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SPECTRE Timeline

midrashic:

Some assumptions have been made. Most importantly, the timeline has been compressed whenever possible; if no night scene takes place between scenes, it is assumed those scenes take place on the same day. Travel time is not taken into account but honestly London, Italy, and Austria aren’t that far apart. Austria to Morocco is a little dicier, as is how Bond and Madeleine got to London in a stolen helicopter from the North African desert, but those are plot holes for a greater woman than me to fix.

  • November 2: The Day of the Dead is actually a three-day celebration. The last day, corresponding to All Souls’ Day, is actually called el Día de los Muertos, though the name also refers to the whole holiday. In real life, the parade might take place before the actual holiday; the first Day of the Dead Parade in the real Mexico City was on October 29. For simplicity’s sake and because this is fiction we’ll assume that the parade actually takes place on the day itself.
  • November 3: Bond gets back to London and is immediately chewed out, because I can’t imagine M letting him continue to fuck around after… all that happened. Moneypenny comes over that night.
  • November 4: Q injects the smart-blood tracker.
  • November 5: In the morning, Q finds the car stolen. Bond attends the funeral, saves Lucia Sciarra’s life, and then attends the SPECTRE meeting at midnight.
  • November 6: In the evening in Japan (which means midday in Austria), C votes on the Nine Eyes measure. Tanner and M get the news that the Aston was pulled out of the Tiber, about twelve hours after Bond’s street race, which seems like a reasonable length of time to recover a submerged car. Bond visits Mr. White that afternoon.
  • November 7: Bond fucks around, I guess. In London, Q is probably getting chewed out all day. Alternatively, he hops on a train to Austria, which will take him about 20 hours.
  • November 8: The Hoffler Klinik. Bond tells Madeleine her father died “two days ago.” South Africa is bombed. Bond and Madeleine leave for Tangier and L’Americain. That evening/early in the morning of the 9th, Bond finds the secret room.
  • November 9: Nine Eyes is passed. On the train, Bond and Madeleine talk about self-defense. That evening, Moneypenny and Q beg M to help Bond. Mr. Hinx attacks.
  • November 10: Bond and Madeleine arrive, blow up the facility, steal a helicopter, and get back to London (somehow). That evening, Nine Eyes is set to go online at midnight. The events on Westminster Bridge happen around or just after midnight. It could be argued that the events in London happen on November 11th, giving Bond and Madeleine more time to get back and letting Blofeld’s wounds heal a little, but again, compression.
  • Bond retrieving the Aston could happen anytime after November 10th, but it’s probably at least a week given that the Aston was a, uh, hot mess on November 4th.

Few Words Wednesday/WIP Wednesday

ato-the-bean:

I’ve started a new thing.  Very secret.  But it’s a Spectre rewrite, deviating about halfway through the film.  Here’s a little preview of the beginning.

It’s not that James is surprised to find Q at the bar of the Hoffler Klinik… Well, he is surprised — he’d been under the impression the boffin didn’t fly.  But it’s more that he’s surprised it’s Q himself that tracks him down.  If Q and Moneypenny are really in so much trouble for helping him, Q could have easily just given M his location and washed his hands of the association.   That would have been the sensible thing to do.  Then, instead of one somewhat flustered boffin trying to persuade him to come in from the dark, Bond would be facing a throng of agents ready to haul his arse in via any force necessary.   

Rather inconvenient.

It makes James think, perhaps, Q is another ally.  Not just someone good for the odd favor, but someone who could be trusted with a lot more than just doing his job. Someone he might be able to trust at least as much as Moneypenny.  So much for my promising career in espionage, he once said.  And now, again, he’s risking his neck for Bond’s antics.