James Bond (Sean Connery)’s Timeline and Summary
- Bond is hunted by Grant, an assassin, and killed.
- Just kidding. The dead man was a decoy disguised as Bond. Bond is actually canoodling with Sylvia Trench by the river.
- Their tryst is interrupted when Bond is called to a mission involving work with a beautiful Russian agent and steal their decoder machine.
- In Istanbul, Bond has a rendezvous with Kerim Bey, head of intelligence.
- Grant blackmails the British by leaving a dead Russian agent at the embassy.
- The Russians retaliate with a bomb, forcing Bey to hide Bond in a Romani camp.
- During a shoot-out at the camp, Grant saves Bond without 007 realizing it.
- After the threat is neutralized, Bond returns to Istanbul, where Tania, the beautiful Russian, is waiting for him.
- Their whirlwind romance begins. Bond flees Istanbul on a train with the decoding machine and the girl.
- On the train, Bey is killed by Grant, who then assumes the false identity of a British agent to assist Bond.
- Grant attempts to steal the Lektor machine, but Bond kills him in a brutal fight.
- Bond and Tania escape to Venice, where Klebb, the Russian who recruited Tania, tries to steal the machine.
- Tania shoots Klebb and kills her.
- Tania and Bond have a romantic gondola ride and live happily ever after…or until the next movie.