Story - Hong Kong

Bond awakes to find himself on a table surrounded by medical equipment. After realising he is still alive, and in not too bad shape apart from the long hair and beard, M enters the facility. A naked Bond tries to approach her but is shocked to find a wall of bullet-proof glass between them.

M reveals that she didn't want the exchange to take place, it was too high a price. Zao had blown up a South Korean and China conference, killing 3 agents, before she finally bowed from NSA pressure. She reveals that one of their top spies within the North Korean military had just been executed and intelligence pointed the finger towards a leak from Bond's prison cell. Strongly denying that he had talked, Bond later escapes from the mobile hospital by luring the medics in to perform emergency CPR. The blast of the resuscitator throws the medics across the room as he grabs his clothes and thanks the nurse for her kiss of life.

Rather than suffer the humiliation of re-evaluation and possibly retirement at an MI6 outpost in the Falklands, Bond escapes to Seoul, where he manages to steal some money from a pimp in The Top Hat bar.

Back at MI6 HQ, M - although distressed at Bond`s predicament - allows her self a private smile when Robinson and Moneypenny inform her of his escape to Seoul.

In the backstreets of Seoul, Bond does a favour for an sailor in debt by taking out a loan shark, and in return buys himself a stowaway ticket in a torpedo tube on a boat headed for Hong Kong.

After a broken night's sleep, Bond swims a mile from the ship to Victoria Harbour. Mr Chang of the Hotel Runyeon Royale granted Bond the presidential suite, as he still recognised the old friend underneath all his bedraggled hair.

After a hearty meal, a haircut and a shave, Bond welcomes a beautiful Chinese masseuse by the name of Peaceful Fountains of Desire into his suite. Bond discovers the the girl packs a hidden Beretta, which he holds to her head as he shatters a big mirror in the room - revealing Mr Chang and three other Chinese secret service personnel. Chang demands to know what Bond is doing in Hong Kong, and Bond explains he is working on his own to chase Zao - who had just killed three Chinese secret service agents.

Chang issues Bond with a new passport and Walther P99 before wishing him well on his trip to Cuba - where Zao is hiding after his release.