Q [At the National Gallery, Bond is sitting on an empty bench, looking at The Fighting Temeraire. A scruffy-haired young man wearing glasses approaches and sits right next to him. Bond looks at him in annoyance, not yet knowing that this is Q.]
It always makes me feel a little melancholy - a grand old war ship, being ignominiously hauled away to scrap. The inevitability of time, don't you think? What do you see?
A bloody big ship. Excuse me. [rising to leave.]
Q 007. [Bond reacts and sits back down.] I'm your new Quartermaster.
Q Why, because I'm not wearing a lab coat?
Because you still have spots.
Q My complexion is hardly relevant.
Q Age is no guarantee of efficiency.
And youth is no guarantee of innovation.
Q I'll hazard I can do more damage on my laptop sitting in my pyjamas before my first cup of Earl Grey than you can do in a year in the field.
Oh, so why do you need me?
Q Every now and then, a trigger has to be pulled.
Or not pulled. It's hard to know which in your pyjamas. [Beat] Q. [offers his hand.]
Q [shakes his hand.]
007.
Q [Bond is pursuing an escaped Silva through London's underground train tunnels. Q is tracking him from MI6's reserve headquarters and communicating by radio.]
If you're through that door, you should be in the Tube.
[deadpan]
I'm in the Tube.
Q Bond, this isn't an escape, this was years in the planning. He wanted us to capture him, he wanted us to access his computer. It was all planned - blowing up HQ, knowing all the emergency protocols, knowing we'd retreat down here.
I got all that. It's what he's got planned next that worries me.
Q District line is the closest. There should be a service door on your left.
Got it. [he tries the door handle] It won't open.
Q Of course it will, put your back into it.
Why don't you come down here and put your back into it?! [he tries again.] No, it's stuck. [a rumble is heard, and Bond looks along the tracks] Oh good. There's a train coming.
Q Hmm. That's vexing.
[Bond tries to barge the door multiple times but will not open. He uses a pistol to shoot the door handle. The door opens and Bond slips into it.]
I'm through.
Q Told you. We've alerted security. Police are on their way.
[Bond continues to find Silva.]
[Bond is on a crowded platform at Temple Tube station, looking for Silva.]
There's too many people, I can't see him.
Q Welcome to rush hour on the Tube. Not something you'd know much about.
[Q spots something on one of the CCTV footage monitors - a policeman getting onto the Tube train.]
The train's leaving. Do I get on the train?
Q [hesitant.]
Don't get on the train, I'm not sure he's on it. Give us a minute.
[Q enhances the footage he was just watching. The train starts to pull away, Bond still on the platform.] [impatient.]
Do I get on the train?
Q [Q freezes the footage of the policeman turning to face the camera. It is Silva in disguise.]
Bond?
Q Get on the train.
MA Man at Tube Station
[Bond chases after and jumps onto the end of the tube train, clinging onto the outer door. He runs past an old-looking man who is standing with his wife.]
He's keen to get home.
[to train conductor.]
Open the door, please!
[The conductor just stares at him, baffled.]
Open. The door!
[The conductor finally opens the door. Bond steps on board.]
Health and Safety. Carry on.
Q Where are you?
[moving through the carriages.]
Take a wild guess, Q.
Q He's in disguise now. He's dressed as a policeman.
[sarcastic.]
Of course he is.
Q [tracking the train's path, muttering.]
Where's he going? Where's he going?
[Bond spots the route map on the inside wall of one of the carriages. The route leads to Westminster.] [realising.]
He's going for M. Tell Tanner - get her out of there.
Q [at Q Branch, Q and Tanner try to create a false trail to lure Silva]
It's a fine line. Make the breadcrumb too small, and he might miss it. Too big, and Silva will smell a rat.
BT Bill Tanner
Yes, but you'd think even Silva will be able to spot that.
Q He's the only one who could.
T Tanner
[Tanner turns to see Mallory, his arm in a sling]
Sir?
Q Oh...
Q We're just... monitoring.
Creating a false tracking signal for Silva to follow.
T Tanner
Well, sir, um...
Q Well, no...
Excellent thinking. Get him isolated. Send him on the A9, it's a direct route. You can monitor his progress more accurately and confirm it with the traffic cameras.
T Tanner
But, uh... what if the PM finds out?
Then we're all buggered. Carry on.
