James Bond is sent to Siberia, where he finds 003 buried by an avalanche and recovers a microchip from the corpse.

In the pre-titles sequence of A View To A Kill Bond is pursued on skis by a bevy of Russian soldiers until he commandeers a stolen snowmobile. When the snowmobile is blown up, Bond proceeds to use one of the destroyed vehicle's skis as a snowboard to slalom down the mountainside.

Field agent Kimberley Jones is waiting for 007 with a miniature submarine disguised as an iceberg and a bottle of Stolichnaya vodka.

"A View to a Kill" became one of Duran Duran's biggest hits. It remains the only James Bond theme song to have reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

Q's analysis of the microchip reveals it to be an exact duplicate of one designed by government contractor Zorin Industries, indicating the company is leaking top secret technology to the Soviets.

Bond visits Ascot Racecourse to observe the company's owner, Max Zorin. Zorin's horse wins a race despite an inferior bloodline.

Sir Godfrey Tibbett, a racehorse trainer and MI6 agent, believes Pegasus was drugged, although a screening prior to the race came back negative.

Little is known about May Day's past, but she exhibits abnormal strength. Her only physical equal appears to be Zorin, who manages to pin her to the floor during a hand-to-hand combat training session.

Through Sir Godfrey, Bond meets with French private detective Achille Aubergine who has been hired by the French Jockey Club to look into the possibility that Max Zorin may be involved in a horse-fixing scheme. During their dinner at the Eiffel Tower, Aubergine is suddenly murdered by May Day using a poison-barbed butterfly prop she has stolen from "Dominique and the Enchanted Papillons".

007 travels to Zorin's stud farm in Chantilly, France where he poses as fledgling horse breeder James St. John Smythe.