Judy Havelock
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| Melina Havelock | |
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| Gender | Female |
| Affiliation | None |
| Relatives | Father: Timothy Havelock (deceased) Mother: Iona Havelock (deceased) |
| Portrayed by | Carole Bouquet |
Judy Havelock is a fictional character in the James Bond short story For Your Eyes Only that is included in the eponymous anthology written by Ian Fleming.
Havelock was featured in the 1981 film adaptation of the story, but her name was changed to Melina Havelock. She is played by Carole Bouquet.
[edit] Short story biography
Judy Havelock is the daughter of Colonel Timothy Havelock (Ret.) and Mrs. Havelock, who are assassinated at the behest of Herr von Hammerstein by Major Gonzales because they refused to sell their Jamaican property to von Hammerstein. Because the Havelocks were friends with M, M asks Bond to go to Vermont where von Hammerstein and his men are hiding. There Bond runs into Judy Havelock who is there to personally kill von Hammerstein. With only a crossbow, Judy kills von Hammerstein from 100 yards by shooting him in the neck at the exact moment he dives into a lake.
[edit] Film biography
In the film, Melina Havelock is half Greek, half British. She is the only daughter of Iona and Sir Timothy Havelock, two operatives working for the British Secret Service. Their mission takes them to the coast of Albania and Greece to look for a sunken British spy ship that holds a piece of equipment known as ATAC (Automatic Targeting and Attack Communicator). Melina comes to visit them and is witness to their brutal assassination by Hector Gonzales, a Cuban hitman.
Swearing revenge, Melina tracks Gonzales down to a villa outside of Madrid with the help of a private detective agency. There, she assassinates Gonzales by shooting him with a crossbow as he is diving into his swimming pool, but is only able to escape (in her 2CV hire car) with the help of James Bond, who was also there to investigate Havelock's murder. Having seen a man (Emile Locque) paying Gonzales, she vows her quest for vengeance must go on, though Bond tries to warn her off.
Melina finds trouble again in Cortina d'Ampezzo, when she was tricked into meeting Bond. Bond convinced her to go back to Greece and let him investigate. She agrees to do so, but not for long. Later they both team up to locate the British spy ship, recover the ATAC, and eliminate Aristotle Kristatos, who had previously employed Gonzales to kill the Havelocks for him. Bond and Melina are aided in their mission by Milos Columbo, a Greek smuggler who was set up by Kristatos because he knew too much about Kristatos' KGB leanings. After finally catching Kristatos, Melina insists on killing him, but Bond tries to stop her, telling her that she would be no better than Kristatos if she killed him. The decision proved irrelevant however, as Kristatos was knifed to death by Columbo while reaching for a concealed knife. After that, Bond and Melina are back on the Havelock's family boat where Melina says she would like a moonlight swim. Bond drops Melina's robe and she drops Bond's robe, and they go skinny dipping.
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