
Later, General Gogol (Walter Gotell) from the Soviet Union visits Zorin's estate with several other KGB agents. She and Zorin attempt to drown Bond in a nearby pond but the plan fails. However, Tibbett has been killed by May Day, who is driving the car. Bond escapes the track and sees his limousine, boarding it. When Bond overtakes Zorin, Zorin activates a device that causes the horse to go wild. The course is laid with booby-trapped obstacles and Zorin's goons who attack Bond. In an effort to get rid of Bond, Zorin provides Bond with an ill-tempered horse. He invites Bond to race with him steeplechase-style. During their meeting, Zorin uses a hidden camera and database to find a match for pictures he takes of Bond Zorin discovers Bond's real identity. John Smythe in selecting a stud horse for the stables he supposedly inherited. Their intrusion is discovered and Zorin asks Bond to report to his study, where he'll aid St. He asks May Day to join him in bed and she does so with Zorin's amused permission - despite hers and Zorin's romantic relationship. Bond defeats them both and retreats to May Day's room. The two are attacked by a pair of Zorin's thugs. Bond and Tibbet also discover a packing room for a large stash of the same microchips that Bond obtained in the Arctic. There they discover Mortner's secret work: Zorin plants microchips in his horses, programmed to release a steroid when prompted by a hidden radio transmitter snuck into the tip of the jockey's whip (or a cane, as Bond remembers from Ascot). Tibbet is found by Bond, who has discovered a secret lab below the stables. When Tibbett sneaks up behind, he sees that Mortner & the horse have disappeared. Later, Tibbett follows Dr Mortner who leads Pegasus into Zorin's stables. He later sneaks into Zorin's office and finds a check written to Sutton for a large sum of money. When Bond tries to talk briefly with her, she's whisked away by Mayday at Zorin's orders. He sees her enter Zorin's office where they have a quick meeting. Bond thinks the woman "bares closer inspection," but Tibbett reminds him of their primary mission. Bond also meets an American named Stacey Sutton (Tanya Roberts). During a reception party, they meet Zorin's head of security, Scarpine (Patrick Bauchau), and Dr Mortner (Willoughby Gray), a horse vet who specializes in selective breeding to produce Zorin's prize animals. John Smythe (pronounced "sin-jin-smythe"), a rich dilettante who recently inherited horses, with Tibbett posing as his valet. Bond and Tibbett travel to Chantilly, France where Bond poses as James St. A boat driven by Zorin later picks her up on the Seine and Bond is arrested. Bond rides the top of an elevator to the bottom, steals a Renault taxi and chases her through the city but is unable to apprehend her. Bond chases her to an upper level of the tower but she parachutes off before he can catch her. Moments later, Aubergine is assassinated by May Day (Grace Jones). Aubergine informs Bond that Zorin is holding an annual horse sale later in the month. Through Tibbett, Bond meets a French private detective named Achille Aubergine (Jean Rougerie) at the restaurant on the Eiffel Tower to discuss how the horse may have won. Sir Godfrey Tibbett (Patrick Macnee), an MI6 agent who works as a horse trainer, believes Zorin's horse was given drugs, although when screened by officials prior to the race, it did not show any drugs in its bloodstream. Later, Pegasus throws a fit and it takes some effort to get him under control - the person who regains Pegasus' control is a mysterious woman named May Day (Grace Jones). While at the track, Zorin's horse Pegasus miraculously pulls ahead to win the race. Bond and his superiors visit the Ascot Racecourse to observe the company's founder and CEO, Max Zorin (Christopher Walken).

The retrieved microchip is also designed to withstand the damage caused to other chips by the electromagnetic pulse of a nuclear explosion.


After Bond returns to England a week later, Q (Desmond Llewelyn) has the microchip analyzed and informs M (Robert Brown), Bond and the Minister of Defense that its design is an exact match of a microchip made by Zorin Industries.

Upon doing so, he is ambushed by Soviet troops but flees in a submarine built to resemble an iceberg. James Bond (Roger Moore) is sent to Siberia to locate the body of 003 and to recover a microchip.
