List of James Bond henchmen in Licence to Kill
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. He is a henchmen of drug lord
Franz Sanchez
and played by Academy Award winner Benicio del Toro
, in one of his earliest roles.
The sneering Dario is first seen when he uses his flick knife to kill a man Lupe has relations with, by carving out his heart, on Sanchez's instructions. He is Sanchez's most loyal and favourite henchman. Dario, along with Braun and Perez, escape while Sanchez is captured by Felix Leiter
and Bond. The three ambush Felix and his new wife Della in their home. They rape and murder her and bring Felix to Sanchez. He laughs and smiles while Felix is being attacked by the shark. Dario is then sent by Sanchez to kill Pam Bouvier, the only one of Leiter's contacts left alive, in a bar. Bond and Pam manage to escape from Dario and his companions, not before Pam is shot in the back. Dario does not know that this doesn't kill her, as she was wearing a bullet-proof vest. Dario disappears for much of the movie but reappears with the Stinger Missiles when Sanchez is showing Bond and the drug dealers his drug plant. While in Sanchez's drug manufacturing plant, Dario recognizes Bond from the bar and blows his cover, forcing Bond to start a fire inside the factory. After Sanchez leaves Bond to fall from a conveyor belt
into his brick-cocaine shredder, Dario steps in with his knife and attempts to force Bond in. Pam reappears to Dario, who is met with disbelief ("Heh heh, you're dead!"). To which she responds, "You took the words right out of my mouth," and shoots him at least once before her gun malfunctions. The minorly injured Dario laughs confidently as he gets ready to throw his knife but Bond takes the opportunity to grab Dario's foot and pull him off the conveyor belt. He screams in agony as he slides down Bond's legs, allowing the agent to drop Dario into the shredder, where he is pulverised. After his death, Bond tells Pam to "Switch the bloody machine off!"
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. He is a henchmen of drug lord
Franz Sanchez
. Perez was played by Alejandro Bracho
.
Perez was intelligent and often served as an advisor for Sanchez. He is first seen at the beginning of the movie when he strangles a man to death while Sanchez is looking for Lupe. He, Braun, and Dario all escape while their boss is captured. The three ambush Felix Leiter
and his new wife Della in their home. They rape
and murder
Della while they bring Felix to Sanchez. When Bond travels after Sanchez, Perez is seen is most of the scenes, never far away from his boss. When 007 and Pam Bouvier plant millions of dollars in cash in the decompression chamber of the Wavekrest, a vessel belonging to Milton Krest, in an attempt to frame Krest for paying a hit team to kill Sanchez, Perez and Braun are the first ones to discover the money. Perez plays a big part in the climatic tanker truck chase, as Sanchez gives Perez a Stinger Missile to shoot at Bond. Bond, while in a tanker truck, drives over a huge mound, raising up one side of the truck, while Perez fires the missile. The missile narrowly misses as Bond drives the truck onto Perez's jeep. As he and several other henchmen fire at Bond, he is then covered with dust by Pam Bouvier in her airplane. As Bond drives away, Braun drives up behind in a pickup truck
and picks up Perez. They pursue Bond even through flames that ignite their tires. As Bond is on the back of Sanchez's last tanker truck, Perez shoots at Bond. Getting revenge on the murder of Felix's wife, he turns a valve on the truck, letting some of the gas onto the road. The flames on their tires ignite the gas and turn the truck into a fireball. Unable to control the vehicle, Braun drives off a cliff, nearly hitting Bouvier in her airplane, while he and Perez fall to their deaths.
film Licence to Kill
. He is a henchmen of drug lord
Franz Sanchez
and played by Guy de Saint Cyr.
Braun is mostly silent for the whole movie. His distinguishing feature is the scar going down the side of his face and carries a Heckler and Koch P9S as a weapon. Braun, along with Dario and Perez, murder the man with whom Lupe is having relations with in the pre-title sequence. He then escapes while Sanchez is captured. The three ambush Felix Leiter and his new wife Della in their home. Braun quiets Della down as the three rape and murder her and bring Felix to Sanchez. When Bond goes after Sanchez personally, Braun is seen in most sequences around Sanchez and his friend Perez. Later, when Bond and CIA contract pilot Pam Bouvier place nearly five million dollars in cash in the Wavekrests decompression chamber, Braun and Perez are the first to find the money and Braun shows it to Sanchez personally, then shuts the chamber door closed after Sanchez throws Milton Krest into it and kills him. After Bond sets Sanchez's cocaine factory on fire, Braun accompanies Sanchez to check on Heller and the Stinger Missiles. After they kill him, Braun is seen starting a pickup truck and heading after the tanker truck chase. He picks up Perez, who was stranded in the middle of the chase, and they start after Bond. They go to great lengths to kill him, even driving their truck through flames, causing the tires to start on fire. As they catch up with Bond on the last tanker truck, Perez tries to shoot Bond. Getting revenge for the murder of Felix's wife, Bond turns a valve, causing the gas to flood out onto the road. The flaming tires ignite the gas, turning the pickup into a fireball. Unable to control the vehicle, Braun drives off a cliff, nearly hitting Bouvier in her airplane, while he and Perez fall to their deaths.
official in the film Licence to Kill
, played by 6 ft 5 inch actor Everett McGill
.
Killifer was in charge of watching over Franz Sanchez
while the drug
kingpin was being transported from the Bahamas to Quantico
. Killifer turned traitor, helping Sanchez escape from the authorities in exchange for US$2 million in cash
. As a result, the greedy Killifer was indirectly responsible for the maiming of his "friend" Felix Leiter
, and the death of Della Leiter. Sanchez's underlings did not trust Killifer, but Sanchez defended Killifer by explaining that "a deal is a deal" and saying he was not returning to his native country until he delivered Ed Killifer his promised cash; he explains that trust is more important to him than money.
Killifer later cornered James Bond
at Milton Krest's marine biology
facility, holding him at gunpoint and planning to feed him to the very same shark
that had mauled Leiter.
Fortunately for Bond, his ally Sharkey arrived at a crucial moment, allowing 007 to gain the upper hand. After a brief tussle, Killifer ended up dangling over the pool where the shark was kept. He attempted to bargain for his life with Bond, offering him half of the two million dollar bribe money he had obtained from Sanchez. Bond then showed him the same mercy Felix Leiter had received, and made the comment that Killifer can "keep all of it", throwing the case at Ed Killifer and sending him tumbling into the shark pool, where he is promptly devoured.
short story "The Hildebrand Rarity", part of the For Your Eyes Only collection. The character was later adapted as a henchman in the 1989 Bond film, Licence to Kill
, with his wife-beating tendencies (with a stingray
-tail whip) transferred to the film's main villain. He was portrayed by Anthony Zerbe
.
. He uses a laboratory of supposedly genetically engineered maggots to conceal drugs, and his submarine remote probe, Sentinel, is used to pass the drug shipments on to seaplanes at a distance from the coast and his boat, the Wavekrest. He drunkenly attempts to seduce his boss' mistress, Lupe Lamora, despite the brutal murder of her previous lover, Alvarez, in the pre-title sequence (it is strongly implied [and confirmed] that the man's heart is removed from his chest by Dario as a "little valentine", though this happens off-screen). Krest's behaviour backfires when Lupe pretends she didn't see Bond on board as he was sabotaging the latest drugs deal by destroying the narcotics in the Sentinel and escaping with US$5 million in cash. This leaves Krest looking guilty in Sanchez's eyes.
Bond infiltrates Sanchez's inner circle and convinces the drug baron that Krest is trying to have him killed, using a hit man who is expecting to be paid in cash that evening. Bond then sneaks aboard the Wavekrest and stashes the remaining cash from the drug deal back aboard the boat, in time for Sanchez to find it and presume that this is the hit man's payoff. Sanchez kills Krest by forcing him into the Wavekrests decompression chamber containing the money, increasing the pressure inside the chamber and then tearing the air tube open with an axe, causing rapid depressurisation — Krest's head inflates like a balloon and then explodes in a bloody mess. After Krest's death, Sanchez orders Heller, Perez, and Braun to clean up the bloody money inside. This scene is regarded as one of the most violent in any Bond film and subject to remark that it was a similarly disgusting scene akin to the death of Kananga in Live and Let Die
. It was censored upon release in UK and North American cinemas; the Ultimate DVD Collection released in 2006 is the first time the full death sequence has been available for purchase. Krest is the first of many henchmen to be killed by his boss due to Bond's machinations, rather than directly by Bond himself.
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, he was played by Don Stroud
Heller is Franz Sanchez's head of security, a disgraced ex-Green Beret from the US. When Sanchez takes Bond into his circle of allies, Heller researches Bond's past employment in the Secret Service and presents it to Sanchez, but since Bond's cover story has already included mention of this, his true allegiance is not revealed. Heller is also suspicious of the Hong Kong Narcotics agents who have infiltrated the meeting of drug barons, and oversees the military operation to destroy their base in Isthmus. While leading the raid, he busts into the devastated safehouse and shoots agent Loti dead. He then discovers that the other agent, Kwang, is still alive from the explosions of a tank shell fired at the base. However, rather than give into Sanchez's rage, Kwang bites into a cyanide capsule, killing himself.
Heller's other main responsibility is to look after four Stinger missiles recently purchased from the Contras
for the purpose of blackmailing the US government. However, he has secretly arranged a deal with Pam Bouvier to return the Stingers in exchange for personal immunity from the DEA
. Heller almost calls off the deal when Sanchez is nearly killed (by Bond), but later attempts to use the mayhem of the fire at the drugs distribution centre as an opportunity to remove the missiles to safety.
Bond's machinations involve casting doubt on the loyalty of all of Sanchez's trusted circle, and he uses what he knows of the Stingers to make Sanchez suspicious. Heller is thus caught in the act by Sanchez himself, who promptly has him killed (off-screen). Bond and Pam find the soldier's body impaled on a forklift truck
as they attempt to escape the burning complex. "Looks like he came to a dead end," quips Bond.
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film Licence to Kill
, he was played by Anthony Starke
.
Truman-Lodge is Franz Sanchez's financial advisor, a fugitive from the United States following insider dealing on Wall Street
. A wizard with digits in all senses, he displays considerable skill at prestidigitation while recalculating the drug lord's vast ill-gotten income. He is always at his employer's side and becomes increasingly more alarmed at Sanchez's recklessness, despairing at the expensive destruction of the cocaine distribution centre at the end of the film. When he sarcastically congratulates Sanchez on "another eighty million dollar write-off" the drug lord – made suspicious by Bond's machinations – decides to start "cutting overhead
" and shoots him with a Micro Uzi, being sure to remove the briefcase containing the $500 million bearer bonds from Truman-Lodge's dead hands before leaving his body at the side of the road.
from the James Bond
film Licence to Kill
, he was played by Wayne Newton
.
Professor Joe Butcher is a televangelist based in Isthmus, who has a television fundraising
programme that acts as a cover for informing Sanchez's main drugs distributors across the United States of the latest trade prices, and receiving their orders. His remote meditation sanctuary is actually the main processing distribution centre for Sanchez's drug operations.
Butcher's questionable 'Cone Power' mysticism (which may have been inspired in real-life by several pseudoscientific "Pyramid Power"
theories that have been formulated by New Age groups) and catchphrase, "Bless your heart!", provides some light relief on several occasions. He never meets Bond during the film but is got the better of by Pam Bouvier, when he tries to force himself upon her when she is posing as an awestruck convert to his ministry. He is last seen fleeing the burning complex as Bouvier and Bond escape to pursue Sanchez and his convoy of cocaine-filled trucks. He was inspired as a parody of two contemporary controversial televangelists, Jerry Falwell
and Jim Bakker
.
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film Licence to Kill
who was played by Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
, whose late father Pedro Armendáriz
had played Kerim Bey in the second Bond film, From Russia With Love
.
Hector Lopez is corrupt El Presidente of Isthmus. He receives monthly payments from Sanchez for harbouring him, but is clearly not happy at the arrangement, as Sanchez essentially controls the country and threatens him: "Remember – you are only President for life." Lopez is one of the few characters to survive making deals with a Bond villain, and is even at the end of the film in Bond's company, presumably much reformed and pledged to clean up corruption in his country now that he is free of Sanchez. He is left possibly even dating Lupe Lamora, as Bond suggests when he rejects her advances himself in favour of Pam Bouvier.
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who was played by Eddie Edenfield.
Clive is one of a contingent of divers serving Franz Sanchez
. He is the only diver given a name. While Sharkey is giving Bond a lift on his boat, Clive coldly kills him, filling Bond with a desire for revenge. Clive later meets Bond aboard the WaveKrest, at which point Bond avenges Sharkey's wrongful death by shooting him with a harpoon
gun. Bond delivers one of his trademark one-liners to Clive: "Compliments of Sharkey."
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James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
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Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
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Dario
Dario is a supporting villain who appeared in the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
. He is a henchmen of drug lord
Drug lord
A drug lord, drug baron or kingpin is the term used to describe a person who controls a sizable network of persons involved in the illegal drugs trade. Such figures are often difficult to bring to justice, as they might never be directly in possession of something illegal, but are insulated from...
Franz Sanchez
Franz Sanchez
Franz Sanchez is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Licence to Kill. He was played by Robert Davi. The character is based on Pablo Escobar...
and played by Academy Award winner Benicio del Toro
Benicio del Toro
Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez is a Puerto Rican and Spanish actor and film producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a BAFTA Award for his role as Javier Rodríguez in Traffic . He is also known for his roles as Fred Fenster in The Usual...
, in one of his earliest roles.
The sneering Dario is first seen when he uses his flick knife to kill a man Lupe has relations with, by carving out his heart, on Sanchez's instructions. He is Sanchez's most loyal and favourite henchman. Dario, along with Braun and Perez, escape while Sanchez is captured by Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter is a fictional CIA agent created by Ian Fleming in the James Bond series of novels and films. In both, Leiter works for the CIA and assists Bond in his various adventures as well as being his best friend. In further novels Leiter joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency and in the film...
and Bond. The three ambush Felix and his new wife Della in their home. They rape and murder her and bring Felix to Sanchez. He laughs and smiles while Felix is being attacked by the shark. Dario is then sent by Sanchez to kill Pam Bouvier, the only one of Leiter's contacts left alive, in a bar. Bond and Pam manage to escape from Dario and his companions, not before Pam is shot in the back. Dario does not know that this doesn't kill her, as she was wearing a bullet-proof vest. Dario disappears for much of the movie but reappears with the Stinger Missiles when Sanchez is showing Bond and the drug dealers his drug plant. While in Sanchez's drug manufacturing plant, Dario recognizes Bond from the bar and blows his cover, forcing Bond to start a fire inside the factory. After Sanchez leaves Bond to fall from a conveyor belt
Conveyor belt
A conveyor belt consists of two or more pulleys, with a continuous loop of material - the conveyor belt - that rotates about them. One or both of the pulleys are powered, moving the belt and the material on the belt forward. The powered pulley is called the drive pulley while the unpowered pulley...
into his brick-cocaine shredder, Dario steps in with his knife and attempts to force Bond in. Pam reappears to Dario, who is met with disbelief ("Heh heh, you're dead!"). To which she responds, "You took the words right out of my mouth," and shoots him at least once before her gun malfunctions. The minorly injured Dario laughs confidently as he gets ready to throw his knife but Bond takes the opportunity to grab Dario's foot and pull him off the conveyor belt. He screams in agony as he slides down Bond's legs, allowing the agent to drop Dario into the shredder, where he is pulverised. After his death, Bond tells Pam to "Switch the bloody machine off!"
Perez
Perez is a supporting villain who appeared in the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
. He is a henchmen of drug lord
Drug lord
A drug lord, drug baron or kingpin is the term used to describe a person who controls a sizable network of persons involved in the illegal drugs trade. Such figures are often difficult to bring to justice, as they might never be directly in possession of something illegal, but are insulated from...
Franz Sanchez
Franz Sanchez
Franz Sanchez is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Licence to Kill. He was played by Robert Davi. The character is based on Pablo Escobar...
. Perez was played by Alejandro Bracho
Alejandro Bracho
Alejandro Bracho is a Puerto Rican actor.He starred in the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill as a henchman of the drug baron, Franz Sanchez, played by Robert Davi.-References:...
.
Perez was intelligent and often served as an advisor for Sanchez. He is first seen at the beginning of the movie when he strangles a man to death while Sanchez is looking for Lupe. He, Braun, and Dario all escape while their boss is captured. The three ambush Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter is a fictional CIA agent created by Ian Fleming in the James Bond series of novels and films. In both, Leiter works for the CIA and assists Bond in his various adventures as well as being his best friend. In further novels Leiter joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency and in the film...
and his new wife Della in their home. They rape
Rape
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and murder
Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...
Della while they bring Felix to Sanchez. When Bond travels after Sanchez, Perez is seen is most of the scenes, never far away from his boss. When 007 and Pam Bouvier plant millions of dollars in cash in the decompression chamber of the Wavekrest, a vessel belonging to Milton Krest, in an attempt to frame Krest for paying a hit team to kill Sanchez, Perez and Braun are the first ones to discover the money. Perez plays a big part in the climatic tanker truck chase, as Sanchez gives Perez a Stinger Missile to shoot at Bond. Bond, while in a tanker truck, drives over a huge mound, raising up one side of the truck, while Perez fires the missile. The missile narrowly misses as Bond drives the truck onto Perez's jeep. As he and several other henchmen fire at Bond, he is then covered with dust by Pam Bouvier in her airplane. As Bond drives away, Braun drives up behind in a pickup truck
Pickup truck
A pickup truck is a light motor vehicle with an open-top rear cargo area .-Definition:...
and picks up Perez. They pursue Bond even through flames that ignite their tires. As Bond is on the back of Sanchez's last tanker truck, Perez shoots at Bond. Getting revenge on the murder of Felix's wife, he turns a valve on the truck, letting some of the gas onto the road. The flames on their tires ignite the gas and turn the truck into a fireball. Unable to control the vehicle, Braun drives off a cliff, nearly hitting Bouvier in her airplane, while he and Perez fall to their deaths.
Braun
Braun is a supporting villain who appeared in the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
. He is a henchmen of drug lord
Drug lord
A drug lord, drug baron or kingpin is the term used to describe a person who controls a sizable network of persons involved in the illegal drugs trade. Such figures are often difficult to bring to justice, as they might never be directly in possession of something illegal, but are insulated from...
Franz Sanchez
Franz Sanchez
Franz Sanchez is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Licence to Kill. He was played by Robert Davi. The character is based on Pablo Escobar...
and played by Guy de Saint Cyr.
Braun is mostly silent for the whole movie. His distinguishing feature is the scar going down the side of his face and carries a Heckler and Koch P9S as a weapon. Braun, along with Dario and Perez, murder the man with whom Lupe is having relations with in the pre-title sequence. He then escapes while Sanchez is captured. The three ambush Felix Leiter and his new wife Della in their home. Braun quiets Della down as the three rape and murder her and bring Felix to Sanchez. When Bond goes after Sanchez personally, Braun is seen in most sequences around Sanchez and his friend Perez. Later, when Bond and CIA contract pilot Pam Bouvier place nearly five million dollars in cash in the Wavekrests decompression chamber, Braun and Perez are the first to find the money and Braun shows it to Sanchez personally, then shuts the chamber door closed after Sanchez throws Milton Krest into it and kills him. After Bond sets Sanchez's cocaine factory on fire, Braun accompanies Sanchez to check on Heller and the Stinger Missiles. After they kill him, Braun is seen starting a pickup truck and heading after the tanker truck chase. He picks up Perez, who was stranded in the middle of the chase, and they start after Bond. They go to great lengths to kill him, even driving their truck through flames, causing the tires to start on fire. As they catch up with Bond on the last tanker truck, Perez tries to shoot Bond. Getting revenge for the murder of Felix's wife, Bond turns a valve, causing the gas to flood out onto the road. The flaming tires ignite the gas, turning the pickup into a fireball. Unable to control the vehicle, Braun drives off a cliff, nearly hitting Bouvier in her airplane, while he and Perez fall to their deaths.
Ed Killifer
Ed Killifer was a rogue DEADrug Enforcement Administration
The Drug Enforcement Administration is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and use within the United States...
official in the film Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
, played by 6 ft 5 inch actor Everett McGill
Everett McGill
Everett McGill is an American actor, best known for mostly playing villains in films like Licence to Kill, Silver Bullet, Dune, Yanks and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory.-Life and career:...
.
Killifer was in charge of watching over Franz Sanchez
Franz Sanchez
Franz Sanchez is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Licence to Kill. He was played by Robert Davi. The character is based on Pablo Escobar...
while the drug
Drug
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kingpin was being transported from the Bahamas to Quantico
Quantico, Virginia
- Demographics :As of the census of 2000, there are 561 people, 295 households, and 107 families living in the town. The population density is . There are 359 housing units at an average density of .-Racial composition:...
. Killifer turned traitor, helping Sanchez escape from the authorities in exchange for US$2 million in cash
Cash
In common language cash refers to money in the physical form of currency, such as banknotes and coins.In bookkeeping and finance, cash refers to current assets comprising currency or currency equivalents that can be accessed immediately or near-immediately...
. As a result, the greedy Killifer was indirectly responsible for the maiming of his "friend" Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter is a fictional CIA agent created by Ian Fleming in the James Bond series of novels and films. In both, Leiter works for the CIA and assists Bond in his various adventures as well as being his best friend. In further novels Leiter joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency and in the film...
, and the death of Della Leiter. Sanchez's underlings did not trust Killifer, but Sanchez defended Killifer by explaining that "a deal is a deal" and saying he was not returning to his native country until he delivered Ed Killifer his promised cash; he explains that trust is more important to him than money.
Killifer later cornered James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
at Milton Krest's marine biology
Marine biology
Marine biology is the scientific study of organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather...
facility, holding him at gunpoint and planning to feed him to the very same shark
Shark
Sharks are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago....
that had mauled Leiter.
Fortunately for Bond, his ally Sharkey arrived at a crucial moment, allowing 007 to gain the upper hand. After a brief tussle, Killifer ended up dangling over the pool where the shark was kept. He attempted to bargain for his life with Bond, offering him half of the two million dollar bribe money he had obtained from Sanchez. Bond then showed him the same mercy Felix Leiter had received, and made the comment that Killifer can "keep all of it", throwing the case at Ed Killifer and sending him tumbling into the shark pool, where he is promptly devoured.
Milton Krest
Milton Krest is a supporting villain from the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
short story "The Hildebrand Rarity", part of the For Your Eyes Only collection. The character was later adapted as a henchman in the 1989 Bond film, Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
, with his wife-beating tendencies (with a stingray
Stingray
The stingrays are a group of rays, which are cartilaginous fishes related to sharks. They are classified in the suborder Myliobatoidei of the order Myliobatiformes, and consist of eight families: Hexatrygonidae , Plesiobatidae , Urolophidae , Urotrygonidae , Dasyatidae , Potamotrygonidae The...
-tail whip) transferred to the film's main villain. He was portrayed by Anthony Zerbe
Anthony Zerbe
Anthony Jared Zerbe is an American stage, film and Emmy-winning television actor. Notable film roles include the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in The Omega Man, a 1971 film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, I Am Legend; Milton Krest in the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill;...
.
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The owner of a marine research foundation, Milton Krest is a business partner and collaborator with Franz SanchezFranz Sanchez
Franz Sanchez is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Licence to Kill. He was played by Robert Davi. The character is based on Pablo Escobar...
. He uses a laboratory of supposedly genetically engineered maggots to conceal drugs, and his submarine remote probe, Sentinel, is used to pass the drug shipments on to seaplanes at a distance from the coast and his boat, the Wavekrest. He drunkenly attempts to seduce his boss' mistress, Lupe Lamora, despite the brutal murder of her previous lover, Alvarez, in the pre-title sequence (it is strongly implied [and confirmed] that the man's heart is removed from his chest by Dario as a "little valentine", though this happens off-screen). Krest's behaviour backfires when Lupe pretends she didn't see Bond on board as he was sabotaging the latest drugs deal by destroying the narcotics in the Sentinel and escaping with US$5 million in cash. This leaves Krest looking guilty in Sanchez's eyes.
Bond infiltrates Sanchez's inner circle and convinces the drug baron that Krest is trying to have him killed, using a hit man who is expecting to be paid in cash that evening. Bond then sneaks aboard the Wavekrest and stashes the remaining cash from the drug deal back aboard the boat, in time for Sanchez to find it and presume that this is the hit man's payoff. Sanchez kills Krest by forcing him into the Wavekrests decompression chamber containing the money, increasing the pressure inside the chamber and then tearing the air tube open with an axe, causing rapid depressurisation — Krest's head inflates like a balloon and then explodes in a bloody mess. After Krest's death, Sanchez orders Heller, Perez, and Braun to clean up the bloody money inside. This scene is regarded as one of the most violent in any Bond film and subject to remark that it was a similarly disgusting scene akin to the death of Kananga in Live and Let Die
Live and Let Die (film)
Live and Let Die is the eighth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman...
. It was censored upon release in UK and North American cinemas; the Ultimate DVD Collection released in 2006 is the first time the full death sequence has been available for purchase. Krest is the first of many henchmen to be killed by his boss due to Bond's machinations, rather than directly by Bond himself.
Colonel Heller
Colonel Heller is a fictional characterFictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
from the James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
, he was played by Don Stroud
Don Stroud
Donald Lee Stroud is an American actor and surfer who appeared in many films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and has starred in over 100 films and 175 television shows to date.-Early life:...
Heller is Franz Sanchez's head of security, a disgraced ex-Green Beret from the US. When Sanchez takes Bond into his circle of allies, Heller researches Bond's past employment in the Secret Service and presents it to Sanchez, but since Bond's cover story has already included mention of this, his true allegiance is not revealed. Heller is also suspicious of the Hong Kong Narcotics agents who have infiltrated the meeting of drug barons, and oversees the military operation to destroy their base in Isthmus. While leading the raid, he busts into the devastated safehouse and shoots agent Loti dead. He then discovers that the other agent, Kwang, is still alive from the explosions of a tank shell fired at the base. However, rather than give into Sanchez's rage, Kwang bites into a cyanide capsule, killing himself.
Heller's other main responsibility is to look after four Stinger missiles recently purchased from the Contras
Contras
The contras is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing Nicaragua's FSLN Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government following the July 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle's dictatorship...
for the purpose of blackmailing the US government. However, he has secretly arranged a deal with Pam Bouvier to return the Stingers in exchange for personal immunity from the DEA
Drug Enforcement Administration
The Drug Enforcement Administration is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and use within the United States...
. Heller almost calls off the deal when Sanchez is nearly killed (by Bond), but later attempts to use the mayhem of the fire at the drugs distribution centre as an opportunity to remove the missiles to safety.
Bond's machinations involve casting doubt on the loyalty of all of Sanchez's trusted circle, and he uses what he knows of the Stingers to make Sanchez suspicious. Heller is thus caught in the act by Sanchez himself, who promptly has him killed (off-screen). Bond and Pam find the soldier's body impaled on a forklift truck
Forklift truck
A forklift is a powered industrial truck used to lift and transport materials. The modern forklift was developed in the 1920s by various companies including the transmission manufacturing company Clark and the hoist company Yale & Towne Manufacturing...
as they attempt to escape the burning complex. "Looks like he came to a dead end," quips Bond.
Truman-Lodge
Truman-Lodge is a fictional characterFictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
from the James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
, he was played by Anthony Starke
Anthony Starke
Anthony Starke is an American actor. Starke is well known for his one episode role in Seinfeld, playing the 3rd person-speaking character Jimmy in "The Jimmy", as well as playing Jack on The George Carlin Show, on Fox.-Biography:...
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Truman-Lodge is Franz Sanchez's financial advisor, a fugitive from the United States following insider dealing on Wall Street
Wall Street
Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or...
. A wizard with digits in all senses, he displays considerable skill at prestidigitation while recalculating the drug lord's vast ill-gotten income. He is always at his employer's side and becomes increasingly more alarmed at Sanchez's recklessness, despairing at the expensive destruction of the cocaine distribution centre at the end of the film. When he sarcastically congratulates Sanchez on "another eighty million dollar write-off" the drug lord – made suspicious by Bond's machinations – decides to start "cutting overhead
Overhead (business)
In business, overhead or overhead expense refers to an ongoing expense of operating a business...
" and shoots him with a Micro Uzi, being sure to remove the briefcase containing the $500 million bearer bonds from Truman-Lodge's dead hands before leaving his body at the side of the road.
Professor Joe Butcher
Professor Joe Butcher is a fictional characterFictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
from the James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
, he was played by Wayne Newton
Wayne Newton
Wayne Newton is an American singer and entertainer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He performed over 30,000 solo shows in Las Vegas over a period of over 40 years, earning him the nicknames The Midnight Idol, Mr. Las Vegas and Mr. Entertainment...
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Professor Joe Butcher is a televangelist based in Isthmus, who has a television fundraising
Fundraising
Fundraising or fund raising is the process of soliciting and gathering voluntary contributions as money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies...
programme that acts as a cover for informing Sanchez's main drugs distributors across the United States of the latest trade prices, and receiving their orders. His remote meditation sanctuary is actually the main processing distribution centre for Sanchez's drug operations.
Butcher's questionable 'Cone Power' mysticism (which may have been inspired in real-life by several pseudoscientific "Pyramid Power"
Pyramidology
Pyramidology is a term used, sometimes disparagingly, to refer to various pseudoscientific speculations regarding pyramids, most often the Giza Necropolis and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt...
theories that have been formulated by New Age groups) and catchphrase, "Bless your heart!", provides some light relief on several occasions. He never meets Bond during the film but is got the better of by Pam Bouvier, when he tries to force himself upon her when she is posing as an awestruck convert to his ministry. He is last seen fleeing the burning complex as Bouvier and Bond escape to pursue Sanchez and his convoy of cocaine-filled trucks. He was inspired as a parody of two contemporary controversial televangelists, Jerry Falwell
Jerry Falwell
Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. was an evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative commentator from the United States. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia...
and Jim Bakker
Jim Bakker
James Orsen "Jim" Bakker is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, and a former host of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry...
.
Hector Lopez
President Hector Lopez is a fictional characterFictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
from the James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
who was played by Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. is a Mexican actor.- Life and career :Armendáriz Jr. was born in Mexico City, the son of actors Carmelita and Pedro Armendáriz. He has been married to actress Ofelia Medina....
, whose late father Pedro Armendáriz
Pedro Armendáriz
Pedro Armendáriz was a Mexican actor of the cinema of Mexico and Hollywood.-Early life:Born Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico to Pedro Armendáriz García-Conde and Adela Hastings . He was also the cousin of actress Gloria Marín...
had played Kerim Bey in the second Bond film, From Russia With Love
From Russia with Love (film)
From Russia with Love is the second in the James Bond spy film series, and the second to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Released in 1963, the film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1957 novel of the...
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Hector Lopez is corrupt El Presidente of Isthmus. He receives monthly payments from Sanchez for harbouring him, but is clearly not happy at the arrangement, as Sanchez essentially controls the country and threatens him: "Remember – you are only President for life." Lopez is one of the few characters to survive making deals with a Bond villain, and is even at the end of the film in Bond's company, presumably much reformed and pledged to clean up corruption in his country now that he is free of Sanchez. He is left possibly even dating Lupe Lamora, as Bond suggests when he rejects her advances himself in favour of Pam Bouvier.
Clive
Clive is a fictional characterFictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
from the James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
who was played by Eddie Edenfield.
Clive is one of a contingent of divers serving Franz Sanchez
Franz Sanchez
Franz Sanchez is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Licence to Kill. He was played by Robert Davi. The character is based on Pablo Escobar...
. He is the only diver given a name. While Sharkey is giving Bond a lift on his boat, Clive coldly kills him, filling Bond with a desire for revenge. Clive later meets Bond aboard the WaveKrest, at which point Bond avenges Sharkey's wrongful death by shooting him with a harpoon
Harpoon
A harpoon is a long spear-like instrument used in fishing to catch fish or large marine mammals such as whales. It accomplishes this task by impaling the target animal, allowing the fishermen to use a rope or chain attached to the butt of the projectile to catch the animal...
gun. Bond delivers one of his trademark one-liners to Clive: "Compliments of Sharkey."