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Plenty's fate

posted 8 years ago by Drooch
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If we factor in the deleted scene in which O'Toole returns from the pool to the hotel room and sees Tiffany's address on her card, is it then correct that she went to that house looking for Bond (or to take revenge on her sex-rival, Tiffany) and ends up running into Wint and Kidd who drown her in Tiffany's pool?

If so, Do Wint and Kidd kill her just because she has seen them and they're psychopaths, or because they mistake her for Tiffany (as Bond suggests, but didn't they see Tiffany earlier in the plane? Kidd even remarked on her attractiveness)???

Whatever the details, Plenty O'Toole's fate is twistedly tragic and cruel. She's a sexy, charming, upbeat young woman who miraculously survives being tossed from a high balcony by landing in a pool, only to be horribly drowned in another pool, inches from the surface, via a concrete slab, by two utterly sadistic killers. Added to which, Bond shows zero sympathy for the poor girl, who would have lived a prosperous life as a prestigious Vegas prostitute had she never encountered our 'hero'. This film is a rare combination of dark and camp (much like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, also starring Charles Gray).

[–] thylacine80 8 years ago

It's because they mistake her for Tiffany.

But you're right, I never realized that they saw the real Tiffany in the plane.

So we end up with something that doesn't make any sense ANYWAY.

In the final version, we don't have any explanation about her death. But in the written script, it was a plot hole anyway.

[–] tbonesays 8 years ago

IS Tiffany wearing his brown wig on the plane?

[–] liscarkat (16543) 4 years ago

Over the decades, Bond's attitude and behavior towards numerous women suggests that he is a sociopath. But a very cool, hip sociopath.