Octopussy (1983)

Robert Brown: M

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• M : Remember, 007, you're on your own.

  James Bond : Well, thank you, sir. That's a great comfort.

• M : You had no business bidding for that egg! What would you have done if you'd had been stuck with it?

  James Bond : Then I would have claimed it was a fake, sir... and not paid.

  M : Not paid?

  James Bond : Here is the real one. I swiped it with the fake at the auction.

  M : Good God. And what happens when the buyer discovers this?

  James Bond : He complains.

  M : Well?

  James Bond : I don't think he will complain. According to Fanning, this Kamal usually sells. Now he buys. I think the fake will smoke him out. I had a tail follow him to Heathrow, where he caught a plane to Delhi.

  M : You must go there, too. I'll have Sadruddin, our man at Station I, there to assist you.

  James Bond : Yes, well, I have exactly 35 minutes to catch that plane.

  M : Oh, Bond... sign a chit for that egg on your way out... it's government property now.

• M : Do you know what this is?

  James Bond : Why, it looks like a Fabergé egg, sir. One of the jeweled eggs made by Carl Fabergé as an Easter gift to the Russian royal family. They're priceless and very rare. This one contains a model of the imperial stage coach.

  M : Top marks, 007.

  James Bond : Thank you, sir.

  M : Except - it's a fake.

• M : Eyes only, 007. Operation Trove. You'll be replacing 009. He turned up dead in East Germany with that egg in his hand.