Story
- Iceland
Bond drives the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish through the beautiful
if unforgiving Icelandic landscape and heads towards Gustav Graves' Ice Palace.
On the way he notices several domes built along the edge of the frozen lake that
Miranda Frost had given him directions to at Blades Club. A huge industrial power
plant lay between the domes and an open-air hot spa.
Bond parks the Vanquish
alongside many expensive cars outside the impressive Ice Palace. Graves arrives
in style too, as he clocks up a personal best of 324mph in his jet-powered ice
dragster. Bond meets Mr Kil for the first time, a big burly man, as Graves instructs
him to carry Bond's luggage.
As Jinx arrives in her Ford Thunderbird, Miranda
Frost escorts Bond to his suite in the palace. Bond changes into a tuxedo before
meeting Jinx and Frost at the bar. Jinx uses a cover name, Ms Swift of Space &
Technology magazine to introduce herself to Frost.
Frost introduces Graves
to the crowd as nightfall descends outside. Donning a pair of sunglasses, Graves
starts to control Icarus and brings amazing light to the previously dark landscape.
As Graves' speech comes to an end, and he promises to bring free light to the
dark regions of the earth, the light stops and the party begins. As the guests
head back to the palace, Bond follows Graves to one of the domes using the adaptive
cloaking feature on the Vanquish.
Once inside the gates, Graves, Vlad and
Kil enter the dome, Bond inspects the outside of the building. Guards quickly
detect Bond and he is forced to blow out a valve on the side of the building,
causing a huge explosion which creates a gap in the security fence. He is met
by a gun, and Miranda Frost. She orders him to strip, and the pair get in the
open-air hot spa whilst the Mr Kil and his dogs are on the hunt. The ruse works
as Kil turns around not entirely happy with his discovery. Frost reveals her status
as an MI6 agent whilst the couple kiss passionately and talk shop. Graves discovers
the pair and Frost's embarrassment is genuine as she tries to conceal herself.
Graves
heads back to his laboratory under the dome where he meets his scientist Vlad
and his latest improvements to the Icarus control device - a 100,000 volt stun
gun.
Meanwhile, Bond returns to his suite in the Ice Palace where Frost
is waiting for him, poised nervously on the end of his bed. To maintain their
cover, the pair agree to spend the night together and somewhat mechanically get
into bed, before launching into a night of passion.
A man wearing dark clothes
and a balaclava sneaks through the corridors of the Ice Palace in the dead of
night. Entering Gustav`s private office, he sees Graves under his dream machine
- getting the one hour a day he needs to stay sane from his insomnia.
Zao
wakes Graves and the pair compare stories of their metamorphosis. Finally it is
revealed that Gustav Graves is none other than Colonel Moon. Whereas Zao's transformation
was abruptly stopped half way, Moon has finished the process and has fooled almost
everyone. But Moon is not happy with the Western appearance he has had to take
on, and smashes a mirror in his office in disgust.
Jinx, although stealthy,
triggers an intruder alarm as she approaches the office. She attempts to shoot
a man under the dream machine, but her bullet ricochets off a reinforced glass
shield. Graves is waiting for her with the 100,000 volt Icarus gauntlet, and knocks
her unconscious with one single zap.
James Bond leaves Miranda Frost in
his suite as he dons his survival suit under normal clothes. The Vanquish, still
in invisible mode, is driven out remotely from the dome towards Bond where he
uses the side of the car to sneak out undetected. Knowing that the icy water below
flows into the hothouse biodome, Bond cuts a hole in the ice with his watch laser
and slips into the freezing cold water. It is only a short distance to the dome,
and Bond quickly emerges into the artificial tropical atmosphere.
Zao has
strapped and gagged Jinx to a table in the mine, which he reveals is fake, but
the lasers are just as deadly. Refusing to talk, Jinx is toyed with my Mr Kil,
as Bond bursts into the room. A fight breaks out between them as Jinx has to watch
the laser getting closer and closer to her. Bond eventually grabs the remote control
for the lasers and gives Jinx a restbite, but in doing so he has given Mr Kil
an advantage. Bond switches the lasers back on as Mr Kil throttles Bond against
the wall, the laser beam silently drilling a hole through his skull, causing a
whiff of smoke to come out of his mouth. The lasers come in useful again, as Mr
Kil's hand his lasered off from the wrist so that Bond and Jinx can escape the
room looked by a biometric scanner.
Bond tells Jinx to go and find Frost,
as they are allies, and to get out of the Ice Palace while he goes after Zao.
Jinx gets locked into her suite when failing to find Frost, whilst Bond waits
for Graves to enter his office.
Bond confronts Graves and reveals his true
identity - Colonel Moon. Frost enters and points her P99 at Graves too, but the
ruse soon comes to a climax when Bond discovers who betrayed him in North Korea.
Frost's gun now points at Bond, and as he pulls the trigger to shoot Graves, nothing
happens. Frost had sabotaged Bond's gun the pervious night as he slept. Zao joins
the foray to complete the showdown, and punches Bond a few times until his is
on the floor - made of glass. Graves explains how he poisoned Frost's opponent
in the Olympics in order to win her loyalty, she is now his double agent inside
MI6. Graves orders Frost to kill Bond, but before she pulls the trigger, Bond
uses his sonic agitator ring to shatter the floor and the pair fall to the jungle
floor beneath.
Bond scampers off into the jungle as Frost comes to her senses
and Zao joins her in the hunt. They seem to have their man as Bond makes a seemingly
tactical mistake heading for the centre of the dome, but he escapes their clutches
by flying up into the roof of the dome on the descender wire Jinx had left there
from her entry. Bond tumbles down the outside of the dome as shots fire through
the roof toward him, and he heads towards the jet-powered ice dragster.
Infuriated
by Bond's quick wits, Graves dons the Icarus control gauntlet and is keen to demonstrate
it to his three high ranking Korean guests. He teases Bond by bringing the weapon's
powerful beam of light closer and closer to the back of the speeding craft. Bond,
sensing he has only seconds to survive, decides to head for a sheer cliff face
with a huge drop. Switching the anchors on at the perfect time, the ice dragster
locks into the ice just as it goes over the edge, leaving the craft hanging dangerously.
Bond manages to clamber out of the craft hanging above a 600 foot drop, and fashions
a lifeline out of an emergency parachute and panel from the jet. As Graves moves
in for the kill, causing the entire glacier to collapse, Bond floats away from
the chaos, half flying, half surfing over the icy water below, before finally
reaching the other side of the lake.
Meanwhile at the Ice Palace, Zao and
Frost say farewell to Jinx, locking her in a room. Graves and his Korean guests
drive off as he leaves Zao to finish his work.
Bond hears the distant sound
of an engine and it gives him an idea. He ties the cord from the parachute between
two ice peaks, and waits for his prey. The ski-doo driver doesn't see it coming,
and Bond gets on the vehicle as quickly as it's previous driver was dispatched.
A
giant Antonov cargo plane swoops over head and lands in a nearby ice field as
Bond sneaks into his car and uses the heat-imaging display to notice Jinx is still
inside the Ice Palace. Chaos breaks loose as Zao rounds his guards on the strange
ghost moving towards the palace, and snow mobiles fly into the air after seemingly
hitting nothing.
Zao runs for his Jaguar XKR as Graves, now onboard the
Antonov with Frost and the Koreans, fires Icarus at the Ice Palace. The two cars
spin and dance on the surface of the frozen lake as in turn, each driver tries
to outwit the other. Zao seems to have Bond where he wants him when the Vanquish
gets flipped onto it's roof, but Bond uses the ejector seat to right the vehicle
in spectacular fashion.
The cars smash into the Ice Palace as Bond refuses
to give up on Jinx, who is now up to her neck in freezing water. Zao finally loses
control and the Jaguar crashes through the floor of the palace and into the icy
cold water. Bond sees Zao struggling for air and thrashing about in the water
when he shoots the chandelier directly above him. The water turns from icy blue,
to blood red.
The Vanquish smashes into Jinx's cold tomb as her body rolls
up the bonnet of the car. Bond uses the ring to shatter the car's windscreen and
pulls her lifeless body inside. He pushes the throttle down the the floor and
the car smashes through the outer wall just as the entire Ice Palace slips under
the surface of the once frozen lake. He takes Jinx to the hot-spa and resuscitates
her, while the Antonov's engines roar over their heads - headed for North Korea.