Sunday, 15 February 2015

Bond girl: Paula Caplan

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Bond girlPaula Caplan
007 FilmThunderball (1965)
ActressMartine Beswick

Bond connection: When Bond journeys to Nassau to make progress on the operation Thunderball, he is partnered with local Bahamian MI6 contact Paula Caplan. Together they pose as a couple to first make contact with Domino Derval, the sister of François unaware of his recent death. Watching Bond flirt with Domino in the sea, Caplan plays him at his own game, flirting with him when he rejoins her on their boat.


Pretending that their motor has broke, Caplan offers to wait for the service boat while Bond gets a lift back to shore from Domino in her boat as he has an important meeting to attend. Bond and Caplan part ways while still undercover.

After several days working in the MI6 bunker with Bond, Felix Leiter and fellow contact Pinder, Caplan plans to rendezvous at Bond’s hotel with the pictures taken from Emilio Largo’s boat.

Waiting for Bond with the photographs and seemingly dressed for a dinner date, Caplan is surprised when Fiona Volpe arrives instead claiming to have a date that evening with Bond too. When a knock is heard in the connecting room, Caplan goes to open the door, expecting Bond, only to be shocked when henchmen working for Largo and Volpe barge in and hold her to the bed. Caplan tries to break free from the men but has no luck and is subsequently kidnapped by them and taken to Largo’s estate.

After Bond breaks into Largo’s estate, he finds Caplan dead; committing suicide so that she doesn't end up being tortured for information, plus leaking information.

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