James Bond: Every Country Visited By Timothy Dalton’s 007

While most James Bond actors stick around for at least four or five movies, Timothy Dalton only played Bond in two movies: The Living Daylights and License to Kill. This would be the shortest Bond actor tenure if not for George Lazenby, who only did one.

Dalton was noted for his dark, brooding take on 007, which was considered to be the most faithful to the cold-hearted killer in Ian Fleming’s source material. Throughout his two movies, Dalton’s Bond traveled to such exotic locations as Russia, Morocco, and the fictional Republic of Isthmus.

8 Czechoslovakia

The opening sequence of The Living Daylights sees Bond taking part in an MI6 training exercise in the British countryside that turns deadly. It’s an exciting sequence, but it doesn’t exactly take Dalton’s 007 on an extravagant globetrotting adventure. His first overseas trip sends him to Czechoslovakia to begin his first mission: helping a KGB general named Georgi Koskov to defect.

Bond extracts Koskov from a concert hall in Bratislava. This plot point mainly serves to set up the love interest: a KGB sniper disguised as a female cellist from the orchestra.

7 Russia

Although Bond is ordered to kill the KGB sniper, he decides to spare her life and shoots the rifle out of her hands instead. Then, he uses the Trans-Siberian Pipeline to sneak Koskov across the border into the West.

Russia was namedropped in the title of Sean Connery’s second Bond movie, From Russia with Love, but 007 doesn’t actually go to Russia in that movie. Before Dalton’s Bond traveled through Russia via the Trans-Siberian Pipeline in The Living Daylights, Roger Moore’s Bond went to Siberia to recover the body of a fellow 00 agent, who had a crucial MacGuffin on his person.

6 Morocco

After Pushkin kills a handful of agents, escalating the conflict between the Soviet Union and the West, Bond is sent to track him down in Tangier and assassinate him. The hope is that this assassination will stop the killings of agents and ease the tensions between the Soviets and the West.

007 only agrees to take this assignment when he learns that the assassin who killed 004 in the movie’s cold open left the same message: “Smiert Spionam,” which means “Death to Spies” in Russian. The shortened version of this phrase, SMERSH, was used as the name of the real-life counterpart of SPECTRE.

5 Austria

Bond is shocked by the revelation that Kara is the girlfriend of Koskov, whose defection from the Soviet Union was staged in an elaborate scheme to destabilize the West. After convincing Kara that he’s a friend of Koskov’s, Bond goes to Vienna to supposedly be reunited with an old pal.

As they cross the border into Austria, Bond and Kara are chased by the KGB. While he’s in Austria, Bond visits the Prater – a large public park in Leopoldstadt – to meet his MI6 ally, Saunders.

4 Afghanistan

After Bond’s plan to track down Koskov backfires, he ends up being taken captive and flown to a Soviet airbase in Afghanistan by Koskov, Kara, and the badass henchman Necros.

Kara reluctantly teams up with Bond after Koskov betrays her at the airbase and locks her up with the gentleman spy. Bond and Kara break out of imprisonment together and, along the way, they free Kamran Shah, the leader of the local Mujahideen.

3 United States

Dalton’s second and last film in the role of Bond, License to Kill, is one of the darkest, edgiest, most brutal entries in the series. After drug kingpin Franz Sanchez kills Felix Leiter’s wife and leaves Felix himself with horrific injuries, Bond abandons his current official MI6 mission to hunt down and dispatch Sanchez on a personal vendetta.

The opening scene sees Bond and Leiter delaying Leiter’s wedding in Key West, Florida, so they can join the DEA’s crusade to bring down Sanchez. They attach a hook to Sanchez’s plane, preventing him from escaping. Bond and Leiter parachute down to the church in time for the ceremony and the wedding seems to go off without a hitch. Then, Sanchez attacks Leiter and murders his bride, prompting Bond to embark on a quest for revenge.

2 The Bahamas

007 makes a brief stop in the Bahamas in the middle act of License to Kill. At a bar in Bimini, he meets the movie’s primary “Bond girl,” Pam Bouvier, a pilot and DEA informant who can tell him all about Sanchez’s highly sought-after drug cartel.

Pam establishes that Sanchez operates out of a fictitious Central American nation called the Republic of Isthmus, and Bond subsequently travels out there with her.

1 The Republic Of Isthmus

The majority of License to Kill – leading up to its action-packed finale – takes place in the fictional Central American country of the Republic of Isthmus. Isthmus is where Sanchez is based and where Bond tracks him down in pursuit of vengeance.

In both the movie and its novelization, it’s established that Isthmus is ostensibly a democratic republic led by President Hector Lopez, but the nation’s politicians are heavily influenced by Sanchez’s super-powerful cartel.

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