General Pushkin

So the next day we see Bond staking out what appears to be the Russian embassy or consulate building in Tangier.

And he's watching across the street as Pushkin and his girlfriend slash mistress slash someone.

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So, anyway.

Oh, that's what it is.

He gives a little smirk as he's watching Pushkin drop off his girlfriend or whatnot.

And you can tell that the gears are turning inside Bond's head like, okay, I know how I'm going to do this.

John Rhys-Davies to play General...

General Pushkin.

General Pushkin in a diplomatic

bag.

He says, James, why does the floor move? Diplomatic bags.

He's like, what happened to the old guy? Ah, flu.

You know, whatever.

So, and Koskoff is now making the case that he's defecting because of General Pushkin, saying that his power has gone to his head now that he's the head of KGB.

It was captured by the British Army during the Falklands War and then used as part of the war by the British before them being sold privately.

Now due to Koskov's debriefing, the gang believe that the person behind this is Pushkin.

His name is a play off the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin which reflected how Gogol's name was based off Nikolai Gogol.

Now if you're watching an hour twenty long breakdown of The Living Daylights and I'm sure you're aware that Gogol was originally meant to be Pushkin but Walter Gotel couldn't commit to this long role in the film strictly due to illness.

However it's clear they were continuing his storyline from earlier and there's a couple of subtle connections.

Now this is actually one of the many connections to For Your Eyes Only as it's something Chris Dados said about Columbo.

the communists.

After that, he took a different path.

I, I-

Um, I think he was supposed to play General Pushkin.

Yes.

Um, I, I-

Yeah.

So, uh, he wasn't quite up, he wasn't quite up to it, so they gave him that nice little cameo at the end.

But we did get, I think one of my favorite things was, uh, General, in that movie, is General Pushkin, John Rhys-Davies.

That scene between him and Dalton are, are, are dynamite, I think.