ICE-BREAKER MOVIE SCENARIO
chrisno1
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I wrote the long version of this story in about 1990, just when it appeared Bond wouldn’t be returning to our screens any time soon. I always enjoyed Icebreaker and thought some of the scenes would make really good cinema.
At the time I remember the Berlin wall was falling and Soviet Russia was disintegrating, so I thought it was a good time to suggest that the army and KGB might be out for profit, and guns and drugs were easy commodities. So I expanded the story by taking Bond to Columbia where he uncovers the drug smuggling operation that funds the NSAA.
I have edited my scenario down considerably as it stretches for some 40 pages including dialogue, but this will give you a close idea of how I expected a potential film to evolve.
The problems I had with my scenario are:
1. The number of chase scenes (originally there were 6) and I edited them down, deleting a climatic one involving the death of Mosolov.
2. The Brad Tirpitz character was removed from the story altogether, not only was he dislikable, but with 3 double agents in the story already, I felt him surplas to requirements.
3. I appreciated also that some elements of the scenario are familiar from LTK (Martinez is similar to Sanchez) and TLD (the drugs for guns episode). I didn’t realise this until some time after I had drafted my version. It must be hard to screenwrite for 007!
4. There are a lot of women - Bond beds four in the scenario – and this was somewhat out of step with the 1990s - though fine by me!
5. The Nazi War Criminal idea worked fine in 1990, but would be very difficult to explain now. Von Golda would probably be about 90 years old, somewhat unrealistic.
6. The terrorist plot was good idea, but I had difficulty explaining the real aim of the NSAA, other than simply the elimination of “other races”. It is not a good explanation and I covered it with constant hints at Von Golda’s madness and his Fourth Reich obsession.
I hope you enjoy it. I’m sorry it is such a long read....
ICE-BREAKER
MOVIE SCENARIO
MAIN CHARACTERS
James Bond
Paula Vacker
Rivke Ingber
Kolya Mosolov
Count Otto Von Golda
Gunther
Hector Martinez
Gomez
Juanita
SUPPORTING ROLES
M
Moneypenny
Q
Tanner
Miguel Torres
Zatopek
Jane Aitken
Aslu (a Lapp)
Nilles (a Lapp)
Lapkin (a KGB agent)
Seth (a Martinez’s hood)
Mr Swales (The bank clerk)
Ingrid (a masseuse)
PRE TITLE SEQUENCE
LAPLAND
Night-time. A lone skier slides to a halt near the edge of a copse of trees. It is James Bond. An unidentified aircraft spirals overhead, releasing several large tarpaulin packages with parachutes. In a wide clearing the packages are collected by Russian soldiers. One of them slits open a tarpaulin and pulls out a small grey bundle. He opens it.
From a hilltop and with his powerful photo-lenses, Bond sees the bundle of heroin. In his intercom static Aitken tells him to get away fast. Bond has no clearance to be in the border zone. It is too late; a patrol has discovered Bond’s tracks. A ski chase ensues and Bond uses the gadgets in his utility belt to evade capture.
Bond skis towards an isolated, snow bound cabin. He enters and addresses Aitken, who turns out to be a beautiful dark haired woman. They embrace and kiss.
CREDITS
SUBTITLE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE, JERUSALEM, 11 MONTHS AGO
The 15 representatives from Israel, Palestine, Syria, USA and the UN are assassinated by the Death Squad of the National Socialist Action Army, proclaiming a great day for the Fourth Reich and the beginning of world anarchy. The squad members commit ritual suicide after the killings.
In M’s office he and Bill Tanner listen to a telecast of a mysterious voice reciting Communique No.1 from the NSAA High Command, a blow struck against the freedom of the West and the alien beliefs of the Middle East.
SUBTITLE: COUTH AFRICAN EMBASSY, LISBON, 4 MONTHS AGO
A sniper focuses on the South African Ambassador, the French Foreign Minister and the Portugese Prime Minister as they exit the building. They are assassinated in a hail of bullets.
At the UN Congress, the French Delegate pleads for the UN to take the NSAA seriously. There have been 23 terror incidents in the last 8 months.
SUBTITLE: LONDON, THE PRESENT
A Mercedes driven by Zatopek pulls up outside an address in Grosvenor Square. He is sitting next to a member of the NSAA. A businessman leaves the address, sweat dribbles down Zatopeks cheek. He leaps from the car just as it explodes.
In hospital, Zatopek has died. All the police have discovered is an NSAA arm band and the name of the deceased. M and Tanner have been looking on from an observation window. M wants Bond; but he is still in Helsinki.
FINLAND
Bond exits from a sauna and teases Ingrid, a pretty masseuse. Later that evening Bond visits Paula Vacker, an old flame. They make love as soon as he arrives, then dine in a restaurant, where they reflect on how they met. Paula works for an environmental agency and they have met several times in places around the world. When they return to Paula’s flat, they are attacked by 2 knifemen. Bond kills one, while Paula produces an automatic from her bedroom and shoots the other in the head. Bond is mildly surprised she keeps a gun under her pillow. He calls Jane Aitken and requests a cleaner.
Aitken is deeply suspicious of Paula, not least because she has slept with Bond, who passes Aitken’s suspicions off as jealousy.
Back in London, Bond relates his adventures in Finland. They conclude Bond broke his cover too easily and was picked out by the Russians. Bonds pictures of the drugs delivery are interesting, but M has more important matters. Zatopek is identified as a Ukrainian drug smuggler. But according to service records, he was killed in Columbia in a gun battle with men controlled by Hector Martinez. M sends Bond to Cartegena to investigate. Q provides some “ammunition”.
CARTEGENA
Bond meets his contact Miguel Torres and they visit the local Police Chief Gomez, who resides at a huge table in an expensive restaurant. Bond collects Zatopek’s murder file, but precious little else. Bond is more interested in Hector Martinez, but Gomez is reticent. Later Torres explains that Martinez has several legitimate businesses but that they all support his drug trafficking empire. Bond wants to meet him; Torres suggests he try the Caribe Hotel tonight. It is the start of festival week and Martinez holds a huge party in the Casino and Ballroom for the local dignitaries.
Outside the Caribe Hotel, Bond uses slight of hand to steal an invitation to the party. An icy cool blonde woman catches his eye; she too is stealing an invite. Inside Bond peruses the ballroom. He meets Gomez again, who is talking to Juanita, Martinez’s beautiful secretary. Bond learns from her that Gomez is on Martinez payroll. She introduces Bond to her boss who is holding court at the chemin de fer table. Bond wins two bancos and Martinez is quick to threaten him. He is advised to enjoy his hospitality quickly. Bond is left alone, but the icy blonde is watching him.
Martinez tells Juanita to find out more about James Bond and she escorts him for a dance, during which she reveals that Martinez owns the hotel and lives in the penthouse suite. Bond makes his excuses quickly, but instead travels up the escalator to the penthouse, where he is informed by a doorman that it is a private penthouse.
Bond travels down to the next level and enters another suite with a universal key. Using Qs gadgets he climbs from the hotel window and up the side of the hotel to the balcony above, where he deactivates an alarm and enters the penthouse.
Bond discovers a hidden office in the centre of the penthouse which contains all of Martinez bank account details. He photographs several of them, including a deposit box account at the Cayman Trinity Bank opened in the names of Martinez and Otto Von Golda. Behind him the computer bleeps; Martinez has left his email open and there is a message from “Ice Palace” regarding the next scheduled delivery from Blue Hare in three days. It is signed OVG.
Bond is disturbed by the noise of the penthouse doors. He quickly exits the hidden office and meets Juanita, who, bored with the party, has come here to freshen herself.
Bond seduces her.
The doorman is mildly surprised when Bond exits the penthouse by the front door. As Bond steps from the lift, he is spied by the icy blonde.
Bond reaches his hotel, but three heavies escort him back to a limousine and he is driven to the city castle walls. Here he tussels with the guards, but the fight is broken up by the appearance of Kolya Mosolov, a KGB agent. Bond comments on the well hidden H.Q. Mosolov explains that Zatopek was his double agent and that Martinez is in cohoots with the NSAA, as a front man for their finances and a supplier of drugs to their armourers. A good hard currency, agrees Bond. But Mosolov is no closer to the NSAA than he was when Zatopek infiltrated them. Bond suggests working together, but Mosolov wants him to return to London.
Back at his hotel, Bond is informed a lady is waiting for him in the cocktail lounge. It is the icy blonde, who turns out to be Rivke Ingber, an agent of Mossad, also tracking Martinez and the NSAA. She tried to work with Mosolov too, but with little success. Bond chooses to work with her and they decide to travel to the Cayman Islands.
GRAND CAYMAN
Under the guise of Mr and Mrs Martinez, Bond and Rivke enter the Cayman Trinity Bank ands gain access to Martnez’s deposit box. It contains birth certificates of Otto Von Golda, South American immigration papers and three Nazi gold bars. Rivke remembers the name at last. Von Golda was a minor war criminal, presumed dead in Venezuela.
They are surprised by Martinez and his hoods. He explains that this is his insurance policy against Von Golda, so the supply of drugs can continue. Bond and Rivke are escorted to two landrover jeeps and the cortege sets off. Using another of Qs gadgets Bond and Rivke overpower their guards and a car chase ensues. Eventually the jeeps arrive at a quayside where the chase continues in 2 powerboats. Bond conducts an arial duel with Seth using the paraglide chutes on the boats. Seth is killed and falls from his chute. Bond shoots at Martinez from above and the drug baron is killed, his powerboat crashing against the rocks and exploding.
Rivke beaches the powerboat in a deserted cove. She and Bond make love on the beach. They walk on a coastal road back towards the town. A Mercedes pulls up and Kolya Mosolov opens the door.
On a private jet, the three pool their information, including the illegal drop zone Bond witnessed in Lapland. Mosolov has learnt that a weapons inventory at the Blue Hare Arctic base has gone badly awray and this corresponds with Bonds findings and the possible location of the NSAA H.Q. They agree to travel separately.
FINLAND
Bond and Rivke collect Q-Branches Saab 9000 from Jane Aitken. On route to Salla they are menaced by four snow ploughs and Bond uses the cars accessories to escape.
He and Rivke are both suspicious of Mosolov, whose plan is to approach Blue Hare on snow scooters. While Rivke sleeps, Bond goes to the Saab and sends a coded message to M.
During the night ride they are attacked and another exciting chase ensues. Rivke is blown off her scooter and they presume she is dead or captured. Mosolov shows no remorse.
They reach Blue Hare and witness armaments being loaded onto Arctic Terrain Vehicles. Bond and Mosolov capture the last of these and follow the convoy all the way to the Ice Palace. Here Mosolov reveals his true self and captures Bond. He is a double agent for the NSAA. Bond is shocked to meet Paula Vacker, who also works for the NSAA.
Bond is given a tour of the Ice Palace a huge underground bunker once used by the Soviets as a nuclear arms depot, but now expanded and converted for the NSAA. He witnesses combat practise, weapons testing and, most curiously, a Lover’s Gallery where the New Arians can copulate. Bond passes several caustic comments.
Finaly Bond meets Count Otto Von Golda, a 74-year old Nazi with delusions of grandeur. There is a fine meal during which Bond, Mosolov, Paula and Gunther (Von Golda’s henchman) listen as he explains the plan to spread his campaign of terror throughout the globe, using his 16 strike bases. The glorious Fourth Reich will soon have a place at the negotiating table. Bond suggests that the location of the Ice Palace is already known to his service. Von Golda pauses for thought and then decides to interrogate Bond. Bond is taken to an ice cave where a hole is carved in the ice and he is dunked into a freezing river while Von Golda shouts questions at him. Bond passes out.
Bond recovers in a hospital room. He is overjoyed to see Rivke in the bed next to him. He tells her that M has the location of the Ice Palace. Von Golda (listening in) is alarmed. Paula Vacker enters the hospital room and removes the light bulb above the headrest of Bond’s bed. Smashing it underfoot she reveals a bugging device. Rivke rolls from her bed, gun in hand, and Paula shoots her dead. Paula is from SUPO, the Finnish Intelligence Agency.
Von Golda has called an emergency evacuation and there is chaos. Bond and Paula make it back to Von Golda’s quarters where Bond explains he saw something peculiar in the mounting of Von Golda’s portrait of Hitler. There is a hidden catch, the picture slides away to reveal a world map showing the locations of the NSAA operations. Paula photographs it.
Meanwhile Rivke’s body is discovered and Von Golda swears vengeance for the death of his daughter.
Bond and Paula are spotted by Mosolov and a chase ensues. They use the Lover’s Gallery as cover and escape into the air conditioning ducts, eventually reaching a garage where they steal a snow scooter and escape. Paula takes Bond to her Lapp allies, who live in a traditional kota tent. She contacts her superiors and an air strike is arranged.
While the air strike begins, Bond and Paula watch from a hilltop. They are surprised by Mosolov, who has persued them. He claims to be neither NSAA nor KGB, just Kolya Mosolov. All this talk allows one of the Lapps to attack Mosolov’s agents. There is a short gunbattle and Mosolov is killed.
The Ice Palace is destroyed, but unknown to Bond, Von Golda, Gunther and another henchman, have secured themselves in a tiny shelter and flee the wreckage in an autogyro.
SALLA, FINLAND
Bond and Paula are sipping champagne in their hotel room, preparing to make love. Bond wants a shower. When he returns to the bedroom, Paula is in bed, but Von Golda and Gunther are in the room, both with revolvers. There is some dialogue, which allows Bond to distract the villains enough, allowing Paula to reach the automatic she keeps under her pillow (the same one she shot the knifeman with). Von Golda is shot and a fight ensues with the two henchmen who are killed.
LONDON
M is speaking to the Russian ambassador, who wishes to congratulate 007 personally. M thinks he has a contact number in Finland.
FINLAND
Paula’s telephone rings. In a sauna Paula is caressing Bond with vihta branches. Steam obscures them as they embrace.
CLOSING CREDITS
At the time I remember the Berlin wall was falling and Soviet Russia was disintegrating, so I thought it was a good time to suggest that the army and KGB might be out for profit, and guns and drugs were easy commodities. So I expanded the story by taking Bond to Columbia where he uncovers the drug smuggling operation that funds the NSAA.
I have edited my scenario down considerably as it stretches for some 40 pages including dialogue, but this will give you a close idea of how I expected a potential film to evolve.
The problems I had with my scenario are:
1. The number of chase scenes (originally there were 6) and I edited them down, deleting a climatic one involving the death of Mosolov.
2. The Brad Tirpitz character was removed from the story altogether, not only was he dislikable, but with 3 double agents in the story already, I felt him surplas to requirements.
3. I appreciated also that some elements of the scenario are familiar from LTK (Martinez is similar to Sanchez) and TLD (the drugs for guns episode). I didn’t realise this until some time after I had drafted my version. It must be hard to screenwrite for 007!
4. There are a lot of women - Bond beds four in the scenario – and this was somewhat out of step with the 1990s - though fine by me!
5. The Nazi War Criminal idea worked fine in 1990, but would be very difficult to explain now. Von Golda would probably be about 90 years old, somewhat unrealistic.
6. The terrorist plot was good idea, but I had difficulty explaining the real aim of the NSAA, other than simply the elimination of “other races”. It is not a good explanation and I covered it with constant hints at Von Golda’s madness and his Fourth Reich obsession.
I hope you enjoy it. I’m sorry it is such a long read....
ICE-BREAKER
MOVIE SCENARIO
MAIN CHARACTERS
James Bond
Paula Vacker
Rivke Ingber
Kolya Mosolov
Count Otto Von Golda
Gunther
Hector Martinez
Gomez
Juanita
SUPPORTING ROLES
M
Moneypenny
Q
Tanner
Miguel Torres
Zatopek
Jane Aitken
Aslu (a Lapp)
Nilles (a Lapp)
Lapkin (a KGB agent)
Seth (a Martinez’s hood)
Mr Swales (The bank clerk)
Ingrid (a masseuse)
PRE TITLE SEQUENCE
LAPLAND
Night-time. A lone skier slides to a halt near the edge of a copse of trees. It is James Bond. An unidentified aircraft spirals overhead, releasing several large tarpaulin packages with parachutes. In a wide clearing the packages are collected by Russian soldiers. One of them slits open a tarpaulin and pulls out a small grey bundle. He opens it.
From a hilltop and with his powerful photo-lenses, Bond sees the bundle of heroin. In his intercom static Aitken tells him to get away fast. Bond has no clearance to be in the border zone. It is too late; a patrol has discovered Bond’s tracks. A ski chase ensues and Bond uses the gadgets in his utility belt to evade capture.
Bond skis towards an isolated, snow bound cabin. He enters and addresses Aitken, who turns out to be a beautiful dark haired woman. They embrace and kiss.
CREDITS
SUBTITLE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE, JERUSALEM, 11 MONTHS AGO
The 15 representatives from Israel, Palestine, Syria, USA and the UN are assassinated by the Death Squad of the National Socialist Action Army, proclaiming a great day for the Fourth Reich and the beginning of world anarchy. The squad members commit ritual suicide after the killings.
In M’s office he and Bill Tanner listen to a telecast of a mysterious voice reciting Communique No.1 from the NSAA High Command, a blow struck against the freedom of the West and the alien beliefs of the Middle East.
SUBTITLE: COUTH AFRICAN EMBASSY, LISBON, 4 MONTHS AGO
A sniper focuses on the South African Ambassador, the French Foreign Minister and the Portugese Prime Minister as they exit the building. They are assassinated in a hail of bullets.
At the UN Congress, the French Delegate pleads for the UN to take the NSAA seriously. There have been 23 terror incidents in the last 8 months.
SUBTITLE: LONDON, THE PRESENT
A Mercedes driven by Zatopek pulls up outside an address in Grosvenor Square. He is sitting next to a member of the NSAA. A businessman leaves the address, sweat dribbles down Zatopeks cheek. He leaps from the car just as it explodes.
In hospital, Zatopek has died. All the police have discovered is an NSAA arm band and the name of the deceased. M and Tanner have been looking on from an observation window. M wants Bond; but he is still in Helsinki.
FINLAND
Bond exits from a sauna and teases Ingrid, a pretty masseuse. Later that evening Bond visits Paula Vacker, an old flame. They make love as soon as he arrives, then dine in a restaurant, where they reflect on how they met. Paula works for an environmental agency and they have met several times in places around the world. When they return to Paula’s flat, they are attacked by 2 knifemen. Bond kills one, while Paula produces an automatic from her bedroom and shoots the other in the head. Bond is mildly surprised she keeps a gun under her pillow. He calls Jane Aitken and requests a cleaner.
Aitken is deeply suspicious of Paula, not least because she has slept with Bond, who passes Aitken’s suspicions off as jealousy.
Back in London, Bond relates his adventures in Finland. They conclude Bond broke his cover too easily and was picked out by the Russians. Bonds pictures of the drugs delivery are interesting, but M has more important matters. Zatopek is identified as a Ukrainian drug smuggler. But according to service records, he was killed in Columbia in a gun battle with men controlled by Hector Martinez. M sends Bond to Cartegena to investigate. Q provides some “ammunition”.
CARTEGENA
Bond meets his contact Miguel Torres and they visit the local Police Chief Gomez, who resides at a huge table in an expensive restaurant. Bond collects Zatopek’s murder file, but precious little else. Bond is more interested in Hector Martinez, but Gomez is reticent. Later Torres explains that Martinez has several legitimate businesses but that they all support his drug trafficking empire. Bond wants to meet him; Torres suggests he try the Caribe Hotel tonight. It is the start of festival week and Martinez holds a huge party in the Casino and Ballroom for the local dignitaries.
Outside the Caribe Hotel, Bond uses slight of hand to steal an invitation to the party. An icy cool blonde woman catches his eye; she too is stealing an invite. Inside Bond peruses the ballroom. He meets Gomez again, who is talking to Juanita, Martinez’s beautiful secretary. Bond learns from her that Gomez is on Martinez payroll. She introduces Bond to her boss who is holding court at the chemin de fer table. Bond wins two bancos and Martinez is quick to threaten him. He is advised to enjoy his hospitality quickly. Bond is left alone, but the icy blonde is watching him.
Martinez tells Juanita to find out more about James Bond and she escorts him for a dance, during which she reveals that Martinez owns the hotel and lives in the penthouse suite. Bond makes his excuses quickly, but instead travels up the escalator to the penthouse, where he is informed by a doorman that it is a private penthouse.
Bond travels down to the next level and enters another suite with a universal key. Using Qs gadgets he climbs from the hotel window and up the side of the hotel to the balcony above, where he deactivates an alarm and enters the penthouse.
Bond discovers a hidden office in the centre of the penthouse which contains all of Martinez bank account details. He photographs several of them, including a deposit box account at the Cayman Trinity Bank opened in the names of Martinez and Otto Von Golda. Behind him the computer bleeps; Martinez has left his email open and there is a message from “Ice Palace” regarding the next scheduled delivery from Blue Hare in three days. It is signed OVG.
Bond is disturbed by the noise of the penthouse doors. He quickly exits the hidden office and meets Juanita, who, bored with the party, has come here to freshen herself.
Bond seduces her.
The doorman is mildly surprised when Bond exits the penthouse by the front door. As Bond steps from the lift, he is spied by the icy blonde.
Bond reaches his hotel, but three heavies escort him back to a limousine and he is driven to the city castle walls. Here he tussels with the guards, but the fight is broken up by the appearance of Kolya Mosolov, a KGB agent. Bond comments on the well hidden H.Q. Mosolov explains that Zatopek was his double agent and that Martinez is in cohoots with the NSAA, as a front man for their finances and a supplier of drugs to their armourers. A good hard currency, agrees Bond. But Mosolov is no closer to the NSAA than he was when Zatopek infiltrated them. Bond suggests working together, but Mosolov wants him to return to London.
Back at his hotel, Bond is informed a lady is waiting for him in the cocktail lounge. It is the icy blonde, who turns out to be Rivke Ingber, an agent of Mossad, also tracking Martinez and the NSAA. She tried to work with Mosolov too, but with little success. Bond chooses to work with her and they decide to travel to the Cayman Islands.
GRAND CAYMAN
Under the guise of Mr and Mrs Martinez, Bond and Rivke enter the Cayman Trinity Bank ands gain access to Martnez’s deposit box. It contains birth certificates of Otto Von Golda, South American immigration papers and three Nazi gold bars. Rivke remembers the name at last. Von Golda was a minor war criminal, presumed dead in Venezuela.
They are surprised by Martinez and his hoods. He explains that this is his insurance policy against Von Golda, so the supply of drugs can continue. Bond and Rivke are escorted to two landrover jeeps and the cortege sets off. Using another of Qs gadgets Bond and Rivke overpower their guards and a car chase ensues. Eventually the jeeps arrive at a quayside where the chase continues in 2 powerboats. Bond conducts an arial duel with Seth using the paraglide chutes on the boats. Seth is killed and falls from his chute. Bond shoots at Martinez from above and the drug baron is killed, his powerboat crashing against the rocks and exploding.
Rivke beaches the powerboat in a deserted cove. She and Bond make love on the beach. They walk on a coastal road back towards the town. A Mercedes pulls up and Kolya Mosolov opens the door.
On a private jet, the three pool their information, including the illegal drop zone Bond witnessed in Lapland. Mosolov has learnt that a weapons inventory at the Blue Hare Arctic base has gone badly awray and this corresponds with Bonds findings and the possible location of the NSAA H.Q. They agree to travel separately.
FINLAND
Bond and Rivke collect Q-Branches Saab 9000 from Jane Aitken. On route to Salla they are menaced by four snow ploughs and Bond uses the cars accessories to escape.
He and Rivke are both suspicious of Mosolov, whose plan is to approach Blue Hare on snow scooters. While Rivke sleeps, Bond goes to the Saab and sends a coded message to M.
During the night ride they are attacked and another exciting chase ensues. Rivke is blown off her scooter and they presume she is dead or captured. Mosolov shows no remorse.
They reach Blue Hare and witness armaments being loaded onto Arctic Terrain Vehicles. Bond and Mosolov capture the last of these and follow the convoy all the way to the Ice Palace. Here Mosolov reveals his true self and captures Bond. He is a double agent for the NSAA. Bond is shocked to meet Paula Vacker, who also works for the NSAA.
Bond is given a tour of the Ice Palace a huge underground bunker once used by the Soviets as a nuclear arms depot, but now expanded and converted for the NSAA. He witnesses combat practise, weapons testing and, most curiously, a Lover’s Gallery where the New Arians can copulate. Bond passes several caustic comments.
Finaly Bond meets Count Otto Von Golda, a 74-year old Nazi with delusions of grandeur. There is a fine meal during which Bond, Mosolov, Paula and Gunther (Von Golda’s henchman) listen as he explains the plan to spread his campaign of terror throughout the globe, using his 16 strike bases. The glorious Fourth Reich will soon have a place at the negotiating table. Bond suggests that the location of the Ice Palace is already known to his service. Von Golda pauses for thought and then decides to interrogate Bond. Bond is taken to an ice cave where a hole is carved in the ice and he is dunked into a freezing river while Von Golda shouts questions at him. Bond passes out.
Bond recovers in a hospital room. He is overjoyed to see Rivke in the bed next to him. He tells her that M has the location of the Ice Palace. Von Golda (listening in) is alarmed. Paula Vacker enters the hospital room and removes the light bulb above the headrest of Bond’s bed. Smashing it underfoot she reveals a bugging device. Rivke rolls from her bed, gun in hand, and Paula shoots her dead. Paula is from SUPO, the Finnish Intelligence Agency.
Von Golda has called an emergency evacuation and there is chaos. Bond and Paula make it back to Von Golda’s quarters where Bond explains he saw something peculiar in the mounting of Von Golda’s portrait of Hitler. There is a hidden catch, the picture slides away to reveal a world map showing the locations of the NSAA operations. Paula photographs it.
Meanwhile Rivke’s body is discovered and Von Golda swears vengeance for the death of his daughter.
Bond and Paula are spotted by Mosolov and a chase ensues. They use the Lover’s Gallery as cover and escape into the air conditioning ducts, eventually reaching a garage where they steal a snow scooter and escape. Paula takes Bond to her Lapp allies, who live in a traditional kota tent. She contacts her superiors and an air strike is arranged.
While the air strike begins, Bond and Paula watch from a hilltop. They are surprised by Mosolov, who has persued them. He claims to be neither NSAA nor KGB, just Kolya Mosolov. All this talk allows one of the Lapps to attack Mosolov’s agents. There is a short gunbattle and Mosolov is killed.
The Ice Palace is destroyed, but unknown to Bond, Von Golda, Gunther and another henchman, have secured themselves in a tiny shelter and flee the wreckage in an autogyro.
SALLA, FINLAND
Bond and Paula are sipping champagne in their hotel room, preparing to make love. Bond wants a shower. When he returns to the bedroom, Paula is in bed, but Von Golda and Gunther are in the room, both with revolvers. There is some dialogue, which allows Bond to distract the villains enough, allowing Paula to reach the automatic she keeps under her pillow (the same one she shot the knifeman with). Von Golda is shot and a fight ensues with the two henchmen who are killed.
LONDON
M is speaking to the Russian ambassador, who wishes to congratulate 007 personally. M thinks he has a contact number in Finland.
FINLAND
Paula’s telephone rings. In a sauna Paula is caressing Bond with vihta branches. Steam obscures them as they embrace.
CLOSING CREDITS
Comments
John Gardner is my favourite Bond-writer and I have about 10-13 of his books...
Icebreaker is one of my favorite Gardner novels, thought I agree that he should have edited it more
like you did, some of parts of the novel left me very confused.
Do you have any ideas for gadgets and weapons that Bond would use? Besides the car, I remember he had a bug sweeper and used an H&K P7 as his gun of choice in the novel. I would have him use a Walther PPK/S since it holds one extra round in the magazine, and maybe a Walther P88 for more serious encounters.
Finland sound like a great location, why EON has not used it yet, I have no idea, they could learn alot if they did research like we for our fan fiction stories.
It took me a long time to turn this lot up! Given that the Bond franchise never goes for the obvious but also springs several suprises I hit on this cast list, which essentially places my movie in the mid 1980s:
JAMES BOND Sam Neill
PAULA VACKER Anne Louise Lambert
RIVKE INGBER Alice Krige
OTTO VON GOLDA Nicol Williamson
HECTOR MARTINEZ Oliver Tobias
KOLYA MOSOLOV David Banks
GOMEZ George Sweeney
JUANITA Jolanda Egger
I would imagine the roles of M, Q etc to be the smae, with possibly Caroline Bliss.
For those of you who dont know...
Anne Louise Lambert starred in Picnic at Hanging Rock and was in The Borgias on TV.
Alice Krige is South African and was in Chariots of Fire
David Banks was the Cyberleader in Dr Who amongst other smal screen stuff.
George Sweeney was Speed in the comedy show Citizen Smith
Jolanda Egger was a Playboy model (there's one in every 1980s Bond I think)
Other alternatives I had were Roger Moore as 007, Catherine Bach or Lindsay Duncan as Paula, Brian Blessed as Gomez, Trevor Eve as Mosolov, Peter Vaughn as M, and my top pick...Burt Lancaster as Von Golda.
I do like the Nazi premise, though, as well as your insistence on double-crossing.