Character information The character Alec Trevelyan (
Sean Bean) is born to
Lienz Cossacks who collaborated with the
Nazis, but attempted to defect to the
United Kingdom at the end of
World War II. When the UK instead
sent them back to the Soviets, many are executed by
Joseph Stalin's
death squads. Though Trevelyan's parents survive, his father,
ashamed to have lived,
kills his wife and himself. At the time, Trevelyan is only six years old. He is then transported to the
United Kingdom and taken in by
MI6, which continue to sponsor his training and education throughout his childhood (by Trevelyan's own account, MI6 thinks he would have been "too young to remember"). At 18, he begins to formally work for MI6 under the alias Agent 006, and subsequently begins planning his revenge against the British government for his family's demise. He considers recruiting fellow MI6 agent and friend
James Bond (
Pierce Brosnan) to his cause, but ultimately decides against it, believing Bond too loyal to MI6. On a mission working alongside Bond to blow up the
Arkhangelsk chemical weapons facility in the
Soviet Union, Trevelyan betrays
MI6. During the operation, Trevelyan fakes his own execution with the help of the base's commander, Colonel Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov (
Gottfried John). Bond manages to finish the mission and escapes unscathed by changing the sequence of detonation timers. This action unwittingly leads to Trevelyan being disfigured in the subsequent explosion. Later Bond admits to
M (
Judi Dench) that he feels responsible for Trevelyan's apparent death. Nine years later, Bond's pursuit of a stolen
helicopter and investigation of an explosion leads him to
Saint Petersburg, where he learns from gangster
Valentin Zukovsky (
Robbie Coltrane) that the head of the crime syndicate responsible for the theft is a man operating under the name
Janus. Later, when he finally meets Janus, Bond is shocked to discover the scarred Trevelyan.
Scheme Trevelyan's scheme begins with the theft of the experimental, electromagnetically insulated
Tiger helicopter from the French
frigate , using his two primary operatives, Ourumov, now a General in the
Russian army and head of their Space Division, and
Xenia Onatopp (
Famke Janssen). With the helicopter, the two fly to the GoldenEye satellite facility in
Severnaya,
Siberia, where they murder the staff, steal the access keys for the GoldenEye weapons satellite, and program the satellite to destroy the facility to cover up the theft. The GoldenEye weapons satellite is actually two smaller disposable satellites named Petya and Mischa, which are armed with nuclear warheads that when detonated in the atmosphere create
electromagnetic pulses capable of destroying any machinery with an electronic signal. ==
GoldenEye 007 (video game)==