Licence To Kill

Timothy Dalton - James Bond
Carey Lowell - Pam Bouvier
Robert Davi - Franz Sanchez
Talisa Soto - Lupe Lamora
Anthony Zerbe - Milton Krest
Frank McRae - Sharkey
Everett McGil - Ed Killifer
Wayne Newton - Professor Joe Butcher
Benicio Del Toro - Dario
Desmond Llewelyn - Q
David Hedison - Felix Leiter
Robert Brown - M
Caroline Bliss - Miss Moneypenny

A South American drug czar, Sanchez, is arrested by the Drug Enforcement Agency's Felix Leiter with the help of James Bond (Timothy Dalton). Sanchez escapes custody by bribing a DEA official, Killifer, with $2 million, and returns to kill Leiter's new bride and throw Leiter to the sharks. Bond kills Killifer, but is chastised by M for taking it all personally. Bond attempts to resign from the SIS, but M refuses to accept his resignation and withdraws Bond's licence to kill. Bond escapes, and manages to disrupt Sanchez's drug-smuggling operation after discovering that Sanchez is smuggling drugs into America through the marine company run by Milton Krest.

Bond teams up with a CIA contract pilot, Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell), whose name he discovered in Felix Leiter's files - and together they travel to Sanchez's dominion in Isthmus City, the capital city of a South American country not a million miles away from Mexico. Bond establishes himself as a rich assassin looking for a job, and makes contact with Sanchez. Discovering that Sanchez hides himself away behind two inches of armoured glass, Bond arranges plastic explosive around the rim of the window of Sanchez's office and attempts to kill the drug czar by detonating the explosive to shatter the window and firing at him from across the street. The attempt fails and the SIS operative in Isthmus City, who says that Bond has come close to disrupting a joint SIS and Hong Kong Narcotics Bureau operation, takes Bond captive. In fact, Bond has disrupted it, because Sanchez's forces suddenly attack the SIS safe house and rescue Bond.

Taken into Sanchez's confidence, Bond discovers that Sanchez has obtained four surface-to-air missiles from the Contra rebels and is threatening to shoot down an American airliner if the DEA keep pursuing him. Bond travels with Sanchez to his drug-refining plant -cunningly hidden in a religious retreat, which also provides the TV evangelist programming, which secretly auctions off the drugs – but Bond is identified by one of Sanchez's henchmen. Bond manages to set fire to the plant, destroying it, but Sanchez escapes with twenty tons of cocaine, $500 million and the four Stinger missiles. Bond gives chase and systematically destroys each of the oil tankers carrying Sanchez's drugs. Sanchez and Bond end up in hand-to-hand combat. Sanchez loses.