After murdering a chef, he engages in a brutal fight with an agent in the kitchen and after knocking him unconscious, lobs grenades disguised as milk bottles at two guards, knocking them out, and lobs a second at another agent on the stairs, killing him. Shortly afterwards the KGB, in person of the assassin Necros, raids the safe-house where British Intelligence hide Koskov. This story is credible given the recent murder of Bond's partner in the Gibraltar training exercise. According to Koskov, Pushkin has revived the old policy of Smert Shpionam - literally, Death to Spies ( SMERSH), a programme of Western spy assassinations - and as such Pushkin needs to be eliminated. In England, General Koskov informs MI6 that the KGB is being run by power-hungry General Pushkin. Saunders berates him although Bond says he will accept to be sacked by M. Suspecting she is not actually an assassin, he shoots the rifle out of her hands, sparing her life, whilst facilitating Koskov's escape from the hall. He notices that the sniper protecting Koskov is a beautiful cellist from the orchestra, Kara Milovy. Bond's part is to cover Koskov's intermission escape from a concert hall in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. The early part of the film has much of the original short story's plot: Bond assists Saunders, head of Section V, in the defection to the West of a devious KGB General Georgi Koskov. Bond escapes with his reserve parachute and lands on a yacht interrupting a lady while the assassin is killed when the Land Rover explodes in mid-air.

Bond witnesses the incident and gives chase to the assassin, ending in an explosives-laden Land Rover careening down Gibraltar's narrow roads and then into the air.

As they ascend, an assassin sends a tag reading Smert Shpionam down 004's climbing rope before cutting it, sending the spy to his death. 002 is captured almost immediately upon landing by the SAS, while 007 and 004 start scaling the cliffs. In the prologue, three skydiving 00 Agents are tasked with penetrating radar installations atop the Rock of Gibraltar as part of a Ministry of Defence training exercise. Plot summary Pre-title sequence: Gibraltar

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