John Glen · 1987 · thriller

John Glen's 1987 film, Timothy Dalton's first. Covering a KGB defector's escape across the Iron Curtain, Bond uncovers a double game - from Vienna and Tangier to the Afghan war - tangled in an arms-and-opium scheme, and helps the mujahideen against a rogue Soviet general.

1. 1
   Gibraltar

   A training exercise turns deadly when an assassin kills agent 004.

2. 2
   Bratislava

   Bond covers General Koskov's defection and deliberately spares the sniper Kara.

3. 3
   London

   Koskov is debriefed in Britain, then snatched back, and Bond is sent after Pushkin.

4. 4
   Bratislava

   Bond returns for Kara and learns the whole defection was staged.

5. 5
   Vienna

   Fleeing across the border with Kara, Bond loses his ally Saunders at the Prater.

6. 6
   Tangier

   Bond confronts General Pushkin and fakes his assassination.

7. 7
   Afghanistan

   Drugged and flown to a Soviet airbase, Bond joins the Mujahideen against an arms-and-opium plot.

8. 8
   Tangier

   Bond returns to corner the arms dealer Whitaker in his villa.

9. 9
   Vienna

   The mission won, Bond watches Kara perform at last in concert.