Locque, Emile Leopold



Emile Leopold Locque is a silent Belgian assassin, that works for Aristotle Kristatos, he used to be a former member of the Brussels Underworld, and was once convicted, and sent to be imprisoned at Namur Prison, but is able to escape after he strangles his psychiatrist.

Bond first encounters Locque at Hector Gonzales' Spanish villa, where Locque is paying Gonzales for the murders of Timothy & Iona Havelock, but has to return the cash to the Kristatos as a vengeful Melina Havelock fires a crossbow bolt into Gonzales. Bond tries to identify Locque using, one of Q's new devices, and is able to simplify the search because of Locque's octagonal glasses.

Locque is spotted in Cortina, and appears to work for Columbo, by wearing a dove pin on his label, (Columbo is known in the Greek Underworld as "the Dove"), and attempts to murder Bond in a ski chase, which fails, Locque later murders Luigi Ferrara, one of Bond's allies, by cutting his throat, and leaving his dove pin in the car. Locque then attacks Bond outisde the house of Countess Lisl Von Schlaf, and the attack ends with Lisl being run over by Locque's Dune Buggy, he holds Bond at gunpoint, but flees when Columbo's Divers arrive and capture Bond.

Bond and Columbo later attacks a Opium Warehouse owned by Kristatos, where Locque is located inside, a gunfight begins, and Locque places a detonator on a sea-mine located in the warehouse, he then attempts to blow Bond up with the sea-mine but fails, and flees in his Merecedes. Bond chases Locque on foot, and fires his Walther PPK at Locque several times, he finally wounds the assassin with a shot to the shoulder, this causes his car to crash into a wall designed to prevent vehicles in falling down the Albanian cliffs, his car teters on the clidge edge, Bond arrives and chucks Locque's dove pin inside the car, which unevens the balance, Bond however gives the car a swift kick, for good measures, which causes the car to tumble and crash down the cliff-face, killing Locque in the process.

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