The Living Daylights represents the first appearance by {|Timothy Dalton|} as "Bond...James Bond." Based very, very loosely on an obscure {|Ian Fleming|} short story, the film finds Bond assigned to aid in the defection of KGB agent {|Jeroen Krabbe|}. 007 must prevent an unknown sniper from killing Krabbe before he can reach the West. The mysterious assailant turns out to be the luscious {|Maryam d'Abo|}, who like practically everyone in the film except Bond is Not All That She Seems. The plot wends its way through a scheme to trade several million dollars' worth of diamonds for weapons, which will be shipped off to mercenaries worldwide. The climax takes place high above the clouds in a cargo plane loaded with opium. Dalton would play Bond one more time in License to Kill (1989) before handing the franchise over to {|Pierce Brosnan|}.