ALEC TREVELYAN

'Alexander "Alec" Trevelyan' ('006') is the primary villain in the James Bond film ''GoldenEye'', portrayed by actor Sean Bean. The likeness of Bean as Alec Trevelyan was also used for the 1997 video game, ''GoldenEye 007''.

Contents

Film Biography

Character information

Scheme

Quotes

Motive

The end

Betrayal

Henchmen

Film Biography

Character information

Once an agent working for Her Majesty's secret service, agent '006', Trevelyan betrayed MI6 on a mission in the Soviet Union while working with James Bond, who considered Trevelyan his best friend. During the mission to blow up the Arkhangelsk chemical weapons facility in 1986, Trevelyan was caught by the base's commander, Colonel Arkady Ourumov, and apparently shot point blank in the head. Presuming Trevelyan dead, Bond continued the mission, blew up the facility with mines (set to three minutes instead of six) and escaped in a supply plane.
Nine years later, Bond, while pursuing the thieves of a stolen helicopter, is told by Valentin Zukovsky that the head of a crime syndicate known as 'Janus' (previously under suspicion for the stolen helicopter) is a Lienz Cossack. Later, Bond is shocked to find that the head of Janus is none other than Trevelyan himself, and that not only was his execution staged, but he now employs Ourumov, who has risen to the rank of General. Trevelyan is also physically scarred from burns suffered when Bond blew up the weapons facility, as Bond had changed the timer on the bomb from six minutes to three before Trevelyan's apparent death.

Scheme

His scheme involved stealing the GoldenEye disk, keys and access codes and destroying the Severnaya complex using the electromagnetic pulse of the nuclear explosion of GoldenEye's nuclear warhead satellite ''Petya'', thus erasing any evidence. His henchmen (Ourumov and Xenia Onatopp) escaped Severnaya under the protection of the stolen Tiger helicopter which was impervious to the electromagnetic pulse. GoldenEye's nuclear warhead satellite ''Mischa'' would then be used to aid Trevelyan in stealing hundreds of millions of pounds via computer from the Bank of England in London, and erasing all evidence of the transaction. ''Mischa'' would destroy the city, crippling the British economy and government, triggering a catastrophic currency crisis, and causing global stock market and economic chaos. Trevelyan, having obtained the only valuable currency of pounds sterling, could have economic supremacy over the British and the world in an era of terrorism for decades.

Quotes

★ 'Trevelyan': "For England, James."
:'Bond': "For England, Alec."

★ 'Ourumov': "Is it true?" (asking about Trevelyan being Lienz Cossack)
:'Trevelyan': "What's true is that in 48 hours you and I will have more money than God, and Mr. Bond here will have a small memorial service, with only Moneypenny and a few tearful restaurateurs in attendance."

★ 'Alec Trevelyan': "I set the timers for six minutes. The same six minutes that you gave me. It's the least I could do for a friend.[Laughs]"
:'Natalya Simonova': "What does that mean?"
:'James Bond': "We have three minutes."

★ "Finish the job, James. Blow them all to Hell!"

★ "You know, James, I was always better!"

★ 'Trevelyan': (last words) "For England, James?"
:'Bond': "No, for me." (lets go of Trevelyan's foot.)

★ "Bond... only Bond!"

★ "Why can't you be just a good boy and die?"

★ Pretty girl, tastes like... like strawberries.

Motive

Trevelyan's motive for the betrayal was, in part, personal. His parents were Lienz Cossacks who had collaborated with the Nazis but attempted to defect to the British at the end of WWII. The British instead sent them back to the USSR. Trevelyan's parents had survived "the British betrayal and Stalin's execution squads," but his father, ashamed that he had survived, killed his wife and then himself. Trevelyan was then taken in by MI6 at the age of six and went to work for the government that betrayed his parents.

The end

Bond stopped this scheme with the help of former Severnaya technician Natalya Simonova and CIA agent Jack Wade. Trevelyan met his demise when Bond dropped him from the bottom of a satellite antenna. He survived the initial fall, only to be crushed by the flaming debris of the antenna, destroyed by Bond.

Betrayal

Trevelyan's betrayal of MI6 and Bond continues a tradition of often prescribing personal motivations for Bond on his missions. As Bond holds Trevelyan by the foot on top of the dish, Trevelyan quips: "For England, James?" to which Bond replies: "No, for me" before releasing him.

Henchmen

★ Xenia Onatopp

★ Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov

★ Boris Grishenko