Fan Casting Denholm Crisp in Portrait of a Lady

Five years from retirement, twenty years in the Far East, his once-razored instincts dulled by duty-free gin and the slow erosion of empire. Bond's arrival jolts him back to life—a new spring in his step, a reason to shave properly, a mission that matters. He books the hotels, watches the exits, and smiles from the end of the corridor when Bond seems to have things in hand. When Bond falls, he pronounces the death with devastating simplicity. When Bond returns, he is waiting, map in hand, ready to guide his friend through the sewers one last time.