


Della offers Bond a gift, a silver-handled cigarette lighter with the engraving, "Love always, Della and Felix." Della tells Bond that he will need to get married next, causing Bond great discomfort. During the reception, Bond finds Leiter finishing up a meeting in his office with another woman, Pamela Bouvier, ( Carey Lowell), but she leaves before Bond can speak with her. Afterwards, Bond and Leiter parachute down to the church in time for the ceremony. Bond is lowered on a cable and manages to attach the helicopter's tow cable to Sanchez's plane in flight and pulling it out of the air. Bond and Leiter catch up to Sanchez in a Coast Guard helicopter. After a short gunfight, he separates from his henchmen and Lupe, and flies off alone via a private plane. Bond and Leiter arrive just as Sanchez is preparing to fly out of US territory. Dario, Perez and Braun grab the boyfriend and take him outside, where they kill him and cut out his heart, while Sanchez himself punishes Lupe by whipping her with the tail of a stingray. Sanchez and his three menacing henchmen, Dario ( Benicio Del Toro), Perez ( Alejandro Bracho), and Braun ( Guy De Saint Cyr), creep up to the house where the boyfriend is staying, then burst in and catch Lupe in bed with her new lover. Sanchez has ventured north of his territory because he'd found out that his mistress Lupe Lamora ( Talisa Soto) is having an affair with another man. Bond accompanies him aboard a Coast Guard helicopter, "strictly as an observer," to ensure that he will be back on time, and alive, for the wedding, leaving Sharkey to stall the proceedings until they get back. The timetable to capture him before he can flee to non-extradition territory is tight, so Leiter decides to take it. Bush) intercepts them to inform Leiter that Sanchez is making a rare visit to Cray Key. As Bond, Leiter, and Leiter's fishing buddy Sharkey ( Frank McRae) drive to the wedding, Leiter's boss, Hawkins ( Grand L. He is considered one of the most ruthless drug lords around, operating an invisible empire that stretches all the way from Alaska to Chile, and he's proven impossible to catch, having managed to kill, intimidate or bribe every major politician in the Western Hemisphere who could give him up. With Cold War tensions cooling down, Leiter has transferred to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and he's spent the last several months attempting to capture elusive drug kingpin Franz Sanchez ( Robert Davi). James Bond ( Timothy Dalton) is on leave in Florida to serve as best man at the wedding of Felix Leiter ( David Hedison) and Della Churchill ( Priscilla Barnes).
