Wai Lin

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Wai Lin is a female film character who features in James Bond.

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Biography

Wai Lin (Chinese: 林慧; pinyin: Lín Huì)

She came to be a member of the Chinese People's External Security Force and served as a secret agent as well as a spy.

Wai Lin first encounters James Bond when she is sent (undercover as a New China News Agency reporter) to investigate the disappearance of stealth material from a People's Liberation Army base that is connected to media mogul Elliot Carver's plan to start a war between the People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom.

Wai Lin later learns that Bond was sent by MI6 to work on the same case. The two initially believe they have been ordered to kill each other, but eventually develop a wary mutual trust when they are both captured and imprisoned by Carver's secret partner, General Chang (who was in charge of the military base where the stolen stealth materials for Carver's stealth boat originated from). Bond especially grows to respect her when she playfully, but firmly, rejects his attempts at seduction.

Carver brings them both aboard his private ship to gloat that he will control the world's media after he gets exclusive coverage rights to the impending war, which will begin when the ship launches missiles at a British craft. At the last minute, however, Wai breaks free and creates a distraction that allows Bond to disable the missiles, kill Carver, and escape with her as the ship self-destructs. She and Bond then give in to the mutual attraction they had both been fighting during the mission, and become lovers.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Wai Lin is a bright yet tough and resourceful young woman who takes her job very seriously and brilliantly manages to impose herself on her male colleagues and enemies. Conscientious, she favors stealth over action and is not afraid to kill people in cold blood to advance in her missions. Wai Lin likes to use her charms to extract information from targets and has likely had several romantic relationships in the past being aware that men find her elegant and attractive.

Powers and abilities

She came to be a member of the Chinese People's External Security Force holding the position of Colonel where she served as a secret agent as well as a spy.

Notes

  • Wai Lin was portrayed by actor Michelle Yeoh where she featured in the setting of Tomorrow Never Dies.
  • Early scripts for Die Another Day indicated that Wai Lin was set to return in the film where she was to aid Bond in Hong Kong but the plot never occurred with the character replaced with a new Chinese Intelligence agent named Mr. Chang.

In other media

Video games

  • In Tomorrow Never Dies, Wai Lin appeared as a playable character in the 1999 video game tie-in to the film.

Appearances

  • Tomorrow Never Dies:

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