Nyong’o plays Mercy Sterling, a steely investigative reporter who Bond meets in a bar in New York. Her outfit: cream shirt, tan slacks, battered rucksack, Doc Martens. Her attitude: tenacious, shrewd and extremely tired of male bulls**t.

Mercy ignores Bond’s lame attempts to strike up a conversation until he mentions his name. She’s heard of this guy: he’s a British spy, and rumours have been swirling for years about his shockingly reckless behaviour and harassment and abuse of women.

She agrees to accompany Bond on his next mission, and afterwards writes a damning 4,000-word investigation for The New Yorker in which she exposes the spy’s long history of sexual misconduct and the corruption and complicity of the individuals and institutions that have protected him. The British Secret Service is forced to launch a major public inquiry into how he could have behaved so badly for so long, and Mercy wins a Pulitzer.

Bond is fired.

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