Jack Wade is the tritagonist in 007 movie 1995 GoldenEye and a minor character in the movie Tomorrow Never Dies. He is a fictional CIA officer who helps Bond with informations of Janus.
He is played by Joe Don Baker.
Biography[]
GoldenEye[]
Jack Wade meets James Bond for the first time at St. Petersburg airport where he waits to give him information about Janus.
When Bond approaches him he says "In London, April's a spring month.", And while Wade is putting Bond's suitcase in his car, Bond subdues him by pointing the gun at him saying "Show me the rose", and Wade embarrassed himself. he pulls down his pants and underpants and shows Bond a tattoo of a rose with "Muffy" written on it and tells him that Muffy was his third wife.
Shortly after introducing himself, Wade asks Bond "Do you do any gardening?".
Later Wade's car breaks down, being old, Wade fixes the engine and calls James "Jimbo" and tells him about Janus and ex-KGB called Valentin Zukovsky is his bitter rival. Bond recognizes that name and tells him that he made him lame in his right leg.
Later Wade reappears in front of Bond and Natalya Simonova who trades an aero to Bond for his BMW Z3 after giving him the keys and telling them to be careful with the keys.
Wade reappears at the end of the film in front of Bond and Natalya with the Marines, realizes that he has arrived late, but the two still accept a ride offered by him.
Tomorrow Never Dies[]
Jack reappears in Tomorrow Never Dies, reunited with Bond after he successfully retrieved a GPS encoder from Elliot Carver's office. The encoder sent HMS Devonshire off course and everyone on it was killed. Wade is last seen saying goodbye to Bond as he goes to the wreck and reminds him to say goodbye.
