERATES AROUND THE SQUARE -- SCREECHING out onto West street and nearly colliding with the FORD MONDEO -- it swerves and dips to a STOP.]
Bond: (warmly) Well! Isn't this a surprise, Felix?
[FELIX looks up. Caught.]
Felix: James.
Bond: Who's the blonde?
[ASH smiles eagerly.]
Ash: Logan--
==== EXT. ALLEY WAY - DUSK ====
[Bond walks them past SCHOOL KIDS playing video games on TVs on a long table - like an outdoor home arcade.]
Ash: Ash, State Department. It's really... Nice to meet you. I’ve heard a lot about you. I-- I mean, I'm a-- I'm... a HUGE fan. 
[A couple of MEN bump into Ash calling “babylon” and “police bwoy” as they pass.]
Felix: I need a favor, brother.
Bond: You didn't get the memo. I'm retired.
Felix: I wouldn't ask if you were still in Her Majesty's Service.
Bond: And what does that mean?
Felix: Our elected leaders aren’t playing nice in the sandbox. James, is there somewhere quiet where we can talk in private?
Bond: Quiet? Yeah.
==== INT. VIP BOOTH, CLUB - NIGHT ====
[The same woman from the road walks past the camera -- PAN over to Bond, Felix and Ash drink Heineken beers and shots in a packed dance club playing a coin game called SPOOK.]
Felix: I was hoping you could pick up a package.
[Bond and Felix hold out their fists --]
Bond: Five.
Felix: Four!
[Felix wins.]
Bond: Where's the package?
Felix: Short trip -- Cuba. You love it there!
Bond: Oh, I love it there?
[Bond and Felix laugh. Ash doesn’t know why.]
[Ash places a CIA playing card on the table, on it a photograph and bio of Obruchev.]
Ash: Hey, Valdo Obruchev.
[Bond knows the name.]
Felix: You're gonna say you've never heard of him.
Bond: Never heard of him. Two.
Felix: Three.
[They throw fists again.]Felix wins.]
Bond: Ah, it's a good life...
Ash: You never heard of him? Didn't he defect during your tenure at MI6?
Felix: Obruchev was kidnapped three days ago from a secret MI6 lab in London. Two days ago, his mug pinged on a facial recognition sweep in Santiago de Cuba.
Ash: He's leaving out the best part... SPECTRE.
Felix: I have a contact there. Says they're gathering.
Ash: Coincidence?
[Bond mulls this over.]
Felix: C'mon! It'll be like old times...
[They throw a third time.]
Bond: Three.
Felix: Two.
[Felix’s fist is empty.]
Ash: You're really the only guy for the job... You're the guy!
[Bond looks at both of them.]
Bond: My round.
[He stands.]
==== INT. BAR - CLUB - MOMENTS LATER ====
[Bond walks to the bar where a WOMAN is picking up her drink order and turns to him. She looks him up, smiles.]
Nomi: Hi.
[He recognises her. The WOMAN (NOMI) from in front of his house.]
[She slides past him, looking him up and down. Bond approaches the BARTENDER.]
Bond: Scotch.
Bartender: Yeah, man.
[Felix joins him. Bond gestures to Ash.]
Bond: Where'd you find the "Book of Mormon"?
Felix: Political appointee, not my choice. Seems intelligence isn't central anymore.
Bond: He smiles too much.
[Bond and Felix look back at Ash, on his own. He smiles at them.]
Felix: Help us get this into the right hands.
Bond: Oh, what, and you're the right hands?
Felix: I'm not just a pretty face!
Bond: I stopped trusting pretty faces a long time ago, Felix.
Felix: Yeah, I heard. Bad luck.
Bond: Bad judgement.
Felix: Yeah... Harder to tell the good from bad, villains from heroes these days. I need you James. You’re the only one I trust with this. I’m not screwing around. I wanna get back to my family, tell them I saved the world again! Don’t you?
[Bond drinks.]
Bond: Nice to see you again, Felix.
[Bond goes to leave.]
Felix: At least take my number!
Bond: I've got your number.
[Bond exits.]
[WE PAN AWAY as Felix leaves the bar. Primo (who we met in Matera) appears in frame.]
==== EXT. JERK CHICKEN STALL - NIGHT ====
[Bond finishes the last morsel of chicken. He’s at ease again.]
[He walks to his parked car and gets in. It doesn’t start. He tries again. Frowns.]
[He gets out, opens the bonnet. Sees something which makes him realise it’s never going to start. He hears the buzz of a scooter behind him.]
[It gets louder as it approaches. Then stops next to him. The WOMAN from the bar (NOMI) is smiling at him.]
Nomi: In trouble?
Bond: Constantly.
Nomi: Need a ride?
[He looks at her scooter. Considers.]
Bond: Sure! Why not?
[He gets on the scooter.]
Nomi: Hol' on.
[They drive off.]
=== EXT. SCOOTER - ALLAN AVENUE - NIGHT ===
[They zip along the quiet road.]
Bond: (shouting forward) What's your name?
Nomi: (shouting back) Nomi. Yours?
Bond: James. Call me James. Wh-- What do you do, Nomi?
Nomi: I'm a diver.
Bond: What do you dive for?
Nomi: I have a thing for old wrecks.
[Bond chuckles.]
Bond: Well then you've come to the right place.
==== I/E. MAIN HOUSE - BOND'S HOUSE - NIGHT ====
[Bond and Nomi pull up on the scooter.]
Bond: After you.
[Bond picks up a bottle of rum.]
Nomi: Hm. Nice house.
Bond: Thank you.
[Bond pours two large rums with ice, turns to Nomi. She’s already walking down the breezeway to his bedroom.]
Nomi: Is that the bedroom?
Bond: Yes, it is.
[He slams down the glass. Follows.]
==== INT. BEDROOM - BOND’S HOUSE - SECONDS LATER ====
[It's dark.]
[She turns, faces him flirtatiously, then, coming as a surprise, takes off a wig.]
Bond: Well, that's not the first thing I thought you'd take off, but, uh...
Nomi: (British accent) Yeah, you seem like a man who's gagging for some action, Mr. Bond.
[She sits on the bed. Smiles. But frank now. Not flirty-]
Bond: Shall we... cut to the chase?
Nomi: I'm here as a professional courtesy.
Bond: Well, you're not very courteous, are you? You broke in my car and-- It's Commander Bond. How do you know that? (then) Double-Oh?
Nomi: Two years.
Bond: Very young.
Nomi: High achiever.
Bond: Oh, Jesus Christ.
[He goes to grab a bottle and uncorks it.]
Nomi: The world's moved on since you retired, Commander Bond. Perhaps you didn't notice?
Bond: No, can't say I had. But in my humble opinion, the world doesn't change very much.
[He pours the drink into a glass.]
Nomi: You would say that. Look, this all seems like heaven. This little bubble, or whatever.
[Bond chuckles.]
Nomi: But it's so obvious you're a man who only has time to kill and nothing to live for. (then) So Valdo Obruchev is off limits. You get in my way? I will put a bullet in your knee. (evaluating) The one that works.
Bond: You need to ask yourself a few more questions. MI6, CIA, chasing after the same man, not communicating with each other? That... That's not good. Yeah, you know what? Tell M "hello", but... I don't work for him anymore.
[She throws him her phone.]
Nomi: Tell him yourself. By the way, I'm not just any old Double-Oh. I'm 007.
[This stings.]
Nomi: You probably thought they’d retire it.
[She wants a reaction from him -]
Bond: It's just a number.
[Got him-]
Nomi: Huh. Yeah. (betting) See you in Cuba.
=== INT. Q’S LAB - DAY ===
[The DB003 is visible in the wind tunnel.]
[M and Tanner watch as Q analyses the hard drive from Obruchev’s computer which is plugged into Q’s laptop.]
M: How's it going, Q?
Q: Well, several large files seem to have been wiped from Obruchev's hard drive. He was working on some pretty advanced algorithmic ha--
M: Can you retrieve the files?
Q: Trying.
M: Well, get me everything you can, and then destroy the drive.
Q: If I knew more about what this was, I could--
M: Thank you, Q. That's all.
[Q looks a bit put out.]
[Tanner interrupts, holding up his phone. M’s phone rings too.]
Tanner: PM's calling again.
M: 007. Tell them something. Anything.
[M picks up the call, expecting Nomi’s voice.]
M: 007.
Bond: (O.S.) M, darling, couple of things...
[M is shocked.]
M: Bond.
==== I/E. BOND’S HOUSE - MORNING ====
[Bond on the phone, pacing.]
Bond: I met your new 007! She's a disarming young woman. So, Obruchev. You kept him on the payroll, didn't you?
M: Stay out of it. This has nothing to do with you.
Bond: It does. It's SPECTRE. Mallory... What have you done?
==== INT. Q’S LAB - DAY ====
[M doesn’t say anything. He hangs up. Stares at the phone. Tanner looks up.]
Tanner: Double-Oh trouble?
M: The CIA have the advantage. Get me Blofeld.
Tanner: Sir? He only speaks to his psychiatrist.
M: (stern, to Q) I know. The live feed is what I want.
[Q nods. Loads up a live feed to Blofeld’s cell. It’s close enough to make out his passive face, rambling unpunctuated and apparently incoherent paragraphs to himself.]
Blofeld: They stay straight in the middle. And then they bring him up.
Tanner: He's like this every day. Mad as a bag of bees.
Blofeld: It's crowning day. They'll all be overwhelmed...
M: Good.
Q: What is it?
M: It's nothing.
[M walks off. Tanner follows him.]
Blofeld: It's clean as can be. Every ju-- Everyone just wants a party. Yeah, I want them both to hear me. (laughs) Be a surprise.
==== EXT. BOND’S HOUSE - DAY ====
[Bond stands looking out to sea. He takes out his phone and makes a call.]
Bond: Felix? I'm in.
Felix: (laughs) He’s in! There’s a young lady in Santiago I want you to meet.
=== EXT. HAPPENSTANCE AT SEA - LATE AFTERNOON ===
[MEDIUM ON BOND, sails towards Cuba. Determination in his eyes, a bit of a thrill perhaps...beats fishing.]
==== EXT. COAST OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA - LATE AFTERNOON ====
[WIDE AERIAL ON Happenstance approaching the mouth of the bay. The imposing Castillo del Morro looms over it.]
[Suddenly A SEAPLANE drops into frame.]
==== EXT. HAPPENSTANCE AT SEA - LATE AFTERNOON ====
[Bond looks back and sees the plane roar over head, he knows it’s Nomi.]
=== EXT. DOCK, SANTIAGO HARBOUR - DUSK ===
[Happenstance is tied to the dock as MILITARY PORT AUTHORITY PERSONNEL check the boat for contraband.]
[A MILITARY POLICE OFFICER hands Bond’s documents back to him as Bond clocks the seaplane moored to the next wharf.]
[Nomi emerges from the seaplane. She gives Bond a little wave.]
==== EXT. STREETS, SANTIAGO DE CUBA - DUSK ====
[MUSIC echoes from store fronts. PEOPLE hustle.]
[Bond appears, spots something, an open air corner bar.]
==== INT. CORNER BAR - SANTIAGO DE CUBA - TWILIGHT ====
[Bond sees a woman in an elegant BLUE DRESS leaning against the counter sipping a drink: PALOMA.]
[Bond approaches, ready for flirtatious banter. She looks up --]
Bond: Paloma?
Paloma: You're late. Vamos.
[She motions for Bond to follow.]
Bond: I... Um, something about a hat? Paris? Uh...
Paloma: Huh? What hat? Ay! El codigo. Si Si. I forget things when I get nervous. This is the biggest job I’ve ever had.
[Bond looks at her, unsure of the tone of her humour.]
==== INT. WINE CELLAR - SANTIAGO BUILDING - NIGHT ====
[Paloma stops at a wine cellar. She takes out a key, nerves still have her shaking as she unlocks the door.]
Bond: This your room?
Paloma: (clearly it's not) It's a wine cellar.
[He follows her in.]
Paloma: Okay, come here.
[She starts undoing his shirt.]
Bond: Don't you think we ought to get to know each other just a little bit before we, uh...
Paloma: Oh! Ay, no, no, no, no. Ay, ay, ay. Um, no, I'm sorry. Um...
[She steps back, unrolls a suit bag she had stowed. It’s a tuxedo. He smiles.]
Bond: Alright.
Paloma: You do it.
Bond: Thank you.
[A beat as Bond retreats towards the back of the wine cellar.]
Bond: (signals for her to turn away) Do you mind, uh...?
[She turns her back. Bond starts to undress.]
Bond: This is gonna go brilliantly.
Paloma: I know! I've done three weeks' training.
==== EXT. STREETS, SANTIAGO DE CUBA - NIGHT ====
[Bond and Paloma cross the street.]
==== INT. EL NIDO - SANTIAGO DE CUBA - NIGHT ====
[Bond and Paloma enter, dressed to kill, cross to a bar. He notices AN ENTRANCE flanked by DOORMEN under a grand stairway.]
Paloma: Que?
Bond: Let's get a drink.
Paloma: Good idea.
[They walk to the bar.]
Bond: (to barman) Two vodka martinis. Shaken, not stirred.
Barman: Sí, señor.
[Paloma takes a lipstick from her handbag, opens it and shakes out some objects into her hand. She flirtatiously inserts an earpiece in Bond’s ear.]
Paloma: So I can hear you.
[She place an earpiece in her own ear. The drinks land. Perfectly iced and breathing.]
Bond: What shall we drink to?
Paloma: Felix.
Bond: To Felix. (they clink glasses) Remind me to get him a cigar.
[They drink. Paloma practically downs it, to Bond's astonishment.]
Paloma: Uy. Vamos?
Bond: Sure.
Paloma: Okay.
==== INT. SMALL ROOM, EL NIDO - NIGHT ====
[Valdo sweats nervously as he works on the briefcase computer we saw him bring from C-Minus-Two. PRIMO (wearing dark shades) watches him.]
Valdo: Duck, duck, duck.
[A transparent specimen bag with Bond’s TOOTH BRUSH lies next to a portable DNA sequencer attached to the computer with a swab plate inserted.]
Primo: Will this sample be enough for you?
Valdo: If he has used it, yes. It is now progressing.
[A graphic on screen reads SEQUENCING COMPLETE.]
[Valdo takes the USB out of the sequencer and drops it on the floor.]
Valdo: Oops! Sorry. Terrible, terrible gloves. So slippery.
[He bends down but doesn’t pick it up. Instead he puts his foot over it and slips out from his sock the USB he swallowed in the lab.]
Valdo: Forgive me.
Primo: How much longer?
[Valdo SECRETLY TRANSFERS MULTIPLE RECORDS into the TARGET GENE CODE prompt. He presses enter.]
Valdo: A-ha! To happy new future for SPECTRE.
[The case beeps: GENE ENCODING COMPLETE. WEAPONIZED.]
Valdo: Now it is ready.
[He hands Primo the vial of Heracles. Primo places the vial inside a protective cover and leaves.]
==== INT. PARTY - MOMENTS LATER ====
[UPSTAIRS, Primo opens a cupboard, places the vial inside and turns a lever.]
[DOWNSTAIRS, Paloma and Bond enter. A BRASS BAND, driven by an energetic CONDUCTOR, pumps music into the room. This party is huge.]
Bond: You go that way. I'll go this way.
[Paloma and Bond part. (THEY’LL SPEAK ON COMMS UNTIL THEY RECONNECT).]
[Bond surveys. He’s in the thick of dwarves, pregnant women, wild cats and revellers dancing with religious fervour.]
Bond: What is this, SPECTRE bunga-bunga? You ever been to a party like this?
Paloma: How do you think I got this job?
Bond: Don't get distracted, now. Remember, we're looking for our Russian scientist.
[Then Bond hones in on the BIGWIGS of the party. OLDER MEN with lots of YOUNGER WOMEN shoulder shimmying.]
Paloma: I'm seeing a lot of SPECTRE agents.
[People turn an look at Bond, smiling with creepy and uncanny consistency.]
Bond: Yes. And it looks like all of them.
Paloma: Wow.
[Bond spots Primo on the stairs with a BODYGUARD.]
Paloma: Friend of yours?
Bond: Cyclops. We ran into each other in Italy. That was an eye-opening experience.
[Bond notices something -]
Bond: They're wearing earpieces.
Paloma: Scanning.
[Paloma adjusts her hidden earpiece, dialing through frequencies.]
==== INT. DANCE HALL, EL NIDO - CONTINUOUS 88 ====
[GUARDS with the BLOFELD EYEBALL enter, heading towards the centre stage.]
Blofeld: (V.O.) It'll be clean. It's good. It's as good as can be. It's my party.
[Paloma finishes scanning.]
Paloma: Ah. Found it.
Blofeld: (V.O.) It's my party. Celebrate me, my birthday. My crowning day. Mein Geburtstag (My birthday).
[Bond and Paloma walk the perimeter of the room.]
Paloma: Who's the birthday boy?
Bond: Erm... Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Paloma: Is he here?
[Bond looks around, how can Blofeld be “seeing”?]
Bond: No, he's...
Blofeld: (V.O.) Make your way, follow the music.
Bond: He's in London, in prison.
[Bond approaches the eyeball -- then --]
Paloma: How do you know for sure?
Bond: Because I put him there.
Blofeld: (V.O.) Come, come! Gather around, feel my warm embrace. Experience a delicious surprise. Let us shepherd humanity with our new power...
[Paloma looks up, sees Valdo Obruchev watching the party from its edges lustily.]
Paloma: I've spotted him. Our little Russian scientist.
Bond: Have you got him?
Blofeld: (V.O.) I'm here.
[She tracks back to the edge of the room to watch Valdo Obruchev approach the dance hall from upstairs.]
Paloma: I got him.
Blofeld: (V.O.) You're there.
Bond: Stay with him.
[Bond looks at the eye at the front of the room. DOES BLOFELD SEE ME?]
Blofeld: (V.O.) But I see you from my little eye. And my little eye says "hi". Now, see, now we emerge from the shadows as gods on Mount Olympus. Here's to the end of our pariah.
[Primo looks at Bond, almost as if he knew he’d be there. Smiles.]
Blofeld: (V.O.) Oh, my burden. My brother... James Bond. Goodbye, James.
[Suddenly the room goes DARK. THREE SPOTLIGHTS shine onto Bond.]
[As if on cue the BAND’S MUSIC becomes a DRUM ROLL.]
[Primo and EVERY SPECTRE AGENT in the room step away from Bond, forming a circle around him.]
Paloma: Coño! You’re popular tonight.
Blofeld: (V.O.) You can't run. It's too late.
[A mist cascades down onto him. The crowd watches eagerly.]
[Bond looks at the mist falling around him, expecting it to mean death. But nothing happens. At first there is some confusion.]
Blofeld: (V.O.) It’s already crawling under your skin. (to Spectre agents) Don’t be alarmed. It’s harmless to us. Just to him. So delicious!
[A WOMAN screams.]
[Bond turns. It’s hard to see in the swinging and panning light of the spotlights, but we see horrific glimpses.]
[A SPECTRE AGENT collapses to the ground, writhing. Then ANOTHER.]
[THEN GROUPS OF THEM.]
[Their skin turns BLOTCHY RED and their lips and eyelids BLISTER as they fall to the floor, blood trickling from their eyes, ears and noses.]
[THEN ALL SPECTRE AGENTS fall, experiencing the gruesome effects.]
[PRIMO AND THE BODYGUARDS ARE NOT AFFECTED. They see their masters dying and are at first frozen. Some try to resuscitate them.]
[Valdo Obruchev, watching it all, is rapt with excitement --]
Valdo: It is working. It is working, only SPECTRE are dying! (he sees Paloma) Hello! Are-- Are you for my, uh, esc...?
Paloma: Hm?
[Valdo looks at Paloma. Realises she was not sent by Safin.]
Valdo: No? Oh.
[He tries to run. Bond spots him and yells to Paloma.]
Bond: Go!
[Bond jumps over the dead bodies. Grabs a drink off a tray, throwing the tray like a weapon, knocking Valdo in the back of the head. Bond downs the drink, tosses away the glass and goes after Valdo.]
[Valdo hits the ground, reaches for his USB dongle, tries to swallow it. He goes to stand up.]
[Paloma kicks him back down. Valdo drops the dongle.]
Bond: Thank you! I'll take this.
[Bond grabs the USB dongle.]
Paloma: What was that?
[BODYGUARDS open fire on Bond, Paloma and Valdo. Bond and Paloma fire back.]
[ON PRIMO recovering in the DANCE HALL. He finds the Blofeld eye, puts it back in.] 
[By the exit, Bond and Paloma grab Valdo and shoot their way out of the party.]
Bond: Time to go! Let's go!
[Valdo, gripping his briefcase, alternates between elation at the success of the experiment and terror as bullets ricochet around him.]
==== INT. EL NIDO BAR - CONTINUOUS ====
[Bond watches their rear while Paloma guides Valdo with a gun to his back.]
[They move through the doors of the party to the El Nido bar, beelining it to the entrance.]
[A car skids in front of their exit. Opens fire. Paloma returns fire and pushes Valdo down for cover. Bond takes down the driver of the car.]
Paloma: Clear!
[SUDDENLY NOMI comes crashing through the glass domed roof on a cable.]
[Bond, Paloma and Valdo shelter from the glass.]
[Nomi lands in between them, grabs Valdo, clips a belt around him. She looks at Bond.]
Nomi: May I cut in?
==== EXT. DOCK, SANTIAGO HARBOUR - NIGHT ====
[Bond and Valdo run towards the plane docked at the deserted quay. The sea plane is straining at the ropes.]
Bond: C'mon! Let's go!
Valdo: No, no, no, sir. I am not getting on that.
[Bond throws Valdo’s briefcase onboard.]
Bond: Well, that's a shame because we don't have a choice. Let's go! C'mon.
[Bond pushes Valdo onto the plane.]
==== I/E. SEA PLANE - SAME ====
[Valdo is white knuckled as Bond pilots the plane.]
Bond: Okay, okay, what have we got here?
[Bond starts the engines, throttling forward.]
Valdo: Sir, I-- I just saved your life, okay? Please remember that. So could you please tell me what the hell is going on? Where are you taking me?!
Bond: Somewhere safe.
[Bond clears a cloud. A dark shape looms on the crest of a swell, the silhouette of a FISH TRAWLER.]
[Bond circles as he looks for confirmation from deck.]
==== I/E. SEA PLANE/TRAWLER - LATER ====
[As the plane nears the rear of the trawler, BOND cuts the engine, letting the current drift them into the bow.]
=== EXT. TRAWLER DECK - MOMENTS LATER ===
[Valdo boards, then Bond. Felix and Ash exit the cabin onto the deck.]
Felix: (laughing) At least make it look hard!
[Bond pushes Valdo past Felix and Ash towards the cabin.]
Bond: Thanks, Felix, you walked me into a trap. (to Obruchev) Get in.
[Felix’s smile drops. This isn’t what he expected either.]
==== INT. TRAWLER CABIN - MOMENTS LATER ====
[Bond pushes Valdo in. Felix and Ash follow.]
Felix: What trap?
Bond: SPECTRE's dead. (to Obruchev) Sit!
Felix: Who's dead?
Bond: All of them.
Felix: Good.
[Valdo sits, terrified. Bond throws the case onto the table. He opens it.]
Bond: What is this? Explain it to me.
Valdo: I don't have the words to describe to someone like you.
Bond: Try one.
[Ash comes over.]
Valdo: It's... perfect.
Bond: A perfect what?
Valdo: What? It's-- assassin!
[Ash and Felix look at each other.]
Ash: Thank you, Bond. Your mission's done. We... We can take it from here.
Bond: Why didn't it kill me?!
Ash: You don't have to answer those questions. Bond!
Bond: Why SPECTRE?
Ash: Bond. Please stop asking these questions.
Bond: QUIET!
Felix: (to Valdo) Speak up.
Valdo: Because you were never the intended target.
Felix: He was a target? Why?
Valdo: I changed the DNA like we decided, now the plan is complete and I-- I'm confused.
Bond: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Who is "we"? Did M make you build this?
Ash: He is not allowed to do this. He is out of line here, Felix.
Felix: Ash.
Bond: Did M order you to kill SPECTRE?
Ash: Don't answer that!
Bond: Is M behind this?!
Ash: He-- He is out of line!
Bond: Felix!
Ash: This is--
Felix: Ash, SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
Valdo: M! M helped me build it. But please, he does not have the vision...
Bond: Well who does?
Valdo: ...for how to use it.
Bond: Who does? Blofeld? How did he know I was going to be there?
[Valdo looks over Bond’s shoulder. Bond turns round.]
[Ash pulls his gun, Felix sees it and intercepts it. Ash fires into Felix’s chest. Felix looks down at the wound. It’s bad. He collapses down into the engine room below.]
[Valdo shuts the briefcase.]
[Bond turns to Ash. They break into a brutal fight.]
[-- A terrified Valdo in the middle of the mayhem. He sees Ash’s gun on the floor, kicks it towards Ash.]
[-- Ash retrieve his gun and fires at Bond who has no choice but to take cover by diving down into the engine room.]
==== INT. ENGINE ROOM - CONTINUOUS ====
[Bond hits the floor hard as Ash barricades the door above.]
==== INT. TRAWLER CABIN - CONTINUOUS ====
[Ash turns to Valdo.]
Ash: I'm with Safin. You understand?
Valdo: Yes. I am Doctor Obruchev.
Ash: I know who you are.
==== INT. ENGINE ROOM - CONTINUOUS ====
[Bond watches the door slam shut. Felix holds his wound.]
Felix: I don't know about you, but I get a feeling in my gut Ash might not be on our side.
Bond: Now, we need to have a conversation about the company you keep.
Felix: I-- I'm with you.
Bond: That's a lot of blood.
==== EXT. THE HULL - CONTINUOUS ====
[Ash sets charges against the hull of the trawler.]
Valdo: So, where are we going?
Ash: Get in the plane, Doctor.
==== INT. ENGINE ROOM - CONTINUOUS ====
[Bond tries to stem the blood from Felix’s wound.]
Felix: This might be my last mission. What do you think?
Bond: I think you're just looking for an excuse not to help me.
[He balls his jacket up and presses it under Felix's shirt.]
Bond: There you go. Paloma, she gave me a cigar for you to smoke, and you are gonna smoke it.
Felix: Nice. But maybe you should hold on to that for now.
Bond: You just stay put. Keep the pressure on that. I'm gonna find us a way out.
[Bond gets up and goes towards the stairs.]
Felix: I'll be over here.
[Bond turns back to Felix.]
Bond: You know, Felix? We really need to stop meeting--
[And suddenly -- BOOM --]
[A shock blasts through the hold so strongly the steel walls RIPPLE.]
[Felix is rocked by the explosion and submerged in the water. Bond is sent crashing to the ground.]
==== EXT. SEA - TRAWLER - PRE-DAWN ====
[The sea plan lifts into the air as a giant fireball illuminates the night sky.]
[The trawler starts to roll over on its side as the stern has been completely blown off.]
==== INT. SEA PLANE - NIGHT ====
[Ash pilots the plane with Valdo in the back.]
Valdo: Ohhhh!
Ash: I was such a big fan of his...
==== INT. ENGINE ROOM - CONTINUOUS ====
[Bond is knocked out on the ground.]
[He sits up groggy, brain battered. Can’t see Felix.]
Bond: Felix!
[Bond dives into the deeper water in the engine room. Finds Felix, pulls him out. Felix coughs, looks around.]
Felix: This doesn't look good.
[Bond is holding him up as the water floods in.]
Bond: C'mon, Felix -- We've been in worse than this! Let's go!
Felix: It's like back when I was a kid... On that shrimp boat--!
Bond: You're from Milwaukee!
Felix: Am I? I thought I made that up.
[Bond starts pulling him towards the front of the trawler.]
==== EXT. SEA - NIGHT ====
[The trawler is on fire and sinking fast.]
==== INT. ENGINE ROOM - CONTINUOUS ====
[Bond is dragging Felix through the water as the trawler sinks.]
Felix: He got me! Just-- Just let me go! Let me go...
[The room pivots further, turning over almost upside down as it starts to sink stern down.]
[Felix grabs him tight --]
Felix: You got this?
[Bond nods.]
Bond: Yeah! Yeah...
Felix: Make it worth it.
[Felix smiles as he fades.]
Felix: James... It's a good life, isn't it?
[Beat. Bond looks at his fellow agent. Dying in action.]
Bond: The best.
[Felix is gone.]
Bond: Felix. Felix, Felix...
[Bond lets him sink into the room.]
[The trawler GROANS. It’s going to sink fast.]
[Bond has to dive towards a forward hold.]
[Underwater, he sees a hatch. He tries to open it, using his legs for leverage. It’s stuck tight.]
[He rises up for the last bit of air left in the hold. Dives back down. Grabs the circular handle, using all his force...]
==== EXT. TRAWLER - CONTINUOUS ====
[The trawler is vertical now and slipping below the surface.]
==== INT. FORWARD HOLD - CONTINUOUS ====
[Bond swims to the surface.]
==== EXT. SEA - CONTINUOUS ====
[Bond emerges and gasps for breath.]
[Among the floating debris he sees something bobbing in the water. He swims towards it.]
[It’s an emergency raft.]
==== EXT. SEA - DAY ====
[Hours later. Bond sits with Felix’s cigar, still intact in its metal tube. A reminder of what needs to be done.]
[A large CMA CGM container ship spots Bond’s raft in the water and approaches.]
=== EXT. BOND’S LOCK-UP ===
[Bond (in windbreaker) lifts a sliding garage door to his lock up.]
==== INT. BOND’S LOCK UP - CONTINUOUS ====
[Bond enters and pulls off a dust sheet, revealing the V8 Vantage.]
==== EXT. BOND’S LOCK UP - DAY ====
[The Vantage squeals out of his lockup. He’s back.]
=== EXT. LONDON - DAY ===
[Establishing shot of the London skyline.]
=== EXT. MI6 - DAY ===
[Bond steps out of the Vantage dressed in a sharp suit. He walks up to the front of the Ministry of Defence’s art deco facade.]
==== INT. MI6 - LOBBY - DAY 119 ====
[Bond goes to the security desk.]
Guard: Name?
Bond: Bond.
[Guard looks at him confused. Who?]
Bond: James Bond.
==== INT. MI6 - MAIN FLOOR - DAY ====
[BOND walks down the centre of the room wearing a visitor’s pass with Moneypenny, who bats at the pass. Other agents and analysts notice him.]
Moneypenny: How's retirement?
Bond: (side eye) Quiet.
[Nomi happens to be in the main office. She is surprised to see him. She pivots and joins them as they walk.]
Nomi: Hi. Where's Obruchev?
[Bond just looks at her: who?]
Moneypenny: I thought you two would get along.
[They walk together.]
[A WOMAN approaches, hands Nomi a document.]
Woman: Report, 007.
Nomi: Thank you.
[Another WOMAN walks past, sees the two of them.]
Other Woman: 00...7?
Nomi: (to Bond) That must bother you.
[They arrive outside M’s office.]
Nomi: Where is he?
Bond: He left me for somebody else.
[Moneypenny talks into the phone.]
Moneypenny: It's, uh...
Nomi: (to Bond) So you lost him.
Moneypenny: You can go in.
Nomi: Thank y--
Bond: Thank you.
[Bond and Nomi share a brief look as Bond enters. Nomi goes to join him.]
Moneypenny: (to Nomi) Alone, I'm afraid.
Bond: Oh, does that bother you?
[Bond shuts the door in Nomi’s face. Nomi and Moneypenny look at each other, alone in the reception.]
Nomi: I get why you shot him.
Moneypenny: Yeah, well... everyone tries at least once.
==== INT. M’S OFFICE, MI6 - DAY ====
[Bond sits in M’s office. M sits at his desk. They stare at each other. Bond cocks his head curiously.]
[Pause.]
Bond: (light) Has this desk got bigger? Or have you got smaller?
[M looks at him.]
M: I can't pretend there weren't some sorry faces when you left us, Bond. But you fell so far off the grid that we thought you must be dead. 
[M gets up and pours himself a drink. Bond registers this. Unusual.]
M: Now learning that you, uh... were, in fact, alive and well, and... working for the CIA, well... Well, that really was a blow.
Bond: Well, they just asked so nicely.
M: It's a shame that you haven't lost your touch. We wouldn't be in this mess...
Bond: This is your mess.
[M looks at him sharply.]
Bond: Blofeld tried to kill me in Cuba, someone hijacked his plan. And whoever stole your weapon used it to wipe out SPECTRE instead. Now your weapon is on the run and nobody seems to know who has it, so you can imagine why I've come back to play.
[M is steely.]
M: We're looking into it.
Bond: I can identify the man who took Obruchev.
M: And what do you want in return, Bond?
[Beat.]
Bond: Blofeld.
M: Impossible. He's in Belmarsh.
Bond: Yes! He ran a SPECTRE meeting in Cuba, from Belmarsh.
M: How?
Bond: No.
M: How? No one has access. No one.
Bond: Why didn't you shut it down? Why didn't you shut Heracles down?!
M: I answer to the interests of my country, not you.
Bond: And to Felix Leiter?
M: I certainly don't answer to Felix Leiter.
Bond: Perhaps because he's dead.
[Beat. M feels the impact. He drinks. He can see Bond is moved.]
M: (regretfully) I'm sorry. I had a lot of respect for Leiter.
[Bond just looks at him.]
M: Look, if you have information, I'd be happy to receive it.
Bond: Get me into Belmarsh.
M: No! Blofeld's the only member of SPECTRE still breathing; I can't risk that.
Bond: Oh, but you will risk developing a DNA-targeting weapon with a corrupt scientist for... ten years?
[M pours another drink]
M: There was nothing to suggest that Obruchev was working for anyone else. I had him down--!
Bond: My God, you're thirsty at the moment!
[M flips suddenly. Interrupting. It should be shocking. He’s not in a good place! Bond stays calm.]
M: You have no right to speak to me that way. You have no right to make insinuations about my judgement! If you've nothing left to give, you are irrelevant! You've done your bit, and we thank you for your service. Again! Goodbye!
[He buzzes his intercom.]
M: Moneypenny, send in 007. You can go, Bond.
[Bond stands. He looks at M. Then at the desk.]
Bond: (throwaway) It's definitely the same desk.
[Bond exits past Nomi, who is entering.]
Bond: Thank you.
[The door closes behind him. As Bond passes Moneypenny, he throws his visitor’s pass in the bin.]
[They are alone. She can sense M’s frustration.]
M: Go to Belmarsh. I want everything that Blofeld listens to, looks at and touches scanned. Scan every corner of that cell. Scan the whole prison -- in fact, scan the whole damn man.
Nomi: Sir. I'll bring my gloves.
==== INT. MI6 - ELEVATORS - MOMENTS LATER ====
[Bond storms down the corridor to the elevators.]
Moneypenny: James? Ah...
[He turns. Moneypenny has followed him. She looks serious. Then...]
Moneypenny: What are you doing for dinner?
[He frowns.]
=== INT. Q’S FLAT - KITCHEN - EVENING ===
[Q is happily, but nervously preparing dinner in his flat. He has lit a couple of candles. The table looks romantic. His door bell goes - he looks at the clock. Bit early. He dusts himself off and goes to the door.]
==== INT. Q’S FLAT - FRONT DOOR - EVENING ====
[Q, excited, looks at the CCTV screen and immediately deflates.]
Q: Ah.
[Bond stands with Moneypenny at the door. Q presses the entry button.]
[Q opens the door. Bond and Moneypenny stand there.]
Q: So, you're not dead.
[Bond walks in.]
Bond: Hello, Q, I've missed you!
[Followed by Moneypenny.]
Moneypenny: Mmm, that smells great!
[Bond sees the table, picks up a bottle of wine.]
Bond: Were you expecting somebody?
==== INT. Q'S FLAT - KITCHEN - MOMENTS LATER ====
[Bond, Moneypenny and Q enter the kitchen.]
Q: Um... No, wha-- Excuse me. Oh... This is the first time I’ve... he’ll be here in twenty minutes. I can’t take my focus off--
[He holds up the USB.]
Bond: I need you to tell me what's on that.
Q: No! I need to lay the table.
[Q removes a hairless cat from the table.]
Bond: You know, they come with fur these days.
Q: I want to be very clear that I am not authorized to help you. And I have sworn--
Moneypenny: It's to do with Heracles.
[Beat. Q pays attention. They have clearly talked about this.]
Q: I presume M doesn't know that this is happening.
Moneypenny: No, but... There’s something going on Q. We need to find out what it is.
[Q checks his watch, lets out a breath.]
Q: Well, it's never nine to five, is it?
[He takes the dongle.]
Bond: Thank you.
[Q is about to insert the USB into his laptop when he stops himself.]
Q: Um, Bond?
Bond: Yes?
Q: Do you know where this has been?
Bond: Everywhere, I should imagine.
Q: Into the sandbox.
[Q moves over to a different (more secure) computer. The USB plugged in.]
[Bond pours some wine for Moneypenny who is looking at Q’s stuff.]
Moneypenny: Oh, thank you!
[The decryption of several files begins.]
Q: Um, it's a database. (to Moneypenny) Don't-- Don't touch that, please!
Bond: What's the data?
Q: It’s DNA. Multiple individuals. What was M working on?
Bond: Something he should have shut down years ago.
[On the computer screen: HIDDEN FILES DETECTED.]
Q: Oh, hello!
Bond: What?
Q: There's more. Hidden files. I was asked to recover what I could from Obruchev’s hard-drive just after the explosion. And I have a pretty good feeling that...
[He brings up the information he’d been working on. It links with what is on the USB.]
Q: This is what was missing.
[The DNA records on the USB begin to auto-match with DNA records from MI6 databases.]
Q: Yeah. A complete disk. 
[Q clicks. A series of names from MI6 records come up. Each of them marked ‘Deceased’.]
Q: So Obruchev is working for someone who managed to kill all of SPECTRE?
[Bond points at the screen.]
Bond: Not all of them.
[Reveal of the screen. There is a single record not marked ‘Deceased’ accompanied by a picture of BLOFELD.]
Moneypenny: Blofeld...
[Beat. They register what this means.]
Bond: (to Q) Can you show me the other files?
[The decryption of Obruchev’s other files has completed. Q clicks on the screen. Suddenly reams and reams of names appear and keep appearing. The volume is frightening.]
Q: Wait. This can’t just be SPECTRE. Oh my God! There are thousands.
Bond: Who are they?
Q: They’re in categories - I’m gonna... need more time to organize--
Moneypenny: There have been, uh, breaches 'round the world of databases holding DNA information. We’ve been tracking them.
Bond: Ours?
Moneypenny: I can’t imagine they’re leaving us out, whoever they are.
Bond: Blofeld will know who they are. Q, you need to get me into Belmarsh.
Moneypenny: Well, there’s only one person he’ll speak to.
Bond: Who? M said no-one has access.
Q: Really?
Moneypenny: Did he?
Bond: What’s that?
[They both look instantly awkward.]
[The oven timer rings.]
Q: Can I just have one nice evening, please, before the world explodes?
Bond: (stern) Who has access? Who?
=== EXT. MADELEINE’S OFFICE - MORNING ===
[Madeleine walking across the Mall in a bright and beautiful London.]
==== INT. MADELEINE'S OFFICE - RECEPTION - MOMENTS LATER ====
[Madeleine enters the reception.]
Receptionist: Morning.
Madeline: Morning.
Receptionist: New patient. (dry) He's weird.
Madeline: (smiles) You can't say that.
==== INT. MADELINE'S OFFICE - DAY ====
[Within the simple, understated space, the "weird" patient finesses a strand of Madeline's hair between his fingers like it's thread. The door opens. Scarred hands put the hair in a towel and wraps it up as Madeline sets her belongings down.]
Madeline: Sorry I'm late. I wasn't expecting a new patient.
[She looks at the new patient. Well dressed, with intelligent eyes and damaged facial skin.]
Safin: Sorry if I surprised you.
Madeline: No, I like surprises.
[She walks over to her desk.]
Safin: You're very attractive for a psychotherapist. Must be dangerous for your clients.
Madeline: They're usually more of a danger to themselves.
[She sits. She is confident and direct, but warm.]
[He looks at a bunch of foxgloves in a vase on her desk.]
Safin: Foxgloves. Beautiful. Did you choose them?
Madeline: Yes. I find them friendly. 
Safin: You know, if you eat them, they can cause your heart to just - stop. 
Madeline: Then I'll make sure not to.
[Beat.]
Madeline: Do you know a lot about flowers?
Safin: My father had a garden. He taught me. He died when I was young, but my interest... remained. 
Madeline: It's difficult to lose a parent, especially at a young age.
Safin: Yes. Death has a particular effect in children, does it not?
Madeline: What effect did it have on you?
Safin: Profound.
[Uncomfortable pause as he looks at her. Especially her eyes.]
Safin: But I saved a life, once. I think that had more of an effect.
Madeline: Why is that?
Safin: Saving someone's life connects you to them forever, the same as taking it. They belong to you.
[Madeleine is sensing something is off.]
Safin: I'm not very good at talking about myself, so I brought a memory box. I thought it might interest you.
[She takes the box.]
Madeline: Sometimes, objects can be more evocative than memories.
[She looks inside. It’s the mask Safin was wearing from the opening sequence. Her breathing changes. She looks up at him.]
Safin: I never forgot your eyes under the ice. They needed me. It is a shock to see them so many years later. They still need me. I am rather... taken by them.
Madeline: What do you want?
Safin: Just a favour. You owed me.
Madeline: You murdered my mother.
Safin: And your father killed my entire family. (shrugs) Parents...
[He pulls out a bottle of perfume and places it on her desk.]
Safin: I need you to visit someone for me. Wearing this. It’s harmless to you. You are the only one who can do it.
Madeline: No. Why would I do anything for you? 
Safin: I'm a man willing to kill the person you love most.
Madeline: I've already lost everyone I've ever loved. There is nothing you can threaten me with.
Safin: That is very sad to hear, Madeline. But it is not true. Is it?
[Her eyes flicker with fear. What does he know?]
=== EXT. FURNIVALL GARDENS - DAY ===
[ON BOND, walking into a park on a perfect English summer morning. Far behind him the silhouette of Hammersmith Bridge and the morning rowers on the Thames.]
[WE PAN to find Mallory reading a newspaper. Bond joins him.]
Bond: Madeleine Swann? Really?
M: Well yes, we took your information seriously, but that was five years ago. Nothing came up.
Bond: Well, she’s very smart and very good at hiding things.
M: She’s a useful asset. She’s the only psychiatrist he agreed to speak to. I had to exercise my judgment.
Bond: Your judgement is the problem.
[M can’t deny it.]
M: That weapon was designed to save lives and to eradicate collateral damage for our agents. A clean, accurate shot, every time. But it had to be off the books. There are enough holes in our national security. If the world knows what this can do, then...
Bond: They’d kill for it.
M: Mm. Look. If it’s an error, it’s on my shoulders. Fair and square. I’ve dedicated my life to defending this country. I believe in defending the principles of this... (indicates his surroundings) Of this. But we used to be able to get into a room with the enemy, we could look him in the eye. And now, they're... The enemy is just floating in the ether. We don’t even know what they’re after. 
Bond: Blofeld.
[M looks at him.]
Bond: We managed to access a database of their targets.
M: “We?”
[Bond gives a little smile. M side-eyes him. He knows.]
M: Oh, for fuck’s sake... I see. And after Blofeld? What do they want?
Bond: Well it’s hard to say. I mean, I would imagine world leaders, innocent civilians... freedom. You know, that sort of thing.
M: Oh good, well... just the usual.
Bond: Just the usual.
[M can’t help but laugh a little. Bond does too.]
M: Blofeld was communicating with his agents in Cuba through a bionic eye. Which we've now retrieved.
Bond: You’re welcome.
[M gives him a look.]
M: SPECTRE's destruction is going to have huge consequences. Whoever did this is going to be very dangerous and very powerful. We need all the information that we can gather.
Bond: Sir.
[Tanner arrives and interrupts.]
Tanner: (O.S.) Sir.
[Bond turns.]
Tanner: (surprised) Bond! So the rumours are true. You look... well.
Bond: Tanner!
Tanner: (to M) Sir, there’s been a development. 
=== EXT. LONDON - DAY ===
[WIDE ON MI6 building.] 
Nomi: They were just dropping, one right after the other... 
[Nomi and Q walk down the corridor.] 
Nomi: It was disturbing to say the least. 
Q: Wait 'til you see what it looks like up close. 
[They arrive at the door to M’s office. Moneypenny steps in front of them.] 
Moneypenny: Ah...Bond’s In the office. 
Q: What?
[Moneypenny opens the door.]
==== INT. M’S OFFICE, MI6 - DAY ====
[Q, Nomi and Moneypenny walk in. Tanner, Bond and M are there. Moneypenny and Q look at each other. Q tries to act like he’s never seen him.]
Q: Oh, Bond! My God! I haven’t seen you in... in-in-in, uh... Uh, how was your retirement?
M: Shut up Q. I know he’s staying with you. (to Moneypenny) And you’re not in the clear either.
Nomi: What happened?
Tanner: He’s been reinstated as a Double-Oh.
[Beat.]
Nomi: (deadpan) Double 0h-what?
M: (to Nomi) What have you got?
Nomi: Q has studied the blood samples I gathered from the victims of the funeral. Just look at this.
[Q loads a video he took of the DNA weapon under microscope.]
M: And what are we looking at?
Tanner: This is the funeral of one of the dead Spectre agents from Cuba.
Nomi: And here are the members of their family who made physical contact with the corpse. We found Heracles in the blood samples of all of them.
M: Now, that's good work Nomi.
Nomi: (deadpan) Thank you sir. Double 0h-what?
[On the screen we see swarms of creepy nanobots up close.]
Moneypenny: What are they?
Q: They’re... They're nanobots.
Tanner: Right.
Q: Microscopic bio-robots that can enter your system by the slightest contact with your skin.
M: Programmed with DNA to target specific individuals. Heracles was designed to be the most efficient weapon in our arsenal. Passing through people harmlessly before reaching its intended target.
Q: But Obruchev modified the nanobots so that they can kill anyone related to the target.
Nomi: Anyone?
Q: Well since it’s DNA based, with further modifications, yes. Families, certain genetic traits. Single nucleotide variants and polymorphisms that could target a range from individuals to... whole ethnicities. (beat) You infect enough people...
Bond: And the people become the weapon.
M: It was never intended to be a weapon of mass destruction. It was a... I need to call the Prime Minister. (to Tanner) Tanner, quarantine the families from the funeral.
Tanner: Yes sir.
[Tanner leaves the room.]
M: And Q, hack into Blofeld’s bionic eye. See what you can find. (to Nomi and Bond) You’ve got your wish. Go to Blofeld and see what you can get out of him. And find that cockroach Obruchev.
Nomi: Sir.
[Nomi and Bond leave.]
OUTSIDE M’S OFFICE, Nomi turns to Bond.
Nomi: We don’t have a trail.
Bond: Logan Ash. State Department. Ex- State Department. Find him, you’ll find Obruchev. Um... Good luck!
[He leaves.]
Nomi: Thanks!
==== INT. BELMARSH PRISON - INTERROGATION ROOM - MOMENTS LATER ====
Blofeld, head lolled slightly forward, watches Bond with satisfaction. 
Blofeld: James.
[He smiles. He wasn’t in a good mood but given what he just witnessed, he’s in a happier mood. He still won’t speak --]
[Bond knows he won’t talk in principle, but attempts to appeal to him frankly.]
Bond: Hello, Blofeld. Perhaps you can help me. Cuba was quite the party -- Happy Birthday, by the way.
Blofeld: Thank you.
Bond: I'm trying to piece together what happened. I mean, there you were, or here you were, with the world's most powerful people, your friends, all in one room, a noose around my neck, and your hands on the most valuable weapon in existence. It's like a... It was like a testimony to your greatness. A celebration of all that is Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
[Blofeld chuckles.]
Blofeld: Yeah, James. Yeah...
Bond: But then it all went wrong, didn't it?
Blofeld: My sweet James, what do you want?
Bond: Your enemies are closing in, Blofeld. And the biggest twist here is that if you tell me who they are, I could save your life.
Blofeld: Mm. My avenging angel. My chaser of lost causes. Now you even chase mine. But you're asking the wrong question. Yeah, Cuba was a disappointment, but we all cry on our birthday. (beat) You need to ask yourself, why are we here?
==== INT. Q’S LAB - SAME ====
Computer Voice: Accessing Media File 472.
[Q is scrubbing through surveillance, looking for Ash. There is footage from all over the world, entry points, offices, car parks etc. Bond’s face appears on the screen.]
Q: Hm. Looking sharp, Bond!
Computer Voice: 473. 474. 475. 476- 477- 478. 479.
[Q turns to grab a sweet from a drawer when there is a beep. He looks up. Suddenly the screen in front of him stops scrubbing. It focuses on one face. It zooms in and identifies someone... LOGAN ASH. He looks down and sees it’s the screen connected to Blofeld’s eyeball.]
Ash: (recording) Logan Ash, pleasure meeting you.
Q: It’s him!
Ash: (recording, laughs] I'm, uh, sorry we're lost. I believe you know who I represent and work for. We have an opportunity for you.
[Q bolts upright in his chair. He grabs his phone to send a text.]
Blofeld: (O.S.) You keep coming back to me. I thought I'd never see you again, but fate draws us back together.
[Nomi receives a text on her phone.]
Nomi: Yes! Q’s got eyes on Logan Ash.
Tanner: Go.
Nomi: Yep. Let me know what happens. 
[She goes.]
Blofeld: (O.S.) Now your enemy is my enemy.
==== INT. BELMARSH PRISON - INTERROGATION ROOM - SAME ====
[Back with Bond and Blofeld.]
Blofeld: How did that happen?
Bond: Well, you live long enough...
Blofeld: (laughs) Yeah, look at us. Two old men in a hole trying to work out who's playing tricks on us.
[Blofeld grows weary of the subject. Decides to salt a wound instead.]
Blofeld: She still loves you. Did you know that? And you broke her heart.
Bond: She's irrelevant.
Blofeld: Mm, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss her. You said it yourself, she's very good at hiding things. And when her secret finds its way out, and it will... (smiles) It'll be the death of you.
Bond: Just give me a name.
Blofeld: Madeline.
Bond: Please, just... Please, no games.
Blofeld: (sing song) Madeline. (energised with the idea) Oh, do you know what? The two of you should come and see me. A little couple's therapy. I simply have to see your face when she tells you the truth.
Bond: Just tell me who they are, Blofeld. And then I'll-- I'll leave. I'll lea-- I'll leave you on your own.
Blofeld: No, I don't want you to leave. We're just getting reacquainted. 
[Bond seems to give up.] 
Blofeld: Alright, come. You were unusually patient. I need to give you something so that you didn't have to make all this way for nothing. Come. 
[He motions for Bond to approach. As if no one should hear what he is about to say...] 
==== INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - SAME ====
[Tanner watches Bond approach Blofeld cautiously.] 
Tanner: Careful, Bond...
==== INT. BELMARSH PRISON - INTERROGATION ROOM - SAME ====
[Bond stands directly in front of Blofeld’s cage.]
Blofeld: It was me.
Bond: You destroyed SPECTRE?
Blofeld: (snorts) No. Vesper's grave. Madeline didn't do a thing. It was all me. I knew you'd come visit it, I just needed to wait for the bon moment. She led you straight there from the goodness of her heart. And then you left her, for me.
Bond: It doesn't matter.
Blofeld: Oh, but it does. She still does, doesn't she? (knowing he’s getting in there) My poor little cuckoo. You were always so very, very sensitive.
[Bond turns to the observation window.]
Bond: This isn't working.
[Bond does care. Won’t show it to him.]
==== INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - SAME ====
[Tanner leans in as if that would allow him to hear too, but he can’t.]
Tanner: Keep going!
==== INT. BELMARSH PRISON - INTERROGATION ROOM - SAME ====
[Blofeld expands on his observations...]
Blofeld: All this wasted time, the life you could've had. And the reason all of this is so beautiful, so exquisitely beautiful, is that you're coming to me to look for answers, whereas the one person who knows it all is she. It's Madeline. She holds the secrets you need. All of them. (appraising him, Bond is not ready to boil) I didn't need to kill you. I'd already broken you. I wanted to give you an empty world... Like the one you gave me. (done) It's enough to almost make me regret it. Enh, almost.
[Bond fills with fury. Blofeld looks up at him smiling. Bond leans in calmly, whispers audibly.]
Bond: (just a breath) Die.
Blofeld: Mmh?
[Bond raises his hand around Blofeld’s neck. Throttles him.]
Bond: Die, Blofeld, die!
==== INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS ====
[Tanner watches closely. He sees Blofeld, predominantly masked by Bond, start to shudder. He jumps to attention.]
Tanner: Jesus, open the door!
==== INT. BELMARSH PRISON - INTERROGATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS ====
[Bond standing over Blofeld, his hands throttling him. It’s intense and focused. We see the killer he is.]
[Bond sees himself in the reflection of the observation window. Suddenly stops. This is exactly what Blofeld wanted him to do.]
[Tanner appears at the window in the door.]
Tanner: Bond! BOND! Bond! Open the door! Bond!
[Bond releases Blofeld and steps backwards.]
Blofeld: Cuckoo...
[Tanner storms into the room.]
Tanner: What the hell are you thinking?
Bond: (dismissive) Yes, yes, yes. I know how to interrogate an asset.
Tanner: This interrogation is over.
Bond: TANNER! Don't lecture me!
Tanner: Bond, you have violated the most important rule in the whole bloody playbook.
[Tanner’s face drops down to Blofeld. Bond turns now.]
Tanner: Don't move.
[They see Blofeld, passed out, veins bursting in his neck, blisters breaking out on his face.]
Bond: What is it with your dad and secret rooms? Talk to me.
Madeline: I wanted to bring you here before. To tell you everything. Blofeld ordered my father to assassinate this family. The boy survived. His name is Lyutsifer Safin. When I was a little girl, he came here to kill my father. But he found me and my mother instead. He spared my life. And now he's back.
Bond: What does he want?
Madeline: Revenge. Me.
Q: Bond! Your watch.
[Bond walks over to a table where Q has a Rolex in a container. Q inserts a microchip into the back, then takes it out and hands it to Bond before walking over to another table.]
Q: Contains a limited radius electromagnetic pulse. It’ll short any circuit in a hardwired network if you get close enough.
Bond: Mm-hm. How strong is it?
Q: It’s… fairly strong.
Bond: “Fairly strong”? What’s that mean?
Q: We haven’t had the chance to test it properly, just be careful.
[He pulls out a black cylindrical device about the size of a Beats speaker and hands it to Nomi.]
Q: Right, this is Q-dar. It’ll map the space as you move through it.
[Nomi takes it and taps at the top.]
Q: Don’t touch that.
[He then moves to a filing cabinet and closes a drawer filled with ammunition clips.]
Q: And Smart Blood. It’ll track you–
[He opens a separate drawer filled with supplies for tea — two cups, two saucers, a kettle, a sugar holder, and a cream pourer, to be precise.]
Q: Whoops! And your vitals.
[He finally arrives upon the injector for the Smart Blood and extracts a vial containing the tech, inserting it.]
Q: Bond, you don’t mind a shot or two whilst at work. Shall we?
[Q walks over and aims the gun at his neck.]
Bond: Well, I haven’t had a drink for three or four ho-
[Q fires the gun.]
Bond: Hours.
[Q returns to the vials and reloads.]
Nomi: Wow. Doesn’t sound like you.
[She steels herself as Q lines up the shot. He fires and she flinches, bringing a hand up to her neck.]
Nomi: Ow!
[Bond pushes a door open and walks in, his gun held out in front of him. Nomi follows behind, placing Q's gadget on the ground and pressing a button on the top. The light at the front pulses while it emits a low humming sound. On the plane, Q sits in front of a laptop as two Greek letters -- an orange "Phi" and a blue "Psi" respectively -- flash on it.]
Q: Okay. Ah, there you go.
[Back in M's office, M, Moneypenny, and Tanner see a digitally recreated map of Safin's island with the same symbols flashing. On the bottom of the screen, Bond and Nomi's vitals are displayed. Q talks over the radio.]
Q: Sir? They're in.
M: Oh, yes, we have it.
Q: You should be able to see the chemical plant's architecture.
Moneypenny: Which one's Bond?
Q: He's the, um, he's the-- Psi. He's the trident-thingy.
Bond: [Over radio] Give us a layout.
[Q glances at the map in front of him.]
Q: Right. You're at the edge of a toxic merry-go-round.
[Bond and Nomi creep up a spiral staircase with a bright white light at the top.]
Q: The main activity should be towards the Central Hub, which is directly above you.
Bond: If I don't come back... Blow it all to shit.
Nomi: We don't have enough explosives for that.
Bond: Yeah, but they don't know that.
=== INT. GAMES ROOM - CONTINUOUS ===
Safin: Welcome.
[Safin’s GUARD stands behind him, TWO more GUARDS have their weapons trained on Bond from behind the staircase.]
Safin: (refers to weapon) On the floor.
[Bond puts his rifle on the floor. As he comes up he shows his empty hands.]
Safin: Your sidearm.
[Bond quickly reaches for it, and Safin holds out a hand. Bond pauses.]
Safin: Careful…
[Safin reaches for a pillow beside Mathilde, never taking his eyes off Bond.]
Safin: She’s as light as a feather!
[On the last word, Safin throws the pillow into the air. It explodes in a barrage of GUNFIRE from the GUARDS behind and in front of SAFIN. 
Bond: ALRIGHT!
[Bond holds his hands in the air. Point taken. He throws the gun away. Safin holds his hand out in front of him — an invitation to sit.]
Safin: Please.
[Bond inches forward and kneels in front of Safin.]
Bond: (to Mathilde, soft) It’s alright. I promise you, it’s going to be alright.
[Safin leans back. Appreciating his cards.]
Safin: James Bond... history of violence, license to kill, vendetta with Ernst Blofeld, in love with Madeline Swann. (beat) I could be speaking to my own reflection.
Bond: We've made slightly different choices.
Safin: No. We’ve just developed different methods for the same goal. Only your skills die with your body. Mine will survive long after I'm gone... and life is all about leaving something behind, isn't it?
[Safin brushes Mathilde’s hair back.]
Safin: It doesn’t have to be ugly. You leave my baby alone, I leave yours. What do you think?
Bond: I think… you’re right.
Safin: (surprised) Thank you.
Bond: I think we are the same. We both know what it feels like to have everything taken from us before we’re even in the fight. It would… have been nice to have a... a chance, don’t you think? Just… we all should get a chance. But this thing that you’re building, it puts everyone — the whole world — on a battlefield. Nobody gets a chance!
[Beat.]
Safin: The thing that… no one wants to admit is that most people want things to happen to them. We tell each other lies about the fight for free will and independence, but… we don’t really want that. We want to be told how to live, and then die when they are not looking. People want oblivion. And a few of us are born to build it for them. So here I am! Their invisible god, sneaking under their skin.
Bond: You know that history isn't kind to those who play god.
Safin: And you don't? We both eradicate people to make the world a better place; I just want to be a little… tidier. Without collateral. I want the world to evolve! Yet you want it to stay the same. Let’s face it; I’ve made you redundant.
Bond: No. Not as long as there are people like you in the world. And with all due respect to the enormity of your… tidy achievements… All you’re really doing is standing in a very long line of angry little men.
Safin: I’m not angry. Just passionate. (losing patience) Disable your explosives, get off my island, and you can take this precious little angel with you.
Bond: And Madeline?
[Pause.]
Safin: She stays.
[Bond chuckles ruefully.]
Bond: You know I can’t do that.
Safin: Oh, that is a shame. She really hoped you would. (then) She knows it’s her only path to survival.
Bond: Well, you have her tell me that!
Safin: What mother wouldn’t sacrifice herself for her own child?
Bond: …is that what happened to yours?
Safin: My mother lay at my feet as I watched her die.
[Safin grips Mathilde, as if we were going to throw her like the cushion --]
Bond: Wait! Wait, wait…
[Safin hesitates --]
Bond: I'll do whatever you want.
Safin: Yes, you will.
[Bond bows, thinking quickly --]
Bond: I apologize. I'm sorry.
Safin: Simple choices, Mr. Bond. Now, do you want to die in front of your daughter... or do you want your daughter to die in front of you?
Bond: No! No, no... I am sorry. I'm sorry.
[Bond bows lower. All the way down to his face. Safin is enjoying this.]
Safin: Look at your father, Mathilde. This is power.
Bond: I'm sorry. I'm truly, truly sorry...
[Bond’s hidden PPK is out in a flash.]
[BANG BANG BANG -- First the GUARD behind SAFIN, then the TWO GUARDS behind him.]
[As they fall Bond spins his gun to Safin. But Safin’s disappeared through a trapdoor in the floor, and Mathilde with him.]
[Bond runs, his gun pointed down at the place they disappeared just as the sliding doors close.
[Madeleine runs into the room.]
Madeline: James!
[He whips around, pointing his gun at her. Slowly lowers it.]
Madeline: Where is she?
[His face says it all: FUCK.]
=== EXT. ZEN GARDEN - MOMENTS LATER ===
[Bond makes his way back up the stairs, but before he can reach the control room, three gunshots ring out and he is toppled, landing with a splash in the middle of the pool in Safin's garden. Safin steps out from the shadows and stalks towards Bond, who tries to push himself to his feet. Safin takes another shot. hitting Bond in the back, which produces a visible, pained reaction.]
Safin: Quite a mess you've made. Like an animal!
[Roaring, Bond pushes himself to his feet and advances on Safin, who fires off another shot but misses. Bond grabs him by the arm and flips him to the ground, pinning him. Safin injects him and Bond swats him off, applying pressure on the arm. Both men scream as Bond breaks Safin's arm. Bond then pushes himself off the mad poisoner, clutching at the wound in his side while his blood drips into the water beneath him.]
Safin: And now, we are both poisoned with heartbreak. Two heroes in a tragedy of our own making. Everyone we touch, we are their curse. A stroke to their cheek... A kiss... Would kill them instantly.
[Bond's face sets in realization as he realizes Safin has moved beyond the realm of the hypothetical.]
Safin: Yes... Madeline. Yes... Mathilde.
[Safin reveals a vial of Madeline's blood in his hand along with a broken injector. By the way Bond grasps at the cuts on his cheek, it's clear that he knows he's been infected.]
Safin: You made me do this, you see? This was your choice.
[Bond stands and picks his gun up from out of the pool and aims it at Safin, who stares back, self-satisfied. Bond coldly shoots him and stumbles out of the pool and up the stairs to the island's control room, activating his communications.]
Bond: Q? Q, are you there?
Q: [Over radio] Bond, there you are.
Bond: Are they safe, Q? 
Q: [Over radio] Yes. They're safe. Bond, have you left the island?
Bond: There's a slight problem with the blast doors. It'll take a sec.
[Back on the plane, Q begins to look worried. A screen shows M's missiles on course to the island.]
Q: No, no, no, Bond... The missiles have already launched, just get out of there!
[Bond pulls a lever which activates a series of gears and machinery. He starts limping over to a ladder on the other side of the room, pain and exhaustion evident in his expression and movements.]
Bond: Q, how do I, um... How do I destroy this? This-- This...
Q: [Over radio] If the silo doors are open, the missiles will deal with it.
Bond: No, no, no, no, no, if you get on you, how do... How do you get it off?
Q: [Over radio] You know as well as I do that you can't it's- It's- It's permanent. It's... eternal. Which is why we have to destroy it. For Christ's sake, James, just get off the island. It's harmless unless you're near to the target.
[Bond reaches the ladder and grabs the bottom rung.]
Bond: Yeah. Well, that's not gonna work.
[Bond pushes a level which drops the ladder to the surface down. Back on the plane, Q realizes what Bond means. His face falls.]
Q: Oh, god. Oh, god, it's for Madeline!
[On the base, Bond pushes himself off the lever and begins climbing the ladder.]
Bond: It's alright, Q. It's alright. Will you put Madeline on, please?
Q: [Over radio] Yes, of course, how stupid of me.
[On a separate beach, Madeline and Mathilde collect rocks. Nomi touches her earpiece.]
Q: [Over radio] Nomi, come in. Can you put Madeline on?
[Nomi gives a small nod.]
Nomi: Madeline.
[She hands over a walkie talkie. On the island, Bond is still climbing the ladder.]
Madeline: James?
Bond: Madeline...
Madeline: [Over radio] I'm here. Where are you? Is it done? James?
Bond: Yes, yes, yes... He's dead. Are you both there?
Madeline: Yes.
Bond: [Over radio] Good! Be safe, that's good.
Madeline: [Over radio] Have you left?
[Bond briefly pauses.]
Bond: No. Um... I'm not gonna make it.
[Back on the island, Madeline adopts an expression of complete sorrow.]
Madeline: What?
Bond: No...
Madeline: [Over radio] No, you promised.
Bond: Now, Madeline...
[Bond resumes climbing and finally ascends to the top of the control room, peeking out of a hatch which overlooks the island.]
Madeline: [Over radio] Just get off that island. I know you can do this.
[Back on the beach, Madeline speaks into the walkie talkie.]
Madeline: Everything's good now! There's no one left to hurt us...
Bond: [Over radio] Madeline...
[Bond stares out into the sunset, trying to catch his breath.]
Bond: You have made... The most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
[On the beach, Madeline laughs in a mix of bittersweet emotions.]
Bond: [Over radio] Perfect. Because she came from you.
[On the island, Bond stumbles out of the hatch to see that the silo doors are open.]
Madeline: [Over radio] Oh, god. The vial...
[Back on the beach.]
Madeline: You've been poisoned!
[The island.]
Bond: Yes.
Madeline: [Over radio] There must be a way.
[The beach again.]
Madeline: There must be a way...
[Back on Safin's island, Bond surveys his handiwork. The silo doors are open. His mission is complete.]
[On the beach, Madeline slowly loses her composure.]
Madeline: We just need more time! If we only had more time...!
[Bond gives a tired grin. He knows just what to say:]
Bond: You have all the time in the world.
Madeline: I love you.
Bond: I love you, too.
[Madeline and Nomi watch as the missiles rocket through the sky and towards Safin's island. Mathilde watches as well, uncomprehending of the situation. Madeline turns to her daughter, then goes back to the radio.]
Madeline: She does have your eyes.
[Bond smiles and nods to himself in a mixture of relief, exhaustion, and contentment.]
Bond: I know.
[Bond looks up as the missiles descend upon Safin's island, breaking off into fragments like fireworks. In his final moments, he is dignified and composed.]
Bond: I know...
[Long contrails of smoke streak from the distance to dozens of white points of light, moving faster and faster towards him.]
[The missiles break into clusters as they spread for maximum effect. Bond knows he only has milliseconds. He seems to find peace. Breathes in deeply, finding some quiet before --]
A massive wave of explosions ripple towards Bond in a strobing and flashing cloud of light.]
[From afar, the island is turned to dust.]
[Various shots show everyone connected to Bond -- Madeline on the beach, Q on the plane, Mallory, Moneypenny, and Tanner in M's office --react with an outpouring of composed but raw grief. Back on the other island, Madeline breaks down, obviously taking Bond's demise the hardest, as Nomi stands in the background, holding Mathilde close to reassure her. The screen fades to white before the camera pushes through the clouds to show an aerial shot of London]
Mallory: Very hard to know what to say. But I thought we should gather and remember.
[Mallory sets a glass of whiskey down on a coaster in the center of the table -- a memorial to Bond. A wide shot reveals Mallory, Q, Moneypenny, Tanner, and Nomi circled around it. Mallory pulls a small book out of his jacket pocket.]
Mallory: And I... I thought this was appropriate.
[He reads from it:]
Mallory: "The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
[He sets the book down and grabs a glass of his own and stands. Tanner begins a circle-wide toast while a mournful brass rendition of the opening chords of the Bond theme play in the background.]
Tanner: To James.
Nomi: James.
Q: James.
Moneypenny: James.
Mallory: James...
[They drink.]
Mallory: Right. Back to work.
[Mallory clinks the glass on the table.]
[In Matera, Bond's vintage Aston Martin DBS drives along the winding roads as "All the Time in the World" plays on high strings. Madeline is the driver, while Mathilde sits passenger's side.]
Madeline: Mathilde?
Mathilde: Quelle?
Madeline: I'm going to tell you a story about a man. His name was Bond. James Bond.
[Mathilde smiles. Louis Armstrong’s “Louis Armstrong's "We Have All the Time In the World" starts to play.]
[We follow the Vantage from above as it winds up into the mountains. The noise of the world fades away.]
[The car enters a tunnel. The camera leads.]
[The tunnel forms an iris of darkness that slowly closes in, bringing us into black.]
[The film -- as well as the Daniel Craig era -- ends. But, as the credits remind us, nothing is ever truly over...]
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