ATAC communicator
The ATAC (Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator) is a device that uses an ultra low frequency coded transmission to order submarines to launch ballistic missiles. Bond is sent to recover the ATAC after the British spy ship the St. Georges sinks off the Albanian coast. MI6 is worried that should the ATAC fall into the wrong hands any British submarines could be ordered to attack British targets. After recovering the ATAC and disposing of Aris Kristatos, Bond throws the ATAC over a cliff rather than let the KGB have it.
crossbow
This crossbow is Melina Havelock’s weapon of choice. This rather bulky weapon shot steel arrows rather than bullets. Melina uses this a number of times during the film, firstly to kill Hector Gonzales, who killed her parents. She then uses it to kill some of Gonzales’ men and then at the end of the film to kill some of Kristatos’ men.
gadgets in Q’s lab
As Bond is walking through Q’s Lab he sees Smithers perform a demonstration of a fake plaster cast that when activated flung sideways hitting anyone next to the person wearing the cast. Bond also sees a demonstration of an umbrella that once rained on, causes it to close rapidly deploying spikes at the bottom.
3D identigraph
This 3D Identigraph was still in the experimental phase when Q uses it to find a match of the man who paid Hector Gonzales. Bond tells Q descriptions about the mans facial characteristics that once complete, the database could be checked for matches from files of the Suretee, Interpol, Mossad, CIA and the West German Police. The database finds a match and prints out the suspects’ image, the man being Emile Leopold Locque.
miniature tape recorder
This tape recorder is small enough to fit underneath a candle in a glass jar. Whilst in a restaurant, Kristatos and Bond have dinner, unknown to them Milos Columbo is taping their conversation. The waiter then comes along and changes the candle in the glass jar and passes it to Columbo to listen to.
JIM diving equipment
This one-man diving suit allowed the wearer to conduct work at far deeper depths than a scuba diver could. Bond encounters one of Kristatos’ men wearing JIM diving equipment during their recovery of the ATAC. Bond plants an explosive charge on the back of the suit and manages to escape just in time before it explodes.
digital radio watch
This watch displayed the time in the usual analogue way, but at the top there was a space for a message to be digitally displayed. The watch also had the feature of being a radio. This is used at the very end of the film when Q, the Chief of Staff and the Minister of Defence are trying to get in contact with Bond. He places the watch next to Max the parrot, and unknown to the people at MI6 and indeed to Margaret Thatcher they are talking to a parrot! Whilst Max entertains, Bond and Melina disrobe each other and take a moonlight swim.
related links
For Your Eyes Only reference guide
