I thought Orlov's plan with the nuclear bomb could have gone forward without bothering to get the real egg back. Unless I missed something?
shareVerily I say unto thee...if you have been fretting over this for the past 31 years then I genuinely hope that someone here can answer this question for you and put you out of your misery.
shareDoes anyone get the idea that Bap's only exposure to Bond is a DVD entitled 'best fist fight scenes?'
1 mark deducted for not being Curse of Fenric. Insert 'The' into previous if you are Ant-Mac
That's still a nice lump of cash, you know.
shareThey were purchasing the Fabergé egg (and other valuable Soviet treasures) for jewelry smuggling using Octopussy's circus troupe as a front. Purchasing the egg and giving it to Kamal Khan to smuggle makes their ring (pun intended) more creditable and wouldn't raise suspicion. That's where Orlov and Kamal Khan can replace with the jewelry with the atomic bomb to start their war campaign against the West.
What we do in life, echoes in eternity.
You did miss something.
shareThere was an "unscheduled inventory" coming up back at the Russian warehouse/museum/wherever orlov was pilfering the jewels.
He needed to replace the egg on that shelf or be caught.
They lost the reproduction that would have been used as placeholder to 009, so they needed to reacquire the original, lickety split.
Now, this is a signature gun, and that is an optical palm reader.