Editing Licence to Kill (section)

==Plot==
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[[Drug Enforcement Administration|DEA]] agents collect [[MI6]] agent [[James Bond]] and his friend, [[CIA]] agent [[Felix Leiter]], on their way to Leiter's wedding in [[Key West]], to have them assist in capturing [[drug lord]] Franz Sanchez. Bond and Leiter capture Sanchez by attaching a hook and cord to Sanchez's plane and pulling it out of the air with a [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]] helicopter. Afterwards, Bond and Leiter parachute down to the church in time for the ceremony.

Sanchez bribes DEA agent Ed Killifer and escapes while he is being transported. Meanwhile, Sanchez's henchman Dario and his crew ambush Leiter and his wife Della (murdering her in the process) and take Leiter to an aquarium owned by one of Sanchez's accomplices, Milton Krest. Sanchez has Leiter lowered into a tank holding a [[Great White Shark|great white shark]]. When Bond learns that Sanchez has escaped, he returns to Leiter's house to find that Leiter has been tortured and that Della has been murdered.{{sfn|Black|2005|p=152}}{{sfn|Chapman|2007|p=206}} Bond, with Leiter's friend Sharkey, start their own investigation. They discover a marine research centre run by Krest, where Sanchez has hidden [[cocaine]] and a submarine for smuggling.

After Bond kills Killifer using the same shark tank used for Leiter, [[M (James Bond)|M]] meets Bond in Key West's [[Ernest Hemingway House|Hemingway House]] and orders him to an assignment in [[Istanbul]]. Bond resigns after turning down the assignment, but M suspends Bond instead and revokes his [[Licence to kill (concept)|licence to kill]]. Bond becomes a [[wikt:rogue|rogue]] agent, although he later receives unauthorised assistance from [[Q (James Bond)|Q]].

Bond boards Krest's ship ''Wavekrest'' and stops Sanchez's latest drug shipment, stealing five million dollars in the process. He discovers that Sharkey has been killed by Sanchez's henchmen. Bond meets and teams up with Pam Bouvier, a pilot and DEA informant, at a [[Bimini]] bar,<ref>{{cite web |title=Licence To Kill film locations |year=2014 |publisher=Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations |url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/l/LicenceToKill.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131140344/http://movie-locations.com/movies/l/LicenceToKill.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=31 January 2010 |access-date=26 July 2015 }}</ref> and journeys with her to the Republic of Isthmus. He seeks Sanchez's employment by acting as an assassin for hire. Two [[Hong Kong Police Force|Hong Kong Narcotics Bureau]] officers, who were hoping to discover Sanchez's drug manufacturing and distribution plant, prevent Bond's attempt to assassinate Sanchez and take him to an abandoned warehouse. Sanchez's men rescue him and kill the officers, believing them to be the assassins. Later, with the aid of Bouvier, Q, and Sanchez's girlfriend Lupe Lamora, Bond [[frameup|frames]] Krest by planting the $5&nbsp;million in ''Wavekrest''. Sanchez locks Krest in a [[Diving chamber|decompression chamber]] and cuts the oxygen supply, causing Krest's head to [[Uncontrolled decompression|explode]]. Bond is then admitted into the inner circle.

Sanchez takes Bond to his base of operations, which is disguised as the headquarters of a religious cult. Bond learns that Sanchez's scientists dissolve cocaine in [[gasoline|petrol]] and sell it disguised as fuel to Asian drug dealers. The [[televangelist]] Joe Butcher serves as middleman, working under Sanchez's business manager Truman-Lodge, who uses Butcher's TV broadcasts to communicate with Sanchez's customers in the [[United States]]. During Sanchez's presentation to potential Asian customers, Dario enters the room and recognises Bond. Bond starts a fire in the laboratory but is captured again and placed on the conveyor belt that drops the cocaine bricks into a large industrial grinder. Bouvier arrives and shoots Dario, allowing Bond to kill Dario by pulling him into the grinder.

Sanchez and most of the others flee as fire destroys the base, taking with him four tankers full of the cocaine and petrol mixture. Bond pursues them by plane, with Bouvier at the controls. During a chase through the desert, Bond destroys three of the tankers and kills several of Sanchez's men. Sanchez attacks Bond with a [[machete]] aboard the fourth tanker, which crashes down a hillside. A petrol-soaked Sanchez attempts to kill Bond with his machete. Bond then reveals his cigarette lighter—his best man gift from Felix and Della—and sets Sanchez on fire. Sanchez staggers to the wrecked tanker, causing an explosion and killing himself. Bouvier arrives shortly afterward and picks up Bond.

Later, a party is held at Sanchez's former residence. Bond receives a call from Leiter telling him that M has congratulated him for his work and offers him his job back. He then rejects Lupe's advances and romances Bouvier instead.