In Licence to Kill, here’s an example of Timothy Dalton’s famously hard edged Bond abandoning his suave, professional image and embracing pure revenge. Rather than dispatching Killifer quickly, Bond makes the punishment deeply personal. He’s palpably annoyed by the corrupt traitor and sends him to the sharks with his own sellout money-filled suitcase. It’s a perfect analogy for payback, and you can tell Bond truly means it when he uses Killifer’s own smarmy “old buddy” phrase to send him packing.

Bond doesn’t deliver a cool one liner here and would rather revel in the vengeance. It’s one of Dalton’s Bond’s coldest kills because it feels personal in a way that previous Bonds rarely allowed themselves to be.