Unbeknownst to the couple, Wint and Kidd have also boarded the cruise liner intent on killing the spy. However, their taste for plotting overly elaborate deaths allows Bond to escape.Īfter Bond foils Blofeld's plot, he and Case depart from Los Angeles aboard the Canberra. Driving him into the middle of the Las Vegas desert, they bury Bond alive by putting him into a length of pipeline which is due to be buried. Later that evening the duo are given a second chance to kill Bond when Blofeld's gas-venting elevator renders the spy unconscious. Believing her to be Case, they tie her feet to a concrete block and throw her into a swimming pool. The following day the pair visit the home of Tiffany Case - the last link to be murdered - only to find Plenty O'Toole. Believing that Franks is dead, they murder the next link in the chain, stand-up comedian Shady Tree. Boarding a plane for Los Angeles, they follow James Bond (who they assume to be smuggler Peter Franks) to a crematorium and attempt to kill him by sealing him in a coffin bound for a furnace. Whistler, who they shadow to Amsterdam and subsequently drown in the Amstel River. Next, they deliver the diamond package to school teacher Mrs. Shortly after, the dentist’s contact arrives and they blow up his helicopter with a bomb. Starting at the beginning of the pipeline, Wint and Kidd murder a South African dentist by placing a scorpion down the back of his shirt. The two use numerous methods of killing their targets (or trying to), some highly creative. how everyone who touches those diamonds seems to die." ― Mr. Kidd to qualify his comment with "for a lady." Kidd notes that she is "quite attractive" Mr. Finally, when the two are on the same flight as smuggler and Bond girl Tiffany Case, Mr. Wint also has a habit of spraying himself with women's perfume, shown prominently in several scenes of the film. Several scenes in the film very strongly suggest that they are engaged in a homosexual relationship: for instance, the two are seen arm-in-arm in an affectionate pose on two occasions (the first time they are holding hands in the desert after the scorpion attack and the helicopter explosion). This is typical of an overtly morbid sense of humour they share, completing each other's sentences as a game and delighting in competing over laboured, blackly humorous puns. Whistler and jokes about sending the pictures to the primary-age children to whom she was a school teacher. The pair takes a sadistic pleasure in their work - for example, Kidd photographs the body of Mrs. Their assignment is to kill everyone in the diamond-smuggling "pipeline" running from South Africa to the United States via The Netherlands. Wint are assassins working for Ernst Stavro Blofeld.