Safecracker
A gadget that Bond has found useful on several occasions. Types have included an electronic one that picks up the sound of the combination lock (YOLT); a fully automated device that also doubles as a photocopier (OHMSS); and an x-ray machine disguised as a cigarette case (MR).

Saida
(Carmen Sautoy)
A Beirut belly dancer whose company Bill Fairbanks was enjoying when he was killed by Scaramanga. The bullet went through his neck and embedeed itself in the wall, from where it was picked up by Saida before the police arrived. She used it as her lucky charm. (TMWTGG)

Saint Ana
Cathedral at Kirsch which houses the de Bleauchamp tombs; Bond's mistake in placing the tombs alerts Blofeld that 'Sir Hilary Bray' might not be who he claims - despite the fact that it was Bray who told Bond about the tombs in the first place! (OHMSS)

Saint Bernard
Breed of large dog used for mountain rescues. Bond is disappointed that the one he encounters isn't carrying any brandy, five-star Hennessy or otherwise. (OHMSS)

Saki
Japanese drink that Bond likes, especially when served at the correct temperature of 98.4 degrees F. (YOLT)

Salade Utopia (?)
One of the courses in the meal Wint and Kidd bring to Bond and Tiffany in their liner suite. (DAF)

Sales Girl
(Kubi Chaza)
The sales assistant at the Oh Cult Voodoo Store when Bond pays a visit, and also one of Kananga's lookouts. (LALD)

Saloon
Part of Scaramanga's lethal funhouse, with an animatronic gunslinger - who wields a working six-shooter! (TMWTGG)

Samedi, Baron (or is he?)
(Geoffrey Holder)
An entertainer at Bond's hotel on San Monique, and also one of Kananga's henchmen, prone to laughing insanely. In voodoo lore, Baron Samedi is the chief of the Legion of the Dead, and cannot be killed - Bond's adversary seems to have the same ability, as even being thrown into a coffin full of venomous snakes doesn't seem to finish him off! (LALD)

San Andreas Fault
A major geological fault that runs down most of California, connected to the Heywood Fault beneath the Main Strike mine. By detonating huge quantities of explosives and flooding the mine, Zorin plans to cause both fault lines to shift simultaneously, causing a massive earthquake that will flood Silicon Valley. (AVTAK)

San Andreas Lake
A body of water close to the Main Strike mine, with which Zorin plans to flood the fault line beneath it and cause a huge earthquake. The first stage of Zorin's plan ends up with the lake completely drained, to the bemusement of a local fisherman. (AVTAK)

Sanchez, Franz
(Robert Davi)
A Latin American drug lord, apparently a Columbian, who at the time of his arrest by the DEA (following Bond's mid-air capture of his plane) is facing 139 felony counts in the US, which would earn him 936 years in prison. To counter this, Sanchez has a standing offer of $2 million to anyone who helps free him from captivity - an offer that is hard to refuse. He hasn't left South America for years, and has bribed (or killed) any government officials who might try to extradite him, and it is only the fact that he discovers Lupe Lamora has a lover in the Bahamas that prompts him to move beyond safe territory.
Sanchez owns a bank and a casino in his home base of Isthmus City - in fact, it's safe to say he effectively owns the government there, thanks to his policy of 'plomo o plata' ('lead or silver'). Even the local president is in fear of him. He has ambitions to extend his empire around the world by joining up with drug lords from China, using a new process which allows cocaine to be dissolved in petrol, then later recovered once it is in the target country.
Although Sanchez can be charming in a reptilian kind of way (appropriately enough, his Blofeld-style pet is an iguana), he has no compunctions about murder or excessive force to get what he wants. When he believes that Kwang is working against him, he orders an assult on his hideout with a tank, but his greatest fury is reserved for those he suspects of betraying him - Krest is exploded in a decompression chamber, Heller is impaled by a forklift, Truman-Lodge is riddled with bullets merely for being sarcastic and Bond himself is scheduled to be dropped into a granulator. Unlike some of Bond's enemies, Sanchez is more than willing to get involved in physical action, firing a Stinger missile at Pam Bouvier's plane and clambering onto the back of one of his speeding tankers in an attempt to hack Bond to pieces with a machete. Because he instead chops the truck's brake cables, it goes out of control and rolls over an embankment, Sanchez and Bond still aboard. When it comes to rest, a petrol-soaked Sanchez is about to kill Bond, until Bond asks if Sanchez wants to know why he's engaged in a vendetta against him. Sanchez pauses for a moment to find out - long enough for Bond to use the lighter given to him by Felix and Della Leiter to set the drug lord ablaze, the flames causing the crashed tanker to explode as Bond runs clear. (LTK)

Sandor
(Milton Reid)
One of Stromberg's henchmen, to whom the villain assigns the task of recovering the stolen tracking system plans. He kills Max Kalba's girlfriend Felicca and then tries to do the same to Bond, but ends up precariously balanced on the edge of a rooftop with only Bond's tie to hold him up. He gives up the information Bond wants - and 007 throws him off the edge to his death anyway.
NB: Stromberg actually pronounces his name 'Shandor'. (TSWLM)

San Martin
A small Italian town near the villa of Hector Gonzales. (FYEO)

San Moniquan Hotel
Where Bond stayed on his visit to the island that gave it its name, staying in Bunglalow 12. It can be contacted either through PO Box 29, or telephoned on 27305. (LALD)

San Monique
A small sovereign island in the West Indies, whose Prime Minister is Dr Kananga. The island is steeped in voodoo superstition, which Kananga uses to cover the fact that he is growing huge numbers of poppies to turn into heroin. (LALD)

San Monique Embassy
Kanaga's apparent headquarters when he is in New York to visit the United Nations. In fact, he spends little time there, knowing that it is bugged by the CIA. There is a secret exit hidden behind a wardrobe that leads to a shop on East 65th Street, on the other side of the block. (LALD)

San Monique Transport
The island's small-scale public transport system, made even smaller after Bond had finished with one of its buses. (LALD)

San Pietro
The Rio airport from which Drax Air Freight operates. (MR)

Sansevere Mosque (?)
Ancient place of worship in Istanbul. Tatiana Romanova dropped plans of the Russian consulate here for Bond to find, while Red Grant failed to respect the sacred nature of the building by murdering a Bulgarian agent tailing her. (FRWL)

Santamaira
Kristatos's expensive motor yacht, from which he tries to kill Bond and Melina Havelock by hauling them over coral, and after they get free, by running them down. The pair survive by going to the ruins of a Greek temple under the sea where Melina had very conveniently left an aqualung earlier. (FYEO)

Santos
(Alkis Kristikos)
One of Columbo's men, who fights alongside him in the attack on Kristatos's Albanian warehouse. (FYEO)

SAS
The Special Air Service - a British elite force known (and feared) around the world for their fighting skills. The SAS have been chosen by the Ministry of Defence to take part in an exercise defending radar installations in Gibraltar from MI6's 00 section. (TLD)

Sasarach (?)
A drink Leiter orders for himself and Bond in New Orleans, chiding Bond for having no sense of adventure. (LALD)

Satellite 7
Part of Drax's space station, where the Marine Corps shuttle docks. (MR)

Saunders
(Thomas Wheatley)
The head of MI6's Station V in Vienna, who also has juristiction over operations in parts of Eastern Europe, including Czechoslovakia. Although he takes a dislike to Bond at first, being most unhappy with his lack of regard for rules and regulations and the fact that he failed to obey his orders by only wounding, instead of killing, a 'sniper', he comes through in Vienna by agreeing to produce fake travel documents for Kara without authorisation. However, after handing the documents over to a grateful Bond, Saunders is killed when Necros causes a sliding door to cut him in two. (TLD)

Savera Salad (?)
Part of Bond's meal as he talks to Kristatos at Columbo's casino. (FYEO)

Saville Row
London street, noted for its menswear shops, where Bond's tailor is situated. (DN)

Saxby, Bert (Albert R)
(Bruce Cabot)
A manager at the Whyte House, who after seeing Bond's connection with Slumber Inc assures the dealer that his credit is good. He is also Blofeld's second-in-command, overseeing operations and making sure that people believe Whyte is still giving the orders.
Saxby meets his end when he is shot by CIA agents while trying to assassinate Willard Whyte at his summer house. Since Blofeld had actually given the order to Bond (who was using a voice box to impersonate Saxby), how did Saxby know what to do? (DAF)

Scalpels
Spur-of-the-moment weapon used by Bond when cornered by Blofeld's guards in SPECTRE's surgery. Three precisely-thrown blades take care of the problem. (DAF)

Scanner Interlock
Mysterious function of the control console in Scaramanga's solar power plant that Bond wants Goodnight to activate. (TMWTGG)

Scaramanga, Francisco
(Christopher Lee)
The son of a Cuban circus ringmaster and an English mother, Scaramanga grew up on the circus, becoming an excellent trick-shot artist by the age of ten and graduating to becoming a hired gunman in Rio de Janiero by 15. He was recruited by the KGB to act as an assassin, but decided that life as an independent killer would be a lot more profitable and left the organisation in the late 1950s. After this, he gained the nickname of 'the man with the golden gun' - partly because of his unique ammunition, and partly because he never missed a target. His reputation became such that he could charge - and get - a million dollars per hit, because no target of Scaramanga ever survived.
Although there are no photographs of the killer on file, his distinguishing feature is known to MI6 - he possesses a third nipple. Although his third nipple is supposedly a sign of sexual prowess, he only makes love immediately before a hit, supposedly because it improves his aim.
Scaramanga killed his first man when he was only a boy, the target being an animal trainer at the circus where he grew up. The trainer had shot the African bull elephant whom the young Scaramanga considered his only true friend - so Scaramanga shot the trainer. This was the moment when he realised that although he liked animals, he liked killing people even more.
Scaramanga performs the occasional hit gratis for the Chinese, in return for the use of his island. He is taken on as a junior partner in Hai Fat's corporation so that the industrialist can have his services when needed, but Scaramanga eventually kills his 'boss' and takes control of his empire. With Hai Fat's resources, he builds a solar energy station on his island with the stolen Solex at its heart. He plans to sell the technology to the highest bidder, whether that be a nation that wants to own solar power, or an oil-producer that wants to suppress it.
Scaramanga considers himself an artist, and wants to create one undeniable masterpiece - the death of 007 in a man-to-man duel to the death. He leads Bond into his funhouse, but unlike previous entrants, Bond is able to outsmart its creator by taking the place of his own wax effigy. Caught unawares, Scaramanga is killed with a single shot to the heart. (TMWTGG)

Scaramanga's Island
A small but stunning rocky outcrop in the South China Sea, close to the Chinese mainland. Scaramanga lives here, his privacy protected by the Chinese, for whom he performs the occasional 'favour'. As well as an extravagantly appointed house built within the rock of the island itself, there is also a solar power plant, constructed by Hai Fat's companies. The island is less idyllic than it seems, though - very few of Scaramanga's guests get to leave. (TMWTGG)

Scarecrows
Ugly voodoo figures erected around Kananga's poppy fields to scare aware superstitious locals. For more cynical intruders, some of the scarecrows can back up their frightening appearance by force - as well as concealing video cameras that monitor the fields, they also contain remote-controlled guns, one of which kills the fleeing Rosie Carver. (LALD)

Scarpine
(Patrick Bauchau)
Zorin's right-hand man, who has a nasty scar on his left cheek and therefore (according to Hollywood rules of facial deformity) is rotten to the core. He plants a bomb in the Main Strike mine, knowing full well that when it explodes it will kill hundreds of Zorin's workers, then helps Zorin out in gunning down the survivors before taking the controls of the villain's airship. When the aircraft is tied to the Golden Gate Bridge by Bond, Scarpine is ordered to go outside to kill 007 - after a moment's hesitation he is about to do so, but is knocked out when Stacey Sutton brains him with a fire extinguisher. He comes to just in time to blown to pieces, along with the rest of the airship. (AVTAK)

Scissors
Spur-of-the-moment weapon that Bond uses to gain the upper hand on Tee Hee in their final battle - he cuts the cables controlling Tee Hee's artificial arm, before locking his claw onto a railing and pitching the henchman out of a train window. (LALD)

Scott, Colonel C
Michael Marshall)
Head of US Space Command, and also the leader of the Space Marines sent up in a shuttle to investigate Drax's space city. (MR)

Seagull
Aquatic bird worn as a hat by Bond - not as a fashion accessory, but to disguise his underwater approach to Amarez's hidden base. (GF)

Sea Harrier
A vertical takeoff fighter used by the Royal Navy, a two-seater version of which is used by MI6 to take the defecting Koskov from Austria to Britain. (TLD)

Sea King Zero-Five
The Royal Navy helicopter that takes Bond to the Polaris control centre at Faslaine naval base. (TSWLM)

Seaplane
Bond uses this futuristic-looking pusher-propeller aircraft to stray 'inadvertently' into Chinese airspace to locate Scaramanga's island. As well as being able to put down on land or water, the plane also contains a computerised map screen that can locate Mary Goodnight's homer signal. After reaching the island, though, the plane is destroyed by a shot from Scaramanga's solar-powered heat ray. (TMWTGG)

Sea Scooters
Small but powerful one-man underwater vehicles used by Largo's men to drag a camouflage net over the sunken Vulcan bomber after they had removed its nuclear cargo. The vessels are armed with harpoon guns. (TB)

Seashells
The reason Honey Ryder kept making surreptitious visits to Crab Key. Some of the shells she found could fetch her up to $50. (DN)

Sea Sled
A large submersible used by Largo and his men to transport his stolen nuclear bombs underwater. The sled has two pilots, and are also fitted with harpoon guns at the bow. (TB)

Second Oldest Trick In The Book, The
Making a guard open your cell door by pretending you've just found an escape route. One of Goldfinger's Chinese minions falls for this at his stud farm in Kentucky. (GF)

Secretary
(Anthony Carrick)
An assistant to M and Sir Frederick Grey at Blayden, who transcribes Koskov's testimony about General Pushkin. When Necros attacks the building, the secretary is forced to help get Koskov out of the building at gunpoint. (TLD)

Secretary General
The elected head of the United Nations. (LALD)

Secrets of Cone Power Revealed
The rather expensive self-help book plugged by Joe Butcher on his evangelical TV show - he claims it's worth $49.99, but anyone who makes a $100 donation can get it for free. He also claims it's sold over a quarter of a million copies, proving that some people will buy anything. (LTK)

Section V
Headed by Saunders, this is MI6's operations unit in Vienna, headed by Saunders. The name is unusual - MI6's foreign units have usually been called 'stations'. (TLD)

Section 26, Paragraph 5
Part of MI6's rules and regulations, which Saunders quotes at Bond instead of telling him the planned escape route for Koskov, on the grounds that the information is on a need-to-know basis. (TLD)

Section 473
The part of the Hong Kong criminal justice code under which Hip tells a policeman he'll be charging Bond in relation to Gibson's murder. (TMWTGG)

Security Camera
This golden, multi-lensed sphere keeps an eye on the docking bay of the Liparus, riding back and forth along a track on the ceiling. Bond uses it to deliver a bomb to the armour-plated entrance to the operations room. (TSWLM)

Seiko
Watch manufacturer, whose products act as a base for one of Q's magnetic and buzz-sawing devices (LALD), and are also conspicuously advertised in Rio (MR). A further watch with a built-in radio ends up being dropped into the sea by Max the parrot (FYEO). Still another watch contains a direction finder keyed to Q's homing device, and a test model houses a mini TV monitor (OP).

Sentinel
A medium-sized ROV (remotely operated vehicle) aboard the Wavekrest, ostensibly used to watch marine life. Its hollow hull also allows it to transport cocaine undetected. (LTK)

Sharky
(Frank McRae)
A shark-fishing charter boat operator in the Florida Keys and friend of Felix Leiter, who makes him and his new wife a set of hand-tied fishing lures for a present. After Della's murder and Leiter's run-in with a shark, he helps Bond track down where the attack happened. Despite his name, Sharky isn't at all keen on his namesakes. He takes Bond after the Wavekrest, but Krest's men board the boat and kill him, hanging him up alongside one of his catches.
NB: The credits list him as 'Sharkey', but the sign for his boat omits the 'e'. (LTK)

Shark Gun
A compact Q Branch weapon designed for underwater use. It fires pellets of compressed gas that cause whatever they hit to explode. As the name suggests it is intended for use on sharks, but Bond puts one of the pellets to more novel use on Kananga. (LALD)

Shark Hunter II
The name of the mini-sub operated by Milton Krest, which also plays a crucial role in the rescue of Sanchez from the DEA. (LTK)

Sharon
One of Q's assistants, who brings him and Bond coffee during a lengthy session on the Identigraph. (FYEO)

Sharper Image, The
A chain of stores that specialises in cool gadgetry. Bond, naturally, has a store card - with modifications. (AVTAK)

Shednovaz Hotel
A luxurious establishment in Delhi, where Sadruddin books Bond a suite. The hotel also has a casino, where Kamal Khan plays (and cheats at) backgammon. (OP)

Shoelace
Bond uses these to improvise a climbing aid when he is literally hanging by a thread from the side of St Cyrils. (FYEO)

Shoe, Spiked
One of SPECTRE's own gadgets to rival Q's. A spike laden with fast-acting venom is hidden in the toe; a click of the heels and it pops out, ready for use. Morzeny uses one to kill Kronsteen after his plans failed, while Rosa Klebb attempts to finish off Bond the same way, but with less success. (FRWL)

Siamese Fighting Fish
One of the various dangerous kinds of fish kept as pets by Blofeld. He describes them as "brave, but on the whole, stupid". The fish will attack anything, even their own reflection. Dead fighting fish usually end up being fed to Blofeld's cat. (FRWL)

Siberian Philharmonic Orchestra
Where Koskov hopes Kara Milovy will be sent after her arrest for defection. Apparently they're quite good, despite their 'bourgeois repertoire'. (TLD)

Siberian Separatists
The group upon which Ouromov places the blame for the Severnaya incident. His convenient theory is shot down almost immediately by Defence Minister Mishkin, as it fails to take into account Natalya Simyonova's survival. (GE)

Sidecar
Traditionally occupied by grannies, this half of a Stromberg motorbike combination is actually packed with explosives. A rocket blasts it up a road after Bond's Lotus, but 007 manages to send it into a truck full of mattresses instead. (TSWLM)

Sidney
Pussy Galore's (female) co-pilot aboard Goldfinger's private jet. (GF)

Signature Gun
This Q Branch gadget appears to be an expensive camera, but is actually a gun, firing .220 high velocity rounds hidden in the film magazine. Its name comes from one of its characteristics - it has a optical palm reader in the grip, meaning that only Bond can use it. (LTK)

Silicon Valley
The common name for an area near San Francisco, which is home to the world's largest concentration of microchip research and development companies. Zorin plans to destroy Silicon Valley in order to ensure his own companies (and those of his partners) gain total domination of the microchip market, by causing an earthquake that will flood the whole region. (AVTAK)

Simmons
(Austin Willis)
A Miami Beach card player, who is fleeced by the cheating Auric Goldfinger on a daily basis until Bond intervenes. (GF)

Simyonova, Natalya
(Izabella Scorupco)
A level two programmer at Severnaya, working on the Goldeneye's guidance systems, and frequent target of Boris Grishenko's geeky sexual innuendoes. Apart from the traitorous Boris, she is the only survivor after Ouromov, Xenia and the Goldeneye have finished with the facility. Escaping from the wreckage of the base, she manages to make her way to St Petersburg over the course of the following three days, where she bluffs her way into getting Internet access at a computer shop by claiming to be there to buy computers for dollar-rich foreign students and makes contact with Boris. Unfortunately, it isn't until she finds that he's with Xenia that she realises he's betrayed her.
She joins up with Bond after the two of them are dumped in the doomed Tiger helicopter by Trevelyan, then arrested by Mishkin. She is captured by Ouromov as the pair try to escape, and taken aboard Trevelyan's private train. She resists Trevelyan's advances long enough for Bond to crash the train into his tank (Trevelyan taunts Bond by claiming she tastes like strawberries), and uses the computers on the train to track down Boris to Cuba. Once there, she confounds Boris's low opinion of her computer skills and sabotages the remaining Goldeneye satellite by firing its retro-rockets and causing it to burn up in the atmosphere before it can fire. As if that wasn't enough, she even rescues Bond from the collapsing antenna array by putting a gun to the head of Trevelyan's helicopter pilot and forcing him to fly under the antenna and pick him up.
Natalya chastises Bond for his emotional detachment and coldness and his propensity for destroying every vehicle he gets into, but it doesn't take long before all his sins are forgiven. She seems to have some knowledge of intelligence operations, freaking out Jack Wade by revealing that she knows about the CIA's secret transmitters in New Zealand and the 500 feet maximum altitude necessary to avoid Cuban radar, knows how to use a gun and can also navigate a plane.
NB: The credits and publicity material all say 'Simonova', but Natalya corrects Bond when he gives her name to Jack Wade. Who are you going to believe, the frequently inaccurate credits or the lady herself? (GE)

Singapore
Site of a British radar tracking station, and also where Henderson lost a leg in 1942. (YOLT)

Singer
(B J Arnau)
A performer at the New Orleans Fillet Of Soul on Docket Street, who belts out 'Live And Let Die' while watching Bond vanish into the floor. (LALD)

SIS
Special Intelligence Service, the Japanese equivalent of MI6, headed by Tiger Tanaka. As well as Aki and Kissy, SIS has a force of ninjas on call, and its own version of Q Branch. (YOLT)

Sister Lily
(Yvonne Shima)
The first person to give Bond a civil greeting after he arrives in Dr No's complex at Crab Key. (DN)

Sister Rose
(Michele Mok)
Sister Lily's companion in nursing and hospitality. (DN)

Skin Suffocation
The cause of death of Jill Masterson, when her entire body was covered in gold paint by Oddjob. (GF)

Ski-stick
A normal ski-stick modified by Q Branch to fire a small rocket. Bond uses it to kill his pursuer, KGB killer Sergei Varzov - an act which will later have profound consequences. (TSWLM)

Skyhook
An American maritime retrieval system, using a modified bomber equipped with a large grapple on its nose and bungee cords lifted aloft by a balloon. Bond and Domino use the skyhook to hitch a ride back to shore after escaping the destruction of the Disco Volante, though exactly how they reach the ground safely is never satisfactorily explained... (TB)

Skyship 500
One of Zorin's company airships, piloted by Scarpine, a small (for an airship) craft that can be quickly filled with helium and launched from its hiding place inside a Portakabin at the Main Strike mine. Zorin hopes to watch the destruction of Silicon Valley from his airship, but instead sees Bond and May Day foil his plot. He swoops down and snatches up Stacey Sutton, who must have the world's worst hearing if she can't detect the sound of its whining motors. Bond grabs onto the forward mooring cable and is taken with the airship as it flies over San Francisco. Zorin tries to scrape Bond off on the Golden Gate Bridge, but Bond ties the mooring cable to the bridge, preventing its escape. After Zorin falls from the bridge, Dr Mortner tries to throw some dynamite at Bond, who severs the mooring cable - the dynamite falls into the cabin and destroys the aircraft. (AVTAK)

Skyship 6000
One of Zorin's company airships, a large green-and-white aircraft with a two-storey cabin. The upper floor houses the boardroom in which Zorin revealed Project Main Strike to his partners, while the lower floor contains a slide which provided a rapid exit for anyone unwilling to go along with Zorin's terms. (AVTAK)

Slazenger 1
Auric Goldfinger's preferred brand of golf ball. (GF)

Slazenger 7
Golf ball found by Bond and used to cost his opponent, Auric Goldfinger, the game - by switching balls with Goldfinger, the rules of golf that he and Bond were using meant he has to forfeit the hole. (GF)

Sledgehammer
Jack Wade's unorthodox but effective tool of car repair. (GE)

Slumber Inc
The Las Vegas funeral home which is involved with Tiffany Case's diamond smuggling ring. It is run by Morton Slumber. (DAF)

Slumber, Morton
(David Bauer)
The propriator of Slumber Inc. (DAF)

Slumber-On Casket
One of Slumber Inc's products, a top of the range coffin. For Peter Franks's cremation, Bond chooses a half-couch, hinge-panel model. The agent later finds himself trapped inside a similar casket after being knocked out by Wint and Kidd. (DAF)

Smallbone, Penelope
(Michaela Clavell)
Moneypenny's temporary assistant, to whom she has described Bond in "nauseating detail". She seems to be instantly smitten with 007. (OP)

SMERSH
A division of the KGB specialising in counter-espionage and assassination - the name is a contraction of 'smiert spionem', or 'death to spies". Colonel Rosa Klebb was head of the organisation, until her defection to SPECTRE. (FRWL)

Smiert Spionem
The supposed operation planned by KGB General Leonid Pushkin to eliminate British and American spies across the world - in reality, a ploy by Koskov and Whitaker to get the intelligence services fighting each other. (TLD)

'Smiler'
Bond's patronising nickname for Quist. (TB)

Smith & Wesson
Make of handgun used by Professor Dent in his failed bid to kill Bond, holding a mere six bullets. A .45 calibre S&W is used by Pussy Galore to intimidate Bond, but he knows that if she fires, the bullet will go through him and depressurise the hull of the jet in which they are travelling. The CIA also uses custom .38 revolvers as standard field issue. (DN, GF)

Smirnoff
Brand of vodka favoured by Bond. (DN)

Smithers
(Jeremy Bullock)
One of Q's colleagues, who tested out a fake plaster cast that can spring open with enough force to crush a person's skull. He also tries out a spring-loaded door that impales anyone trying to open it on a set of sharp spikes. (FYEO, OP)

Smithers, Colonel
(Richard Vernon)
Official of the Bank of England, whose area of expertise is in gold. A connoisseur of brandy. (GF)

Smoke Grenade
A gadget for once not used by Bond, but instead by one his enemies - Helga Brandt drops one, concealed inside a lipstick container, in her plane before bailing out and leaving Bond inside to die in the crash. (YOLT)

Smythe, Major Dexter
Octopussy's father and an expert on octopi, Smythe joined MI6 after a brilliant military career, and on one mission was sent to recover a cache of Chinese gold seized in North Korea. Smythe, the gold and his guide all disappeared - until 20 years later, when the guide's body was found with one of Smythe's bullets in his skull. Bond was despatched to locate and arrest him, and located him in Sri Lanka. Given him 24 hours to conclude his affairs, Smythe committed suicide rather than return for a court-martial. (OP)

Snake, Cuddly
A $5 toy bought by Bond in the Oh Cult Voodoo Shop as a diversion, so that he could follow Whisper while the sales girl was wrapping it. (LALD)

Sniper Rifle
A huge Walther, used by Bond to shoot the gun from the hands of Koskov's so-called 'assassin' - Kara Milovy. The gun had a massive nightscope, recoil suppressor and silencer, and could take dum-dum or armour-piercing bullets. (TLD)

Snooper
A remote-controlled, dog-like surveillance robot devised by Q and used to track down Bond after Project Main Strike was foiled. The small wheeled machine had a head with twin cameras that could telescope upwards to look over obstacles, and it could also apparently traverse stairs. Q controlled it from a Winnebago. (AVTAK)

Snowblower
Large tracked vehicle used to keep alpine roads clear of snow. One of Blofeld's men was clumsy enough to fall into the path of this machine, and ended up turning the blown snow pink, to Bond's quip of "He had lots of guts". (OHMSS)

Snowcat
A small truck fitted with broad tracks instead of wheels, used by the Czechoslovakian army to pursue Bond through the snow as he and Kara Milovy tried to reach the Austrian border. (TLD)

Snow Leopard Brotherhood
An Afghan organisation that is involved in the selling of opium around the world, and has no problem with selling it to the very same people - the Russians - who have invaded their country. Koskov has used the $50 million he took from the Russian government, ostensibly to buy high-tech weapons for use in Afghanistan, to buy diamonds, trading them with the Snow Leopard Brotherhood to buy opium - which he can then sell at enormous profit, and still have a fortune left over even after buying the Russian arms after all. (TLD)

Soames, Tilly
Alias used by Tilly Masterson. (GF)

Sodium Pentathol
A truth agent that Kamal Khan dismissed as "a bit crude". (OP)

Sofa
A Q Branch piece of furniture that can swallow up anyone who sits on it. (TLD)

Solar Energy Station
A high-tech, environmentally friendly power plant built within Scaramanga's island, courtesy of Hai Fat Enterprises. A large solar reflector emerges from a rocky outcrop just offshore and directs sunlight into a collector, where the stolen Solex converts it into electricity. The surplus power is stored in superconductivity coils, cooled by liquid helium.
The whole complex is ultimately destroyed when Goodnight knocks Krall, the maintenance technician, into one of the vats of liquid nitrogen. The rise in temperature means the superconductors fail, and with nowhere to go the excess energy causes an explosion which blows up most of the island. (TMWTGG)

Solera
A sherry given to Bond by Sir Donald Munger, which Bond describes as 'unusually fine'. He then correctly identifies the original vintage of the wine from which the sherry was made - an 1851. (DAF)

Solex Agitator
A highly efficient solar cell developed by Gibson, which could convert 95% of the sunlight that fell onto it directly into electricity. He planned to use it as a bargaining chip to return to the West, but Scaramanga has other plans for it, making it the key component in his island's solar energy plant. (TMWTGG)

Solitaire
(Jane Seymour)
The daughter of Dr Kananga's previous tarot reader, Solitaire appears to have powers of prediction through her reading of the cards - certainly all her predictions came true, even that of herself and Bond becoming lovers. She has lived with Kananga all her life, occupying a large house atop a cliff near Kananga's own residence. Her powers have helped Kananga's rise as a politician and a crime lord, but, like her mother, she loses them after having sex for the first time. Bond is, of course, the man who takes her gift away, after which her card skills are limited to thrashing him soundly at gin rummy. (LALD)

Solo
(Martin Benson)
Mafia boss used by Goldfinger to obtain equipment necessary for Operation Grand Slam. Once he has delivered the equipment, he is shot dead by Oddjob, then put into a car crusher and reduced to a small cube. (GF)

Somerset, Caroline
The fake identity provided by Kerim Bey for Tatiana Romanova so she can flee Turkey with Bond. (FRWL)

Somerset, David
Name used on a fake passport by Bond so that he and Tatiana Romanova (listed as his wife) can escape from Turkey after stealing the Lektor ciding machine. (FRWL)

Sony
Japanese electronics corporation whose TV monitors are generally preferred by good guys and villains alike. (YOLT, TSWLM)

Sotheby's
London-based auctioneers, dealing mainly in fine art. (OP)

Souffle
The starter at Kamal Khan's dinner. (OP)

Soviet Chairman
(Paul Hardwick)
The leader of the Soviet Union, who after years of the Cold War began a process of mutal disarmament with NATO, following on from the reports of General Gogol. (OP)

Space City
Drax's secret orbital habitat, over 200 metres in diameter, which rotates to provide artificial gravity (at 80% of Earth normal) and is equipped with a radar jamming system so that nobody on Earth is aware of its presence. It is from here, a hundred miles above the Earth's surface, that Drax plans to exterminate human civilisation, before returning to begin again with his own carefully selected master race. After Bond and Holly Goodhead destroy the radar jammer, a shuttle full of US Space Marines is sent to investigate. Bond prevents the shuttle's destruction by laser when he fires the emergency thrusters to stop the station's rotation. In the ensuing battle, the station is totally destroyed. (MR)

Space Weapons Control Centre
A secret Russian base at Severnaya, apparently a no smoking area, deep within Russian borders. Although MI6's analysis maintained that the base had been abandoned due to lack of funding, it is still active - and the home for the Goldeneye weapon. The activation key for the system is stolen by General Ouromov and Xenia Onatopp, after which one of the two Goldeneye satellites is fired, destroying the base and all evidence of the theft. (GE)

Space:1999
British sci-fi television series of the early 1970s, from which Drax apparently stocked up on desk lamps for his space station. (MR)

Special Ordnance Section
The official name for Q Branch. (LALD)

SPECTRE
Acronym for SPecial Executive for Crime, Terror, Revenge and Extortion. Led by its Number One, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, its other members have included Dr No, Kronsteen, Rosa Klebb, Largo, Fiona Volpe, Count Lippe, Jacques Bouvois, Mr Osato, Helga Brandt, Irma Bunt, Grunther, Mr Wint and Mr Kidd, Burt Saxby and Dr Metz, as well as various others known only by numbers or their coloured jumpsuits. The logo of the organisation is an octopus. (DN, FRWL, TB, YOLT, OHMSS, DAF)

SPECTRE Black
Speedboat used by SPECTRE agents to pursue Bond, commanded by Morzeny. (FRWL)

SPECTRE Green
Speedboat used by SPECTRE agents to pursue Bond. (FRWL)

SPECTRE Intruder
Advanced space vehicle developed by SPECTRE scientists with Chinese funding, used to intercept and capture American and Russian spacecraft by literally swallowing them up in its nose section. The Intruder can return to Earth and land inside SPECTRE's secret base on a Japanese island, where it can be prepared for re-use. The Intruder is destroyed by Bond using a self-destruct button in the SPECTRE control room, moments before it could capture a second American ship and start a war between the superpowers. (YOLT)

SPECTRE Island
The secret base where much of SPECTRE's training operations are carried out. In order to keep the recruits on their toes, live weapons are frequently used in the training programme - the recruits acting as targets! (FRWL)

SPECTRE Red
Speedboat used by SPECTRE agents to pursue Bond. (FRWL)

SPECTRE Ring
Rather obvious giveaway as to the identity of SPECTRE members, bearing the organisation's octopus logo. (TB)

SPECTRE Volcano Base
An incredible secret rocket launch site constructed within an extinct volcano, and camouflaged by a huge sliding shutter that from above appeared to be a lake. As well as a launch silo and landing gantry for the Intruder rocket, the base also houses a moving helipad, a monorail and Blofeld's private quarters, complete with piranha tank. (YOLT)

SP 00210
The registration of the Stromberg Shipping Lines powerboat sent to bring 'Sterling' (Bond) and his wife (Anya Amasova) to Atlantis. (TSWLM)

SR 4785
Registration of the Mercedes Kamal Khan and Gobinda use to leave Feldstadt before the imminent nuclear detonation. The fact that it fails to start first time provides both of them with a brief brown trousers moment. (OP)

SS34 7073
The Sardinian registration of the motorcycle combination that tries to blow up Bond's Lotus Esprit, but ends up taking out a truck full of matresses and going over a cliff. (TSWLM)

Stage 1 Alert
The state of readiness Blofeld orders when radar picks up Bond's plane approaching his oil rig. (DAF)

Stainless Steel Delicatessen
The inducement that Blofeld rather mysteriously offers Bond not to drop him him a helicopter into a factory chimney. Bond declines the deal.
NB: This is apparently an in-joke reference to the tendency for Bond villains' headquarters (those designed by Ken Adam, at least) to be generously decorated with polished metal surfaces. Just so you know. (FYEO)

Standard, The
Hong Kong newspaper that reports the 'murder' of Commander James Bond. (YOLT)

'Stand By Your Man'
A song sung (badly) by Zukovsky's mistress Irina in his club. (GE)

Starlight Lounge
A part of the Whyte House in Las Vegas, served by a glass express elevator running up the outside of the building. (DAF)

Starlight Scope
A night vision device attached to the weapons Brad Whitaker had obtained for the KGB. (TLD)

Star Of South Africa
A diamond shown to Bond before his investigation of diamond smuggling. It is 83.5 carats rough, 47.5 carats cut. (DAF)

State Wildlife Department Ranger Station 1
The base of operatation for Billy Bob and his very fast boat. (LALD)

Station C
The Canadian branch of MI6's operations. (TB)

Station I
The name of MI6's Indian outpost, headed by Sadruddin. (OP)

Station T
MI6's operation agency in Turkey, headed by Kerim Bey. (FRWL)

Station VH
MI6's outpost in Brazil. (MR)

Station Y
An MI6 station in Yugoslavia. (FRWL)

St Cyrils
The place to where Kristatos takes the stolen ATAC while he awaits payment from the KGB. As Q points out, there are 439 St Cyrils in Greece, but with Columbo's help Bond is able to locate the right one - a former monastery atop a huge volcanic plug, accessible only by a perilous climb or a primitive winch. (FYEO)

Steam Room
Where Bond gets his revenge on Count Lippe for almost killing him on the Shrublands traction machine, by locking him in a steam bath at maximum temperature. (TB)

Steiner, Henry
One of Felix Leiter's informants working against Sanchez. Now deceased. (LTK)

Steinway & Sons
A world-famous piano maker. Drax owns one of their grands. (MR)

Sterling, Robert
Bond's alias when he visits Stromberg on Atlantis, posing as a marine biologist. Anya Amasova is passed off as his wife/assistant. (TSWLM)

St Georges
On the surface a Greek trawler, registration VA 402, originally from Valetta; in fact, an MI6 spy ship crewed by Royal Navy personnel. The St Georges contains an ATAC unit for communicating orders to Britain's submarine fleet. The ship is sunk in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Albania when its trawler nets accidentally snag a World War II mine that has been drifting in the Adriatic for decades, the crew being unable to destroy the crucial ATAC before they are drowned. (FYEO)

Stinger
An American ground-to-air missile; Sanchez has obtained four of them, and threatened to shoot down an American airliner if the DEA don't pull back from their investigations. The missiles are later used in an attempt to blow up Bond's petrol tanker, and also to shoot down Pam Bouvier's cropduster. Q obviously thinks highly of the weapons, later installing a number of them behind the headlights of Bond's BMW Z3. (LTK, GE)

St John-Smythe, James
The alias used by Bond when he goes undercover into the world of horse trading at Zorin's chateau. (AVTAK)

St Moritz
Alpine resort, used by Bond to trip up Tilly Masterson on her claim that she was in Switzerland to go ice skating. (GF)

Stock Car Race
A destruction derby on ice in the Swiss alps, made all the more exciting when Tracy and Bond try to evade their pursuers by joining in the race. (OHMSS)

Stock, James
Bond's pseudonym, supposedly a journalist for the Financial Times, when he interviews San Francisco official Howe about Zorin's activities. (AVTAK)

Stolichnaya
A brand of Russian vodka which Bond brings back from his incursion into Siberia, along with some Beluga caviare and a stolen microchip. (AVTAK)

Storage Tanks
Amarez's hidden base and explosives cache is concealed inside one of there. (GF)

Store Card
Seemingly an ordinary shop charge card (in Bond's case, for The Sharper Image), which has been modified to let 007 bypass security systems by simply running the card past any electronic lock. (AVTAK)

Stradivarius
Famed manufacturer of stringed instruments, including the 'Lady Rose', Kara Milovy's cello. (TLD)

Strangways, Commander J
(Tim Moxton)
MI6 agent working in Kingston, Jamaica. He is murdered by the "Three Blind Mice" on the orders of Dr No, as his investigations of Crab Key were getting too close uncovering his plot. (DN)

Strap
(Hal Galili)
Mafia boss used by Goldfinger to smuggle personnel necessary for Operation Grand Slam over the border from Mexico. Once he has delivered the equipment, he is killed with nerve gas. (GF)

Stromberg, Karl
(Curt Jurgens)
The owner of the Stromberg Shipping Line, and one of the richest men in the world. His wealth has enabled him to construct Atlantis as his personal retreat from the decadence and corruption of the world, and also allowed him to devise a plan to wipe out civilization as we know it, letting Stromberg rebuild it to his own design in habitations under the sea. Stromberg has webbed hands, and prefers to avoid physical contact with human beings (apart from firmly bound female KGB agents). He also has a rather hard line on those in his organisation who betray him, dropping his assistant into a shark tank and blowing up the helicopter taking Bechmann and Markovitz ashore.
Stromberg uses his modified oil tanker Liparus, the second-largest in the world, to capture the British and Soviet nuclear submarines HMS Ranger and Potempkin, so that he can use their missiles to start World War III. Both Bond and Anya Amasova are assigned to locate the subs by their respective governments, and together uncover Stromberg's plan. After the Liparus is destroyed, Bond confronts Stromberg in his dining hall in Atlantis, where the villain fires a harpoon gun under the dining table and nearly kills Bond. An irate Bond returns the favour, but does it properly. (TSWLM)

Stromberg One
The egotistical name given to the Soviet submarine Potempkin after its capture by the Liparus. Its station for missile launch is 39 degrees 30.03 minutes north, 45 degrees 00.0 minutes west. (TSWLM)

Stromberg's Assistant
(Marilyn Glasworthy)
One of Stromberg's employees, who betrays him by trying to sell the submarine tracking system to competing world powers. Stromberg repays her treachery by dumping her into a shark tank, where she is promptly devoured by its occupants. (TSWLM)

Stromberg Shipping Line
The name of the company that has made Stromberg a billionaire. The Liparus is the pride of its fleet of ships. (TSWLM)

Stromberg Two
The positively egomaniacal new appellation for HMS Ranger when it is sent out on its mission of destruction. Its launch point is 36 degrees 17.1 minutes north, 22 degrees 43.2 minutes west. (TSWLM)

Strutter, Harold
(Lon Satton)
A pipe-smoking CIA agent who helps Bond escape a tight spot in Harlem and briefs him on Mr Big. He is killed in New Orleans, in exactly the same way as Hamilton, a few days earlier, while watching the Fillet Of Soul restaurant. (LALD)

Stuffed Sheep's Head
A speciality of the Monsoon Palace. Although Bond is quite the gourmet, even he baulks at this particular dish. His host, Kamal Khan, particularly enjoys the eyeballs. Bond remarks on a resemblance between the sheep's head and Gobinda. (OP)

Stun Gas
A gas fired by Bond's keyring, with a range of about five feet. It can disorientate any normal person for approximately 30 seconds. Bond uses it to escape from the cells of a Soviet airbase in Afghanistan. (TLD)

Stun Rods
Cattle-prod style devices carried by Drax's security guards aboard his space station, used to subdue troublesome British agents. (MR)

Submarine Captain
(John Stone)
The skipper of M's submarine, M1, who welcomes Bond aboard after his 'burial at sea'. (YOLT)

Submarine Tracking System
Developed by Dr Bechmann and Professor Markovitz for Stromberg, this device uses heat signature recognition to locate submerged submarines. The one aboard the Liparus was used to capture HMS Ranger and the Russian submarine Potempkin; Bond later uses it to do exactly the same, with the intention of destroying the subs before they could launch their missiles on Washington and Moscow. (TSWLM)

Submarine Tracking System Manual
Conveniently left next to the tracking system, this book lets Bond master the device in a matter of seconds! (TSWLM)

Subway, Private
How Tiger Tanaka travels around Tokyo in privacy and security. Tanaka assumes M has something similar in London; Bond nonchalantly assures the Japanese SIS head that he does. (YOLT)

Suction Cups
Climbing aids, worn on the hands and knees, that Bond produces from nowhere to help him enter SPECTRE's secret volcano base. (YOLT)

Suite A5
Bond and Anya's rooms at the Hotel Cala Di Volpe in Sardinia, a sitting room with two bedrooms ("Moneypenny being a little over-efficient," grumbles Bond). (TSWLM)

Suite 423
Tracy's hotel rooms at the Palacio. Bond goes there in the hopes of a meeting with her, but finds only a hired thug. (OHMSS)

Suite 516
Bond's hotel rooms at the Palacio. (OHMSS)

Summer House
Willard Whyte's retreat, about ten miles from Las Vegas, where he is being held prisoner by Bambi and Thumper. As well as having some very 1970s furniture and sculptures, it also has a swimming pool, in which Whyte's warders - Bambi and Thumper - try to drown 007. Whyte himself is kept under lock and key in the basement. (DAF)

Sumo
Ancient form of Japanese wrestling. Bond visits a match while on his way to make contact with Henderson, and later experiences the full weight of some rather less friendly combatants at closer quarters on Hai Fat's estate while hunting for Scaramanga. (YOLT, TMWTGG)

Sunbeam
British sports car, made by Alpine, rented by Bond in Jamaica. The car's speed, and more importantly low height, helps Bond escape from an assassination attempt when he is able to drive under a crane blocking the road ahead. (DN)

Sunglasses
A Q Branch gadget which, with the rotation of the polarised lenses, allows Bond to see through darkened windows. It also has the unfortunate side-effect of making him look like Elton John. (AVTAK)

Sun Gun
A useful bonus of the Solex - a powerful gun that can focus an intense heat source onto any object in range, and destroy it. Scaramanga gives Bond a demonstration by blowing up his seaplane. (TMWTGG)

Superman
Comic-book superhero to whom Tiffany Case compared Bond. (DAF)

Sutton Oil
The family business of the Sutton family, handed down from Stacey's grandfather, to her father, to her. However, Zorin bought a majority stake in the company in a rigged takeover, offering Stacey $5 million for her shares - much more than they were worth. Being a principled (and apparently dim) sort, she refuses the offer. (AVTAK)

Sutton, Stacey
(Tanya Roberts)
A California state geologist, and minority shareholder in Sutton Oil, who turns down the $5 million that Zorin offered to buy her out completely in return for dropping her lawsuit. She lives alone (apart from her cat and two canaries) in a large house that is almost empty, having been forced to sell off most of its contents to pay for the legal fees fighting Zorin's takeover. After she goes to Howe at City Hall with her information about Zorin he fires her, but she and Bond return to the building that evening - only to be set up by Zorin as Howe's murderers. They escape and reach the Main Strike mine, where Stacey realises what Zorin plans to do - disrupt two fault lines at once and flood Silicon Valley. She is afraid of rats - in fact, she's one of the most useless Bond girls of all, the only active involvement she has being to knock Scarpino out with a fire extinguisher. (AVTAK)

Suzuki, Kissy
(Mie Hama)
Ostensibly a diving girl on the Japanese island of Matsu, Kissy is really one of Tiger Tanaka's agents. She 'marries' Bond (who is disguised, improbably, as a Japanese man) to provide him with a cover on the island as he searches for SPECTRE's base.
Both of Kissy's parents are dead, and she lives alone. Even though Bond is supposedly her husband, she refuses to sleep with him - at least until after the mission is over. (YOLT)

Swamp
Area of Crab Key where radioactive contamination from Dr No's nuclear reactor is vented. (DN)

Swordfish
A large stuffed example of the species lives in the Barrelhead Bar in Bimini. Normally hanging from the ceiling, a blast from Pam Bouvier's shotgun brings it down to Earth, whereupon it becomes a weapon in the ensuing brawl and almost skewers Bond. (LTK)

Sword, Glass-Handled
This impractical-sounding weapon is on display in the Museum of Antique Glass in Venice. Bond uses it to slice Chang's own bamboo sword in two. (MR)

Sword Swallower
The surprised vendor of a weapon Bond uses to fight off his attackers in Delhi, mid-way through his performance! (OP)

SX-JKR
Registration of the seaplane flown by Hector Gonzales. (FYEO)

SX10/459D7812F/DGB
The West German police file code on Emile Leopold Locque. (FYEO)

Synthetic Turpentine
The name on the containers being loaded aboard the Ning-Po at Kobe. They really contain liquid oxygen, for use in SPECTRE's rocket. (YOLT)