Octopussy

The pre-title sequence involves Bond's mission to destroy technology which has fallen into enemy hands and features him flying a nimble homebuilt Bede BD-5J aircraft.[1]

When a fatally wounded British agent 009 stumbles into the British Embassy in East Berlin with a fake Fabergé egg, MI6 immediately suspect Soviet involvement. Fortunately, the real egg turns up at an auction in London. Bond is sent to find out who the seller is and subsequently why 009 was murdered. Bond switches the real egg with a fake one at the auction. When an exiled Afghan prince, Kamal Khan, pays £500 000 to buy the egg (following Bond's own bidding on the object to drive up the price), Bond follows him to his palace in India to find out why.

It turns out that a renegade Soviet, General Orlov, supplies Khan with priceless Soviet treasures, and replaces them in state depositories with replicas. Khan is in turn smuggling them into the west with help from Octopussy, a fabulously wealthy woman who lives in a floating palace in India, surrounded by women who are members of her "Octopus" cult.
Kamal Khan.
Kamal Khan.

Bond defeats Khan in a game of backgammon and assisted by his ally Vijay, foils Khan's bodyguard Gobinda's attempts to kill them. But one of Khan's associates, Magda, seduces Bond and steals the Fabergé egg. Bond is immediately captured by Gobinda and locked in Khan's palace, but using a pen containing aqua regia[2], he cuts a window's iron bars and escapes. His Seiko watch fitted with a beacon traces the Fabergé egg. He hears through a microphone that Orlov is planning to meet Khan at Karl-Marx-Stadt in East Germany, where Octopussy's circus is scheduled to perform. Khan notices the microphone and orders Gobinda to "get Bond." Posing as a corpse, Bond escapes.

Bond infiltrates Octopussy's island and confronts her, only to find out that she feels indebted to him for letting her father, a British Major, commit suicide rather than face the shame of a court martial when Bond was sent after him for smuggling and murder some years before. Khan now plans to replace the jewellery canister being smuggled through Octopussy's circus with a nuclear bomb. The warhead is primed to explode during a circus show at a US Air Force base in West Germany.

In East Germany Bond tries to stop the train with the bomb on board from leaving the Soviet base. He confronts Orlov, who escapes after revealing that the nuclear attack would be interpreted as an accident and Europe would insist on nuclear disarmament, rendering itself defenceless against an attack from Soviet forces. Bond pursues the train in Orlov's stolen car. When Orlov realizes that Bond is aboard, he runs after the train, past the GDR border guards before West German Guards shoot him dead. His final moments are witnessed by General Gogol, who has seized the stolen jewelry from Orlov's car and considers him disgraced.

Bond is soon attacked by Gobinda and one of the Octopussy Circus' twin knife throwers and is forced off the train. He pursues the train on foot and by stealing an Alfa-Romeo. Khan and Gobinda leave before the countdown runs out, passing Bond by the road on their way out, but Khan thinks that Bond will be too late to stop the bomb. Bond is chased by the police for stealing the car but finally makes his way into the circus disguised as a clown. He is captured trying to explain that there is a bomb hidden in the circus' cannon; but by showing her one of the jewels she was supposed to smuggle, he at least manages to convince Octopussy, who shoots open the canister, revealing the bomb. The guards let Bond go, and he defuses the bomb just in time.

Back in India, Khan is preparing to leave his palace. Octopussy, Magda and their cult members arrive, followed by Q and Bond in a hot air balloon. They launch an assault and overpower the guards. Gobinda and Khan capture Octopussy, escaping to an airplane by horseback. Bond reaches the plane and mounts it just as it takes off, battles Gobinda in a desperate airborne fight and defeats him. Bond and Octopussy manage to jump onto a cliff as the plane crashes, killing Khan. While M and Gogol discuss the return of one of the pieces of jewelry, the Romanov star, Bond recuperates with Octopussy aboard her private boat in India.