Scarpine is a fictional character in the James Bond film A View to a Kill, played by actor Patrick Bauchau.

Patrick Bauchau as Scarpine in ‘A View to a Kill’.

Biography: Scarpine is introduced after Bond clears through his security check with Pan Ho. He politely introduces himself to Bond and gives him all the necessary information about what events will be taking place at the horse sale and even takes him to the showing. He then sends Bond on his way to the guest quarters to be met by Jenny Flex.

Scarpine is later seen at the party, when Bond uses his polarising glasses to see inside Max Zorin’s office to spy on his meeting with Stacey Sutton. He asks how he’s enjoying the party and Bond retorts with a name correction and speaks of how he’ll have a good turnout for the sale. As Bond walks away, he sneers at him.

As General Gogol comes to confront Zorin at the château and insult him. May Day strongarms the guard and Jenny Flex, Pan Ho, and Scarpine also come out pointing their guns at the KGB General who threatens Zorin that “no one ever leaving the KGB”.

In San Francisco at the City Hall scene where Zorin kills WG Howe, Scarpine kills the receptionist and takes control of the ground floor. As Zorin sends Bond and Stacey Sutton in the elevator, Scarpine is ready at the controls to stop it in its descent. Zorin then uses Pan Ho’s Molotov cocktails to set the lift alight. Scarpine meets up with his partners in crime and drives away in the car.

Later in the mine, Scarpine with Zorin are seen for the majority of the time, though he is handed the dynamite by Jenny Flex, something that would later lead to her own demise. He is overseeing the miners’ work by consulting with the mine foreman about the seepage issues, but then after the mine is flooded, he assists Zorin in the slaughter of all the innocent mine workers, May Day, Jenny Flex and Pan Ho.

During the conclusion of the film, Scarpine takes flight in the blimp with Zorin and tries to help him rid of Bond by piloting him into uncomfortable areas and even ramming him into the Golden Gate Bridge. However, after the blimp crashes Scarpine is knocked out by Sutton and is helpless for most of the fight. He then regains consciousness after Mortner’s act of lunacy and tries to toss the dynamite out of the blimp but fails and is blown to smithereens and his remains plunge into the San Francisco Bay along with Zorin’s and Mortner’s.

See also:

• Bond henchmen