The perfect way out

ichaiceichaice LondonPosts: 593MI6 Agent
In Skyfall Mallory says to Bond:

"I only have one question. Why not - stay dead? You have the perfect way out. Go and live, quietly somewhere. Not many field agents get to leave this cleanly".

Imagine if a then 44 year old Bond decided to take this advice. Where do you think he would have ended up? Somewhere hot doing private security work maybe? Living a playboy lifestyle perhaps?
Yes. Considerably!

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  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    Royale les eaux, I'd like to think, taking a residency at the best hotel, playing poker and living well off his winnings. And at the weekends he'd be found applying kurust to his db5.
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    Drink himself to death?
    a reasonable rate of return
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,709MI6 Agent
    edited September 2017
    Maybe becoming a part-time instructor training 00-agents and/or SBS soldiers. When he wasn't working he would live in the Bahamas diving or in Southeren France skiing in the Alps or gambling in places like Monte Carlo. An apartment in London, a house in the Bahamas and a hotel room on the French riviera. I doubt Bond would become a full time playboy, he would keep some connection to the navy or MI6.

    This is if he retires. If he says "dead" that wouldn't work. Perhaps Italy instead of France, some island in the Pasific instead of Bahamas? I doubt he would stay idle for long. Skiing and diving instructor? Finding and rescuing kidnap victims as some ex-SF people do? Chief of security at some casino?
  • walther p99walther p99 NJPosts: 3,416MI6 Agent
    I wonder if MI6 and London weren't attacked how long Bond would continue "enjoying death" for?
  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    I wonder if MI6 and London weren't attacked how long Bond would continue "enjoying death" for?
    For as long as his liver could take it.
    AKA, Fleming-style.
    a reasonable rate of return
  • superadosuperado Regent's Park West (CaliforniaPosts: 2,651MI6 Agent
    If only there was some cache of money, precious metals or paper securities that would somehow be "cleansed" of any immoral trail to Bond (i.e., he didn't steal it) that was left to him by someone, heck, even winning a lottery jackpot in the hundreds of millions, or duh, parlaying his pot through a series of card games, that would be so cool.
    "...the purposeful slant of his striding figure looked dangerous, as if he was making quickly for something bad that was happening further down the street." -SMERSH on 007 dossier photo, Ch. 6 FRWL.....
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