The World Is Not Enough (1999)

Judi Dench: M

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• James Bond : Construction isn't exactly my speciality.

  M : Quite the opposite, in fact.

• [Elektra escorts Renard to a cell in Maiden's Tower where M is being held captive] 

  Elektra King : [to Renard as she announces that she has captured M for him]  Your present, courtesy of the late Mr. Bond.

  Renard : My executioner.

  M : Overpraise, I'm afraid. But my people will finish the job.

  Elektra King : Your people? Your people will leave you here to rot. Just like you left me- you and my father.

  M : [Getting up from a bench in the cell and walking towards the cell bars]  Your father wasn't...

  Elektra King : [Interrupting M]  MY FATHER WAS NOTHING! His kingdom he stole from my mother, the kingdom I will rightly take back.

  [Elektra walks towards the cell door and leaves. Renard closes the door behind her and walks towards M] 

  M : I hope you're proud of what you did to her.

  Renard : I'm afraid it is you who deserve credit. When I took her, she was promise itself. And then you left her at the mercy of a man like me. You ruined her. For what? To get to me? She's worth fifty of me.

  M : For once, I agree with you.

  Renard : Yes. And now we also share a common fate. You will die along with everyone in the city.

  [Renard turns his back and walks towards a table with junk surrounding it] 

  Renard : Along with the bright, starry, oil driven future of the West.

  [Renard reaches for an alarm clock and holds it in his hands] 

  Renard : Since you sent your men to kill me, I've been watching time tick slowly away, marching towards my own death. Now you can have the same pleasure.

  [Renard picks up a stool and totes them towards M's cell. He lays the alarm clock on top of the stool points at it] 

  Renard : Watch these hands, M. By noon tomorrow, your time is up. And I guarantee you, I will not miss.

• M : She doesn't need to know that it's the same man that may be after her. Don't frighten her.

  Bond : A shadow operation?

  M : Remember, shadows stay in front or behind - never on top.

• [after M arrived at the pipleine control centre, Bond and M go into a nearby room] 

  M : I want an update. Where do we stand?

  James Bond : [giving M the locator card]  One of Renard's men removed a locator card from the bomb, so we can't track it. But...

  M : [cutting Bond off]  But what?

  James Bond : With all due respect, I don't think you should be here.

  M : May I remind you that YOU'RE the reason I'm here, Double-Oh-Seven. You disobeyed a direct order and left that girl alone.

  James Bond : Perhaps that girl isn't as innocent as you think.

  M : What are you saying?

  James Bond : Supposed the inside man, the one who switched King's lapel pin, turned out to be an inside woman.

  [M pauses for a moment] 

  M : She kills her father and attacks her own pipeline? Why? To what end?

  James Bond : I don't know. Yet.

• M : This will not stand. We will not be terrorized by cowards who will murder an innocent man and use us as the tool.

• M : I thought we had time on our side.

  James Bond : You used the girl as bait.

  M : Yes.

• M : [Reading Bond's medical report]  I see the good doctor has cleared you. Notes you have exceptional stamina.

  Ms. Moneypenny : I'm sure she was touched by his dedication

  [walks toward Dr. Molly Warrmflash] 

  Ms. Moneypenny : to the job in hand.

• M : If there's even the slightest chance, Bond will survive. He's the best we have... though I'd never tell him.

• M : What's the time?

  Elektra King : Time for you to die.