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...hadn't been for Q Branch," the secret service gadget master known simply as Q tells James Bond in 1989's License to Kill, "you'd have been dead long ago." As the fatherly boffin responsible for arming and protecting the British spy since the early 1960s, Q has tinkered with super cars (Bond's amphibious Lotus in The Spy Who Loved Me which came with torpedoes and mines), invented cunning weapons (a key chain in The Living Daylights that used gas to disorientate the enemy, followed by an explosive charge) and regularly came up with ingenious tools (a fake...
...have retired - he hasn't appeared in the last couple of Bond films - but science and technology are still vital to security. That's why MI5, Britain's domestic security service, is currently advertising for a kind of real-life Q. The new "chief scientific adviser", an ad posted on the agency's website says, should boast "world-class scientific expertise" and "outstanding influencing and communication skills" in order "that the service continues to be supported by excellent science and technology advice." (See pictures of James Bond foiling villains...
Aspiring Qs would do well to think outside the box. Played most famously by Welshman Desmond Llewelyn, the fictional Q was nothing if not a dreamer. Yet not everything the Bond technician dreamt up became standard issue. 007 never did get to try out the couch, showcased in The Living Daylights, that swallowed up anyone who sat on it. The spy also managed without the telephone box equipped with air bags able to crush anyone inside it. And we never heard a sound out of the exploding alarm clock - "guaranteed," Q said in License to Kill, "never to wake...
...TIME's celebration of Ian Fleming's centenary and James Bond...
...There are obviously costs to having such a small roster—everyone has to be on their game all the time, but having such a small, tight group of guys means we can bond as a team,” co-captain Brady Weissbourd said. “We’ve won all our important games in five, and it shows the difference between us and other teams in those close matches...