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Logan Ash was a fictional American intelligence operative employed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as well as an undercover mole working with the terrorist Lyutsifer Safin. Portrayed by American actor Billy Magnussen, he served as a supporting antagonist in the 2021 James Bond film No Time to Die.
Biography
Logan Ash started out as an operative of the CIA who became assigned as Felix Leiter's partner. When MI6 scientist Valdo Obruchev is abducted by SPECTRE, Ash and Leiter are sent to track down former MI6 agent James Bond and convince him to help track down Obruchev. Ash over-enthusiastically introduces himself to Bond, calling himself a "big fan". Bond is dismissive of Ash, derisively nicknaming him "The Book of Mormon", and refuses to help. However, he changes his mind after discovering that Obruchev was working on "Project Heracles", a bioweapon containing nanobots that spread like a virus upon touch and are coded to specific DNA strands so they are only dangerous if programmed to an individual's genetic code.
Bond and another CIA agent named Paloma are able to capture Obruchev after he re-codes Heracles to wipe out all of the remaining SPECTRE members on the orders of Safin, something which both Bond and Ernst Stavro Blofeld didn't expect. Bond brings Obruchev back to a boat where Leiter and Ash are waiting. Despite Ash telling Bond that his mission is over, Bond refuses to leave and angrily demands to know who Obruchev is working for. Ash, realizing that there's no way out, reveals his allegiance by pulling out a gun and shooting Leiter in the stomach before kicking him into the hull. This leads to him being attacked by Bond and a fight breaking out until Obruchev is able to kick a gun over to Ash, forcing the unarmed Bond to retreat into the hull. Ash locks him in and sinks the ship with a limpet mine before leaving with Obruchev and bringing him over to Safin. Bond escapes the ship, but Leiter bleeds out and drowns.
MI6 agent Nomi is sent after Ash once his betrayal is revealed by Bond, tracking him to Norway. Bond is informed of Ash's location while visiting his former lover Madeleine Swann and their daughter Mathilde and realizes that Ash is near his location and is tracking him. He drives away with Swann and Mathilde and is pursued by Ash and a convoy of armed men. The chase continues into the forest, where Bond directs Swann and Mathilde to hide before running away firing his gun to attract Ash's attention. Ash falls for the deception and follows the gunshots, getting most of his men shot by Bond. Ash tries to kill Bond personally, with his driver attempting to run him down while Ash shoots at him; however, the car misses and flips over, leaving Ash seriously injured. He is able to drop out of the car but is unable to move any further, observing that the car is only being held up by a slowly breaking sapling and begging Bond to help him and calling him his "brother". Bond replies: "I had a brother. His name was Felix Leiter," before shoving the car downward, breaking the sapling and causing it to fall and crush Ash to death, thus avenging Leiter's death.
Despite Ash's death, Bond realizes too late that Safin only sent Ash to distract him so that he could capture Swann and Mathilde himself.
Personality
At first, Logan Ash seems like an eager and enthusiastic newcomer who really admires James. However, this turns out to be a cover for the fact that he's really a mole for Safin, and when his cover is blown, he quickly turns on him and Felix. From that point on, he shows a much more smug, arrogant and all-around unpleasant personality. That said, even though he may have not had any qualms with killing him, he may have still genuinely respected James since he remarks to Obruchev in the helicopter after leaving him to die on the sinking ship that he really did admire him. Plus, after James did unwillingly play his part in Safin's plan by retrieving Obruchev, he made a strong effort to convince him the mission was over and prevent him from extracting information out of Obruchev. While this was obviously at least partly because he didn't want his cover to be blown, it's also very possible that he preferred to avoid having to kill him or Felix, especially due to his admiration for the former, and only did so because he was forced to due to the circumstances. He also shows a slightly cowardly side in the face of death, as evidenced by him begging for James' help and trying to appeal to him by calling him "brother" even though he previously killed Felix and tried to kill him twice.
Physical Appearance
Trivia
- His death is similar to Emile Leopold Locque in For Your Eyes Only. Both deaths involved a car accident caused by Bond where their vehicles are dangerously close to killing them. Bond informs both that he's killing them for their part in the murder of a friend, and both times, Bond coldly shoves the car or allows it to fall to kill them.
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