Fan Casting Nigel Yupland in Portrait of a Lady

A young, brilliant, and profoundly dangerous civil servant who has concluded that the Double-O section is an expensive anachronism. He means well, in the way that men who have never been shot at always mean well. His arrival in Hong Kong to "take charge" is a masterclass in how to compromise an operation through sheer bureaucratic confidence. When his backslapping bonhomie exposes Bond's cover at a cocktail party, the consequences cascade into tragedy. He will learn nothing from any of it—and that is the most damning thing about him.