Continuing the blog’s look at a March 1988 treatment by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson for Licence to Kill. The treatment was provided by Gary J. Firuta.
A shell “from a tank hits the bungalow and explodes, almost demolishing it,” the treatment says on page 40. “Evidently Kwang had been followed there.”
The treatment says General Rios, “in a command car with Sanchez, is directing an attack by regular Isthmus City troops on the bungalow.”
The attack is deadly. Rios sends troops inside. The roof has collapsed. Rios and Sanchez follow the troops inside.
“Kwang and Loti are still alive,” according to the treatment. “Rios hands Sanchez a revolver. He dispatches them with it.”
As in the final film, Bond is discovered, still alive.
“Rios lifts revolver to kill him,” Maibaum and Wilson write. “Sanchez stays his hand.”
“He tried to warn me,” Sanchez says.
The next morning, Bond awakens in a bedroom of the casino penthouse. Lupe is there.
“She tells him she prayed for him,” the treatment says. “And for herself, too.”
Soon, Sanchez enters with his personal physician, Dr. Mendez, who “wears a voluminous camel’s hair coat, a broad rimmed fedora and dark sunglasses.”
Mendez begins to examine Bond. Sanchez “expresses hit gratitude to Bond.”
“From now on they are hermanos,” according to the treatment. “And the East Coast territory might soon be his. They will discuss it when Bond has recovered.”
Sanchez instructs the doctor to give Bond a sedative “to knock him out for six hours.” After Sanchez exits the room, “he tells a man standing there to stay and keep an eye on Bond. It is Dario.”
Back in the room, Mendez is about to inject the sedative into Bond. But the agent “deftly snatches the needle” out of the doctor’s hand and injects him with it instead.
“The astounded Mendez pulls away, staggers a few feet and collapses.”
Dario’s suspicions are raised. He enters the room, his weapon drawn. Lupe is making the bed.
Dario pulls away the covers. Dr. Mendez is there. Bond gets into a fight with Dario. Eventually, Bond overcomes Dario. Bond tells Lupe “it is her last chance to get away from Sanchez and Krest.
“Will she come with him? She is still shaken but agrees.”
TO BE CONTINUED
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