PARIS: Do you know I used to look in the papers every day for your obituary?
BOND: I'm sorry to keep disappointing you.
Bond steals a red box from Carver's safe--the stolen GPS encoder. After learning that the encoder has been tampered with, he is able to pinpoint the location of the missing ship.
After Carver instructs Gupta to make an appointment for his wife with "The Doctor", Bond finds her dead in his hotel room. An assassin who calls himself Dr. Kaufman tries to kill Bond as well, but 007 puts a bullet in his head.
Although he claims that "officially, Uncle Sam is completely neutral in this turkey shoot," CIA agent Jack Wade supervises Bond's HALO jump into Vietnamese waters.
In the sunken ship, Bond encounters Wai Lin, an operative for the Chinese People's External Security Force. The two spies are wary of each other at first, but eventually develop enough trust to join forces.
Dr. Kaufman had been schooling his protégé, Mr. Stamper, in the ancient art of Chakra Torture, which uses the seven Chakra Points to inflict the maximum amount of pain while keeping the victim alive for as long as possible.
The BMW R1200C was a cruiser motorcycle manufactured by BMW Motorrad from 1997 to 2004. Fifteen R1200C bikes were used in Tomorrow Never Dies, 12 of which were destroyed in the filming of the chase sequence through the streets of Saigon, which involves Bond jumping the bike from one rooftop onto another and over the whirling blades of a pursuing helicopter.
Bond captures Gupta to use as a hostage, but Carver kills Gupta, claiming he has "outlived his contract."
The film was originally titled Tomorrow Never Lies, which makes sense when you consider media mogul Elliot Carver's newspaper Tomorrow was creating the next day's headlines in advance. However, it was then the subject of a typo and the producers liked the alternate title so much they adopted it.
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