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* Why did Bond go to the trouble of assembling an all-Lovers Tarot deck? There are less laborious -- and less detectable -- ways of forcing a card, and Bond (whose bookverse incarnation is trained as a cardsharp) could be expected to know them.[[note]]There's a perfectly good Doylist explanation: It's efficient storytelling, since the deception can be made clear with a single camera shot. But that doesn't mean it makes in-universe sense.[[/note]]
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*** Another piece of subtext is that it's very important not to underestimate Quarrel. His cover is that of a lazy tourist boat operator, but the CIA (or MI6) don't hand out the kind of hardware contained in his boat to just anyone. He's very knowledgeable about the island and its people (presumably including the Obeah beliefs), and on top of that he's very observant - when Rosie pulls her gun on him, he immediately notices that she's left the safety catch on and is therefore not an immediate threat. The implication is that he's not just an agent, he's a very good one.
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*** Another piece of subtext is that it's very important not to underestimate Quarrel. His cover is that of a lazy tourist boat operator, but the CIA (or MI6) [=MI6=]) don't hand out the kind of hardware contained in his boat to just anyone. He's very knowledgeable about the island and its people (presumably including the Obeah beliefs), and on top of that he's very observant - when Rosie pulls her gun on him, he immediately notices that she's left the safety catch on and is therefore not an immediate threat. The implication is that he's not just an agent, he's a very good one.
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** The hit was probably called off with a signal from the assassin once the gang was aware Bond would shortly be on site, in order to lure him inside.
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** The hit was probably called off with a signal from the assassin once the gang was aware Bond would shortly be on site, in order to lure him inside.inside.
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