StoryThe film opens with a middle-aged, yet still athletic James Bond making his way through an armed camp in the midst of a Central American jungle. His mission is to rescue a girl who has been kidnapped. After infiltrating a house and killing the kidnappers, Bond lets his guard down, forgetting that the girl might have been subject to the Stockholm syndrome (in which a kidnapped person comes to identify with his/her kidnappers) and is stabbed to death by her. Or so it seems.
In fact, the attack on the camp is nothing more than a field training exercise using blank ammunition and fake knives, yet one Bond fails because he ends up "dead" (a previous "fake" mission saw his legs get blown off by a land mine). A new M is now in office, one who sees little use for the double-0 section. In fact, Bond has spent most of his recent time teaching, rather than doing, a fact he points out with some resentment.
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Feeling that Bond is slipping, M orders him to enroll in a health clinic in London in order to "eliminate all those free radicals" and get back into shape. While there, Bond succeeds in charming the uniform off Miss Fearing, a flirtatious staff nurse. The seduction concluded and all passion having been spent, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse (Fatima Blush) beating her patient in a room across the way. He is wrapped in bandages; and after Fatima is through with him, Bond sees him using a strange machine which scans his eye. Bond's suspicions are aroused further when he is evidently recognized and an attempt is made to kill Bond in the gym; however, the conflict ends in the assassin's death after an intense fight that ranges through the clinic's kitchen and ends in the laboratory.
Blush and her charge, an American Air Force pilot named Jack Petachi, are in fact operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organization run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Petachi has undergone an operation on his right eye which matches the retinal pattern of the American President. Using his position as a pilot and the president's eye pattern to circumvent security, Petachi infiltrates an American military base in England and orders the dummy warheads in two ALCM cruise missiles replaced with two live W80 nuclear warheads,[2] which SPECTRE captures and uses to extort billions of dollars from the governments of the world. Blush then murders Jack by blowing up his car.
M reluctantly reactivates the double-0 section, and Bond is assigned the task of tracking down the missing weapons, beginning with a rendezvous with Domino Petachi, the pilot's sister, who is kept a virtual prisoner by her lover, Maximillian Largo. Bond pursues Largo and his yacht to the Bahamas, where he engages Domino, Fatima Blush, and Largo in a game of wits and resources as he attempts to derail SPECTRE's scheme.
Bond and Felix Leiter prepare to enter the underground river using scuba gearAfter arriving in Nice, France, Bond and his American counterpart from the CIA, Felix Leiter, attempt to board Largo's motor yacht the Flying Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. Bond becomes trapped on the boat and is taken, with Domino, to Palmyra, Largo's base of operations. Largo punishes Domino for betraying him by auctioning her off as a slave to some unsavory Arabs. After her rescue, Domino and Bond track Largo to a location known as The Tears of Allah, located below a desert oasis. After Bond and Leiter infiltrate the underground facility, a gun battle erupts and Largo makes an underwater getaway with one of the nuclear warheads. Before it can be detonated, Largo is killed by Domino, taking revenge for her brother's death.
Bond returns to the Bahamas, presumably retired; but is interrupted by Nigel Small-Fawcett from the British Consulate, pleading for Bond to return and safeguard the civilized world. Bond replies, "Never again." Domino comes up to him and asks somewhat skeptically, "Never?" Bond smiles and the two engage in a kiss, after which Bond looks into the camera and winks, implying that he will return as the credits begin.
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