The Living Daylights (1987)

Thomas Wheatley: Saunders

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• James Bond : Cheer up, Saunders. The operation's a success. And officially, its still yours.

  Saunders : I have no intention of leaving it at that, 007! I'm reporting to M that you deliberately missed. Your orders were to kill that sniper!

  James Bond : *Stuff* my orders! I only kill professionals. That girl didn't know one end of her rifle from the other. Go ahead. Tell M what you want. If he fires me, I'll thank him for it. Whoever she was, it must have scared the living daylights out of her.

• James Bond : Lovely girl with the cello.

  Saunders : Forget the ladies for once, Bond.

• [Bond and Saunders meet for the first time] 

  Saunders : Saunders. Head of Section "V" Vienna. You're *bloody* late. This is a mission, not a fancy dress ball.

  James Bond : We have time.

• [Bond and Saunders are discussing the change of plans on Koskov's defection] 

  General Georgi Koskov : James. James Bond!

  James Bond : [hugging Koskov]  Later, General!

  James Bond : [to Saunders]  Lose them. I'll pick you up at the border, twenty-three hundred hours. Be there.

  Saunders : Where are you taking him? How will you get him out?

  James Bond : Sorry, old man, section 26, paragraph 5. Need-to-know. Sure you understand.

• James Bond : I'm posing as Koskov's friend to see what leads I can get from her. You know he bought her a cello in New York, called "The Lady Rose".

  Saunders : A cello with a name?

  James Bond : It's a Stradivarius.

  James Bond : [when Saunders looks none the wiser]  They *all* have names. Now where would Koskov get that kind of money? Check it out.

• Saunders : Very well. I've got nothing to lose but my pension. Meet me at the Prater Cafe near the Ferris Wheel at midnight.

• Saunders : It was bought recently, at auction in New York. Lot 1-2-4, the "Lady Rose" a cello by Stradivarius of Cremona. 1724. Sold for $150,000 - to Brad Whitaker.

  James Bond : Whitaker? The arms dealer?

  Saunders : The same.