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"Were you expecting an exploding pen? We don't really go in for those anymore."

Q (standing for Quartermaster), like M, is a job title rather than a name. He is the head of Q Branch, the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service.

007 first meets his new Quartermaster at the National Gallery in London. While waiting, a young man sits down beside Bond and engages him in polite conversation about the painting he appears to be studying - The Fighting Temeraire by English artist J. M. W. Turner. Asked what he sees in the painting, Bond dismissively replies "a big boat." As 007 attempts to excuse himself, the man reveals that he is the new Quartermaster, much to Bond's amusement.

After mocking the Quartermaster for his youthful appearance, the boffin hazards that he "can do more damage on [his] laptop in [his] pyjamas than [Bond] can do in a year in the field." Commenting on 007's usefulness to MI6 he admits that "every now and again a trigger needs to be pulled." Bond quips, "Or not pulled. It's hard to know which in your pyjamas." The two formally acknowledge one another and exchange a friendly handshake, a mutual respect between the pair forming.

He then hands Bond his new field equipment: a biometrically-encoded Walther PPK (coded to Bond's palm-prints) and a radio transmitter for tracing Bond's whereabouts in the field.


Both mun and muse are over 18.