Finally. After numerous delays due to the pandemic and a sudden change of director, the latest long-awaited film about James Bond has arrived in cinemas - the premiere in Serbia is scheduled for October 7.
No time to die is the 25th Bond film and Daniel Craig's final appearance as the secret agent 007.
So does the Bond fantasy have any similarities to life in the real MI6, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)?
And, perhaps more importantly, how relevant can a spy service be in this digital age of ours?
"I think the biggest way he's different," says Sam (not her real name), "is that we're much more cooperative than the people in the Bond movies. Very rarely, if ever, would anyone go into action alone." , without any support. It's all about teamwork… you always have a security team with you."
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Sam is a staff subject officer at MI6 with a background in counter-terrorist work, one of a handful of active intelligence officers I asked to meet to interview for the latest Bond film.
Okay, so if they're not exactly Bond, what exactly do the agents of the real MI6 do, whether they're based in a building on the Thames or "on the ground" abroad?
"There's a huge number of different roles you can play," says Tara, who is also not her real name.
"You have the leadership and recruitment of agents, we need technical experts, we have communication teams, we have breakthrough blades on the front lines. One person is never alone. There is very little resemblance to the reality of working for SIS. And so I think if someone came in who wanted to do that, they would realize very quickly during the application process that it's not for them."
And the weapons? Do MI6 agents carry any firearms?
The official response I received was: "We can neither confirm nor deny that."
But another MI6 agent told me:
"The idea that you have someone who just goes all over the world and shoots people is completely anathema to us. Someone like that just wouldn't have a pass."
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But stop for just a moment and think of some of the more dangerous parts of the world where British foreign intelligence agents are most likely to operate, and it's hard to imagine that if they're not already armed themselves, someone close to them isn't equipped to keep an eye on them.
Strictly speaking, members of MI6 are not agents.
They are the intelligence agents who, where it is thick, try to convince the real agents - who can be well-placed individuals, for example, inside the Al Qaeda cell that plans the attacks.
Or those in a nuclear research center of an enemy country - to steal key secrets on behalf of Her Majesty's government.
Agents are the ones who take the most risks every day, and MI6 clearly goes to great lengths to protect their identities and families.
So, how close do the intelligence officers who lead the agents get to them, I ask. Can they be friends?
"They rely on each other," says Tom, another active duty member.
"You are responsible for someone's life and so you say things to each other that you might not want to hear, you probably have some very difficult conversations, but it all comes down to keeping them safe."
"These people really risk their lives to work with us," adds Tara.
"Some of them are not very risky. But there is a category of people with whom we are privileged to work, who, if it were discovered that they were working with us, would find themselves in great danger.
They could lose their lives and we take that very seriously from the first moment we interact with them."
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A lot has happened in the real world of espionage in the six years since the last Bond film Specter came out in 2015.
The self-proclaimed caliphate of the Islamic State has come and gone, an agreement to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions has almost collapsed, and China has begun loudly demanding the "return" of Taiwan.
MI6's hands full.
But in an age where every action we take leaves some sort of digital footprint, is there still room for old-school human intelligence, the tried-and-true art of persuading people to help steal other people's secrets?
"If you look at a kind of life cycle of data, from its creation to its analysis," says Emma, also not her real name, a senior internal technical officer.
"There are people participating in the process at every step of the way. And those are the relationships we build.
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Of course, we are working on using all these technologies to support our intelligence officers on the ground."
Is there, then, a real workshop full of all kinds of juice deep in the bowels of MI6 headquarters in London's Vauxhall Cross?
Yes, it seems there is.
"It's quite different from what we see on film," says Emma.
"I have a much larger team of engineers working for me to open up new opportunities for us. And unlike the movies, we don't all wear white coats and look like nerds.
But as far as the devices themselves, we're working closely with intelligence to find out what it is that they want."
It's been almost 60 years since the first Bond film, 1962's Doctor No, and then another decade since writer Ian Fleming first created the fictional character of secret agent 007 after working for Naval Intelligence.
Since then, the face of espionage has changed beyond recognition.
Today you have officers in the upper echelons of MI6 who started their careers in a time before mobile phones and the internet, let alone social media.
Files were mostly kept in physical safes and steel cabinets.
Biometrics were not yet used and, officially, MI6 did not even exist until 1994.
In those days it was relatively easy to get an undercover agent across the border into enemy territory with the help of a fake identity and sometimes, literally, a fake beard and glasses.
Today, all that is much more difficult - although not impossible.
Take, for example, the Russian GRU team that traveled unhindered to Salisbury in 2018 to try to kill KGB agent Sergei Skripal, according to the city's police.
Today's data revolution, with everything from iris recognition, biometrics, artificial intelligence, cyberspace, encryption and quantum computers, has placed a huge emphasis on technology in espionage.
But human intelligence will always be indispensable, says Sir Alex Younger, who led MI6 for six years until the end of last year.
His fictional film equivalent M, played by Ralph Fiennes, in No Time to Die prophetically warns that "the world is arming itself faster than we can react".
It's something the real men and women of MI6 apparently still have to go to work for.
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