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= April 24 =

License to kill
In License to Kill, how could Pam Bouvier have snuck her shotgun into the bar without anyone (including the two spies Sanchez sent to watch her) noticing? 2601:646:8E01:7E0B:0:0:0:9A39 (talk) 09:33, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Because it's a work of fiction. Are you working your way through a James Bond DVD box set or something? --Viennese Waltz 09:37, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
 * No, just trying to understand the possible ways she could have done it (off-camera). (It just so happens that I'm doing some early concept work for a James Bond-themed FPS game, and I plan to make Pam Bouvier one of the playable characters in both campaign mode and multiplayer, and it also just so happens that one of the early levels might be loosely based on License to Kill -- which, coincidentally, is my favorite James Bond movie.)  So, what do you think of the following possibilities: (1) She brought it in disassembled and then put it together (I think this is unlikely because it would probably be noticed); (2) She used some kind of carrying case (like a guitar case) to conceal it (as another woman spy had done in the previous movie); or (3) It was already hidden somewhere in the bar by another CIA agent, and all she had to do was retrieve it and hide it under the table?2601:646:8E01:7E0B:0:0:0:9A39 (talk) 11:24, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
 * She retrieved it from hammerspace. Adam Bishop (talk) 12:33, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I think that's the kind of thing that you, as the designer of the game, should be able to decide for yourself without any input from others. --Viennese Waltz 12:37, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
 * True, and I should add that at this point, very little is actually decided regarding level design (in fact, regarding this particular level, the only thing that is set in stone is that Felix Leiter (who will also be a playable character in campaign and multiplayer mode) gives the player the "Felix Lighter" gadget (which will have a stun gas feature and possibly also a mini-flamethrower and/or explosive charge) before the bad guys feed him to the sharks) -- so it might be that I'll skip the bar fight scene altogether and have Pam Bouvier meet the player somewhere else. But the true reason I asked is because, among other things, one of my personal projects is to organize all of James Bond's life into a single timeline -- and in that regard, I've come to the conclusion that he would certainly have been court-martialed after that rogue mission of his, but acquitted (his saving grace being that he had stumbled into a legitimate CIA operation), and for that Pam Bouvier would have had to testify for the defense -- so I'm just curious what exactly she would have said during the trial, in particular regarding her first meeting with the defendant. 2601:646:8E01:7E0B:480A:3CB8:1B65:6097 (talk) 00:53, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
 * And by the way, it's Licence to Kill. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:30, 24 April 2018 (UTC)


 * The IMDB seems to think that both spellings were used. I don't know of a good way to check that claim, though. --69.159.62.113 (talk) 09:12, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
 * "License to Kill" is a Denzel Washington TV movie. 209.149.113.5 (talk) 13:08, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
 * My link and I were not talking about that one. --69.159.62.113 (talk) 00:18, 26 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Some of the pre-release posters seem to have the s spelling [//www.moviepostersetc.com/MoviePostersEtc/license-to-kill-movie-poster-timothy-dalton-as-james-bond-27x41-40288bca53c7e3740154ca5197932fc5-p.html]. I can't find any post release posters with that spelling though. Nor VHS folders/covers etc. Nil Einne (talk) 18:54, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I suspect that that explains it. --69.159.62.113 (talk) 00:18, 26 April 2018 (UTC)