At the craps table Bond meets the opportunistic Plenty O'Toole. After winning $50,000 and tipping her $5,000 for her assistance, Bond brings Plenty to his room, but gang members ambush them and throw Plenty out the window.

Christmas Jones is an American nuclear physicist working in Russia to dismantle nuclear warheads, reducing the Russian inventory in line with treaty obligations. On their initial encounter Jones treats Bond with a combination of mistrust and mild contempt, pre-empting a discussion of her unusual forename with a warning not to bother with any Christmas jokes.

During the flight the pilot is killed by electricity that surges through his headset and a familiar voice begins to taunt Bond over the chopper's loudspeaker. It is Bond's arch-nemesis: Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Bond grew up at Skyfall Lodge, an estate in the highlands of Scotland. In Skyfall, he takes M to his childhood home to protect her from rogue MI6 agent Raoul Silva.

The psychopath industrialist is believed to be the product of medical experimentation with steroids performed by a Nazi scientist, now Zorin's physician Dr. Carl Mortner.

No Time to Die depicts the Royal Navy's HMS Dragon, firing vertical missiles from her Sea Viper weapons system in order to end the threat of Project Heracles--but these same weapons also take the life of Britain's greatest spy.

The original title of Licence to Kill (1989) was Licence Revoked. Promotional materials were even printed with the original title, but it sat strangely with test audiences and was changed before the release of the film. Licence to Kill marks Timothy Dalton's final appearance as James Bond.

Because he wasn't satisfied with the novel, Ian Fleming made it clear that he only wanted the title of The Spy Who Loved Me to be used in the film version. Thus, the movie features an entirely new plot and is considered to be the first completely original Bond film. After the success of the movie, a novelization of the film was released.

LA PORTE: The coffin, it has your initials--J.B.
BOND: At the moment, rather him than me.
LA PORTE: At least you've been spared the effort of removing him. Colonel Bouvar passed away in his sleep, so they tell me.
BOND: Mmmm ...
LA PORTE: You sound disappointed you didn't kill him yourself, huh?
BOND: I am. Jacques Bouvar murdered two of my colleagues.

He charges $1 million a shot. But he never misses.