Our story begins with the classic 007 opening, except this time it's Pierce Brosnan wearing the tux.

EXT. TOP OF DAM - DAY

A plane does a fly-by over a dam as a security gate slides open. A man in combat black runs across the top of the tall dam. He clips a rope to his ankle and the railing...and jumps off the side. As he sails down, he pulls out a gun-type thing and shoots it. A wire follows attaching in concrete and pulling the man down to....

"Archangel Chemical Weapons Facility, USSR"

Cut to a laser burning through a metal wall, being shot by the man with the gunthing. We see a blue eye, but we haven't seen this guy's face yet.....

INT. BATHROOM - DAY

Inside the plant, we cut to the men's room, where we see Russians walking around. Above one of the stalls...

"Man in black's" P.O.V.: a Soviet in uniform sitting on the can, reading a newspaper titled Pravda ("The Truth").

The man in black takes the steel grate out, and we see a silhouette. Soviet's P.O.V. - The newspaper, printed in Russian, duh. He pulls the paper back to reveal.... James Bond. Hanging upside down from a vent. He flashes a grin.

BOND: Beg your pardon, forgot to knock.

007 punches out the Soviet and slips down.

INT. HALLWAY - SAME TIME




Bond slips unnoticed through dim halls, wielding his Walther PPK with a silencer on it. He spots a butcher loading meat onto a cart, and he walks up to an opening where he sees soldiers eating. As he turns away...another dark shadow points a gun at him...and says something.

SHADOW: (Russian) Where have you been? Where are your companions?

BOND: I'm alone.

Alec Trevelyan, 006, steps into the light. He's around Bond's general age and built. Blond with cold eyes...

ALEC: Aren't we all? You're late, 007.

BOND: I had to stop in the bathroom.

ALEC: Ready to save the world again?

BOND: After you, 006.

They remove another steel grate.

ALEC: James, for England.

BOND: For England, Alec.

INT. HALL - DAY

Bond's blue eyes spot someone in the hall. Waiting 'til the coast is clear, he jumps out of the vent in the floor while Alec climbs out. Both men walk down the hall. Alec enters a laboratory with a plate-glass window and shoots the guy inside. Meanwhile, Bond has a device plugged into an ID card slot with a number pad under it. He waits for a click, and the door unlocks. Both men walk inside....




INT. GAS ROOM - DAY

...A room filled with nerve gas tanks.

BOND: It's too easy.

ALEC: Half of everything is luck, James.

Alec turns and plugs the device into the same panel, jamming the door.

BOND: And the other half?

ALEC: Fate!

A red light sounds, signalling the alarm of the plant. The men run down the stairs.

ALEC: Set timers to six minutes!

BOND: Six minutes, check.

A few Soviets burst through a door, and 006 shoots them. Bond starts to arm a little explosive timer. A digital clock pops up...6.00. James and Alec scurry around behind the gas tanks, planting the timers. An ugly-looking Soviet commander, Ourumov, stands behind a plexiglass window.

OURUMOV: FIRE!

Soldiers fire their guns, breaking the window. 006 and 007 are still planting the timers.




ALEC: Closing time, James! Last call!

BOND: Buy me a pint!

The Soviets pour through the opening. Trevelyan fires at them.

OURUMOV (O.S.): I am Colonel Ourumov. Come out with your hands above your heads!

While planting a timer...

BOND: How original.

More Soviets pour through a door.

BOND: Shut the door, Alec! There's a draft!

No answer.

BOND: Alec?

He looks for 006. Alec is kneeling under the gun of Ourumov. Thirty soldiers all have their guns pointed at Bond.

OURUMOV: Move out! Throw down your weapon and walk towards me. Slowly.

ALEC: Finish the job, James! Blow them all to hell!

OURUMOV: You have ten seconds. Ten, nine, eight...

Bond goes back to the detonator he just planted and sets it for 3.00.

OURUMOV: Seven, six, five, four...

Bond throws his weapon on the floor, puts his hands behind his head and approaches Ourumov.

OURUMOV: Three, two...

ALEC: For England, James!

BOOM. Alec is silenced. He flops over. The Soviet soldiers fire their
automatic rifles. Bond retreats behind the tanks again.