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Wai Lin (Chinese 林慧) is a fictional character in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, portrayed by Michelle Yeoh. The character has received critical acclaim, being widely regarded as one of the best Bond girls in the series.
Wai Lin is a spy for the Chinese People's External Security Force in the rank of colonel and skilled in martial arts. She first encounters Bond when she is sent (under the disguise as a Xinhua News Agency reporter) to investigate the disappearance of stealth material from a People's Liberation Army base that is connected to media mogul Elliot Carver's plan to start a war between the People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom. She later learns that Bond was sent by MI-6 to work on the same case. The two initially believe they have been ordered to kill each other, but eventually develop a wary mutual trust when they are both captured and imprisoned by Carver's secret partner, General Chang (who was in charge of the military base where the stolen stealth materials for Carver's stealth boat originated from). Bond especially grows to respect her when she playfully, but firmly, rejects his attempts at seduction. Carver brings them both aboard his private ship to gloat that he will control the world's media after he gets exclusive coverage rights to the impending war, which will begin when the ship launches missiles at a British craft. At the last minute, however, Wai breaks free and creates a distraction that allows Bond to disable the missiles, kill Carver, and escape with her as the ship self-destructs. She and Bond then give in to the mutual attraction they had both been fighting during the mission, and become lovers.
Actors: Robert Higden (actor), Zach Braff (actor), Normand Corbeil (composer), Richard Robitaille (actor), Tony Robinow (actor), Benjamin Duffield (editor), Patrick Labbé (actor), Anik Matern (actress), Ian Finlay (actor), Susan Bain (actress), Isabelle Blais (actress), Paula Jean Hixson (actress), Pierre Gendron (actor), Heidi Levitt (producer), Jonathan Alberts (editor),
Plot: The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels,Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But Henry is not quite the angel he seems...
Genres: Drama,Actors: Ricky Jay (actor), Julian Rhind-Tutt (actor), Geoffrey Palmer (actor), Jonathan Pryce (actor), Pierce Brosnan (actor), Desmond Llewelyn (actor), Götz Otto (actor), Gerard Butler (actor), Michael Byrne (actor), Hugh Bonneville (actor), Julian Fellowes (actor), Joe Don Baker (actor), Philip Kwok (actor), Vincent Schiavelli (actor), Colin Salmon (actor),
Plot: Agent James Bond 007 is on a mission which includes a media tycoon, his former lover and a Chinese agent. Elliot Carver wants to complete his global media empire, but in order for this to work, he must achieve broadcasting rights in China. Carver wants to start up World War III by starting a confrontation over British and Chinese waters. Bond gains the help of Wai Lin on his quest to stop him, but how will Bond feel when he meets up with his former lover, who is now Carver's wife.
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